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It's the most wonderful time of year.
But for some, it can be tragic.
Most common days for heart attacks are days right around Christmas and New Year's.
What you can do to avoid holiday health attacks.
Jumping jacks, get your heart rate up.
Come on, let's go.
Plus, the hand sanitizers actually work.
We use a germ counter to judge how many germs were on your hands.
Coming up next.
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It is the holiday season.
I love.
You can tell they're excited.
It's the holidays.
I love this time of year because of the 4Fs.
You got family, you got friends, food, and of course fun.
But you all know that sometimes the holidays can have a dark side full of stress and overindulging.
And today we're breaking down the holiday health attacks that you need to know about and what you can do to stay safe this holiday season.
Dr. Samson Davis, seriously board-certified emergency room physician.
As an ER doc, just paint the picture so everyone at home understands what's an ER like over the holidays.
So it all starts with Thanksgiving.
We started to see an increase in patients come in with chest pain, heart attacks, elevated blood sugar, overindulgence in alcohol, loneliness, and psychosocial issues such as depression.
And then occasionally you have that family member who comes to visit grandma and he feels like, oh, we got to fix you today.
So we're going to take you to the ER right now and take care of all this.
So what is it about the holidays that causes these holiday health attacks?
So what happens is ideally you think about it, you change your regimen.
You're on vacation.
So you start to exercise less, you eat more, you overindulge, and you're pretty much toned down.
You keep saying to yourself, I'm going to start next week, but that truly is the new year.
So that period of time, those six weeks off from Thanksgiving to the new year, causes an increase in health attacks.
All right, so the first holiday health attack you need to know about is something that we have seen far too many times.
It is the holiday heart attack.
Most common days for heart attacks and dying from them are the days right around Christmas and New Year's.
How much of a paradox is that?
The best days of the year are sometimes the most tragic.
Jacqueline and Eve are here.
They are lifelong friends and they're both concerned about holiday heart attacks and you want to keep them out of your family.
So why are you concerned about these?
So my mom had, she has the aortic stenosis of the bicospheric valve.
She had valve replacement.
I have tachycardia and I'm often the one who shovels in my family and takes care of my kids.
I do everything myself.
My husband travels.
It's very hard.
You didn't bring enough, Samson, but I think part of it is that especially for women, there's a lot more pressure.
You're not sleeping, you're drugging a lot of stuff.
I work, I have four kids, my husband travels a lot, and I'm doing everything myself.
Who wants a vacation?
That's not one.
Eve.
My grandfather passed away from a heart attack and my father just recently had two stents put in his heart.
All right, listen, you're not alone.
Lots of us have issues with hearts in our family.
It's number one cause of problems, lethal problems.
And there are lots of theories why the holidays might increase the chance of having a heart problem.
We overindulge in salty and fatty foods.
You all know that.
There's sometimes too much alcohol.
So it disinhibits you.
Not actually exercise, stress from travel, from being around family.
A lot of people say that the reason you hang with, you know, that you don't like your family is because if you weren't related, you wouldn't be with them.
Right?
That's harsh.
And I don't agree with it, but I do get that.
Sometimes there are people that just push your buttons.
It's a growth opportunity, but we don't see it that way.
And the key warning signs for women are different than men, right?
And a lot of times, women think they're going to have the classic signs of pressure on their chest.
You ignore it.
Or you ignore it, but you can get belly pain, arm pain.
That could be from your heart.
I had.
When I had it, I discovered I had tachycardia.
I thought I was having a heart attack.
I was 29 years old.
It just ended up being a very bad palpitation.
Usually it's the opposite.
People don't realize they're about to have a heart attack, and they actually are.
The worst symptom for me is shortness of breath.
And women always ignore that.
And of course, the lightheadedness, the tiredness, which are not so specific, but they're concerning.
So if you feel pain or shortness of breath, I don't care what's going on.
You might as well check it out.
It's easy to know whether it's a problem or not.
All that said and done, let's move away from fearful things and what you're going to do about it to prevent it.
Because for the holidays, I recommend a macronutrient meal before you go to the proverbial Christmas party.
And I recommend this.
I think it's going to be good as a way of getting around the pitfalls that we have at holiday parties.
But you want a little bit of carbs, you want a little bit of protein, you want a little bit of fat, right?
The fat can come from nuts, the protein comes from soy milk, the carbs from yams, sweet potatoes.
You have a little ginger, a little cinnamon as a spice.
Please give it a taste.
Because if you don't like the taste, you're not going to ever do it.
But if you like the taste, and I'll put this on your recipe list.
I'll put it on dras.com.
Because this could be the way you start preventing those holiday heart attacks.
Not bad.
I get not bad.
That's it?
A few words.
I'm still thinking it.
Ginger reminds me of pregnancy, so let's just not go there.
Okay, Eve, please come to back for me.
Well, I'm a foodie, so I'm very into exploring the many different options, so I like it a lot.
Thank you very much.
Only Eves both count.
There's one more risk factor for holiday heart attacks that I would be remiss not to mention, and you brought it up earlier, which is shoveling, right?
You guys shovel a lot, a little.
My husband's always away when there's a snowstorm, just put it that way.
When it hits New York, he's somewhere.
He's something else that hugs people.
I wait until my husband has to come back from his mother's house.
Hey, come on over here.
Let's get ready.
Samson, explain to folks why it seems that shoveling creates problems.
Well, again, it's during the holiday season.
It's cold outside.
You're not as active.
And that cold sort of intolerance causes you to sort of be seven-serving.
You're not moving about as you normally do.
And you see the snow falling, and first thing you say to yourself, I got to clear my driveway.
I got to clear my sidewalk.
Excuse me.
And the steps, right?
In my town, I get fine if I don't.
A lot of us do.
And so you go out and you grab the shovel, but you're not, you're deconditioned somewhat.
And that increases your chance for something bad happening as well.
So it's important to warm up, to make sure you warm, to kind of stretch, get the heart going to make sure to see how you feel.
And if you start to feel any discomfort.
Is there like a time limit on how long you should be outside or when you're doing something?
Not a time limit, but there's something you should do before you start shoveling.
Before this doesn't fit my head, so it's yours.
My dad gave me a huge head.
It's not my fault.
All right, so there's a shovel.
Come on over.
We got three.
Samson's going to walk us through this.
The first thing is a lot of people say, okay, how long can I stay outside shoveling?
It's the wrong question because the first thing you got to do is get warmed up to go shoveling.
Because if you're not warmed up, the first thing you do, put your shovel in a big watt of snow, you're automatically causing stress your body can't deal with.
So we got to do some jumping jacks.
Jumping jacks, get your heart rate up, do it for a minute.
All righty?
Come on, let's go.
All right, let's just fast forward.
We got to this.
The second thing you're going to do, I like the fashion statement of the scarf, but I actually want you to put the scarf over your mouth.
Over the mouth.
And breathe through the scarf like this.
So it keeps the warmth.
Yes, you want the air to be warm if possible coming out into your lungs because if you don't, the cold air will spasm down your lungs and your ability to get oxygen into your body will go down.
That also worsens the workload for your heart.
So a nice little, it looks cool too, right?
You go over to your neighbor's house and scare it off, right?
Depends where you are.
And then you pick up your shovel.
Now, don't get the biggest shovel ever made by men.
And when you shovel, you want to shovel small amounts at once.
Don't go for the whole thing because if you lift a heavy weight, that's stressed like that puts the highest amount of pressure on your heart because it raises your blood pressure.
And breathe the whole time you're shoveling.
Even if your husband's out of town like he always is, a little bit of snow in a reasonable shovel, throw it off and off you go.
Is it better to go into a squat?
It's better to squat because you hurt your back otherwise.
But I'm actually most focused on things that hurt your heart.
There's a whole lesson plan around the right way to pull the snow up.
But if you don't take too much snow in there and you don't strain too much to get the snow up in the air, you can do this all day long because you're already warmed up because you did your jumping jacks.
I think this works.
The most important thing, of course, if after all this, you're not feeling well, put it down, get someone in the neighborhood to help you out.
It'll save you a lot of time.
All right, up next, the next holiday health attack will surprise you, and it's something you can prevent if you know the warning signs.
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Back with the holiday health attacks you know about and what you can do to stay safe.
Now, the next one may surprise you, a holiday gallbladder attack.
The gallbladder is often ignored, but it's an important organ in the digestive system.
When you overeat during the holidays, it's a recipe for your problems.
Dr. Samson Davis is back.
He's an ER physician.
How often do you see gallbladder problems over the holidays?
All the time.
The gallbladder is like the oil to the engine.
It helps to digest the food.
So when people overindulge and eat fatty food, which we do, I mean, who could turn down mom's favorite mac and cheese?
So we eat the fatty foods.
We call it the gallbladder to work extra hard.
And sometimes it could form what we call gallbladder stones.
And that can block the doorway of the gallbladder, causing the gallbladder to swell and become inflamed.
What kind of symptoms do you get normally?
So most commonly is abdominal pain.
You feel like you just feel worn out, you have abdominal pain, you may have some nausea, you may have some vomiting, plus or minus fever.
But the pain you mainly feel is in a right-upper quadrant, right over here where the liver is, right below the ribcage.
So remember those symptoms.
I want to come back to Dr. Davis.
Thank you very much.
Audience, be honest.
He mentioned overeating.
Who overeats over the holidays?
Please?
Please.
All right, come stand up.
What's your name?
Aquila.
Aquila.
Yes.
And what kind of things do you like to overeat?
Oh my goodness.
Yams, fruitcake, turkey.
All the good stuff.
All the good stuff.
Lots of stuffing.
Come on over here.
Let's talk a little bit about gallbladders and what yours might look like after one of those meals.
So here's some purple gloves for you.
All right.
This is a normal gallbladder.
You can see it?
Yeah.
It sings to you.
It's thin walled.
It's dainty.
It's a sack that holds that bile that Samson was talking about.
And the beauty is it holds the bile and oils the food.
It sort of squirts into the food to help you digest the fats in there.
But you can feel this and sort of that's the outside.
And this is a normal inside.
That's a normal one.
So go ahead and feel that and describe that to everybody.
It feels malleable.
It feels kind of cold, moist.
Well, it has been out of the body for a while.
Okay, good.
But it's thin.
And it's connected to all the intestines down here, which I'm not going to take your time with now, but it pushes the bile into the intestines that are digesting.
Now, if you have too much cholesterol in the bile, it forms little crystals, like little snowflakes.
And those snowflakes are called gallstones.
Oh, gosh.
And they look like this.
Oh, no.
You see that?
Feel those little pebbles there.
I mean, it's actually like little rocks.
They are little rocks.
Oh, my gosh.
Now, those little rocks get stuck in the neck of the gallbladder here.
Right down there, they get stuck.
And when they get stuck, and there are a couple of them in here, they can even pass through the gallbladder and cause all kinds of headaches.
But when they get blocked in that neck of the gallbladder, the gallbladder can't empty out, it starts to swell up, and you get a lot of pain right up here under the right rib cage, up inside.
If you push there, you won't be able to stand it if you've got gallbladder problems.
So, and you get a fever too, by the way.
So, you've got multiple clues.
But here's the thing.
The stones don't stay small.
They will get larger.
See how that gallstone's pretty big?
Notice how it's actually a crystal, it sort of shines at you.
How does it crystallize?
Actually, these will be pretty earrings on it.
No!
Yes.
Let me just see.
Come on, let me just see.
No gallstones.
No earrings for me.
I'll do them.
See that little crystal little things like this?
They look.
What do you think?
I don't want you wearing those.
But the gallbladder, when you have a problem like that, starts to get more disease.
You see how there's junk in there?
It looks toxic.
See how it's silvery and gooey?
Oh, my gosh.
Touch that and describe that to everybody.
It's really slimy and...
See, the fluid was trapped in there.
It couldn't get out.
And you know what?
Sometimes the gallstones get even larger.
And these are really big babies.
Jeez.
And you see how they fit into each other like that?
They'll lock up.
They'll fill up the entire gallbladder.
This whole gallbladder was filled with these stones.
That's all that was in there were the stones.
Oh, my gosh.
So obviously that's even a bigger concern sometimes.
So any case, the small ones can cause big problems, and the big ones can cause small problems and everything in between.
So who's at risk?
You can take your gloves off.
Remember, we talked about the four F's earlier?
Family, fun, food, all that good stuff?
Friends, festivities.
Festivities and fun.
You're all about fun.
Four words for fun.
But there's also four F's of gallbladder disease, which are female, full figure, 40 and over.
Oh, my gosh.
And fertile.
Okay, so three out of four.
Three out of four apply to you?
Yeah, I'm not going to say which one doesn't.
All right.
There are tricks you can use to enjoy the holidays and not have to suffer through gallstones coming over here.
It's 40 and over.
I'm not 40.
You didn't have to say that.
That was the whole point.
I'm fertile, though.
You're fertile.
Four kids.
I got four kids.
Four kids.
Good for you.
How old's the oldest?
The oldest is 17.
You have a 17-year-old?
He wants to be a doctor.
Good for him.
Means you raised him right.
It's a great deal.
It's a great deal.
So let me give you a couple of hacks.
Your son can remember these to use on the family over the holidays.
These are the gallbladder prevention problems.
One, you'll have a lot of fiber.
Now, fiber can come in fiber cereals, lentils, artichokes have a ton.
Artichokes are a great, great holiday meal.
You can put breadcrust on them all, but people don't think about berries, but they have the most fiber of all the vegetables, of all the fruits.
I know berries had fiber that could, you know, put regularity.
All those little seeds in there.
They'll have berries all the time.
Yeah, you'll love it now.
Blackberries, they all have those little seeds in them.
It's really good for that reason.
But I'm going to give you my little surprise.
This is my persimmon punch.
Persimmon punch, live with water, some ginger, some cinnamon, and of course persimmon.
Have you ever had one of these?
I have.
They're good, aren't they?
It's really good.
It looks like a tomato, but it's actually like a fruit, and it's, yeah.
Very well described.
Yeah.
So I'll toast your knowledge of persimmon.
Let me know what you think of the taste, see if you like it as much as I do.
A lot of vitamin C in this, and vitamin C has been associated with lower levels of gallbladder disease.
It's incredible.
Isn't it nice?
It feels like a clean palate, and then also it's slightly sweet, not overly sweet, and it's really good.
Congratulations for all you do, a mother of four.
God bless you.
Akeelah, up next, preventing some of your biggest holiday disasters with the craziest videos caught on tape.
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Many of you have seen National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation.
It's the best movie, right?
My favorite Christmas movie of all time, perhaps.
But everything seems to go wrong.
Wrong.
There we go.
There we got it.
All right.
Today, we're helping you prevent some of the most common holiday disasters.
Take a look at these epic tree fails.
I love how he just walks away.
Monique is here.
She's worried about her cat and the Christmas tree becoming a deadly combination.
We just saw some evidence that might be happening.
What worries you the most?
My cat getting injured when he tips over the tree and playing with the ornaments.
I really worry that the tree may fall on him or he may get needles in his paws or something like that.
So it's nerve-wracking.
Think about cats, they love climbing the tree, the lightside, especially.
Of course.
I worry about your house catching on fire.
Well, you know, that's like the second worry, but of course you worry about them first, right?
Because you want them to be safe.
I called the vet because I'm sure Monique, you're not the only person in America with this problem.
The vet said two things.
One, they have these little scratch posts.
You ever seen those things?
Put one close to the tree.
That way they'll get that tension out, crashing on that.
And they also have these, if she's a pretty feisty cat, I gather.
Oh, yeah.
They have these anti-chew sprays.
Just spray along the bottom of the tree.
It'll calm them down a little bit.
Good to know.
And should you put that scratch pad kind of high?
So since they like the heights.
Whatever she likes to do.
It's like playing a game with your cat.
They're outsmarting you and vice versa.
Exactly.
Have a wonderful holiday.
Thank you so much.
Some holiday tree disasters can even be life-threatening.
Take a look at this video from our friends at the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
They said, I put a house with decorations on two trees, right?
The one on the left, the one that says dry, it's not been watered.
The one on the right has been watered.
Watch what happens, right?
The tree begins to catch on.
See right there?
It caught on fire in the left.
And then, ooh, within seconds, it engulfs the entire room.
It's actually spreading into the other room that's supposed to not even be touched by, right?
But despite the fact the trees can catch on fire, you can prevent it because that watered room is just fine.
ER Dr. Samson Davis is back to talk a little bit about these burns.
You see a lot of burns in the ER this time of year.
I do, I do.
And at home is where it happens.
You have more commonplace in the kitchen, stovetop, families over, children running around, you get distracted.
The stovetop catches a flammable by the stovetop catches fire.
So you want to be very careful and mindful.
The other place is the trees.
The Christmas tree is right by the fireplace, so you want to make sure you keep it away from the fireplace from your space heaters as well and from your radiators.
It's very important.
And if you keep it away from that, you prevent the chance from this happening.
Also important as well, last thing is to keep a fire extinguisher in the home as well.
Now, you've got another hack that I never thought about with the Christmas tree.
The first one is sort of obvious, which is to put the water in the bottom of the tree.
It's there for a reason.
Crawling under there, I know it's a hassle.
If you've got a sweater like mine, you don't mind messing it up, right?
Get in there and pour some water in.
But there's something else that you have that's a tip only ER doctor would know.
And it is?
It's your humidifier.
It's very important, along with the water.
You want to also keep the tree moisturized with the humidifier to keep those needles wet so that it won't dry out and it won't increase the chances of a fire taking place.
It's a brilliant idea.
Keep the, right?
Things aren't so dry.
You don't want your hands dry either, right?
Use the humidifier.
It's good for you, good for your tree.
Yes.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
All right, now for all of you considering frying your turkey this year, take a look at what can happen.
Look at this.
Oh, my, there's a turkey ball going into the fryer.
Watch it.
And look at this.
There's too much.
Oh!
There's too much grease in that fryer.
It spills out.
There it is again.
Watch the carefully, right?
And the fryer's too close to the home.
Guys, in the last two decades alone, there's been nearly $10 million in property damage from frying turkeys.
So most experts say if you're not a professional, frying a turkey isn't worth the risk.
Put the turkey in the oven, folks.
Stay safe.
Y'all in this?
I thank our friends at Consumer Product Safety Commission for that video.
Stay safe, everybody.
I'll be right back.
Does liquid hand sanitizer really work?
Today we're revealing the truth about a hand sanitizer that just might save your family this holiday season.
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We are deep into that very special time of year.
Families are crossing miles to get together and to share a holiday meal.
Isn't it sweet?
It's all lovely until someone gets you sick.
And suddenly you become a detective searching for patient zero, right?
It could even be this guy.
You never know, right?
And that's why you carry this around.
Hand sanitizer, right?
You've all been there, right?
You never, ever without it.
No tiny hand under your care goes unsanitized.
Germs, they cower in your wake.
But does this stuff actually work?
Today we investigate putting different hand sanitizers on the market to the test.
Dr. Roshini Raj, author of What the Yuck, is here to help.
First, we've learned to see if the latest sanitizer trade, which are UV lights, are as effective as sanitizers.
So the answer, do they work, these UV light sanitizers?
So the UV lights do work well for hard surfaces, okay?
So this is not something you're going to put your kids' hands in at the dinner table.
No, it's not for your skin.
But yes, for hard surfaces where germs can last for several days even.
Like this.
I feel like a germ now.
I know, exactly.
We're under those blue lights.
They can be effective.
In fact, I have a question for you.
Yes.
Do you, like most of us, carry your phone with you?
Is it in your pocket right now?
Can I take a look if you don't mind?
Okay.
You're in there, by the way.
All right.
Well, a little surprise for you.
We actually tested your phone this morning to see how germy it was.
Before you don't gloat back there.
Don't glitter.
Yeah, there's dirty as mine, I'm sure.
Most of our phones are not a pretty picture.
And we actually found that your phone had 7,081 germ count.
That's a lot.
It's a lot of germs.
I'm sure it was mine.
It was yours, Dr. Ross.
No offense, but you have a pretty germy phone.
But I will say that we then put it under the UV light that we're just talking about, and we did get a significant reduction.
It went down to the 5,000 levels, actually 5,082.
So not bad.
We got a reduction.
I mean, there's still some germs there, but we may have saved your family from a trip.
Thank you, Dr. Ross.
There you go.
Made my holidays a healthy one.
I hope so.
I hope so.
UV lights are one option, but the real one that everyone focuses on are these liquid sanitizers.
That's right.
So, how does it supposed to work?
I'm just trying to make sure that we got the right thing that we're using.
Okay, well, the most important ingredient really is the alcohol in these liquid sanitizers.
And you want at least 60% because the alcohol is going to coat the germs that you're being exposed to and actually destroy them.
It's going to coat the outer surface, and then they basically burst open.
They're destroyed, spilling their guts and bad things everywhere, so they're not able to actually make you sick.
So, just to be clear, so these balloons are germs.
That's right.
Right?
And I take hand sanitizer, right?
Right?
This is, you know, you put it on your hands like this, and they start to coat these germs.
It's basically going in and going, whoa, that's it, whoa, and relieving this.
Again, these are all viral particles.
All these germs, once they're crushed and dyed, the guts of them can't do any harm.
They're deactivated.
They can no longer cause you any harm.
I like that.
Yeah, it works.
You should do it more often.
So I was actually curious because I know the hand sanitizers work.
I wanted to see how much more effective the liquid hand sanitizers were than washing your hands.
That's the age-old debate, yes.
We got a live experiment going on over here.
Cherie volunteered to be our test subject.
She considers herself a bona fide sanitizer addict.
Am I directly judging you as being into sanitizers?
I'm obsessed with hand sanitizer.
The reason is because I take the train every day.
So I'm touching the poles and things like that.
So I have to have hand sanitizer with me always.
So as a favor, we ask you not to use any hand sanitizer for a whole day, right?
The experiment started yesterday.
How has the last 24 hours been for you?
It was very difficult because I'm such a germophobic that I have to have.
Well, they don't look terribly dirty.
Okay.
You really can't tell.
Because we used a germ counter.
That's how you really do it.
A germ counter just before the segment to judge how many germs were on your hands.
Are you curious about the answer?
I'm kind of nervous.
We need a baseline, right?
So, you know, I was in the thousands with my phone, but your hands, which are interestingly, able to keep themselves cleaner than my phone, 685, which is still a lot of germs.
So it's pretty germy, but that's your baseline.
Now, the question is, and the experiment is how can we impact it?
So, Dr. Raj is going to take you with the hand sanitizer.
I'm going to wash your hands, right?
And we're going to do this little game.
Now, if I can, let me call Jaleesa in here.
She's in our medical unit.
She's going to use that germ counter.
Again, come on in, right?
And as we do this, you're going to measure.
Are you ready?
I'll turn the water on.
Okay.
It's a little cold.
I'm sorry.
You put the hand sanitizers there.
Now, I've got to wash your hands for at least 20 seconds for this to work.
Whereas that hand sanitizer, pretty much as soon as it touches her hands, it's good to go, right?
Yeah, well, we still want to get it in and really coat all the surfaces.
Can it breed resistant germs?
No, this is actually something people worry about.
It has not really been borne out in studies.
It's not something you need to worry about in terms of alcohol causing resistant germs.
But the alcohol-free sanitizers may, so you do want to avoid those.
All right, so you're done.
I'm still going.
So go ahead and Jaleesa, check that a little bit.
All right, let's make sure her hands are a little dry.
Don't be so persticative.
Jaleeza, my goodness.
Purist.
Alrighty.
Let's do this here.
All right.
Now I'm going to dry while you measure.
So again, we're competing with 685.
How much of a difference did it make to put that hand sanitizer on there?
Do your hands feel clean now?
Yeah, it really does.
They feel clean to me.
But again, 685 was baseline.
Baseline.
So her hand after sanitizer ended up being about 435.
Oh.
So it's a little bit better.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Get my hand.
Let's see how I did the magic thing.
I've washed a lot of people's hands in my life.
Kids, grandkids, patients sometimes.
It looks clean.
Let's just look at these hands here.
So competitive, Dr. Oz.
I rub the skin right off her hands.
And basically the germ abrasion to your palm.
Oh boy.
And again, so we have 685, 200 or so less with the alcohol.
The nice thing about the generals, obviously, is you can do them wherever you are.
As you get off the subway, you don't have to go find a toilet.
All right, the winner is, come on, Jaleesa, help me out now.
Drum roll, drum roll.
It's actually washing your hands.
It was about 70, which is 70.
Big difference.
A lot.
Are you surprised that hand washing is better than using a hand sanitizer?
It's kind of sad because I use hand sanitizer so much.
I think it works, you know, well, but.
Well, actually, can I tell you something?
I mean, this is just one experiment, but they often are very close.
And I think hand sanitizer are a very wise way to go because it's so darn practical.
But the key, no matter which method you use, is to do it the right way.
Okay.
And that's where we sometimes trip up.
But either one can work for you.
So Dr. Raj, come on over here.
Let's just show everybody exactly how you can make either of these techniques work better.
And I think if you're smart about it, you'll win a lot of battles.
So first over here, we've got the unfortunate grimy hands, right?
So no matter what you do with hand sanitizers, sorry, you've got to also be able to use it in conjunction with hand washing because hand sanitizer is not getting the mud off your hands, which is what this becomes.
Exactly.
You want to get those particles off, the dirt and the grime.
That's not going to happen with hand sanitizer.
Okay.
Next up, the percentage of alcohol should be 60%.
At least 60%.
Studies show 60 to 95% alcohol.
That's the best level to really kill the germs.
Are most of the hand sanitizers sold that part that can be?
They are.
They are usually 60 or above.
Good.
And finally, you actually got to rub the skin together.
You got to rub it both hand sanitizer and with soap and water because that's how you're going to really distribute the germs so that you can destroy them more effectively, get rid of all the other little particle matter that needs to get ready.
We're actually not a fan of over sanitizing our hands.
And I just want you to be honest because you deal with infections all the time.
Yeah, you know, I think what we're learning more and more is the importance of our microbiome, those healthy bacteria that are in our bodies and even on our skin.
So the more we're depleting those on a daily basis, it's really not that great a thing, especially for children who are building up their immunity when they're very young.
So you don't want to be over sanitizing or too hygienic.
You know, actually, a little bit of germs could actually go a long way to boost your immunity.
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While you can wash and sanitize some cold and flu germs away, overdoing it may disrupt your gut bacteria, also known as your immunity hub.
So Dr. Roshini Raj has your gut healthy guide to cold and flu season.
She says there's another set of tools you should be adding to your toolbox.
The immune boosting tools include foods that support a healthy microbiome.
How is your gut's health related to your ability to ward off a cold?
So many people don't realize that 80% of your body's immune cells actually reside in your gut or your intestine.
And that microbiome, those healthy bacteria, that community that lives there is also an integral part of how you fight off infections.
So if you have a healthy gut and a healthy gut microbiome, you'll be better able to withstand all the flu germs, the cold viruses, all those things.
And the reason that your mom would tell you your produce is that actually almost all of them feed the gut in a healthy way.
Some of them are particularly effective as prebiotics to make sure they get the right immune cells.
Dr. Raj says there are three surprising gut-healthy foods everyone needs in their arsenal for cold and flu season.
There are just three.
The first, elderberry syrup.
Boom.
At some blogger moms are finding all kinds of creative ways of using elderberry syrup by making gummy bears to help their kids build their immune systems to fight against the flu season.
But you like this for a bunch of reasons.
Yeah, you know, there's a really interesting study that came out of Washington University School of Medicine where they actually gave elderberry to mice and they found that flavonoids, these high antioxidant flavonoids in elderberries, helped foster the microbiome in such a way that those mice that took it were more resistant to severe flu.
So there definitely seems to be immunity boosting properties to elderberry.
All right, and it's easier to get than ever.
The next healthy cold and flu fighter is bone broth ice cubes.
Now the key here is the bone broth, but why make ice cubes out of them?
Well this is just a great way to store it in your freezer whenever you need it.
You just pop it into the microwave and then you're gonna have your bone broth all ready to go here.
Warm and immune boosting.
So bone broth has so many vitamins, minerals, amino acids, great for that cold and flu season.
I like the cold version.
All right, cheers.
So it's convenient, easy.
We already know that for a lot of folks it makes sense for a bunch of reasons.
This is a clever way of keeping track of it.
Absolutely.
It's good for your immune system, clearing the nasal passages, all of those things.
My dad would always put some hot soup under his head and put it on.
He'd like to get a towel over his head and breathe it in.
He's an old therapy.
He's a doctor too.
But it worked for many people for many generations.
We should use it and not forget it.
Right.
This is your specialty though.
The immunity cider.
Yes.
She put all of her wisdom into one concoction.
Well, so many of these ingredients are so good for your gut and also for your immunity.
So we're starting with the apple cider vinegar.
We know that's one of the hottest gut health ingredients right now.
It has those anti-inflammatory properties as well.
Horseradish, if you've ever had too much, you know how this is going to clear your nasal passages right away.
Garlic is great for heart health, but also for immunity as well.
And then we have ginger, a great kind of tummy calming ingredient.
Cayenne pepper, anti-inflammatory also.
And then honey is sort of to keep it all together and kind of mix it, but also has its own anti-inflammatory properties.
Whoa.
What do you think?
Oh, I get the garlic in there.
It's a strong flavor.
Do this late at night when no one's going to be smelling your breath.
Oh my goodness.
You may also want to dilute it when you're first getting used to it with some warm water, but if you get used to it, just taking a shot, especially during the cold season, keep you in the middle.
If nothing else, it'll keep people away from you.
That's true.
You'll never get infected.
But pick up Dr. Rogers' book, What the Yuck.
We're going to put all these recipes on Dr.Oz.com so you can share them with your friends.
We'll be right back.
Up next, a royal lesson on love with a bishop whose wedding sermon inspired the world.
Bishop Michael Curry is here to give us the inside scoop on Prince Harry and Megan Markle's wedding.
One word to describe today is love, and we really saw it.
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When love is the way, poverty will become history.
When love is the way, the earth will be a sanctuary.
When love is the way, we will lay down our swords and shields down by the riverside to study war.
No more.
How beautiful.
That was a sermon heard around the world.
Bishop Michael Curry mesmerized billions of TV viewers with his spirited words at the wedding of Prince Harry and Megan Markle.
Today he is here giving us the inside scoop of being part of the royal wedding and how the power of love can heal your own pain right now.
Please welcome Bishop Michael Curry.
It's such a pleasure to meet you.
Pleasure to meet you.
I'm happy to see you.
Oh, my goodness.
He's here in the flesh.
I was joining millions of other people, Googling you as we're watching this event of the decade, trying to figure out who you were.
I mean, how are you dealing with this newfound fame?
Well, you get up in the morning like normal and go to bed like normal.
There you have the man of the clothes.
What was your first reaction when they reached out from, I don't know, who calls it, Buckingham Palace?
When the royal family calls you to preach at the royal wedding, it's a big deal.
What were you doing?
Where did you hear it?
Well, I was actually on the road, and a member of my staff got the call from the office of the Archbishop of Canterbury, who was carrying the message for the royal family.
So the staff member calls and says, they'd like you to preach at the royal wedding.
And so I told him to get out of here.
What do you want?
It's not funny.
That's right.
It's not even April Fool's.
What's this about?
And so eventually he had to convince me that it really was true.
It was.
How'd you tell your family?
I couldn't.
You couldn't.
It was a secret for a couple of weeks.
I couldn't even tell my wife.
Can you imagine?
She must have been really upset when she found out you were keeping that.
No, she didn't believe it either.
No.
In fact, I couldn't convince her.
I actually had to have my assistant forward the email so she could see it.
Then she said, You all made up this email.
This is an April Fool's Dance.
Nobody believed it.
Of course, though.
It shows you've been married a long time.
Your wife doesn't believe you anymore.
Yeah, she knows me well enough not to, right?
So, you know, there was a lot of drama around the wedding, and Megan went through quite a bit.
At a time, it was supposed to be happy and blissful and fairly peaceful.
You have to see a public family drama play out.
What was that like?
You know, the nice thing was when the wedding happened, the family came together.
Prince Charles walked her, she walked halfway up herself, and then he met her and walked her the rest of the way.
Everybody kind of came together.
Families are families.
It doesn't matter who they are.
Families are families.
And the truth is, they all came together, and everybody else came together.
And you know what?
The world came together for those few moments when we were watching.
We came together.
Well, listening to you, but we were also watching people listening to you.
And we all saw those intense love-filled looks that Prince Harry was giving to Megan.
And you saw it up to you.
You could see it, right?
You could see it.
What's that?
What's the secret to their love?
It's real.
It's real.
And, you know, it's real.
And I have a feeling it's real because they've got some shared experiences in life.
They've actually shared life together.
And when they looked at each other, you really did see.
I mean, you really did see two people who were in love.
And as you looked at them, it's like the rest of us got drawn into their love.
And that, and that's powerful.
That actually, you know, afterward, I didn't realize it at the time because I really wanted to make sure I didn't pick my nose on TV or something.
Yes, that would have been awkward.
Yeah, really cool.
Awkward.
Yeah, that's the first thing I got to think of.
Keep your hands down.
Do not scratch.
But, you know, I didn't, afterward, I realized, I said, you know, we all showed up.
People got up early in the morning, depending on what time zone they were in, to see two people who were doing nothing more than sharing their love for each other with the rest of us.
And the whole world, two billion of us, turned in to see two people in love.
That tells you the power of love.
Yes, it does.
It's power.
Carl Love, by the way, title of the book, the sermon was sort of essentially that.
And there's a quote you used in the sermon from the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.: We must discover love, the redemptive power of love.
And when we do that, we will make this old world a new world.
We're living in divisive times.
Have we forgotten the power of love?
I think, you know, I have to admit, the sermon, I'm not sure I said anything new.
In fact, I don't think I did at all.
But there was a sense in which the message of the sermon, not Michael Curry, the message of the sermon actually connected with us.
Because every once in a while, it's easy to forget when you live in life that you know something, we can make it.
We can make it if we love each other and take care of each other.
We can actually make it.
And life makes you forget that.
Check out the bishop's new book, The Power of Love, and stick around because when we come back, now that's a royal baby down the way.
You all know that, right?
The royal baby?
Will the bishop be back in London to christen the baby?
We'll find out.
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We're back with Bishop Michael Curry, the preacher whose sermon about love was heard around the world at the royal wedding.
We know we all say that love can help heal when nothing else can.
Bishop Curry says there are two steps everywhere at home can do right now to heal from the hurt of feeling unloved.
What are they?
You know, you can really, well, one is to just kind of stop and pause and say, okay, what's going on with me right now?
What's my story?
Why am I feeling this way?
And then two, say, wait a minute, I am loved.
And I'm worth being loved.
And then you just get up and go.
Hallelujah.
Get up and go.
And we all have to do that.
So the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, this is Megan and Harry, are expecting their first child.
They are.
So if you don't mind, I'll be, I'll ask the awkward question, are you planning to speak at the christening?
Well, I know that they have my address.
And they call it the last second anyway.
There you go.
Yeah.
No, I'm sure that that's a privilege that will be given to a bishop of the Church of England.