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Oct. 6, 2023 - Dr. Oz Podcast
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Medical Mystery: Why is This Teen Crying Blood? | Dr. Oz | S11 | Ep 77 | Full Episode
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Every day she lives in fear.
I was screaming and crying.
They're missing something.
Get her back to the emergency room.
A shocking medical mystery that left this teen actually crying bloody tears.
It's happening again.
I'm gonna die.
It's gonna kill me this time.
Plus...
Welcome to the Delilah Show.
Radio host Delilah opens up about being fired a dozen times, three divorces, and losing two sons.
I was just in this downward spiral.
Coming up next.
Season 11 starts now. .
Today, a medical mystery that came to my show's inbox.
This teen dreamed of becoming a journalist, seeing and experiencing the world.
But then, one day, a medical mystery that seemed like it was straight out of a horror movie took over Jordan's life and changed everything.
What was causing her to cry bloody tears?
Jordan and her family had been away on vacation.
After returning, Jordan's health started to take a turn.
She started to experience symptoms that puzzled doctors.
She had stomach pains, bloody diarrhea, and then eventually her face was swelling.
In the ER, the doctors ran tests and even a CT scan that revealed nothing.
Then the mysterious bleeding started.
Bleeding from her mouth, nose, ears, and eyes.
She spent 14 days in the hospital.
Her swelling started to go down, but no firm answers on what was going on.
When Jordan went back home, she realized her sense of taste, gone.
Her sense of smell, gone.
More than a year later, her nightmare got worse.
The mysterious symptoms came roaring back.
And Jordan was back in the ER. Her face blew up, purple and swollen with blood.
Tears of blood seemed to stream from her protruding eyes.
And then, just like her sense of taste and smell, Jordan's eyesight was suddenly gone too.
Jordan's mom, Kendall, is here.
Your daughter was actually writing a letter to my show when we called you.
I know it's a scary story and I appreciate you for coming, but why did you feel it was important for you and your daughter to share the story?
Honestly, we needed to get her story out because we still don't know what the diagnosis is.
We don't know if this is going to happen again.
And unfortunately, every day she lives in fear, thinking it's going to happen again.
It's a complicated story.
I'm gonna walk through it with everybody.
But as you went to see physicians, experts in the area, what did they chalk it up to?
This constellation of bizarre, horrifying events.
Well, the first episode they said that it was a one in a lifetime, one in a million chance that it would ever happen again.
They didn't know.
They had no answers.
No answers on why she swell up so much.
I'm sorry.
It's okay, it's okay.
And basically they just told me it'll never happen again, so don't worry.
There's nothing to worry about.
Were you still worried?
Of course.
Your mom.
You feel that inside, like they're missing something.
So then the bleeding started, initially out of her nose, out of her mouth, then out of her eyes, these tears of blood that you described.
And when you saw your daughter in the ICU, she looked like this, if I'm told, if I hear the story correctly, she was actually almost like in a crucifix.
They positioned her like that so that it would minimize the chance of the bleeding causing additional problems.
Now, I would have suspected someone would have thrown out the idea that it was a sinus infection that went wrong or some other problem up in that space.
Is that what happened?
And what did they say when they realized how bad your daughter was going?
Right, so at first, thinking that it was a sinus infection, they did a CT scan.
And then after the CT scan, she started profusely bleeding and swelling.
So then they said, well, maybe it's an allergic reaction to the dye in the CT scan.
She did get better after plasma infusions, vitamin K. She lost a lot of blood and things like that.
And when it started the second time, what happened?
The second time in December.
We took her to the ER and they kind of dismissed it.
Gave her some, an EpiPen, Benadryl, things like that.
They thought it was a regular Allergy reaction.
And I insisted that it wasn't.
It was this thing coming back again.
So finally we got up into the ICU because her face started to swell and it started to swell rapidly.
And then when we were in the ICU, the eyes started to swell a lot.
Did the doctors warn you about the potential damage of the pressure behind the eye?
At that time, yes.
Can I show everybody what was going on, what scared everyone so much?
I have an illustration of Jordan's eyes.
And all of our eyes basically shape similar to this, and you have the eyeball itself inside of a little casing, right?
A cage, so to speak.
But if the pressure in the eye grows too high, if I turn the eye around gently, you'll see this structure here.
This is the optic nerve, right?
That's the nerve that allows you to see, connects your eyeball to your brain.
In Jordan's eye, imagine trying to push this ball, right, this big tennis ball-like structure, through a little pinhole.
That's what we're talking about, that kind of pressure.
So it puts so much pressure on top of these structures, like the optic nerve, that it gets suffocated.
And in fact, it got so high in her that doctors got worried.
And they took this little tendon here that connects the eyeball to the orbit around it, the bones, and they cut this right there, sliced right through there, in order to open up a space so the blood could, and the fluid actually was what it was, the pressure and the fluid could come around, making it look like she was crying bloody tears.
Now, Kenneth, when you're in the operating room, if I understand correctly, once they open this up, they put a little clamp in there, in your daughter's eyes, and they are able to, if I show it like that, open this up and let the fluid come around, but they have to leave the clamp there, because if they didn't, the eyeball itself will begin to grow larger and larger, and ultimately destroy everything in that part of her eyes.
So, I'd love to understand What your thoughts were at that time when you realized there weren't a lot of options and the doctor's doing everything possible, but she was going to go blind anyway.
When did you realize it wasn't going to work?
When she came back from the operating room.
They said that the pressure was so great that there was so much damage done to the both optical nerves.
that she may never see again?
I'm sorry.
Thank you.
Were you worried about her life as well?
Absolutely.
She just got her permit to drive.
She's so excited about that.
Her way of life, not being able to see her sisters.
I know that was one thing that she wanted, to watch her sisters get married.
And I just got married as well, so she wanted to see that.
So unfortunately...
Well, you know what?
There are lots of folks I know who have lost their sight, and they can see the world a lot better than I can.
But to have her healthy and have her brain where it is now would mean more to me than anything else.
I can never put myself in your shoes, but I know you're thinking about that side as well.
Would it be okay if I met your daughter?
Absolutely, absolutely.
So, the family went to see dozens of doctors, no clear answers.
But coming up, my med team and I, we wanted to know what was going on, what's causing this medical mystery.
So we made some phone calls.
And when we come back, we're going to meet Jordan, so stick with us.
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We're back investigating a medical mystery that caused this teen to cry blood from her eyes and caused her to ultimately lose her eyesight forever.
Jordan is here along with her mom, Kendall.
Jordan, thank you for being so brave.
Thank you for having us.
I've heard so many wonderful things about you.
I'm so honored to spend a few minutes talking to you about what's been going on in your life.
And I want to thank you for coming in part because your story is going to help many others.
If you can, take me back to the second time you had this illness, when you realized that you weren't going to get your eyesight back.
I didn't actually know that I was going to be completely blind until five or six days into the actual hospitalization.
I just didn't believe it.
That's just not something that happens and it certainly is not something that should have happened to me.
I was in denial for a while and then just was screaming and crying and yelling profanities and then just I don't know, I just kind of stopped after a couple of minutes.
Just kind of taking it in.
What's the last thing you remember seeing?
In the original ER, I was sitting on the bed and I remember looking at my sister, Samantha, who was sitting at the edge of my bed.
She looked like she was going to vomit and looked like she was going to cry and was pale and scared.
I just remember looking at her and saying, it's happening again.
It's happening again.
I'm going to die.
It's happening again.
It's going to kill me this time.
And it happened and that's the last thing I remember seeing.
How are you feeling now?
I'm actually really good.
It's weird to say, but I feel a lot more comfortable with myself being blind than when I could see.
Why is that?
I don't know.
I just feel like...
I'm a firm believer in everything is supposed to happen for a reason.
And I think that this happening to me can change the lives of other people who hear my story, who...
You know, Mark Twain, who's probably my favorite writer, once said, kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
And you certainly have fooled the kindness out of a lot of people in your life.
Mom, are you proud of Jordan?
Absolutely.
Yes.
She's wonderful.
Jordan and her family have been searching for answers for what triggered this medical mystery.
So my medical team and I looked through the medical records.
I mean, this is just a quick synopsis of them.
They're binders of records.
Not surprising when you're in the hospital.
Made some phone calls.
My bad.
That's right.
The National Institutes of Health have taken on the case.
We reached out to them to see if they have any insights into what may be causing Jordan's mysterious symptoms.
This is a crack group that just looks at weird cases, in part because we can learn a lot about everybody else if we understand the rare cases like Jordan's.
After review, careful review, they believe Jordan's symptoms are part of a rare disorder called hereditary angioedema type 3. And angioedema means your blood vessels are swelling, your body is swelling.
And this swelling can occur suddenly in the lips, tongue, intestinal tract, all the things that probably happened to you.
And you don't have to have an allergy to cause it, although it looks like an allergy from the outside.
And they suspect Jordan has an abnormal gene that's causing these unusual symptoms.
They're still waiting on more test results to confirm this diagnosis.
But the good news is that now they know what's causing your problems.
And the reason that's important is you can get earlier treatment.
So there's chances it may happen again.
And I don't want you sitting in the ER bay saying to your sister, who you have good reason to fight for outside of this reason, right, that you think you're going to die.
Because I think they can jump on it faster without they have an idea of what's going down.
And that'll be the key to making sure that if it ever does happen, until we find that a real solution, it'll keep you with us, giving us great wisdom.
Now, I suspect...
Although you've lost some things, you've gained a little bit of knowledge into what's been threatening your life.
Does that make you feel a little more closed?
A little closure over this?
Yeah, it makes me feel a little bit more comfortable in my everyday life.
So I have a surprise.
Should I close my eyes?
Yes.
That's very funny.
Very funny, Jordan.
Keep your eyes open because you have beautiful eyes.
I know you want to be a journalist.
And one thing I do have is a lot of friends who are journalists, and I don't want you to give up your dreams.
So there's a friend we have in Kansas City at KMBC News.
And Laura Moritz is joining us.
She's a superstar there.
Laura, go ahead.
Give Jordan the surprise.
What do you want her to know?
Well, Jordan, we want to tell you, we have watched your story, and William Joy came and talked to you and your mom, and we want you to know we are cheering for you.
You have an amazing story because you are an amazing, amazing young woman.
So we would like to invite you to come and spend the day at KMBC and experience what it's like to be a journalist.
Experience it.
It's a good day.
Just come and see the whole process leading up to our newscast and then join us for our newscast as well.
Oh my goodness.
Oh, you get to be on TV again.
How's that sound, Jordan?
Sounds great.
It sounds like a good time.
You guys are angels at KMBC. Thank you very, very much.
You bet.
Kendall Jordan, thank you for sharing your story.
Thank you for having us.
We'll be right back.
You did a wonderful job.
Coming up, you know this voice.
You're listening to Delilah.
The most listened to woman in radio is here.
She's opening up about her faith and how it helped her through the darkest of times.
If you have a story to share, call me and I'm going to find the perfect song to go with your situation, to go with the person or the situation that you are most grateful for.
You're listening to Delilah.
Thank you.
She's known as the queen of sappy love songs, and millions of people tune in to her for comfort and wisdom.
Today, the most listened to woman in radio is opening up about the personal trials and heartbreak that made her a survivor.
From being fired a dozen times, to three divorces, to the unimaginable pain of losing two sons.
Radio legend Delilah has never had it easy, but through the years, she's learned that her faith would guide her even through the darkest of times.
Good evening and welcome my friend.
Welcome to the Delilah Show.
Delilah has been comforting listeners with her soothing voice and wise words of advice for over 35 years.
No matter how crazy life can be, if you can develop an attitude of gratitude and find something or someone to be grateful for, it makes everything a little bit better.
Her daily radio show, Simply Call Delilah, draws over 9 million listeners from across the country.
You're listening to Delilah.
And over 50,000 lovesick, lovestruck, or loveless callers dial in daily, hoping for a chance to tell their stories to Delilah.
So you expect her to move with you even though you don't want to put a ring on her finger?
Yeah, I do.
I do want to do that.
Well, then you need to tell her that, not me, silly.
Delilah says her wisdom and empathy comes from failing and falling.
She's been fired 12 times.
And in personal life, she says her own father disowned her from marrying outside her race.
She's also weathered the storm of failed marriages and dealt with family addiction issues.
And as a mother of 14, many of them with special needs, she's endured the unimaginable heartbreak of losing her sons, Sammy and Zach, too early.
Even through the immense pain, Delilah says it's her fate that allows her to not count the losses, but to count the comebacks.
And she's here today to open her heart in a new way.
Please welcome Delilah.
I'm so happy you're here.
That was some full footage and videos you had there.
I thought you might enjoy that.
It's very heartfelt.
Dalala was on our podcast with my wife, who adores you.
Oh my god, I love your wife.
Well, she has been a big fan of yours for a long time.
Thank you for saying that.
And part of the reason she loves you, which is why I think most of America listens to you so avidly, is that your voice is like a warm blanket.
It's something very soothing.
You melt away our anxiety.
What is it about you that you think is able to energetically Soothe us.
What is it about your presence?
Oh, wow.
I've never been asked that that way.
I think people can tell within a few minutes of listening to my show that I'm real.
Well, I knew for sure you were real when I learned that you had 14 children.
Number 15 is about to be adopted.
Well, 11 of the 14 were adopted.
It takes a huge heart, but also a lot of faith, I think, that things will work out.
Plus, even a deep spiritual faith to make that kind of commitment.
Well, yeah.
But when you think about it, whether you're having a biological child or you're adopting a child, you don't know what you're going to get.
Nobody is guaranteed anything.
And so when people say, yeah, but when you adopt a kid, they come with a lot of issues and baggage.
And yeah, well, guess what?
So does having a child.
Yeah.
God bless you.
So let's get into what happens when you actually step up and do something about this.
I know people literally cold call you from Africa.
Sammy, you got a call from Ghana regarding him, and you adopted him, had sickle cell anemia.
So he came to you with a lot of medical illnesses that were untreatable.
You tried.
We tried.
We tried.
And he got an infection that went septic, and we lost him.
The doctors and nurses at Mary Bridge Children's worked around the clock to try to save him.
And I never knew I could endure that kind of pain losing Sammy.
Zach, you're one of your biologic sons.
Loved you too.
My baby.
Your baby.
Taught you a lot about love and patience.
A lot about patience.
And I just wanna...
Zach was not an easy child.
What was he like?
What kind of childhood pranks would he put?
Oh, my word.
Well, first off, he had sensory integration disorder.
So he didn't feel pain the way you and I do.
And he was on the autistic spectrum.
In addition to some of these disorders, he had a problem that was life-threatening.
Depression.
Yes.
He went into a depression his senior year in high school, but he knew he was depressed.
He talked about it.
He told his school counselor.
He told his dad and I. We got him into a doctor, and that doctor put my son on a medication, but I did not know the side effects were deadly.
The manufacturer kind of hid that for a long time until they got sued and now they have what's called a black box warning.
When you get the prescription it says, by the way, this causes suicide.
I never saw that, never knew anything about it until he passed.
Explain to everybody what happened when you lost your son.
Did you think he was suicidal?
I did not, no.
So walk us through that moment if you don't mind, because it's, I think, valuable for people to hear it.
So he permissioned me to call his doctor.
And I did call.
I called twice.
And I said, my son's talking about weird space travel and weird time loop continuums.
And his doctor never returned my call.
And he spent Saturday and Sunday at his dad's house.
They had his favorite food.
They watched Star Wars.
And then Monday night, he came home.
From his dad's house, he spent a few hours in the barn with our cats.
We had four kittens.
Came in and ate dinner with our family.
Went up to his room and played video games.
And then at 10.30, he came down.
I was in Africa.
And he said to my husband, I'm going to go for a walk.
And they got in an argument.
And Paul said, you can't.
It's 10.30.
It's raining out.
He said, I need to blow off steam.
I'm going to go for a walk.
And he went out and killed himself.
He left a nine-page letter tucked under the pillow of his bed that my niece found.
And it was all about time travel and he said he had to fix something that was wrong and that he would wake up the next day in his own bed and he would probably have to do this a number of times before he got it right.
What did he miss the most about him?
He had more energy than all my other kids added up.
Just larger than life.
But early in the morning, like at 4 or 5 o'clock, he would come into my room and lay down on the covers next to me and just be my baby again.
And the day before I went to Africa, he did that.
And that was the last time I held my son.
When we come back, can I ask you about how you got back from this?
Because it's dark, what you went through.
How Delalia found the strength to come back from the darkest of times.
And why her faith has never wavered.
Stay with us.
Good evening and welcome, my friend.
Welcome to The Delilah Show.
I know you've had a busy day, maybe a crazy day, but tonight we're going to talk about developing an attitude of gratitude.
We're back with Delilah, who has soothed millions of lovelorn listeners for the past 35 years, often drawn upon her own heartbreak to help them heal.
So, after you lost your beloved son, Zach, The Live Wire.
The Live Wire.
You took a break from radio, and you've spoken about the blind rage that you're in, and how you really had to dig deep into your faith to bounce back.
Yeah, I went into a rage when I started doing the research on the medicine I told you that he was given.
But a couple of things happened.
There's a man named Rory Feek who is a country songwriter who lost his wife to cancer and he called me and he said, Delilah, your boys are much more a part of your future than they are a part of your past.
And we share the same faith.
And I just got, I was in this rage and I said, how can you say that?
I don't get to go to their weddings.
I don't get to see their babies.
I don't get to be a grandma.
I don't get to see them graduate, both of them.
And he said, because you know where they are and you know you'll be with them in the future.
And now you will look forward to that day instead of fearing it.
Oh my goodness.
Changed everything.
You're big on forgetting about the numbers of failures.
Why bother counting those?
You want to count the bounce backs.
That probably, I gather if I had to define you with one concept, it would be that.
So when you get up in the morning, what's the very first thing you do?
I pray.
And I have an app on my phone that has my verse of the day that's just a psalm or a proverb, a scripture that feeds my soul.
And I thank God that I woke up.
I'm so happy you were here.
You've got a fantastic book, which you ought to check out.
It's called One Heart at a Time.
You know, you in words.
God bless you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
We'll be right back.
On today's Health Court, what happens when a meddling mother-in-law is sneaking unhealthy pasta, fried chicken cutlets, and cannolis into her newlywed daughter-in-law's fridge?
They face off today in Health Court.
Bickering couples, warring neighbors, friends and family divided.
When it's time for resolution, it's time to take them to health court, where Dr. Oz rules.
The plaintiff says the defendant, her mother-in-law, takes over her kitchen and her fridge, and she's tired of the way she acts like she owns the place.
She says her mother-in-law sneaks unhealthy meals like spaghetti and meatballs into the fridge, and she's had enough.
The defendant wants Dr. Oz to help prove her hearty family meals are better than a healthy meal no one wants to eat.
Health Court is now in session, and this case hits close to home.
Jennifer actually works for the show.
You decided to turn in your mother-in-law.
Your mother-in-law, why?
I did.
Well, you always taught me to live a healthy lifestyle and make healthy choices, but the one thing you did not teach me is how to deal with my crazy Italian mother-in-law, who doesn't take no for an answer, so I had to bring her here today because I need your help.
How long have you been married to the defendant's son?
We've been married a few months.
We're still newlyweds, but it does feel like we've been married for a lifetime.
Alright, so now you have moved in together.
You've got the mother-in-law pretty close to you.
Do you feel that she is infiltrating, I should say, your shared residence?
That is correct.
Do you have any evidence to substantiate these accusations?
I do.
I shot some footage of my fridge to show you.
Please, share it with the court.
Dr. Oz, you asked for evidence, so here is the evidence.
My mother-in-law is making me eat unhealthy.
Not one piece of food in my fridge was made by me.
It was all cooked by her.
Let's take a look.
We have chicken cutlets, we have sausage and peppers, fried eggplant, more chicken, fresh mozzarella, we got spaghetti and clams, spaghetti and meatballs, more pasta, pasta, Some cold-cut bread.
And look at all this cheese.
Cheese, cheese, cheese, and more cheese.
And she even brings us dessert.
And she says, eat fennel.
It's good for digestion.
Then you won't be fat.
Defendant, I couldn't help but notice your expression as you were watching that video.
Why are you sneaking food into your daughter-in-law at the plaintiff's home?
I'm not sneaking.
I'm ringing the doorbell.
They answer the door.
I give them the food.
You live a block away.
You're stalking us.
I'm not stalking you.
You work so hard.
I just want you to come home and have dinner ready.
Well, she's tugging at our heartstrings, the defendant.
However...
I've seen this rodeo before.
So, Plaintiff, you argue that your mother-in-law has no boundaries and she doesn't make healthy foods when she comes over and rings that doorbell so innocently.
Is that a charge that you believe is substantiatable?
It is.
I don't agree.
Well, what kinds of foods do you think are healthy?
Well, I use extra virgin olive oil.
I use the best garlic.
I use the best tomatoes.
I use the best pasta.
What's not healthy about that?
Blanton, what kinds of foods is she bringing in with the garlic and the olive oil, even though it's high quality?
Lots of pasta, lots of fried foods.
Me and my husband, we own a pizza truck on Long Island, Marciano's Pizza Truck.
It's family-owned.
Carmella works on the pizza truck.
So on the weekends, we make pizza and pasta and all these delicious Italian foods.
But we don't always eat that.
Yes, we do.
Because I bring other food.
You make fried pizza dough.
Order in the court, please.
Order.
Are you fearful of gaining weight because of your mother-in-law's intrusive behavior?
Yes, and we have gained weight since the wedding.
That's not my fault.
That's why we're here today in health court.
When it comes to family traditions and mothers-in-law, I know enough not to upset either.
But my expert witness knows all about food, family, and feuding.
Please welcome the OG from Bravo's Real Housewives of New Jersey, the woman who once said her family is as thick as thieves.
And she was serious, that's right.
Please welcome Caroline Manzo.
And Caroline is bringing out the next piece of evidence all by herself.
It is ponderously heavy, evidently.
It's bigger than me.
Yeah, what have you brought with you?
I have brought Exhibit A, guys.
Oh my goodness.
What is on there, Caroline?
Give me a minute.
My trained Italian eye tells me there's about eight pounds of pasta here.
We've got clams with the spaghetti.
We've got cannolis.
We've got subs.
We've got pizza.
It looks like chicken parm or eggplant or something like that.
This, guys, is just an example of some of the things that Mama sneaks into her daughter-in-law's refrigerator on a weekly basis.
Caroline, come join me on the days here.
Defendant, what do you see when you look at this table besides good-looking food?
I see a mother's love.
An Italian mother.
What else does she do?
Caroline, before we get to additional evidence, do you agree with that statement and you have some questions for our litigants?
I get you.
You are me.
I have three children myself.
Food is love.
Absolutely.
Their health is love, too.
And that's why I have thoughts on this as well.
I myself have lost 30 pounds since January.
I had to change everything about my world, my mind, with my children and mine because of my children.
They put me on that road.
So I'm gonna let the judge talk to them and then we'll talk about it later.
We'll see where we land.
So Caroline's seen some big time family fights in her day.
You've witnessed them.
I've seen you famously flip the table, the jersey style.
I was there.
I did no flipping of my own.
I was there.
Well, you witnessed.
I witnessed it.
You witnessed it.
Should this table be flipped?
What do we do about this?
I think it should be metaphorically flipped.
Yes, to a degree.
To a degree.
This case has become about family traditions versus new healthy ways of cooking when we come back.
A head-to-head competition.
Grandma's home cooking.
Is it spaghetti and meatballs versus her daughter-in-law's healthy cooking?
I'll call it zoodles and meatballs.
Plus, for the first time in health court history, I'm bringing out a surprise witness.
Stay tuned.
We are back with our sauciest health court case yet.
The defendant, the sweet, loving Nona, is being accused of sabotaging dinner time by sneaking in heavy pastas and sandwiches into the plaintiff's kitchen.
The plaintiff, who is a newlywed, says she's been gaining weight since the wedding and wants her and her husband to eat healthier.
Joining us as an expert witness is Bravo star Caroline Monzo, who knows a lot about food and family and tradition.
And now...
For our surprise witness, for the first time ever on health court, he is the plaintiff's husband, but the defendant's baby boy.
Come on out, Marciano.
There he is.
Oh, really?
What side will he take?
Mark, you're a smart man.
You purposely are right in the middle, which is a very dangerous place to be, but the only possible place for you.
What are we looking at here?
Always right in the middle.
Yes, I can imagine what that's like.
So what have you brought as evidence here, Marciano?
This is one week of empty containers of food that she brings to our house.
Oh my goodness.
I recognize it because you usually throw it away.
Caroline, in front of you are two pastas, two bowls of these pastas.
One is made the traditional way, the way the defendant would have normally made it, right?
Right.
Spaghetti and meatballs.
The other is the plaintiff's version, which looks like it's zoodles and meatballs.
Zoodles, yes.
Marciano, would you come taste these and see which one do you like more?
We're gonna let the court decide.
You don't wanna get involved?
No.
I guess I'm the court.
You're the court.
Well, you don't go home with either of the plaintiff defendants, so you're a little safer.
I'll try it.
You've been tasting these, and she'll give her one more second to identify.
I have to applaud the plaintiff for making the zoodles and meatballs, because it looks like an ambitious attempt.
But it's got to taste acceptable, or it doesn't matter what else we find.
What do you think?
Both of them are great.
Different vibe.
Different vibe, but fine.
To me, I'll eat both of these and be happy.
I'll be healthier.
With this one, which ultimately is gonna make me happier.
And my kids because they have mom around a little longer.
So let's do this.
Let's look at this hard evidence in front of you is an envelope.
Yes.
You are seeming to prefer the zoodles, but let's just see what the data says around this.
The number of carbs is written on those letters.
One is the carbs in mama bears, traditional pasta with the meatballs.
And that is?
45 grams.
45 grams of carbs.
Please compare that to the zoodles made by the plaintiff.
Compared to 45, it is?
12. 12 grams.
Yeah, but what does it taste like?
It's delicious.
You see that?
Listen, retrain your mind.
It's delicious.
And you know what?
You love to cook.
Have fun with it.
Is there a compromise that might actually get the defendant over the hump here?
Yes.
This is what I do during the week.
I make chicken meatballs, turkey meatballs.
I bake them.
I don't fry them.
I make pasta.
They've got pasta out there made from chickpeas, lentils, edamame.
Make that instead.
Defendant, what do you think about this idea of altering the recipe a little bit?
It might be tough.
It is tough, but it's worth it.
You'll finally love it.
It might be tough.
I don't make that much pasta.
It's my fried chicken cutlets that they like.
That they like.
And I'm bringing them over tonight.
I'm ready to make my ruling but before I do that I'm ordering that you the plaintiff and you the defendant work out a family dinner recipe book.
Something, a schedule that allows you to visit when you need to with traditional meals that are acceptable but still traditional the way you like them.
But that's gotta be a schedule.
Can we do that?
We could do that.
Yes.
Family, food, and traditions are important.
I adore them.
You adore them.
In fact, for all of us, they're critical.
Both the plaintiff and the defendant are, in their own way, trying to hold on to all three of these things.
Family, food, and tradition is about love.
Which makes this case not as simple as who's right and wrong.
For the first time in health court history, this case is dismissed.
I win.
No, we win.
I think it was very fair.
I don't think so.
And I'm not eating those mushroom noodles.
They weren't mushrooms.
What are they?
Zucchini.
Tonight, I'm gonna make the green noodles.
Okay.
We're going out to gym.
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Tis the holiday season is a time of joy and presence and family.
It's heartwarming.
There's also a time of weight gain, credit card debt, and family.
Today, how to stop the holidays from taking years off your real age.
And anyone can find out their body's true age via the free Sharecare app, right?
You download it from the App Store where you normally get your apps.
You sign in, click to take the real age test.
Super simple.
Answer some of the lifestyle questions.
And here's the beautiful part.
It will give you a scientific assessment How old your body thinks it is, based on the way you live your life.
Your real age can be younger or older than your calendar age.
But knowing what your real age is, right, it's gonna help because you can find out which habits you can change to make yourself younger.
My entire audience, you all took the real age test.
Let's find out how you guys did.
How were you?
How'd you do?
I did pretty good, I think.
Real age is 43 and I said I was 37. So I was happy with that.
So you're six years younger.
Remember, your chronologic age...
Hey, how are you?
Hey, how are you?
How was the difference between your chronologic age, your birth certificate age, and the real age test?
Well, I'm not gonna tell you my chronological age, because it'll blow your mind there.
But my real age, I was surprised by.
It was actually five years older than I thought it was.
Five years older?
Yeah.
What kind of stresses have you had this year?
This year?
Stresses?
Yeah.
What are you, new?
Oh, this time of year, very stressful for me.
You know, I mean, there's a lot going on.
I'm up all night reading letters.
I got bills up the wazoo, but I think I gained a little weight.
All right, it's hard to tell with that outfit.
Come on over here, Nick.
Let's look at your real-age test.
A few things may shave some years off that real-age result.
All right, so first, let's start with the obvious thing.
How many hours a night do you sleep?
Sleep?
What's that?
No, no, about four.
You know, I'd like to get seven or eight, but, you know, it's hard.
Even when I go to sleep, I can't sleep.
I'm laying there.
I'm rolling around.
I got big decisions to make.
You know, who's been naughty?
Who's been nice?
By the way, you're still on the fence there.
It's very, very stressful.
You're not alone.
One third of people having problems with sleep.
Even if you're not deciding who's naughty and nice.
So if you go from four hours, the current, to seven hours, you're going to take a big difference.
Not only are you not going to be tired and grumpy and reduce the chance of having heart attacks, all those bad things.
What would happen without you delivering stuff?
But guess what?
Your real age, it changes 1.2 years.
But younger, you can deliver a lot more gifts, 1.2 years.
And here's the best part, you add some stress reduction, not so much double checking stuff all the time, right?
Stress reduction leads to an extra bit of time, so you gain two years of age, right?
Two years younger.
You know what?
Can I return the favor that you do for all of us?
Can I give you a gift?
I would love that.
You're sure?
You all into this, guys?
Come on over.
This will help you with your sleep and your stress.
I got two gifts for you.
I think everyone could benefit from these.
All right, Nick, open it up.
Let's see what you got here.
You like opening presents?
I love opening presents.
All right, let's...
It's a worry journal.
A book.
Yes.
Well, it's a worry journal.
It's more than a book.
So, worry journals, about an hour before you go to bed, write down all the things that are worrying you on one side.
On the other side, when the worries are here, you write on this side what you're going to do about those worries, right?
How you're going to solve your problems?
Then put it away so you don't think about it all night.
I can do this.
I like making lists.
You like making lists.
Oh, good.
I thought you might like that.
All right.
But leave it there.
I got one bigger gift for you here.
It's time to open a little special something for you.
All right?
Oh!
Hold on, Tiger.
Are you ready for this?
Look at this!
All right.
This is something that everyone in America deserves.
Are you ready for it?
Yes.
All right.
You need some help?
You got it.
No, I got it.
You can take that.
Oh, thank you.
It's going to be great.
What the?
What?
Socks.
What do you think?
Gee, Dr. Oz, you shouldn't have.
But here's why socks are important.
One study showed wearing a pair of socks can help people sleep eight minutes faster.
You know what?
Your feet are warm, your arteries dilate, the blood that sends the heat off your body, you just go down quicker.
Really?
Yeah, I bet you like that idea.
I do.
I think everybody on my list is gonna get socks this year.
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Remember, the power of chains lies in the power of you.
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