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New Hidden Reason for Your Bloat Uncovered | Dr. Oz | S6 | Ep 94 | Full Episode
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Today on Oz, you gave up carbs, but you're still bloated.
If you feel like you can't zip up your jeans, you're not alone.
Dr. Oz breaks down the good-for-you foods that may be to blame.
Plus, you know him as the macho dad from Who's the Boss?
You actually had a catastrophic injury.
I better be careful here.
The pivotal moment that changed Tony Danza's life.
Can I get some tissue?
Coming up next on Dr. Oz.
The new hidden reason for your bloat.
Now, if you feel like you can't zip up your jeans, you are not alone.
Before the show, I asked you, what do you think is causing your bloating?
And I had you put all those names into my bloat ball, and the bloat ball is right here in front of me.
I'm going to go through here, randomly pick out a couple of these things.
So, some of you said salt, honest, dairy, stress, lack of sleep, good insights, good insights.
This is what I like, sex.
I don't know if it's too much of it or too little of it, but sex, I guess, I never heard of that.
But this is an interesting, last night's happy hour.
So we've covered a lot of reasons here.
You know, the thing is, for half of you, the reason for your bloat may actually be something called fructose.
I'm not talking about just high fructose corn syrup, which you all know about from the soft drinks.
I'm talking about fructose that's also found, for example, in fruits and vegetables that you eat to stay healthy, that I recommend on this show all the time.
It's a big deal.
Here's the question today.
Could you be fructose intolerant and not even know it?
Amanda recently found out that fructose was her reason for being bloated.
Welcome to the show.
Hi.
How are you?
Were any of these yours?
No.
None.
How did you figure out what was going on?
What was the tip-off?
I think the biggest thing for me was that it was hard to button my jeans in the morning.
I was feeling really bloated all the time.
My stomach was distended, and I'm like, okay, I have to get to the bottom of this.
I have to figure out what's going on.
You started searching.
I started searching.
You sent us a bit of evidence to prove that what you're saying is not hyperbole.
I did.
This is a picture of Amanda.
This is the belly bloat, which we all talk about.
There's a before, and there's a now.
There's a big difference.
So I've asked someone to join us today who I trust a lot in this area.
Someone who has a clinical practice that deals with this.
Come on over.
Dr. Aviva Ram is joining us.
She's an integrative medicine expert who's helped Amanda lose the bloat, and she says she can do the same for you.
So thank you for being here.
Fructose, why is it such a problem for so many folks like Amanda?
Why is it not talked about more?
So we think about fruit as really healthy.
We associate it with great vibrant health and we tend to eat a lot of it.
But what we don't realize is about half of all Americans or even more can't actually digest the fructose, the sugar that's in our fruit.
So what happens is that we have natural bacteria in our gut and these bacteria go to work on the fructose that's hanging out in there.
And if you've ever seen like the foam on a soda or the foam on a beer, That's all gas and it does the same thing in our belly.
It bubbles up and it causes this distension, this bloated feeling and sometimes even appearance.
We can look pretty distended like we're pregnant and we don't want to look like that when we're not.
So Dr. Robbins created a plan to help you find out if you are fructose intolerant and help you get rid of your bloat.
So let's go on back here.
You know, walk us through this plan.
Again, with numbers like 50% or 80% of our viewers having this problem, we all don't pay attention.
The first thing Dr. Rahm says we have to do is to eliminate fructose for 21 days.
And these are the foods that she wants you to eliminate.
First up, fruit.
Now you have pretty much all the fruits I recommend on the show here.
Yes.
Again, fruit is quite healthy for us, but for the people who can't tolerate it or are eating too much of it, cutting out most fruit at the beginning or even all fruit for 21 days can kind of help you see where you're at with it and what you can and can't tolerate.
So I recommend starting with all fruit for 21 days, but especially the really high fructose fruit.
So we start with the apples and pears, work our way down a little bit more.
Berries are actually surprisingly high in fructose.
Then we go to the bananas.
Grapes and melons, and we work our way down to the other end where we have strawberries, pineapples, and grapefruit, which are the lowest fructose.
But again, for 21 days it's better to just kind of take it all out and see if the symptoms go away.
Was that a big deal, Amanda?
I mean, I was motivated to find a solution to my problem, so I figure you can do anything for 21 days.
Now, this part is the part that really is going to throw me off.
Vegetables, which is, of course, the mainstay of what we should be eating.
Why are vegetables a problem?
So there's really a limited range of vegetables that are the big problem for people, and they're a problem because they actually contain this complex form of fructose called fructans, and some people can't tolerate those either.
So the big groups are here, the broccoli, Cabbages, and again, people are kind of familiar with those being a little gas-forming anyway.
Tomatoes, garlic, onions, and then we have what a lot of my patients will call the fart-a-choke.
You call them fortichokes?
No.
I love that.
I can use that in a cocktail party conversation.
So these ones we're going to give off in the beginning.
Other vegetables are generally okay?
Yes.
So what you want to think about focusing on is the leafy greens, which are pretty much always okay for most people, mushrooms, and then yams, and all potatoes are really well digested.
They don't have as much fructose.
So for 21 days, you want to focus on those.
Okay.
Now there are lots of hidden sources of fructose.
You've got to eliminate these.
And some of these are surprising, I think, for a lot of our viewers.
So go through them if you don't want.
Yeah.
So we start with the condiments here, which are the highest because they're really high in high fructose corn syrup.
And then yogurt itself is okay, but if it's sweetened yogurt with fruit, then the fruit itself is the problem.
So that can cause some gas and bloating.
A lot of the snack bars that people eat have high fructose corn syrup.
You just want to read the labels and make sure they don't have fructose added or fruit juice or high fructose corn syrup.
And then here we have a whole other class of foods that don't actually have fructose, but they have something called sorbitol, which is a sugar substitute, but it can actually decrease the body's ability to break down the fructose so it builds up.
So a lot of the low-fat foods are sweetened with sorbitol, and then, believe it or not, chewing gum.
And why is bread on this category?
So a lot of people take gluten out of their diet because they think that's the problem, but for a subset of people who can't handle the fructose, there's actually those same fructans that are in the vegetables in wheat.
So if you take wheat out of your diet, it may actually make a difference and go for the gluten-free bread products.
So gluten-free breads don't have those fructans either?
They don't, unless it has rye in it.
So anything that has wheat or rye, that's the problem.
Now, in the meantime, we've taken out the foods that we're worried about, most of the fruits, the bad veggies, the fartichokes, so to speak, the hidden sources of high fructose corn syrup and the sorbitols.
These are things you want to add back into your diet.
If you don't mind, walk us through this.
These are gut healing elements.
Start with zinc.
So zinc is actually a mineral that can be found in a multivitamin, or you can take a supplement, about 15 milligrams a day.
Most multivitamins will have enough, and you can also get it from your food.
Zinc actually helps to heal the lining of the gut, to actually restore it.
Pumpkin seeds and beef are some of our highest sources of zinc.
Folate is important because when you're not absorbing your fruits and vegetables well, you become low in folate.
And folate is an essential nutrient that we have to have for heart health, multiple important functions in our body.
So getting green leafy vegetables every day, which are totally fine because they're low in fructose, or even adding a multivitamin that has folate in it, or taking 200 to 400 micrograms of folate every day as a supplement is really important.
And why are probiotics important?
I get the general health benefits to the gut, but why in particular for these issues?
So part of why people become fructose intolerant is that they may already be having some gut problems where their gut flora isn't great and so they can't break down that fructose as well.
So adding back in good gut flora, the natural ones that our gut likes to have in it, can help break down that fructose when we do add it back in.
So a couple of sources that I recommend for people with fructose intolerance are miso and then plain yogurt that has good added cultures back in it can be helpful for restoring the gut.
So you learned all this.
I did.
You made a bunch of meals for us.
I did.
These are sample meals.
Did you cook them all?
No.
But these are meals that I think a lot of folks can use as examples of how you apply this to yourself for 21 days.
So walk us through these if you don't mind.
Okay, so a typical breakfast for me would be scrambled eggs with some dill and shiitake mushrooms on gluten-free toast, just to spice up the eggs a little bit.
I added some extra stuff to them.
For lunch, I would have a niçoise salad, and for some added protein, put some salmon on there.
And then for dinner, I did chicken thighs with miso paste, like the doctor was saying, with potatoes and yams with mushrooms, and then a small salad on the side for folate.
So it's not really a painful program to be on.
Not at all.
It's pretty delectable, actually.
Very easy.
It's super healthy.
So at what point, Dr. Rahm, if you're on this 21-day elimination plan, do you know that it's the right plan for you to be on?
When do you see the bloating get better?
It's actually amazing.
It's a little bit different for everyone, but most of my patients actually say within three to five days the gas is gone.
The bloating is noticeably down.
Cramping, if they've been having loose stools, resolved.
So you can actually see it just as few as three to five days.
How did it work for you, Amanda?
One week.
In one week?
One week, I could button my jeans.
I felt so much better.
I didn't have stomach aches after every meal.
It was awesome.
Did you have the running stools also?
I did not.
Okay.
I heard that before.
I don't think most people with this problem have that.
They have primarily the bloating, so find yourselves in that story.
Okay, 21 days later, you've done the whole program.
You gorged yourself on the meals that the manager showed us.
It's so good.
And now you have to slowly reintroduce these foods, because we actually want you to eat fruits and vegetables.
How do you do that the right way?
So start with one fruit at a time.
So pick one day you're going to add in a low fructose fruit.
So start with maybe berries because even though they have fructose people tend to tolerate berries really well.
See how you do for that day.
Even keep a food journal where a few hours after you eat take note of how you feel.
Have you started to get some bloating back?
Are you feeling gassy or just kind of uncomfortable in your digestive system?
If you are, then take that one out and then the next day try another one.
So maybe add in half a banana and just keep doing that until you're kind of added in what you can tolerate.
We're going to have a list on DrRoz.com of all these foods from the low to the high groups of fruits and vegetables so you can sort of monitor yourself.
Alright, you took a log of the foods you ate.
I did.
And you started to do this process 21 days later and this is your log actually.
We're going to pull out the thing that I'm most attentive to.
The food that you tried first was a fruit.
What was it and how did it work?
I tried berries because I know they're low fructose, and I kind of didn't have any discomfort at all, and I'm like, wow, maybe that was never a problem in the first place.
So then I moved on to an apple, and everything came back.
I was bloated, my stomach hurt, I had stomach pains, my throat hurt, so I said, oh, I guess apples are a real big problem for me.
So, Dr. Brown, what happens if you like apples but you get bloated with them?
Are they out of your diet for the rest of your life?
Not necessarily, and for most people, no.
What I would say in a situation like Amanda's is take that back out, leave it out for a few months, keep adding in the things that you can tolerate, focus on those, and then a few months later, try adding back in the things that you couldn't.
If you still can't add them back in, maybe that's not the best fruit or vegetable for you, and then just focus on the ones that you can.
Thanks for sharing your story, man.
I appreciate it.
Wonderful advice, Dr. Rahm.
For more of Dr. Rahm's plan, and to find out if you're fructose intolerant, you can go to DrOz.com.
I'll be right back.
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That's coming up tomorrow. - He was the fan favorite on "Taxi" and the real boss on "Who's the Boss?" Talk show host, boxer, teacher, and now Broadway star.
He's got a career that has spanned nearly 40 years.
Tony Danza is constantly reinventing himself, but it all came down to one pivotal moment in his life, and he's here to tell us all about it.
Please welcome Tony Danza.
Thank you for saying hi to everybody.
Oh no, it's my pleasure.
My pleasure.
Hello everyone.
I love you.
Thank you.
So nice to be here.
That's a long cross.
It's a long cross.
Most people are out of breath by now.
Yes, wow.
We do have to soften up the guests a little bit.
No, it's great.
Speaking of softening up, near death tends to do that to people.
Gets you to revisit some basic assumptions.
I had no idea about this, but you actually, as an avid skier, had a catastrophic injury.
What happened and what clicked for you to change your life?
Well, you know, good morning.
Let me tell you about my injury.
No, I hit a tree skiing and backwards.
I was off the ground as I hit the tree and luckily my head sort of just glanced off the tree and went around it and I broke my back.
I had a facet fracture.
I shaved off.
The transverse processes, the bones on the side, I shaved off three, I think, on each side.
How did you do that without dying?
That's remarkable.
You know, I broke eight ribs, put one in my lung, one in my liver, and one bruised my kidney.
I mean, you know, it was like...
I oftentimes make a joke, it was like the mob got me, you know.
I broke my leg, you know, I was messed up.
But I was lucky because...
Well, first of all, I lived, but I had a great surgeon.
So what was the big epiphany?
What was the moment as you're sitting there in the ICU? I'm probably on a ventilator.
Well, I do a bad joke.
The bad joke is, you know, you wake up on a respirator, you get this thing in your mouth, it's breathing for you.
You look up, everybody's crying, including the priest.
You say, man, I need a second opinion, you know?
So, but the epiphany came afterwards, you know.
I was in intensive care for over three weeks, and just to compound the bad luck, You know, the reason I fell is because I lost my mother.
I better be careful here.
I lost my mother.
You know...
Why do I come here?
You know, Judd Hirsch used to have a line in taxi.
He said, why don't we come here?
I almost never have a good time.
What happened is, I lost my mother in June.
And I was thinking it was the first Christmas.
And I had her in my mind.
I'm so sorry.
Please, take your time.
So I was thinking about her.
I fell and I hurt myself.
And then I was in intensive care for three weeks and I told the doctor that I could easily, just as easily, coalesce.
Why was thinking about your mom putting you in a place where you hurt yourself like that?
Oh, thanks.
I was past it.
Well, you know, it was the first...
Christmas drives me crazy anyway.
And so, uh...
So every Christmas...
Oh, come on, this is not fair.
You know, I didn't...
Yeah.
We obviously love...
No, it's not my...
It's not your fault or the show's fault.
I swear, I'm...
Okay, so every Christmas you go through this thing where you miss the people that aren't there anymore.
And so, can I get some tissue?
Yes, here.
Give me a half of tissues, please.
See, they knew.
I didn't know.
Anyway, I'm sorry, folks.
I didn't mean to...
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I'm sorry about the emotion, folks.
Please, we love you because of the emotion.
I feel all of us go through that.
Times when the universe doesn't seem to be working on our side.
That's the classic question, right?
Is the universe a friendly place or not?
And in our darkest moments, sometimes we're pushed to make big decisions about our lives.
And it catalyzed you.
It changed you.
Well, yeah, but listen, I've always, you know, I had that, you know, we talk about my upbringing.
You know, I saw my old man go to work every day.
I saw my mother go to work every day.
Even when she was sick, I remember one day I said to her, where are you going?
I know you feel terrible.
She says, I got to go.
It's payroll day.
You know, I got to be there for people.
So, I mean, I saw that.
And so I had that grit.
I had that resilience.
And look, I've also been so lucky.
And so somehow I got here anyway.
And you learn.
But that's the thing.
You gotta learn.
You gotta reflect.
You gotta, you know, I'm 64, and when I turn 60, you know, you realize very clearly, and I probably should have realized it sooner, that you only get one life and that you're, you know, if you're on a roller coaster, you're towards the end.
And so you have to make the most of it.
And you have to really do the things that...
You wanted to do or don't want to do, you have to push yourself.
And one of the things that I really believe in is you've got to stay a student.
You've got to stay a learner.
You've got to stay interested.
You know, I'm a big believer.
I know nobody does this anymore, but read the newspaper.
I mean, the newspaper is the only place...
First of all, you're reading.
Sure.
It's the only place you can get any kind of in-depth understanding of the issues because we're no longer given that by the news.
Read the newspaper.
You get some sense of the world.
And, you know, I taught a year in Philly.
I had the great privilege of doing it.
And I tell the kids every day, this doesn't work unless you're engaged.
The system doesn't work if we don't know what's going on.
And so you really need your responsibility.
I love...
That you continue to reinvent yourself.
I've got to plead to everyone who can hear my voice right now.
Honeymoon in Vegas.
You guys, just let me tell you something.
I'm telling you something.
I know I got honeymoon fever bad.
I mean it.
It's so bad.
It's such a great show.
It is the show...
I was talking to this kid from Iowa the other day.
I gave him a ticket to the show.
He says to me, you know, this is the show, the kind of show I always thought Broadway was.
Because it really is a throwback to one of the great musicals of the old days with of the moment stories about a guy who can't commit to his girlfriend.
And the girlfriend wants to get married.
And a guy who, another guy, me, who sees the girl and wants her out of his life and in his.
And it's this great caper with unbelievable music by Jason Robert Brown.
It's I'm telling you, it's the best thing I've ever been in in my career.
In 40 years.
You said it, I couldn't believe it.
I'm so perfect that you can reinvent yourself to do it.
I only have one question for you.
How did my name get into the play?
Yeah, you were in the play.
That's right.
There's a joke.
There's a Dr. Oz joke.
I'm not there to defend myself.
Because, well, Jack, Jack played.
Well, you've got to see the play.
But what happens, because the joke won't work without the whole setup.
But he says, I saw a piece on Dr. Oz the other day, and she smacks him.
But you have a moment where you get a laugh every night.
Every night.
I also have been, you know, as a fan of yours, known that you've taken up this instrument, the ukulele, which you use for stress relief.
Well, not only stress relief, it's a musical instrument, you know.
This is a flea, by the way.
A flea?
Feel this.
Oh, my goodness.
How light is that, right?
It's a flea.
I have a more manly ukulele.
I know, that's a lot of ukulele.
And a flea is made by the great Jim Beloff, by the way.
It's online.
It's one of the great...
One of the great...
Instruments, because it stays in tune.
And so, okay, put your finger on the first there.
Atta boy.
F. I'm a surgeon.
F. And then G. And then G is that.
So play me something.
Relax.
Well, you know.
It's worse.
Five foot two, eyes blue.
Oh, what those eyes blue.
Anybody, be my girl.
Tony Dan's "Honeymoon" in Vegas.
We'll be right back.
Next, reporters coast to coast cover the tough health topics making the news.
From cannabis dating apps to toxic turf on the playground, we're uncovering the hottest health headlines you need to know now to protect your health.
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Today I brought together some of my favorite reporters from coast to coast to help break down the hottest health headlines.
They're here to share with you what you need to know right now to protect your health.
So joining me from Fox 5 New York, evening anchor Gary Alexander.
Dr. Mike Serigliato from Fox 29 in Philly, my hometown.
And from Fox 2, San Francisco investigative reporter Melanie Woodrow.
Let's get started with something I could not believe is real.
It's a new dating app.
You've all heard of Tinder, right?
Mm-hmm.
Probably not, probably not, but we're gonna get to Tinder.
This thing is really cool.
It's called Sparking Some Debate.
So Derry, tell us about it.
Oh boy, is it sparking debate.
Hi there!
And I'm saying hello to America, yes, but it's actually called Hi There.
It is a dating app for weed worshippers.
With this Hi There app, you guys can talk about how you like to smoke weed.
Now this is only available, it was developed in Colorado, And it's only available for states that have approved, legally approved, medicinal use and also recreational use.
But, I mean, it's taking things by storm.
So imagine this.
You cut to the conversation.
Do you like to vaporize it?
Do you like to roll it?
Do you have a pipe?
What time of day do you like it?
And then, of course, you know, there are all different kinds of pot that's being offered.
So, you know, this is just something out there for people who want to get to know each other and cut to the truth.
Dr. Mike is a physician.
What do you think about this?
Yes, yes.
Well, the problem that I have is that, one, anything that you combust, anything that you burn and put in your lungs, you and I both know is not good for you.
And so I'm all down with the legalization of medication.
Traditional marijuana, I've said that reportedly and repeatedly on the news.
The problem is, is that one, kids might get into this.
Number two, I think anytime you repeatedly put things in your lungs, maybe on that app you ought to have the name of a pulmonologist, a lung doctor, To be able to then fix what's going on.
So, Melanie, what's the problem with two folks who both happen to be stoners finding out that they're both stoners and identifying with each other?
Sure.
I mean, I'm all for shared interests.
I wonder about the legal implications.
Will law enforcement be tracking people on the app?
The other thing that I thought about is if this is the activity you like to partake in and you'll be doing it on your date, you might want to know a little bit more about your date than what he or she looks like in a selfie.
Well, here's the other thing.
It opens up a whole new society of how late for work are we going to be now?
And then you're going to have, like, the pot diet because of the munchies.
But, you know, then there's Bethany, of course, who has answered that problem for us because she's coming out with the skinny girl pot.
Yes.
There's definitely a lot of issues to consider, but I think at this point, it's coming in there.
It's going to be in the local drug stores at some point.
We're going to be able to walk in there and buy it like you buy Bayer, and I don't know that there's anything that we can really do about it.
Well, let me go back to Melanie.
I'm going to move on to a topic that I do want to cover before we're done.
Melanie did a wonderful investigative report on a big health threat.
It's present in California and many, many other states as well.
She wants communities around the country to know about it.
Take a look.
Good clean passes, guys.
Good clean passes.
While these soccer players keep their eyes on the ball, concerned parents, activists, and now legislators are keeping their eyes on the turf.
Some synthetic turf playing fields are made from ground-up recycled tires.
We bring it home.
It's in our shoes.
It's all over the house.
These little rubber things.
So this concerns me a lot because of the anecdotal connections that are being made between cancer and this type of turf.
Now, I want to make a point here.
This is not all synthetic turf that's in question.
It's only the synthetic turf that, and this is what Melanie's work and others has revealed, it focused on crumb rubber.
This is synthetic turf made out of ground-up, recycled tires.
Melanie, you brought some of it.
If you don't mind, share with us what this is, and why are schools not opting out of this risk if it's even a possibility?
Absolutely.
Dr. Oz, these are these little tire crumbs.
And when you think about what a tire is, you can even take some of those out and sprinkle them.
Give me your hand, Michael.
I'm kidding, I'm kidding.
You know, tires are filled with toxins, with carcinogens.
In some states, you can't burn them, you can't bury them, but we're spreading them across our children's athletic fields.
And the issue is that...
They become like hitchhikers.
They hitchhike home with the kids.
They get in their hair, in their clothing, in their shoes.
There's something that's being called the goalkeeper's curse.
Goalies tend to eat the turf because they're diving for the ball.
And while some studies have been done, no study has really looked at ingestion as a route of exposure.
Most people agree more research needs to be done.
You asked about why the schools aren't tearing out these fields.
It comes down to cost, right?
Unless there's a definitive link between this type of synthetic turf, crumb rubber turf, and cancer, most people don't want to pay to rip out those fields.
But Melanie, I have a phrase, in God we trust and everyone else, show me the data.
And the data so far does not show any volatile chemicals coming up, and other than an increased risk of abrasions in people who play on that sort of stuff, there's really nothing there from a purely scientific point of view.
Now, I happen to have watched a famous television doctor at one time talk about apple juice.
Now, no one at that time was really into apple juice, but this particular, I think his name Oh, Dr. Oz!
Yes!
It was Dr. Oz!
And Dr. Oz!
Well, sometimes it comes up.
Yes, fucked the system!
And actually brought out the fact...
Now, would I want my little daughter, Amy, who's three, you know, running around chewing on that and swallowing it?
No.
We need more research, and we need more time to study it.
But right now, the data does not show that this is a big problem.
From my perspective, I think everyone will share this in the audience as well.
We want the safest environment for our kids.
Physical activity obviously is one of the best things we can give them.
I want to keep talking about this because at least we won't forget about it.
We'll make sure we find out what the answers are.
We don't want it overlooked.
Thanks very much.
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Next, spring is around the corner, and with it, millions of noses everywhere will be itching, dripping, and sneezing.
You don't have to suffer.
Understand your symptoms and learn to breathe easier.
Three simple steps to arm yourself for allergy season.
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Don't you love it?
Winter is finally melting away.
Take a deep breath of fresh air.
Oh, it feels so good.
And then you remember, it's allergy season.
It's not so much fun anymore.
30 million noses are about to start itching, dripping, and sneezing this spring.
But yours doesn't have to be one of them.
Today I'm going to reveal how to stop suffering so you can breathe easy.
Now Ellen is here.
She says she's a seasonal allergy sufferer.
How are we, Ellen?
I like that.
If you don't mind, describe what everyone's experiencing.
Now, what happens to you when you get these allergies?
My eyes get all red and teary and scratchy.
My nose gets itchy.
My throat, I'm always trying to clear my throat.
It's crazy.
You know, my eyes, you know, are really teary and I don't know what to do.
First, I don't know whether to scratch my nose or scratch my eyes or...
So what triggers it?
What causes the allergies?
No, I don't know.
I don't know if it's the flowers.
I don't know if it's the trees.
I really don't know.
Let's get through this, because I gotta say, if we understand a bit more about how to prevent it, it makes life a lot easier.
The big problem is actually pollen, which you probably know.
The question is, where does it come from?
And in seasonal allergies, it becomes a recurrent theme.
So let me explain, first of all, why pollen's such a big problem, why you feel so terrible, and it all comes down to your immune system.
Which you want to have actively surveilling the world.
So you're out there minding your business and let's say one of us gets a little infection.
Our immune system is looking for bad boys and they see a bullet come through there with a virus or bacteria and it attacks it and then what does it do?
It causes inflammation.
You want that inflammation because you want to kill off that bad boy, get rid of the invader.
But here's the problem.
In a lot of people, more than will get infected, the pollen is confused for one of those bad guys.
So the pollen now floats in there and gets attacked by the immune cell.
The immune cell releases inflammation.
Now you actually didn't really need inflammation to kill the pollen.
It was just pollen.
But your body can't tell the difference.
It gets confused and that causes seasonal allergies.
That's why every spring people feel so darn miserable.
So the question is, how do you cure that?
Well, you don't want to knock out your immune system, right?
Your immune system is important to you.
So there isn't a good cure from that perspective, but there are simple things you can do and everyone can do during the allergy season to arm yourself so it's much less of a problem.
Let's start off with the very basics.
When you leave your house in the morning, what do you take with you?
My keys, my phone, maybe some tissues.
Dissues to deal with the symptoms.
I want to deal with the cause.
So one thing I want you to leave from now on with the house, and this is for everybody out there who's traveling around and getting these seasonal allergies and not sure why it's happening, you've got to protect your hair.
Because the pollen comes down and lands on your hair.
And when it lands on your hair, it's with you all day long, and then at nighttime, You lie down, and you're breathing this stuff in.
So as soon as you walk out of the house, especially if it's in the morning, that pollen settles in there, and you're basically a sponge carrying it with you.
So, I put this up for you.
I thought this would go well with your outfit.
Great, thanks.
You like that?
Yeah, I love it.
Isn't that stylish?
So, a wide brim, cover your hair, so the stuff doesn't get stuck on it.
Okay.
Okay, let's move on from your hair to your eyes.
Because you could have probably predicted this.
You mentioned you get the eyes that are watery.
People think you're crying at work.
They think you're very emotional.
I just told her that I was going to be late.
So you guessed it, sunglasses.
And I picked, again, these out for you.
Sunglasses are more useful than you would imagine to keep the pollen out of your eyes.
But they've got to be nice and big and stylish like that.
You've got to look like a celebrity walking around.
Actually, you know what?
I picked a more masculine version of that.
What do you guys think?
You like it?
Let's get a little selfie.
Work for me.
Come on now.
I'm down here now.
I'm down here now.
Work for me.
Over here now.
Good.
All right.
Perfect.
All right.
You can pop these off now.
Well done.
We'll post those.
You can make fun of me all together.
All right.
You can take the hat off, too.
Although it looks beautiful.
All right.
Now, so we've got the hair covered.
We've got the eyes colored.
Now you have your nose.
And the question is, what are you going to do about the nose?
When you first start to feel those nasal allergies, you actually want to arm your nose.
But you want to arm it from the inside out.
And this is nasal cork, which is a fantastic way of doing it.
It's a multi-symptom nasal spray, simple to apply, and by helping you from the inside out, you actually can alleviate some of the symptoms you're gonna have.
But let me explain why it's so important to try this.
So, this is what's going on normally.
Your body, when it's being irritated by that pollen, It gets into the nose.
And that invader, because it's, remember, seems like it's attacking you, incentivizes your immune cells to release all kinds of inflammatory chemicals.
So on the outside you see this redness, but on the inside, da-da-da!
This is what's going on.
You've got all kinds of chemicals that are blowing up inside your nose like they're balloons.
And most people think it's all about antihistamines, right?
So these H's, the blue balloons, they're antihistamines.
So if you pop the antihistamines, guess what?
You're not getting all the inflammatory chemicals.
Great way to go, but you're not doing everything you could do.
So with Nasacort, I want you to try that.
Thank you.
You don't just get the histamines.
Nasal cord works against histamine and more.
So, pop them all away.
Take them all out.
Oh, I like that.
And when you knock those babies out, all of a sudden, it's nice.
It's sort of fun, too.
But when you knock those out, now you clear up that nasal passage that's supposed to look like this without all that swelling.
It releases the congestion people feel, the sneezing, the itchy nose, all that craziness.
And it works for 24 hours, which is one of the reasons that it makes it much easier for folks to deal with their symptoms.
Okay.
And here's the best news.
It's now available to everybody over-the-counter.
There's no prescription needed.
It's scent and alcohol-free.
And thanks to our trusted sponsorship partner, Nasacort, beginning tomorrow at 3 p.m.
Eastern, the first 5,000 people who go to dros.com will receive a bottle of Nasacort Allergy 24-hour.
Enjoy it, guys.
And for everybody in the audience, I would never forget you.
You're all going home at Nasacort as well, thanks to our friends at Nasacort.
We'll be right back.
Next.
It has a critical role in building and maintaining healthy bones and body.
But could you be getting too much calcium?
Too much of a good thing can actually be a bad thing for your health.
The three important things you need to know before you take that next supplement.
next. - - - Calcium, now you know it's a good thing for your bones and your body, but too much of a good thing can actually have a negative impact on your health.
So today I'm getting to the key details of the right amount of this important mineral, and Dorsey's gonna help me do exactly this.
Calcium, you ever worry about how much you get in?
Very much so.
I don't know.
I try to take supplements and forget to take them.
And so I try to get them through my food, but then don't know if I'm having enough.
And I don't want brittle bones, really.
I'm too cute for that.
You are too cute for that.
And you don't have, you know, overbearing moms pushing on you?
Yeah, but you know, we just push it to the side and just keep it moving.
All right.
So calcium plays a big role in making our bones strong and keeping everything functioning the way it's supposed to be.
But most women these days don't really know how much they're getting.
And they're getting actually more than they think they are.
So you know what the amount you're supposed to have is?
Not a clue.
It's 1,000 to 1,200 milligrams.
Okay.
Remember that.
I'm going to come back to that number again.
Think about a thousand milligrams as one gram of calcium.
That's what you want to have in your day.
Okay.
So we kept a little food journal together, didn't we, Dorsey?
Yes, we did.
And you're very meticulous, weren't you, Dorsey?
Yes, I was.
So we're going to waltz over.
Just for you, though.
Oh, you're very kind.
Yeah.
We're going to waltz over here and go through the meals you were having.
So breakfast, you have yogurt and orange juice.
Yes.
Which is a very smart thing to do.
It turns out that yogurt has about 400 milligrams of calcium.
Orange juice has 250 milligrams.
That's surprising to a lot of women.
They don't recognize that orange juice is fortified with calcium to that degree.
Yeah.
Right there in breakfast, you already got more than half of what you need for the whole day.
Wow!
Yeah, you haven't left home yet.
Then we go to lunch, and you often, I'm told, get salads with like turkey and some cheddar cheese on it.
Yeah.
Pretty accurate.
So, the cheddar cheese actually has about 300 milligrams of calcium.
Cheese generally has a lot of calcium in it.
Yeah.
Which is a good thing, but now you add it to that, you're at 950, so you're almost where you need to be for the day.
And then for dinner, I don't know if you did this yourself or someone volunteered this for you, but I heard you had a pizza.
I love it so much.
I can't stay away.
The gooeyness of it was so wonderful.
You could be embarrassed of yourself.
I know.
So cheese on the pizza has 300 milligrams.
So now you're over what you need for the day.
It's not bad because when you get it from food, that's not a big problem.
Issues happen.
When you get your calcium from sources outside of food.
Now, normally I don't mind it.
If you're not getting enough, it's okay.
But the perfect amount of calcium that you can get from food makes your body happy because you can work out any extra calcium you have in it.
When you take it in supplemental form, for example, if you take a calcium pill, which a lot of women used to do because we used to tell you to do it, that's 600 milligrams per tablet.
If you get a multivitamin, that often has, you know, 100, 200 milligrams of calcium.
And then, do you ever take antacids?
Once or twice.
Not too often.
Yeah.
Well, some women take a lot of antacids, and many antacids have a lot of calcium in them.
Okay.
And that calcium can have, you know, 500 milligrams more there.
So now you're really over what you want to have for the day.
So let me talk a little bit about what happens if you take a lot of extra calcium in supplement form.
Okay.
I don't mind a little bit, but I don't want a lot extra.
So go ahead, put your gloves on.
Okay.
And I'm going to show you the main organ that's responsible for getting rid of calcium.
Okay.
Purple's my favorite color.
Oh, it is?
Yes.
Well, thank you very much.
I like purple too.
I think you're singing about purple on the show one day.
Yes.
So, there we have it.
Ooh.
Those are your kidneys.
And your kidneys have a lot of important roles, but if you open them up, what they really have to do is filter out the urine that comes through them.
And if you have a lot of calcium from supplements...
Sometimes you can start to develop these, kidney stones, which get stuck in here, in the middle of the kidneys, and they can cause infections and other kinds of problems.
So it compromises the ability of the kidney to detoxify your body.
The more common problem we see, because that's not that frequent, is a problem here.
These are your intestines.
And when you have a lot of calcium from supplements, it can cause constipation.
That's not a good thing.
Do you ever get constipated?
Yeah, no bueno.
No bueno?
No.
And what does Dorsey do when she gets constipated?
I get really sad.
Okay.
So one thing you think in the back of your mind is take magnesium because it sort of counteracts the calcium.
But when you take supplements with a lot of calcium, you're actually making your life more difficult.
Yeah.
All right, so you can take your gloves off now.
So let's talk about the action steps here.
First off, we're going to limit calcium from supplements.
We talked about that.
Secondly, we're going to get calcium from foods because you do need calcium.
Yes.
So, you know, all these things you're hopefully already getting in.
Dairy you're getting in, obviously, many forms.
Cheese, obviously, we talked about, has lots of calcium.
Leafy greens have a ton of calcium.
And then you have things like tofu and salmon, which you wouldn't think would have that much calcium in them, but they're good sources.
Yeah.
Together with calcium, you need one other thing.
Because you've got to absorb the calcium.
You need vitamin D. They're married.
Yeah.
Are you married?
No, not yet.
Working on it.
We're going to put Darcy's number up on DrOz.com.
We're going to marry her off.
We can marry her off today.
We'll be in good...
So, vitamin D comes in...
The best source of plants is mushrooms.
They grow in the dark.
They've got to make their own.
They don't get the sun to make it.
We can get it from the sun.
Yep.
Because your darker skin needs more than I would need, but you still can get it.
I love tanning.
Okay.
A couple minutes a day, not more.
The yolk of eggs actually has vitamin D, and salmon has vitamin D. So salmon over there with calcium, and it has vitamin D. So it's a nice one-two punch to get what you need.
So if you're going to make meals out of these things, fantastic crude combos are an omelet with some cheese, for a bunch of reasons, both the cheese and the egg.
A salad with some mushrooms on it.
And of course, I mentioned salmon is probably my hero for calcium and vitamin D, in addition to all the other wonderful things it has.
Cool.
Any questions?
I have actually a quick question about regular milk versus almond milk.
Does almond milk not have a lot of calcium?
Doesn't have as much, but they're now starting to add and fortify some of these products, and they vary depending on how they do that.
Okay.
So I think the sources of food, the real ones I put over there, are the most guaranteed ones because you'll always be able to get them in.
Okay, cool.
Love having you here.
Thank you.
You can go to drraz.com to get my calcium fact sheet.
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I was recently inspired by the most amazing little three-year-old girl who braved her way through surgery and chemo to beat her brain cancer.
This is Sophia.
Now, she's so adorably cute in her Wonder Woman costume, but look at her sign.
My last day of chemo was tough, but I was tougher.
That is a tough cookie.
Everyone is celebrating her successful treatment.
She even got a shout-out on Facebook from TV's Wonder Woman, Linda Carter.
She calls Sophia a real-life little wonder woman.
I'm very proud of her.
I couldn't agree more.
Lots of love, Sophia.
Now it's time for in case you missed it.
First, if you've battled the blow, but you cannot pinpoint the cause, it might be that you are fructose intolerant.
So I want you to try eliminating fructose from your diet for 21 days.
You can start with foods that normally are good for you.
Things like pears and apples have a lot of fructose.
Blueberries, my favorite, have a lot of fructose.
Because they're high fructose, you want to get them out.
You have fructose and other fruits as well, but they're mostly these ones I just mentioned.
If the bloating goes away and the gas goes away, it's a pretty good sign that you may be intolerant.
So think about that and follow our program at sonos.com.
Finally, let me close with a warning.
I want you to be careful about what you buy online, especially weight loss pills.
There's some dubious people online that prey on folks like you who are trying to do the right things for your health.
Sometimes they make it seem like I'm endorsing the product that they're selling to you, but I don't.
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