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Can Alzheimer’s Be Reversed? Dr. Oz Meets Dr. Dale Bredesen | Dr. Oz | S9 | Ep 20 | Full Episode
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Today on the Dr. Osh Show.
Do you believe you can reverse Alzheimer's, the controversial doctor?
And what people are giving you a hard time about is that they just can't believe it because it seems unbelievable.
And his patients who say they're living proof how they were changed with his plan.
And I wanted to find out just how sanitary it was to use your phone in your toilet.
I'm always doing business while I'm doing business.
I have got the results today.
Coming up next.
Are you ready to say some lives today?
Yes!
I love you, Dr. Lyle.
And I use that word carefully.
Reversing Alzheimer's disease and restoring memory loss has been the holy grail of brain science.
Researchers are looking for breakthroughs every day.
They're finding them with patients and their families just holding on to hope.
But no respected doctor or researcher has yet to stand up and say they found a way to reverse the disease until now.
He's a doctor creating big controversy as he makes even bigger promises.
Imagine bringing a family member who has lost herself to Alzheimer's disease back to her old self.
That's the promise of a new controversial book, Climbing the Charts, The End of Alzheimer's.
It claims to document the first program to prevent and reverse cognitive decline.
But is it giving people false hope?
Still, there are apparently hundreds of people on this protocol who say it works.
Here's one, a 70-year-old former math whiz in shadow for fear of the stigma of the disease.
After 12 years of memory loss, he went on the program.
Math has come back.
That's a real magical thing.
Coming up fast with math again.
Or this 55-year-old female attorney who couldn't remember recent talks she had with her husband and kids until she got treatment.
I was out with my husband and we were having a conversation and I remembered names before he did.
And that had not happened in years.
Many doctors are skeptical of the results being promised.
But UCLA professor and author Dr. Dale Bredesen, an expert in neurodegenerative disease, isn't worried about the controversy at all.
He says he has seen his patients reverse symptoms and live a normal life.
And today, he's going to reveal his protocol from the exact time you should eat to the meal plan you should be on.
Dr. Bredisen's patients are ready to come out of the shadows.
You're going to be meeting them in just a few minutes.
But first, let's meet the doctor who claims he can show you how to reverse Alzheimer's.
Dr. Bredizen is joining us in the studio.
How are you?
Thanks for coming to me.
So you argue that neuroscientists have this whole process backwards in Alzheimer's.
How so?
What we've discovered in 30 years of basic research is that what we call Alzheimer's disease, the production of amyloid in the brain, is actually a protective response.
This is 180 degrees different from what people had thought.
It is a protective response to three fundamentally different insults.
So it's telling you you've got other problems.
The amyloid is downstream.
Either you have chronic inflammation, which can be from various pathogens, or can be from things like trans fats, sugar, some of the things you've been talking about over the years.
Or two, what we call type 2 Alzheimer's disease is from a loss of trophic support.
That means hormones, nutrients, trophic factors, so-called growth factors in the brain like nerve growth factor.
That is type 2 Alzheimer's disease.
And then the third one is toxic exposure.
And that had been underappreciated.
Things like mercury, things like biotoxins, toxins actually made by molds that hadn't really been appreciated before.
So if there are many, many different causes of Alzheimer's, how do you begin to treat it effectively if you think it's just one disease?
That's a great point.
And so what has to happen is you have to look for all the different contributors.
And we've identified 36 initially.
So imagine you've got a roof with 36 holes in it.
You need to patch all the holes if you're going to expect a result.
You need to look at all the things.
So in fact, you need to start by doing the entire test.
We call this a cognoscopy.
It's easy to remember.
So you want to get this.
Like a colonosculum.
So everybody knows when you turn 50, you should get a colonoscopy.
So if you're over 45 or if you've got a family history or if you're having any problems whatsoever, you should have a cognoscopy.
You should have an evaluation which includes all these blood tests so you'll know what's driving the process.
Cog for cognition and understanding.
Absolutely.
So I've talked to a lot of folks about your appearance here.
You know you're controversial.
Folks say this is an expensive approach.
It's probably too difficult to protocol for most patients to be on.
For the average person, could this work?
Absolutely.
And we have over a thousand people who are now on this protocol and it is working for many people.
Now here's the thing.
It costs for a single year of nursing home over $120,000.
So less than 1% of that, less than 1% is what it takes actually to get these tests done.
All right, so you've sent patients for cognitive testing before and after they've started this protocol.
So I want you to just show us the raw data.
I'm going to try to understand what's really happening in people's lives.
So this is a 71-year-old.
What was the story with this patient and what did you find?
So this is a person very typical with a family history of Alzheimer's who was having major cognitive problems, major problems with his memory.
Here is long-term memory down at third percentile.
So you should be at minimum here, 50, this is average for everyone.
He's way below that and having trouble with remembering things.
Short-term memory, horrible here.
Auditory memory.
So things that he'd heard, could not remember well.
The one thing that was at this point still good was processing speed.
But of course this goes down as you age.
So he was on the precipice of losing that as well.
So then put him on the program two years later.
In fact, we had a hard time convincing him to go back because he said, you know, I know I'm doing well.
My wife knows I'm doing well, doing well at work.
Do I really want to be told that I'm not doing well?
So we had him back and you can see he's now far better than average than most people.
So here he's got 84th percentile for his long.
So he has a much better memory than most people here.
Short-term memory, also good.
Auditory memory, very good.
And his processing speed has actually gone up further.
So this person felt better.
And you have objective evidence.
Okay, so this is nice to have because obviously you're asking him questions, it's practical, but I want to look inside the brain.
So I pushed you and you shared with me another patient.
Right.
Now, this is seemingly unbelievable to me.
So I want you to just take a second and explain what we're looking at and why this is so powerful.
What's the story on this individual?
So this is a person, both of his parents died with Alzheimer's disease and he had very clear symptoms, well-documented Alzheimer's disease with PET scan, et cetera, and with clear symptoms and having difficulty at work.
And here you can see, in fact, the neuroradiologist didn't believe this at first.
Here he is prior.
You can look at the brain here and you can look at this particular part is related to memory.
This is the so-called hippocampus.
And you can see here, actually, it's actually gotten larger here.
Now, the computer measures all this for us and shows that there is a dramatic increase.
This was actually at the 17th percentile.
This is actually at the 75th percentile.
Now, the important thing is, where do the brain cells live?
As you know, they live in the gray matter.
This is where all your brain cells are.
And what happens?
So if you add up all the brain cells, where do things stand?
dramatic increase here of 23 percent.
So literally he's got more of what it takes to think and he's no surprise doing much much better at work.
So why wouldn't this person come forward?
The problem that what people are giving you a hard time about is that they just can't believe it because it seems unbelievable.
Right.
And yet there doesn't seem to be all these big randomized trials.
So why does this person come forward and say, hey, I'm okay?
Because this person is a physician.
He said, if I come forward, my practice will close tomorrow.
That is the stigma that we're left with.
And I hope that that will change over time.
And what about the use of the word reversing?
Why say they have a reversal of Alzheimer's, which is a polarizing term?
Right.
So what we say is we've reversed the symptoms.
So the decline in your ability to think, that's the key piece.
And of course, that's what you need.
So you don't actually care about the plaque or the Alzheimer's diagnosis.
You care that the person's symptoms are improved.
In fact, that's what the average American should focus on too.
Absolutely.
So that is the critical thing.
Can we change the ability of people to interact with their families, to do their jobs, to think, to remember things?
All of those things.
Those are the things that are reversed.
So when we come back, I want to push you a little bit because I want to understand why we only have the individual case studies and we haven't been able to pull together the kind of information we'll get every specialist of Alzheimer's to use with the protocol you're talking about.
Up next, however, we've got two very brave patients of Dr. Bredizen's who have actually come forward.
They claim their disease has been reversed and they're willing to speak about it publicly today.
Stay around.
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We are back with the controversial doctor who says he can reverse Alzheimer's disease.
And two of his patients are speaking out about how they were changed with his plan.
So Julia, we're going to start with you.
Again, thank you very much.
I know how difficult it has been for so many to come forward.
When did you first realize there was an issue?
I first realized there was a problem when I was about to turn 50.
And never in a million years did I think it was Alzheimer's.
I attributed my problems to stress, to my fast-paced life, to perimenopause.
But then I took a genetic test and I learned that I carried two copies of the gene that predisposes me to Alzheimer's.
It's very rare to have two copies and it gives me a very high risk of getting the disease.
Around that same time, my cousin, who's a year younger than me, was formerly diagnosed with Alzheimer's.
So that's when I realized I needed to take my symptoms seriously.
How bad do the symptoms get?
Well, I was running around town doing my errands and it became a somewhat regular occurrence for me to run into people who knew me very well.
They would approach me in a very familiar way, sometimes give me an embrace, talk about my family.
They knew my family members' names.
I didn't know who they were.
So that was terrifying and embarrassing.
I think the worst that it got was when I put a sticky on my steering wheel telling me to drive on the right-hand side of the road.
Oh my, it's dangerous.
So what happened when you took Dr. Bredizen's plan?
Well, within three to four months, I noticed significant changes, running into people who I didn't know was no longer an issue.
I even was able to recall those instances.
I know who those people are now.
I know who their husbands are.
I know who their kids are.
I know how I knew them.
I know who their children's school teachers were.
I mean, all those memories came back to me.
I drive very confidently now.
I mean, these are the kind of changes that I wish, I wish I could point to more people as having.
But let me get Deborah.
Now, your dad has fairly advanced Alzheimer's.
Yes.
But you began to notice symptoms in yourself as well.
Yeah, I started to notice symptoms in my 40s.
And a lot of the things I was noticing were things my dad had experienced in his 40s as well.
The first symptom I noticed around the time I turned 40 was that I developed facial blindness.
So for example, there was a bake sale in our town.
People were coming up to me.
I was working at the baking stand, and people were coming up to me saying, Deborah, hi, how are you?
How are your kids?
And I had no idea who they were.
I hadn't connected the dots, so I did not know that Alzheimer's can come on with symptoms 20 years before, and I didn't know that was a symptom.
But besides that, I started to get four o'clock fatigue, so I was mentally exhausted late in the day.
I wasn't participating in meetings as I used to.
I wasn't as sharp.
My typing had slowed down.
I'd lost some foreign languages.
My vocabulary had shrunken.
I also found that I couldn't recall a lot of what I'd read, and I was losing my joy of reading, and that I couldn't follow complex conversations or articles like I used to be able to do, or even complicated movie plots became difficult for me.
So, Dr. Bretterson's plan.
Yeah, so.
Did it make a difference?
Again, I'm asking this almost incredulously because I was always praying for changes.
I did not expect the protocol to help me get better.
I just thought it might prevent me from getting worse.
And to my shock, at the four-month mark on the protocol, I started to recognize people.
I knew who I had met, and I knew who they were, and I had that crackle in my head.
And at the five or six-month mark, the other changes came on with a vengeance.
It was like an awakening.
So it wasn't just that my vocabulary expanded or that I felt like I could talk quickly again and be sharp in my meetings, but that four o'clock fatigue went away.
Like it felt like I was completely back.
And one thing that came back just that I discovered recently is that I could play the piano when I was younger.
I learned classical piano.
And the week I started on the protocol, I was on vacation with my family and there was a piano there.
And I put music up and I realized I didn't know how to read music anymore.
And I thought maybe I was just getting old or rusty.
Two years later, I sat down at the piano again, I put the music up, and I could read it.
And I'm playing classical music again.
So let's talk Tokyo for a second.
When folks come on the show, I have a big medical unit, we collect all the data, we analyze it, we try to make sure that what we're sharing with millions of people around the world is substantiated with medical records.
So one of the big problems that I sense is that the success stories aren't made public, which has always stunned me because I think I'd be jumping up and down and saying, hey, I beat cancer, I beat cancer, which we do for cancer, we do for heart disease, which is my specialty.
And it's kind of caught me off guard.
So I know that in your case, the testing was not as important as what you were experiencing.
So it's not as obvious to say she had this, now she went to this.
But you actually had pretty good documentation about the fact that you went from a very compared status to where you are now, articulately expressing what went down with you.
So why wouldn't you want to share your medical records?
Why don't people who are like you, who've had incredible turnarounds, want to be public about it?
Well, first of all, there's a real stigma with cognitive impairment, and it comes on very early.
So I caught it on the very early side.
So my testing shows that, right?
That I was at the very early stage of losing some of my cognitive abilities.
I decided to come on here and talk to you because I feel like there are a lot of people out there who are like me and if they can identify some of these early symptoms they cannot be as afraid as I was and they can realize there's something they can do about it.
In terms of turning my records over and going public in that way, it's really frightening.
I don't know what will happen to those records if they leave my possession or that of my doctor.
I don't know if I'm going to lose my insurance.
I just don't know what's going to come and I also know that there's a real stigma in terms of employment and professional acceptance.
So it's a real risk just to come on and tell my story, which I'm willing to do.
But beyond that, I think there are a lot of unknowns for people like us.
Well, I'm very, very appreciative of how brave you have both been to come here, even if to get the ball rolling, because I was very dubious about this being real until I heard your testimonials.
But I got this from you.
This is, you know, a couple pieces of paper and some published case reports.
And I usually get a lot more.
I mean, I would expect to be able to reverse Alzheimer's.
If, you know, just to hear what I'm hearing now, I have a stock like this saying, guys, please tell the world we can take out a problem which is the number one reason we fear health in America.
So why not create more of this?
Why not share more of this work?
Why not share the medical records of everyone that you've been able to impact on?
It's a great point.
And so I couldn't agree with you more.
We started this in 2011 with a plea to do the first comprehensive trial for Alzheimer's.
It was refused.
We were not allowed to do it because it was, quote, too complicated.
As you know, IRBs want you to change one variable.
The problem is that's not the way the diseases work.
The diseases that are complex chronic illnesses that are now facing all of us, not pneumococcal pneumonia from 100 years ago, but the complex chronic illnesses, Alzheimer's, cancer, cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, osteoporosis, these are the things that are all affecting us now.
They are no longer simple diseases.
So the old idea is like using your checker strategy in a chess match.
You need to look at all the different things.
So we're going to have to find a way to do multivariable trials.
We're just starting trials with Cleveland Clinic and with Providence Healthcare out of Seattle.
So we're headed, and I would ask anybody who's serious, medical leaders, please contact the Dr. Oz show.
Please help us to push this forward.
Alzheimer's should be a rare disease.
I hear you.
I want to thank both of you very much.
I know that anonymously you're in these case reports.
So there's documentation.
I would urge any patients who are willing to share the records to please come forward.
Let's get more out of this and let's do the trial so that we have a stack of paper so that everybody involved in treating Alzheimer's and who has the problem or fears it can get access to the best treatments out there because we got a black box down.
When we come back, the lifestyle changes Deborah and Julie made that they say reversed their Alzheimer's fate, the very specific things they did.
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Julie used to rely on a post-it note stuck to her steering wheel to tell her what side of the road to drive on.
She said her memories were slowly fading.
That was until she started on Dr. Bredisen's controversial plan to reverse Alzheimer's.
So let's get to the changes that she made.
The first thing you focused on was your diet.
Exactly.
What did you do specifically?
Well, I used to eat a low-fat, high-carbohydrate diet.
And I switched to Dr. Bredison's KetoFlux 12-3.
KetoFlux 12-3, what does that mean?
So the idea here is that you are driving mild ketosis.
Ketones fuel the brain.
Ketones actually interact so that your brain produces more of the anti-Alzeimer's BDNF, which is the brain-derived neurotrophic factor that helps you avert Alzheimer's disease.
And you get 12-3 because it's 12 to 16 hours of fasting.
But just to be clear, this is the same ketosis people who go on diets try to lose weight are getting.
Yes, except that this is a largely plant-based with some wild-caught fish and some pastured chicken and some, if you like, grass-fed beef.
It's flexitarian, though, so it's keto flex, because if you want to be a vegetarian, that's okay.
If you want to have some meat, that's okay.
Meat is a condiment, however, in this diet.
So it's a largely plant-based, mild ketogenesis diet.
So Julia, how does it translate to practice?
What were you eating before and what do you eat now?
So this is my old favorite granola.
I thought it was healthy.
We're told granola is healthy, but it's very inflammatory and it gives you a big spike in your blood glucose.
So here's my version of keto granola.
And what I do is I just take some English walnuts, some sliced almonds, and just mix them in a bowl, some unsweetened, make sure they're unsweetened, coconut flakes.
And then this is way too many.
Just put a few.
Okay, so right.
So I do a few wild-caught berries and then coconut milk or I do almond milk and just pour it on as you would your regular dairy.
And it is delicious and tastes very similar.
And this keeps me in ketosis.
It's healthy and delicious.
Thank you.
Thanks for being here.
So let's talk with Deborah.
She was only 40 when she realized she was experiencing signs of Alzheimer's.
She couldn't recognize faces.
You know, even everyday people you saw at your son's school were seeming like strangers.
So you made similar changes.
The KetoFlex 12-3, what does that mean for you?
Yeah, so the 12-3 means that you fast for at least 12 hours a day and that the first three hours of that fast should be after dinner.
So for example, if you finish eating at six, you don't eat again until six the next morning.
It's remarkable to me that both of these wonderful women have given us food tips when to eat it and what to eat.
And that seems to be a significant part of this.
It doesn't cost us anything.
I would think about trying it anyway.
You know, it's an interesting concept, what you've done.
And I do have to apologize.
There's a lot of controversy over Dr. Bresident's book.
I think he sort of says that from our conversation today.
But here's the fact.
At the end of the day, the book is called The End of Alzheimer's, which the title itself is provocative.
I think there's some great ideas, like the ones Deborah and Julia just shared with us.
I am concerned, I still remain, that the thought we can reverse Alzheimer's may be pushing too far.
I understand the subtlety of what you're defining.
But for this to work, we have got to publish bigger stuff.
We've got to go through the traditional scientific process.
And I think what I'm seeing here is so promising that we ought to be able to do it.
And I agree we ought to challenge the leaders of American medicine and challenge everybody out there to start playing with this.
And because it gives us hope, not false hope, real hope.
And let's just see how far we can push to improve the lives of wonderful people who've been willing to share stories like you have today.
All right, we'll be right back.
The truth about using your phone on the toilet, the surprising way it's changing your body.
That's next.
Nowadays, it seems isn't the place we don't take our cell phones.
From our morning commute to the dinner table to the bathroom.
I'm even here on my phone in my bathroom talking to you.
Now, it's now the new normal to bring your cell phone to the toilet.
Bathroom time has become the time to answer texts, catch up on email, scroll down, talk to your old boyfriends, new girlfriends, social media page.
It gives a whole new meaning to the term getting, you know, what done.
Today, Dr. Ra's team tested.
We investigate what is the truth about using your cell phone on the toilet.
That really was my toilet.
We'll come back to that.
So, I was talking with people in the office, and I learned there are two types of people in this world.
There are people who bring their phone into the toilet, like me, because I use my phone on the toilet all the time.
And then there are people who don't bring their phone to the toilet.
I actually didn't think these people even existed.
But it turns out they may be.
So, what side are you guys all on?
Not sure yet.
You don't have to answer yet.
Put your hands up if you're a toilet phone user.
Oh, my goodness.
So, we put a poll up on Dr.Oz.com.
69% of you said they use their phone on the toilet.
That's two-thirds of you.
Two-thirds of you.
So, I'm going to go ask some questions here.
So, I noticed your hand went up.
So, why do you take your phone to the toilet?
I need to escape my children.
Good reason.
And what do you typically do in there?
Well, I have a company phone, so I'm always doing business while I'm doing business.
Exactly.
A company phone.
All right.
So, how long are you generally in the bathroom for?
It's just a question.
On the phone, longer than I should.
I'll say that, yeah.
Yeah.
And here's, here's a: you think, do you think that you're in the bathroom longer because you're on the phone?
Yes, absolutely.
To the point that my legs are numb.
Your legs are numb.
I love this.
So it's not surprising people bring a phone to the bathroom.
We all like to be distracted when we go to the bathroom.
That's why we have magazines.
I mean, literally, there are magazines that are written knowing that you read them in the toilet.
But I wanted to find out just how sanitary it was to use your phone in your toilet because you guys are all doing it, but we're asking that question.
So my team and I did a germ test.
We swabbed the phones of five staff members who used their phones in the toilet and the phones of five staff members we found who claimed they didn't.
And then we sent them to the lab to be tested.
And I have got the results today.
We're going to start with the staffers who don't use the phones on the toilet.
They're clean folks.
Again, they're claiming this.
We tested specifically for the bacteria found in human intestines and feces.
Obviously, that's the stuff you might find flying around in the toilet.
And we use that same test to figure out if the food or the water is contaminated.
That's the test we use, right?
So it's pretty valid.
And ideally, we want that number to be under 10.
The bacterial count on these phones was an average of 30.
So it's more than ideal, but not crazy high.
Now, for the people who do use their phone in the toilet, that's the majority of us.
You know those answers?
I'm going to give them to you when we come back.
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It is so true.
This is the world we live in today.
That toilet's five minutes, toilet plus a phone, it's 55 minutes.
So we are back revealing the truth about using your phone on the toilet.
Now, Sandra is here.
She admits to using her phone on the toilet.
Yes. Why? Why?
Why do you take it in there?
First of all, I don't put my glasses on.
I take my phone straight to the bathroom.
I need to relax.
I need to know what was going on through the night when I was sleeping.
I just need to do a good poop with the distraction of my phone in my hand.
So how much time does it usually take you to have a good poop?
Depends on the day.
You know, if it's a rough morning, it could be about 30 minutes, 40.
It just all depends on what.
30 to 40 minutes?
Absolutely.
I have to sit there until my legs go numb by watching on my phone and then I release a little bit.
All right.
Are you ready to see the results of people like you who take their phones to the toilet?
Oh, come on, drink it with me.
Now, to recap, folks who don't take their phones to the toilet, they claim they don't, have a score of 30 of these colonies of bacteria, right?
You're supposed to be less than 10, but 30 is plenty close.
Compared to people like that, we look to people like you who take their phones to the toilet.
Frankly, I'm in your group, by the way.
Not there for 30 to 40 minutes, but I spend more time than normal.
The average colony count, 109, 627.
You have 30 and 109,000.
Right?
30, 109,000.
Big difference.
Okay.
Not shaken off.
Is that enough proof to get you to think twice about using your phone?
Absolutely not.
I'm still taking my phone.
I'm okay with a million.
Have I changed anybody's mind here with that?
Not a simple.
Two people.
All right.
You're very kind.
I'm going to keep working on you.
You mentioned your legs went numb, right?
They still did.
All right, you just pay right here.
I'm going to come back and say, okay.
You're going to like this.
So, germs are one thing.
But I've also learned that using your phone on a toilet could change other ways your body is working.
So, for example, all right, when you take your phone to the toilet and you sit there for, you know, everyone does for at least 10 minutes, sometimes 30 to 40 minutes, but at least 10 minutes, right?
And while you're in there with those long bathroom sessions, you get some results, hopefully, right?
And then you also get something else.
You get hemorrhoids.
Yes.
When you sit on a toilet, you increase pressure in the veins down here in the anus.
So at the same time, your legs are going numb, the blood is going into the middle back here, but you don't want it, right?
Here's the question, everybody: is it worth developing hemorrhoids because you can't stop tindering from the toilet?
That is the question we're asking today.
Now I haven't convinced anybody.
Anyone?
One person, two people.
Oh my goodness.
All right, so maybe I can't stop you from bringing your cell phone to the bathroom.
So let's talk about how to keep it clean.
So the rest of the day, you're not walking around with a poop-filled tub.
Dean Dimitrik is here.
How are you?
My tech correspondent.
You're going to know what the best new products to keep our phones clean.
But I shook your hands.
I probably shouldn't have.
Yeah, I wouldn't have done that if I were you.
So you are a phone in the toilet kind of guy?
80% of the emails I send you, I'm in the bathroom.
A lot of them.
I'm just being generous.
It's probably about 90.
So how long are you?
Are you a 90, a 30 to 40 minute person too?
I'm a 40-minute person.
I savor the time in the bathroom.
It's my sanctuary.
I'm on the phone.
I'm checking emails.
I feel calm in the bathroom.
Do you have hemorrhoids?
No, I don't have hemorrhoids.
You're still young.
I want to say it now.
I don't have hemorrhoids yet, but it's important.
We want to show you how to clean the phone because you know people are going to be using the phone in the bathroom.
So the first thing I have to say, most of us are nervous, myself included.
That if I spray cleanser on my phone, I've been told since a little boy, don't get electronics wet.
Is that still true?
Yes, it's true.
You know, how many of us have gone to the store where we got water damage on our phone?
So look, the Windex on the phone is fine.
You can spray it down with a glass cleaner.
Just don't spray it directly on the phone.
You want to spray it on a cloth like this, and then you can wipe it down.
Just don't spray it directly into the phone.
This is going to keep it clean.
It's going to kill a lot of the stuff on the glass.
Is this your phone?
Your actual phone?
This is not my phone.
I wouldn't try that on my phone.
Thank you.
No, I'm just kidding.
It works.
It's good.
Trust me, it works.
All right.
I won't try it on my phone.
All right, UV sanitizers.
These things are sort of cool.
These are cold.
These are cool.
So, what this does is UV rays that are going to basically kill the DNA in the bacteria.
So this is actually a charging station.
So it's a two-for-one.
You take my phone and you put it in here and you close it.
And the UV rays are going to, you know, kill a lot of the bacteria on the phone and it's going to charge it.
So it's a two-for-one.
All right.
So we're just talking about cleaning the front of the phone.
We're wiping the glass down.
What about the back of the phone?
This is antimicrobial phone case.
This is going to clean the back of your phone.
You put it in the case itself.
It's in the actual case.
It's in the polymer.
It's in the actual case.
So now you're keeping your phone clean 360 all the way around, front, back, UV, go to the bathroom, use your phone.
I'm just kidding.
But you know, you can keep your phone clean with a lot of these things.
It works.
I think the extra time spent there is probably well invested.
God bless you all for doing it and not changing your mind, even when you're threatened with hemorrhoids.
Steam, appreciate it.
Yes. We'll be right back.
A new season of True Crime Tuesdays.
And now, True Crime Thursdays.
The cases that have kept you up at night.
It's all about a smarter way to shop for one of the most important things you can buy.
It's for your health.
Now, if you're worried that you won't be able to afford your prescription medications or that a hospital says set you back financially, then you're going to want to know about a comparison shopping tool for Medicare Insurance that can help you or someone you love save money.
And you probably never knew it existed.
But first, let's take a look at how shopping has evolved through the ages.
Let's go back way to the beginning of time.
A caveman, right?
A caveman shopping spree was all about hunting and gathering.
Pretty straightforward, no one in between you and what you're going after.
Then let's jump forward to the Pony Express, right?
The first general stores out in the West, especially.
People put all the stuff together.
They made it a little easier.
And then we went beyond that.
We evolved to door-to-door salesman.
He looks so happy, doesn't he?
But they were selling everything from makeup to insurance, right?
It made a big difference.
And then came malls and big department stores, mega stores, followed by the internet boom, right?
And with the internet boom, guys, everything under the sun became just one click away.
So today, I'm going to update you and get you back where you need to be.
It's the next level way to shop for Medicare insurance.
We've got a quiz to help you and your loved ones determine whether Medicare Advantage is right for you.
And that's something everyone ought to do today.
So whatever you're doing, just take a minute, sit back, because from now until December the 7th, it is open enrollment time for Medicare.
This may be the only time of the year when you have the opportunity to change your plan.
So don't mess up.
And if you have a parent on Medicare, someone you care on Medicare, you've got to pay attention too, because this can make a big difference in your lives.
Joining me now is Jaleesa Jackson is here on behalf of my trusted sponsor partner, TZ Insurance Solutions.
Thank you for being here very much.
So this stuff can get complicated for a lot of us.
I've learned a little bit thanks to you, and it's really pretty straightforward.
But why is it important to have someone knowledgeable help folks out with these decisions?
Oh man, it's extremely important to have someone help you guide you through your Medicare decision.
Reason being, you may be able to find or get better coverage for less cost to you depending on your needs.
That sounds good to me.
Better coverage, less cost.
So Jaleesa's got a quiz.
She's going to go through to help determine which Medicare coverage options potentially right for you.
So who's the quiz right for?
The quiz is for everyone, whether you're eligible or have a parent that's eligible.
Medicare is available for those who are generally 65 years of age or older or for someone under 65 with disability.
Now believe it or not, 50% of our Medicare beneficiaries aren't even signed up in other coverage.
Half of them?
Half of them.
That's about roughly 29 million people.
29 million people could potentially get additional coverage if they just simply look into it.
You could have coverage and you could have coverage and you could have more coverage, right?
Let's face it guys, navigating insurance, it can be daunting.
I know that's why you aren't doing it because if you actually look at the numbers, you'll at least be knowledgeable in the area.
So let's skip past this daunting task.
Jaleesa says some people can get a better deal and we're going to explain why.
So let's come over here.
I'm going to walk you through what today happens when you're trying to go get your coverage.
So why these gaps happen and what does it mean to you financially?
And you guys are all worried about a dollar here, a dollar there.
So let's say you pay a monthly premium of $134, right?
So let me get that money out of here.
$134.
Are you ready?
Ready.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven times 20 is 104.
That's too much.
All right?
Here, $130, 1, 2, 3, 4, $134.
I got some money left over.
That's good news, right?
$134.
What does it cover, guys?
People like me, doctors, and it covers hospital visits.
The things that you probably ought to be focused on.
But then you've got to have this thing called the deductible, right, for certain services.
So that could be all the money you have left.
You all know that, right?
All that money gets kicked in, and then you have the coverage you think you have.
But let's get clear on this.
Let's get real.
It doesn't cover drugs.
It doesn't cover hearing.
It doesn't cover dental or vision or wellness.
Wellness things I care about, like gym memberships or disease management programs, right?
That's extra.
So you go back into your wallet and what's in here, Jaleesa?
It's empty.
It's empty.
That's all you've got.
An empty wallet.
So Jaleesa, what are some options to help cover these costs?
So what a lot of people don't realize is there are options like a Medicare Advantage plan, which works as an alternative to your Medicare and typically provides additional benefits that a lot of people may need, such as the dental, vision, and hearing.
There are even $0 premium plans being offered in certain areas, depending on where you live.
It's pretty cool.
There's also Medicare supplement insurance.
It works with your original Medicare to help cover some of those out-of-pocket expenses that Medicare doesn't cover, such as, you know, deductibles, co-payments, and co-insurance.
So either of these options are great to use, you know, to help fill in some of those gaps that Medicare doesn't cover.
So the folks at MedicareAdvantage.com put together an easy at-home quiz that can help you determine which might be the right option for you.
So we go to these quiz questions over here.
Jaleesa and I can walk you through them.
They are so simple.
You can just sit there for 30 seconds.
We're going to walk you through these five questions.
Question number one.
Is this you?
I am budget conscious and want to save money wherever I can.
A yes, B no.
Just keep track of how many A's you have, how many B's you have.
So yes or no?
Question number two, Jaleesa.
I would like to have coverage when I see a dentist and our eye doctor.
A yes, B no.
Keeping track, right?
A's or B's.
Question number three, I don't mind having a limited choice of doctors that I can see.
So that's for some folks, that's not a problem.
You say yes.
For some people, it's a big issue.
You say B no.
Okay, Jaleesa, question number four.
Alrighty.
I take medications that are vital to my daily life.
A yes, B no.
And the final question, everyone at home, keep track now.
I prefer to have one health plan that takes care of everything.
A yes, B no.
Let me see a show of hands.
How many people pick mostly A's?
Mostly A's.
And how many people pick mostly B's?
Did you guys even hear me?
How many pick mostly B's?
Literally nobody?
Everybody's picking A's here.
So what does that mean if they pick mostly A's or yes to these questions?
So based off the questions, if you pick mostly yes, then a Medicare Advantage plan may be a better option.
Reason being, it covers the same benefits as Medicare while typically or more frequently giving you those additional benefits for prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, the wellness program, and it even has an out-of-pocket maximum.
I'm going to ask you to answer this question, although no one literally in the entire audience of 200 people said no.
If you answered mostly no, then what do you do?
So if you answer mostly no, then a Medicare supplement plan may be a better option for you.
And reason being for that, it works with your original Medicare to help cover those out-of-pocket expenses, such as the deductibles or the co-payments or co-insurance.
So y'all have the quiz.
Y'all know if you're like my audience where you belong in there, which is at least learn more about this.
So even if your plan was perfect last year, it's worth just one phone call.
You got to do it once a year.
Think you ought to do it once a year to make sure it's still the right plan for you this year because things change.
So, we teamed up with TZ Insurance Solutions, they're our sponsorship partner on the program, and have done our homework to make sure they're the right people for you to call.
We don't just pick people out of a hat, we did some work on this to make sure you're in a good spot.
So, I want you to go to droz.com where you can take the full quiz online.
There are a few more questions to help you, or even better, MedicareAdvantage.com has set up a special phone number for Oz viewers who want to speak with a licensed insurance agent about Medicare Advantage.
Hey guys, wave out there, wave high.
Here's agents all across the country, they're waiting to hear from you to take advantage of this little gift.
And we're also going to put a special guide on droz.com for those who need more information on Medicare.
Did I miss anything, Jaleesa?
Oh, no, I think you did great.
She's happy.
All right, we'll be right back.
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Really, really good about.
For everyone who takes the small things in life for granted, I want you to take a look at this viral video of Candace.
Now, Candace is a deaf woman who just received a cochlear implant.
She never imagined the sounds that could be so sweet.
Isn't that amazing?
I mean, never realized how much little things can mean, like the sweet sound of a kiss.
We take these things for granted throughout our lives.
So, we spoke to Candace and Bradley to see how they're doing since Candace received her cochlear implant.
And here's what they had to say: Thank you so much for sharing our story.
I really appreciate it, and I'm so glad it's brought so much joy to so many people.
In addition to the sounds that I heard in that first video, I've heard a lot more, but some of my top favorites have been hearing crickets for the first time, hearing my children breathing while they're sleeping for the first time, and my husband calling my name from another part of our house, all the way upstairs.
The one thing that never gets old, though, is that sound of that kiss.
Bye.
Thanks.
That is cute.
The next time you get mad at demanding in your life, yelling your name across the house, you think of Candace.
She appreciated hearing Bradley's voice.
We hope their future is full of nights, loud kisses.
Remember, everybody, happy and healthy?
It starts at home.
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