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Tired All the Time? Dr. Oz Reveals the Adrenal Fatigue Solution | Dr. Oz | S7 | Ep 33 | Full Episode
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Today on The Dr. Rouse Show.
Tired of being tired?
We're tackling one possible reason that you are so wiped out.
Your hormones could be to blame.
We're going to give you a plan to help ease your exhaustion from a doctor known as the hormone whisperer.
Plus, binge watching is America's favorite pastime.
I don't leave the house all weekend.
See how to put all those hours on the couch to good use.
I've got the strategies you need to know.
Coming up next.
We'll save lives today.
We'll save lives today.
We are great to get healthy!
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
Exhaustion.
Get comfortable.
Don't exhaust yourselves.
We're talking about exhaustion today.
We feel it chronically in America and we're often at a complete loss to pinpoint the exact cause.
But what if I told you your hormones might be to blame?
Today, we're tackling one possible reason that you are so wiped out.
It's called adrenal fatigue.
So, here's what we're doing today.
We're going to talk about this adrenal fatigue.
What is it?
Could you have it?
And today, we're going to give you a plan to help ease your exhaustion from a doctor known as the hormone whisperer.
Then, sticking with that theme, we're turning to what you do when you feel like you just can't get off the couch.
And frankly, it's become America's new favorite pastime.
I'm talking, of course, about binge-watching television.
You all do that?
Binge television?
Yeah!
Heard that most Americans these days seem to be doing it.
We've got a Dr. Osso social experiment that reveals how to make binge watching actually healthy for you.
And should you be Facebook friends with your boss?
Intriguing concept.
You're not sure, are you?
It's a question I've been asking my staff and they've been asking me.
And today, I want to hear from you.
Thumbs up or thumbs down.
I'm befriending your boss on Facebook and other social media.
But first, I put a call out looking for the most exhausted women in America.
You tweeted, you emailed, you even left me voicemails, and man, you did not hold back.
Frankly, it made even me tired.
You shared your stories from all over the country.
Some of you got in touch via Twitter, others through Facebook.
You emailed, and you even submitted videos.
We narrowed it down to the fatigued final three, who are here today.
Hi, Dr. Oz.
I'm a people pleaser.
I drive everywhere, I pick everyone up.
I cook dinner every night.
I feel like I do everything.
I only get four to five hours of sleep at night.
I am just so sluggish during the day.
It's so hard for me to get out of bed in the morning for work.
My days consist of anywhere between eight to sixteen hours a day, two to three days out of the week.
And when I get two days off, I'm not getting out of bed until 2 or 3 o'clock in the afternoon.
I'm always tired, so I need your help.
How do I work out, have the energy to do everything else that I'm supposed to do, and feel good and not bad?
You asked, and we're here with an answer.
So we've narrowed all of our submissions.
There are quite a few of them down to three finalists who are here today, Allison, Debbie, and Simone.
They are perhaps the most exhausted people in America.
So Allison, describe what it feels like to be one of those most exhausted people.
I'm always tired.
In fact, I'm run down right now.
I got a cold because my life is like a roller coaster.
It never stops.
I get up.
I have my kids.
I have work.
I work out.
I work in the music industry, so a lot of my work is at night.
I go back to work at night.
I mean, it's nonstop.
It's constant.
And Debbie, what is causing all your exhaustion?
Me, I'm a people pleaser.
I'm constantly doing everything for everybody else and nothing for me.
I start early in the morning, I end up late at night, and when I try to go to sleep, I can't because I'm worrying about what I need to do the next day.
Well, you have a very pleasing face.
Thank you.
We're not wiping you out at the same time.
Simone, what stresses are exhausting you?
Oh, man.
I'm going to sleep late, and when I start to get hungry, I get these headaches.
I'm feeling really sluggish.
And then when I eat, I feel good.
And then 30 minutes later, I'm just ready to crash all over again.
And I just want to stay in bed for four or five hours.
And it's a constant routine, but I kind of love it, but I know it's bad.
Well, I hear you loud and clear.
In fact, I've been hearing you guys for a while.
These are very, very common, each of your complaints.
There's so many others, I can give you a whole, you know, litany of them.
Here's the fact.
We've got answers to your exhaustion today.
Joining me is naturopath doctor Natasha Turner, who's been studying the effects of your hormones on your body for the past 20 years.
You say, Natasha, that you see women like this all the time in your practice.
They all have slightly different stories, but they're all seem to be describing the same syndrome.
Absolutely.
I see it so commonly.
And this is something that doesn't develop overnight.
It takes years of chronic stress, chronic multitasking, putting extra demands on your body to increase levels of cortisol, your long-term stress hormone.
And eventually what happens is your body just cannot keep up with the demands.
So this is a late stage condition.
And this is when you start to get all those symptoms like low blood sugar, Fatigue, dizziness, problems with your sleep, problems with your mood, your focus.
It's really important to try and recuperate and regenerate, not over-stress and keep over-stressing your body.
So this guy is called adrenal fatigue.
I'm going to explain what the adrenal glands are.
You get the taste, not taste.
You'll taste the passion I have for them.
Because it's a very small little gland, but you hear the word a lot.
So I want you to understand it.
But first, I want to make sure you're clear on what kinds of symptoms you can cause.
Not just for the three of you, but folks all over America.
So Dr. Turner says there are three signs that your adrenals are overwhelmed and might be causing your exhaustion.
And I'm going to be clear about this, everybody.
Doctors should be looking for other sources of problems, other hormonal problems.
Thyroid issues are a good example.
Don't just throw yourself into the dungeon of fatigue.
There are things that we can help you with.
But let's start with and focus on adrenals today.
The first sign that you might have adrenal problems is you wake up feeling hungover almost every day.
That's me.
But have you been drinking the night before?
No.
I almost wish I was because this would be fun.
This is worth it.
Exactly.
Okay.
So, second item is you have this sort of fog-like state in your brain.
Yeah.
Do you ever feel that?
Oh my God, all the time.
You're in a cloud.
Why does that happen?
You can't focus.
You can't remember.
You might have difficulty concentrating, reading, sometimes even watching movies.
And again, it's because of the hormonal changes that have happened in your state.
And the last sign, it's a very important one, is you feel lightheaded when you get up too quickly.
You also sense that sometimes?
That just happened to me yesterday.
I stood up and I felt like I was going to faint.
Oh, sorry.
For me, that's a huge sign.
You know what?
I take a blood pressure on every single one of my patients in the office.
I have them lie down and I take the blood pressure and I have them stand up and I take it again.
So that lightheadedness, dizziness, is because your blood pressure is falling when you stand up because your adrenals are tired.
So naturopaths like you call this adrenal fatigue syndrome the 21st century stress syndrome.
Yes.
You're equating them.
But folks don't even know where their adrenals are.
No, they're two little glands that sit on top of your kidneys and they help you adapt to everything that you deal with on a daily basis.
But if you multitask, if you don't sleep enough, if you do everything for everybody else and you never take care of yourself, eventually your body just cannot keep up and you can no longer adapt to most of the stressors of a normal daily life.
So little things.
So hop over there.
I've got an organ there.
Put the purple gloves on, but don't touch anything.
I'll be there in one second.
Let me show you all where these adrenal glands are in the body.
I thought I'd use a cartoon, you know, push it.
Push it real good.
You guys can dance to this as your own.
But the kidneys, you notice they get a lot of blood from the major blood vessels in the middle of the belly.
These are right beneath your rib cage.
And on top of the kidneys, which of course need a lot of blood because they're making all the urine for you, there are these two little glands.
They look like dunce caps, those little fat pads there.
But they have a ton of blood going to them as well.
So they can titrate at very low doses, the amount of hormones you have.
And they actually do keep making the cortisol, for example, but they can't keep up sometimes when we're overwhelmed.
So let's talk about what these actually look like in real life and what you can do about it.
Did you get your purple gloves on?
Yes.
You left none for me?
That's okay.
Keep it on.
Here's what they look like.
So feel that.
Someone should describe that.
Go ahead, Simone.
What does that feel like to you?
It feels really, really mushy.
Mushy, soft?
Soft, like oatmeal.
It looks like oatmeal.
Are you hungry?
I'm always hungry.
Go ahead, I always feel that.
So notice how small it is.
I stretched it out, and it looks literally like fat.
If it was fat in your body, you wouldn't be able to tell the difference.
But the reason that it's soft is it's full of glands, and blood goes in there.
Blood's, of course, not there now, so it feels mushy.
But when you're in constant fatigue, this gland is trying to make as much of the hormones as you need as possible.
But when you're always in the fight-or-flight state, it gets overwhelmed.
It's tiny.
Yeah.
It really is a very small little structure.
You got two of them, frankly, but neither one of them that big.
And so you end up falling behind.
So I want to show you why it is that doctors like Dr. Turner believe that the inability of this little gland to keep up might be causing your exhaustion.
But to do this, you have to do something that actually is going to require a fair amount of physical activity.
Are you guys strong enough to do this?
Sure!
Drop the purple gloves, you won't need this.
And Simone, come on over.
Actually, you know what, I'll take Simone, you two wait up here.
So here's the deal.
The cortisol that's produced by the adrenal glands is responsible for giving the body lots of energy.
So you and I are going to replicate what happens when the body's working normally, what it's supposed to do, and then what happens when we fall apart.
So pick up the ropes.
Here we go.
These ropes, you play with these in the...
The playground sometimes, are gonna represent the amount of hormone that we're making.
So when you first get up in the morning, what's supposed to happen is your body gives you a big surge of this hormone, so you can get going and get to do things.
So let's say it's 6 in the morning, ready?
Big bump, like this, whoa, hold on, whoa, that's it.
That's what's supposed to happen at 6 in the morning.
And all morning long, it's giving you the hormones you need.
Then around noon, you need to power through the day, your body realizes what's happening, so at noon, give it another big surge, big, right up there, oh!
Hold onto that thing now.
So, that's great.
Now what happens when you get a little bit more fatigued?
Is that around 3 o'clock, you don't get the big jolt.
You get, you know, one of these jolts.
I'm not so excited about life anymore.
I'm getting that mid-afternoon low, but I don't want to go anywhere.
And then by the time you get to dinner time, you're supposed to get another big jolt, but instead you're getting this.
You're not getting much at all.
There's not much happening.
So your hormone levels are staying limp.
Like these ropes, because they can't take you where you want to be.
Wow.
And as you get more and more tired, what happens is you start feeling like that nighttime feeling all the time, which is what we're going to stop.
Dr. Turner, who's most at risk for this fatigue syndrome?
So many women just like you guys.
People who take care of everybody else, who multitask, who skimp on sleep, who over-exercise, don't take care of themselves.
But the good thing is that you can make significant changes in your health in just a few days.
Yes.
Do you want to take these ropes home with you?
I do.
Once you're better, you'll need them.
If you've felt the kind of exhaustion we've just described, then stick around because Dr. Turner has the adrenal repair plan you need to start today.
It's yours.
Coming up next, exhaustion still getting the best of you?
You eat, and yet you still have no energy.
It could be what you're eating and when you're eating.
Find out the best times to have your meals.
Give you a repair plan to reverse your fatigue.
Coming up.
All New Oz.
The women you love are here.
The pioneer woman, Reed Drummond, shares cooking secrets from her ranch.
I've learned these old tricks through the years.
This country mom will have you eating out of her hands.
It sure smells good so far.
Her healthy twist at a classic comfort food.
Plus, you love to eat, pray love.
Now, Elizabeth Gilbert shows you how to live fearlessly.
Make decisions that are based on curiosity rather than fear.
All New Oz.
That's coming up tomorrow.
Today we are talking about adrenal fatigue and naturopath Dr. Natasha Turner says if you follow her plan, you can reverse your exhaustion.
The first step is to watch the clock.
So why is it the time that you eat might be actually even more important than what you're eating?
Dr. Oz, patients who have adrenal fatigue tend to have low levels of the hormones that help stabilize the blood sugar, especially during fasting or in between meals.
So if you pay close attention to the clock, it will allow you to plan what you eat and when you eat.
So, Simone, I asked you to keep a food diary.
Yes.
Were you honest and honorable about it?
I absolutely was.
So, she wrote about the times that she crashed during the day.
Now, you've sensed when this crash is coming out, I understand.
Yes, I absolutely feel it.
It's just crazy.
When I start to crash, I get these headaches.
They're like right here, and then all of a sudden, my vision just becomes really foggy, and I'm feeling really just frustrated and groggy and angry, and I'm getting these little shakes.
Hangry.
And it's just so much and I know that I'm about to crash.
So what is wrong with the way Simone is eating that might be causing her not just to be exhausted but have this hangry sense that you're describing?
Well, I mean it's common for us to experience fluctuations in blood sugar and then naturally you kind of want to go for sugar but that's really the worst thing you could eat at that time because all it does is give you a temporary spike You feel really good for about 20 minutes and then you crash and then you feel foggy and lethargic and tired.
So you get all day long, you get these series of highs and lows and highs and lows.
It's so important instead to think about slow and steady fuel.
So protein, carb, fat, fiber, four times a day.
Walk us through the time issue.
This is really important.
If we figure out the right time to take these foods, we can avoid this adrenal fatigue to begin with.
Come back over here.
So frankly, no matter what you're eating, but especially eating the protein and the fiber that we're talking about, you want to start off, there's two key times.
At 7 and 8, you have breakfast.
At 12 and 1, you're going to have your lunch.
That's sort of typical, right?
That's good.
That's very typical.
Obviously, you want to break your fast, your overnight fast, with protein.
First thing in the morning.
This is the time of day.
I really recommend that you don't have the carbs because you're going to want them later on.
You're going to have more cravings later on, and your focus is going to be so much better if you don't have the starchy carbs like oatmeal in the morning.
And obviously, it's really important to maintain that stable blood sugar.
So at 12 to 1 o'clock, again, you're going to do your protein.
You're going to get your sugar boost, so you feel energized for the whole afternoon.
Okay, great.
Let's move on.
Now it's 4 to 5, the bewitching hour.
What happens?
The bewitching hour.
This is really a crucial time for anyone who has adrenal dysfunction.
This is a really important time of the day to go for something like whey protein.
Because whey protein in particular has a really balancing effect on cortisol.
So I love doing a scoop of almond butter, a little bit of fiber, whey protein, and you just have it in your cup and you add water or almond milk when you're ready.
Shake it, drink it, and you're on to your next meal.
People get exhausted at that time, even if they don't have fatigue syndrome.
Now this is important, 6 to 7. So 3 hours before bedtime, you're going to have a meal.
What's bedtime?
When you get better, it should be 10 o'clock.
Exactly, at least 3 hours.
So what do you do at this hour?
So this is the meal where I want you to have the starchy carbs.
So things like quinoa or sweet potato, about the size of your fist.
It's also about three hours before bedtime.
Now, the reason why you want the starchy carb then is because it boosts the hormones that improve your mood and improve your sleep.
And many people who have adrenal fatigue have problems with mood and they have problems with sleep disruption.
So that's a really key time to consume your meal with the right components.
Okay.
But these times are important.
I can honor the cheating of the amount of food, but not the timing of the food.
Okay.
I will stick with it.
Thank you.
Debbie.
Now you tell us that you actually have this hangover feeling in the morning, even though you have not been drinking at night before.
Describe the morning routine that you then wake up to.
I wake up at 6 to do everything for everybody before I go to work.
I barely eat.
I sometimes have a cup of coffee if I have time.
Well, we just solved some of the problems there.
But the next tip that Dr. Turner wants us to take advantage of has to do with vitamin C. And she wants some vitamin C at every meal.
And I'm going to run some foods by here that have vitamin C in them because you can find it in so many places.
But why is vitamin C the golden ticket when it comes to stabilizing your adrenals?
The cool thing about your adrenal glands is it's actually the highest concentration of vitamin C in the body.
But when we're under stress, we burn up that vitamin C really quickly.
Within about 20 minutes, we actually see it deplete.
So a lot of us think about daily intake of vitamin C, but I want you to spread your vitamin C out so you get a steady supply to help recuperate your adrenal glands, help maintain a healthy immune system, and help your body adapt to that stress.
So think about a vitamin C source at every meal.
Wow, and I didn't even know that all of these foods have vitamin C in them.
I thought I was just going to have to eat orange.
Bell peppers are super high.
And you can give it to the people you love to take care of, too.
Bill, thank you.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
And finally, Allison, the third of our most stressed women.
Exercise is something that I think you're still into even though you're tired.
Yes, I do.
I exercise whether I'm tired.
It's because it's the only me time, so I really treasure my exercise time.
I feel great while I'm doing it, but then afterwards I'm even more exhausted.
Dr. Turner says the third thing we ought to be adopting is a low-intensity exercise program.
Please advise us why that you feel passionately about that because a lot of physicians will advise exercise if you feel tired because it sort of gets you back on track, but you don't like the high-intensity stuff.
Not when you get to this point of your level of fatigue.
You know what?
I did this myself.
I over-exercised for years.
And the problem is you simply do not have the hormones that your body needs to tap into to help you deal with the stress of exercise.
So things like long-distance running or spinning classes.
These are really intense exercises.
I love my spinning classes.
I know.
I make all my patients stop, honestly.
Because what you're doing is you're dipping into that reserve, right, to help your body get through the stress.
But then you're just depleting it more and more.
What you want to think about is using activities that are going to refill those reserves, so that are not going to make you more fatigue, that you're going to feel better from exercise, not worse.
So things like yoga, walking, like I love walking with weights on my wrists and my ankles, those types of things that are not going to deplete you further.
So if we adopt this plan, how long until we can go back to high intensity exercise or some of the other issues that we've been addressing with these women?
You know, you can really pay attention to how you feel.
Do you still get that dizziness symptom when you stand up?
Do you feel more fatigued after exercise?
If you have those symptoms, you probably are still experiencing problems with your adrenal glands.
But I tell patients, you can change your hormones by your very next meal.
So if you start to adopt these right, the correct eating habits and giving your body a break from the excessive exercise or intense exercise, I think you'll notice a big difference in your energy reserves in a week.
But I really suggest that most people stick with this for at least 30 to 60 days.
Wow.
Thank you for sharing all your wise advice.
I appreciate it.
You can find bonus steps to Dr. Turner's and Gina's repair plan by visiting DrReyles.com.
When we come back, the person who might be causing you your stress and fatigue, it's your boss that's next.
Next, what would you do if your boss requested to be your friend on Facebook?
Even if they're the world's best boss, would you be afraid what they might see?
I test out the idea with my staff.
Would they friend me on social media?
Coming up.
Today's conversation, should you be Facebook friends with your boss, even if they are the world's best boss?
I give these to my staff all the time.
They always use them.
They have no choice.
All right, who has befriended their boss on Facebook?
Hands up there.
Oh, no.
So, be honest here.
You can hold there a second.
Did you do it because you had to, or did you actually want to be their friend?
No, I actually love my boss.
You do?
Yeah, she's really cool.
She's fun to be around, easy to get along with, and...
We're like friends.
We're like almost sisters.
You're just saying that because she can see you now.
No.
Let me ask.
Who has had a problem where their boss wants to befriend them and they're not sure they want to do it yet?
Oh, we have one over here.
Pray tell.
So what happened?
So my boss added me on Facebook.
It took me at least two weeks to finally add him because I was super concerned about why he was doing it in the first place.
But now we're friends, but now I feel pressure to keep things kind of censored a little bit.
And also, part of our job is promotion as well, so I feel like I have to do more promoting to my friends on work about our work.
So it's not quite the same Facebook page.
Yeah, it's not the same anymore.
Have you told them this?
No.
I said, hi!
Now we know.
So who wouldn't accept a friending notice from your boss?
Yes, absolutely not.
Sometime I want to take a day off and call in sick.
I'm at the mall shopping and stuff.
Absolutely not.
And then, guess what?
Oh, you was at the mall.
You're supposed to be sick.
That's the problem.
All right.
Now, I heard rumors that some of you actually have already not done this.
I heard you might be one of them.
What are you afraid that your boss might see if you were to accept their friending request?
Actually, it's not even that I'm afraid.
I love my bosses.
I have a good work relationship.
However, I think I like to keep my private, personal life separate than my work life.
I give all of myself during my work day.
Right.
After work is done, I want that separate life.
So it's a principle.
There was a show one time, someone named George, he didn't want the worlds to collide.
No.
I kind of feel the same way.
Okay, that's correct.
All right.
So here's the thing.
This is all a preamble because I actually was curious about why my staff wasn't accepting my Facebook friendly request.
So follow me up.
Let's go upstairs to the command control to find out what it is about my request that's turning them off.
You haven't met a lot of these people, but you'll find out why I want to keep tabs on them a little bit.
All right.
I'm running off.
Stay with me, guys.
All the way upstairs.
All right.
25. Last reception.
I made it.
I made it up to my staff.
Oh my goodness, so quiet.
So quiet here.
So, Amy, since you run the show here, please hold us.
If I and I have requested you to friend me on Facebook, what is holding you back from saying yes?
We are friends on Facebook, but I'd like you to like the pictures of my kids a little more often.
You must be under an alias.
Stacy, what do you think?
I don't know.
I'm afraid you're going to look at the food I'm eating on Facebook.
Andrea?
I think it depends on your relationship.
Like, Amy and I are friends because we have a shared work history together, so I think it depends on your relationship and your history with somebody.
You don't think I deserve to be able to keep tabs on people I work with so closely and see what they're up to, what time to go to bed at night, and what they're eating?
We are with you too many hours of the day.
When we go home, we want to have our french fries.
Alright, now you see the problem that I have.
What I really want to be able to do is figure out why it is that they're not focusing on everything I'm doing, and I think because many of them are actually binge-watching television, which is coming up next.
I want to find out how hooked everybody is on Binge TV, and is it really good for your health?
That's next.
Stay with us.
Next, it's America's new favorite pastime, binge-watching TV. I don't leave the house all weekend.
But is all that endless viewing doing damage to your health?
Can't hold it anymore.
Bathroom break.
I'm going to show you how to make it healthier, coming up.
The Pioneer Woman shares cooking secrets from her ranch.
I've learned these little tricks through the years.
Plus, Eat, Pray, Love Author shows you how to live fearlessly.
Make decisions that are based on curiosity rather than fear.
All new Oz.
That's coming up tomorrow.
It is the obsession sweeping our society, the cultural phenomenon we've all become addicted to, binge-watching television.
And now, more than ever, we are hooked.
Nearly 75% of TV watchers binge-watch TV. Three-quarters of us do it.
Which is defined, by the way, binge-watching is watching between two and six episodes of the same TV show in one sitting.
Even I, as busy as I am, have been known to binge-watch things like House of Cards with my wife, Lisa.
I'm going to talk about us and many other couples in a second, but to put our obsession into perspective, it will take you roughly 8 hours and 24 minutes to binge watch Empire.
Because it hasn't been on that long.
But if you wanted to go to House of Cards, a couple seasons there, it's that full day and 11 hours, plus 45 minutes, to binge on House of Cards.
Grey's Anatomy, which we all love, 6 days, 6 days and 20 hours in a row to binge watch Grey's Anatomy.
Now can you imagine sitting in one place for this many hours?
So I wanted to find out why we are so obsessed and what it's doing to our bodies.
Could binge watching even be a good thing?
It's quickly becoming America's new favorite pastime.
Binge watching.
No more waiting around for a new episode.
Now sites like Hulu, Netflix and Amazon Prime are releasing entire seasons at once so you can watch the whole thing in a single night.
And America's appetite for binge watching is growing bigger every day.
A staggering 87% of people who subscribe to a streaming service said they binge watch at least once a week.
I am obsessed with binge-watching Seinfeld.
My favorite show to binge-watch is Modern Family.
I'm obsessed with Orange is the New Black.
I binge-watched The Walking Dead with my husband, and I don't leave the house all weekend.
I can't get enough.
But binge-watching isn't just changing the way we watch television.
It's changing our health.
And not necessarily for the better.
One recent survey of binge-watchers found 37% spent their weekend watching an entire series, and another 31% say they've lost sleep because of binge-watching.
With binge-watchers sitting for an average of three hours at a time, some doctors are starting to worry about an increased risk for heart disease, diabetes, and even cancer, leading to the question TV addicts everywhere need answered.
Could binge-watching actually be hazardous to your health?
For some, it may almost seem therapeutic to binge on TV. So, to find out, I conducted a social experiment to see how many hours of TV watching affects your sleep, habits, your moods, and how you socialize.
Take a look.
Hi, I'm Kyle McBride.
I'm April McBride.
I love my wife.
I'm committed to her.
Been married for 18 years.
But I have this one love affair outside of our marriage.
And it's binge watching.
I'm watching Lost.
Walking Dead.
Game of Thrones.
Under the Doom.
The Killing.
The Following.
Game of Thrones.
Scandal.
How to Get Away with Murder.
Sopranos.
Come on.
Come on.
Breaking Bad.
The Bordes.
Revenge.
Game of Thrones, did I say that?
Sesame Street.
I don't want to watch TV really if I can't binge.
You want to know what happens next.
You gotta know what happens next.
You cannot sleep until you know what happens next.
We absolutely do a full day or two or even a weekend.
Of binging.
Make sure the kids are put down, they've eaten, homework is done.
Get in your relaxed clothes, pajamas, get your snacks.
We sit in our binging chair.
No phone, no kids, no doorbells, no nothing.
It's almost a religion.
In order to see how binge watching affects April and Kyle, I set up cameras so we could see how long they sat on the couch and gave them bracelets to monitor their sleeping habits.
Let's see what happens.
OMG.
Time to break. - Hey.
This is getting good.
Can't hold it anymore.
Bathroom break.
She got away with murder.
Orange is the New Black Season 3. What episode?
I forgot.
I don't think I'm gonna make it.
It's 4am.
We gotta get up in two hours.
After a full night of binging and restless sleeping, I'm ready to see what this means for April and Kyle's health.
So I've got the couple here.
You finally got to sleep and woke up.
April, you say it actually empowers you to have this binge-watching opportunity.
Yes, it does, because when I'm binging, I get to watch what I want to watch, when I want to watch it.
I don't have to schedule my life around when the show actually airs.
Would you ever binge-watch alone?
No.
Rule of thumb, you know, you partner up, get your group.
Oh, you're off the island.
You can't, you can't.
Why do you love watching with other people, with your loved ones or others?
Well, of course, you get immediate feedback, right, of the show.
You get to talk about it, debate about it.
Yes, debate.
Who's going to make it, who's not, who's the killer, who's not.
Right.
OMG moments, as you pointed out.
Yes, the OMG moments.
All right.
Let me give you my take on binge watching.
Muscles are idle for hours.
I saw that in your case.
You guys didn't move very much off that couch.
No.
Just like twice for bathroom breaks.
You're much more likely to stack on too much junk because why not?
It's right there in front of you as you watch.
But as Kyle and April point out, binge watch is also great for getting us to sit together, together, share experiences and all that socializing I like.
So here's the thing.
How do you make binge watching even healthier for you?
I've got the strategies you need to know when we come back.
Later.
Good fats versus bad fats.
There's so much conflicting news.
How do you know what to eat?
Let's say how your favorite fats stack up.
We've got the bottom line on butter and its substitutes.
Which is the best one for your heart and the ones to avoid?
Coming up.
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Did I get it right?
Today we're going to binge watch the Dr. Oz show.
Here with April and Kyle who took part in my binge watching social experiment are Aaron and Lance who also admit to binge watching their favorite shows.
So Aaron, why do you like to binge watch with your husband?
It's one of our favorite things to do.
You know, when he's at work, I'm at home, you know, taking care of the kids and it's our time to bond.
You know, it's like we get to talk about the shows and we get all into it.
We're like, oh my God, that kid happened!
You know, so it's great.
It's so much fun.
So despite your intense desire to watch together, there are some concerns I've always had about binge watching.
It gets a bad rap, but there are some benefits.
Let's talk about those for a second because then we're going to tackle the problems.
First off, it does provide a necessary distraction from difficult times in our lives.
It enhances social media interaction.
We just heard that already from April.
So to both of you, when you're doing this stuff, are you engaging with the people in your life?
Are you talking to your family at all?
April, for example?
Sometimes we bring my daughter in if we're watching something that's age-appropriate.
Like me and her, we're binging on revenge and loss.
So that's a good bonding moment.
How old is your daughter?
She's 16. Oh, 16. 17. Which is like four watching Lost.
Here's how to make your binge watching experience a little healthier.
Rule number one, you gotta build a binge watching fitness plan.
Here's how it works.
For every glass of whiskey you see on Mad Men, you gotta do five jumping jacks.
Every time a character that you adore in Game of Thrones is killed off, Five jumping jacks.
Oh, man.
That's a fair amount of exercise for both those shows.
We're going to start right now on the show.
Every time you hear the word healthy, we're all going to do, let's say, five jumping jacks.
Is that fair enough?
Sure.
Keep in shape.
All right.
So you also want to avoid not to nonstop binge by taking care of your snacks.
So rule number two is to eat on, eat off.
You're going to alternate.
So you wanna, this is a big problem for so many folks, cause that food's right there in front of you, it looks so fantastic.
So when you're eating a healthy snack in one episode, you can alternate and eat an unhealthy one for the next episode.
But I said the word healthy, didn't I? You did!
All right, five jumping jacks, you gotta do it, come on, I'm gonna, I'm talking, I can't do them, one, two, do them all.
Oh, okay, I like that.
Very well done.
So Lance, as you get comfortable, Yeah, you have a healthy snack.
Oh, I said healthy again.
Good job, Kyle.
You don't have to do it every time.
I'll torture them.
Every other time I say healthy again.
Oh, I said healthy.
No, no, no.
Every other time, every third time I say the word, I say that word, you got to do them again.
Snacks, what do you normally have?
Oh, Dr. Oz, I'm bad.
Usually ice cream, cookies, Twizzlers, chocolate-covered raisins.
You really hit the gamut.
Yeah.
All right, so from now on, these are the kinds of snacks I want everyone to have.
You have, you know, chickpeas, which are fantastic.
You can get, you know, sweet potato chips.
You can get frozen grapes.
Literally, these are just grapes put in the freezer, which are better than the ice cream you normally would get.
And those, actually, when you have in the other episode, time frame, you can actually take those in without hurting yourself too much.
Again, making binge a little bit healthier.
When you guys sit for long periods of time, do you ever get sore?
Oh yeah.
So that's what we're going to change also.
From now on, rule number three is tackle the household tasks between episodes.
I don't want you lying like eight hours together as you were.
You sort of melt into the couch when you do that.
So you're going to fold laundry, load the dishwasher.
I want you to have a sense of accomplishment at the end of the day.
Rule number four is keep the remotes.
Out of reach.
So you can actually, and I've been there, literally only move the index finger muscles.
So if you put the index finger a little, you know, kneed a little further away, you have to get up and take those five steps.
You'll keep going.
You'll do the task at hand.
You go to the bathroom.
At least you won't get thrombosis in your veins from lying in the same place for too many hours in a row.
And rule number five is to set an alarm to end the binge.
Like that?
Okay.
This is really important, guys.
Before you start to binge, set that alarm.
I don't care if it's the middle of an episode.
It'll give you something to look forward to next time.
But a harsh end point, 11 o'clock at night, whatever it might be, where you're not going to watch anymore.
You can pick it up the next day at 9 o'clock or whenever you get time.
So what do you think?
That sounds great.
Sounds like a sign.
Sounds good.
Am I taking too much away?
It's a compromise.
It's like marriage, you know?
Healthy, healthy, healthy, healthy, healthy.
As you go out to the bank, up next, good fats and bad fats.
What do you choose?
We'll tell you, and it's next.
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I hear your confusion everywhere I go.
When it comes to good fats versus bad fats, you don't know what to eat anymore.
Who can blame you?
We're caught in the middle of a fat frenzy created by the recent explosion of conflicting news.
I've got two ladies, Adriana and Elizabeth, who've got lots of questions about their favorite fats.
Adriana, you've got the butter in front of you, so what's confusing you about butter?
I love butter, and it is supposed to be bad for me.
But all of the news says that butter's back.
So now I don't know.
Should I eat it or should I not?
A question lots of folks are asking.
Elizabeth, you prefer buttery spreads.
What are the concerns for you?
Well, Dr. Oz, first, I love the creamy buttery taste.
I love the easy way it spreads on everything.
But I did hear that it has a bad rap.
And I want to know if it's good to give my family.
All right, so fair enough.
So let's see how your favorite fats stack up.
So, Adrienne, how much butter do you think you eat in a day?
Maybe two to three tablespoons a day.
All right, so let's just talk about what the appropriate amount is, according to at least the American Heart Association.
They say that a total amount of saturated fat for the day should be roughly about 16 grams or less of the saturated fat.
That's about two tablespoons of butter.
So you're already past it just with the butter, and that doesn't include anything else that you're eating.
Interestingly, the buttery spreads, the same amount, two tablespoons, has only four grams of saturated fat.
So it's much easier to abide by the guidelines that the heart docs have if you eat the buttery spread.
All right, you switched to the buttery spread for, I bet, a bunch of reasons besides taste.
Did calories play into it at all?
Absolutely.
I'm a mom of four, so anything that I could do to...
Lose some type of weight, meaning cut calories.
That's why I changed.
And how much better do you think the buttery spread is than butter when it comes to calories?
Hard to tell.
I'd say...
It is hard to tell.
I mean, it tastes amazing.
Let me help you with this, because it's actually an interesting calculation.
So, how much butter on average does an American eat?
So, is it 10 of those big sticks?
You know?
Is it 15 of those big sticks of butter?
No.
The average American in a year eats 23 sticks of butter.
That much butter.
That, my friends, is a lot of butter.
And that adds up to 18,600 plus calories every year.
So Elizabeth's equivalent amount in buttery spread has only 12,600 calories, plus a little bit.
So it turns out that buttery spreads have 30% fewer calories than butter.
So your decision was a very wise one, if you want to lose calories.
Thank you.
So I applaud you for that, but I've got to say, Even though it has a huge advantage for your weight, that's not the reason that I actually think you're making a wise decision.
Let me show you why I care about saturated fat.
And it all comes down to inflammation.
So inside the heart, you've got these big arteries right in the front like that.
And let's go inside these arteries that are bringing life-nourishing blood to the body.
The blood cells are going through there, but over time, if you get a plaque buildup and you have inflammation, a raging fire, the plaque gets irritated and then it begins to pull apart and rupture like that.
And when it ruptures, now your body's trying to heal that scar, that scab that forms Blocks off all the blood that's passing through the heart.
That leads to a heart attack.
It leads to a stroke.
This is why inflammation is an issue for me.
And the saturated fats in many of the foods we eat, including butter and some of the meats, leads to this kind of a problem, we believe, if you have too much of it.
So there's another kind of fat that I want to talk about called trans fats.
It can also be a problem with this regard.
And it is something that's been in the news a lot.
So let's address this.
Which of these, regular butter or the buttery spreads, has more trans fats in them?
Is that why you're not eating it?
Yes.
Audience, how many people think Adriana is right that the buttery sped has more trans fats?
Yeah.
So most people think they know that.
Although we have the smartest audience in television, it turns out neither of them has any trans fats anymore.
They've been changed.
And you can look in the back.
If you look at them today, they don't have partially hydrogenated vegetables anymore, especially the tub I love good fats.
Obviously buttery spreads have them.
You know I love nuts because they have the healthy fats.
The liquid fats, like in the oils, olive oil as an example, these things in sunflower oil, they have less of these saturated fats.
So they're a good way of getting that buttery taste in your mouth without having to deal with the saturated fat that I was addressing earlier.
So Adriana, the big question for you is would you be willing to switch from regular butter to an alternative?
I'd be willing to try, yeah.
What would you make differently?
Give me an example of a meal that you might use a buttery spread for instead of the regular old stuff.
Oh, I love toast in the morning.
Who doesn't?
Yes, it's so good with coffee.
And I like to cook fish with butter, so I try that.
All right, so I have a deal for you.
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We'll be right back.
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Tomorrow you'll be talking about a two-year-old, Kaya.
This adorable little girl was terrified when she realized she was being followed by something she had never seen before.
Take a look.
Bitch, the shadow tractor now.
Peter Pan was afraid of his shadow.
That video, my friends, is going viral, racking up over five million views in only a week.
So when you hear the adage, afraid of your own shadow, what does that mean to you guys?
Who wants to comment on that?
Go ahead.
It usually refers to someone who is easily frightened or afraid of a lot of different things.
And some folks think it's being afraid of things that don't matter.
Other thoughts on that?
Go ahead.
Ta-da.
In a philosophical sense, it's like being afraid of yourself and not accepting who you really are.
Oh, that's beautiful.
No, that's right.
Being afraid of yourself.
But here's the thing.
I love that saying, and I think it has value, but never forget that being afraid of your own shadow also means you've forgotten something really important.
And I want to constantly remind you all that there's always light around you.
So there's not really a true shadow there.
Thanks for joining us today.
Remember, healthy and happy starts at home.
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