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May 26, 2025 - Dr. Oz Podcast
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Could Your Sluggish Thyroid Really Be Cancer? | Dr. Oz | S10 | Ep 17 | Full Episode
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Warning signs that can go unnoticed.
I was undiagnosed for 22 years.
Symptoms that can mimic other illnesses.
Had severe neck pain in the back of my neck.
How do you know if you're at risk for thyroid cancer?
It sneaks up on you, which is one of the reasons we miss it.
Plus, Shark Tank's Damon John reveals his own battle with the disease.
If I could just save one life, isn't that what I've been given this public stage for?
Coming up next.
Oh, oh, oh.
Y 'all ready for season 10?
Yeah!
I love you, Becca.
If you're feeling tired, you have trouble losing weight, or you spot a hair in the drain that looks like this in the shower, there could be an issue with your thyroid.
But is it a sluggish thyroid, or could it be thyroid cancer?
It's an important question, since thyroid cancer rates have tripled over the last three decades, and three out of four cases are found in women.
So today, we are arming you with the red flags to look for, so you can tell the difference.
Joining us now, a man who turned his survival story into a mission to save lives.
Please welcome my dear friend, the shark with the biggest bite, Damon John.
My favorite guy.
How you doing?
Well, before we get too far into this, obviously, David's going to talk a little bit about his thyroid cancer, stage two thyroid cancer.
How you feeling now?
I am feeling great.
I am cancer-free.
I'm in remission.
Yeah.
But, you know, it's a process.
I still have to check on it, and I still have to stay on top of it and make sure that it doesn't come back.
I've been in one year in remission, but, you know, I've got to keep educating myself on how to improve.
Do you ever wake up in the middle of the night, stare at the ceiling and think, what if I hadn't figured it out?
What if it wasn't caught in time?
Yeah, I have.
I have thought about that.
You know, at one point we felt that it may have been moving up to my lymph nodes.
And I think about all the work that I've done all my life.
You know, as an entrepreneur, I never took care of myself, right?
We took care of everybody else, right?
The family and the employees and everything else.
And why didn't I take care of myself?
I just didn't know that you could be ahead of the game and try to get early detection.
I always thought, let me stick my head in the sand, and hopefully that invisible bus doesn't hit me like it has hit such people like our dear friend Big Ang.
Yes, Big Ang is a good example.
So, just using investment technology, because you're a businessman, you argue that the biggest investment we need to make is to invest in ourselves, in our health.
Absolutely.
Yeah, you know, first of all, from one standpoint, if you're healthy, then you can be more productive, right?
And then, you know, mentally also, think about that.
You know, the old saying is a person with their health has a thousand dreams, a person without only has one.
And when you see us on Shark Tank, we don't talk about health.
We don't talk about, you know, we'll go out and learn everything, how to increase sales and reduce costs and what's new technology, but we won't say something doesn't feel right.
How do I check into it?
And maybe a doctor or somebody is not, you know, at one point they can't diagnose it, immediately we go, oh, that's okay.
I don't say that in my business.
You tell me it can't work.
I don't go, that's okay.
So why don't we do the same thing with our health?
I've never heard, actually, that a person with their health has a thousand dreams, and a person without their health only has one.
I think that's true for any of us who've been ill, right?
The day you get sick, you've got one thing that you've got to aim for, everything else falls away.
And that's what we're doing today.
We're going to help you all invest in your health, because they've got the best investor out there to make it happen, because knowing what to look for can make all the difference.
So I want you to meet two more thyroid cancer survivors.
Come on over here.
Everyone is in remission, so congratulations.
I'll high-five on that.
Congratulations.
How are you doing?
Let's start with you, by the way.
I can't help notice.
Is that a tattoo?
It's real?
Yes, it is.
It's a beautiful butterfly.
Thank you so much.
Why a butterfly?
Well, having a hidden cancer for so many years, it represents the shape of the thyroid gland, and so we butterfly warriors have the thyroid ribbon color of aqua pink and purple, and I designed it after a Peruvian butterfly, and it flattened the keloid while covering the scar.
So there's multiple benefits.
That's correct.
Plus emblematic of your survival.
That's true.
Now, Nicole here is a big-time Shark Tank fan.
All right.
So I know that you've got a little message here for Damon as well.
I do.
I'm glad to meet both of you in person, but I appreciate that you are open about not only, you know, before you were diagnosed, not maybe putting your...
It's great that you're bringing awareness to, you know, that this is sort of a lifelong thing.
Once we have, you know, once we're in remission, we're still monitoring ourselves, and it's sort of a day-to-day battle to thrive, you know?
Come on, give me a hug.
Thank you.
You're good to hear that.
It does, it does.
You know, because I didn't know if I wanted to go public with it, but I figured if I could just save one life, you know, isn't that what I've been given this public stage for?
Of course.
You got a big voice for users.
While most people with thyroid cancer don't have symptoms, if they do have symptoms, there are four essential red flags, right?
And each of these flags is important for you to keep in mind.
So I've got three survivors to walk us through it.
They've been starting us off.
The first red flag for folks to pay attention to is trouble breathing.
Did you have that problem at all?
I did not actually have that problem of trouble breathing.
I really didn't.
And I didn't feel many, many of the symptoms until after I said, wait a minute.
Maybe there was an issue and I didn't notice it.
Now that you mention it, that's the point, right?
Now we're going to actually mention it so you think about it before it happens.
And none of these are all that common because most people with thyroid cancer don't have any symptoms.
But these are the ones that do sort of wake you up to them.
Okay, Janet, go ahead.
You get the next red flag.
And I'm wondering if you had any of these problems, constant cough being yours.
Horse and constant smokers cough every night for more than two years and never touched a cigarette.
Whoa.
So constant cough.
Number three, take it away, Nicole.
The third red flag is all about neck pain.
And what kind of pain it is, or did you actually have any pain at all?
I did.
I did not realize it had to do with my thyroid, but I had severe neck pain in the back of my neck.
I couldn't sleep.
You know, and I thought, oh boy, I need a massage.
But after my surgery, it resolved.
So, yeah.
It's a chameleon.
You know, it sneaks up on you, which is one of the reasons we miss it.
And the fourth red flag is trouble swallowing.
Which happens because as the thyroid starts to get in the way of other basic functions, right on top of the throat, you'll have issues of breathing, you'll have issues of swallowing sometimes, because it begins to invade the tissues around it.
Or just because it gets bigger.
And you can get that even if you have a goiter, which is an evident cancer.
So this is a critical location in your body.
So it's trying to whisper to you that it's there.
When we come back, the at-home thyroid test, and we're going to be calling the Damon John Neck Check.
All right.
Like that idea?
Absolutely.
I love it.
All right.
You can do it right now in your own home.
I'm going to show you exactly how to stick around.
He's accused of a lot of questionable behavior.
He asked me to undress me.
He watched me while I did so.
He was very creepy and unprofessional.
He conducted the exam without any gloves.
It was very uncomfortable.
I didn't understand.
The university gynecologist accused by over 300 women of the most unspeakable crimes.
These young women were violated.
All new Oz.
That's coming up tomorrow.
*Cheering*
We are back.
We're back with Shark Tank mogul, Damon John, who survived thyroid cancer and is on a mission to save lives.
And we're about to show you a super easy at-home thyroid test you can do right now.
But first, take a quick look at the thyroid and what it does.
So your thyroid is this itty-bitty butterfly-shaped gland.
It's hidden beneath the Adam's apple, which is out there, right?
Right under here.
And it affects your body in a really big way.
Most people know that it regulates your body's metabolism.
them.
It can affect your heart rate.
It can affect how your lungs squeeze, even your body temperature.
So a lot of things begin to get The heart goes faster, the lungs go faster, your temperature goes high.
If it makes too little of a hormone, that's called hypothyroidism.
A lot of you have that.
That can signify an autoimmune problem that can increase your risk of thyroid cancer, as well as making you feel sluggish and slowing everything down too much.
Now, the good news is, when this thyroid gets large, most of the time, it's not a big deal.
Only a small percentage of people end up getting cancer.
So I've got a little test to figure out if your thyroid is healthy or if it's enlarged, you need to go out and get someone to look at it.
We're going to call it the Damon John Neck Check.
All right.
You all ready to do this?
Okay.
Put your hands together like a butterfly, like you're going to swim or fly like that.
Okay?
You all ready to do this?
Okay.
Now, we're all going to do it together.
We're floating like a butterfly.
Put that on top of your Adam's apple.
Got the Adam's apple?
All right.
Okay.
Now, those fingers, they were just dancing.
Okay, push that a little bit.
You feel the little ribs there?
The little notches?
That's the trachea.
Okay, now all together, you're going to swallow.
As you swallow, if you need a little water, you can get a glass of water and get the water in your mouth and swallow then.
If you feel something jump up and down, like a piece of tissue, like a small finger jumping up and down beneath your fingers, that means you've got a thyroid that's bigger than it's supposed to be.
If it feels lumpy, if it's sore, don't panic.
You go see a doctor.
Alright, so everyone swallow.
What do you feel now that you're doing it right?
It's okay.
No problem.
Nothing.
You feel anything?
No, I don't feel anything.
Good.
You're not supposed to feel anything.
That's a good thing.
If you don't feel anything, of course, coughing is allowed also, you're pretty good.
Did you feel something when you were having the thyroid?
When I did, yeah.
When I went into and the surgeon told me to feel there, I did.
And you notice, by the way, he's got his fingers under his thigh.
It's sort of low.
It's not up here.
Don't feel under your chin.
That's the Napoleon Dynamite thing.
That's the Napoleon Dynamite test.
Let's get it down low.
So this is not all lumps of cancer, but it's always worth a trip to the doctor's office for some peace of mind.
This whole audience is happy now.
You should do it as well.
Teach your friends.
We'll put a quick little one sheet on DrRoz.com to help you remember how to do the Damon John neck check.
I'll not let him go yet because he's going to share some of his business advice when we come back.
We're converting this set into a shark tank with a nurse entrepreneur.
A nursepreneur challenge.
I can't wait.
Calling all nursing students.
The Dr. Oz Show wants to celebrate you.
If you're currently enrolled in nursing school, you could have a chance to win $10,000 and be on my show.
Go to DrOz.com to enter by November 15th.
We're here with Damon John, who had stage 2 thyroid cancer and credits the amazing medical professionals around him with saving his life.
Now he's giving back, lending his Shark Tank business smarts to two nursepreneurs who are competing for their first ever coveted golden stethoscope.
It's a nursepreneur Shark Tank today.
That is really a pretty prize.
Are you guys ready, everybody?
They're ready to go.
All right.
What do you look for when you get pitched an idea?
You know, can it solve a problem?
And, of course, I look for the entrepreneur.
Do they really have a passion behind it, and do they really believe in it?
All right, let's meet our first competitor.
We narrowed it down to two nurses who have briefly pitched their product, and Damon's going to pick his favorite.
Up first in the tank is Sarah.
There she is, Sarah.
Come on up.
She's a nurse.
She practices in Delaware, actually.
And she has a solution to a big problem, Damon.
Take it away.
Hello, Dr. Oz, Damon.
My name is Sarah, and I developed the Qualaclip stethoscope holder because I find wearing my stethoscope on my neck very uncomfortable.
It was giving me headaches and neck pain.
At the end of my shift, I didn't like the way it swung into my patients when I leaned over to provide care to them, and also for nurse safety.
To prevent an agitated patient from gaining control by using the stethoscope as a strangulation device.
Never thought of that.
Yeah, it happens all the time.
Oh my goodness.
Very, very scary.
Never thought of that angle.
So, what's the solution?
So, instead of wearing my stethoscope around my neck, I wear my stethoscope in my koala clip.
Koala clip.
Because it reminds me of a koala, the way a koala grabs onto a tree.
Yes.
You put it like that.
Oh, yes!
It's spring, so you can really wear it anywhere that you'd like.
I like it on my pocket.
A lot of my customers like it on their waistband.
You can, at the end of your shift, you can put it on your tote bag on the outside so you don't have to put your stethoscope and curl it up and put it in your bag.
It uses a hair clip.
Yeah, sure, sure.
And there's nothing out there that, you know, previously?
To hold stethoscopes?
Well, there is something out there to hold stethoscopes.
It's a different design than mine.
I have a design patent.
All right.
And it didn't work.
And that's why I developed this product.
Got to be a better way.
Because I had really bad neck pain.
Thank you very, very much.
Thank you.
Do you have any specific advice for Sarah?
You know, honestly, this is a very simple product that is needed in the market, and this is not one of those things where you need a big deal.
You can start off by making a dozen or a hundred and, you know, whatever the case is, and it could actually grow into a very, very big business.
So congratulations.
Thank you.
All right, now let's see who your competitor is.
Amy is here.
Come on out, Amy.
Let's see what she does.
Oh my goodness, she's bringing a patient with her.
A patient and a nurse and an orderly.
This looks a serious deal here.
Alright, Amy.
Briefly, what is the product?
Yes, my name is Amy Copperthwaite.
I am the CEO of Avkin.
I'm also a clinical nurse specialist and faculty at the University of Delaware.
What we've really done is taken these large plastic mannequins that students are normally taught on and retaught on and taken that lifeless form and actually taken the technology into bits and pieces so that they actually can be used on a live person so they can really develop not just the competence but also the compassion that's needed in healthcare today.
So, is it the chest piece?
What is the actual device?
So, yes, the actual device, Damon actually has one right over here.
If you take a look, this is the first of three of our patented products.
It actually has lung sounds, and you can instill mucus into it, because we know patients with tracheostomies often have a lot of mucus, so it's just that realism, that authenticity, but you actually have a real person there, so you're interacting with a real person as they're learning the care.
So, you actually say suction in there?
Yeah, come on up.
Come on up.
We're going to do this together.
Oh, my goodness.
That's beyond my pay grade, man.
I want to see how you do it.
Damon, you can stand on this side.
So, essentially, this thing is a piece of technology, wearable technology, that actually has sensors inside.
So if I suction too deeply and hit her carina or the where her lungs bifurcate She actually will get a vibration and know how to react and respond the way a real patient would So it's really giving that authenticity to real true bedside care.
So We're going to do this non-starily, even though it's for TV.
Just for time.
Go ahead.
Go ahead.
Put some gloves on.
I'm going to turn the suction on.
Megan, take a couple deep breaths for me.
Do you feel like you're having a hard time breathing?
Okay.
So I'm going to be a bad nurse, and I'm going to go down and hit her carina, but we'll see if Dr. Oz can do a better job after I'm done.
So I'm going to go down.
Well, that wasn't done right.
No, no, that's not good.
All right.
Stop that.
Okay, so I'm simulating what the nursing students would have done, taken too long, been uncomfortable, and now we're going to see if Dr. Oz can do a better job here.
I'm not usually better than a nurse at this, but we'll give you a shot.
Well, maybe if you don't go down quite so far.
There we go.
Go ahead and do the suction on the...
That is realistic.
Yeah.
It's really meant to create that authenticity and realism.
And then at the end of the simulation experience or the learning experience, they actually get to hear from the patient's perspective how that was.
Turn that off so I can hear you better.
Sure.
Damon, advice for Amy, what do you think?
I have no idea what just happened.
And I'm just so thankful for medical professionals because I'm just so thankful for medical professionals.
I have no idea what just happened.
Don't you want competent and compassionate health care?
No, absolutely.
And thank God you can think of this and keep improving science and make us healthier.
I make t-shirts.
All right, you tell us.
Who is the winner now?
We've got two wonderful NERF entrepreneurs.
The winner is...
Both.
I can't do it, Doc.
I can't do it.
All right.
Both.
Both.
Two winners.
All right.
We have two coveted winners.
There we have it.
Da-da, da-da-da, da.
Put that on you.
Da-da, da.
See how many of you put it on, right?
Two winners.
Congratulations.
You both did a wonderful job.
You know what?
Because you're nurses and because you guys are the ones who really make the healthcare system work, God bless you.
Thank you very, very much.
I got a special announcement with Damon for a second.
Before we go, we teamed up with Johnson& Johnson for the Lab Coat of the Future Quickfire Challenge.
It sounds cool.
What is it?
You know, the lab coat has been the same way for so many years.
And you look at technology today where we can probably make some technology on it where if you're having some products on it and, you know, it's dangerous for We can know more about it.
The lab coat has been the exact same.
So Johnson& Johnson and I teamed up.
We awarded $50,000 to someone who came up with a new design for that.
And now you can be part of it all.
You can all be champions of science.
Today, Johnson& Johnson Innovation launched a donation campaign that will be open through the end of October.
As a part of their commitment to advocate for science, Johnson& Johnson will donate $5 to Biotech Institute up to $25,000.
For every social media post using the hashtag champions of science.
That's all you need to do to protect all these great professionals who are saving our lives.
Everyone at home, you take out your phones, be a champion of science, tweet with the hashtag champions of science, hashtag to fuel the next generation of innovators.
God bless you.
Thank you.
Give me a shot.
Congratulations, Ursus.
We'll be right back.
Thank you.
Fall in love with fun!
And Rachel Ray is here with a guide to her favorite soups for this time of year, which includes a whole new green, and it's not kale.
Rachel Ray has changed the way we approach the daily meal, teaching many of us that cooking can be simple and fun.
And her practical down-to-earth methods can morph anyone into a full-blown foodie.
Now this culinary mogul is here with a brand new make-ahead food prep guide to fall soups that will fill your freezer with healthy dinners for this season.
Please welcome my good friend, Rachel Ray.
Woo!
Are we dancing?
I love having you here.
Hi, I love having you here, too.
So, I gotta say.
Good morning.
And one thing I know, I know it's the fall, because it's the Rachel Ray Show's 13th season.
It's back!
Yeah!
Whew!
You can still afford groceries.
I got a job.
Yay!
Well, that's one of the things that makes you so special.
Thank you, thank you.
The fall, besides having to go back and make the show, which I know is a joy for all of us.
Fall is my favorite season, and soups are probably my favorite type of food.
They really are very nourishing in so many ways, like for your soul, not just your body.
And they're great because they can take whatever you've got in the summer.
That's right.
And you make it because fall speaks up on you and repurpose it.
Late summer, early fall, I do tons and tons of make-ahead meals, and they're all soups and stews and sauces.
Translating the vegetables into a freezer full.
Into this.
Yes.
This is what Rachel is really good at.
Now, this is really smart.
When you make your soups and stews for the fall, don't put them into those plastic storage containers.
They take up too much room.
Cool them down to room temperature and put them in these flat freezer bags and you can stack up.
Dozens of them in the freezer.
And it's a great way when broccoli's on sale, make some broccoli soup.
The last corn of the season, make some corn soup or corn chowder or corn and seafood soup.
It's as easy as a box of stock if you don't have time to make stock from scratch.
And any vegetable combination, throw it in the freezer.
Make your own takeout food and frozen foods and canned foods.
It's so much cheaper and better for you.
Let's talk about soup in general.
I've heard you say that if you really want to make Italian food healthy, Yes.
Make it into a soup.
You know, Italian food, if you're not of Italian descent, if your family isn't Italian, some people think of Italian-American food that's very delicious, but super high in calories, like chicken parm, you know, fried chicken with cheese and lots of giant sides of pasta with tons and tons of cheese.
But if you're trying to trim down, Italian food and soups are actually a great way to do it.
Lots of vegetable-laden soups are very filling and full of great nutrition.
And you can have a little bit of pasta in it or beans.
But you're not eating a ton of calories.
You're just getting a ton of great nutrition.
So you're going to be three examples of how we take these healthy ingredients.
There's three of my favorites.
You're kidding me!
Three of my favorites.
And you're bringing in the life for us?
Everybody loves tomato soup, right?
Yes.
A lot of people enjoy a creamy tomato soup, so finishing with heavy cream.
This is an Italian traditional method of making tomato soup.
You take your root vegetables.
I like fennel.
Carrot, celery, onion are your usual suspects.
I put garlic in everything.
You add stock, San Marzano canned tomatoes.
And you thicken the soup in a very clever way.
Not with heavy cream, but with a little polenta.
A little corn.
A little cornmeal in it.
It makes it sweeter and more delicious.
And then I love these little immersion blenders.
It's so much easier than taking the soup and trying to throw it into a blender.
Screaming hot boiling soup.
Don't do that.
When do you add the tomatoes?
You can add them here.
It doesn't matter.
You soften the veggies just so they're going to go through the blender a little easier.
And then you just break this down and let the tomatoes cook out.
And you thicken it with a little bit of polenta.
Those are done if you want to try a little bit.
Oh, you made it already?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Oh, she's so prepared today.
Those are some done-dones.
It's truly delicious.
It's slightly sweet, but it's savory.
And full.
It fills your whole mouth.
Isn't it?
And this is such great nutrition.
And what else is great about soup is it stretches a dollar.
You know, it's the way you stretch a buck.
Why do more people not use polenta as a thickening agent?
It's brilliant.
It's just, it's an Italian thing.
It's a cultural thing.
Like, we just, you know, people in America don't use cornmeal.
If you come from the South, totally use cornmeal.
Grips, hello.
So, there's probably a lot of great chefs down south that would thicken up anything with a little bit of cornmeal.
This is today's hero.
Today's hero from Rachel Polenta.
It's delicious and super sweet.
It's our hero.
All right.
Now, this is a little special.
This is the minestrone with chicken regatta meatballs.
But can I tell you one thing?
Yeah.
People don't eat escarole.
This is escarole, you'd say in Italian.
When you're a kid, the first meal you're introduced to You know, most people know this soup from, like, it's a derivative of wedding soup, they call it, little meatball soup.
But this one, I hope everybody downloads this.
It's so delicious.
If you want your kids to embrace escarole or kale, put it in with little baby meatballs and pasta, and they will love it.
I talk about kale all the time, and I've actually gotten a lot of folks to eat it, but this isn't kale.
This is a green we've never really talked about.
Cam is a great, sturdy green that you can cook with, and it is a superfood, as they say.
But escarole, or escarole, is milder once you cook it out.
It's only slightly bitter.
You can eat it raw in salads.
This is, again, your usual suspects.
Carrot, celery, onion, garlic, stock, vegetable or chicken.
And I always drop in when I make soups.
This is a great tip.
The rind of Parmigiano-Reggiano.
The whole soup tastes like parm cheese.
My wife does that.
You get so much flavor.
It's delicious.
Waste nothing.
I always buy a piece of cheese with the rind on it, and I keep them in my freezer.
It looks like Remy, the ratatouille rat, that's in my house because I got so many cheese rinds in the freezer.
With a little French music.
But it's so good in your sauces and your soups.
Throw that together, and you just wilt the grains in here.
And now this, you cook the meatballs, not in oil, so healthy.
You cook them like dumplings, directly dropping the chicken and the ricotta into the soup.
So try it, try it.
This is good.
The beans you add when?
The beans and the pasta you cook off at the same time as the baby meatballs.
It's great nutrition, and children love these little meatballs.
They're soft, they're sweet, and it's just ground white meat, chicken, and a little ricotta cheese.
And this crudo has the right texture.
It's got a nice little bite.
And all the bitterness is out of it.
No, it's delicious.
Honestly, the kids will love this, and you're giving them great nutrition.
And this is why people get married to these soups.
I think it's a good reason for it.
Delicious.
Finally, roasted cauliflower soup with a parsley salad bruschetta.
Again, this is a classy, classy way of taking something so good for us and making it taste unbelievable.
Everybody loves cream soups, but again, cream soups are not great for your figure, right?
And they're not great for your arteries.
So this one, we just take cauliflower.
And put a little bit of olive oil spray on it or a little drizzle and toss.
And then a little nutmeg, salt, and pepper or white pepper.
We roast up whole heads of garlic so it's sweet and delicious and not sharp and bitter at all.
We roast this and paste it.
And then we take the roasted cauliflower and you just puree it with stock vegetable or chicken.
I'm going to serve up a warm one.
This one's staying nice and hot.
And then I put a little bit of extra roasted cauliflower on top.
It tastes creamy and delicious, and all this is is eating a giant bowl of cauliflower and stock and roasted garlic.
It's so good for you.
And cruciferous vegetables, right?
They are so good for you, nutritionally.
The best way to detox your liver, but look at how you're doing it.
And you can't mess it up.
It's basically simple stuff.
And it tastes so, like, rich and heavy and hearty.
And it's just vegetables.
I can taste the fresh herbs.
It's got this little brightness to it from the lemon.
Yeah, I always finish soups with a little bit of acid.
Is that all these soups you added a little lemon or lime to?
All of the soups have a little bit of acidity.
In Italian cooking, it's very important to finish with a little lemon juice or to add some white wine.
Acidity is the balance to the salt and the earthiness of our dishes.
The leftover white wine.
What you haven't finished while cooking.
Yeah, like there's never leftover wine in my house.
And then the bruschetta.
My first word was vino.
There's no leftover wine.
We have bottles, not glasses.
Sorry.
So, on that note, the October issue of Rachel's Magazine is...
Yeah, it's our Italian issue.
You guys got to check it out.
And it's so good.
And it features Rachel's tomato soup and palanta we started with.
Check it out for more delicious recipes.
And you guys are going to put up all these recipes, right?
They're all going to be on DrRaz.com.
Check them out.
She's going to be all over my Facebook page.
You're doing the takeover of the Facebook page.
Nice.
6 million people.
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When we come back, White Rachel is teaming up.
Listen carefully.
Giada De Laurentiis, Alex Guernicelli, and some of the biggest names in food present a powerful message to young women everywhere.
This is important stuff.
Stay with us.
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Thank you.
Thank you.
I love getting to talk with you on my show every single day.
But when the cameras stop rolling, the conversation is not over.
I still have a lot that I want to talk about.
So download the Dr. Oz podcast on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
We're back with Rachel Ray.
Advice for young women who want to be chefs.
Young women who want to be like you.
Well, you know, I think my best advice for anyone is to value work itself.
You know, my mom taught me from the time I was very young.
That work is a privilege.
And if you work very hard and you're grateful for every job you have in life, I really believe, especially in this country, you will go forward.
So you'll be successful at whatever you want to do.
I also believe, whether you want to be a chef or not, I also believe very deeply that when I was a kid and you went to public school, everybody got home ec.
Everybody got shop class.
You learned how to fix a car, sew a button, make your own food.
Basic trades.
Yeah.
Everyone should learn the basics of cooking good, nutritious food.
It helps your pocketbook.
It certainly improves the quality of your life and the length of your life.
It is an essential skill for everyone, not just people that want to cook for a living, in my opinion.
The issue of the role of women in this process is critical to you.
And I think it's something I want to spend a second on now.
The culinary world is dominated by male chefs, which is always surprising to me.
So what can women do to become those chefs?
I think that, you know, as in any profession, the person best qualified for the job deserves that job.
But there is a big discrepancy in the number of women.
You know, at our magazine, we try and celebrate women with a cover that we do called Like a Boss, right?
So last year we did a big issue about it, and I had all these great female chefs on our show.
This year we wanted to go back and represent women of color that are boss chefs.
It's hard to find.
You know what I mean?
We have to really nurture our young people and if they're into it, give them the same respect across the board for a man and a woman in the kitchen or any place else.
I really think that that's changing and the tide is turning.
And I think that just having the conversation about it, like at this year's Food and Wine Festival here in New York, we're doing a Supper is Served event.
It's all female mixologists and chefs and Giada De Laurentiis and Alex Garnaschelli, myself, everybody.
Martina McBride is performing.
It's a real celebration of what women are doing and how innovative they are in the kitchen.
Let me high-five you on that.
High ten!
I talk to Daphne about this all the time, and I see as a young woman who's trying to become like you, right?
It is challenging in ways I never anticipated.
And like you, I want the best person to do the best job, but I want everyone to be able to play in the field.
To have the same advantage is all we're asking.
Get everyone on the field, and then let the best player win.
And to get the same respect, right?
And to just get the same respect.
I love everything you stand for.
I love your person as well.
It's her 13th, lucky 13th.
It's his 10th!
Double digits right here!
You can check out the New York City Wine and Foods Festival.
Oh, I think the audience.
Yeah, the audience is going to get some tickets.
No, no, no.
You're stealing my thunder, Rachel.
Darn it.
No, no.
She didn't mean that.
It's October 11th through 14th, and we're going to be giving away some tickets to my Facebook followers.
Look for that today.
And there's one last thing.
Okay.
You want to say it?
No, go ahead.
We can both say it.
Okay.
One more surprise.
Let's do it together.
Everybody in the studio audience is going home with tickets today!
Enjoy it!
Spread it around in the wisdom as well.
Make the food!
We'll be right back.
Yay!
Yeah!
God bless you.
you you We're celebrating our 10th season and we're not turning back.
We're looking forward to our next 10 and yours.
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It happens to all of us.
You walk through the door after a tough day and it's chaos.
Dinner isn't cooked.
Laundry isn't done.
You kick off your shoes and step on something.
Ow!
And you're ready to blow a gasket.
Instead, pause for a moment and take five deep breaths.
Ah.
Everyone do it together so nice.
No matter where the stress in your life is coming from, today I have the self-care regimen to help you go from manic to mindful in just minutes.
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And you all know this, right?
Mindfulness is what we all try to achieve, but it's hard to do that because the stress gets in the way, crazily.
So why is it so important to helping us cope?
You know, Dr. Oz, mindfulness is a mental state that's achieved when we focus our awareness on the present moment, calmly acknowledging our thoughts and our feelings.
It is not easy to be mindful today between technology, being on 24-7, juggling kids and work and family.
It is so important to slow down that frenetic pace and really take a moment to relax, rest, and kind of recharge the mind.
We know that that's so critical, and nowadays mindfulness is a no-no-no-no-no-no-no.
It's not a luxury because we have to be the most productive versions of ourselves.
And what I see in practice is that all of this really affects women the most because they are juggling everything, everyone else's needs, and often neglecting their own health.
The whole audience is going like this.
But how to do it, that's the challenge.
You have a hack for us.
I do.
So mindfulness, remember, is achieved when we're in the present moment.
And there are so many different ways to do this.
You can do yoga, you can meditate, getting exercise, getting proper sleep.
Those are all ways to be mindful.
But the key is creating a space for mindfulness, creating that zen.
I like to do it by finding a pre-sleep routine.
And Dr. Thiel's Epsom salts is an easy solution.
Now, again, we can all run to yoga, try to find time to meditate, but what's easier than soaking in Dr. Thiel's Epsom salts a couple times a week?
For me, everybody, an Epsom salt bath, really, is like yoga for the brain.
Yes.
It just puts you in this place.
First of all, you're not going to be doing technology, and I think this is a hack that works because your body unwinds, and as it begins to let go, your mind can also.
It's probably the single biggest adult tool that I use to get myself into the right frame of mind.
First off, let's talk about Epsom salts.
Most people don't know what they are.
They've seen them on Dr. Thiel's bag, but what does that actually mean?
Yeah, so Epsom salts are a compound of magnesium sulfate.
They are a great natural alternative to over-the-counter medications and prescription drugs.
Most people maybe already know about Epsom salts because they relieve those achy muscles, that body soreness that you might feel from time to time.
But at the same time, Epsom salts are delivering that same magnesium to the entire body.
They also offer a triple threat, especially Dr. Thiel.
They offer a triple threat of benefits when we're trying to achieve mindfulness because, in addition, we have the benefit of the essential oils like lavender that promote sleep, promote rest, and what's more relaxing, finally, than taking a bath?
Show me how to make them.
The interesting thing about the smell, since you touched on it, and the lavender, it bypasses your thinking.
It goes right to the middle of your brain, the reptilian part of our brain.
That's why smells affect us so much, and I think that's an important tool we don't use enough.
To get ourselves the right mental side.
Okay, show us how you make the Epsom salt.
So the first rule of thumb when we're making this is to make sure the water is warm, not hot.
So we want warm water.
We want two generous cups of the Dr. Thiel's Epsom salt.
We're going to pour that directly into the water.
And then you want to soak maybe twice a week for about 20 minutes.
And what's happening here is it takes about 5 to 10 minutes for that relaxation response to really set in and for that stress to melt away.
And use that time as an opportunity.
Maybe use that time to breathe and really try to visualize the person that you want to be.
And also, a lot of folks are so darn busy, right?
They don't have time to do this.
So we made it easy.
We sent a bunch of our viewers home with Dr. Thiel's Epsom salt and we asked them to take a bath with it at least twice a week.
So come on over here.
We've got five folks who have volunteered to come in this studio and talk about this with us.
Thank you for being here.
Now, wellness for everybody at home.
Wellness may start in your head, but I think I'm going to applaud you for taking a little load off your feet and enjoying it, because this is not a bad way of getting there either, just getting your feet to relax.
So Dimple, we're going to start with you.
Before we started this program with you, how are you dealing with stress?
Well, you know, I have three kids.
One of them's very young.
By the end of the day, I have mon-sensory overload.
I've got people who've been hanging all over my office.
Diaper sense?
I love this.
That's right.
And, you know, I've just had enough.
I don't want anyone touching me.
My poor husband comes home at the end of the day and wants a hug, and I'm just like, no, just nobody touch me anymore.
I'm done.
I need these kids in bed, and I just want my body back to myself.
So how has Dr. Thiel's Epsom salt baths helped you?
How has it helped you cope?
So when I finally got them to leave me alone for the 20 minutes so I could soak in the bath, you know, I really, I felt like, I felt that sensory overload really just kind of leaving me into the water and just having that alone time to breathe in the scent.
It's worth the investment.
Congrats on the kids.
Thank you.
Caroline, how has it changed your life to be Epsom ball salting, batting your way through life?
Yeah, I think it just kind of helped with being more mindful.
Like you said, you know, I was sitting there.
I had nothing to do.
I chose not to listen to music.
I chose not to read.
I have a really nice bathroom, so I just sat in it and just soaked.
And then I felt, actually, I was quite tired afterwards, funny enough, and I just fell asleep.
You probably had a good night's sleep.
I did, yes.
And Tamara, what would you say to folks who are struggling to find time just to get into an Epsom salt bath and let this happen?
I would tell them it's definitely worth the time.
Take the 20 minutes because it's worth it.
The days that I didn't use it, I said, man, I wish if I would have just taken that 20 minutes, the rest of my day would have been better.
So I don't think if I'm taking, I don't have enough time, I'm thinking this will give me more time because I'll be more relaxed, I'll be able to get through my day.
So it's definitely worth it, making that time.
So you think everyone here will be spending a little more time sitting in a Dr. Teal's Epsom salt bath?
Yes, absolutely.
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That's thanks to the company that's sending you home with a bag of it.
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We'll be right back.
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*Cheering*
What if I told you that you could have your cake and eat it too?
And you can make a delicious chocolate cake without butter or oil.
Believe me?
Instead, you can use this.
Eggplant!
Yes!
You're thinking, eggplant?
I don't want that.
When my team saw that eggplant chocolate cake recipes were taken over the internet, I needed to know if they would work.
So I listed two of my go-to testers, Bianca and Nefi, and they agreed very bravely to try it out.
So one of you made Is that correct?
Yes.
All right, so I'm not supposed to know which one is which.
I'm just going to put them right here so the audience can look at this with me.
So as I look at these, this is a little drier looking.
So normally you think that might not have all the butter and the oil that you want.
But I don't know.
But Bianca, you go first.
Let me just taste it first.
You're messing me up.
That's so thick.
Good mouthfeel.
Fills everything up.
Clearly a worthy thing to eat.
And this is also good.
I'll tell you, this is a little better from my perspective, but I could see why you love them both.
So come clean now.
Who made the eggplant?
I did.
This is the eggplant one?
Yes.
Can you believe it?
It's actually better than the regular cake.
That's what I think, too.
Bianca, taste that.
See what you think about it.
I want an honest opinion.
Would you do it again?
I would.
Why not?
I'm a foodie.
And it's a healthy version of something I love?
Why not?
All right.
So, Neffy's eggplant version has one-third of the calories less.
That's worth the investment.
Eggplant's a great way to add more fiber to your diet as well.
We're going to have Neffy's eggplant recipe, the eggplant chocolate cake recipe on DrRoz.com.
Your friends will be so jealous.
They'll be like Bianca over here.
Just won't want to admit it, even though they like it.
Exactly.
Together, change is happening, everybody, and our journey is just beginning.
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