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Mario Cantone & Dr. Oz Tackle Viewer's Embarrassing Issues | Dr. Oz | S6 | Ep 167 | Full Episode
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Next, Dr. Oz.
Funny man Mario Cantone.
Me and my big mouth.
Sharing too much information.
I want to know why don't we wake up in the morning with what they call dragon breath or halitosis.
And other embarrassing over shares.
Jessica writes, I get acne on my butt.
How do I deal with a buttoning?
Talk about embarrassing.
You have personal experience?
Yeah, I've had buttoning.
Coming up next on Dr. Oz.
Today, get ready to hear the most embarrassing overshares you've ever heard.
What's an overshare?
Well, it's defined as an inappropriate amount of detail about oneself.
And to help us get started, someone who will say anything, and someone actually says, may have a big mouth.
I think he might.
Mario Cantone.
Hello, everybody.
Oh, hello.
You too.
How are you?
You're like a Thanksgiving float.
Well, I am.
Me and my big mouth.
Oh, boy, that's a lovely tongue there.
It was really nice.
Did you enjoy that?
All for you.
I did.
It felt like a throne until I really see that I'm inside somebody's set of a mouth.
It's very bizarre.
It's great to be here, Dr. Ross.
I'd love to have you.
I really am happy to be here.
All right, so I brought this out.
I brought this out because I want to know, why do we wake up in the morning with what they call dragon breath or halitosis?
Oh.
Is it called halitosis?
That's a doctor term for it, yes.
The dragon breath flies.
Well, I remember the commercial.
You've got halitosis.
And they'd be like, morning, like the husband and wife were going to make out.
And they were like, morning!
And they couldn't really do it because they smelled like crap.
But do you remember that?
Very well.
So why do we have bad breath in the morning?
I mean, is it worse if you eat uni and caviar the night before?
It's changed a little bit by the stuff in your stomach.
But most people think it's all about their teeth.
So let me, if I can, let me have a little tip.
Can I have a toothbrush back there?
Toothbrush, please.
Yeah.
Go ahead and show me what you do at night when you go to bed.
What do you do at night?
I brush my teeth.
I floss.
And then I use this to play Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer.
What do you want me to say?
So the brushing is smart.
However, hold on a second.
What's really going on in your mouth is this.
Yeah, that's all the food you had.
Oh, I thought it was just green styrofoam.
It's food!
So, it lays out and all those looks and crannies in your tongue, right?
And you're carrying it all night long.
It traps all that stuff, bacteria, and because it's living in your tongue and you're brushing your teeth, guess what happens to this?
It's parting it up in there, having the time of its life.
All night long while you're going...
He's doing that.
In the morning, you get the halitosis.
Right, so it settles in there.
I feel like if Maleficent was a dentist, Let me have a tongue scraper.
I'm going to show you something.
What?
You're going to scrape the tongue?
Yes.
This is what you do?
Here's what you do.
You can use the brush and brush your tongue.
It's better to do it with that.
This is so elegant.
But you've got to be careful, too.
Yes.
Well, you're not brushing.
You're not scraping your teeth.
No, but don't you have to.
Some people...
If you scrape...
Oh, gosh.
That's what it does.
It doesn't do that.
Does it really?
Yes.
You're scraping all the junk out of your tongue.
You know that little white phlegm you get in your tongue?
That coating?
I probably have it right now.
Yes.
- Yes. - Yeah.
- Ah. - All right.
Come on over here.
Now that you've overshared, you want your scepter?
Yeah, that is right.
I like that.
He's got a crown.
He's got a toothbrush scepter.
Oh!
Hello!
Angelique is here.
How are you?
I'm good.
Angelique, welcome to the show.
Thank you.
So I understand you're going to describe an embarrassing situation, and perhaps some might call an overshare, called thigh swoosh.
Have you heard of the thigh swoosh?
I have heard of thigh swooshing.
Please describe it for everybody.
Well, thigh swooshing is when your legs are rubbing together, and it sometimes can cause chafing.
It could be painful, and quite frankly, I may be embarrassed sometimes when I'm wearing shorts, so I try to avoid that.
Yeah, so you see like a little rashy kind of...
Sometimes, yeah.
He has a picture, I think.
Mario brought the picture.
Here's the picture.
Is this your thighs, Mario?
No, that is not my thigh, Dr. Oz.
I'm just asking.
No, it's not.
But guess what you can wear?
You can wear these things.
These are little, like, they're thigh bands.
You have those in your pocket all the time?
I did.
I have them in my pocket all the time.
So bizarre.
Look, you can...
You can put them on, and they, you know, they just don't blister, I guess.
I guess that's what it is.
Are you serious?
Yes, I am very serious.
It's angelic.
It is.
It's very nice.
What do you think about those?
It's soft.
Yeah, they're right.
What do you think?
Would you wear these?
I would.
And I see that it has elastic on here and it can hold onto my thighs.
Sure, absolutely.
So it wouldn't fall off.
You need both pairs.
Thank you.
This is just bizarre.
Thank him for the gift.
Thank you so much.
No!
I want to live!
No!
You can cuff somebody and take them to jail and do a criminal arrest, okay?
Thank you very much, my dear.
Thank you so much.
Our next overshare is an email question.
Jessica writes, I get acne on my butt.
This is what she wrote.
How do I deal with buttony?
So I asked dermatologist Dr. Janine Downey to get to the bottom of this important issue.
Today we're talking about buttony.
That is acne on the buttocks.
Yes, it happens, especially when the weather's hot outside.
It's caused by blocked pores on our rear ends.
That's right, right on our boobies.
We're not supposed to pop them, to scratch them, or to otherwise pick or manipulate them.
In terms of treatment for buttony, you can look to your board-certified dermatologist for a topical antibiotic like clindamycin, If you are having a mild case, you might want to go get a salicylic acid wash from over-the-counter or use a benzoyl peroxide product directly on the areas.
And then a lot of us dermatologists do recommend cornstarch and you need to wear breathable underwear so that the skin down thither can breathe.
Thank you, Dr. Downey.
What do you think about that advice, Mario?
You're not supposed to pop them because they can get infected.
It's not like a zit on your face.
Do you have personal experience with it?
Yeah, I've had button-y.
But, you know, I'm hairy.
I'm Italian.
So, you know, that happens, I guess, when you get hairy cheeks, if you know what I mean.
But, you know, years ago, you know.
Not now.
Of course not now.
No, but people, you know, I mean, you can't, you know, I don't know.
There are people that shave their buttocks.
I'm like, that's ridiculous.
Just let it flow free.
That's what I think.
But I think, you know, if it's not about the hair, it's about dryness.
I think it's about the hair to a large extent.
You got it right.
You think it's the hair?
Yes, it's a big part.
I'm just trying to save the women from embarrassing.
I don't want to say all the women have hairy asses.
That's not what I'm saying.
Speaking of hair, let me move on to Glennis.
She has an embarrassing overshare as well, I understand.
I do.
I have to say that you're very handsome in person, though.
Well, God bless you, Glennis.
Thank you.
Okay, well.
See, I told you.
See, you are.
You are, too.
You are also a handsome person.
He's really, really handsome.
Yeah.
Doctor, the wizard, I love you.
Sorry, it's summertime, and I have this problem on my toes.
I have little fuzz on my toes.
It's like little hairs, and I shave, I pluck, I tweeze.
I even thread them one time, and they just won't go away.
And they're very uncomfortable and very unattractive.
Toe fuzz?
Yeah.
Can I see them?
You want to?
Yeah, do you mind?
I actually brought a little camera so everyone else can see them.
Thank God I did a pedicure.
Right there.
You all see that?
Oh, there's some here, too.
Ah!
The pedicure is beautiful, though.
So how long you've had them your whole life, I gather?
Yeah.
And how long do the hairs themselves get?
They get long enough.
I haven't measured them yet because...
I always cut them before they get very long.
Did you cut them today?
No, I couldn't.
But this doesn't look hairy.
It's not that bad.
My foot looks like King Kong.
Do you find this attractive?
I've got hair on my feet.
Do you like this?
See, I actually personally like toe fuzz.
You like toe fuzz?
I'm about to tell you why.
It actually shows you have good circulation.
It's one of the first things we look for.
No toe fuzz?
Is someone worried about it?
What do you think about toe fuzz?
I've got hairy toes, which means my blood must be pumping a mile a minute.
It's gorging down there.
I love to know that.
I didn't know that, that you had good circulation.
Listen, you'd be very proud of your toe fuzz.
That still doesn't make me want to have them.
I really think we get so hard on ourselves about things that are very natural and very normal and that people who love us don't care about.
Be proud of that TOFAS. Yes!
And you can't see it.
You can't see it.
All right, Mario.
I love having you here.
I love being here.
You've got a big event coming up.
Please explain to everybody.
I do.
You know, I do my one-man show.
I had one on Broadway in 2005. And this is my new one that I'm kind of touring around with.
And I'm playing the Parker Playhouse at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Fort Lauderdale, June 13th.
So please, if you're down there, come out and see us.
I got my band with me, I sing.
Free alcohol!
Oh no, not really.
No, they can drink it.
Thanks for all my guests for oversharing.
Remember, it's important to share even the most embarrassing things with your doctors.
Don't be afraid to overshare, no matter what words you use.
But if you are too shy, check out more embarrassing health questions on DrOz.com.
Be right back.
- I'll be right back. - Hairy Toast! - Thank you, my honor.
Addicted to certain snacks?
Tastes so intense and delicious you just can't eat one or two.
Those natural flavors could actually be artificial.
We're exposing synthetic flavorings in your favorite foods designed to get you to eat more.
Next.
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Have you ever had a snack where the flavor was so intense and delicious you couldn't have just one or two?
Was it those sweet and spicy chips or maybe the honey barbecue?
It could be because of artificial flavors.
Are they the reason you're eating more than you want?
It sounds like science fiction.
Chemists and labs concocting flavors created to entice the tongue and seduce the senses.
To the point of addiction.
Recipes engineered to hook you with artificial flavors that leave you longing for more.
Taste combinations not found in nature that can actually alter your brain's response and your emotions, causing you to crave and crunch again and again.
But there's a darker side to the redefinition of delicious.
Artificial flavors that are heavy on taste but light in nutrients could be contributing to obesity.
Today we ask, could the flavors you crave be compromising your health?
One man says he knows the reason why these flavors are making you eat more.
Mark Schatzker, author of The Dorito Effect, is here.
He went inside one of these flavor factories that food companies use to create their products.
What did you discover there?
So here's how it works.
Very simply, they take real food, grapes, lemons, roast chicken.
They analyze the flavor chemicals that make them taste that way.
Then they produce them in factories and add them to whatever they want.
Could be in soft drinks, could be in potato chips.
This really got going, this technology got going in the early 60s, and it's that cohort that we see as the first spike in the obesity epidemic in the late 70s.
It's only gotten a lot worse, as you know.
The second thing I learned is that the so-called natural flavors that you see on boxes, all natural flavoring, they're every bit as synthetic, engineered, and contrived as artificial flavorings.
Chemically speaking, they're virtually identical.
So how is it that these flavors get us to eat more?
I understand that tasty things are good, but why are the artificial ones even more of a problem for us?
Well, very simply, they make food taste better.
I called my book the Dorito Effect because the very first Doritos, no one knows this, were just salted tortilla chips.
They didn't sell that well.
It wasn't until they flavored them.
The first flavor was taco.
The second one, we all know, nacho cheese.
Made them irresistible.
So the really interesting question becomes, why does flavor have this hold on us?
It's very important.
In nature, flavor is the language of nutrition.
It's how your brain knows where the nutrients are, what food it's like.
The food your brain likes are hooked up with nutrients.
There was a study in the journal Science a few years ago that found that the flavors we most love in tomatoes are all connected inextricably to important nutrients.
We love tomatoes because they're healthy.
But if you then slice off those flavors from the tomatoes, leave all those nutrients behind, and start to put them wherever you want, you create a food that is telling a nutritional lie.
You create food that is more delicious than it deserves to be.
I think we're getting into an eating pattern where we have desires for foods that can't be met by actual food.
One of the hallmarks of food addiction, and this has been measured with functional MRI, is cravings that aren't met by eating.
I think flavors play a huge role in what's gone wrong with food.
So you look in brains with this MRI scanning, you see changes that confirm this?
You see, if you look at the brain of a food addict versus someone with, let's say, normal or healthy eating patterns, The desire on the part of the food addict is crazy.
They crave food.
It's a disease of craving just like alcoholism is, just like drug addiction is.
The problem is when they get the food, it doesn't meet that expectation.
They're constantly let down, so they continue to eat.
One of the most interesting insights is that we all think people who eat too much So-called food addicts just love food too much.
It's actually completely reversed.
They desire it too much.
But people with a healthy relationship to food are probably getting more actual enjoyment from what they eat.
Unbelievable.
So here's the thing.
Mark is arguing that synthetic flavoring has become so potent that real food can't compete.
So before the show, I had everyone in the audience smell two different vanilla extracts.
One real, The other, synthetic.
Then we had everyone guess which was the real one.
So audience, which one do you guys think it was?
A or B? Pretty evenly split.
Let me go through here.
Which one do you think it was?
A. And why?
I thought it was more like an authentic vanilla and then the other one was like too strong.
Okay, so A was more authentic.
I definitely thought B. B, and why?
It smelled more like alcohol, and if you buy real vanilla extract, it's more expensive, so it only makes sense that it would have more alcohol in it.
That's my take on it, but...
You drink a lot?
No, I don't.
I don't.
But when I bake a lot.
You bake a lot.
It's an interesting insight.
What did you think?
A. A? For what reason?
It smelled like vanilla yogurt.
It smelled like vanilla yogurt.
B. B. B. Because when I bake and I smell the vanilla extract in the jar, that's what exactly it smells like.
Interestingly, some folks are saying it tastes like it used to taste to me, so I'm comparing it.
Others are saying it just doesn't taste the same.
So 50-50 sort of split here just in my little sampling.
Well, you ready for the poll results?
Oh, you're going to love this.
This is really good.
It turns out 54% of the audience thought A was real.
46% voted that B was real.
So it really was split in half.
The real vanilla, my friends, was B. Oh!
I gotta say, you're applauding, but the audience, interestingly, you pointed out a few insights.
The alcohol sort of smell is real vanilla.
So what actually smells like what you'd expect vanilla to be was synthetic.
Now, you have actually a pretty good insight here.
I would love if you could explain to us why these artificial flavors get us to eat more.
Because they make a promise.
They make food so exciting.
Literally, it tastes better.
If I gave you a glass of sugar water, you took a sip, you'd probably think, that's quite bland.
You just wouldn't be interested in any way.
If I added a strawberry flavoring, you'd sip it and you'd say, that's delicious.
It's making, once again, that promise of nutrition, but it's not delivering it.
It tastes good in the moment, but where does that take you in the long run?
Mark is arguing that when you have a synthetic flavoring, you put something in your tongue and it's like a Fourth of July, fireworks, fantastic events, your taste buds, they're partying it up.
But when you eat real food, it can't compete because natural foods don't have that.
So you put, in this case, chicken in there, your tongue's stimulated, but it's not nearly as powerful as what the synthetic optase can deliver to see synthetic flavors.
Come on over.
So how do you tell if something is flavored naturally or if it's flavored synthetically?
I shouldn't say naturally because you've taught me that's not really a good phrase.
Real flavor.
I call it real flavor.
So how do you tell there's real flavor and the synthetic artificial flavors?
Well, it gets tough.
There's a lot of raw chicken now that actually has flavoring added.
What you need to do is look at the ingredient panel.
If you see the word artificial flavor or flavoring or natural flavor or flavoring, my advice is think twice about eating that.
It's the used car salesman of food.
It's telling your brain something that isn't quite true.
Now, when it comes to restaurants, things get really tricky because they don't always tell you what's in there.
It's all over the place.
But I would say if a restaurant has multiple locations and the food tastes the same at every single one, it's probably because they're using flavor technology.
Let me push back a little bit.
These artificial flavors aren't dangerous, right?
They've been pretty robustly used and tested.
Many would argue, I think very rationally, that if it makes its food taste better, what's the problem?
Well, to some degree, I agree with that.
It makes food taste better.
It makes us eat more.
Well, guess what?
Obesity is the second leading cause of preventable death, the first leading cause of preventable disease.
Eating too much is our biggest problem.
So in that regard, I say it is harmful.
And what about picking organic foods?
Are they immune from this problem?
No, they're not.
I wish it were so.
One of the problems is organic produce.
The organic produce you go out and buy in the store, the chicken, the tomatoes, a lot of those are made from high-yielding, modern, intensively raised varieties.
It's organic, but it's intensively raised.
They taste like cardboard.
An organic tomato is no guarantee that it'll taste great.
The other problem is that there's lots of organic snacks that still feature these synthetic flavorings.
So the box makes this promise to the parent, organic, this is healthy for your child, but it's still playing that same dirty trick.
So we reached out to the Flavor and Extract Manufacturers Association that oversees the industry, and this is what they said in part, many scientific studies have shown that the causes of obesity are complex and include food access as well as multiple genetic, biological, and social factors.
Well, it's a big problem.
Just because the causes are complex, there's no reason to shy away.
If this is a cause, we deserve to know more about it and be aware of it and make informed decisions.
So now you all know about it.
Again, it's not toxic, but taste is just another temptation that makes it harder to do the right thing if you're trying to lose weight.
Mark's new book, The Dorito Effect, is in stores now, and a portion of it's available on DrRoz.com.
We'll be right back.
Thank you.
Thank you, John.
What food flavor can you not resist?
Vanilla gets me every time.
Whenever I eat anything with a touch of vanilla in it, I have to stop myself from eating the entire box.
One of my all-time favorites.
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Next, do you always have butterflies in your stomach?
Does your belly battle you every day?
You search for a cure, but nothing works.
The cause may not just be in your tummy.
It could be in your head.
The plan to get your nervous stomach back in control.
coming up next.
We've all experienced that feeling of butterflies in our stomach before speaking in front of a crowd or going on a first date.
But for many of you, your nervous stomach is a daily battle.
My next guest says hers is ruling her life.
Take a look.
I constantly feel like I have butterflies in my belly.
I get a knot in my stomach.
Sometimes the pain is so debilitating that I have to run to the bathroom.
My nervous stomach usually has to do with a lot of stress and anxiety.
I constantly worry about the kids.
I worry about their safety at school.
I worry about them running off on their own, their health.
I worry about the finances.
I worry about pretty much everything.
The minute I feel anxious, it's like a chain reaction.
My stomach starts to churn.
And then it's all downhill from there.
And now my kids are becoming like the sponge, especially my daughter.
She says that when she's nervous, she gets a tickle in her stomach, sort of like the butterflies that I get.
Sometimes I feel like my stomach issues hold me back in my life.
I don't venture out as much as I'd like to with my kids because I start to feel anxious.
And then the sinking feeling always comes back and I'm unable to move forward.
I've really tried to calm myself down so I don't have these stomach issues.
I've tried meditation.
I attempt to focus on the positive, not the negative.
I've taken a supplement that has a unique ingredient that's supposed to be relaxing.
It doesn't work.
The sinking feeling, the pit in my stomach, it always comes back.
I'm at a loss.
What else can I do?
The Drage is joining us.
How frustrating has it been for you?
You've been searching for a solution, haven't been able to find one.
As you can imagine, it's been very frustrating because I've had this issue really since my teens.
I remember right before my PSATs, I actually had to blow out of my PSATs because I got sick during my PSATs.
So I've been to a couple of doctors, still haven't found a solution.
I'm taking this supplement, like I said, and you know, sometimes I can get it under control, but for the most part, it's debilitating.
And I really am happy to be here today to figure out how to get rid of this issue.
Once and for all.
Once and for all.
I'm happy you're here as well because you're not alone with these issues.
So if I can't speak to everybody here, treating a nervous stomach is a challenge because drinking the pig stuff, for example, or taking the pills, which a lot of folks do to sort of soothe their stomach, it's temporary.
That's not the real issue, right?
The real problem we've got to address and treat in order to help the stomach is the stuff around it, the stress, the feelings that you have with that.
Sometimes it's the nervousness about what might happen that causes the stress and there's a big cycle you can't get ahead of.
So I asked gastroenterologist Roshini Raj to be here today.
She doesn't just look at the tummy, she looks at the mind-body connection.
Please join us.
Dr. Raj, I'll let you know if you don't mind, help everybody get crystal clear on the connection between the mind and exactly what our body is sensing.
Right.
So basically, our gut is really like our second brain.
The same neurotransmitters, the chemicals that are released in our brain when we're anxious, also act on our intestine.
And sometimes that's a good thing.
That's how, as women, we have our women's intuition or our gut instinct, and we should really listen to it.
But it's a very visceral feeling.
You can't minimize it, you can't rationalize it the way you can with your brain.
And sometimes that gut-brain access goes into overdrive and you really feel that.
Use the word heightened sensitivity.
I think it's a perfect way to describe it.
You're a little too sensitive to what's going on to the brain and how it affects your intestine.
And why is it that so many women struggle with a nervous stomach?
You know, as women, we're very intuitive, we're sensitive, and that's what makes us great mothers and caretakers for everyone around us.
But again, that's a double-edged sword.
If we are too sensitive and it really affects our stomach, we're walking around worried and anxious and we feel it in the pit of our stomach all the time, it's going to affect our life in a negative way.
So Grace describes it as butterflies, what you're feeling, right?
Yes.
Come on up here.
I'm going to show you something.
There are other emotions that probably affect you as well, specifically, and they affect the gut in very different ways.
So we always think about it as a stress, but it's not just one thing, and it doesn't always come out the same way.
You'll see what I mean by that.
So I'm going to walk you through the different ways that our emotions can affect our gut, if that makes sense to you.
Dr. Raj, why don't you explain this to everybody?
Absolutely.
So there are three different ways that your gut can really be affected by your stress.
Number one, diarrhea.
What happens when you're very stressed out, it can cause your intestine to contract very quickly.
That moves things through way too fast and that causes the runs, unfortunately.
The second one we're dealing with now is constipation.
This is the opposite.
The anxiety causes your intestine to literally go into shock.
It's stunned.
It's not moving.
You feel bloated, sluggish.
Things are not going in the right direction.
And lastly, nausea.
What happens here is that anxiety and stress causes your stomach to not empty as quickly as it should, and that's what causes the food and everything to stick around that causes nausea.
So we really want to deal with all of these very differently to help you feel better.
That's great.
I thought I was going crazy.
A lot of women do.
Now, I gave you three different ways that your stomach may tell you that it's not happy.
Which of the three happens to you?
The first one.
The first, diarrhea.
I'll have you stand by diarrhea.
Only for a second.
I want to find two more audience members.
I want someone who's got constipation and someone who's got nausea.
Let me start with constipation.
You're very honest.
Thank you very much.
What's your name?
Sybil Harris.
Sybil?
Yes.
And you don't have to go into too much detail, but what actually happens and how does it manifest itself?
Well, Dr. Raj, I have two daughters.
I have a 17-year-old and a 23-year-old, and I'm always worried about them.
And that gets my stomach all worked up and gurgly.
And then when you add work stress to it, it really tightens up.
So it makes things even more complicated when I try to go to the restroom.
So Dr. Raj mentioned that moms in particular...
I'm prone to this.
And it makes sense.
What else are you going to worry about?
It's the most important thing in your life.
But you're probably not happy with the constipation part.
No.
Is that a weekly event?
Bi-weekly?
It happens all the time.
No, no.
How often do you go to the bathroom?
Oh, maybe once a week at the most, actually.
Everyone's, you know, people go like this because they've had that too.
All right.
Stay here.
Let me guess someone who's got nausea.
Nausea.
How are you?
What's your name?
Debra.
Debra.
And describe what's going on in your life that's leading you to have nausea.
I have a tendency to overthink things.
So I will worry about what's going on at home or what's going on at the office and then I will start to feel anxious and upset and nervous.
I tend to get very emotional and that will trigger the butterflies in the stomach that starts and then the nauseous feeling comes on.
So I've just identified three classic ways that you might identify problems in your stomach.
When we come back, I've got a plan for anybody to soothe their nervous stomach.
Whether you're experiencing constipation or nausea or diarrhea, a solution for all.
So stick around.
Next.
Does your stomach feel nervous all the time?
Diarrhea, constipation, nausea.
And you have no idea why.
Your gut may be trying to tell you something.
Uncover what's really causing your discomfort.
The two-step plan anyone can use to soothe a nervous stomach.
Next.
All new Oz.
Legendary newsman Tom Brokaw.
What's it like to sit there in the doctor's office and hear the word cancer?
I really want her to know, journalistically, how much time.
His courageous 16-month battle fighting the disease.
They had a medevac me out of Montana.
And his inspiring secrets of survival.
You cannot understand cancer until it hits you or your family.
All new Dr. Oz.
That's coming up tomorrow.
Have you ever had diarrhea, constipation, maybe nausea, or just an overall feeling of nervousness in your stomach, but you couldn't seem to find a reason for it?
Well, so I want you to pay attention to this plan to soothe a nervous stomach.
And I get it, folks.
Stomach issues are a mystery a lot of times.
Women tell me all the time, you go to your doctors, and you go from doctor to doctor, frankly, and plan to plan.
Why is it that none of these diets, none of these ideas seem to work for a lot of women?
I think the main reason is people are ignoring the underlying issue which really is the stress, the anxiety that's causing all that churning and burning and discomfort there.
So you really need to address that first and then also the physical symptoms which can be different from person to person.
All right, so we're going to organize this very uniquely.
We're going to start with the physical symptoms of a nervous stomach, and then we'll talk about how to soothe them.
See, the first step is to find a stomach-soothing hero.
That's right.
Sounds appealing.
We have some heroes, absolutely.
Good ones?
All right, come on over.
Yeah, let's go.
We have three very different women with very different types of nervous stomachs, and almost all of you at home will relate to one of these three.
First up, Sybil very bravely acknowledged that you have constipation.
I won't have you repeat how frequently, but it's not enough.
You're not happy about it.
All right, so how does it affect your quality of life?
Well, it's a challenge being able to get through a day with extreme pressure in my stomach and it's discomfort.
And not being able to go to the restroom again is just very uncomfortable.
We forget how much of a bliss it is.
How blessed we are when you just go to the bathroom.
Simple things like that elude us, especially if we're nervous.
So what's our solution?
You call it a flexitive?
We have a hero for you, the flaxative, which is very simply flaxseed.
Flaxseed is great.
It's a powerhouse for your digestion because not only does it have fiber, it also has a lot of omega-3 fatty acids, which are really great for your lining of your intestinal wall.
You can have it whole, but I like it ground, actually.
Just throw it in a coffee grinder.
It's easier to digest that way.
And you can throw it into a smoothie, sprinkle it on a sandwich or a salad.
Try that smoothie if you don't mind.
I always want folks to like what we're offering.
Yes, I agree.
In terms of their taste, so we won't do it.
What do you think?
This is really good.
It's pretty nice, right?
I told you.
Yeah, it's got some great fruit in there.
You have to go to the bathroom yet?
I'll drink more.
Have another sip.
Before the show is over, we're going to follow you back.
Yes!
We've got a little camera in the toilet.
We're going to prove this works like that.
And remember, you can actually use it in recipes as a substitute for egg.
If you do two tablespoons of ground flaxseed and water, substitute it for egg.
It's really going to help things moving along, get you feeling better.
Perfect.
Thank you very much.
I love the concept that you could take something as basic as an egg and make a one-to-one replacement in most things, and it should if you're one of the constipated, nervous belly folks out there get results.
I wish you the best of luck.
Thank you so much.
Keep moving things along.
Good luck.
Okay.
Next up is Debra.
So your issue is nausea.
What have you tried in the past to help you with the nervous nausea stomach?
I've tried a lot of the over-counter remedies.
And I've also tried some natural things that my father suggested.
He's into vitamins and herbs.
Nothing works.
Well, first, I'm glad you tried, because sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't.
Take it away, Dr. Rush.
Yes.
And by the way, nausea, we've all felt nausea.
It's one of the worst feelings in the world, so I can totally sympathize and empathize with you.
This is your hero.
Also natural.
Your dad would like it.
Ginger.
This is one of those tried and true remedies which actually works.
Ginger has something called phenols in it which actually relaxes your stomach.
This is a great way to give it to kids as well.
A ginger ice pop.
Ginger and lemon.
So they'll love it.
And it really helps move things along through your stomach.
And what causes nausea is when your stomach isn't digesting and moving things quickly enough.
So this is going to help do that.
Thank you.
I'm hoping it will help you feel better.
It's got a little bite to it, doesn't it?
It's good.
It's a tangy little tart.
How do you make it?
This is just lemon, water, and ginger, and you just freeze it in a popsicle maker.
Oh my goodness.
And have that easy.
That close to you.
Enjoy it.
It's very good.
Thank you.
You can have Dr. Raj's also.
Thank you.
And finally, back to the beginning.
Grace, start us all off, and honorably stood in front of diarrhea, which is a very, it's actually what I get also when I get nervous.
So it's not crazy, right?
Because if you're nervous, you want to get everything out of your system so you can get going, and that makes sense in a while, but not for our lives when you're worried about, you know, being on a subway.
So Dr. Raj, what's the hero here?
Okay, the hero here are bananas.
And we're talking about green bananas, so the unripened bananas are the best ones.
You really want to have this about 30 minutes before a meal.
You can have it cooked, actually.
That's a great way to do it.
Here's with a little brown sugar.
It's delicious, absolutely.
But it also helps slow things down.
It's going to bind up those runs that want to come out of you too quickly.
It's also a great source of potassium and other things.
But this is what you want to try.
It'll keep you full more easily as well.
So you're probably nervous right now.
Oh, yeah.
You better eat this quickly.
We don't want to have any accidents up here.
That's really good.
You're all laughing, but if I followed you up here, I'd be having some problems as well.
Very nice.
That's good.
Good.
Give it a try.
I think it'll make a difference.
All right.
Thank you for sharing your story.
Dr. Raj, wonderful advice.
Dr. Raj also has some mind-body relaxation techniques.
She's created how-to videos that we're going to post on DrRaj.com, along with the complete plan we talked about today.
So share it with your friends.
We'll be right back.
Coming up next is your skin itchy, dry, blistering in red.
Annoying irritations that won't go away?
We're going skin deep.
The three biggest rashes women complain about most, what's triggering them, and how to clear them up.
Coming up next.
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Did I get it right?
Itchy and scratchy, lumpy and bumpy, red and flaky, and sometimes even smelly.
These are all rash signs, and often they can be somewhat of a mystery.
But today we're going to use three of our biggest senses to help identify the three biggest rashes women complain about the most.
You guys ready to do this with me?
I need all your senses.
The first rash is one that I want you to touch.
Now, I'm told this is not contagious, and I'm pretty sure it's correct advice, so I want someone to volunteer.
A couple of people, who wants to come down and touch this?
Why don't you both, you come down here.
How are you?
What's your name?
Tiffany.
Tiffany?
Tiana.
Come on in here.
Come on up there.
Who was up there?
Come on down.
All right.
You just gotta stand back here.
We're not leaving the studio.
Okay.
Now put your hand in there, and I want you to describe what you're feeling.
Be specific.
You feel bumps?
Some bumps.
Big or small bumps?
Some big and small bumps.
Now big bumps.
Now big bumps.
All right.
Put your hand in there now.
Oh, goodness.
Is it wet or is it dry?
It's wet and gooey and lumpy and bumpy.
Anywhere in your body you might find that?
I hope not.
You hope not?
Come on, dear.
Why don't you go in there?
Here's some towels to wipe your hands off with.
Let's see.
Again, the key question.
Describe what it's like and then tell me where you might find it on your body.
A bit slimy.
Feels kind of hairy, spiky.
Very spiky.
Any guesses where this might be found in your body?
Maybe your legs.
Your legs.
Very, very good.
Oh, show your hand.
I'm not going to shake.
Share your towels over there.
It is folliculitis.
Now, come over here, look carefully.
Let me explain what it is.
So folliculitis is, you see how these little hairs coming out of the pimples?
So when you have an infection of the follicle where the hair is coming through, that's what you see.
Now, it happens on your legs a lot when you shave.
Men get it on their face sometimes.
Women get it on their face for makeup.
They don't take it off the right way.
And you'll typically see this little, this is a magnified version of it.
But with these hairs coming out in the middle, you can see they got trapped with pus around them because this material couldn't come out.
So they can be red, they can be itchy, they can burn.
You've all had these on your bodies.
Yeah.
So, who's actually had this before?
Oh, you have a victim of yours.
You guys can go on back.
Nicely done.
And thanks for being so brave with that.
So, where was it on your body?
Oh, I've had it on my legs and my knees, sometimes in my bikini area.
And what do you do about it?
A lot of times just put lotion on it is about all.
Lotion is not a bad idea.
Usually it goes away within one to two weeks.
But one of the key things is to shave the right way.
So make sure you have a warm shower obviously ahead of time to loosen things up.
Use shaving cream.
And most people advise changing your shaving blades every three days.
I don't think anyone does that.
No guy would ever do that.
But, you know, if it's a year old, it's too much, too.
So, in the middle somewhere.
All right.
All right.
Now, next thing.
And for the women who have makeup on, please get your oil off of your face.
And if you have really oily makeup, that's one of the big reasons you might end up with problems with folliculitis.
Be thoughtful about that.
Okay.
Now, that was touching.
Everyone survived.
Now we have something that's a bit more difficult.
It's smelling.
Which, unfortunately, everyone's going to have to smell together because I can't contain this.
And this is powerful stuff.
I purposely did not open it earlier because I didn't want to chase you out of the studio.
So who wants to hold this?
You want to hold this?
All right.
Are you ready?
Now you're going to whiff this.
I'm stepping away because I don't like to smell.
And tell me what it smells like and if you've had a rash with this smell before.
Are you ready, everybody?
Lean in here.
Lean in here.
Everyone lean forward.
It's a lean forward moment.
Oh, God.
Woo!
You guys all spelling that?
You won't have had this, sir.
What do you guys think that is?
Fish sauce?
What is it?
I'm sorry.
You said fish sauce?
Yes.
Did you hear the part about the rash?
You know, this is people...
Okay.
No, it's not fish sauce.
It wasn't fish sauce in here either.
Okay.
What do you think it is?
I have no idea.
It could be feet.
It could be feet.
It actually is close.
It's something called intertrigo.
It's the rash you get in between the folds of your skin.
Women classically get it under their bra.
I have a picture of it, actually.
I might be able to show you.
See that little picture?
So yeast and bacteria are attracted to the area because it's warm and moist, and that makes it prone to chafing.
That's why it's stinky.
So those bacteria and fungi grow in there.
So if you want to prevent this, make sure your bras fit normally, which you should all be doing.
Even if it's, what did you say it was again?
Fish sauce.
Fish sauce.
Don't put any fish sauce under your bra at all, and then keep the area clean.
All right, next up, I've got to challenge you all here.
I want you to look very carefully.
Now, you can't see this rash, but you will see the results of it.
Now, what is that?
It's not thought of as a rash, usually.
Not thought of as a rash.
Any clues?
Dandruff.
So people don't think of dandruff as a rash, but it really is.
It's something called seborrhea dermatitis.
And seborrhea dermatitis, sorry about the mess back there, guys.
Seborrhea dermatitis, we don't actually know what causes it for sure.
We think it's a fungus on the skin.
But to prevent it, you want to wash your hair more often to keep the dead skin cells from building up.
And you can try over-the-counter dandruff shampoos.
What I personally like a lot is apple cider vinegar.
You mix it 50-50 with just regular old tap water, right?
And then once you've got that sort of equal mix, so right about there you'd stop.
Then you have a little container, put a little spray bottle on there, and you can put this on your hair just before you get in the shower.
I like the smell sort of anyway.
It changes the pH.
There we are.
It changes the pH of your scalp, and by doing it, it makes it harder for fungus to grow, so you don't have that buildup of material that just sloughs off and causes the dandruff.
You can learn lots more about how to prevent and treat these rashes at dros.com.
Check it out, it's pretty cool stuff.
We'll be right back.
All new odds.
Legendary newsman, Tom Brokaw.
What's it like to sit there in the doctor's office and hear the word cancer?
I really wanted to know, journalistically, how much time.
His courageous 16-month battle fighting the disease.
They had a medevac in the auto, Montana.
And his inspiring secrets of survival.
You cannot understand cancer until it hits you or your family.
All new Dr. Oz.
That's coming up tomorrow.
All new Oz.
Legendary newsman Tom Brokaw.
What's it like to sit there in the doctor's office and hear the word cancer?
I really wanted to know journalistically how much time.
His courageous 16-month battle fighting the disease.
They had a medevac in the auto, Montana.
And his inspiring secrets of survival.
You cannot understand cancer until it hits you or your family.
All new Dr. Oz.
That's coming up tomorrow.
As parents, I think we can all agree that we do things for our kids that we would never normally do or even think we could do.
But for one dad, this rings especially true as he crossed into unknown territory.
Check out single parent Greg Wickhurst and his daughter Izzy.
Now, being a longtime subscriber to the shaved head look, Greg didn't have much to offer his daughter in the hairstyling department, so he took matters into his own hands.
And I'm talking about literally into his own hands.
He took a class at a local cosmetology school to learn the classic art of braiding hair.
And now, he's become such a pro, he enjoys showing off his creation on Facebook for all to see.
Now check out this bun, and how about that criss-cross work?
Isn't that pretty cool?
And he has no hair!
That's pretty good.
Now it's time for, in case you missed it, first, a plan to soothe a nervous stomach.
And we've all experienced that feeling of butterflies in our stomach, but for many of you, your nervous stomach is a daily battle.
Constipation is one of the biggest symptoms, and I have just a solution.
It's called a flexitive.
I love flaxseed dips because you can stick flaxseed into almost anything you're eating, in your morning smoothie, on sandwiches and salads.
And, here's a good part, you can swap out the eggs in any recipe.
Just take two tablespoonfuls of flaxseed in two tablespoonfuls of water and then just replace one egg.
Same amount of volume.
And you can make just about all those foods you want to make and get some of that flax that will help with some of those belly issues.
Next, my great friend and National Geographic explorer, Dan Buettner, has traveled the world and found the places where people lived the longest.
He calls these places Blue Zones, and he's come back with their secrets.
For example, they make a 5 p.m.
wine time.
It's too good to be true, I know, but it's true.
People in the Blue Zones drink one glass of wine a day, and they believe it will help them live longer.
So, if you enjoy a glass of red wine in the evening, try it with a handful of healthy nuts.
Just make sure you keep it to one glass of wine, and have it with some good friends.
To learn about all the secrets Dan has discovered to get to live to 100 and beyond, get a copy of his new best-selling book, The Blue Zones Solution.
Finally, please be careful of dubious people online to make it seem like I'm endorsing their products, because I don't.
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