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Dec. 18, 2023 - Dr. Oz Podcast
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Jennifer Lopez Opens Up About Her Health, Life, and Love | Dr. Oz | S6 | Ep 84 | Full Episode
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Today on Dr. Oz, superstar Jennifer Lopez is here.
I'm excited to be on Dr. Oz.
Her beauty, that body, Chayla reveals how she keeps it all together.
You ever look at your urine?
That's the first time in 10,000 interviews that I've done in my life that anybody asks me the color of my pink.
Coming up next on Dr. Oz.
Thank you all very much.
Jennifer Lopez has the most famous body in the world, with women everywhere wanting to emulate her legendary curves.
So, what's it like to grow older when everyone is watching and scrutinizing your every move?
Well, we're about to find out.
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I love it.
I'm excited to be on Dr. Oz.
I'm excited to have you here.
Thank you.
So much fun.
Thank you.
So you've been famous since you were in your 20s, which gives you about two decades of growing older in the public eye.
Yes, it's so true.
What's that like?
I still feel like I'm, you know, when people say that, I forget, you know, that I've been doing it that long and that also that I'm in my 40s.
It's crazy.
When did that happen?
It sneaks up on you like that.
Yeah, you know, just, I don't know.
I've been doing it a long time.
I don't think about it as much anymore, being in the public eye.
I've just learned how to handle it, you know, and try to handle it with grace, you know, the way my mom taught me to be and my dad, and just take it day by day, you know, keep my feet on the ground, try to stay healthy, mind, body, spirit.
I'm not just saying that because I'm on Dr. Oz.
No.
I'm not just...
I mean it.
I really do try.
Actually, Jennifer's mother is backstage.
She is backstage.
And they're all peppering her with questions to find out how she did it to make Jayla.
So let me ask you about being in your 40s and dealing with issues that women in their 40s have.
Because there's always little issues.
Your lack of energy.
Yeah.
Aches and pains.
Some women have weight gain.
Right.
What's your issue?
What holds you back?
I think for me, because I still do a lot of shows and things like that, my body is different.
I feel like I'm better in the sense that I can do everything I did in my 20s better now.
But, and then because I've continued to do it, but, you know, I will, like, I have a bad neck from injuries, and I have, like, my lower back from all the heels all the time, you know?
It's just, there are different things that start aching a little bit, like when I wake up in the morning, and I'm like...
But this is new!
You know?
And it's just like, those type of things.
That's been my kind of issue lately.
So let me ask you a medical question.
Okay.
You're well known around the world for your famous butt.
Okay!
Buttocks.
Booty's Maximus.
Right.
And you actually, in many ways, I think people can attribute to you this crazy desire, passion we have about the buttocks now.
Right.
There's obsession.
It's a booty craze going on right now.
Yeah.
Yeah.
What do you think about that?
I don't know.
I think it's great.
Like, even when I first came out, and I openly spoke about it, like, about how I wasn't shaped like the other actresses.
At that time, I was doing mostly acting, even before I did my first album, and it was unusual, you know, that there was somebody out there who wasn't, at that time, it was about waifs and supermodels and everybody was tall and thin, and, you know, this was a new thing, and I was asked about it, and, you know, how do you feel?
You know, you're more curvy, and I was like, I grew up around that.
The women all look like that where I was from.
You know, in the Bronx.
It wasn't a weird thing to me.
You know what I mean?
It was like, that's what everybody looked like.
And that was my kind of idea of beautiful.
You know, so I took that with me.
And I think because of that and because I kind of stood proud on it, it wasn't something like, yeah, I'm always trying to lose weight or whatever.
I didn't take that stance.
My stance was just like, That's normal, and it's okay.
Well, a lot of it comes back to this body image issue, which folks develop early in their life.
Yeah.
You touched on this, but I would love to understand what is it that your parents said to you, your friends did for you, your relatives were doing that made you comfortable being Jennifer Lopez with the big buttocks.
I'm going to tell you, my mom has a big butt.
And so in our house...
Can we bring mom out here?
She's going to defend herself.
But it's a big butt in a good way.
And so my dad loved it.
You know what I mean?
So in our house, it was like, you know, she would make fun of herself about having a big butt and my dad would be like, I love it.
And so to me, it was, again, a beautiful thing to be curvy.
It wasn't a bad thing.
And I grew up with that.
And then I, of the three sisters, I had the biggest butt and we talked about that.
It was so like, you know, it's like Jennifer has the biggest butt.
It was so crazy.
But that's what gave me a good image about it.
You know, I wasn't self-conscious about it.
I wasn't made to feel negative about that part of me or any part of my body.
Has there ever been a time in your life when you did have body issues, when you were heavier than you wanted to be?
Oh, sure.
I mean, after I had my babies, you know?
You gain all this weight for the first time in your life.
There you are, pregnant.
Look how huge.
I mean, my nose was fat.
Everything was at my feet.
You know how it is when you have babies.
And it was funny because right afterwards, I loved the jiggly belly.
You know, you have the jiggly belly, the skin that hangs a little bit.
And I kind of loved it because I was so in love with the babies.
Like in the first two or three days, I was like, look at this little jiggly belly.
And then I was like, oh my God, this damn jiggly belly.
What am I going to do with it?
I got to start working out.
And I decided to actually do a triathlon.
A triathlon?
Yes!
Oh my goodness.
It was so stupid.
I mean, I don't know what possessed me to think.
I'd never done a triathlon before in my life.
Why I would want to do it after having kids at, you know, 37 or 38 years old or whatever I was at the time was, you know, I don't know what possessed me.
You have crazy thoughts when you're pregnant.
And so, but I did and I saw it through and it helped me get back in shape a little bit.
Not all the way there, but...
Well, you may have crazy thoughts in some areas, but you have some very wise thoughts when it comes to your health.
So Jennifer's agreed to share with you some of her best ideas of getting healthy and staying safe.
Come on.
Thank you so much.
We can go in a lot of different places, but the first tip that Jennifer felt very passionate about sharing with you is something I must say, I have mentioned once in a while on this show, but I want you to hear it from Jennifer Lopez.
What is it?
Water.
Lots of water.
Believe it or not, it does help keep your weight down.
It obviously keeps you hydrated.
You can talk more about all of the benefits, but for me, it just feels good.
It's mostly what I drink all the time.
So how do you know if you've drunk enough water?
I don't, like, count it.
I just drink it all day.
It's the thing I drink.
I'm so happy you came here today.
I want to share with you a little tip that might come in handy.
You can use this at cocktail parties and public events.
So, do you ever look at your urine?
Well, you must.
Sure!
Every day.
So, the color, when it comes out, describe it to me.
It's kind of, you know, Light yellow?
Good.
Yeah.
So here's a rule of thumb.
You want to drink enough water...
That's the first time in 10,000 interviews that I've done in my life that anybody asked me the color of my pink.
Something new every day.
Go ahead.
It changes your world.
So here's the rule of thumb.
From now on, if you can read through your urine, you don't have to literally do it, but if you could have read through the urine, it's that clear, you're drinking enough water.
You're doing good.
Yeah, I would say that's me.
Perfect.
Now, a couple quick rapid-fire questions.
Do you smoke?
No.
Do you drink?
No.
How much sleep do you get?
I try to do between 7 and 9 hours a night.
I love 11 if I could ever get it.
Rarely.
But I love it.
And usually I'm between 6 and 8. That's a real gift.
When you say you don't drink, you don't drink at all?
No, I'm not a drinker.
I just never started.
It was another one of those things my mom just never, you know, was like, don't drink!
Don't do drugs, you're gonna die!
I'm like, okay.
You know, I'm just like in my head.
But, you know, you put those chits in your bank of health and it shows up after a while.
It's true.
That and, like, staying out of the sun.
There was a time when I just didn't take sun at all, I think, through my 20s and 30s, and it really saved my skin, I think.
And I understand also that you're into affirmations and meditation.
I am.
Very much so.
How has that changed you?
A lot.
I just feel like we all operate, and we don't even realize it, on such negative thoughts all the time.
Mostly what goes on through our mind and our subconscious is negative.
Like, oh, I could have done this better.
Oh, I'm so dumb.
I'm so stupid this.
Do you know what I mean?
Like, that's how we think all the time, and I never...
Thought about how I think.
And then when I started paying attention to my thoughts and changing them and saying, you know what, thank you for sharing that brain or spirit or whatever's going on in there, but you know what, I am doing good.
I am better.
I am trying.
You know, and redirecting those thoughts to be more positive thoughts and affirmations like, I want...
Me and my children are always healthy.
I am, you know, we live a joyous life.
You know, things like this every single day really help redirect me from the beginning of my day.
It's hard to do, but sometimes it's just, you know, out to the universe.
I accept all the good things the universe has to offer.
You know what I mean?
Just things like that every single day just help you to start off your mind and your day in the right way, and it helps.
You know what I mean?
Beautifully stated.
A poet!
You're a poet!
I'm so not a poet.
I'm not, I'm not.
So the next thing that you say is critical for your well-being is the breakfast you eat.
But before I get to this breakfast specifically, you actually are involved in a very important movement.
I am.
You get women to think differently about their bodies.
Absolutely.
I think, you know, it's about loving yourself.
I recently wrote a book called True Love that was about the first year that I went on my first world tour, which was only a couple years ago.
I know you would think I had toured the world many times, but I didn't.
I was always movies and music and juggling that.
I thought you were kidding.
You really only went a few years ago?
No, my first world tour was in 2011 and 12. Oh my goodness.
And I wrote a book about it.
I had just got divorced and it was a thing.
And what I learned was that you really need to love yourself.
And that's what was wrong in a lot of my...
For me and my relationships in examining that time and everything, my music even...
Get the book.
I don't want to tie it.
But it's the message of loving yourself.
Taking care of yourself.
How does going on a world tour teach you that?
Because, like I said, I had just got divorced.
I was going on the road, taking on this thing I had never done as a single mom for the first time.
And as I went through my songs, because I had done 10 albums at that point and never been on tour, and started listening to them and realizing how autobiographical the music was, how I recorded If You Had My Love or Love Don't Cost a Thing or different things about...
What I was going through and it made me think about all the relationships in my life and it made me think about all the choices I had made and the different times in my life just to put together this show.
So the backdrop of that show became like, what do I want to say to these fans that I haven't seen for 14 years and have never seen me on tour?
What show?
What message?
Do I want to say?
And so I wound up being a very kind of, again, autobiographical show.
This is who I am.
This is who you think I am.
This is who I really am.
This is my message as an artist, which is about love and always saying about love.
And this is where I am right now.
My kids came into my life.
They changed everything as they do.
And because they show you what real unconditional love feels like.
And you learn that and then you start thinking about relationships in a different way.
And so, all of that happening at the same time got me to the short message of, you know what, I haven't been taking care of myself or loving myself.
In a way, and I know that sounds crazy, be like, of course Jennifer Lopez loves herself.
But the truth is, is like, When you do love yourself, you don't allow certain things to happen.
You know, and you can't keep blaming everybody else for your relationships and what's happening.
Like, oh, the other person messed up.
It's like, no, you're doing something.
You're doing something wrong.
So all of that stuff got me to thinking, like, I want to take care of myself better because I want to be great for my kids.
I love, I love talking to you.
Oh, thank you.
Do I talk too much sometimes?
No, not at all.
Listen, I'm going to keep Jennifer here.
When we come back, she's talking to me about a new project that she's super passionate about.
Stay with us.
Thank you.
More with Jennifer Lopez.
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And keeps it sizzling on the big screen.
I have to do this love scene with a 24-year-old.
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That's coming up on Monday.
We are back with Jennifer Lopez, and she's here to talk about a new women's health movement.
I love that you're doing this.
Yes.
Educate everybody.
Okay, so, again, talking about, you know, kind of getting better and working on ourselves all the time, one of the things that I wanted to do, I realized, is share what I've learned.
You know, because I've had all the personal trainers you could have.
I've tried every, you know, diet in the world and everything.
And one of the things that I realized is, like...
Obviously, men and women's bodies are very different, but also how they make up, and you could probably talk about that a lot more than I could specifically, but the way we burn energy, our fat is different, all this kind of stuff, and one of the things that I wanted to do was take some of the products and things that, you know, create products that were made for women by women.
And we've done that.
It's important because we always ignore that.
In fact, a lot of the tests by doctors are done on men, so we ignore the women.
Yeah, and a lot of the products out there are for men.
Like any supplements, any fat burners, all that kind of stuff that's out there is really for men.
It's not for women.
It's bodies and chemistry.
So there's this very, very good smoothie.
There's a very, very good smoothie shake.
Very, very good.
So educate me about how you make it.
You have this in the mornings.
Right.
I have this.
I have a shake every morning because I always feel like, again, starting off your day in the right way because we all kind of fall off towards the end of the day.
Yes.
It's like, oh, okay.
But this, I always am happy when I have my shake in the morning.
I like a protein shake.
It gives me good energy.
It's low in calories.
Ours is like 80 calories.
Yeah.
With the protein powder.
Women, I don't even know if you guys know this, but as we get older, we need protein.
Probably even more than men.
I don't know the men's stats.
Men need it a lot, too.
Listen, protein is the foundation.
But women, for sure.
Yeah, for sure.
Well, they have to have protein in the morning.
You start losing that muscle.
Yep.
And everything starts falling.
Yes, it does fall.
We don't want that.
She said with sad eyes.
We just got to keep working.
We got to keep it going.
So I like starting off with the body.
The name of the company that I work with and am partners with is Body Lab.
And we've done the for women, by women products.
Fat burners, detox, cleanses, all kinds of stuff.
There's a website and an app that will help tailor something just for you.
It's almost like having your own nutritionist.
I also put on there all my favorite exercises that I know work.
That I do myself.
All kinds of stuff.
So this is an amazing thing.
And again, lots of great products.
A lot of greens-based, green-based stuff.
Which I learned about and want my kids to know about.
Because I didn't eat that way growing up.
I ate a lot of...
Raisin beans, fried food.
And I love it.
I love it.
I still love it.
And I still like to eat it.
But I try to eat healthy more than I do that.
So you make your berry berry good smoothie.
Yes.
I put all the food in here for you.
I put some yogurt in here for you.
Yeah, it's Greek yogurt.
You can even do a little bit of honey if you want.
Some lemon.
Put some honey in there.
Yes, we can put a little bit of this.
I'm going to squeeze a little lemon, too.
Just a little bit.
I don't like to use too much honey.
It's just a little tasty.
Just a little.
A little dollop of honey.
Yes, that's good.
And here's your powder.
Oh, and here's the protein powder, obviously.
This is the good stuff.
Just a scoop of that.
And you add lemon to it.
I just add lemon because lemon makes everything taste better.
I like to cook.
You cook a lot?
I do.
I love to cook.
I don't get to cook a lot.
But I love to cook.
The kids are going to love that with mom cooking.
Okay.
No, they love when I cook.
I'm going to turn this baby on.
And, oh, it looks good.
Pretty fast.
Delicious!
Now, I made this for you.
Thank you.
I'm kidding.
I didn't make this, but someone I trust made this.
See if you like it.
Somebody made it for you for me.
Oh, it's so good.
It's wonderful.
It's delicious and a great way to start your day.
Yeah.
And that's all you need.
You don't need a whole bunch more than that.
Because she was able to drink things like this, she's maintained a fantastic health profile.
So she's out, Jennifer, doing all kinds of crazy things, including making wonderful movies.
And her newest one is called The Boy Next Door.
She had to get in the shape of her life, I'm told.
Is that true?
I did.
I did.
I had to do this love scene with a 24-year-old.
And so, and so I was a little self-conscious.
But yeah, I had to pull it together for that one.
Well, the movie is superb.
It really is.
It's not what I expected.
It's a thriller.
And in the movie, Jennifer plays a single mom who has made a, should I say, bad sexual choice?
You know, crossed the line.
Crossed the line.
Bad decision.
With a teenage boy.
And things sort of got out of control when she tries to break it all off.
Take a look.
Where's the damn video?
Why are you so angry?
What you did in my classroom today?
You've been avoiding me.
What do you think?
This is some kind of game we're playing here?
This is real life.
That is my home.
Okay, you're doing things in front of my kid, in front of my husband?
You're cheating, lying husband.
Okay.
What's your plan?
What do you think?
What do you think?
We're going to date?
We're going to go on family vacations together?
What do you think is going to happen here?
It is...
You get a feel for it.
It's a nail-biter, and you don't just act in it.
You produce the movie.
You must be proud as heck.
I am proud.
I am proud.
I started producing more in the past couple of years, and this movie I'm very proud of.
The end is...
Don't give away the ending.
I'm not going to tell you the end.
Please.
I'm going to tell you to be like this.
It's one of those.
You're going to have...
It's a lot of fun.
I'm super proud of it.
It's a popcorn thriller in the best sense of a thriller movie that you could ever have.
Women idolize you for many good reasons.
As you think about them, we can tell the love in the room just towards you.
They want to make a better life for themselves the way you have for yourself.
What advice do you give to these young women?
I think you have to, when you're talking about success, personal or professional, there's different things.
Professional, I think it's the people who put in the extra work.
I put in a lot of extra work and it gets tiring.
It's not the easiest thing all the time, but I always notice that even within my own industry, the ones who work harder, the ones who stay later, the ones who just...
Are willing to do whatever it takes to get the job done are the ones who wind up going far.
As far as personal success, I think, you know, it's about being happy.
It's about being good and whole on your own first.
A whole person on your own so then you can share that happiness with other people in your life.
And that takes work too.
And when you put in that work on yourself by Exercising, eating right, doing your affirmations, that's all loving yourself.
Then you can be happy because you know that you're complete on your own.
And then you can have as many friends and great relationships, healthy relationships, because you will only make good choices for yourself when you love yourself.
You're a very wise woman.
Thank you.
I learned the hard way.
Let me ask you one last question.
Okay.
You're in the press all the time.
Yeah.
Literally every day.
Yeah.
And much of it I suspect is not quite accurate.
Sure.
Many misconceptions about you exist.
What do you think is the biggest one?
The biggest one?
I think it's been dispelled over the past few years, especially since I started doing American Idol.
I think people used to...
There was a lot of stuff written about me early in my career about being a diva, about wanting, like, white candles and, you know, like, all this stuff had to be a certain way, which was never true.
But I think once I did American Idol, people got to see the real me.
And, like, me, a person.
Because I didn't have a script or a song I was doing.
It was just me out there talking my feelings and acting myself.
And so I don't know that I have anything to dispel.
I am who I am.
I think people know that at this point.
I've been around long enough.
Well, I have never met you before.
I have thoroughly enjoyed it.
And Jennifer Lopez is no diva.
Thank you.
Thank you so much.
Thank you so much.
Her new movie, The Boy Next Door is in theaters now.
For more information about Joanne and Jennifer's Body Lab movie, go to bodylab.com.
I'll be right back.
Thank you so much.
Thank you so much.
Coming up next.
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Those highs and lows could be the result of a poor diet throwing your body out of whack.
The plan to level out your mood swings.
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You feel like Jekyll and Hyde.
Like there are two of you.
One minute you're happy and upbeat, and the next you're irritable and snapping at your husband or your kids.
Well today, we have a plan to level out your mood swings.
It's something my next guest has been looking for.
Sometimes I feel my moods have a mind of their own.
I try to start my day with the best of intentions.
My mood swings can go from one side to the other.
I can be either extremely happy and then get extremely upset or angry.
The littlest thing can just set me off.
I can feel an instant anger growing inside of me when I get these mood swings, especially when I'm getting dressed.
I will start to get a little warm.
And when I get that warm feeling, it almost feels as if my skin's expanding.
I get very agitated.
I'll go from nice and calm to very frustrated, almost like I want to throw something.
Some of the most random things will set me off.
Think you can maybe take out the trash?
Yeah, I'll get that.
In a little bit.
And he'll look at me and ask me, what's wrong?
Nothing.
I'm very short.
And there's no coming back from that.
I know anything I say for the next 20 minutes is going to be ugly.
Seriously.
Can I eat my sandwich first?
Is there any reason why you can't get it now?
I guess the bear is coming out.
My husband nicknames me the bear, and that's because I can be in a very happy, fun-loving, laughing kind of mood.
He may be able to touch my arm, and I'm not in the mood for that right then.
He needs to wait five more minutes, but he doesn't know that.
It's that time frame that just I have mentally that I don't know how to express.
I get very frustrated, and when he tries to hug me, I tend to shoo away, and I don't mean to.
I almost push him away.
And it makes me feel horrible inside, but it's just how I am.
But I get hot inside, just very warm, and that's part of what makes me very irritable.
I definitely have two polar opposites.
I have the bear side of me, and I have the mayor of Happyville.
My husband calls me the mayor of Happyville because I like to make people happy.
Hunger could be a trigger for me.
It almost makes me hangry.
I will get very frustrated very easily.
I kind of describe my moods as a roller coaster, and it's a cycle that I can't break.
So Emery's joining us.
How do you feel after seeing those mood swings on tape?
It's a little intimidating.
Kind of seeing that reminds me of the things I'd like to control and the things that I have not had a very good time doing.
I'm not a horrible person.
It's just those mood swings affect my home life a lot.
Where do they come from?
They don't seem to come out of anywhere.
I don't know.
I really don't.
I wake up, I'm pretty much ready to go start my day, I'll go out for a run, I'll come do some errands, I come back, I start doing my things, and this time frame goes off in my head that says, Hey, I need him to do something.
Or if my daughter's home from school, hey, why isn't she up yet?
And then I get mad.
And I don't know why I get mad.
It's just little triggers.
What toll is it taking on you, on your family?
I think I make my husband feel very shut out.
I shut him off emotionally.
I shut him off physically.
And it's not all the time, but it's more than not.
I know these are hard things to acknowledge, and I appreciate how honest you are about them.
If you're willing to take a walk back to the TruthTube, I want to show you some of the results we got from testing you.
So, we start off with some basics, things that oftentimes are a cause of some of the moodiness.
What I don't want you to walk out of here feeling is that it's your fault.
Okay.
They're often drivers of this process.
Things that you actually have control over, you just didn't know it.
So, for example, we checked your blood sugar.
And this is good news.
Your blood sugar levels are actually pretty good.
And we know that blood sugar can throw you up, you know, in a tizzy.
But yours seem to stay pretty stable.
We actually checked in the long term, they're sort of stable, too.
Then I thought, well, what about...
Your hormones.
And your thyroid's the most obvious one to check for because it's sort of the thermostat of the body.
Again, good news.
Yours is completely normal.
And it can affect mood.
That's great.
Now, there are lots of other hormones.
And as we age, our hormones go from being a stabilizing force, you can deal with anything when you're a young woman, to a destabling force.
There are some areas that I think we have to focus on.
Some lifestyle numbers.
And there are three in particular, and you're not alone with this.
This is happening all over America.
There is caffeine, there is sleep, and there's the foods you're eating.
And which ones you're eating in particular.
So I'm gonna walk you through this just to go over your numbers personally, but I don't think you're alone again.
Caffeine, you're drinking about three regular sodas a day.
That white line there is normal.
You wanna be there.
I think your caffeine input puts you way above normal.
Okay.
Now your sleep, conversely, you're not getting enough of.
I don't get a lot of sleep.
Four hours a night, we think, right?
Yes.
So you notice what's happening here.
You're having a little bit of a cycle.
Too much caffeine, then too little sleep.
And then for your diet, you're grabbing for carbs and simple sugars all the time.
Too much of that.
And look what's happening.
You're doing a wave.
You're going up caffeine, down sleep.
Up caffeine, down sleep, up carbs, simple sugars, and repeat.
And when we see this kind of a wave in the lifestyle choices you're making, not surprising those weakened hormones can't balance you out, so your body starts to trip up on itself.
And I think that we can help you.
I have a very good plan to address that unbelievably up and down world you've created for yourself.
What would it mean for you to go from that up and down wave in life to a nice steady white line that we drew there where we're supposed to live, where you don't have the mood swings?
I think for me, that's like winning the lottery.
I think it holds me back a lot of times from a lot of the goals that I have.
You know, whether it's trying to get a new personal record in a race or, you know, just making my husband feel more loved because I love him.
I love how you're saying that.
You want to be the best you can be.
Yeah.
You can't when you're jumping up and down like that.
All right, so for everybody at home, if you feel like you're in a roller coaster of emotions and you need to level off, when we come back, I've got a plan to level out your mood swings.
Stay here.
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You go from happy to sad to angry in an instant or cry at the drop of a hat.
Well, you are not crazy.
Your mood swings may actually be a sign that your body is out of balance.
Psychotherapist Dr. Mike Dow is back with a plan to level out your mood swings.
You gotta tell, first of all, if your mood swings are just regular ups and downs in life, or are they really a sign of a deeper imbalance?
How do you know?
You have to ask yourself these four simple questions, and Annemarie, this is so common, so this is not just for you, this is for everybody.
The first question, do you notice that your mood swings correlate with your hunger, or in your case, hangry, which I think is even a step beyond hungry, right?
Oh, it is.
Okay, so that's number one.
So that's a yes.
It won't keep track by the way.
There are four questions.
You can figure out where you are in this cascade.
Yep.
Number two, do you find yourself canceling or rescheduling plans because of your sleepiness or your moodiness?
That's kind of a maybe for me.
That's a maybe?
Yes.
Number three, do you find yourself turning to more and more caffeine to get through your day, to level out that energy level that's always going up and down?
For me, that's a definite.
That's a yes?
Okay.
And number four, do you find that some days or even some moments are a lot worse than others for absolutely no reason at all?
Absolutely.
There is no balance, really.
And that second question is probably more of a definite than a maybe, because my husband will decide that maybe we shouldn't go.
Yeah.
Well, and here's the thing, Anne-Marie.
If you answered yes to one or more, you could benefit from some of these mood-leveling things we're going to reveal.
Okay.
So let's get to the plan.
We've got a couple steps coming back, Anne-Marie.
The first step is to focus on swapping out foods that you're sort of eating a lot of now, the simple carbs you're pointing to in the tooth tube, for others that will boost your serotonin levels.
Yes.
So, Anne-Marie, now first of all, you revealed something in your food diary, and that is that you love chips.
I'm not going to say the brand, but you also love ziti.
You love lasagna.
Yes.
Is that right?
Oh, yeah.
And I think you're using those things to actually level out your mood.
Now listen, you need carbohydrates.
A comfort food.
They're comfort food, and I'll tell you why.
They release serotonin in the brain.
Feel-good serotonin, right?
Now, you don't want to go, on one hand, to the no-carb diet, because that's going to make you irritable.
It's even been called the Atkins attitude.
But you also don't want to do what you're doing, which is all...
Bad, simple carbs.
That is actually putting you on a rollercoaster, Anne-Marie.
So what you want to do is you want to swap from the white pasta, the white bread, white pasta, chips, cookies, and you want to swap over to sustainable, good carbs.
This carb swap is amazing.
Beans, a lot of people don't realize that beans have carbs.
Quinoa.
Berries.
Now, these are very different.
What they do, because of the fiber that they provide, they're still carbohydrates, meaning they're still going to give you feel-good serotonin in the brain, but what they're going to do is they're going to leave the stomach very slowly.
That means you're going to get that slow, steady dose of serotonin as opposed to the rushes of serotonin and then the blood sugar crash you're on right now.
Does that make sense?
Yeah, I guess that would mean I would absorb the The vitamins and stuff that's in that a little bit better as we're right now, I'm probably just as depleted.
It's going to help you absorb so many things in so many ways and feel fuller longer too, right?
So you're not going to go to the...
I know sometimes you like a little fast food as well.
You're not going to go to those things a little while.
It happens.
So mood, hunger, all that.
That's a food swap.
Then we have a drink swap to steady out your energy levels.
And we want to do this in a very wise way.
So I know it's hard to just give up all the stuff that you're currently craving in an incredibly strong way.
The drink swap.
Now, Dr. Oz, this is so common.
So the good news is we're not going to take caffeine away from you.
What we want to do, again, we want to make a swap.
Not taking away, just replacing something healthier.
So the drink swap, white tea, black tea, green tea.
These teas have something amazing in them.
It's called L-theanine.
Now, it does something sort of miraculous in that mix.
It's calming.
Well, it's calming, but it also simultaneously makes you alert.
So, it's alert and calm, and it's also steady.
So, for example, do you know how many health benefits and mood benefits if you switch from soda to green tea, your waistline, but I think more importantly, your mood.
It is going to make all the difference in the world.
Okay.
Make sense?
That's doable.
Now, enough about food.
Let's deal with the emotional issues around the mood swings, because they're there.
So we want you to use a cognitive behavioral tool.
Sounds like a big word, but it's actually very, very simple.
Michael, this is your expertise.
Yes.
So, cognitive behavioral therapy, clinically proven, it just means the way that we think our thoughts affect the way that we feel.
Now, what happens when we're in a bad mood?
Unfortunately, What we do is the thing that probably makes that mood a lot worse.
So when we're in a bad mood, what do we do?
We bark.
Yeah, we bark.
You know, you say to your husband, don't touch me.
You go from, what is it called?
The mayor of Happy Town to the bear.
Okay, sorry.
And when we're in those moods, nothing in our life is different.
You're still sitting in bed.
Nothing has changed.
But look at this.
You've gone from glass half full to glass half empty.
And what I want you to do is I want you to go back to glass half full.
So what happens when we feel sad, when we're in those moods, we sort of look around our life.
We use catastrophic thinking, worst case scenario.
It's all doom and gloom.
And what we're doing is we're sort of looking for the what's wrong in our life.
And you know what that does?
That actually makes the mood swing even worse.
So what could have gone down just a little bit and bounced back, because of the way we're thinking, it went down a little and then it went down even further.
So what I want you to do, here's the trick.
It's a simple question.
When you find yourself in that mood, Anne-Marie, I want you to stop and take a second and ask yourself, what's right?
If I were to ask you that right now, what are the three things if you could really just stop and say, what's right in my life?
My life would be my family, my home, my job.
It's all right.
It's all right.
All the most important things you got.
Absolutely.
What an important reminder when you're feeling sad to just stop and remind yourself, you know, look, I see sort of almost tears in your eyes.
You look touched, you know?
It's like, oh, wait a minute.
I have so much to be grateful for.
Isn't that amazing?
Absolutely.
So the next time, we promise me, the next time the bear is coming out, you're going to stop and ask for the what's right?
I will.
Okay, good.
That's a definite.
I have loved having you here.
Because you know what?
You speak openly about things we all hide behind.
Dr. Dahl, wonderful advice.
You can find the plan to level out your mood swings on drhires.com on the Truth 2 page.
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If you've uttered the phrase, "These dogs are barking," well pay attention.
Today, I have the easy home remedies to get rid of your most common foot problems.
First, we're getting rid of calluses.
Now, just to remind you all, calluses are those hardened layers of skin that develop when the bottom of your feet tries to protect itself from friction.
You get them on the heels of your feet and the balls of your feet and tip your toes because that's where a lot of the friction is.
I brought in an expert who knows a thing or two about rough heels and calluses.
Tara Ostro is with us.
She's the exercise physiologist and nutritionist for the New York Giants.
How many calluses do you see in your line of business?
I see a ton working with all different athletes and being a runner myself and wearing heels, I get calluses all the time.
So to help us out, she actually brought someone, a very special guinea pig to demonstrate how you get rid of calluses.
as Rashad Jennings is here.
Start running back on the New York Giants.
How are you?
How are you, Rashad?
So Tara just out of you is having calluses.
Does that happen to you a lot?
It does happen quite often, more than I would like.
If you don't mind this, demonstrate for all the women who don't know what football training camp is like or the games.
What is it about what you do that causes the calluses?
Oh, so much juking.
You want to try to play defense?
What do you guys think?
Give it a shot.
So if I'm coming through the hole, give a little juke.
Look how fast that was!
If you were to be able to get past me and you got to the end zone, then what's that little thing you do when you score?
Yeah, that's my end zone.
Everybody kind of has an end zone dance.
So mine's...
I draw a door.
I open it, and I walk through it like a gentleman.
Is that what you're doing?
That's exactly what I'm doing.
He puts it around, and I'll give you a calluses.
All right, have a seat for a second.
Demonstrate on these big, burly guys, because it works in women as well, the same basic technique, how you deal with calluses.
Okay, so it consists of ingredients that you have at home, apple cider vinegar, some aspirin, and to top it off with some coconut oil.
But to start, we're going to form a paste using five to six aspirin.
You're going to just crush it and then add in some apple cider vinegar for its acidic ability and also it's an antibacterial.
And the aspirin itself is an anti-inflammatory.
So you just...
Mix it up, pour a little bit more in, and then the result is a paste like this.
And then I'm going to put it on his foot, which is great for pretty much for anyone who gets calluses, for athletes, for women that wear heels.
What would be great is to let it soak in for a bit if you have time, and to use a plastic bag and a warm towel if you have time.
But otherwise, you can get started right away with a pumice, or if you don't have a pumice, a nail file is great too.
And you just rub away.
Should I hold them down for you?
Okay.
And then to soak in the moisture, coconut oil, and you just rub it in.
Very simple, and it can help break down.
Calluses prevent future ones.
It's great.
Thank you for sharing the insights.
Hope it helps you.
Michelle, thank you very much.
Thank you.
Take care.
So, the final foot problem we'll talk about is heel pain.
And for the simple home remedies to alleviate your heel pain, I brought in podiatrist Dr. Krista Archer.
So what is the heel pain that so many folks are struggling with caused by?
Plantar fasciitis, hands down, is the leading cause of heel pain.
Plantar fasciitis.
Yes, the plantar fascia has a very dense span of tissue that inserts into the heel bone, and it pulls when it's tight at the heel bone causing a lot of pain.
It can be super painful.
So what are the remedies to alleviate it?
Cornerstone of therapy treatment for plantar fasciitis is stretching.
And there are a lot of things you can find around your house.
Let's demonstrate.
We've got the whole audience to get their shoes off, which I appreciate you're all doing as well.
So demonstrate for us.
And these are things that you want us to do how many times a day?
It's really good to do in the morning when you wake up.
So first we have a water bottle that's frozen and what you want to do is in a seated position just place it on the floor and you're gonna roll it right along your arch where that plantar fascia is really super tight and you can feel it as you go up and down that it's really helping your foot stretch.
You feel that?
Is that uncomfortable with the cold?
How about this tennis ball?
Can I use this instead?
Tennis ball is great.
You can actually keep that on your bedside table.
Do you feel that?
Oh yeah, I do.
What do you think, Rashad?
Hey, Dr. Ashia, speaking the truth.
I do this plenty of times.
You do it!
How come the NFL guys know all this stuff already?
The secrets.
Alright, thank you very, very much.
Thanks, audience.
You guys keep practicing it all.
We're gonna stretch as you go to break.
Remember, don't forget to stretch.
We'll be right back, everybody.
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Now it's time for In Case You Missed It.
First, we talked about mood swings with a carb swap.
This is something I like a lot.
Here's the thought.
If you swap out white bread and pasta and cookies and chips and all these things we're always putting in our bodies for healthier choices of carbohydrates, still carbohydrates like beans and apples, berries, all these colorful fruits, as well as quinoa, you'll actually get the serotonin benefit because you want to boost your serotonin.
That's why you crave these comfort foods.
But you won't get the negative effects that bad carbs bring.
The up and down, the cyclical nature of the food causes a lot of the mood swings.
It's not your fault.
It's the food you're putting in your body sometimes.
By the way, all these foods are in my total 10 rapid weight loss plan.
So if you haven't started the plan yet, it's never too late to join us.
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We also talked about easy home remedies to get rid of your common foot problems.
Specifically, let's talk about calluses.
You can try this quick scrub that we actually use for Rashad Jennings.
He's running back for the New York Giants.
He's using it here.
You can see if even a manly man can do this, you can certainly do it.
Very straightforward.
Apple cider vinegar and aspirin are combined.
So you add them, as we described, on Oz.com, simple, relatively equal amounts.
And then after you do that, you have a little paste that you can apply to your body.
It has antibacterial and anti-inflammatory properties.
Then you use a pumice stone to sort of rub on those areas gently.
And then finally, the coup de gras is to use a lot of coconut oil to add moisture and soften your skin.
Simple, easy to do, doesn't cost much.
Finally, please be careful of dubious people online that make it seem like I'm endorsing their products.
I don't, of course.
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