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Celeb Summer Glow Hacks, Prayer Power & BP Fix | Dr. Oz | S6 | Ep 171 | Full Episode
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See how stars keep their famous faces smooth and bodies beach ready.
I consult with top dermatologists and fitness experts to find the celebrity health secrets that really work.
Cinnamon for fuller lips.
Big old juicy lips.
Brown sugar for softer skin.
It's like a baby's bottom.
And how fear can repair your hair.
Happy hour hair.
Celebrity summer health secrets.
Coming up next on Dr. Oz.
You ever wonder what the stars do to keep their famous faces smooth and their billboard bodies fit?
I scoured the glossies and I consulted with top dermatologists and fitness experts to find the celebrity health secrets that really work.
Here a reveal of the star secrets is a woman who has done her own red carpet research.
Entertainment reporter, Tanika Ray.
Welcome to the show, Tanika.
Dr. Oz.
Hello.
How are you?
Welcome to the show.
Thank you.
So how much can we believe from all the glossies, the magazine pictures we see of these folks?
Well, the magazine's job is to know any and everything about the celebs, so trust them.
Plus, I did my own research, Dr. Oz.
I talked to some doctors, some stylists, as well as all my experience on the red carpet.
These celebrities know what they're talking about, and I'm listening.
All right, let's go to it.
Let's go.
Over here, we're going to start with famous faces.
The first famous face is Lupita Nyong 'o.
The Queen Lupita.
Well, let me tell you, her...
She illuminates from the inside out.
So we're going to listen to what she does.
She's all about avalanche.
Yes!
What she does is she uses it as a moisturizer all over her face and she just really gets all shiny and glowy and delicious.
She looks beautiful.
She does.
How do you apply it?
Well, it's easy.
You want to wash your skin with a regular facial wash and then you slather it on your skin like moisturizer.
It's much like lotion except for way better and natural.
You know, Lupita likes to be organic.
But most importantly, it's thin enough that it will penetrate the skin.
But it's thick enough that it acts as a protective barrier.
And that's why it works.
Yeah, absolutely.
Okay, next famous face we'll talk about.
But I should point this out, avocado oil has restorative processes if it's cold-pressed, which is what you want to look for.
So you approve.
I approve.
Okay, great.
Jennifer Aniston's been on the show.
Yes.
What is her health secret to keep that skin of hers looking so darn smooth?
Yeah, she's amazing.
She's 46 years old.
She looks half her age.
So again, you want to listen to what she has to say.
And her secret is Super cheap, super easy.
You can get it anywhere, even a gas station.
Petroleum jelly?
Where did she put it?
Petroleum jelly.
She puts it right under her eyes so that she can moisturize her under eyes and ward away wrinkles.
Which is what every girl wants, right?
Yes, and then on top of that, She wears it all night long.
She fills up her sink with ice and cold water, sticks her face in it so she can reduce the puffiness of her eyes.
That makes a lot of sense because if you do that, the blood vessels, they narrow down a little bit.
Exactly.
So no wrinkles and she's I'll do that.
I have big bags.
I'll start doing that.
You look great.
One more famous face, Lisa Rinna.
Yes.
Our favorite new housewife in Beverly Hills.
Now, Lisa Rinna is known for a couple things.
She's gorgeous, her body, and her pucker, right?
Big lips.
Big old juicy lips.
Well, what she does is she adds cinnamon to her beauty regime so that she can keep them nice and plump and kissable.
Cinnamon?
You're kidding me.
How does it work?
Well, what she does is she puts her lip gloss on, or lipstick, and she just takes a pinch, just a little bit, it goes a long way, and she dabs it all over her lips, mushes it in, Waits a couple minutes, and boom!
Powwow kissable lips.
Cinnamon must be the most useful thing.
I'm serious.
You can use it for everything.
One little cautionary thing, because I play with this a little bit.
Don't put it on dry, because it can irritate your skin.
So make sure, as you say, put it on your, you know, something with some jelly or gloss or something.
Yeah, make sure there's a barrier.
Put your gloss.
And it's a two for it tastes good on top of looking good.
Perfect.
Come on over here.
Absolutely.
Let's go to Health Secrets.
For the Hollywood hair you all want, we've got three wonderful victims here, Jennifer, Lindsay, and Stacey.
We're putting them all to the test.
Jennifer's going to get the Catherine Zeta-Jones approach.
What do we know about Catherine Zeta-Jones?
Well, her hair is long, shiny, and gorgeous, right?
So we want to take one of her tips, and it happens to be beer.
A nice cold one.
Yes!
You're kidding me.
She drinks it?
No, no, no.
She doesn't drink it.
Don't drink the beer for shiny hair.
What she does is she puts it in her hair, rinses it through, kind of leaves it in for about 20 minutes, and then she shampoos and conditions it like normal.
She doesn't smell like beer all day long?
She might, but I don't think anybody has a problem with that.
Right, guys?
No, I like that.
And what kind of beer do you use?
You know what?
It doesn't matter what kind of beer you use, but it shouldn't be right out the refrigerator.
It should be warm and flat.
So when your husbands are leaving beer around the house, we finally have a good use for it, ladies.
Oh, you like it, huh?
Yeah.
You know, I didn't realize this was true, but stylists have been using this for years.
So instead of paying a lot of money for that, use, as you mentioned, the used-up stuff for the damaged hair repair kit that you want.
Absolutely.
It leaves your hair shiny until the proteins in it really helps.
Can I smell?
Sure.
It's happy hour hair.
It is happy.
That's exactly what it smells like.
Don't try.
What do you think about it so far?
I can always use something for dry ends and for more shine, so I love beer.
Enjoy the beer.
You can drink the leftovers, by the way.
Go for you.
Cheers.
Oh, you can't get it.
Next up is Lindsay.
She's trying Denise Richards' healthy hair secret.
Yes, Denise Richards has gone to the avocado.
Good fatty acids in avocado.
And what's great, she has her shower cap on.
What she's going to do is she's going to mix, mash up one ripe avocado, pour in a tablespoon of olive oil, make a paste, and put it on her ends.
You know, our inns get really dry, ladies, especially with the weather.
So she's going to put it in her hair and then put the shower cap on and bake it in there for about 20 to 30 minutes.
How often do you normally have to do that?
Well, you should do it about once every two weeks, unless you are a flat iron or blow drying addict, which most of the people in this audience probably are.
And you should up that avocado quotient and do it maybe once a week.
How often would you have to use it?
Well, I need to.
So I think it would be important for me to do it every couple of weeks, at least.
I mean, you have something left over.
Chips and dip.
Exactly.
Yep, chips and dip.
Is it in there?
It's in there.
Thank you, Lindsay.
Last up is a Hollywood secret from Blake Lively.
It's Stacy's Trying Out.
What's Blake's secret?
She has it now.
Well, Blake literally got this from her mama.
What it is is mayonnaise, which is filled with fat as well.
A lot of us have balayage.
We have highlights.
You probably have highlights all through your hair.
But the most dangerous part is the bottom.
It really gets ratty.
So you take mayonnaise, you put it at the bottom, you massage it in.
Now, this is different than the avocado.
What Blake does is she goes into the shower, shampoos her hair with the mayonnaise on, And usually what shampoo does is it strips the dirt and the oil from your scalp, but it also, when you're washing the bottom, it doesn't strip the oils from the bottom because the mayonnaise protects it.
Oh, I love that.
What do you normally do for your split ends?
Oh, I have to put lots of conditioner at the bottom, lots of products, and flat iron it.
Well, this is cheaper!
Very much.
Another good use for mayo.
Absolutely.
And how long do you keep it on?
You keep it on about 20 to 30 minutes before you go into the shower and then you shampoo it in condition as usual.
In the summertime especially, you need this, right?
Yes.
You know what I love about it?
It has natural oils in it, so it actually will help lubricate the hair, moisturize it, as well as your scalp.
Let's get a little closer up there.
Thank you very much, Chase.
Next up, let's get to the Billboard Beach Bodies.
The first up, Yeah, these are great health tips, especially during the summer times.
The celebrities are out playing.
are going to take their tips.
First up, we have...
We're going to have them come out from behind the curtain.
They have tried these treatments because I actually want to see what they look like.
Kim Kardashian's health secret.
What is it?
I mean, we're going to follow anything she does, apparently, with all her Twitter followers.
She is all about sugar.
A little bit of sugar goes a long way.
What she does is she takes sugar and puts it in her body wash.
Washes her body all over from head to toe.
Smooth, glowy skin.
That's simple.
Yeah, that's simple.
Kristen tried it.
Come on out.
Oh, she's dressing.
How do you feel?
Out of the cabana.
She's sweet.
Right, you smell sweet.
Yes.
So how did it go for you?
It was great.
Like, what I did was I just put it on.
I mixed my sugar with my body wash.
And I put it on.
Like that, right in the shower.
Right in the shower.
Put it all over your body?
Yeah.
And then I rinse off, and I feel just like a Kardashian.
She feels like a Kardashian.
Well, there's lots of products out there that have sugar scrub, but this is chemical-free, totally organic.
This is the way to go.
You use brown sugar, by the way, which is not an accident.
You should use brown sugar over granulated sugar.
It's a little less irritating, especially if you've got sensitive skin.
It's a great idea.
Here, take the rest of the sugar with me.
You can have it all.
Heart and give for Dr. Oz.
Thank you very much.
The least I could do, literally.
All right, let's get to another health secret for our Beach Buy.
This one is from J-Lo.
What's her secret?
Oh, well, J-Lo, again, we all watch American Idol just to see how gorgeous she is.
She's so smart.
That body of her is at age 46. She sniffs grapefruit extract, okay, to suppress her appetite.
What do you think about that, Dr. Isles?
Do you approve?
Well, she was on the show, and that's when I learned she was doing this.
And there's actually data.
It's in animals.
But it works.
But she has data in her that it works, too.
So I like the idea.
I wanted to ask Latrice, who's in our audience, to try it out.
She's in the cabana.
Come on out, Latrice.
Well, she looks wonderful.
Oh, you're hungry.
I'm always hungry.
So we gave you some of this grapefruit extract.
You've been using it for a while.
What do you think?
You know what?
It is so awesome.
What I do is I sniff it every time I'm hanging out with my girlfriends or different things like that because I'm always hungry.
Peer pressure eating.
Major, major, major.
And then they want to know, how do you stay so slim?
And I said, I'm using grapefruit extract.
And my girlfriend was like, give me some.
You always have it in your purse.
I'm like, uh-uh, you have to go get your own.
Exactly right.
You fight for a claw at it.
You do.
So actually, you know what?
I feel that I look better than, you know, Dr. Oz.
Pose, girl, pose.
I like that.
I like that.
She twirls.
Go ahead.
Go give it to us.
Give it to us.
Again.
It's hard to study this stuff in humans, but as I mentioned, they use this in rats, and it shows that it actually lowers appetite, and for that reason, the rats ate less.
Yes.
Thank you very much.
Snack on, girl.
All right, one more celeb health secret.
This one is from Salma Hayek.
Salma's 48 years old and looks fantastic for her age.
What is her secret?
Yeah, this is actually my favorite, so listen up.
This is called dry brushing.
Now, the same sort of idea of sugar scrubbing the dead skin off of your skin, your arms, your body.
This, you do it before you get in the shower, and it gets off all that extra layer.
So you go in there, already smooth, and then you can do the sugar afterwards.
She swears by it.
She gets in there, and she's yummy.
Come on over here.
I'm going to fence you.
Are you on guard?
Yes!
Do we have a subject?
Cassie, please come out, my dear.
There she is.
Hi!
You've been trying this, and if you bear with us, we're going to actually show everyone else what we've been doing to you.
So use which side?
The hard side like this?
No, this is not dominatrix.
We're not spanking anybody.
This is to slough off dead skin.
So how do you do it?
So we go brush up.
We brush up.
How does that feel?
Not too bad, actually.
Okay.
I actually like it.
I think it feels really good.
It feels kind of like a massage.
Yeah, you get addicted to it, I have to say.
And you start going, where's my dry brush?
I need to fluff off some bits.
And how about you go like this?
No, no, no, no.
You don't want to do that.
Why?
You really want to do it towards the heart for circulation, to let the blood flow.
And you do it on your legs, too.
I'll do it, too.
Why not?
I don't want to be left out.
Actually, I just wanted to because it feels so dang good.
Did it work for you?
Did you enjoy it?
I did.
It's really nice.
It feels good when you're doing it and afterwards as well.
And you feel soft and smooth.
It's like a baby's bottom.
And I think that's what we're all going for, right?
Be soft and smooth.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
It was a real pleasure.
Thank you very much for all the advice.
Thank you, Dr. Oz.
You can get all these simple celebrity health secrets at DrOz.Cal.
I'll be right back.
Coming up, some may argue that faith and health are unrelated, but this doctor says that the power of prayer can reduce the risk of stress and add years to your life.
Can the power of prayer help you heal?
Prayer can cure disease.
Coming up next.
Suit up for summer with Detox Week.
All week long, I'm going to show you different ways to detox your body, feel healthier, be happier, and to look slimmer.
Swamps to lose weight and the food to jumpstart your energy.
That's coming up on Monday.
God saved my life.
A direct answer to thousands and thousands of prayers.
The big conversation today, can the power of prayer help you heal?
Kent Brantley, the doctor who was treated for Ebola and recently released from the hospital, credited prayer and God with helping him heal.
I've seen too many miracles as a practicing surgeon to ignore the potential power of prayer, and I'm not the only one.
The doctor you're about to meet has tangible evidence that the power of prayer can actually help you heal.
Meet Dr. Harold Koenig.
I am a trained medical scientist and a physician.
My primary training is to conduct research in an objective and scientific manner.
But I do believe that there is something more.
That is the power of prayer.
Our professor of psychiatry at Duke University, Dr. Harold Koenig, is a pioneer in connecting the worlds of medicine and spirituality and identifying the link between prayer and health.
He's even seen the effects of prayer on his own well-being.
Prayer has helped me a lot in terms of dealing with my own chronic pain that I've had for 20 to 30 years.
Dr. Koenig is convinced that people who are religious lead much healthier lives and that the power of prayer is so profound it can add 7 to 14 years to your lifespan.
He didn't learn about it in medical school, but Dr. Koenig firmly believes that practicing religion and prayer can be, for many people, a crucial key to healing.
People need more than just medicine or surgery.
It helps a lot, but it's not enough.
And that's kind of where faith enters into the picture.
The world's top expert on religion and health, Dr. Harold Koenig, is joining us.
Do you think prayer can really heal or cure disease?
I think that prayer can heal and cure disease.
But, you know, it doesn't happen very often that a person prays and the disease is gone.
Most of the time we pray and we get the strength to endure the condition.
And, you know, when we're coping better with the condition, we actually do better physiologically.
So it's been preciously difficult to actually find hard data in this area.
I've done research in this area.
Others have as well.
But I want to show you, if I can, some very new research that's just come out.
These are images from a recent study.
That Dr. Koenig brought to my attention.
And they did a study looking at people who are at risk of depression.
This image shows the area of the brain that makes decisions, the area that senses things.
This is the area down here that remembers things.
Now, this image is a compilation of people's brains who were depressed and had not done any prayer around that issue.
And the purple signifies that there's actually a thinning.
Let me show you the second scan now.
Same kind of thing.
They collected images of people who are high risk for depression.
For example, their parents were depressed.
And these people had prayed.
Notice the red and the yellow marks.
These yellow areas and red areas show us that the brain is actually thicker.
It's compensated by being able to cope better with what's going on.
This is the first evidence that I've seen of the power of prayer on the brain that's physically actually changed our brains.
It's as though the brains were doing bicep curls in order to make it a bit stronger.
In part because of this, some researchers have argued that prayer can help reduce the incidence of depression, a very difficult-to-treat problem, by 90%.
That's a big statement.
Now, what about people who aren't overtly religious but are spiritual?
Does the impact seem to reside there as well?
Well, you know, people who are spiritual and who are not particularly religious, they are going to derive benefit from things like meditation, where it's not so much focused on religion.
But, you know, when people pray in the context of a relationship with God, with God whom they see as a friend, Can come into their lives and give them strength and hope.
That really seems to make an additional difference.
I've noticed that the military is doing work on spirituality.
They actually have concluded that it's important for the resilience of folks in the military who are struggling.
You've actually given a number out of how much benefit prayer might offer to us.
Quoting a number, I believe, around 7, 10, maybe even 14 years of longevity.
How do you get those numbers?
Well, you know, religious involvement.
Including prayer, seems to affect our bodies in many different ways.
It affects our minds in terms of how we cope with stress and illness.
It affects our health behaviors, how we live our lives, whether we exercise, what we eat.
Our smoking habits, our drinking habits, and it also surrounds us with a faith community to provide support for us during hard times.
So all of those factors seem to affect our physical health and extend our longevity.
I called my buddies who work at Real Age, which is a great way of assessing how old your body thinks you are, and their numbers were not too different from yours.
If it reduces stress, which is a big part of this, because we don't want it to be a stressful process to incorporate this into your life.
We showed Dr. Ken Brantley earlier.
He's been very vocal about the power of prayer.
He's argued that it helped him heal from Ebola.
There are some who question whether that's true or not.
How would you have an argument with them?
How would you defend Dr. Brantley's beliefs?
Well, I think that his beliefs are powerful for him, and because they are so powerful for him, religious beliefs are one of the most powerful factors that you can imagine in a person's life and in their health.
Because he believes that, that probably has affected his immune system in various ways that have made him stronger and more able to resist the virus.
Now, you know, can we say that this is not a miraculous God God-caused cure of him?
No, we can't.
Science cannot answer that question.
But what we can do, we can say that because of his positive attitudes, that his body was probably more able to fight off this virus.
That's good.
Thank you very much.
You know, religion is a deeply emotional and personal topic, obviously, and some may argue that faith and health are unrelated, but the connection has always seemed very real in my practice.
In fact, I think practicing medicine without a spiritual or religious element is a departure from the norm of history since the first healers.
All of the first healers, pretty much.
We're spiritual leaders as well.
So religion does help cope with social problems.
It helps cope with life in general.
And I think we ought to embrace every tool that helps as long as people don't feel judged or uncomfortable in the process.
That's an important element because I don't want people feeling that way.
Tell us what you think.
You can join the conversation at DrRoz.com and tell us if you think the power of prayer can help heal.
We'll be right back.
Next.
Are you waking up in the middle of the night?
Mind racing.
Heart pounding.
Welcome to the 4AM Club.
You're not alone.
Uncover unique stress remedies to stop your mind from racing and keep you fast asleep.
Next.
Next.
It's happening all over the world, and you may be a part of the club and not even know it.
I'm talking about women on the edge of 50 who wake up in the middle of the night with their minds racing and their hearts pounding.
Sound familiar?
Yeah, a lot of nodding heads.
Comedian and author Annabelle Gurwitch calls it the 4AM Club.
I'm Annabelle Gerwitch.
I'm a 52 year old mother, wife, comedian, author, and I happen to be It doesn't take much to be a member.
Whether you had too much coffee during the day, or you're waking up thinking about what you have to do tomorrow, we've all been there.
We're up at 4AM.
And it's great to know that when you wake up in the middle of the night, you're not alone.
Annabelle's 4AM Club, we're open.
What's up?
Annabelle.
Annabelle.
It's 4 a.m. and I'm wide awake.
Me too.
I'm up and hit.
You can check the temperature in your room, but I think you're just having a hot flash.
I think cookies are, like, needed right now.
I don't know if cookies are asleep.
Do you have any book recommendations?
I have a great recommendation.
I just wrote a new book.
It's called "I See You Made an Effort." Annabelle.
Right on, Target.
So what wakes you up at 4 a.m. in the morning?
Okay, at 4 a.m., I start to wake up and I'm thinking about the things I forgot to do two days ago, the things I forgot to do 25 years ago.
Did I give my kid enough greens?
And why did I go to bed with a sweater wrapped around my waist?
And then I realize it's not a sweater.
It's my waistline now.
It's grown up.
It's everything.
You've fielded lots of calls from women complaining about this 4 a.m. scenario.
There must be common themes.
Yeah, you know, I mean, since I started the book tour, I've met women all over the country, and I think it really boils down to stress.
We're really stressed out at this age.
So Anibal decided to try some rather unusual stress relievers to help out our fellow 4AMers.
Take a look.
Ladies, thank you so much for coming over.
I've come up with some stress relievers that will help us get a little extra sleep tonight.
Are you ready to try something unconventional?
Yes!
Are you ready to get dirty?
Yes!
Not that kind of dirty.
You know, the right kind of dirty.
There's a lot of research that says that Singing, and in particular, singing together, releases endorphins, and that's one of those happiness hormones.
So I've arranged for a singing instructor to work with this, and the best part is you don't have to be a good singer.
Well, thank goodness.
I qualify.
Hey ho, nobody home.
Hey ho, nobody home.
Meat, no drink, no money.
Hey ho, nobody home.
I forgot what I'm singing.
Hey ho, nobody home.
For a first try?
I could see singing at 4 a.m. and being very happy.
Not so much my neighbors.
Meditation has been shown to be relaxing for the brain, and I like a moving meditation, so I thought of Dervish.
Dervish whirling is an ancient technique.
It's from the 13th century in Turkey.
You guys, are you ready?
One, two, three, four, five!
My skirt's not going out!
I overworld.
People have been doing mud baths since Roman times, right?
People say it improves your digestion, it relaxes muscles.
This is going to be the thing.
This is going to be the thing that helps to sleep.
I'm going to help you guys stir up this brew, but I'm not hopping in.
It feels kind of amazing.
It does!
It's like playing in the dirt.
This is just soap.
Out of my comfort zone of the normal day that it just feels so good.
Thank you for inviting me because I'm not going to be a member of the 4 a.m. club tonight.
Me neither.
I might be cleaning up till 4 a.m.
I'm so glad it worked for you guys.
Some very extreme measures.
It looked like dung you were putting into the mud bath.
It was mud.
It was mud in the Baltic Sea.
And my father's from the part of the world in Turkey where they actually do the whirling dervishes.
But you get dizzy at age 52 doing that kind of work.
Yes, I have to say that is not my de-stressor.
It was the singing for me.
You know, you get so caught up.
You're not, you know, chores, bills, working kids.
And we were just so joyful and playing together that we forgot about those things.
And I slept really well that night.
Think about that, folks.
I know it sounds like who has time to go play.
A little bit of it.
If you can sleep at 4 in the morning, it's probably worthwhile.
Okay, you've got an emergency kit for all the folks on the edge of 50 who might be suffering from not only 4 a.m., It starts with, I'm supposed to hold this, is this right?
Yes, granny panties.
Right?
Can I hold it like this?
Those might be your size.
Alright.
Exactly.
Alright, come over here, come on here.
Alright.
So what do you do with these?
Okay.
Why do I need granny panties?
The granny panties are really for a sense of humor, just to remind you to laugh, because in menopause, you need your sense of humor.
And if you also, if you wanted some carbohydrates, you might need those too, because you gain weight so quickly at this age.
Okay, inside here, all right, you ready?
Tweezers.
Okay, tweezers.
On any given day, I can end up with more chin hairs than my teenage son.
Tweezers at this age, very important.
Then, I've got a great selection here of reading glasses.
I don't need to tell you why, right?
I lose my glasses all the time.
Usually, I'm wearing them when I'm looking for them.
You have to hide these around the house.
I do that too, by the way.
Always.
Great.
Okay.
Then, the most important thing in the kit is the phone.
Why?
You're looking at me like, why, Annabelle?
Why this, right?
Well, what I have really found that I need at this age is community.
I need my girlfriends.
Now, my new trick is exercise dates.
Twice a week, standing dates with my girlfriends.
So you get two things.
You get your girlfriend time and your exercise time together.
Well, well thought through.
Last more of her wonderful insights in I See You Made an Effort.
It's a wonderful book.
It's out now.
Be sure to visit our Facebook page.
Enjoy it on Annabelle's 4am Club Conversations.
Here's a home full number, by the way.
We'll be right back.
How do you make sure that you get a good night's sleep?
Meditation.
Every night before bed.
I make sure to take at least 15 minutes to meditate.
It helps quiet my mind and relax me.
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A third of the audience is standing.
Now, why is that?
Because they represent the one out of three adults with high blood pressure.
Now, this season, I'm asking you to take simple steps to better health.
Today, we're focusing on the very first step.
I want everyone to take to get their blood pressure under control.
Now, before I tell you exactly what that step is, I need a little help from my assistant of the day.
How about seat number 73?
Is that you?
Well, how are you?
Everyone else, please grab a seat.
Hi.
Oh, Jesus.
Okay.
Come on down.
Let me put this on you real quick.
What's your first name?
Joanna.
Joanna.
Is that your family back there, friends?
That's my friend Karen.
Oh, I bet she was down here.
Now, your blood pressure, what is it?
Typically, it's normal, 110 over 75-ish.
Oh, you have good blood pressure.
Unless I'm really excited.
They're like, now?
Yeah.
Come sit.
We're going to check your blood pressure.
I have a remarkable effect on people.
I can raise anybody's blood pressure.
All right.
So, here, put your arms right through there.
And let me just see what it is.
You sit there and try to make the world a calm place with all these people watching you.
And we'll put these numbers on.
And while I tell you about this a little bit, you ignore me.
You just concentrate on your blood pressure and relaxing yourself.
Now, you want to use a wide-range cuff.
These cuffs I just put on are designed for different sizes of arms so you don't get the wrong number for yourself.
And remember, the blood pressure is the number, everybody, of the blood rushing against your blood vessels.
The top number is designed to tell us exactly how hard your heart pumps The lower number tells us when your heart's not pumping, when your heart's relaxed, how much you relax, how much your blood vessels are able to open up and let blood flow through them.
So the ideal blood pressure is That green light that I'm identifying.
Anything between 120 and 140 over 90 is called the orange area.
That's called pre-hypertension.
Ideally, you don't want to be there.
It's better off if you're not there.
You want to be in that green light area if possible.
Anything in the red zone, 140 over 90 or above, we don't want that.
And your blood pressure?
Well, your lower number is great, 76. Your higher number, because of me, I'll take the blame on this, is 163.
But that's because you're a bunch of folks around you and you're like...
When you're rushing to get to the office, it goes up.
The best place to take your blood pressure is at home.
That's when it's going to be nice and low, especially to keep your spouse out of it and let everything happen.
But the reality is, because so many of us have high blood pressure and we don't have symptoms, it's called the silent killer.
It's the most important thing to pay attention to.
If you don't know your number, you can't deal with it.
Alright, so let's get you up.
Let me walk you over here because I'm going to show you why I care so much about blood pressure.
And you're going to love this.
And it has to do with your blood vessels.
So we've got two blood vessels here, right?
And both blood vessels are normal.
They both could take you to your old age without having any problems.
But the water, which is the blood in your body, can either come in a very gentle way, sort of like this.
Gently massaging the inside of the blood vessel.
You know, interestingly touching it delicately.
Nudging it, right?
That's what you want.
A blood pressure that's in that green zone like there won't have any damaging effects to your blood vessels, so you don't have to fix holes and problems.
But if your blood pressure is that of a fire hydrant, right, and instead of being that nice number that I mentioned earlier, you're more like, I don't know, have like a jet engine, right?
And you do this to your blood vessel.
Watch what happens.
You see, ripping off the edge there.
Tearing it up.
Exactly right.
And as you tear it up, now you're left with a blood vessel wall that's got a big gap in it.
And when that gap is there, see all this down here?
This material?
This is the blood vessel that's being ripped.
And your body has to fix this.
So see this dark area that's left without a covering?
This teflon-like covering is missing.
Your body has to repair that.
It puts down plaque with cholesterol.
All kinds of bad stuff happens when this delicate lining is ripped off with high blood pressure.
So we don't want that.
Instead, what we want to do is to figure out ways of preventing it.
Now, under these sheets, You put your purple gloves on.
The first specimen is pretty riveting.
I'm calming down.
You can do it again if we have to.
We'll do it at the very end.
How's that?
I'll race you for blood pressure at the end.
Okay.
This is the aorta, the major tube that carries blood in the body.
And you see these little chips?
Yeah.
Go ahead and touch those.
That's like the torn up red in there.
Well, that's what happens when the torn up red is replaced by plaque.
These are little plaques.
Little chips here.
Describe them to everybody.
They're hard.
Much harder than you'd expect.
Much harder than I expected.
Bony is interesting.
It's a good way to describe it.
It's not supposed to be like this table.
Yeah, it feels like the table.
It's supposed to be like a very rubbery substance, and it's not that anymore.
And then over time, as this becomes rigid and unable to allow the blood to pass normally, your heart will change from this beautiful little baby, size of your fist, nice and elegant, right?
About the right size, to this.
Oh.
This is a heart that's faced high blood pressure and burnt out from working hard every single day.
Since I've been talking, your heart's beaten a couple hundred times.
All of ours has.
And if we're pumping against that high pressure that I showed earlier, it's a problem.
So we don't want to have this in our life.
We don't want to experience any of this.
And the first step, the first step, is to know your blood pressure and monitor at home to avoid crazy numbers that aren't accurate.
So take your gloves off here.
Let's go through this.
How often do you check your blood pressure?
At the doctor once a year?
At the doctor once a year.
Yeah.
You know why we used to do that?
It was the only thing we had available.
There was no other way of doing it.
But research, without any question, shows the best place to do it is at home.
So I could come visit your home.
Sure.
Come on over.
But most doctors aren't going to do that.
The best thing to do is to figure out an at-home blood pressure monitoring system that works for you.
I'm going to give you my guidelines real quickly.
You're going to settle down, sit in place for five minutes without moving.
With your feet on the floor, with no one bothering you.
And then you're going to start off initially by taking your blood pressure in both arms, because they can be different.
And you want to know if there's a difference.
There are lots of reasons for that, but you should know that.
And if there is a difference, but more than 10 millimeters of mercury, then you actually want to call it to your doctor's attention.
You can use a wrist monitor if you want.
And if you use a wrist monitor, this is an example of one, you want to put it up by your heart.
It'll tell you.
There's a little light on there.
It'll tell you where to put it.
Like you're pledging allegiance to the flag.
And that little light will light up and it'll let you know that you're in the right spot.
So arm or wrist, they'll both work great.
You want to do this for a week, twice a day.
Then you'll know what your true blood pressure is.
We all have ups and downs, but you'll know generally.
And then after that, you can go, you know, to once a month or more regularly, depending if your blood pressure is high or low.
Does everything I'm saying make sense?
Yes.
And we're living in an era where we can know this.
Why not take advantage of it?
All season long, the Dr. Oz Show and Walmart are teaming up to bring healthy back.
That's our mantra, bringing healthy back.
And Walmart pharmacist Amber Bynum is here with some exciting news from them.
So share it with us.
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Dr. Oz, we're so excited.
We have the Walmart Healthcare Begins Here event.
It's going to be held this Saturday, October 11th from noon until 4 p.m. at participating Walmart locations across the nation.
We're going to be offering free blood pressure screenings, free blood glucose readings by licensed healthcare professionals.
And we're going to do what we talked about today, going above and beyond and providing information about those numbers so that we can help people live better.
And again, one more little tip because I think it'll help everybody.
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Take advantage of it.
It's there for you.
Be the world expert in your body.
Audience, I could not leave you alone without going home with these devices.
Well, you're all going home with a clean blood pressure.
Coming up, learn the tips to shop like a pro and change your family's health.
My husband lost 10 pounds.
I couldn't believe it.
Insider Supermarket Secrets.
To buy what's best for a healthier family.
Coming up next.
I've been telling you that small steps can make a big impact on your health.
One mom and her family are proving just that.
Lisa Leek overhauled the food in her home and changed her family's health.
How'd she do it?
She shopped the supermarket like a pro.
And she's here to show you how to do the exact same thing.
Welcome to the show, Lisa.
So how'd you overhaul your family's food?
Well, a few years ago we had a huge wake-up call when we started researching the foods that we were eating and realized that a lot of the foods we thought were healthy were actually highly processed.
So we challenged our family to take a hundred days of real food pledge.
A hundred days?
Yes.
Now, how did they respond to that?
Well, we certainly explained to the children that we were doing this for our health, and I think children generally want to do the right thing, so they were on board once we told them the reasons behind it.
What kind of results did you get?
Did the folks feel healthy or not really?
You know, we didn't expect to have any immediate changes to our health, so we were really surprised when my husband lost 10 pounds, I had more energy, my youngest daughter's constipation basically went away overnight.
Also, her asthma improved so much, and my good cholesterol, the number that you want to be high, went up by 50%.
I couldn't believe it.
Yeah, that's right.
And this is, again, small steps done right.
The way you describe it makes incredible impact.
Come on over here.
Okay.
Let's get to the tips on how to shop the supermarket like a pro.
The first thing you argue you need to do is to buy fast and easy food staples, things that you have to have on your shop.
Yes, now while it's ideal to shop the perimeter of the store and to get lots of fresh produce, it's not always realistic for a busy family.
So these are some of the staples I do buy from the middle of the store, starting with whole grain crackers.
These are 100% whole wheat pitas.
These fruit leathers are a great little snack and treat for my kids.
And also you can find fruit and nut bars that only have two or three ingredients.
So I always have one of those stashed in the bottom of my purse.
And I love popcorn.
I also love that it's a 100% whole grain snack.
And I want to show you a little trick.
You can take just a third a cup of kernels, put it in a brown paper lunch bag.
And then you just fold over the top, and you can microwave this and make your own microwave popcorn with no additives or unwanted chemicals.
So you just put it in for about three or three and a half minutes, and it's done.
And folks, it doesn't cost very much.
It's a paper bag, basically.
You got it done.
Alright, and over here we have foods that you think we shouldn't be getting.
Exactly.
So, like, this says it's all natural, and it might be, but natural is not a term that's regulated, so you have to read the ingredients to be sure.
So, it was difficult for us to figure all these things out, but once I figured it out, it's so much easier now.
And you teach the kids.
Okay.
Lastly, you say shop in season.
Yes, that is a great way to save money.
And I have a tip for you.
So berries, for example, they are definitely a better deal when they're in season in the summer.
And I actually freeze fresh local organic blueberries and eat them all winter long.
And they are so much better than the frozen packaged berries that you get from the store.
And another great tip to get your kids involved is if you're in the produce section, give them a dollar and tell them they can buy whatever they want.
And that's exactly how I got my oldest daughter to eat a cucumber for the first time.
So I think just because she was able to make the choice.
With a buck, if you can do that, we'll do it.
Okay, so after shopping, doing all these smart things you said, you could put a couple meals together.
Just as an example.
To tantalize you how cool this could be.
So for breakfast, what do you have for us?
Well, this is a recipe for my new book.
These are whole wheat banana pancakes.
And the great thing about this recipe is that the bananas are so sweet.
It's a great introductory recipe for someone who's just getting used to the taste of whole wheat.
And for lunch, you've got pita pizzas, which every child loves.
Yeah, these are so easy.
You just take those whole wheat pitas, and I use jarred organic tomato sauce from the grocery store and grated mozzarella, and you can toast them in the oven or the toaster oven.
And I actually make big batches of these in advance and freeze them.
I pack them cold and they love them.
They eat them up.
And this looks like a lot of work.
This is a slow cooker?
No, this is so easy.
So this is the most popular recipe on my blog.
I call it the best whole chicken in the slow cooker.
You basically rub some spices on the chicken and you put it in the slow cooker with an onion.
No need to add any liquid.
And then you cook it on high for four hours and it's like tender, falling off the bone.
This cannot be that good.
It is so good.
And especially if you have a recipe where you need to use cooked chicken.
This is how I always make it.
And then the best thing to do is you take the bones after you're done eating the chicken, put them back in the slow cooker, fill it with water, leave the cooking juices in there, add some veggie scraps, and I make homemade chicken broth overnight while I'm sleeping.
So you make something with ingredients you would have thrown away anyway.
I love it.
And finally, popcorn, which I think is the best snack for most of you who have issues late at night.
Yes.
Is that cinnamon on there?
Yes, this is cinnamon glazed popcorn, and just because you're on a real food diet doesn't mean I mean, you can't have a sweet tooth.
I love to make this.
You just mix melted butter and honey and cinnamon and ginger together and you bake it on a low temperature together.
And I always give this to the teachers for holiday gifts every year with a little recipe card and it's a big hit.
Does that help with the grades at all?
They're getting good grades to begin with, I hope.
I am very proud of you.
You invested a little bit of effort, made those small steps, and now you've changed the life of you and your family.
Thank you.
Yes.
And the next generation, too.
Congratulations.
Thank you so much.
You can check out all of Lisa's recipes in her new book, 100 Days of Real Food.
It's absolutely fabulous.
I'll be right back.
You made it.
All new Oz.
Suit up for summer.
Detox Week kicks off with a summer cleanse almost anyone can do.
Yes!
All week long, I'm going to show you different ways to detox your body, feel healthier, be happier, and to look slimmer.
Swaps to lose weight.
We made ice cubes that had blackberries in it.
It's very clever.
Very refreshing.
And the summer food to jumpstart your day.
I feel amazing.
I have a lot more energy.
All new Oz.
That's coming up on Monday.
Yeah!
It is time for In Case You Missed This.
First up.
It's our big conversation point today.
Can the power of prayer help you heal?
Religion and health expert Dr. Harold Koenig says yes, and he's emphatic about it.
He believes that prayer can promote healing by reducing stress and anxiety, and it actually even helps depression by 90%.
Studies have found that physical changes in the brain happen in people who are religious and pray, and some may argue that faith and health are unrelated, but the connection has always seemed very real to me in my practice.
Next, shop the supermarket like a pro.
One way to do this, and this is, I think, pretty simple, is realize that it's not practical to just shop the perimeter of the store, although it's a good place to start.
You can buy fast and easy food staples everywhere.
For example, in these packages, I'll give you some of these.
You can have whole wheat crackers.
There's pita, puffed rice cereal.
Again, check the ingredients.
Fruit leathers.
These nut bars are fabulous.
Again, look to make sure you don't have 25 synthetic things in there, but these can be easily found with a little bit of homework.
And even with things like popcorn, you can prepare them as a wonderful late night snack Please be careful about what you buy online, especially weight loss pills.
There are some dubious people online that prey on folks like you who are trying to do the right thing for your health.
Sometimes, they even try to make it seem like I'm endorsing their products.
I don't.
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