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Dec. 27, 2023 - Dr. Oz Podcast
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Rosie O’Donnell’s Weight-Loss Surgery Guide | Dr. Oz | S6 | Ep 98 | Full Episode
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Today on Oz.
Something motivated you to finally take action.
I nearly died.
Rosie O'Donnell tells all in a daytime exclusive.
Something had to give.
One day after leaving The View, Rosie reveals the real reason she left.
There was a lot of stuff going on.
Plus, the split with her wife.
How you coping with that?
And the surgery that helped her lose more than 50 pounds.
I thought to myself, you're on borrowed time.
Coming up next on Dr. Oz.
Today, one of the funniest people I know, Rosie O'Donnell, is back to tell all about the weight loss surgery that's helped her lose more than 50 pounds.
And she's going to talk about the serious medical and personal reasons she's decided to leave The View.
Plus, she's got a very, very funny new documentary.
It's called Rosie O'Donnell, A Heartfelt Stand-Up.
I adore this.
Take a look.
When you're about to go in for major heart surgery, you start making deals with God.
I was like, okay, listen.
I will never make fun of another Republican.
Not even Elizabeth Hasselbeck.
But a hard one, but that's what I did.
She's a lovely person and I admire her greatly.
Listen, I'm still alive.
Shut the hell up.
Please welcome my friend, Rosie O'Donnell.
Hi, Tony.
How are you?
From the studio.
Good to see you.
Am I over here?
Yes.
Hi.
Anyway, if you want to see me.
I love you.
What a nice studio.
Thank you very much.
I haven't been here since your new studio.
You're in Pine Valley.
Did you tell the people that?
No.
They used to shoot all my children in this studio.
Yes, they did.
Exactly right.
This could be Erica Kane's living room.
Ooh, it could be right now.
It could be.
How are you?
You look so wonderful.
Thank you.
I feel a lot better.
I can tell you that.
What is it like physically to lose that much weight?
How does it change you?
Well, you know, I think more now what it was like to carry that weight than it was to lose it.
You know, I realized that I gained it mostly when my show started in 96. Before then, I was like what I am now, about 180-something, 184, 185. Once my show was on and was a hit, that first Christmas, so six months into my show, I had gone over 200. Oh, my.
And I remember when I looked at the scale, I thought, wow, that's the first time I've ever done that.
And then it kept incrementally as the years went on, increasing, increasing, increasing, until I had a heart attack in August of 2012. And I had 100% blockage of my LAD, which is called the Widowmaker, right?
And so we had talked about it on this show, and you had told me about the need to lose weight, and I had tried and couldn't do it.
But now that I've done it, I wish I had done it Ten years ago.
It's the most underperformed operation in America.
Yes.
I want to talk about that, but I have to ask the question because everyone's thinking it right now.
You're such an iconic figure for us.
You had a lot of personal and health reasons why you wanted to leave the view.
I just would love to have a deeper insight into your decision.
Sure.
You know, my doctor is an amazing woman and she's been following my health pretty intently since my heart attack.
And around Christmas I went in and she did all the tests again.
And she said, you know, there's an uptick in some of your numbers.
And she's like, what's going on?
I'm like having a lot of stress in my private life.
My marriage is complicated right now and my four teenagers and a baby.
Put all those things together, there's stress at home.
And then I was having a lot of stress at work.
I was trying to fit in and make it work and have a great show.
Sometimes it doesn't always go the way you want it.
So something had to give.
And the only thing I knew that I could change for sure would be the work stress.
The home stress, it's going to take a little bit of time and life, and those aren't things you can change, right?
Right away, you have to figure it out.
They're harder.
But when I told Disney, I said, listen, I'm having way too much stress, and my doctor has recommended that I not do a daily show anymore.
And they listened, and they were kind, and they said, okay.
And I was surprised, really, because you don't know.
And you hear, you know, you hear everybody like, well, they're gonna sue you or make you...
All I know is this, I was having way too much stress and for somebody who had a near-fatal heart attack, that's a very bad way to live.
And I had done this documentary, I tried to help people learn, especially women, what causes a heart attack and how to survive it because, you know, I didn't know that more women die of heart disease every year than every cancer combined.
I didn't know that.
So I wanted to help women.
But as my documentary on heart disease was about to air, I was getting sicker.
Exactly.
And I'm like, wouldn't this be horrible?
Here, ladies, save yourself.
And guess what?
I got to go.
Too much stress.
I didn't want to do that.
So I... First of all, I have to say, I've always found you to be a very brave person.
To make an important decision like that for your health is a remarkably savvy thing to do.
And I want to applaud you for it.
I'm very lucky, because most people don't have the luxury of saying, I'm not going to work, I'm going to go home and take care of my health and my children.
And I'm more fortunate than 99.9% of women on the planet, and I realize that every day.
So, if I could transition from the view to the bigger challenge now, which is home.
So, obviously, your relationship, which you've discussed, is in jeopardy.
There's a lot of stress around any kinds of relationships that we really value and treasure in our lives that we think are threatened.
How are you coping with that?
You know, I'm doing everything that I can to take care of myself, you know, and I think Michelle's doing the same thing.
And we had a lot of medical issues right from the get-go.
You know, right before we got married, she was diagnosed with a very rare cancer.
And we spent a lot of time focusing on that and getting her well.
And just as she got well, I had a heart attack.
And then we focused on that.
And, you know, there was a lot of stuff going on.
And I think what we both want is for each other to be happy and live the most complete and full life we can.
And we're going to figure out whether that's together or separate.
Right now we're living separately and we're figuring out how that feels and trying to deal with all of the emotions that come with that.
And, you know, also five children.
Well, the kid, the definition of stress, if you look up in the dictionary, it says teenager.
Yes.
And you've got a bunch of them, plus you've got a toddler.
I've got four of them, yes.
How do you handle that?
Well, believe it or not, although I make fun of them in my act, the kids really do provide me with a constant source of love and grounding.
I know that other people think I'm crazy.
People said, why did you have a baby when you had four teenagers?
It was an accident.
No, it wasn't.
Believe me, it was no accident.
I said, I have four teenagers and I needed to remind myself that I actually do love children.
Because teenagers, you know, they're not the easiest.
But my teens have been unbelievably loving and supportive.
My son is at college here at Hofstra and he comes home often and checks up and sees how...
Good for him.
I'm doing.
And, you know, we're all in this together.
So let's talk about the big news, the weight loss.
Yes.
Which is unbelievable.
And again, I point this out because to talk about this publicly means a lot to a lot of folks who are struggling with the exact same things that you overcame.
You've been very open about the weight issues in your life.
Yes.
Problems that obviously most of us just live with our whole life.
Something clicked in your mind.
Something motivated you to finally take action.
Yes.
I nearly died.
And the doctor said to me, we don't know why you lived.
Most people who have an L.A.D. don't survive 10 hours, never mind 50 hours.
So when all these doctors were coming in and saying, you know, we don't know why you're alive, kid, I thought to myself, you're on borrowed time.
And you owe it to yourself and your children to make sure that you do everything you can to fight against this thing that almost took you out.
And the thing that almost took me out was morbid obesity.
The result of the morbid obesity was the heart disease and the high blood pressure.
And as much as I tried, you know, after you have a heart attack for a full year, they say you can't have any elective surgeries at all because your heart is You know, trying to heal.
And they said, try to lose as much weight as you can during that year.
And I lost, I think, 14 pounds.
And then my doctor said, why don't you think about the new vertical gastric sleeve?
I had thought about gastric bypass before, but I was always concerned about some of the side effects.
The dumping, which is a common one for people, was terrifying to me, who has mild phobia of pee or poop in public.
That's me.
I can hold it all day.
Haven't gone since 6 a.m.
Don't worry, I won't wet the seat.
So I didn't think it was a possibility, but then I learned about the vertical gastric sleeve and the success that they are having with that.
It does not affect your digestive tract.
It simply makes your stomach smaller.
And the fact that the part they take out has hormones in it that control your hunger, it actually ended up being very, very, very successful for me and for the vast majority of people who do it.
I've got a little animation.
Okay.
I made an avatar looking like you, if you want to help me with this.
I would love that.
Come on up.
This is a video of what was done inside of you.
Okay.
Oh, look at me.
I've got the popcorn.
Where's the popcorn?
I still have a little of this.
It's a little poofy down there, but that's all right.
All right.
We're working on it.
So, if you look up there, you see, as you're eating the popcorn, what normally happens before an operation is the stomach, this is the liver over here.
Okay.
The stomach is nice and big there.
Right.
The food goes in there, and because the stomach is large, you can actually gorge yourself.
Yeah.
Fill the stomach up.
It stretches.
Yes.
Yeah.
And so unfortunately, because of that, you end up putting on a lot of weight.
Now here's the operation.
You make a vertical cut.
That's why it's called that, vertical gastroplasty.
You cut out about a banana shape of stomach is left behind.
So the food that goes in there quickly satiates you.
You feel full.
When you're full like that, look at this.
That's a much more elegant, sleeker version of Rosie.
And it happens, I'm told, fairly effortlessly.
Was it relatively straightforward once you had the operation?
Yes, I did exactly what my doctor who's sitting right here, Dr. Trivedi, I did exactly what he told me.
And I followed his example and all of the services that he has in his office of counseling and the emotional support that he gives people.
And he's one of the most compassionate men I ever met.
And I felt very safe with him and I trust him implicitly.
So it's been a huge blessing in my life to have met this guy.
She travels with a gastric surgeon, her bariatric surgeon.
Dr. Emmett, Trevor, you actually practice at Hackensack University Medical Center.
I'd like a little insight, if you don't mind, about Rosie.
Why was she a good candidate?
What were the concerns about her case?
Well, Dr. Oz, thank you for having me on to discuss what's been going on with Rosie.
This is just an incredible thing that she's gone through.
Rosie, like millions of other Americans, struggle with their weight.
She's tried everything, as you know.
And despite that, she was nearly the heaviest she's ever been when she had her heart attack.
And she just couldn't do it.
At some point, her body let her know that she was at wit's end.
She had a heart attack.
Something that a lot of people don't survive.
And despite that, she needed to lose weight, right?
And she couldn't do it after her heart attack, despite all the motivation of family, kids, loved ones, right?
What did you try right after the operation?
You must have had some...
You're probably in the hospital room thinking about how to do this.
Well, in the hospital room, the doctor came in and brought me fruit.
And he's like, you should try this instead of cookies.
Not this guy, another guy.
And...
I took a Bing cherry just to shut him up and he had all of the interns behind him like on Grey's Anatomy like going, how did this girl live?
She had 50 hours with an ellen and I ate the cherry and after a few minutes I'm like, my tongue feels a little bit...
Weird.
And I didn't want to annoy him because he was talking to the intern.
So finally, I was like, I don't really want to bother you, doctor.
But my tongue is now the size of a loaf of bread.
And the doctor's like, wow, I think she's an anaphylactic shock.
We'd love to give you something, but Epi wouldn't be good for you.
You just had a heart attack.
I almost died trying to eat healthy in ICU. So that'll tell you a little bit.
But initially I ate like twigs.
You know, when you first have a heart attack, you're terrified.
You come home, you do everything they said.
I went to the internet and I looked up where Bill Clinton did that weird diet and I went on that diet.
Basically impossible, in my opinion, to survive.
I did that diet for a couple months.
I went vegan for a couple months.
I tried all of the, you know, promoted, sellable.
It just couldn't do it.
I couldn't do it.
And that's exactly right.
It just didn't work.
Never.
And you had to look into something that was a little bit more definitive.
And like you said before, this is the most underutilized option.
Surgery was the right choice for Rosie.
What is it about the cravings that change?
And that's the part of this puzzle that I think a lot of people don't appreciate.
The good thing about the vertical sleeve gastrectomy is that it removes about 80% of the stomach.
So that new stomach matches your metabolism.
And that's very good for you.
But the other more important thing that I'm probably more excited about is that 80% removes hunger hormones in the body.
And without the hunger hormones, you don't get those cravings.
You don't go looking for that large popcorn, right?
And it makes diet and exercise work without a struggle.
A lot of people are just so frustrated day to day.
They fear food.
They just feel like they're on a treadmill and not getting anywhere.
Well, I felt like it was controlling my life food.
You know, like I'd wake up and I'd think, oh, what am I going to eat?
You know, Dr. Trivedi asked me if I was hungry or ever felt full.
I never felt either.
I was just constantly kind of grazing and eating.
Never felt hungry or full.
Not really.
I didn't pay attention to my body.
I didn't pay attention.
I almost, like, numbed it.
It's a little bit like armor, right?
You use it for armor to get yourself bigger, to move yourself away from people, from intimacy.
So, you know, I think I never felt it.
I was never in touch with my body.
I was never in my body.
Rosie, there are a lot of folks sitting at home right now thinking this is, you know, a magic pill.
It's a simple solution.
What do you have to say to them?
Well, it's not a magic pill at all.
It's a tool that will help you.
And I can't even explain to you how different my life is and my brain is in terms of my relationship to food.
I go to the movies now.
I don't even feel the need to get anything.
And I'm not like willpowering my way.
My body is not telling my brain that I'm hungry, so I'm actually not.
I'm not actually thinking about food.
Now, that's very strange for me.
It's a whole new way of living.
Well, it's done remarkable for you.
You're going to stick around.
Yes.
We'll talk about a lot more stuff.
Dr. Trivedi, thank you so much for joining us.
Up next, Rosie tells us about the one big issue she has with being thinner.
We'll be right back.
Woo!
Rosie's decision to get healthy and change her life.
I'm working on it.
I go to a lot of therapy.
And the unexpected emotional challenges she faces being a thinner person.
It's not like all of a sudden you lose the weight, nothing's wrong.
You know, it doesn't work that way.
Next.
Are you angry, lonely, or seeking comfort?
We decode the secret language of cravings.
The salty, crunchy cravings, that's a huge one.
And reveal what it says about your emotions.
All new Oz.
That's coming up on Monday.
We're back with my good friend Rosie O'Donnell who has been telling us about the weight loss surgery that's helped her lose more than 50 pounds following her serious heart attack.
I gotta say, I'm proud of you sharing it, and I'm proud of you for doing it.
Thank you very much.
Thanks a lot.
I'm proud of you too, actually.
So we talked a little bit about the physical stuff.
Right.
But what I've always loved about you is the way you connect the emotions of this challenge.
Right.
If you don't mind, educate us.
What changes emotionally when you lose the weight?
What's good and what's bad about it?
Well, one of the bad things, I think, is that you can't really see it.
I mean, until I see a photo of me when I was 240, I don't realize that I'm thinner.
Like, when I just look at myself in the mirror, and that's body dysmorphia.
It comes with a lot of people who are heavy, and you can distort your brain into not noticing how big you're getting.
And so that's one thing that's kind of interesting.
The other thing is...
You know, about two months ago on The View, I wore a dress, right?
Kathy Griffin's mother, Maggie, doesn't like the way I dress.
So she's 94, and she told Kathy, make Rosie dress up like a nice Irish girl in a blue dress.
So I did, right?
And a lot of people reacted.
And believe it or not...
I found it very emotionally jarring to me.
Like, everybody was like, oh, you look great, you look great.
And I didn't like the attention.
Now, a lot of times when people put on weight, there are reasons.
There are emotional reasons as well.
You know, I was a kid who survived child sexual abuse.
And a lot of women who are obese have survived sexual abuse.
You distort your body.
To make it undesirable because you're a child and you want to be safe and you don't know how to get the words out.
So without all that armor that I had put on to defend myself, I do find myself feeling more vulnerable and I do find myself a little bit unnerved by the attention I'm getting for being thinner or looking better.
And I know that that's weird and a lot of people are like, only you can make it into a negative.
I'm not making it into a...
I'm just telling you the truth.
It's not like all of a sudden you change and boom, you lose the weight, everything's fine, you got on a size 10, life is great, you're having amazing sex, nothing's wrong.
You know, it doesn't work that way.
So all of the stuff that you carry with you as a heavy person in the world will still be there when you're a thin person in the world.
So it's not really about...
How you look, it's about your health.
And whenever I get nervous or feel unnerved, you know, once when I was younger and I had tried to lose weight, I was down to probably my thinnest in my adult life, like maybe 170, 160. I stopped at a gas station on the way to the improv to do a gig.
And I was at self-serve, but the two men Who were around my age, in their 20s, came out and pumped the gas for me.
Now, they were very nice.
They were very handsome.
They were sweet.
And they said, you know, want to meet us afterwards?
We're going to go hang out and see this band.
And I said, okay.
And I took their card and I went in my car and I stopped at Baskin Robbins on the way to the improv.
And it was the first time I had cheated in six months.
And at the time, I kept eating it, I didn't even relate the two.
But after all the therapy I've been through, I understand that getting attention that I didn't instigate.
If I ever wanted to get someone's attention, I would just be funny.
Then no matter what size I was, people would look and they would be like, oh, she's funny.
I'm going to engage with her, right, in some way.
But I didn't like people choosing to engage with me because of what they perceived to be a beneficial look, right?
I'm working on it.
I go to a lot of therapy.
I watch a lot of self-help shows.
But how do you deal with the vulnerability?
The self-help teaches you some, but ultimately it does expose you.
Yes.
And I do feel vulnerable.
You know, I do feel much more vulnerable than before.
And it's funny because my doctor, my cardiologist said, you know, we'd like you to lose about 15 or 20 pounds more if you could.
And already when they bring in a size medium at The View, I'm like, is this for me?
This is for me?
Like, I'm used to a double XL. So when I put on a medium, it shocks me for a little bit.
I don't know if I could get down 15 or 20 pounds more, but we'll see.
Every time I get weighed in, I'm down.
I'm not as steadily or quickly going down maybe as other people have, but it's a pace that my mind and my soul and my spirit can accommodate.
I think any quicker than this would have been traumatic for me.
Do you think you're a beautiful woman?
No, but I like when my kids tell me I am.
But I don't think that.
But I think that I'm working on that.
I think you are.
Wow.
Back at you, Dr. Oz.
I really do.
It always pains me when I see women not appreciate that in themselves.
You articulate this so beautifully.
You say it so much better than I could ever say because you've been there, you've lived there.
I just want people to process this because it's going to change a lot of lives today.
Now this HBO special you did is a remarkable piece of work.
Thank you.
There are some unique experiences that you get to have.
This is a very, very good investment of your time.
I love the fact Shockingly, that you can take the warning signs of a heart attack, for example, and make it something fun in a way that is very memorable.
Just take that one example.
There's so many others I could pick, but just take that one example, if you don't mind, and share it with the audience.
Right.
Well, you know, after my heart attack, I wanted to do a public service announcement and say, like, here are me and all the other women who've had heart attacks, and a few of the famous women who have had heart attacks didn't want it to be public.
Because people still are stigmatized.
They feel it's a male disease, or they feel, I don't know why they feel that, but I wanted women to know the signals and know the signs that are different than a male heart attack, so I tried to come up with an acronym, and I made one, and it's HEP. What?
Yeah, HEP. What does it stand for?
Hot, Exhausted, Pain, Pale, Puke.
Hot, hotter than you've ever been in menopause.
Pain, and for women, this is the tricky one.
It can be anywhere.
Hot, exhausted.
Sorry, I forgot the E. Very tired.
P, pain in your neck, in your jaw, in your chest, in your tongue, in your shoulders, in your arms, or in your back.
My pain, Mehmet, was only in my biceps.
So I didn't think it could be a heart attack, right?
Yeah, of course.
So I made up a little song, like, I think they should do a little rap with, like, Nicki Minaj and maybe Beyoncé, like, boom, boom, boom.
Okay, it'll be like this, like, hot, exhausted, pain, pale, puke.
Say what?
Say hot!
Exhausted, a pain, pale, puke.
Do it up, do it hot!
Exhausted, a pain, pale, puke.
That's it, that's hot!
Rosie O'Donnell.
Who's at Conventry?
A heartfelt stand-up premiere tomorrow night on HBO.
Check it out.
We'll be right back.
Next, unlock the secrets to an ancient technique to maximize your health.
Learn how harnessing the energy in your environment can banish your stress and ailments.
Create harmony in any home with furnishings and color, and bring balance and health to your life, next. - You've probably heard me talk about feng shui.
Well today, we're unlocking the secret of another ancient technique that can harness the energy in your surrounding environment.
Whether it's your home or your office, it can help you maybe maximize your health.
It's called vastu.
Could it help banish your stress?
It's said to be the basis for Feng Shui.
Originating in India, the ancient practice of Vastu focuses on bringing health to your body through your environment.
It all boils down to the four elements.
Fire, water, air, and earth.
And the benefits they are said to bring when utilized in specific areas of your home.
Vastu practitioners believe if any of these elements are out of balance, you can experience disharmony and put yourself at risk for disease.
Today, how to make easy changes to your home that can create harmony between the four elements of Vastu.
Reduce your stress and improve your health.
Joining me are Dr. Khuri Chowdhury, an expert in Ayurvedic medicine, and Michael Mastro is an architect specializing in Vastu.
So, Michael, I'll start with you.
A lot of folks have heard of Feng Shui.
It's something that, you know, has become more common recently.
But Vastu, that's foreign.
I've never heard of it before today's show.
Please compare them.
Vastu is the mother of Feng Shui.
It's actually much older.
Both Feng Shui and Vastu aim at keeping energy flowing in your residence because when energy gets stuck, it creates stress.
Personally, I've had better experience with Vastu than Feng Shui.
Vastu is like yoga for your house.
It reduces the stress in your home and office so that you can tap into your full potential.
So, Dr. Chowdhury, you're a physician, but you specialize in Ayurvedic medicine, so you have a pretty open mind.
Were you skeptical at all when this concept of Vastu was presented to you?
The idea that they could help organize your health, deal with your stress?
I was.
And even though Vastu is a sister science of Ayurvedic medicine, I felt like, how could this possibly have such a big impact on your health?
And I knew that it helped with relationships and careers, but then I had this subset of patients and they were doing everything right.
And we were able to get to a certain point, but never beyond that.
So I asked Michael to come in and he went to their homes and changed some things around.
And lo and behold, they started getting more progress.
So now I'm a believer.
So I want to share some of these insights without having to force Michael to make house calls all over the country.
Here's the basic tenet of this.
There are four elements used in Vasto.
There's fire, there's water, there's air, and there's earth.
And these all, in Vasto, correspond to specific areas in the compass, your compass direction.
So you actually look at your house and figure out where's north and south and east and west.
Elements have to be appropriately reflected in these different spots.
We're going to go through this pretty carefully.
Dr. Charity and Michael Mastro are going to show us how to align these elements.
And if you do it correctly, you can make any home harmonious, balanced, and healthy.
That's the promise.
And you say it's simple to do, too?
Yes.
Okay, come on over here.
We're going to start in the northwest part of your home.
This is the part of the home that's correlated with air.
So think about that.
You don't have to memorize it.
We'll have this all on DrOz.com.
But think about the northwest part of your house.
Air and health.
How do they correlate, Dr. Kachoudhury?
So in the body, air is the element that's represented by the nervous system in the mind.
So imbalances in the air element can result in things like sleep disorders, anxiety, and depression.
Michael, there's air everywhere.
It's in the studio, it's in every office, it's in every home.
How do you figure out how to deal with a blockage and specifically focus it in the northwest part of the house?
So if energy is getting stuck in the northwest, your relationships can suffer a little bit.
There can be more stress in the relationships.
So there's some simple things you can do by adding wind chimes.
Soft blue colors, mobiles, pictures of sky and clouds.
These can all help support your relationships in the northwest area of your house.
Literally, you put it in the northwest corner of the home of the office.
If you divide the house in four equal squares, the northwest area, anywhere in that area.
Okay.
Next is the northeast.
This is the direction that's associated with water.
Dr. Charly, how does the imbalance of water impact on our health?
So water is really important for removing obstacles in the body so that there's proper growth of the tissues and removing waste products.
So the reproductive system, the urinary system, and the lymphatic system are all elements of the water in our body.
So when there's an obstruction to this, it actually prevents removal of waste products and this prevents proper growth of tissues.
Michael, water is usually in bathrooms and kitchens.
If you don't have one of those in the northeast part of your house, what are you going to do?
So you can add things like a fountain or pictures of rivers or streams or the ocean.
You can add soft yellow colors.
These all help support the water element in the Northeast, which has to do with growth and prosperity in your life.
Alright, let's go to the Southeast now.
This is associated with fire.
Which is something in Ayurvedic medicine that has a very specific meaning.
Yeah.
It's one of the most important parts of your body.
It's your digestive system.
And it's also linked to problems with energy.
So, for people who have fatigue and are chronically complaining that they just don't have as much energy as they want, they typically have digestive problems.
And issues like fluctuating blood sugar levels and food allergies are also linked to the fire element.
Once again, if you don't have a fireplace or if your kitchen is not in the southeast part of your home, what can you do to align these energies better?
So you can balance the fire element in the southeast area of your home by adding candles or a Himalayan salt lamp which really purifies the atmosphere.
You can add pictures of desert scenes and soft warm colors like rose and accent with red colors.
These all will support better health and digestion and energy in the southeast area of your house.
Alright, now the southwest, last dimension we haven't encompassed anyway, we haven't addressed.
This is all about earth.
In your practice, what does it mean if our earth element is out of means?
It's out of whack.
If it's out of whack, we see things like lower back pain or constipation.
And what we actually do is add more earth into the body.
And a simple remedy is just eating more fiber.
Michael, how can we better align our energies?
So the Earth element in the Southwest has to do with how you support yourself.
It has to do with your career, your life purpose, whether you're moving forward or not.
And if you feel blocked in that area, you can add things like plants and soft warm Earth colors like taupe and things like that, pictures of mountains, all of that will help support that earth element in the Southwest.
It's called Vastu Architecture, as we called it on DrRoz.com.
Check it out for all this information.
Share it with your friends.
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We're ranking the top three superfoods that can help you cut your risks of cancer.
The best cancer-fighting foods Dr. Oz wants you to eat every day.
Coming up next.
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Here's a question for everybody.
If I asked you to name a cancer-fighting food that I love, what would be on your list?
Throw them out there.
Name.
Cashew.
Cashew, broccoli, blueberries.
We have the smartest audience.
You got them all.
You got them all.
I heard them all already mentioned.
I'm so proud of you.
But here's what we're going to do.
I'm going to rank them.
I'm going to give you my list of the best cancer-fighting foods.
I want you to eat these things every day.
My criteria for how I pick them.
They're going to be backed by science, inexpensive, and easy to find.
So, ready for the rankings?
Yes.
All right.
Number three on my cancer-fighting food list is actually a spice.
Someone on this side of the audience said it was turmeric.
How many of you have never tasted turmeric?
A lot of non-taste.
Come join me, man.
You should have put your hand up.
I love this outfit, but where are you from?
Philadelphia.
Philadelphia?
Yes.
They dress like that in Philly?
Yeah.
I'm from Philadelphia.
You know what I know dressed like that.
No.
Try it.
Turmeric, you ever heard of it?
I've heard of it, but don't know much about it.
What's your first name?
Sarah.
Sarah.
Okay, Sarah.
So I'm going to teach you a little bit about it.
When you think about a spice fighting cancer, what goes through your mind?
No spices that come to my mind, but more blueberries and walnuts and strawberries, more of the fruits.
I heard of them.
That whole row with you over there was yelling all those out.
We're all about it.
And they work.
But the thing about turmeric is you can add it to lots of different foods.
So I'm looking for easy ways of incorporating these into your life.
That's what I'm looking for.
There's a ton of science around this, and it's shown that it helps prevent the development of cancer, helps prevent the growth of cancer, and the spread of cancer.
And what I'm really excited about is there are 20 trials.
Think about this.
20 clinical trials that doctors are doing testing the powerful cancer-fighting properties.
So, I want you to give me a chance of helping addict you to turmeric.
Okay.
So, take a taste of this.
I added this to quinoa.
Okay.
But this is quinoa with a little turmeric added.
Okay.
And, of course, that's curcumin is the raw material.
Okay.
Just an okay, or is...
No, it's good.
It's actually good.
It's very mild.
I thought it'd be a little bit more spicy.
It could have been.
I was taking it easy on you.
Well, thank you for being nice.
And I told Dr. there are wonderful restaurants that actually have, Indian restaurants all have turmeric in many of the dishes.
And it's pretty easy to incorporate into your life.
What I can do is get three teaspoonfuls of turmeric into your daily life.
This is what they do in India routinely.
Great.
Thank you very much.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
All right.
Number two in the rankings is actually a fruit, and it comes from a world expert in cancer-fighting foods, Dr. William Lee.
Take a look.
Strawberries are one of my all-time favorite cancer-fighting foods.
The tartness comes from a natural cancer fighter called elagric acid that starves cancer cells by cutting off a blood supply.
Studies have shown that eating strawberries can reduce lung cancer risk by about 20%.
And in the lab, elagric acid can also kill Just two or three strawberries a day can help cut your cancer risk.
It's pretty easy to do.
And finally, the number one food on my list is a vegetable that I heard a lot of people bark out there.
It's broccoli.
But I'm going to teach you something about broccoli you probably didn't know.
It's associated with up to a 30% reduced risk of lung and colon and breast cancer, some of the worst cancers.
And here's the big question.
What part of the broccoli It's supposed to be eaten.
How many of you eat most of the flour, this top part of the broccoli, and you sort of throw away the stem, the bottom part?
Put your hands up.
The flour lovers.
Say about half the audience.
Here's the fact.
It turns out that the stem is actually double the benefit when it comes to fighting cancer than the flour.
It's the better part.
So what I like to do, and you want to get about a cup of raw or about half a cup of cooked broccoli, is I take the stem and I skim off the outside because it's a little bit hard, but the inside is juicy and plump.
It tastes so good.
If you taste it, you'll be addicted to it.
That way you get all the cancer benefits.
You don't throw any of the broccoli away.
Now all three of the foods I talked about today ought to be on your weekly shopping list.
It'll change your life for the better.
We'll be right back.
Next, we're combating gravity and arming ourselves with muscle with easy at-home workouts for your arms.
Say goodbye to those flabby chicken wings.
The battle to be lean and toned is over, and you don't even have to go to the gym.
Next.
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All month long we are featuring the best workouts to help you reach your weight loss goals.
Woo!
Now, every time I do a segment on arm workouts, women are always asking, I think, get rid of their chicken wings, these little bat wings down here, the flabby part of the triceps.
And today, we have an all-star trainer with three at-home workouts for your arms.
Fitness guru Kira Stokes is here.
Hi.
What parts of the arm are we working out today?
So today we're going to work out the tricep, and the tricep makes up two-thirds of your upper arm, right?
So there's three heads to your tricep, hence the word tri.
You have a ponderously large triceps, by the way.
Look at this.
Yeah.
Thank you.
Well, I think thank you, right?
So it's the short head here is the one that's more visible, right?
Then you have the medial head in between, and the long head, which is the part that when you wave, and you're waving at your friends, and it maybe continues to wave, and it freaks you out a little bit, and that's what we're going to work on.
And why is it that this is a problem for women as they age?
What changes?
Gravity sets in.
Like every part of our body, you gotta fight it, right?
And you fight it with strength training, and the tricep, you gotta nail it and hit all three heads, right?
So, I'm gonna teach you how to do that.
Here's what we're gonna do, everybody.
She's got an easy at-home workout guaranteed to tone your arms, and I'm asking the front row of the audience, how about you guys there?
You six here, come on up.
You should never sit in the front row of a show like this, because you get called on.
Are you ready to sweat a little bit?
Are you worried about your arms a little bit?
No one has a sleeveless shirt on to show them off here, huh?
All right.
We'll show off for you.
I'll get one of these looks.
Thank you.
All right.
Now, walk me through it.
Start us off.
So the first exercise we're going to do is a tricep extension.
So you're going to grab your weights.
So everybody grab your weights with a chair.
Good.
So this is a pretty simple one.
You can do this at home.
You don't have weights.
You can use soup cans, anything with a little weight.
You're going to bring the weights overhead and together.
So at this point, I want you to tuck your tailbone and dry your navel in, rotate your elbows in, and extend all the way back so the weights touch in between your shoulder blades and then all the way up.
So straighten your arm out completely.
So I want you to bend and extend.
So you're straightening your arm out completely every single rep.
So you feel right here, Dr. Oz, the long head of your tricep.
Ladies, do you feel it?
God, it feels long today.
Right the back of your arm, right?
Then to make it a little more intense right here, check this out.
Bring the weights to touch your shoulder blades and now pulse halfway up to my hands.
So watch Dr. Oz.
He's going to...
The forearm up.
Yeah, there you go.
I didn't want you to make chicken wings.
Little pulses right there.
So that makes it more intense.
You change the range, you change the intensity of the exercise.
And now give me five full reps again.
So bring it all the way back, Dr. Oz, all the way up.
Yes, all the way back.
So the key, rotate those elbows in, keep them as tight to the side of your head as you can, and straighten your arm completely every single rep.
Some of those women aren't having problems behind me.
They're killing it back there, right?
They're sweating.
So the elbows are in nice and tight right here.
All the way back, all the way up.
Take your time with it.
How long do we do this for?
Oh, you know, until you can't feel your arms.
I'm there already.
All right, next.
Next exercise.
Let's take the second one.
So I do eight reps, five pulses, five reps again is really great.
Three sets.
Okay.
Okay?
Second exercise, keep your weights.
I want you to roll your shoulders back, hinge forward, stick your butt out.
Flat back position, ladies.
Good.
So keeping the butt, pushing back, core tight, straighten the arm out completely, and then bend at the elbow.
Extend and bend.
So what you're doing here, kickbacks.
Short head of your tricep, that awesome part that sticks out right there.
You want that, right?
It's giving your arm shape.
You want to make sure you're not swinging the weight.
So control it as you bring it in, Dr. Oz.
Yeah, and press back.
A two-second hold.
That makes a difference.
In your contraction.
So now everybody hold it back with that straight arm.
Feel that.
Feel that.
You feel it?
Right?
You gotta feel it to work it.
So that two second hold is amazing.
Right?
And then right there, you can give me those half pulses again.
Tiny bend extend.
Slow it down just a little bit.
Bend extend.
Yeah.
Press out.
You feel that?
Yes.
Right?
And then try four more full reps.
So I always like you to end with those full reps so you lengthen the muscle out again.
You're gonna have ripped arms by the end of this segment right back here, right?
So go for about three more so you should feel that short head.
We like to focus on all those three areas of the tricep.
We got the long with the extension, the short with this.
Right?
And you're done.
Awesome job.
So those are two weighted exercises that are great.
And now we're going to use our chair.
So I want you guys to come in so you all have a chair.
You're going to sit on the chair for a second.
This is your second of rest.
So hands are about hip width right here.
So see how I have my palms, right?
Fingertips turned out a little bit.
You can do this on the couch at home, right?
You can do this off a bench, off a chair, whatever you need to do.
Walk out away from the bench.
So take your body weight off, good.
Now do this with me, guys.
Bring your butt back toward the chair.
Open your chest and roll your shoulders back.
So you have a nice long neck.
Now look straight ahead.
So neutral position with your head and neck.
Like you're going to scratch your back on the chair.
Bend and extend.
You want to lower and bend the elbow so that your bicep and tricep comes parallel to the ground.
Right?
So the closer your butt is to the chair, the better for your triceps.
Right?
So we start to feel it right away, yes?
This is a great bodyweight exercise.
Right?
You can do it anywhere.
This is how I scratch my back in the morning, by the way.
No, excuse me.
You scratch your back.
That's good.
Multitasking, right?
So now come halfway down into your dip and hold it.
We're going to try this.
Shift the weight onto your hands more.
Now pulse right here.
Tiny little pulses.
I knew this was coming.
Oh, yes.
Did you know it was coming?
You guys were smiling earlier.
Yes, I was excited about it.
Good.
So you have five more little pulses.
Four.
Get a little lower, girl.
Get that.
Yeah, three.
Now hold it down.
Stay there.
I can see you.
Push all the way up.
Three full reps.
Bring it down again.
Give me two more.
One.
Give me one more and stand up.
All right.
Listen, this is a fabulous workout.
We're going to make one just for the website you can all take advantage of.
Just what you can do is for a couple minutes every day and get rid of those bat wings, the workout team, and DrRive.com.
We'll be right back.
Thank you.
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Plus, Dr. Oz reveals what to eat when your scale is stuck.
How long has it been stuck like that?
It's been stuck a long time.
A long time.
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Here's something you can say today to impress everyone.
I mean everyone.
Ask them if they have triskaidekaphobia.
Altogether now, triskaidekaphobia.
It means that you're superstitious about the number 13. Is that true for any of you up here?
Oh, we got a bunch of people at 13th.
It's interesting.
In my office building, there's no 13th floor.
That's true in a lot of buildings.
And in some places, Friday the 13th is so synonymous with bad luck that people won't even come to work.
But there's some worse scenarios.
Take a look at this one.
It's a picture of a black cat.
It says, Friday the 13th, the boss sent me home.
I think it's a double whammy, I'd send him home too.
I also thought, it's true, that if a bird poops on your head, it turns out that it's actually, all the bad luck around is disappearing.
It means that you're pretty lucky.
Well, look at this little kid.
He's one lucky fella.
Pigeon pooping on his head.
Well, you're all in luck, too, because it's time for in case you missed it.
First, I want to talk to you about something I want you to try at home.
It's a great triceps workout.
It's all part of my Fitness February showdown.
You can find all the workouts on dros.com.
And finally, how can one little houseplant improve your health?
It's all about the ancient practice of vastu.
Think of it as an Ayurvedic Feng Shui.
According to the Vastu tradition, a plant adds an earth element to your home, and it can lead to success in all your endeavors.
There are some doctors who are actually using this when other things aren't working to help folks out deal with their stress.
Who wants to take this plant home?
You know, I'm giving all these away.
I enjoy so much having you here.
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