Having Issues With Weight Gain? Check Your Nail Polish For This Chemical…
By Dreamer
We are bombarded almost daily by things researchers and the government deem “carcinogenic” (cancer-causing) and dangerous. Well, it’s time to add nail polish to that list of potentially unsafe products, but not because it causes cancer. Instead, it might be making you fat. Yes, you read that right, and no, you don’t have to be eating it.
A study done by researchers at Duke University and EWG (Environmental Working Group) and co-authored by both has come out with some alarming details about a chemical common in fingernail polish used by millions of women. The chemical that could be hazardous is called triphenyl phosphate, or TPHP, and it’s being found in the bodies of only women who paint their nails. It doesn’t need to be ingested to enter the bloodstream, and it’s dangerous for all. The study was published in October, and out of the 10 nail polish brands tested, only 2 lacked the TPHP chemical.
TPHP can cause massive amounts of weight gain in the body. It is a suspected endocrine-disrupting chemical used to manufacture plastics and foams. Since the chemical interferes with your endocrine system, it disrupts the delicate hormonal balance all women need to maintain a healthy life. The TPHP seeping into your body when you apply your daily coat of “radical red” could be making you gain weight.
The study found that when women applied nail polish with TPHP directly to their nails, the levels of a biomarker of that chemical in their urine increased sharply. Actually, the researchers tested the women’s urine for a chemical called diphenyl phosphate or DPHP, which is created when the body metabolizes TPHP. Meaning the body changes the chemical properties of TPHP to DPHP when it removes the harmful chemical from the blood. Although scientists need more time to study the effects of TPHP on weight gain and obesity, they do assure us that there is a link there.
The worst part is that some polishes contain TPHP and the company isn’t listing it on the ingredients. Frequent nail polish users should consider rationing their use of nail polish if it contains TPHP or switching brands to one they can be assured doesn’t contain the harmful chemical. Weight gain may not be the only harmful side effect of this chemical metabolizing. Those who are daily nail polish users are at greatest risk to TPHP and the long-term effects could be disastrous.
H/T [Fox 5 Atlanta]
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