How to Be Your Own Best Healthcare Advocate

Samantha Harris is an author, Emmy-winning TV host, and wellness enthusiast. After being blindsided by a breast cancer diagnosis at the age of 40, Samantha started investigating to discover why it could have happened and how to take back her health!

Listen as Samantha shares the story behind her cancer diagnosis and the lessons she learned throughout her healing journey that inspired her to write her book, The Healthiest Healthy.

Samantha also explains why you need to be aware of hidden toxins that are lurking in your beauty and cleaning products, plus she reveals her top nutritional and mindset tips for preventing illness and feeling your best. Find out how to be your own health advocate and live a long, vibrant life!

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JJ Virgin: [00:00:00] Hey, this is JJ Virgin. Welcome and thanks so much for joining me. This is Ask the Health Expert here. I put the Power of Health in your hands and give you access to the top people in health and wellness. In each episode, I share safe ways to get healthy, lose weight, heal your gut detox and lots more. So if you wanna get healthy and get off the dieting for life merry go round, I'll give you strategies that will help you look and feel better fast.
We have. Celebrity on with us today who has made the transition. She's still out there doing tv, but has made the transition to being a health advocate because of her own health journey. Samantha Harris, who is on eight seasons at the co-host of Dancing With the [00:01:00] Stars. I had to ask her a little bit about that cause like who doesn't love that show?
And also, One of the hosts of Entertainment Tonight and Extra and eNews and NBC's Prime Time Show Stars Earned Stripes and four Emmy Award nominations in a win. She's like, Amazing entertainment journalists and TV host. And she also starred in Broadway, in the musical Chicago. I mean like, oh my gosh, all these things.
But what's brought her on the show today was her own personal journey. She was always a health and wellness enthusiast, and she's also a personal trainer. She wrote a book, Your Healthiest Healthy, and the reason she wrote the book was to tell her story with breast cancer, which we're gonna talk about today because just even how it came to be discovered is so key here.
So Samantha Harris, again, she's the author of Your Healthiest Healthy Eight Easy Ways to Take Control, Help Prevent and Fight Cancer and Live a longer cleaner. Happier life. She is giving a great [00:02:00] resource for everyone. A list of the different things that you wanna be super careful to not put on your skin.
One of the things she talks about here is because she didn't really have the genetics. For this, it's like, where did it come from? Possibly one of the places it came from were all those years of slathering on all of those chemicals before she would go on tv. So she'll be sharing that list at jjvirgin.com/SamanthaHarris.
I also wanna share this awesome review from Gabby, Scotty, and she left this review on iTunes. It says, Love JJ and her 10 Stars podcast. Five star review says, I wish I could rate this podcast with 10 stars instead of five. Well, I wish you could too, Gabby, but I'll take it. Says she says, JJ Virgin's expertise, knowledge, and straight to the point approach makes me look forward every week to her next show, which I know for sure will not disappoint.
I'm still patiently awaiting to read her book, The Sugar Impact Diet, however I'm number 40 on my public library wait list. Okay, Gabby. Scotty, when you hear this, I want [00:03:00] you to email [email protected] and say, JJ said to send me the Sugar Impact Diet and I'm gonna send you that book and the cookbook too.
How's that? Anyway, she says, This shows how much interest there is on our research and. Point of views on positive and active lifestyles, nutrition and health in general. Thanks JJ for sharing all of your knowledge. I love that. And hopefully you hear this and will reach out to us so we can give you that book and then when you're done with it, share it.
All right. That is awesome. Now, before I dive into this super fascinating podcast with Samantha Harris, I wanna share one of my favorites with you.
Samantha Harris, welcome to the show. Super excited to have you on. Thank you, jj. Me too. You have a wild story as to how you've kind of gotten into this journey of health. So [00:04:00] I think that's the best place to start because I mean, people who know, you, know, you as celebrity, so let's go from how you were there to, how you got to here.
Samantha Harris: Absolutely. I mean, I think, you know, people were used to seeing me and my ball gowns on Dancing With the Stars for the eight seasons I was on there, or Entertainment Tonight and, and always on a lot of health and fitness magazines, The picture of Health. And I at 40 thought I was as fit and healthy as I'd ever been.
And then I was blindsided by a breast cancer diagnosis, and that's really where this journey began because I thought I knew what health was
JJ Virgin: and I didn't. So first off, first off, let's backtrack. How much fun was it to be on Dancing with Stars and how much work? Like really equally
Samantha Harris: a combination of a lot of fun and a lot of work.
But, but more, I would say, For that show, it really leaned on the fun. Especially because I grew up in a family of entertainers and performers who always loved the theater and the theatrics of [00:05:00] performance, and my mom was in a dance company when I was growing up. So to be able to watch, I mean, I was.
Probably the biggest fan girl of the show I was actually on. Because, and that's so cool. Whatever rehearsal we had, I would just be that giddy in the corner watching the dance or watching the big, you know, celebrity singer come on and perform their, you know, latest single. So I love that. And, and being able to expose my my eldest daughter who's now 11, but when she, she was born when I was doing the show, I was pregnant with her on the show and then she, for the first couple of years of her life, she would come to the set and it was really fun to be able to share.
Just through her eyes to see her eyes widen. And entertainment tonight was an amazing place to work. I'd interned there when I was a student at Northwestern University, so that full circle moment to be sitting in Mary Hart's chair was pretty amazing for many, many
JJ Virgin: years. Yeah, crazy Then. Okay, so then you get this breast cancer diagnosis.
First of all, how did you find out that you had.
Samantha Harris: And I think that's truly what makes this story the craziest. So, JJ I [00:06:00] had was about to turn 40 and I thought, you know, let's just, I, I have a three old and a six year old at home. Let's set a baseline mammogram because I know I'm, I'm so fit and healthy. And I got the mammogram and the results came back clear, which is what I anticipated.
But 11 days later I was changing clothes after a workout and I found a lump. And I thought that was really odd and I wasn't concerned it was cancer, but I thought, let's just check it out. So I went to see my longtime ob gyn who said it was nothing, sent me on my way. A month later it was still there.
Went to see my internist, told me the same thing. If you're worried about it, we'll keep an eye on it, but it's nothing and nagging of my inner voice. . It just kept haunting me and saying, Well, how do they know from feeling it in a clinical exam that it's really nothing if I'm gonna live with this lump?
And it was sizey. Let's make sure we're going to the experts who look at breasts every day. And that's when I finally scheduled an appointment with the surgical oncologist. But I'll tell you, even she didn't think it was [00:07:00] cancer.
So that appointment was
JJ Virgin: interesting. We had, So she didn't think it was cancer, but she hadn't done a biopsy. She just for, based on what she felt? No, no. No ,
Samantha Harris: That's what's the, So she saw it, She first, she saw it on an ultrasound at this one, appoint this appointment and said, Yeah, I, you're not crazy. There is something there.
But, it doesn't look like cancer. But, you know, let's just biopsy it to be, to be safe. So I had a needle biopsy. That came back and she walked into the room with the results and said, Well, good news and bad news. The good news is it's not cancer, but the bad news is I don't know what it is. So, you know, let's just take it.
I'd never had a surgery in my life, but I thought, Okay, fine. Look, my boobs did what they needed to do. They got me, my husband, and they
JJ Virgin: fed my kids. So, alright,
Samantha Harris: just take 'em. I don't wanna have to worry about this or take, take this, this lump out. So not, not
JJ Virgin: both of them yet, but this lump hadn't shown up on a mastectomy.
I mean not a mastectomy, a mammogram. You had a mammogram, it didn't show up, and you felt it 11 days later. [00:08:00] So what, which is crazy in itself. Yes.
Samantha Harris: And it didn't, it
JJ Virgin: didn't materialize what we laid. Yeah. It didn't, didn't, didn't come out in 11 days. So probably years slow down, which is why I, I'm gonna put a resource and I'm gonna actually connect you with this amazing woman, Dr.
Veronique, who has this product called, Breast friend and it's, it teaches women how to feel for lumps. Cuz I've got another girlfriend, Ingrid Mocker, same thing. She found it herself. So I'm just doing a big, you know, I am doing the the big commercial right now for breast self exam. All right, so there you are.
Now she's gonna take it out. Now tell us what happens next.
Samantha Harris: What happens next is she goes in, I wake up from the surgery, from the lumpectomy. She says, Again, not cancer, cuz they do the down and dirty, rough, you know, frozen sections in the room. I go home a week later, it's time to go get my final pathology results.
Have her check the incision, make sure that it's healing properly. I tell my husband, Don't bother coming with me. We know it's not cancer. [00:09:00] Gorgeous day outside. Go, go play golf, . So there I sat alone in a surgeon's office finding out that in fact, Not only was the lump cancerous, but this little section of on the, on the perimeter that she thought on the margin she thought was healthy tissue.
She wanted just, for whatever reason, she said, the surgeon said, In my gut, I felt. It was healthy tissue, but I just still needed to take a sample of it. And that sample of healthy tissue ended up being invasive cancer.
JJ Virgin: Wow.
Samantha Harris: Had she not taken that, we would've thought, Okay. Ductal carcinoma inside to the cancer cells aren't smart enough to get outta the duct.
We take the lumpectomy, We're good. No further surgery, no further treatment needed. And because thank goodness this surgeon listened to her. She took that sample, it was invasive. That led to, of course, the road down to what eventually was my double mastectomy with reconstruction.
JJ Virgin: Wow. It was, it was
Samantha Harris: a really nutty road and know a lot of people come to me.
I'm a, I'm a national ambassador for [00:10:00] Susan G. Komen, and I'm very grateful to Komen because when I was, you know, had my head swimming with thousands of questions, you kind of go through what you call kind of cancer university, right? You don't know anything about it before the diagnosis. And then you have to figure out a lot.
And there are so many resources online that are not. Great resources. If you Google breast cancer, you're going to go down a path that is dark and scary, and every cancer is unique and different. So by going to Komen.org, I was able to find out some really. Useful information with amazing tools. And so I, I'm on, you know, honored now five years almost you know, later to be able to work so closely with them to see the work that they do and communities for outreach to, for research for legislation.
So
JJ Virgin: it's, it's pretty phenomenal. Good. And I think we gotta take this, the fear out of all of this, because I know for friends who've gotten diagnosed, it's all of a sudden, okay, you have to do something tomorrow. It's like, breathe, you know, Hold on, get the information. Okay. So [00:11:00] then you had that, you had the double mastectomy and.
So what's, what's happened? How does your, how's your life change? What has that done in terms of, cuz you were already a healthy person you know, what has this done now in terms of how you see your health, how you take care of yours, yourself, et cetera?
Samantha Harris: Well, it's been honestly a gift in many ways. Not just for me, but for my family, because of the changes I've been able to make.
They're not just for me. They're also impacting my family in a wonderful, healthful way. I had no hereditary link to my diagnosis and my dad died of colon cancer, so I thought perhaps, and his mother had breast cancer. So I thought, well, this makes sense. It must be hereditary, and I. Genetic testing far beyond the BRACA testing, and I had no genetic link.
And it turns out actually only five to 10% of breast cancers are genetic. So then the journalist in me said, Well, I need to search for answers. What the heck is going on? Why are one and eight women diagnosed with invasive breast cancer over the course of her lifetime? Why is this happening younger and [00:12:00] younger and not just cancer, but other.
Chronic diseases, heart disease, types of diabetes and autoimmune disorders that I feel like are plaguing our society and are in more ways than they ever have. And you know, I look to my grandmother's one who lived breast cancer survivor, lived to 95. My other grandmother's still living at 94. And I think, well, I, the genes are there for me to have a long life.
Why? Why are things changing? And it's changing because what's in, on and around our. And that's what I determined from all the research and speaking to so many experts that I did. And so how could I change? How I'm eating my approach to exercise. How can I change the products I'm using on my body, in my home, cleaning supplies?
And then, and then there's a whole other component, which I know you and your wonderful, beautiful listeners know very well, which is the mind component, the toxic relationships that are adding stress to your life and detracting from you that are really, really wreaking havoc in your. Self. And then finding positivity in your life.
How do you turn things? You know, I was [00:13:00] in these dark days curling up in my bed, just devastated in many ways. And I vowed not to be devastated by a cancer diagnosis. What could I do to take control? And positivity was the biggest help through my journey and flipping the script so that everything that hit me next with my, through my cancer journey was taken The positive.
Spin. So, okay. Yes. Here I sat with a cancer diagnosis. Well, what's positive in this? Well, we caught it early and so I started this sort of positive self talk that really helped. Okay. Well what's next? Keep listening to yourself. Okay. Well, I am fit and healthy otherwise, so that's gonna lessen the chances of complications and surgery.
It's going to help with a faster recovery. So that sort of positive spin has now taken me in a new direction and led me to write a book called Your Healthiest Healthy. Which was a comprehensive action plan that didn't exist. And so that's why I went to search for all these answers and was thrilled to be able to find them [00:14:00] and then honored to be able to share them with
JJ Virgin: others.
And we will put that in there. Cause I think it's so key. I think you know, I have a lot of listeners because I went through a very, very scary situation with where I almost lost my son and so much. Being able to help him, you know, come back to life. He was basically dead, was through mindset. But it is challenging when you're in the middle of like this scariest situations to go, Okay, what's good about this?
You know, it's like, it's not, not necessarily where your mind goes the first time unless you really work on it and train it, but I love what I'm hearing because you can, and the best thing about all the positive thinking and mindset is, is it's actually available to everybody in. Right. That part is very nice, right?
I mean, we're not saying, Hey, now you're gonna have to, to buy this specific thing and take this. Nope. This is all stuff that's at all of our fingertips. And I'm not gonna say it's easy. I, I know when I tell people like, You know, I got called and said, Hey, you're gonna have to let your son die. I wasn't going, What's [00:15:00] great here?
You know? I was like, oh my gosh. But the thing that was able to pull us through and, and it is in life with everybody, it's really comes down to how you show up when things are challenging, cuz it's easy to show up strong when things are easy. It's when you're challenged, that really makes the difference.
So that's in your book now what about, what about. Beyond mindset, what are some of the things that you put into your life on a daily basis to keep you healthy?
Samantha Harris: Well, in terms of food, some of the biggest switches that I made were really leaning into a plant based whole Foods. Diet, which means what that looks like.
So I was someone who I was focused, especially with all my workouts, I was focused on getting as much protein as possible into every meal. That meant a lot of animal products. And when I flipped my plate so that at least half my plate at every meal is filled with veggies, ideally fresh, but dinner, it's usually roasted or baked or sauteed.
You know, my. [00:16:00] Smoothie, which I used to start. First I started with cereal, then I moved to Greek yogurt, then organic Greek yogurt. It was definitely a process and, and that's something that in your healthiest healthy, it's all about small, manageable steps because none of this can be done with success overnight, and it can be incredibly overwhelming when you realize all the different areas of your life.
Can use some improvement or tremendous improvement, but it has to be done in a, in an accessible way. So so one of the things I did, like I said, so I started slowly, but eventually I got to having smoothies with kale and spinach and, you know, different protein powders and matcha green tea powder, and. Bee pollen and, and chia seeds
JJ Virgin: and flax seeds, and I think this is so important.
This did not happen overnight. You didn't wake up one day and go, all these things are coming in. You started adding and adding. And I also love that you're talking about the things you've added into your diet. Cause I think for so much of us, we go, Okay, now we have to take all these things out. It's like, well, what could you add?
Right. And do you think you can add
Samantha Harris: right And that, that when you [00:17:00] even just talking about mine, that also applies to this, where that mentality of what you just said, What can't I eat? No. Think about all that you can eat. And I was, I mean, I eat, when I tell you, if I showed you the size of this salad, and I think people are probably rolling their eyes going “oh, salad”, but I, I eat this vat of fresh chopped salad.
Virtually every day, especially when I'm working from home or if I'm the set, I take it to go with lentils and broccoli sprouts, if I can grab 'em from the farmer's market and garbanzo beans avocado for some healthy fat, and you can eat huge amounts. Not gain weight if people are worried about that.
Cause I know people, we are always concerned about that. But also it gives, has given me more energy than I've ever had and I was always known as the Energizer Bunny. So it's, that's a pretty big statement.
JJ Virgin: And I've gotta do a shout cause I heard you say 'em. Broccoli sprouts. Such like if you're gonna think of one thing [00:18:00] today that you're listening to going, All right, I wanna do one thing.
What would it be that you're adding to your diet, especially for breast cancer risk reduction? I just had a close girlfriend go through breast cancer and there were two things I had her do. I was like, Listen this, Just do these two things for me please. And it was broccoli sprouts every day. And, annatto tocotrienols which it's really exciting what's happening with the annatto tocotrienols and showing that people who are going through, say, chemo are increasing their survival rates, et cetera.
So some really great research on that too. So we'll put that in the show too. But love the broccoli sprouts. That's fabulous. And.
Samantha Harris: And it's about the, I think we focus so much as a society on macronutrients. What can we read on the package? What are the calories? What's fat? Maybe what are some of the vitamins that are in there?
What's our sodium level? What's a cholesterol? No, but it's the micronutrients, the things that aren't on the label, which is where broccoli sprouts are such a powerhouse is such an important thing. So in that same thing with the, with the flax seeds [00:19:00] and the chia seeds and all of the things that you can integrate into your diet without really tasting much of a.
Although I really like a lot of broccoli sprouts on my avocado toast,
JJ Virgin: I'm just. I actually take it as a supplement cause I'm like, ugh. But , there are options. If you, I'm one of those super tasters, anything that's remotely bitter. I'm like, you know, if coffee sits, if coffee sits in a pot for more than like a couple minutes, I mean, I'm just.
I'm one of those, one of those ones, one of those crazy ones. So we you, But the, the key takeaway on that is you find a way, now you've one other thing in your book, and we'll put your book in the show notes too. And you talk about negative nellies, and I think this is such a key thing we don't talk about enough as we, we talk about detoxifying, Oh, your air and your water and your food.
But that's not the only thing we need to detoxify. Let's talk about what these negative nellies.
Samantha Harris: Well negative nellies zap your positivity. They add anxiety to your. Life and, and we all have them in our lives. And sometimes I don't think, unless we [00:20:00] sit back and take notice, we sometimes miss that. But it's, it's the girlfriend who never comes to your side of town for plans or doesn't call you back in a timely fashion.
Ever, or the mom at school, you're not really friends, but you happen to always stop and chat for a little bit and every time you leave the conversation for whatever reason, your shoulders are at your ears. And it's those types of relationships. The one upper, we all know those women, and sometimes men and sometimes family members, and that's where it gets sticky.
That's where it gets sticky. It's easier to break up with a friend, harder, of course, to. Put boundaries on a family member. But there are ways to do that. And so so in the book I talk about, so I basically, one of the things I'm really proud about in the book is scripted dialogue. And I have this not only for how to have that conversation with a friend who might be potentially toxic to you, but also how to talk to your kids broken down by the ages.
About a diagnosis or a health crisis and also how to have positive self talk. So [00:21:00] those are all three really key elements in terms of that. But one, one thing, JJ, that you mentioned, asked me a little bit before is, you know, besides nutrition, what, what did I, what were some of the big changes? So the nutrition was a huge change, but the other.
And so for a woman who is spent her career in the hair and makeup chair, day in and day out, being slathered and shelacced, and sprayed to high heaven this was eyeopening, which is the toxins that are lurking in our beauty product. Our cleaning supplies as well, but the beauty products is really what got me and our feminine care.
I mean, just so I detail all of it and with ways of what, what to look out for, what, what ingredients do becoming familiar, whether it's the food you're eating or the products you're using on your body at home. How to become familiar with the ingredients list so that there's anything on there that's a red flag.
You say, you know what, I'm putting it back on the shelf. Let me get something else over here. But there're
JJ Virgin: also great for those. This is key. I know you're giving you're giving this to everybody for free too, which I super appreciate cuz this is, you gotta realize everybody, your skin [00:22:00] is a siv if you're putting it on, like, you should not put something on your body that you wouldn't.
So, and if you're putting it on your body, it's, it's going in. So your skin is a siv. So I know at jjvirgin.com, we'll put it at jjvirgin.com/SamanthaHarris, you're gonna get the download of the things that you, and I think you're, you're putting things you do not wanna put on your body, What else is in that download?
Samantha Harris: And then also in that download. So that's the keep off your bod list. So, Key ingredients and, and not just the list of the name, but also what it is, what it does, why people use it in a product, and then why it's harmful. Something that your listeners might not know, the European Union bans more than 1300 chemical substances as either carcinogenic, toxic, or possibly harmful.
The United States only bans 11 and our safety care guide. On the, that are put out by our, by Our legislators haven't been updated since the early 19 [00:23:00] hundreds, and there is a bill that's been stuck in Congress, I think since 19 since 2015 that Senator Diane Feinstein and a few other senators have been trying to update.
But it's, you know, unfortunately the big corporations, they just have a lot of money hungry grubbing, and they are, you know, their lobbyists are there and they are just getting things stock. So we as consumers have to take control. Well, here's
JJ Virgin: a great example of that, that makes me nuts. I've got some buddies that have a company called Dry Farm Wines that we are big fans of here on the show.
And I did an interview with Todd White, the one of the founders. In the US there are 87 different additives that you do not have to put on the label in your wine that are that that can just be in there, not in Europe, just here. So these are things we need to know about because it's just ridiculous. You think everything is fine.
And then there's also meaningless statements on labels like natural. Right. I mean, natural is not organic. It's not the same thing. So you'll wanna grab [00:24:00] this list. It's jjvirgin.com/SamanthaHarris. These things really matter. We wanna look at a couple different things in terms of toxicity. I mean, when you look at cancer and people are doing now genetic testing, but the rise in cancer doesn't make sense.
It it, it's not a genetic. If it was, we wouldn't have the rise. We have, there's clearly other things at play. Clearly toxicity is a massive issue here and the first thing you wanna do is avoid exposure wherever possible. And then of course do things like the broccoli sprouts, like right diet, all sorts of, all the things that we do on a regular basis.
We've talked on a lot of different podcasts about this on how you can detoxify regularly. So the first step is to get this list so that you are not. Letting these things get on you. And we'll also put at that same link, we'll put in Samantha's book and all of her social media handles so you can communicate with her as well.
And again, that's jjvirgin.com/SamanthaHarris. Samantha, it has been awesome having you on the show. I think you so much for your time. [00:25:00]
Samantha Harris: Thank you. Before we go, jj, something I do wanna offer to your listeners so that they know, so the book Your Healthiest Healthy came out you know, a matter of months ago, but I just launched the, Your Healthiest Healthy Retreats that are also all the, all the information, especially on my Instagram.
But it's something, you know, sometimes people just need a little bit more of a help and, and a leg up to get started. What the retreats offer are not just, I'm going to arm people with the tools necessary to live their healthiest life. Empower you as a consumer, as a parent as, as a health seeking person, and it's women only.
So it's a lot of really good intimate crowd. And also, I'm also also certified as a, as a fitness. And so I'll be leaving a couple of great classes on a hike and it'll be a really special, special opportunity. So we'll, Continually updating the retreats and where they are always at a high end resort and spa.
So you get a little pampering. That's always, we always,
JJ Virgin: we like that. We always like the pampering. We're on the [00:26:00] bottom of the to-do list. We
Samantha Harris: ourselves at the top. Yes. So we take of those who need to take care of
JJ Virgin: them the most. Absolutely. We did a really fun one. Couple months ago, we had a big warrior mom contest and the woman had gone through cancer and come out and had been incredible with her kids all throughout it.
And then we took her to Rancho Valencia to the spa. It was awesome. So I'm big on the spa. We all more spas. More spas. All right. Well, I thank you so much. Super appreciate your time. Now, after the break I'll be answering a listener's question, so stay with me.
Welcome back. This is the time where I answer listener's question and I actually am gonna bring this up cuz it came up on the show. Samantha was talking about how she moved to a more plant-based diet with the diagnosis of cancer and it comes up all the time on my Facebook and Instagrams. Again, if you haven't jumped on over and joined me live, I do go live a lot on instagram at jj.virgin and Facebook at JJVirginOfficial.
I try to do [00:27:00] a simulcast cast because it's great for my a, d D and I get to, to talk to more people. So I get asked all the time, and I think it's because I made a conscious decision when I wrote the Virgin Diet and Sugar Impact Diet to be diet diagnostic, meaning I was gonna write this whether you were vegan.
Or you are paleo or like Dr. Mark Heiman talks about being p-gan, which is to me the best of both worlds. And so here's a couple things I want you to think about. I don't think anyone would disagree that one of the key things that we wanna make sure is that we're eating more plants. I like people to get five to 10 servings of non-starchy.
Plants a day. And when I say that I really mean vegetables. One or two servings max of fruit. Don't go crazy there because of the fructose. And when you can do the darker berries, it's better. But for plants, you know, loads of deep green leafs, broccoli, broccoli sprouts, cauliflower, we pretty much [00:28:00] rotate every night between broccoli, brussel sprouts, and cauliflower.
Every night, every night, every. And so, and I always get some deep green leafs at at lunch, so make sure that you're getting a lot of those in. Here's where things can get a little bit dicey, and this is what I want to talk to you about is when you're looking at animal products, this is where you have to be so careful about what you're choosing because, and I want you to hear this, you are what you eat ate, meaning that if you are eating a factory, Processed cow.
It is entirely different than eating a grass fed and finished pasture cow. So we've gotta be very careful that if we are choosing animal protein, that we aren't going and eating bad animal protein. Just like you don't want to eat genetically modified plants either or damaged. Oils, right? Quality is key in all of these different foods.
And there's a [00:29:00] couple other things we wanna make sure. I'm gonna give you some basic principles. I kind of am getting on a rant. All right? Here we go. Basic principles that are important. Number one, eat seasonal and local, organic and rotate. So that means go. And this, What's super cool now is that the grocery stores, you can generally get local farmers, but you wanna eat local in season foods and you wanna eat from the rainbow as much as.
You wanna eat five to 10 servings of non-starchy vegetables a day and how much you eat of the, what I call the starchy or the medium sugar impact carbs. Things like wild rice potatoes uh, some of the squashes, most of the squashes are low, but how much you eat of those types of things, Beans, legumes, really depends on where you fall in the sugar impact diet.
That's why people go through our breakthrough carbon tolerance program and find where they do best. I find with most people, with any kind of adrenal issues or thyroid issues or going through menopause, they do better with. A moderate amount of slow low carbs at lunch, say a [00:30:00] half a cup, and then again at dinner will help with sleep.
So depending on where you are, you can have more or less of those, of those slow low carbs. And then a moderate amount of clean, lean protein, optimal protein, wild fish, grass fed beef, but, but avoiding factory. Avoiding those factored animals, those ones you are what you eat, ate, and when you are feeding GMO corn and soy, you're changing the fat profile.
When you're hitting 'em up with antibiotics and hormones, you're changing everything. So do not do that. All right. And more of fibery foods. More plant-based food, so should really make the mainstay of your diet, and I think most of us out there in the nutrition field would actually agree on all of that, which is super cool.
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