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Feb. 26, 2025 - Dr. Oz Podcast
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Dr. Sanjay Gupta Breaks Down Today’s Biggest Health Concerns | Dr. Oz | S | Ep | Full Episode
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Dr. Oz and Sanjay Gupta clear up confusion on the health headlines you're worried about.
The latest superbug killing people in California, the measles outbreak, new dietary guidelines, and more.
Plus, your heart is racing.
You're sweating.
You can't breathe.
Is it a heart attack or an anxiety attack?
How to spot the difference the moment you start having chest pains?
Life-saving clues every woman should know.
Coming up next on Dr. Oz.
Alright, this week, we're hit with health news that directly impacts your life.
From outbreaks of deadly bacteria, new rules on what you should eat, and more debates about the vaccines.
Today, my friend and colleague, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, is here to clear up the confusing health headlines.
Please welcome Sanjay.
Thank you, John.
Thank you, buddy.
So I know there's a lot going on out there.
It gets confusing to folks, so I want to start off with a big topic, superbugs.
There's a new report that's describing this as a nightmare bacteria.
It is killing people in California.
Check it out.
A deadly new family of superbugs is spreading around the country, capable of killing up to half the patients who contract them.
Let's hear from Sanjay.
How worried should we be about this outbreak?
What are the long-term problems?
Well, I think the average person really does not need to be worried about this.
As you mentioned, 500,000 of these procedures are done every year, and we're still talking in the dozens, perhaps, of people who have been affected.
The larger concern is, and this is something you and I both talked about, is that we have these bacteria that we used to be able to kill very easily that we can no longer kill.
They are resistant.
That's why they're called superbugs.
And this is us doing this.
By us, I mean society.
Every time we prescribe antibiotics that are unnecessary, that we don't take to their complete course, we can get these types of organisms.
So I don't think the average person has to worry about this right now.
But look, you know, 10 years from now, the idea that we've simply run out of antibiotics to treat this, I don't think I'm being hyperbolic.
That's a real concern.
What worries me right now, and there are countries, by the way, who say this is a bigger threat, this antibiotic resistance, than terrorism.
So it's a serious issue.
What worries me now is that we're breeding these bacteria, and who knows if we'll be able to ever kill these things off.
Let me show you what Sanjay's worried about, and I share his concern as well.
So let's see what's going on normally.
And everybody, we've got these green good guy bacteria.
Sanjay, come on over here.
We can do this together.
But there are also these red bad bacteria.
These are the resistant ones you don't want to have.
Now, if you give antibiotics to someone who's got good and bad bacteria, what do you do?
You kill the good guys off.
But the bad guys, the criminal bacteria, they're left behind.
They're resistant.
They don't die.
Instead, when the good guys are out of their way, the bad guys multiply.
They take over.
Now it's a bad neighborhood.
They overwhelm the good green bacteria.
And these bugs, these superbugs, the red ones, guess what they do?
When they get close to the green guys, they contaminate them.
They change them.
So if you have a problem with a couple of these red bacteria, it can begin to rapidly cause a problem for you.
And this is especially an issue if you're not disposing of bodily fluids correctly.
Imagine it's 1930, before we had antibiotics, and you got a basic old-fashioned infection.
What would you do?
It's a whole different game.
We don't want to go back to that era, especially when we have technologies now that can do so many wonderful things if we're not faced by these infections.
Okay, next health headline is about exercise.
I mean, I know you love doing everybody.
You're going to love this.
Just 10 minutes of exercise twice a week can cut...
A woman's risk of heart disease.
This is according to the Million Woman Study.
Please describe this to everybody, and what else do they find?
Well, this is potentially some very good news, right?
First of all, it's a big study, as you point out, over a million women.
And what they were trying to figure out, the way I describe this, they're trying to figure out the sweet spot for exercise, right?
Start off by saying more is not necessarily always better.
And I think that that's...
Did you hear what he said?
More is not better.
More is not necessarily better.
So what they found was that women...
Women who did not exercise at all, who rarely exercised, had a certain degree of having a heart problem of some sort.
Women who exercise two to three times a week, and as you mentioned, strenuous, but just ten minutes or so, seem to have the most benefit in terms of reducing their likelihood of having some sort of heart problem later on in life.
People who exercise more than that, they exercise every day or five to six times a week, their risk actually went up.
The risk of having heart problems.
The risk of having heart problems went up.
So two to three times a week for ten minutes at a time seemed to be the sweet spot.
If your goal is that, look, I don't want to have any heart problems.
That seems, according to this very large study, to be the sweet spot.
What if you're not actually breaking a sweat running, for example, but you're doing more moderate work like gardening or walking around?
This was the first study to look at things beyond conventional workouts, beyond going to the gym or going for a run.
Housework, for example, gardening work.
And they call that moderate activity.
So if you did that four times a week, four to six times a week, just moderate activity, you also got the significant benefit in terms of reducing heart disease.
More so than, again, if you strenuously exercised every single day, which I find remarkable.
It just sort of shows that our bodies are sort of designed, I think, either to do intermittent bouts of strenuous exercise or to be just active continuously.
But if you start trying to be strenuously active every single day, that could, in fact, be a little detrimental to the body.
So find the sweet spot is what I learned here, and I think it's important.
There's also more good news on exercise.
And food.
Come on over here.
We're going to talk about this.
This is the next big headline.
A lot of folks historically have been confused about what to eat, but we're trying to make it a little clearer now.
The top nutritional experts have got together.
They have proposed a new federal guideline on this.
I'm going to go over the most notable changes.
We're going to start with one that's really critical.
The new finding is you don't have to worry so much about cholesterol from your food.
This is a game changer.
And to illustrate this, in the old days, you'd all have your egg white frittatas.
So what the recommendations say is you can actually have it regular.
Please explain why this is so important.
Well, the idea of dietary cholesterol, the cholesterol that we get from our diet having a significant impact, being of concern, that is now old-fashioned thinking.
This is what the new dietary guidelines are going to say.
By the way, it's what the American Heart Association has now said for a couple of years.
What they're basically saying is you can't get enough cholesterol from your diet to really make that big a difference.
About 85% of our cholesterol actually comes from our body itself.
We make cholesterol.
We need cholesterol.
So you could add a little bit more from the diet, but that's not really where you should be focusing.
And by the way, if you do that, what a lot of people have been doing over the last 30, 40 years is substituting that with sugar.
And that's also a no-no.
Don't worry as much about dietary cholesterol.
Shock waves, as you said, through a lot of the nutritional communities.
But from a scientific standpoint, it makes sense.
And now we're sort of together on this.
So cholesterol, don't worry about it anymore.
However, you mentioned sugar.
Big change here.
For the very first time, they're proposing strict limits on sugar.
So the old rule was that you could, you know, have a little sugar or a little bit of fat.
It was sort of amorphous.
Don't want to hold you specifically.
But, you know, roughly 15% of your calories could come from this stuff.
That's not good enough.
The new rule very concretely says no more than 10% of your calories.
That's about 12 teaspoons of sugar.
No more.
This is a massive shift.
However, I think it's going to be difficult for people to actually follow this recommendation, too.
Well, you know, I mean, I think it's tough because sugar is everywhere.
I mean, it's in foods that you don't think of as sweet foods.
It's what's known as a humectant.
So if your bread is soft, your pastries are soft.
That's because sugar attracts water.
It's in lots of different sauces.
But this is an important move as well because they used to co-mingle fat and sugar.
And what happened over time is that we said, oh, you know what?
If you eat low fat, you're healthy.
And we added a lot of sugar.
And what happened over the last 40 years?
Cardiac disease, number one killer of men and women.
Obesity has continued to go out of control for both adults and children.
Diabetes.
Now they're saying 12 teaspoons of sugar.
You've got to look at what you're eating in terms of added sugar and try not to add any extra.
I mean, that makes a huge difference in terms of reducing your risk of heart disease.
Sugar more than fat.
The only subject is all about good news.
So this is the last bit of the advisory, which I tell you, between this and the exercise, you're going to get a lot of fan mail.
The first time ever, the first time ever, the advisory panel gave a thumbs up to coffee.
So the old recommendation, Didn't mention coffee.
The new recommendation is up to five cups a day.
That's a big change, Sanjay.
I got a lot of very happy people out there.
Coffee can be good for you.
It's interesting, you know, and we didn't know what the sweet spot was.
They didn't even really talk about coffee in the past.
We don't know if it's the caffeine alone or it's the other antioxidants in coffee.
But what they find is three to five cups, up to five cups.
Can be beneficial.
Again, in terms of lowering your cholesterol, lowering your lipids overall, decreasing your risk of heart disease and stroke.
So, you know, people have always been curious.
You don't want to necessarily substitute other forms of caffeine.
The coffee in and of itself, as a vehicle, if you will, for your caffeine, can actually be quite beneficial.
Now, just to be clear, you don't have to drink five cups of coffee.
You don't have to.
Our hands would both shake too much if we drank as much.
I'd be pooping all day long.
So, you can, if you want, up to five cups.
Okay, let's wrap it up with a health question that I know you're all concerned about.
Who wants to go first on vaccine?
Vaccines.
You got a question?
Go ahead.
What's your first name?
My name is Shay.
Shay, take it away.
Yes, hi, Dr. Sanjay.
How are you?
I just wanted to know, my concern is, how safe is the vaccine and what are the final words on autism?
This is for the measles vaccine or all vaccines?
Yes, the measles vaccine.
Well, you know, this is something that's been studied now for a long time.
So, you know, we have decades worth of data on the measles vaccine.
And what I can tell you, you've got about a one in a million chance of having a serious adverse reaction.
And a serious adverse reaction can be an allergic reaction.
It can be all sorts of different things, but a one in a million chance.
With regard to autism in particular, I think the best way to characterize it is this, is that we still don't know for sure what causes autism, but we do know that vaccines do not.
Intermingle those two issues.
Vaccines do not cause autism.
And I think, you know, it's obviously an important point, but important for people to know that as well.
Awesome.
Thank you.
Go ahead, Matt.
Why don't you go out there?
Hi, Dr. Ross.
My question is, how serious is the measles?
I mean, older people have gotten it and survived.
Should I be worried?
Well, you know, what I'll tell you is, in days past, you used to have...
Tens of thousands of people get measles every single year.
In the year 2000 in this country, it was virtually eliminated.
Out of those people, you know, you would have one in several thousand who would start to get significant adverse problems from it.
Keep in mind, again, the vaccine, one in a million.
Having the measles, one in several, you know, tens of thousands.
So much more likely to have problems, including impact on the brain, deafness, longer-term neurological problems.
The likelihood of death is still thankfully low.
But it can be a really, really terrible virus.
And, you know, we just don't see it that much in this country.
So we've forgotten how serious an infection it can be.
The other part of the story, of course, is that if we don't have any measles around, it's one less thing to worry about.
Fifteen years ago, it was pretty much gone.
Now we've got to talk about it, which in itself is irritating.
It's stressful.
Last question.
Go ahead.
Hi, how are you?
My question actually does concern measles as well.
Can protection diminish?
It's a pretty good vaccine if you were born after 1959, which I know you were.
You should have pretty good protection, but it can start to diminish over time.
So as you get into your 20s, 30s, the effectiveness may wear off.
As Dr. Oz was saying, we didn't have to worry about that because the measles really wasn't around.
but if you're traveling to a country where measles is spreading if measles comes to your neighborhood or your community or something like that you can get a test to find out how protected you still are some people are still going to need another booster even as adults such a love having you on board always a pleasure thank you right back next Your heart's racing.
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Your heart's racing.
You're sweating.
You can't breathe.
Are you having a heart attack?
I have a pain right here in the middle of my chest.
It feels like someone is stabbing me.
It came all of a sudden out of nowhere.
It started about five minutes ago.
It still hurts.
It's not as intense as it was before.
It just feels like the knife they were using just got duller.
So what do you guys think?
Is she having a heart attack or an anxiety attack?
Anxiety.
I hear a lot of heart attacks.
We don't really know, do we?
What do you say it is?
Anxiety.
Anxiety.
Come stand.
What's your first name?
Lindsay.
Lindsay.
Why do you think it's an anxiety attack?
I guess because it stopped.
It wasn't as intense.
Think about how long it lasts.
It's your main clue.
Come on over here.
We're going to find that if you're right.
I'm going to do a little demonstration.
A little show and tell with you.
So stand right here.
So, if you can, I want you to take this little red magic marker.
You can stand right in that red line there.
Take that.
And then I put a dot or an X where you think the pain would normally start, whether it's an anxiety attack or a heart attack.
Is that a heart with an X to it?
Okay.
All right.
So, it turns out most people will have pain, whether it's anxiety or a heart attack.
It's usually sort of down in here.
Okay?
That's sort of where it starts.
You were close.
Close enough.
I'll give you partial credit.
You showed your work, too.
Take that.
Here's the difference.
With an anxiety attack, it stays right there.
But with a heart attack, it can radiate, which means it travels places.
So travel it up to the neck, for example.
Draw a little arrow that goes up there.
Good.
Or go to the shoulder.
Frankly, go all the way down the arm sometimes.
And it can even go way over here to the back.
Now, here's the deal.
The heart doesn't actually have any real sense on it.
It doesn't feel pain itself.
It feels something's wrong, and then it crosses other nerves, the nerves of the heart, cross in the spine.
So it actually is confused.
It can't tell that the pain's coming from the heart.
It thinks it's the chin sometimes.
So people have these weird pains up in here in the head, which they shouldn't have, or in the shoulder or the arm, because these nerves happen to meet the heart nerves and the spinal cord.
They cross each other.
They short-circuit out, and you get this crazy syndrome.
Anxiety attacks don't do that.
Because the heart itself isn't really feeling the pain.
That's the big difference between a heart attack and an anxiety attack.
Okay, let's move on.
That's the first clue, is whether it moves or not, or it's only over the heart.
Okay.
Next issue is, what does the pain feel like?
So, I want you, if you can, to take this knife, do it carefully now, and stab that heart, like a psycho.
Well, just stab it once.
You really are.
Maybe I should take this knife away from you.
Okay, so, when you put the knife in, ah, you were better than I was at it.
Want me to do it?
There.
There we go.
So, when you put the knife in the heart, that feeling of sharp, stabbing pain, that's more typically found in people who have anxiety attacks.
Heart attacks are more like taking a brick or a cinder block and dumping it on your heart.
You're going to feel a heavy weight in your chest squeezing you back.
The heart's literally, because it's panicking, because there's no blood in it, squeezing down like this, whereas in a panic attack, it's you who's panicking, not your heart.
So you'll get that sharp little pain.
It won't move.
It'll be right where I put on that little mannequin earlier.
Gotcha.
So that's the second big difference.
Coming over here.
The third big clue is how fast the pain comes on.
So I want you to dump this as fast as you can into that container.
Fast as you can.
That's about the speed at which a panic attack pain will start.
Okay.
Whereas when you have chest pain from a heart attack...
It's a more delicate process because the heart is slowly starting to realize what's going on.
And so it takes minutes to come on.
You won't feel it.
It gets worse and worse and worse and worse and builds up rather than what you just demonstrated which is more typical with an anxiety attack.
Okay, so there's one last clue.
And the last clue is how long the pain lasts.
Okay.
So you mentioned that as your major clue when you were deciding whether it was an anxiety attack or a heart attack.
How many minutes do you think is the right amount of time for it to be an anxiety attack?
Five minutes.
Five minutes.
What do you think, audience?
Five minutes?
20 minutes?
I gotta say, here's the big deal.
The amount of time actually is about 15 minutes.
If it lasts more than that, I get concerned.
But less than 15 minutes, and if the pain diminishes pretty quickly in that period, that's much better.
More of a sign of a panic attack.
Whereas if it's a heart attack, you just close the blood vessel off to the heart.
That's not going anywhere.
So that crushing pain, that squeezing pain that we just demonstrated that's moving all over your body to your chin, your arm, everywhere, that's going to actually take at least 15 minutes to start getting better.
That's why when we first start seeing people, we'll ask that question.
So you said earlier you think that woman's having an anxiety attack.
Yes.
You still think you're right?
Yes.
All right.
So let's go back to that same video we started with and see if she was indeed having an anxiety attack or a heart attack.
I have a pain right here in the middle of my chest.
It feels like someone is stabbing me.
It came all of a sudden out of nowhere.
It started about five minutes ago.
It still hurts.
It's not as intense as it was before.
It just feels like the knife they were using just got duller.
Lindsey, high five.
You're right.
You saved your life.
Well done.
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If you're trying to shed some unwanted pounds or just want to look and eat a little bit better, clean eating may be the way to go.
The concept may seem like a challenge, but today I've got a sneaky way to help you eat clean all day long.
Stephanie Sachs is here.
She's a nutritionist and she's the author of What the Fork Are You Eating?
Well titled.
So clean eating.
Describe it for everybody.
Well, it's about being more mindful about the foods we choose in general.
Our foods are laden with artificial flavors, chemical preservatives, colors, sweeteners.
We want food in its truest form, in its most whole form, back to natural states.
So, Stephanie says there's some sneaky ways that we can actually eat clean all day long.
And we're going to start off in the beginning, in the morning.
Walk me through simple things you can do to sneaky ways to eat clean in the morning.
Sneaky ways.
So after, you know, a long night, you want to get hydrated.
So having a cup of water with a squeeze of lemon is a great way to get hydrated in the morning.
This is actually part of our total 10 rapid weight loss plan.
Right, and it's great before a cup of coffee.
You have coffee, too?
Before the coffee.
Before the coffee.
One little thing about this.
If you're going to have the coffee.
This is actually very commonly used in other parts of the world.
It does increase saliva, but it also is thought of as a detoxing way.
So if you're going to do something first thing, make it a very good thing.
Then you say coffee's okay, too?
But we often blow our programs with coffee.
Well, we do, but there's a way that you can include the coffee if you really want it.
I like to stay away from the non-dairy.
Creamers or even the dairy and remove the sweeteners and also the artificial sweeteners.
If you need a little bit of sweet, though, do a touch of honey or some raw sugar.
All right.
So coffee's okay.
This I want everyone doing anyway.
Let's move on to the afternoon.
The vet's here.
She's been trying to eat clean.
This is an example of how she's trying to do it.
What's been the biggest challenge?
Well, you know, I've been trying to eat clean, but I feel like I'm deprived.
You know, I'm depriving myself from the foods that I love to eat.
So by the time I get home, It's done, you know.
That's not fun.
No, and then my husband and my son, you know, with everything, my husband has to be fried.
You know, it either has to be fried or has to have cheese.
All right.
So you brought for us a typical lunch you might have.
Is that correct?
Yes.
So describe it.
Is this a chicken sandwich?
Yes, on whole grain bread with mayonnaise and a side salad with dressing on it.
What kinds of dressings do you normally use?
Ranch dressing.
Ranch, of course.
Why not?
So Stephanie, how do we clean up her lunch?
Well, the first thing is you can always take off the top slice of bread and have an open-faced sandwich, which I like.
And then instead of the cheese, you don't really want to have a lot of condiments on your food.
So instead of the cheese, remove that.
These are all the condiments that we love having in America.
Yeah.
See the little red line through them?
Yeah.
These are all head fake problems in your dressing, unfortunately.
Yeah, lots of sugar.
Fat that we don't need, additives that we don't need, the ketchup, even the mustard, the salad dressings.
We want to avoid that, and that will help us eat clean.
Okay.
So instead of those condiments, the usual ones, give us examples of what we should be putting on our food to eat clean.
Your husband's going to like these, by the way.
What's his first name?
James.
James.
James the fried man.
So we're teaching James a few things here.
He's done with the fried foods.
So a lot of people like moisture on their sandwiches, so I often say take some avocado and smash it up and rub it on your bread.
That's a great way to get some moisture and some extra nutrition with the omegas and the fiber.
We have that right here.
Okay.
How much avocado can I use?
Half?
You can use a quarter of an avocado, and I think that that's perfect, and that will do the trick.
Okay.
I like to make an avocado butter.
You've got some whole grain mustard.
You can use a little bit of that.
Even some oil.
Drizzle some olive oil on your bread to give some moisture good.
We have coconut oil here, too.
And on your salad, you can go for some oil and vinegar.
Here we have apple cider vinegar.
What is whole grain mustard?
I've never heard that before.
That was my question.
Yeah, so it's when the grains are actually not mashed.
So we've got the full grain here.
You're kidding me.
Yeah.
The mustards we want to be careful of because of high salt content.
Yeah.
It won't be the salt yet.
It's like horseradish married mustard.
Horseradish, yeah.
It's good though.
It's also about quantities, just not having too much.
Okay, how much whole grain mustard would I use?
I would say take about, you know, a teaspoon or a half a teaspoon would be fine.
I don't think you tolerate much more than that.
Yeah.
I got to say, I look at this compared to that unfortunate experience over there.
This is a much more fulfilling, and I think James, the fried man, would like this too.
Yeah, I think so.
Put an extra little bit of whole grain on there for him, the mustard.
He'll never know what hit him.
And you can puree the avocado really fine.
Let's go to the evening hours.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
All right.
Question to the entire audience.
How many of you like a nice glass of wine when you get home?
Just sort of relax.
Hands up if you like the wine or some kind of alcohol.
Just sit back and enjoy.
There are lots of honest people in our audience.
It's a ritual, right?
You sit down with your glass.
Let's say it's wine.
Martini.
You're just nursing it.
It keeps us physically addicted.
It's not a chemical addiction.
It's a ritual.
So how can we eat clean but still have that experience?
So I'm not a big drinker.
But I'm around people who like to have wine.
So I make mocktails.
And this one here is one of, you take some water in a pot and you take fresh ginger and you slice it.
And you steep it in the water with some cinnamon stick.
So it's highly anti-inflammatory.
And then just squeeze some lemon juice and a little bit of honey.
Put it in a martini glass.
Fill it with ice.
Pour some of the liquid in there and then garnish with mint.
You ever put whole grain?
Mustard in this?
No, I don't.
And I wouldn't.
I wouldn't.
This is actually really good.
We'll put this up on Oz.com.
It's a great idea.
Yeah.
All right, Kristen's joining us.
Kristen, how are you?
Good.
Hi, Kristen.
She's a mom of two, busy, doing lots of things.
You'll be eating clean for a year now?
I've been doing my best, yes.
And what's the experience been like?
It's been great.
About a year, a little more than a year ago, I was getting closer to 50, and I thought, you know, I want to feel good when I get there.
I was a little tired and getting the brain fog, Feel as good as I can feel.
And so I started reading about eating clean, and the changes have been pretty incredible.
Just the brain fog has lifted.
Are the kids okay with it all?
No, but I try to sneak it in there as best I can.
Give them the whole grain mustard.
They'll be quiet.
Is this your favorite dish?
Well, it's a great substitute for pasta, which is the spaghetti squash.
And you can put the marinara sauce on it and some grilled chicken.
And it gives you that feeling like you've eaten Italian, but you don't have the pasta.
It's superb.
It really is superb.
Thank you.
Great idea.
Great idea.
Now, eating clean doesn't end at dinner, obviously.
The bewitching hour.
Pat, you know, it's oftentimes late in the evening for a lot of folks.
So if you've done perfectly well, what's the final thing you should do in your day if you're really going to eat clean?
I find that a lot of people skip up after dinner, before bed, and they start snacking.
I'll wake up in the morning and I will see dishes in the sink for my husband.
Okay?
So what I like to do is create a bedtime ritual.
Have a cup of tea, chamomile tea.
It's calming.
And then if you need a snack, snack on some fresh fruit.
I also like frozen berries.
Okay.
That's a great way to kind of get that edge off.
And then always go to bed with a tall glass of water next to your bed to stay hydrated.
Okay.
Thanks very much.
Wonderful tips, Stephanie.
You can follow her blog at dros.com for more ways to eat clean all day long.
We'll be right back.
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Are you adding butter to your cup of joe?
Find out if this new health trend can really give you more energy and promote weight loss.
Butter in your coffee.
Separating fat from fat.
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Adding butter to your coffee is a trend that's getting a whole lot of steam.
People are drawn to it for extra energy.
They say it helps with weight loss, overall health.
They stay alert.
I've even mentioned it on the show a couple times.
But like many other health fads, there's a lot of conflicting information out there.
So today, I'm going to separate fad from fat.
Fad from fat can only be differentiated ideally by moms and daughters.
So Cecilia and Miriam are joining me.
They don't see eye to eye.
And whether buttered coffee is good for you, so we're going to find out.
Miriam squares by it.
Mom, Cecilia, not so sure.
She actually thinks her daughter might be a little nuts.
Is that true?
Of course.
Before you get to mom's response, Miriam, how long have you been drinking buttered coffee?
It's been two years, Dr. Oz, and I love it.
It's amazing.
What got you started on this whole thing?
Well, two years ago, I started the paleo diet.
And I wanted to get healthy and, you know, have more energy.
The only problem was I had to cut dairy out of my diet.
Now, I'm a big coffee drinker, so this was really hard.
So instead of drinking my coffee black, I did a little bit of an internet search, and I found out that I can substitute milk with ghee, which is clarified butter.
So I started adding butter and a little bit of coconut oil and some cinnamon, and I have a delicious latte every morning for breakfast.
It gives me tons of energy.
Coffee, the ghee, clarified butter, as you mentioned, and then the cinnamon.
That's your basic recipe.
That's my basic recipe.
So, Mom, what is wrong with that?
Why is your daughter crazy for trying it that way?
Because I think it's disgusting.
It's butter.
I don't know what she's thinking of.
And cholesterol must be through the roof.
Of course.
You have to have a conscience.
That's very important.
I mean, people my age think about it.
They think because they're so young, they're going to get away with it.
It catches up with you.
Trust me.
We're going to find out.
It does taste good.
I'll hand you that.
Come on over here.
So Miriam said that she wanted to try this.
Come on, we'll make a little cross here.
She wanted to start doing this for her energy.
So let's start off with that question.
In fact, you know what?
We'll start off with the basic fundamental.
If you really want to do it the right way, you want to have the right breakfast.
So let's start off with this fact.
We've got a fad and a fact circle in front of each of you.
So I want you to, whichever you think is the right answer, step into that circle.
You guys can play Twister with each other.
You know, bowl each other off.
It's okay.
Just make sure you're in the right circle at the end of the little competition.
Okay, first question.
Buttered coffee is good as a breakfast replacement.
You think it's a fad or a fact?
Audience, what do you guys think?
Audience thinks it's a fad.
Mom thinks it's a fad.
Miriam doesn't think so.
You pretty sure?
I feel full.
I'd step over there if I could next to fad because your mom is right on this one.
Now here's the thing.
I'm going to get back to this fullness issue in a second because it's an important one, but that really wasn't what I was getting at.
I was trying to find out, is it a good breakfast to have nutritionally?
If it's grass-fed cows giving you grass-fed milk, maybe there's some benefits there, but generally you want protein and fiber for breakfast.
So you want eggs and apples and, you know, the kinds of things we know are essential to get the day started off the right way.
Coffee can be part of it.
Okay.
Okay.
Come on over here.
Next big question.
Is it possible, because Miriam thinks it is, that buttered coffee could prolong your energy boost?
Fad or fact?
Mom, Miriam, step in there.
What do you guys think, audience?
Never.
They think it's fad also.
In this case, Mom, join your daughter in the fact circle.
She's right.
Who would have thought?
I never would have believed that.
When I first talked about it on the show, this is what surprised me the most.
Think about this.
Butter slows down the absorption of caffeine into the bloodstream.
So the same amount of caffeine lasts a lot longer.
That's why in moderation it sort of makes sense to me.
But you don't want to have cups and cups and cups of it.
And if you have it with all kinds of other bad problems, it's not good.
So one cup of coffee with one of the teaspoon of the ghee or the clarified butter, and I think it's okay.
We tied them up.
So we tie.
Let's come on over here.
The next one's a little tricky.
A little tricky.
So listen carefully.
Buttered coffee, is it good for your heart health, fat, or fat?
Good for your heart health.
I'm not sure, so wait, I'm thinking.
You talked about the cholesterol earlier.
Yeah, but today we don't know about cholesterol, so I don't know.
I still believe it's a fat.
I was kidding about the tricky question part.
It's not tricky at all.
It's not good for your heart.
Why would you think that's good for your heart?
I'm giving you butter, saturated fat.
Yes.
You're not going to jump off that trip.
Saturated fats are never going to be good for your heart.
It's actually a problem for us.
It's not as bad as we once thought, but I wouldn't encourage it.
And a lot of folks, unfortunately, when they strip a couple cups of coffee with a couple spoonfuls of butter, they're not taking themselves in the right direction.
So I would not count that as a good thing for your heart.
All right.
So here's the last one.
It's an important question.
And it comes back to something we both talked about a little bit earlier.
Help you lose weight.
This is the question the whole audience cares about.
Fad or fact?
Will it help you lose weight?
Please step into the booth.
Maybe.
Oh, they traded!
Maybe.
They traded a maybe.
Maybe.
Miriam, why'd you move over there for?
I think that losing weight takes a little more effort than just diet alone.
Exercise is important, right?
But if you have buttered coffee and it keeps you full for the whole day, you're not going to eat that much, right?
You have a very smart mother.
With a caveat, I'm going to give it to you as a fact.
I actually have one foot in both circles, but I'll give it to you.
It's possible because it keeps you full for longer.
Miriam, you mentioned this earlier.
The thing that's cool about butter is because you're full all the time, you don't go off looking for other things.
Now, of course, if you have butter and then have a pizza, it doesn't count.
But for the average person, respecting what their body is telling them, it might be a wise way to go.
Cecilia, any possibility you might change your thoughts on using butter in coffee?
Never.
Not in a million years.
There's a mile.
Ever.
Don't even try.
Can't solve everything.
We'll be right back.
Next, do you have a flat as a pancake fanny or a derriere that drops with each decade?
Today, we're going to kick your butt.
The Biggest Losers Dolvet Quinces here to give you a serious lift.
Easy moves to slim, tight, and tone to put that big butt behind you.
Next.
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It's my fitness February showdown and butts are all the rage.
So, who else to show us the moves of Slim, Tighten, and Tone than Dolvet Quince from The Biggest Loser.
What's up, brother?
I love everything about you, Dolvet.
All right, folks, you're always talking about toning their belly and getting rid of the bat wings, but you argue the butt's a big, big opportunity.
I always say it's my duty to shape that booty, so at the end of the day, you've got to take care of that butt, right?
Who doesn't want a nice butt?
We all do.
All right, so we got three audience members.
Come out and join us if you don't mind.
We'll get started.
Hey, ladies.
They're excited to get going.
So we're starting with a squat.
Why here?
We're starting with a squat.
This is a basic move that's important because it warms your legs up, your hamstrings, which is a forgotten muscle, your quads as well as your butt.
So you go down into a squat position and then come right back up.
Oh, got music.
Yeah.
Go up and down for me.
Hold that for me.
Form is everything.
You don't want to lean your body forward.
You want to make sure that your shoulders are over your hips.
So let's do it together.
Right there.
Good.
Again, up and down.
Come on.
Team.
We're a team.
It was hard to hold that position.
It was, wasn't it?
And how about the knees?
Can you go anywhere I want?
You don't want to let the knees go past the toes.
Do about 15 reps.
Four sets.
For those more advanced, do about 40. 40 of these?
40 of these.
Keep it moving.
All right.
Again, three to four sets.
Now you've got these kickback squats.
What are they?
How are they different?
Oh, these are great.
Great's bad.
They're tall for me.
The doveses are great.
I want to isolate that glute muscle.
So I'm going to put my toe out behind me here and just kick off the toe.
You feel that?
Yes.
Try not to add any swinging.
Use your core.
Use that core.
It's very important.
Stabilize here and kick.
Can I bend my left knee a little bit?
Slightly.
Not much.
A little gift from Bill Betts working.
A little gift.
You feel that working?
Yes.
Hamstring, glute, isolation.
All right.
Yeah?
Yes.
Skater jump.
Skater jumps are awesome.
My feet are slightly together.
I'm going to jump to this side, and then I'm going to come over here.
Oh.
Oh, I like this.
You know what you can do?
You can do those.
Looking good.
Alright, now how about a butt bridge?
They can do this at home.
Butt bridge.
Butt bridge, great.
Ladies, lay down.
And gentlemen, of course, Dr. Ross, you too.
Just always be happy I'm not having you do these.
Put your hands down by your hips.
Thumbs pointing towards your butt.
Put your head all the way down.
These are butt bridges, okay?
So I'm going to raise up and then squeeze.
She said, okay.
Different kind of show today.
Exactly.
Make sure you squeeze.
That butt muscle every time you come up.
Ooh.
Uh-huh.
Uh-huh.
It's working.
It's working.
You're growing on me.
I hope I never hear Dr. Oz say you're growing on me ever again while we're doing this move.
How many of these do we do?
You want to do at least 25 of these.
I try to do three sets of 25. And your butt's not touching the ground in between.
Your butt's not touching the ground in between.
You're just going down, squeezing.
Going down, squeezing up.
All right.
Let's do 400 more.
400 more.
Let's go.
399. Come on.
Fire hydrants.
Fire hydrants.
This is going to slim your sides up a little bit.
Exactly.
Okay, so, ladies and Doc.
Down on all fours, all right?
Fire hydrants is a good way to isolate your hips as well as your glutes.
So down on all fours and just extend that leg up.
Let me check form.
I like that.
Now, it's important that you don't let your hips go all the way back.
Keep your hip pointed to the ground, but just raise that knee up, and then right back down.
And like this move, watch me, add in a pulse.
Hold it up there, now pulse.
Good.
Five more of those.
Four, three, two, hold it up, hold it up.
Let's make a circle with that same leg.
- Wow. - Why not?
- Oh, make a circle.
- Woo! - Go the other way.
Opposite way.
Inside, inside, inside.
Opposite way.
I can feel things toning.
There you go.
Now, how long should this whole workout take?
20, 25 minutes.
25 minutes of this?
Yeah, you can do it.
You got a whole rhythm.
You got a whole rhythm.
Now, granted, if you do it nonstop.
Otherwise, it could take as well as 40 minutes.
All right.
As long as 40 minutes.
Listen, what we're going to do is we're going to make a video just for DrRoz.com.
Yes.
We're going to do this.
For the 20 minutes, one time, you'll have that nice ass.
Show him your ass, though.
Show it, though.
You can get this.
This could be yours for 20 minutes.
Check it out.
The Biggest Loser airs Tuesday at 8 p.m.
Eastern Time, 7 Central, NBC. Don't miss there as well.
We'll be right back.
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There's breaking health news today that will answer one of your biggest questions.
Is it okay to feed my children peanuts?
And when?
In a dramatic turnaround from previous recommendations, a new groundbreaking study says many peanut allergies can in fact be prevented.
Prevented by feeding babies food with peanuts, not by avoiding those foods.
This is big news.
Since it's estimated nearly half a million American children are allergic to peanuts, and for some, even the tiniest trace of peanuts can be life-threatening.
So taking a cue from children in Israel who eat peanut foods as infants but have low allergy rates, the researchers tested two groups of infants.
In the group-fed peanut-based products early on, there was a much lower incidence, surprisingly lower incidence of peanut allergies.
So what do you need to do?
What do you need to do?
First, don't feed whole peanuts to infants because, of course, you've got the risk of choking.
But peanut butter and other foods with peanut butter-type substances in them can now be introduced starting around four to six months of age.
I think it ought to be part of a kid's healthy diet.
Now it's time for in case you missed it.
First up, the government is considering new dietary guidelines.
This is breaking news.
I'm going to break it down for you.
No longer on the do not eat list is cholesterol.
That's right.
Be done with those egg white omelets.
Eggs are back on your government approved healthy plate with the yolks.
What you should really be limiting is not cholesterol because frankly it doesn't really change your blood cholesterol.
Your blood cholesterol comes from your liver making it.
What you eat doesn't change it that much.
What does change everything is sugar.
And so the government's saying, because it used to be sort of vague, from now on your intake of sugar should not exceed 10% of your daily calories.
That's about 12 teaspoons of sugar.
Before this was up to like 18 and they weren't even that specific about it.
So it really needs to be cut back.
We're getting twice that much most of the time.
And for the first time ever...
The advisory panel gave the coffee drink that you all love so much, a thumbs up.
Feel free to indulge in up to five coffees a day.
You don't have to force yourself to have it, but if you want to try it out, it's okay.
The panel argued that because it reduces your risk of diabetes, of cardiovascular disease, and Parkinson's, it might be worthwhile.
Speaking of coffee, you can think of adding butter to your coffee.
It's a growing trend.
But it shouldn't be your entire breakfast.
We investigated this idea.
Here's how.
You put some butter into coffee, it actually slows the absorption of caffeine into your bloodstream, which may result in prolonged energy.
Remember, the butter counts towards the amount of saturated fat you have in a day, so you gotta be thoughtful about it.
I want you to have a healthy breakfast, lots of protein, fiber, and every once in a while, you can pair it up with a cup of coffee with a little bit of butter in it.
If you want, you can add some cinnamon as well, just a little spice.
It's a great start to the day.
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