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Samantha Harris shares her personal cancer journey and how she learned to take control of her health and wellness. Despite living a seemingly healthy lifestyle, she discovered she had breast cancer. She emphasizes the importance of being proactive in our health, including making changes to our diet, using non-toxic products, managing stress, and assessing relationships. Samantha wrote a book called "Your Healthiest Healthy" to provide a comprehensive action plan for holistic wellness. She also launched a membership-based community to offer coaching and workout classes. She believes that we have the power to be in control of our health and well-being. Hello everybody. Hello, hello. It's Samantha Harris here. I am beyond thrilled to be a part of this beautiful and important event and to be able to share with you not only my personal cancer journey story, but also why and how I am more vibrant and energetic than I have ever been in my entire life, living healthier and cancer free than I ever thought I even could be. So I want to start first by sharing a little bit of my cancer story and journey. And then I want to share with you some of the top tips for how you can take control of your own health and wellness from how you're eating to the products you're putting on your body and being able to reduce your toxic load to live as vibrantly as possible into the long, long distant future. So my cancer story is this. So I was having just the best time in my TV hosting career, you know, like all my seasons on Dancing with the Stars, simultaneously with my job at Entertainment Tonight, a stint on Broadway and dancing jazz hands, Fosse, doing Chicago, eight shows a week. And I felt like I was healthy. And I thought, you know, I'm about to turn 40 and I should probably get one of those mammogram things. You know, my dad died of colon cancer. His mom was a breast cancer survivor. I might as well set this baseline. My husband and I had daughters who were just three and six at the time. So got the mammogram. It came back clear, which is what I had anticipated. Again, I was the one eating the cheeseless pizza and the skinless boneless chicken breast and the egg white omelette. So of course, it's going to be clear. I exercise every day. And 11 days later, I was changing after a workout. You know how tight those sports bras can be. You know, you're moving them a little to the left, a little to the right. And all of a sudden, I went, oh, that's funny. That lump hasn't been there before. I quickly took control. I said, you know what? I just had a clear mammogram. I'm sure it's nothing. But let's just double check. So I went to see my long-term OB-GYN. Trusted her more than any doctor I'd ever had in my life. I'd been seeing her since my early 20s. She delivered both my kids. I went in. She gave me a quick clinical exam. And she said, hey, you know what? You're turning 40. This is what 40 looks like. Lumpy breast. It's probably glandular. She sent me on my way. Said it was nothing. Okay. A month later, lump still there. Pesky little thing. I went to get a second opinion. Again, it's not cancer. Just had a clear mammogram. So I went to see my internist. Same quick clinical exam. Felt around. Said, eh, it's nothing. If you're worried, we'll keep an eye on it. Sent me on my way. Well, before I knew it, four months had passed. Holidays had come and gone. It was a very busy time. And all of a sudden, I came up for a breath of air. And I said, oh, my gosh. This lump. Still there. Well, I finally said, you know, why don't I go to see a specialist who looked at breasts every day and would know what to look for if there's an issue? Again, not for one second thinking I had cancer. Not for one second thinking there was any concern. I wanted to go to the expert. And after a more thorough exam, diagnostic testing, ultrasound, needle biopsy, she also didn't think that it was cancer. But she said, you know, there's an odd proliferation of cells. Good news is it's not cancer. Bad news is I don't know what it is. Let's take it out. So I had a lumpectomy. Never had surgery in my life. But let's do it. Look, my movements did what they needed. They got me my husband. They breastfed my kids and nourished them. And, you know, let's take that little lump out. So we took it out. And she still didn't think it was cancer. And a week later I went back for my final pathology results. Told my husband, hey, babe, it's not cancer. You stay home. Stay with the kids. It's fine. Who wants to be in a dark, bingy doctor's office all afternoon anyway? Yeah. So that's when I found out not only did I have ductal carcinoma in situ, breast cancer contained within the duct, but also invasive breast cancer. So 2014 was the year of three surgeries and three recoveries. I, after much hemming and hawing, I opted to have a double mastectomy with reconstruction, second stage reconstruction surgery. And I was flabbergasted because none of the genetic tests came back that I had a link to this breast cancer. I thought, how is that possible? I live what I thought was such a healthy life. How could I have cancer? One in eight women will be diagnosed with invasive breast cancer over the course of her lifetime. I'm a national ambassador for both Susan G. Komen and the National Cancer Society. And so when I learned that statistic, but also learned that only 5 to 10 percent of breast cancers are actually hereditary, I'll be honest with you, I was baffled, absolutely floored. I didn't understand it. I couldn't get my brain around it. So I did what I always did best. The journalist in me started to research, speak to experts, find out everything I could. And I determined it really is what we put in, on, and around our body that affects our overall well-being, that turns on or off potentially dormant cancer cells living in our body, that turns on or off certain DNA. And I started to make changes. I started with my deodorant, going aluminum-free, even though there has been no conclusive scientific study saying that the aluminum can lead to the breast cancer. But it was a gateway for me to find that, oh, there are a lot of toxins in our products. Oh, my gosh. I'm sitting in a makeup chair being shellacked with gosh knows what chemical bombs every day, being hair-sprayed to high hell, oh, you know, double H-E, double hockey sticks, not having any idea that there were endocrine disruptors and carcinogens and allergens in a lot, if not all, of these products. And how I was eating and nourishing myself wasn't actually the nourishment I needed. It was nutrient-deficient non-foods, the low-fat, the fat regeneration. I was afraid of fat itself, not realizing how important fat is to absorb certain vitamins and minerals, to build our cell membranes, to integrate healthy fats into our diet, into our lifestyle. And I started small, manageable steps to overhaul my nutrition, how I approached my exercise routine. Stress, stress management, that wasn't something that was even in my vernacular, right? I took every job that came at me. I was like, yes, good morning, America. You want me to be a correspondent? Yes. You want me to do this? Yes. You want me to speak there? Yes. It was always yes. I had to learn the power of no. I also had to learn to assess the relationships in my life from personal relationships, intimate relationships with family and friends who I've known forever to occasional acquaintances, school moms that I would see in a parking lot who would add to my stress level, and I'd leave that parking lot with my ears up to my shoulders for whatever reason. And I realized that was detracting from my life. That was adding stress. Was my sleep solid? Was I being mindful? All of these things were new to me. And I knew at the same time that I couldn't, it was so overwhelming, right? And there's so much conflicting advice out there, especially when it comes to nutrition. And so after I did all this research, I really wanted one comprehensive action plan to sort of guide me on how I should begin all of these different areas of that holistic approach to wellness. So I wrote my first book called Your Healthiest Healthy. So Your Healthiest Healthy, it's really that action plan that I was looking for. I'm not getting up on a soapbox and saying you need to do this and you need to do this and this is how it's done. Instead, it's offering suggestions. Hey, these things have a lot of toxins. Here's some things you should look out for. Fragrance, phthalates, 1,4-Dioxane. Are they in your makeup products? Are they in your laundry detergent? Are they in your cleaning supplies? I used to think with my little kids crawling around and putting everything into their mouths off the floor, I thought, boy, I need a chemical bomb for this place. I need to make sure my spick and span floors with highly toxic cleaning agents. Not having a clue because I'm a mom trying to do my best, trying to keep the house clean. I didn't know what I was doing. I live in Southern California. I was slathering on sunscreen on my kids, but I would buy the biggest bottle off the bottom shelf, which was the cheapest that I could find at the store because I had to go through so much of it, not realizing the harms of the benzone and the oxybenzone and the other harmful chemicals, not realizing I needed a mineral-based sunscreen that only had zinc oxide or titanium dioxide in it as the active ingredient. And I started to make slow shifts, and you can too. So many of us are raised in a world where we think, oh, well, my dad had diabetes or my mom had cancer or Alzheimer's runs in my family. So that's going to happen to me too. But you are more powerful than you think. You can be more in control of your health and your well-being and your future and your longevity than you even may realize. And so through not just the Your Healthiest Healthy book, I launched the Your Healthiest Healthy community. It's a membership-based community where every week I offer live coaching. I'm also a certified health coach. I changed, I pivoted my entire career. I've been a certified trainer for a long time. So teaching live workout classes as part of the Your Healthiest Healthy community membership is a no-brainer. I love teaching the workouts. But I went back to school. I pivoted my whole career to become a certified health coach, to be able to help not just my small number of private clients, but to be able to help so many others, and not just within the cancer community and the cancer survivors and thrivers. Yes, yes, yes. Thrive, thrive, thrive. Let's do it. Long time. But let's also help those who don't want to ever have a cancer diagnosis. And the changes that we make to better our health and our wellness for not just preventing either a recurrence or ever getting cancer, breast cancer or otherwise, but those same changes for best health and longevity and energy and vibrancy are the same changes to be able to reduce your risk of heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and certain autoimmune disorders. So before I dive deep into nutrition, I just want you to know that I want to make sure you leave today with some tools and action steps that you can do today without being overwhelmed. You don't have to do all of it at once, because it really is about the long game. And that long game comes with small, actionable, manageable steps, one little step at a time. And once you integrate that little step into your life and it becomes sort of a new habit, hey, you're like, all right, hey, cool. What can I do to level up? Where's my next step coming from? What can I do? And that's where I love to help. And I'm really responsive on my Instagram, at SamanthaHarrisTV. If you want to learn more, I give a lot of tips there, as well as being able to communicate with me and help you further. But let's dive a little bit into the nutrition, because my hope is to grow or even perhaps overhaul some of your nutrition know-how, right? How to eat for optimal health and energy. Now, no matter what dietary theory you may follow, whether you want to be vegan or paleo or keto or pescetarian or whatever, all of those different gurus who stand on their soapbox and say, this is the one way you should eat. And here's why. We have to figure out what's right for us. Because what works best for my body might not work best for yours or your sister's or your best friend's. So we have to sometimes play around a little bit. But across the board, every nutritional guru will agree that when we start with a plant-based whole foods foundation, that is where we can really reach our optimal health. Nutrient density, right? We have the frankenfoods and the nonfoods and all the packaged stuff that we fill our plate and our bellies with that aren't serving us. So if you think to yourself, is this meal or is this snack, is it serving me? Is it doing something good for my body? Not to say we can't enjoy and indulge in the ice cream. Look, I do. I have my weekly ice cream. I have nightly dark chocolate, 70% cacao or higher. Good nutritional benefits. You can say, Samantha said I can have my chocolate. There are the ways to be able to indulge, whether it's an 80-20 rule, a 90-10 rule. And have that fun. But you also can change your eating habits so you don't actually feel that you're eating out of neglect or deprivation. I look forward and a couple years back, I'm many years out of cancer and cancer-free and feeling energized. But pre-cancer, I don't think I would have ever said the words, I look forward to my smoothie every morning. I jones when I don't have my smoothie. But that's how I am now. I wasn't like that before, throwing the kale and the spinach and the chia and the flax and all the different, I call it the kitchen sink smoothie because I put all the goodness in it that I know my body needs that maybe I wouldn't have eaten on its own. So how do we level up our nutrient density? I'm going to share a little bit of that with you. And we also want to, where can we reduce the harmful and hurtful foods that lead to those chronic diseases we're talking about? Our habits. Our habits can be so deeply rooted that it can be hard to change them. But behavior change is possible. It just takes a little bit of commitment and a little bit of trial and error to figure out what works best for you. So small manageable steps. But here are my pillars to this lifelong health journey. Number one, build a veggie-heavy base. So I kind of say take a veg pledge, if you will. And that veg pledge basically means filling your plate, ideally, at least half full of veggies at every meal. So that could look like a tofu scramble in the morning with lots of spinach and garlic and tomatoes and avocados in it. It could mean a smoothie in the morning with your greens, like I was mentioning. A big salad full of beans. Beans are a really wonderful food to have at least a cup of every day. Dinner could be a plant-based option. Or if you're choosing to eat meat, maybe you have a small portion of grass-fed. We'll get into that. But really understanding how you want to eat is also really important. The quality, the source. So making a veg pledge super important. The next pillar of living your healthiest, healthy life nutritionally is to shake the sugar. And I'm not just talking about the desserts. When we eat a cookie, duh, we know, it's full of sugar. But what about those hidden sugars? There is sugar hidden in so many foods that we don't even think of as sweet. Your pasta sauces, your ketchup, your bread. There is sugar in your chips that are supposed to be salty, and yet they have sugars. And the thing is, there are so many synonyms for sugar that oftentimes, if we're already in that place, which if you're not, I encourage you to start reading nutritional labels, right? The ingredients labels, the nutrition facts. Because we sometimes don't even realize, if it doesn't say cane sugar or maybe syrup, we might not realize it's sugar. There are over 70-some synonyms for sugar. From maltodextrin to malt barley, right? They don't sound like sugar, so why are they sugar? They're sugar. Anything that ends in O-S-E, fructose, sucrose, galactose, any of that. Maltose. Anything that ends with the word syrup. So that could be corn syrup, rice syrup, maple syrup. Although I will say, there are some really great health benefits to maple syrup, that it is very caloric and high in sugar, so you want to minimize the amount of it. So really looking at cutting down on that sugar. It's hidden in your yogurts, in your fruit-flavored anything. Better to buy, if you're a yogurt eater, going organic. Going organic grass-fed, even better. And then getting plain and adding in fresh fruit to sweeten it up. And if you need to add a little bit more, maybe that's that touch, you know, a quarter teaspoon, half teaspoon of maple syrup or organic raw honey. All right, the next big pillar. Fiber up. Fiber, fiber. Okay, so women in America, on average, get about 12 grams of fiber per day. Okay. The USDA recommends 25 grams of fiber per day. So here's the thing. Still not enough for optimal health. We, as ladies, need to aim for closer to 30 to 35 grams of fiber per day. Men, 35 to 40 grams of fiber per day. It's so much easier than you think. No, you're not going to be eating wheat germ all day long. No, no, no, no, no. Delicious ways to do it. Fibering up by adding chia and flaxseed into your diet, which are also powerful antioxidants. Flax is a great breast cancer and prostate cancer fighter. Berries, oh my gosh, berries. I could talk about berries all day long. Huge on the fiber and huge on the antioxidants from all those phytochemicals, those phytonutrients in it. So really loading up on a cup or two of berries, strawberries, raspberries, blueberries. If you're choosing blueberries, level up to organic. Always go organic with your produce when you can. The Environmental Working Group puts out a list called the Dirty Dozen every year. It's the 12 most pesticide-heavy veggies and fruits. And so you really want to spend your money. I'm not going to tell you where to spend your money, but when you do spend the money, choosing to spend it on the Dirty Dozen fruits and vegetables is ideal if you can't buy all organic. Then when you want to level up on those blueberries even more, going from organic to organic wild blueberries. So they have even more potent cancer-fighting chemicals. So another great way to get that fiber, the cruciferous veggies, your kale, your broccoli, your Brussels sprouts. And they are also very powerful. I keep going with the cancer fighters, but that's what we're all about, right? We want to avoid too many cancers out there. We don't want the breast cancer coming back. We don't want the breast cancer diagnosis, but we don't want any of the other cancers or the heart disease or the type 2 diabetes. So cruciferous veggies are your friend for sure. Take even an avocado, great, healthy fat. About a half of it, depending on the size, is about 7 grams of fiber. 7 grams is a good amount of fiber. And of course we know our beans give us our fiber. And then looking into some new options of protein. So if you're a big meat eater, look, I grew up in Minnesota, land of cows. I ate from tongue to practically tail growing up. I sucked every bit of last bit of meat off of every lamb chop my mom made. And boy, did she make delicious lamb chops. But no, I don't eat red meat. I used to eat chicken or turkey or fish 14 out of 21 meals a week. So 14 out of 14 lunches and dinners a week pre-cancer. But starting to reduce your load of animal protein, even if you're choosing to have animal protein, we grew up in a society too where we need that big slab of meat front and center with like a little bit of veggie, a little bit of maybe a carb of some sort of potato or rice or whatever it is. So we want to flip that idea, filling half your plate with veggies at every meal and then really reducing the amount of meat to more of a condiment as some people, some experts like to talk about. So reducing dairy is another really healthy way to reduce cancer risk. So dairy is really high in the insulin-like growth factor one, that's IGF-1, which is a known cancer promoter. And dairy consumption increases your body's level of IGF-1. So also people think, well, got milk, right? We had all those milk campaigns. We have to have it. We have to have it for strong bones. But interestingly, vitamin D really is the big fortifier for our bones. We do need calcium, of course. But the countries with the highest dairy or cow milk consumption actually have the highest percentage of hip fractures and breaks. And guess what? The U.S., highest level of dairy consumption in the world, highest level of those hip fractures and breaks. So just a little something to think about. We talked about organic, but again, really choosing when it comes to whether it's – if you are choosing meat, choosing organic and grass-fed or if it's poultry, pasture-raised. When we're talking about fish, going with the lower mercury fish. There are some great, especially brain-boosting health benefits to fish, getting your omega-3s, the DHA in the fish. You can always take a supplement and go vegan with an algae supplement for your DHA. That's what I choose to do. I have sushi once a week. It's my 90-10 rule. I love me my sushi. But if I'm going to choose other fish during the week, you want to ideally go for the low mercury, lower in the PCBs. Those are those harmful toxins that are floating in our waters, are over-fished, over-toxic waters. So wild Alaskan salmon. It can be king salmon, sockeye, silverback, whatever your favorite is. Other options for low mercury and low contaminants would be sardines, mackerel, sole is a good one, anchovies. I know, I'm not an anchovy or mackerel or sardine person, so if anyone has any good recipes for them, shoot them my way. And then when you're eating out, a good question to ask is what kind of oil do you cook in? And I can go deeper into this, but I want to make sure as we're coming across the end of our time that I touch base on what we're putting on our body in terms of the toxins. But oils. So we need a good amount of omega-3 oil to be as healthy as possible. Omega-6 is the other oil, the omega-6 fatty acids. And those can be actually quite harmful. The standard American diet, the SAD diet, that leads us to, unfortunately, have really high levels of omega-6 fatty acids in our bodies, and that leads to a lot of disease. It should have a one-to-one ratio of omega-6 to omega-3. Most Americans, on average, are a ratio of 12 omega-6 to only one omega-3. We need to shift that completely and really reduce it. So a lot of our oils, soybean oil, these are high in omega-6 and we want to reduce or avoid them altogether. Canola oil, safflower, sunflower, a lot of the seed oils. We want to really stick in vegetable oils. Anything that's hydrogenated oils, trans fats, those are like big bad no-no. Really trying to infuse and cook with avocado oil is my favorite. It also has a high smoke point. If you're choosing the wonderful, organic, extra virgin olive oil, it does not have a high smoke point. So you want to saute very low heat or just use that for your drizzle over maybe a salad, keeping it cold, and choosing avocado oil or coconut oil, refined or unrefined, depending on whether or not you like that coconut flavor, is a great option. Okay. So I could talk forever about nutrition. I can deep dive more. If you have more questions, reach out to me through Instagram or on my website. I can definitely go deeper into all that. But let's talk about our beauty products. So women, on average, use about 12 personal care products a day. And if you were to take each of the ingredients and line them up, that would be about 168 different chemicals within those 12 products every day. Hair products, lotions, makeup, right? So think about our governments as though they're all safe levels. But think about the continual use, day after day, layer over layer, just seeping into our skin, our biggest organ, right? Okay. So once the chemical enters our body, it's absorbed through the bloodstream. It's distributed throughout our whole body. So I just want to take a little mental note here, a checklist. These are just some subtle signs of toxins in your body. I'm not talking about the extreme going all the way to the disease side of things, which we'll talk about, but just subtle signs of toxins in your body. Brain fog, low energy, constipation, new skin issues that pop up, physical aches and pains. Does that resonate with anyone? You're like, yep, that's totally me. I got that one, right? So those could just be sort of low level feel of symptoms of toxicity in your body. So keep off your bod. I have a list in the book called the Keep Off Your Bod list. So I'm just going to go through a few of them. These are ingredients that you, so again, just like reading the food labels and ingredients labels on your grocery items, same thing with your drugstore items that you're buying or putting on your body and your personal care products. Parabens. Thankfully, that's one that most people have heard of. Paraben-free, great option, but you still don't want to be tricked by the marketing because a lot of times they slap labels and you go to food aisles and it's like, heart healthy, boost immunity. And yet there's like color dyes and junk in a lot of that food that's terrible for you and actually detrimental to your overall well-being. Whereas same thing with parabens. It might say paraben-free on the bottle, but what else is in there? But right now, parabens. So parabens are linked to breast cancer, skin cancer, reproductive issues. So parabens are a type of chemical that are endocrine disruptors and they interfere with the hormone systems in your body. They can chemically mimic estrogen. So they really throw things out of whack. And here's a really interesting thing. So most of the studies on parabens with regard to cancer cells have been done in a Petri dish where they have the cancer cells and they drop the parabens right in there. And so it's just very isolated, parabens, cancer cells. But in real life, there are a lot of other factors that come into play, right? Growth hormones that occur naturally in our body. So after testing the effects of parabens on breast cancer cells with different types of hormone receptors, researchers actually found that when combined with a growth factor that's naturally found in the breast cells, it took actually just a measly 1% of parabens to stimulate breast cancer growth. So yeah, parabens, more carcinogenic in real life than they are in the lab. So a word of warning. So phthalates are the other one I want to talk about right now. So phthalates are oftentimes a catch-all term used with the word fragrance. Phthalates aren't usually, the word phthalate is not individually listed on the ingredients label, so it gets really tricky. They are basically something that can lead to breast cancer and hormone disruption, reproductive issues, early puberty. So we really want to avoid that. So by avoiding fragrance in general, it's a really great way to protect your health. Fragrance is a catch-all term, as we said. It's also protected because it's proprietary. So if I'm company X and I'm making a lotion and I need a fragrance that I want to scent it beautifully for my clientele, my customers, I'm going to reach out to third-party company L. Okay, I should go ahead and call them company phthalate. Company F. F for flunks and for fragrance. And company F gives me that fragrance to add into my ingredients for my lotion. Well, that company doesn't have to tell me as the maker of this specific lotion what's in their fragrances, so I just pass it right along to my customers. We need to become empowered as consumers to know what we're putting on our body, in our body, around our body, whether it's the cleaning supplies in our house, our laundry detergents. If you can get rid of your dryer sheets and your fabric softeners, those companies don't have to, the laundry detergent, be careful what's in it, those companies don't have to disclose. They don't even have to put an ingredients label on the packaging. So we have no idea what we're getting into unless we choose a company that's being transparent that is really trying to protect our house with clean ingredients. So fragrance is one big no-no and a way to stay away. It doesn't mean that you can't have wonderfully scented things because there are essential oils that are really pure and wonderful to use that companies can use and those companies will be transparent with you. Petroleum. Petroleum is found in moisturizers, petroleum gel oils, mineral oils, and it's not toxic when it's properly refined, but a lot of them can be contaminated with PHAs, which are linked to skin cancer. So you want to definitely check out that, you know, is that petroleum-based product highly refined or not, and sometimes you can find that on that company's website. Formaldehyde, you know, look, from hair color to hair straightener, nail polish treatments, formaldehyde is a known carcinogen. Again, a 90-10 rule here. If you can clean out all your products, look, I started with, well, first I started with the deodorant, then I went to my foundation because I'm putting it all over my face and neck. So my foundation was the clean neck swab, and then I thought, okay, what's next? You know, can I change up my blush, my eyeshadows, my eyeliners? When it came to my nail polish, you can choose five free or seven free, and that means formaldehyde as well as a bunch of other baddies aren't in those ingredients. So let's see. One for dioxane, I also mentioned, I may have mentioned, similar to phthalates, it's not listed on the label. It's a known or probable carcinogen, and it's not necessarily an intentionally added ingredient, but it's a contaminant that's created when certain common ingredients come together. And so it's found in a lot of personal care products and laundry detergent. They're oftentimes contaminating the SLS, the sodium lauryl sulfate that's found in toothpaste and shampoos, things that basically need to get foamy and fuzzy. So if you can reduce products that have sodium lauryl sulfate or PEGs, P-E-G, that's the polyethyl glycol, sometimes it will say PEG and then a dash mark and then a number that's listed, then you'll know there might be one for dioxane in that as well. So something else to just look out for. I already talked about sunscreen. So going mineral-based is always a better way to go. Oxinoxate, which is in a lot, if you're going for the spray sunscreens, not only does it have a propellant chemical in it, but it also oftentimes has oxinoxate, which is a reproductive toxin and an endocrine disruptor. And of course, we don't want that. And it's also banned in Hawaii. So it's good to know that if the Florida Keys and Hawaii are banning certain ingredients from the sunscreen products because they're concerned about the delicate balance of the ocean and the coral reef, then we've got to wonder, well, what about our sweet, sensitive little skin here? So another great option. Because I know I'm wrapping up on our time here, I want to make sure that you know that Think Dirty is a wonderful app that can give you sort of a quick girl's guide to products that are safer or more harmful and guide you to some healthier alternatives. So that's Think Dirty. EWG.org, that's the Environmental Working Group. They're a nonprofit. They do a lot of great work. They give you that list of the dirty dozen, right, the pesticide-heavy fruits and vegetables and the clean 15, which are the least pesticide-heavy. They also have the ability in the Skin Deep database on the EWG.org website to be able to enter in a product or even just a name of an ingredient. And it'll give you on a scale of 1 to 10, 1 being the cleanest, 10 being the most toxic, what that rating is. By the way, fragrance, it's a 9. So there you go. I have so much more to share with you. I love sharing all of these things with you. And I hope that you will reach out to me again, Instagram, at SamanthaHarrisTV. If you want to learn more about the Your Healthiest Healthy community, the membership community, or the retreats that I do a couple times a year, you can also reach out to me, DM me on Instagram. And I know that they're also going to give you the information for the website YourHealthiestHealthy.com or Samantha-Harris.com. And I can get to you with a lot more information as well. I have loved being with you. I hope that you enjoy the rest of this event. And I will see you next time.
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