Dr. Tabatha BarberI teach women how to fast their way to a faith-filled, hormonally balanced, fabulous life!

The Hidden Dangers of Exercise Clothing #shorts

19 Mar 2026 · 1 min

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In this YouTube short, Dr. Tabatha Barber warns that synthetic exercise clothing and fragranced products (perfumes, plug‑ins, air fresheners, candles, lotions) release chemicals that are absorbed through sweat. She claims these chemicals act as endocrine disruptors, falsely signaling hormone receptors, which she says leads to estrogen dominance, progesterone deficiency, and cortisol spikes from chronic stress. The resulting hormonal imbalance, which she describes as "hormone chaos," is framed as a contributor to perimenopause in women. The speaker urges a return to natural fiber clothing to avoid these risks.

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As soon as you start working out and exercising in those clothes and sweating and your body's absorbing those chemicals, like, women get really sick. And so we have got to get back to natural fibers and get these chemicals out of our clothes. They act as endocrine disruptors so that our hormones, our hormone receptors are being signaled when it's not actually a hormone, it's a chemical. And so the fragrances in our perfumes, in our plug-ins, our air fresheners, our candles, our lotions. All of that is causing estrogen dominance, progesterone deficiency, cortisol spikes from our chronic stress. And this hormone chaos is now being termed perimenopause.