It’s time to stop following wellness trends and take ownership of your health. And it all starts with personalized blood work. Get your comprehensive results HERE 

Are we getting healthier or just better at packaging shame in prettier, trendier ways? From weight loss pills to the “clean girl” aesthetic and the keto rebrand, the wellness industry is throwing shiny new solutions at women that promise results but rarely deliver real health.

In this episode, we break down the GLP-1 pill, including why its popularity says more about our obsession with quick fixes than long-term wellness, and how marketing is rebranding the same old tactics under new names. 

We’ll also unpack the new wave of keto buzzwords like “metabolic flexibility” and “clean keto,” and how the clean girl trend can be mentally and emotionally toxic. 

If you’re constantly chasing wellness trends, I invite you to pause and reflect on your definition of health. Let’s pursue a version of wellness that’s rooted in self-worth, balance, and purpose. 

Conclusion:

While wellness trends promise quick fixes, they often mask deeper issues and feed into a culture of shame. From GLP-1 pills to the rebranded keto and clean girl aesthetics, the trends rarely deliver lasting health benefits.

It’s time to focus on a wellness journey rooted in self-worth and true well-being rather than chasing fads.

In This Episode:

00:00 Introduction

01:31 GLP-1 pill: quick fix or real health solution?

11:49 Rebranding of the Keto diet and persistent problems 

20:46 The clean girl trend: perfectionism disguised as self-care

28:49 Are tampons toxic?

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Transcript: 

[00:00:00] Carrie Lupoli: From toxic tampons to weight loss pills and aesthetic morning routines. Well, as trends are everywhere these days, but not all of them are actually helping women. In this episode, I'm taking a closer look at three popular trends. Women are being sold and asking the hard question, are they supporting our health or just selling shame in a prettier package.

[00:00:23] Carrie Lupoli: I'm Kerry Oli nutritionist. Award-winning behavior specialist and unapologetic disruptor of diet culture. If you've spent decades dieting and still don't have the results you want, it's not your fault. You've just never been shown how to fuel your body with love and science. This podcast is where all that changes and we rewrite the rules where food becomes simple.

[00:00:48] Carrie Lupoli: Freedom is possible and real lasting results. Finally begin. Let's dive in. So what's going on here? Are we really getting healthier or are we just [00:01:00] getting more obsessed with. People thinking they should just control all the things about our bodies. In this episode, we are gonna unpack wellness because we use that word a lot.

[00:01:12] Carrie Lupoli: What does it actually mean? Wellness sounds empowering, but it may actually be harmful. We're gonna unpack three wellness trends that I've been seeing lately. One is, did you know that the GLP one, the shot that people are taking, it's now available as a pill. We're gonna break that down. Also, keto is getting a whole new rebrand, genius Marketing technique.

[00:01:38] Carrie Lupoli: Or is it the same old? And we've got our Clean Girl wellness culture. And I'll be honest, this one didn't hit me right away as what it really was. And the more and more I started seeing it, the more I was like, what? And so we're gonna break those three down and you know what? I will talk a little bit about tampons and whether or not they're toxic.

[00:01:57] Carrie Lupoli: Is that just another lie we're being [00:02:00] told or is it true? Okay. We're gonna start with the GLP one pill that has recently been approved by the FDA. And here's what I think. Just because it's been approved by the FDA does not necessarily mean we should all be go running and doing it now, because that is where the big fallacy is.

[00:02:17] Carrie Lupoli: This is about, and an approval like that is like it's safe. Like it's not gonna kill you right now, but we don't have the long-term understanding of that. And I will argue all day long I did an episode, a whole episode on weight loss drugs. Back a little while ago. I think it's episode 1 79, so go back and check on that.

[00:02:37] Carrie Lupoli: In terms of my opinion on weight loss drugs and the fact that it's moving to a pill, I actually just saw it recently and I thought, oh my gosh, here we go. Because let's be honest, a lot of people are like, I don't really wanna inject myself there. Feels something like, it just feels icky, it feels wrong.

[00:02:53] Carrie Lupoli: And so the geniuses, right now, it's Noah Nordisk has come up with a pill. It's called [00:03:00] Rybelsus, and there are people that will argue these GLP ones, they've been around for a long time. They get that rap, I am told by some advocates of them, and it's not to say that I'm fully against all of it. That's not my point.

[00:03:13] Carrie Lupoli: I think for the majority of people that go on it for the reasons that they go on, it is a problem. And I also think that we are a community, a society, a culture of a quick fix, and it wasn't. What got us into this mess. It was lifestyle that got us into this mess, and it is only gonna be lifestyle that gets us out of this mess.

[00:03:32] Carrie Lupoli: But I hear all the time, well, the GLP one is actually a peptide, and then that word gets thrown around a ton. I feel like the word peptide is a little bit like the word gluten. People are like, I'm gluten-free. And then you ask people, what's gluten? And they're like, uh, I don't really know. And I think that's what happens with the peptide word.

[00:03:52] Carrie Lupoli: Well, it's a peptide. It's not a drug. If we can call alcohol a drug and caffeine a drug, then we sure as heck are gonna [00:04:00] call ozempic a drug. It is a type of peptide, and I made a decision. I'm not gonna get into the peptide discussion right now, but uh, I'm going to record an episode all about peptides. So we're gonna just break through the confusion because peptides, that word is being thrown around a lot.

[00:04:13] Carrie Lupoli: So we will dig into that in another episode. But when it comes to the weight loss. Pill that is now being marketed because it is now FDA approved and people think, well good. I didn't wanna take the shot. So now this is great. Well here's the thing, the side effects are very much similar. Lemme tell you what it does.

[00:04:34] Carrie Lupoli: Oh wait. It's going to help to increase insulin and a, a lot of. The reasons why we're actually gaining weight in the first place. I always say that diet industry is just feeding this whole bunch of BS and that the BS that we really need to understand is blood sugar, behavioral science, and belief systems.

[00:04:52] Carrie Lupoli: And what the GLP one is doing is trying to mimic this hormone. [00:05:00] Peptide. Again, we're gonna get into peptides later, but by actually injecting our cells and now by being able to have a pill, which is just this new trend, we're gonna increase our insulin, we're gonna decrease our glucagon, but it will slow down our kind of gastric emptying and then reduce our appetite.

[00:05:19] Carrie Lupoli: And so the diet industry has us really, truly believing if we just. Eat less, then we are going to lose weight. And if our goal is simply losing weight, then let's just not eat right. And so when we reduce our appetite, I understand that people will talk about food noise. Food noise is being gone, but we can absolutely work to improve our insulin resistant to keep our blood sugar from being dysregulated, which is the root cause of why the GLP quote unquote works.

[00:05:50] Carrie Lupoli: And. The cravings of flu noise is so overpowering that it's attractive to think that could be the case. I've seen a lot of memes, or [00:06:00] especially around GLP one in general, not necessarily the pill, but GLP one that like they put their dog collar on their neck as a natural form of the ozempic or wegovy shot and essentially that's what it is.

[00:06:13] Carrie Lupoli: It's like it's keeping you from wanting to nourish your body and our body is a refuel as you go machine. It wants nourishment. So this pill. Is a derivative of the GLP one. Now, obviously we haven't, it hasn't been around for very long, but we do know that side effects are very similar. We do know that this daily oral version of it, um, is entering, that's entering the market now.

[00:06:36] Carrie Lupoli: It mimics this GLP one hormone and it's used to make you feel fuller, reduce your cravings and all of that, and leading to just having fewer calories, right? But people will. Again, lose some weight, but it's almost like fake weight loss. It's not health. And I often say, do you want weight loss or do you want health?

[00:06:56] Carrie Lupoli: Because with one you'll get nothing When it comes to long term. And [00:07:00] with the other, you'll get both when it comes to the long term because the minute you stop taking this pill, you're gonna go right back. And this is why the trend actually bothers me because people are less scared to take a pill. Than they are to take a shot.

[00:07:12] Carrie Lupoli: And so the whole, you know what? I'll try it kind of thing is what I am really worried we're gonna go with instead of really truly asking ourselves what do I want and why do I want it? If our goal and our reason is around simply weight loss, then it's often around ego. It's not typically around a heart-centered love for ourselves and our bodies and our life and our purpose.

[00:07:40] Carrie Lupoli: And it really falls into this category of feeling like your worth is truly set in what you look like. I know, I get it that we are in a place right now in our world where obesity is at an all time high and that diabetes, metabolic disease, metabolic dis function is just impacting more and more people. I recently saw a study [00:08:00] that one in three teenagers are now pre-diabetic.

[00:08:03] Carrie Lupoli: This just feels so big and hard, and I understand why people are saying, but if I could take a pill. If we really want to reverse this, if we really care about health versus weight, because with a 100% failure rate, if you go off of it. You'll gain all the weight back plus wreak such damage on your body. I just want people, before they jump into what seems like an easy, quick fix, who's been down this road so many times.

[00:08:32] Carrie Lupoli: History just keeps repeating itself over and over again looking for. Something that doesn't require us to actually show up for ourselves. And what kind of a truly meaningful life can we have if we are just looking for the quick fix for the reasons of ego and the belief that our value is tied on the outside of what we look like.

[00:08:58] Carrie Lupoli: I, I say this all the time [00:09:00] and I could get into it for so long. I just really struggle with people not digging into why. They are going after what they're going after. When I talk to women who are interested in either working with my team or learning more about what I teach, that question of what do you want and why do you want it, is one that actually really trips so many women up because on paper they will say they wanna be healthy, but the behaviors don't match those words.

[00:09:36] Carrie Lupoli: And before you jump in to another trend, like a GLP one, even if it's a pill, even if it feels like your doctor says you can do this, understand the pharmaceutical company is not out for your best interest. Our doctors are ill trained at helping you to be able to truly overcome what's really going on.

[00:09:58] Carrie Lupoli: What's really weighing you [00:10:00] down. It isn't that this food noise and this lack of ozempic in your system is the problem. This is why I talk about the BS blood sugar stabilization and really understanding how to fuel your body in a way that balances your blood. Sugar is key. It's foundational, but where is all of this coming from?

[00:10:20] Carrie Lupoli: Our belief systems, who we were and how we were raised and what we were told doesn't go away because of a pill. It doesn't go away because in some sort of easy fix, if we don't actually dig into why we don't believe we are worthy, if we don't truly look at our behaviors in a way that helps us change aspects of our life, that just.

[00:10:48] Carrie Lupoli: Also parallel why we show up in our health the way we do, like our financial health. There's so many pieces of health that need to be addressed [00:11:00] that can be addressed, that allow us to live a purpose-driven life. And going after this trend is never going to get you there. So I ask you, what do you want and why do you want it?

[00:11:10] Carrie Lupoli: And if you really believe that if you lose weight, you will be more confident. Take it from someone who lost the weight, who got strong, who was like woo impressed with her own body for a period of time, and realized how empty she was because she never actually dealt with the things. That was me. That was my story.

[00:11:31] Carrie Lupoli: I was equally obsessed with my body when I lost all the weight and I got to my goal weight as I was when I wasn't. Because that's not the thing. It's like they say when somebody wins a million dollars that doesn't buy them happiness. And then a lot of people are like, well, just gimme the million dollars and I'll let you know.

[00:11:50] Carrie Lupoli: Some people say like, let me just be skinny and then I'll let you know that problem. I can, you can get there in a way that you're super proud of, that you're empowered about and that actually sticks and [00:12:00] changes your life. All right, let's dig into the next trend. I get really on a soapbox around it because it isn't so much around.

[00:12:09] Carrie Lupoli: I mean, there's a lot around that when it comes to like just putting this kind of stuff in our body, but it's just around the why and what do we say we really want. All right. Now we're gonna dig into the Keto rebrand. Did you know that this was happening? It's trending right now. It's like a PR makeover of the Keto, but we've been through this before.

[00:12:28] Carrie Lupoli: Those of you that are around my age, I'm 50, so I'm gonna like, if you're in your forties or fifties, you remember the Atkins diet, right? The, it was Atkins, before it was keto and now we're in this keto rebrand because ketos getting a bad rap. There's been lots of studies out that talk about how keto is problematic for the long term.

[00:12:46] Carrie Lupoli: So now we're gonna like we're, we need to keep people on this rollercoaster. We need to keep people coming back and believing that this is something new. Then when they believe that they have tried everything, because now this new thing comes out and [00:13:00] we've tried that and that doesn't work, then we're gonna go for the weight loss drugs and it's just terrible cycle that we keep falling for.

[00:13:08] Carrie Lupoli: So let's talk about this PR masterpiece in the rebranding of keto. So it's sustained, restrictive, like high fat, low carbs, uh, it's just dressed up with new plus words, and it's got this like wellness halo to make it more appealing. Like, well, I know that for a while, healthy just meant skinny, like people, like I wanna be healthy, but really I wanna be skinny.

[00:13:30] Carrie Lupoli: And I think that's still obviously the case there. But again, this is why my argument of health. Is so important to really look at what does it mean? What does the healthiest version of you do, say, think and believe in every aspect of your life. It's like my definition of beauty. I remember I dated this guy that was so cute.

[00:13:46] Carrie Lupoli: Oh, before I met my husband and he was so cute and he was so dumb and he was not very nice. He was beautiful though. But the more I got to know him [00:14:00] and the more I got to see what was really inside, it literally changed the way I looked at him. I'm like, whoa, I can't. And so the concept of beauty has to do with who the person is on the inside.

[00:14:14] Carrie Lupoli: A beautiful person becomes so much more beautiful. When you understand who they are on the inside and that beauty, beautiful, kind, caring person. So definition and the word I, I feel like semantics a little bit here, but health means so much more than skinny. Come on. You know, plenty of skinny, unhealthy people.

[00:14:39] Carrie Lupoli: And then beauty is so much more than a plastic smile. So we gotta really dig into these things. But let's talk about keto, because now I'm hearing it. I listen to this metabolic, this is what I look, I saw this recently. Metabolic flexibility, sugar free living. I've seen lots of Instagram handles, like the sugar [00:15:00] free mom.

[00:15:00] Carrie Lupoli: I don't know if that happens a handle, but that's the thing I'm seeing. Right? And then I'm hearing clean keto, whole food, keto. And we're just like rebranding all of this stuff. I need people to understand that we need carbs. Carbs are like, there's only three macronutrients. Car food is only protein, fat, or carbs.

[00:15:17] Carrie Lupoli: That's it. That is it. Even vegetables, even fruit, I hear all the time, carbs and vegetables. I'm like, vegetables are carbs. Carbs give us energy, carbs fuel our body. If there's only three macronutrients, and the word is macro, I feel like that word means fade. Am I right? It means important. So why do we keep.

[00:15:37] Carrie Lupoli: Saying that like back in the eighties and early nineties, it was, fat is bad. Fat is bad. And so we gave up fat and what happened? We got even bigger and more unhealthy. Obesity started really rising and now like the whole carb thing, we know what the problem is with carbs. Carbs spike our blood sugar. I get it.

[00:15:56] Carrie Lupoli: And when we spike our blood sugar, we'll hold out a fat. [00:16:00] Proven that is not like anything other than science. So people don't know why they should avoid carbs. They just know they should avoid carbs. 'cause all carbs are sugar. And yes, that is true, but we also need them. So how do you balance both? We can't just get rid of carbs because we need fat, but fat can be a very calor, calorie dense food.

[00:16:20] Carrie Lupoli: So if you have too much fat, yes, of course, that could be too much of a good thing. Right. And so we have just literally demonized all of these macronutrients, these poor macronutrients. There's only three. We need them all. And yes, wow. Carbs spike our blood sugar. Just like we don't understand what the word peptide is.

[00:16:37] Carrie Lupoli: We don't understand what the word gluten is. We don't understand that carbs spike our blood sugar. We just know that they're bad. And what happens when we spike our blood sugar, our body will release insulin to try to balance it on its own because our body's like love language is balancing its blood sugar.

[00:16:54] Carrie Lupoli: That's what it wants. And yet when we eat carbs on its own, like you could eat an apple, which is [00:17:00] healthy, it will spike your blood sugar. This is why people say don't eat apples, but apples are filled with nutrients. It you are what you absorb. You would need these nutrients in your body. And this is why the PSC three approach, which is.

[00:17:12] Carrie Lupoli: My trademarked approach is, it's just so crazy to me that it's actually had to be trademarked because it's so basic. PFC three, when you eat a carb because spike your blood sugar, but when you actually have a protein with it, that protein is going to keep your body from having to over release insulin to try to balance it on its own, and that protein can allow that carb to be used for good and not evil.

[00:17:36] Carrie Lupoli: And then when you have a fat at the same time, it actually allows a carb, the protein to be able to absorb into your body. It helps you digest it slower. It fuels your organ and your brain, and it just like all meant to be eaten together. But when we rebrand Keto for what it really is, it's just shiny and it's got these gut health claims because.

[00:17:56] Carrie Lupoli: We know when people are on a blood sugar [00:18:00] rollercoaster. Yeah, your gut is going to completely be impacted. And here's the thing about keto. I'm wearing a continue with glucose monitor right now. I could eat keto and not spike my blood sugar. That's why keto quote unquote works. It's blood sugar stabilization.

[00:18:16] Carrie Lupoli: Nobody says it that way, but it is. But there is a massive misunderstanding about carbs and like my clients and me, I'm doing a continuous glucose monitor right now. My clients who are a continuous glucose monitor and we eat carbs with every meal, protein, fat, and carb, and I see the data every single day of our blood sugar completely normalized and regulated.

[00:18:37] Carrie Lupoli: Can you imagine? I used to call it keto with carbs, and there's this emphasis and this new rebranding around brain clarity and weight loss and all of these things, but it's really causing more problems than good. So we need to recognize that. The other thing that this keto rebrand is doing is like adding some things, right?

[00:18:58] Carrie Lupoli: So let's have collagen and [00:19:00] electrolytes and oh, we can have keto friendly like cookies for your quote unquote cheat meal. It. And the glucose monitor, this is the thing that drives me crazy. I will say all day long the glucose monitor is becoming this wellness trend. And when you have this keto rebrand, it all ties together.

[00:19:16] Carrie Lupoli: I never, I say all the time, nobody should have a continuous glucose monitor unless you are working with somebody that truly understands blood sugar regulation because it becomes another scale and it makes you freak out about, oh my gosh, my blood sugar is spiking. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. I can't have an apple.

[00:19:32] Carrie Lupoli: You can't have an apple. I can't have popcorn. You can't have popcorn. I can't have rice. You can't have rice. You should, ah. So a continuous glucose monitor is becoming, to me this like wellness trend along the keto rebrand that we have to like really manage, because I'm in these groups with all these people and with continuous glucose monitors that don't understand anything about it, and they just think now there are all [00:20:00] these foods I can't have.

[00:20:02] Carrie Lupoli: Talk about restriction. This is, I think the continuous glucose monitor could be the most amazing thing, but too many people are jumping on it. It's part of a diet trend, and it needs to be understood that this is actually a tool that needs to be learned. Like it's like saying, I could just use a circular saw without understanding anything about how to actually use a saw.

[00:20:31] Carrie Lupoli: Cut wood. Well, that's crazy. That's how I feel about continuous glucose monitors. So I was like, and I don't even have my clients put on a continuous glucose monitor in like a month after working with me because they need to under, they, we need to undo a whole lot of UN of learning. We have to unlearn tons of stuff and we have to get through the mindset around our body and food and all the pieces.

[00:20:57] Carrie Lupoli: So like, okay. And the studies [00:21:00] around keto. A really interesting, recently a study came out around the long-term data of keto. It was never meant to be a weight loss approach, but we see people lose weight, so we must go do it regardless of health. Ah, all right, clean girl trend. This clean girl trend sneaks up on you.

[00:21:21] Carrie Lupoli: It, you don't even know what's happening. And I think some of you are gonna be like, oh my gosh, I see it now and I didn't even realize it. I want you to think about your Instagram worthy influencers pictures. So I was just recently in Atlanta and I was at a coffee shop and there were these two girls in front of this old door in this little like outdoor shopping area.

[00:21:43] Carrie Lupoli: And they had these cute little spring dresses on. It was 4,000 degrees 'cause it's hot Lana in summer and they were taking pictures and I was like, oh, this is so Instagrammy. And my marketing director I was with and she said, I should I ask 'em if I, they want me to take her? Picture or their picture of them.

[00:21:59] Carrie Lupoli: And I said, yeah, [00:22:00] go right ahead. So she said, do you want me to take your picture? They're like, oh my gosh, yes, thank you. And Kayla just stood there and started taking pictures and they literally embodied the clean girls. They were so put together. They were so sweet. It was like super cute. But then like right after the pictures came out, it was like that girl didn't exist anymore.

[00:22:20] Carrie Lupoli: They were just like, it was like a totally different version of them. When the camera stopped, it was interesting. And this clean girl is this, like this perfectionism designed as self-care? Like when you I woke up this way and like the matcha, the matcha craze. I don't even like matcha. I, I was, I realized I bought matcha and I'm like, I don't even like it.

[00:22:45] Carrie Lupoli: What am I doing? It just feels like it's this wellness trend, a 10 step skincare routine. We overcomplicate everything and it's marketing. It's amazing how many things are bought and sold [00:23:00] because of this clean girl trend, the way we brand certain products that make 'em look clean and they're really not.

[00:23:07] Carrie Lupoli: But I think the biggest thing is like this perception of effortlessness that these people and these pictures just wake up and their bed is messy, but it just looks trendy and they look like they don't have any makeup on. But really they have been working on that flawless looking face an hour before the photo shoot.

[00:23:27] Carrie Lupoli: It's like this, I am worthy if I can emulate this effortless look. How many of us are like pulling our hair out behind the scenes? How many of us women are just like, oh my gosh, life is so hard. And then like we see this picture of beauty and I don't know, maybe I'm at 50. I'm just like not falling for it so much anymore.

[00:23:51] Carrie Lupoli: But I know my daughters are. I know they are because my daughter the other day asked me about brushing. Her [00:24:00] body and a certain type of oil for her skin. And she literally was like, I'm having a self-care day. And she went through this whole thing and the brushing killed me because I was like, how did you hear about brushing?

[00:24:12] Carrie Lupoli: And she, I heard about an Instagram and afterwards she just, I feel like such a clean girl. She literally said that and, and I just thought, wow, like. I, I, there's this place of, okay, good. Let's teach our kids to be healthy and like, take care of themselves. Of course. But again, it's all the reasons why, like she, I then saw, she took all these pictures of herself with this quote unquote effortless mo, like moment in time.

[00:24:42] Carrie Lupoli: Took her three hours, three hours out of her life because she was trying to emulate this like trend. And it just, it's about. Mel Robbins said it so well in her book, the Let Them Theory, she talked about comparison. I say all the time comparison is a [00:25:00] thief of all joy, whether you compare yourself to your younger years, where you compare yourself to somebody else.

[00:25:06] Carrie Lupoli: I was just actually at a conference and I saw this woman with the best legs ever, and I just kept like thinking about my legs. I'm like, oh, I wish my legs looked like that. And then I was like, no, I don't. I know what it takes to get legs like that, and I'm not willing to do that because I could be super healthy.

[00:25:20] Carrie Lupoli: And super strong and I don't have to have legs that look that way. That was a total ego-based vanity look-like metric there for me, that is when comparison steals my joy. At 50 years old, I am like, I just had my biological age tested through function blood work, and I'm 40 3:00 AM my metabolic age. What am I doing?

[00:25:45] Carrie Lupoli: What am I doing? And that's the problem. Like this comparison thing. And Mel Robin says, comparison can be either a teacher or a torture. And when we can use somebody's story as inspiration to either [00:26:00] up level, our own health, our own mindsets, our own belief systems, our own like needs, great. It can be a teacher.

[00:26:07] Carrie Lupoli: But when we are doing it to compare ourselves and feel like we have to add up to that and that we're never enough, that becomes torture. And that's what I'm worried about with the, with that it's diet culture in disguise. Let's be honest, it's like the green smoothie, the glow up. It's like this belief that it is return to clean eating, but it's about the why.

[00:26:26] Carrie Lupoli: What do you want and why do you want it? Is it really about that? Because you, do you think my daughter brushed again after that? She brushed her body? No. This wasn't about true wellness. This was about a look that she wanted to embody. And I get it. Gut health is a big one. I have a gut health supplement that I co-created with Mark McDonald, who is New York Times bestseller author, bestselling author, amazing nutritionist, and a world renowned colorectal surgeon, Dr.

[00:26:55] Carrie Lupoli: Anna Toker. And together we developed this gut health, uh, supplement called Zi seven. [00:27:00] It's incredible. Holy cow. Like the influencers that are talking about this product, they're focusing so much on gut health because it's like such a trend right now. And again, I like it, but it's actually got some kind of toxic messages underneath.

[00:27:19] Carrie Lupoli: And because I have this product line, I'm seeing it in such a crazy way because I'm like, go Health, and then I'm like, oh, it's like. A socially acceptable way to restrict calories, to restrict carbs, to promote weight loss in a very toxic way. We're. Monet monetizing this. That's a problem creating guilt in comparison.

[00:27:44] Carrie Lupoli: It's just this consumerism masquerading as wellness like. And my daughter is a waitress. Both of my daughters are waitress waitresses, and they both talk to me about this, like $90 cream that they wanted for their faces. [00:28:00] What are you talking about? Or they both have like the Stanley Water cup or I don't, is that even the one, it's, I don't even think that's the one right now.

[00:28:08] Carrie Lupoli: But how many water bottles do you need? You don't need that many. It's actually ruining our environment, let's be honest, because every time a new trendy water bottle comes out, like they have to have it. Mm. No. Lululemon like the big names like to be able to say, you're working out. You don't need it in a, just about.

[00:28:29] Carrie Lupoli: Vanity of it all. So again, it's around the why and I think that this clean girl trend, it's like we rarely talk about the mental load of life, of what we're really struggling with. Emotional eating, body dysmorphia, that doesn't come out. It just, it really, I think this clean girl aesthetic, it just re replaces depth with aesthetics.

[00:28:54] Carrie Lupoli: And that's where my worry is around that. So it's not that it's all bad, it's like [00:29:00] for some, maybe it's aspirational in some ways, and motivational where like comparison can be the teacher. But I just think if it becomes a new standard, we we're gonna reinforce these harmful narratives. It's part of diet culture.

[00:29:12] Carrie Lupoli: It distracts us from real, actual embodied health. So that's my thought about that. All right. Oh, do we wanna know if tampons are toxic? I did a, an episode about toxic tampons. Actually, I think it was like episode 2 22 20, I think it was. Let me see. And so that episode I brought on the woman. Yes, it's two 20.

[00:29:39] Carrie Lupoli: The woman who started the tampon tribe and what she actually shared with me around Toxic Tampons was. Unbelievable. And so I have a couple of her quotes and the things that we had talked about here. There's, and here's the thing, I ended up buying, now we only use in our house. I don't have to use this stuff anymore, but [00:30:00] my girls only use tampon tribe products because of that.

[00:30:03] Carrie Lupoli: So, okay. Is this like a trend that we should just ignore? No. Really, there's a lot of validity behind it. And here's one reason I know, and there's tons of stuff. Jed and I from Tampon Tribe talked about pesticide residues, dioxin from bleaching, fragrance, and synthetics, and women use. Look at this quote.

[00:30:21] Carrie Lupoli: This was crazy when she said this to me. 11,000 tampons in a lifetime. And yet we have no idea what's in those products. In fact, my grandfather ran a plastics company and Tampax came to him to manufacture the plastic applicator and he went way down the rabbit hole with them because it was a huge lucrative deal and the standards, he was so appalled by the lack of some of the things that he thought that they would be asking.

[00:30:48] Carrie Lupoli: He's, I just don't think my facility is the right facility to be able to do this for you. I don't know that I have the standards that are required. He turned them down and thinking about our vagina is [00:31:00] actually like a mucus membrane. It absorbs even more than our skin does. So that's why vaginal hormones are actually so effective and because there's really very little.

[00:31:11] Carrie Lupoli: Transparency or regulation is something really important. But one of the things that my daughter said is, uh, we ran out of pads and she had some like regular brand pad like that we got at Costco and she put it on and she's like, I can't even wear it. I can't even wear it. After she had been wearing the clean pads for so long and she's, it's bothering me.

[00:31:31] Carrie Lupoli: Her period actually got less heavy. It was crazy. So I'm gonna go with. Go with the tampon toxicity as a real thing and these other ones, keto rebranding at the Clean Girl Wellness and our GLP one pill. Let's go. Let's just actually show up for ourselves in a way that truly is about health and you know that you are when you really are honest with yourself and you say, truly, what do I want?

[00:31:58] Carrie Lupoli: Why do I want it? What's [00:32:00] important to me? How can I be the healthiest version of myself so I could fulfill the purpose for as long as possible, that I know I was put on this earth to fulfill.