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Fiery Hot Chips Exposed: Are Spicy Snacks Hurting Your Health? | Dr. Oz | S10 | Ep 23 | Full Episode
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Spicy Chips Sending Doctors Red 00:15:03
Spicy chips.
You guys are talking about them.
I have never had them.
Fiery hot chips, the hottest new snack food phenomenon, leaving doctors seeing red.
Whoa.
How a simple snack is sending people to the ER with stomach pain, ulcers, or worse.
They're spicy.
What that spicy red powder is really doing to your insides.
Coming up next...
I hate these things.
Y'all ready for season 10?
Yeah!
I love you dot com.
Packs are getting hotter.
Fiery hot chips and cheese snacks, the biggest trends in the aisle.
These extremely spicy snacks are at the height of their popularity, but recent headlines lighting up the internet with health concerns about these super popular snacks.
Despite concerns, these hot, hot snacks show no signs of stopping.
They've even made their way into pop culture with celeb Katy Perry dressing up as one for Halloween.
Popular rap songs sing their praises.
And a pop-up restaurant just opened using the spicy snacks to make gourmet creation.
But as anyone who's ever enjoyed them can tell you, for every mouthful of incredible spicy red powder that you enjoy, you could endure the same amount of stomachache the very next day.
Some pediatricians and gastroenterologists are speaking out against the spicy chips, saying they may be to blame for stomach issues.
In one extreme allegation, a Tennessee teen needed her gallbladder removed, claiming it was due to eating too many of these snacks.
Even more recently, rapper Lil Zan was hospitalized for extreme stomach pain, claiming hot cheese snacks were the culprit.
And that's not all.
ERs are reporting cases where parents show up at the hospital panicked, seeing red in their child's stool after eating the snacks.
Some schools have even banned hot chips from being eaten on campus altogether.
But kids aren't the only loyal snackers.
Women can't get enough of these spicy chips either, calling them addictive.
I've been eating these really hot and spicy chips for like the longest time.
And I can't stop eating them.
My addiction has gotten to a point where my roommate's need an intervention for me.
So are fiery hot chips and cheese snacks addictive and are they safe to keep snacking on?
Today, we investigate.
Maros Gibacampo is here and I am fascinated with these fiery hot chips.
Cheese snacks.
I mean, you're still snacking on these things.
I can't stop eating them.
Is this part of the research for the show or you just like these things?
You know, I wish I could say it was research, but I love these.
I grew up eating them, which is why when I saw the headlines, I said, we got to investigate this.
You even dressed the part today.
I did.
Well, I wanted to color coordinate.
Where did the boom of these fiery hot snacks start from?
Who came up with this idea?
They have a really interesting story.
This all started with a Mexican immigrant who was working for a snack food company and felt like there weren't enough snacks that catered to the Latino community.
So he took a batch home, he put his own blend of spices on them, and it took off.
There are YouTube videos about them.
Moms are packing them for their kids' lunches.
These are the most popular snacks in the country.
And the packs will tell you how intense they are.
They have flames on them.
They say things like fuego nitro.
Some of them even have the Grim Reaper on them, which tells you how hot they are.
So I've caught you red-handed.
Red-handed.
See that?
This is actually, this is the problem.
Seriously, this is a big issue.
A little demonstration, because part of the reason they're banned in some schools is because of this.
So we get a little FOMI.
Pretend you're at school in a desk.
Right.
So it's not unusual for snacks to stay in your hands, but look at this, the way this staining works.
So they rub off on this formica, but then they don't come off, and that's the problem.
The first ones to notice this were janitors at the schools, and they said, hey, this dye is different than other snack food dyes.
I've never seen anything like this.
I'm not sure what happens inside your body, which is probably what I'm going to get to in a second, but thanks for being part of the investigation.
Don't run.
I'm coming back.
Sorry.
Keep eating the chips.
Watch her.
Watch her.
All right.
First, I want to understand the science of all this.
What's really going on inside these fiery chips.
So I invited food scientist Taylor Wallace back to the show to join the investigation.
He noticed how these extreme chips are made.
You're going to process some of these yourself.
You really understand the insides of these.
Absolutely.
So walk me through.
I want a very meticulous look at what's really inside these beautiful, elegant, and hot chips.
Well, obviously, there are many types of these chips on the market.
But the main ingredient in all of these chips that you see is cornmeal.
So pretty much all of these, that's the main ingredient.
Now, there are several other ingredients that you might see on the food label.
A lot of ingredients.
It's a lot of ingredients, and there's no reason to be scared of any of these ingredients.
For instance, most of them, like MSG, are flavor enhancers.
Now, what's really interesting about these chips and where I really geek out is the puffs, the cheese puffs, because food scientists have developed this technology.
It's called extrusion technology.
It's where we take the cheese puffs.
They actually are a liquid at first.
And we take that liquid and we put them under really high pressure and we force them through this little bitty metal tip.
And what happens is that heat from that metal tip, it's really hot.
So when the liquid hits the air, the water evaporates and the starch expands and it makes the cheese puff.
So if you want- That creates the puff?
That temperature?
So if you walk into a processing facility, you'll see all these little hot metal tips and all of these little cheese puffs just exploding out of the wall.
It's like so cool.
But they are primarily cornmeal, salt, vegetable oil, plus all the other things.
How about the color?
So several different things.
The more yellow-orange colors you see in the chips are going to come from dehydrated cheddar cheese, right?
Now, also the red is going to really come from the spice blend that's included when they tumble those chips.
And that can consist of hot chili pepper, maybe a little cayenne pepper, whatever the company decides.
Now, most food companies will also put in an artificial color, and that's just to shake things up and to really standardize the color from chip to chip.
So besides our fingers turning red, what does it actually do to our stool?
Because that's been the concern as a doctor, right?
That something else is going on inside of us.
Yeah.
They do turn a little reddish.
Have you guys noticed that, by the way?
Yasu.
Yes.
Hey, honest audience.
I love you guys.
Well, so I've seen this on TV a lot and I kind of laugh every time because there's a little bit of truth to it, but there's also a little, you know, not so truth to it.
Now, most of them, they're not concentrated enough to really change the color of your stools unless you eat a large amount of them, right?
So this is really a good indicator, especially for kids, right?
If your kid has, you know, a stool that's changing color, they might have ate too many chips.
Now, the artificial colors aren't really a problem from a health standpoint, but what is a problem is this bag of chips has a lot of calories, and we really have to watch that, especially with kids.
So for all the parents, start looking at your children's poop.
You heard it here.
Hell, thank you.
All right, because people are going to the ER with red stools.
The worry is that these red snacks might cause ulcers.
That's what I would be worried about if I saw red might be blood in your stool.
So it got me looking to start.
You did a little experiment for us.
Yeah.
And I was curious about the acidity of these products because that's my burrow, you know, acid can burrow a hole in your stomach and cause a problem.
Right.
So what we did here is we were running a little experiment.
crushed up some of these fiery chips.
What we're gonna do is we're gonna add some water to it and mix that up nice and good.
And what we have over here on the side are these pH test strips.
So we're gonna stick a test strip in there.
We'll get some of that excess off and this will show us how acidic this is.
And it's looking like it's around a three or a four and it didn't.
It's basically back up to here like six or seven ish.
Seven is normal by the way for us.
So this is way down at three.
Right, so it's very acidic.
Now, of course, a lot of things that we eat are acidic, right?
Pineapples, coffee, that's not necessarily a problem, but you do want to be mindful of how much you're eating.
And the issue with these foods is that oftentimes you feel like you can't stop eating them when you overeat them.
That's when it can become a problem for your system.
Just tasting it, since you're a big fan, would you have expected it to be so acidic?
Most acidic things, you know they're acidic.
But a lemon in your mouth is acidic.
You know, I knew something was happening because it sets my mouth on fire.
I wasn't sure exactly what the science was.
Come on back.
Let's just show what's happening inside your body with these chips.
First off, when you eat a chip, the first thing that happens is you salivate, right?
It stimulates your mouth to make saliva.
And that's part of the reason it has chemicals that spread out and they light your mouth on fire, right?
I was certainly sensitive to that.
Then the food travels down with that saliva through the esophagus, all the way down to the stomach, right?
And this spicy food could irritate the digestive tract in some people, right?
It just creates an environment that's not so pleasant for some, and that can cause inflammation, cause some bloating.
But more importantly, fatty foods actually slow emptying from the stomach and they can release the junction from the esophagus from the stomach, so you get reflux, also called heartburn, as the acid goes back up where it came from, where it's not supposed to do.
And that's why I think some people may be having problems.
So I didn't know if it was a common issue or not.
So I asked you to reach out to some gastroenterologists, some emergency room doctors.
What did they tell you?
Are they worried?
I spoke to several doctors who work in emergency rooms.
They said this is actually very common, that people are coming in with stomach pains related to these foods.
They say the telltale sign is that someone who comes in complaining of stomach pain and has the stained fingers.
The morrow stain, the fiery chip stain.
That's when they pretty much know what has happened.
But here's the good news.
In most cases, it's a false alarm.
You know, these red dyes, they're so intense, they can cause red stools.
People think it's blood.
Or if they vomit, they think they're vomiting up blood.
They get really scared.
In most cases, it's nothing but a false alarm.
Can you imagine vomiting up if that heartburn got too bad?
Oh my goodness.
All right, next question.
Are they as addictive as many people have claimed, including Mara next to me?
We're going to explain when we come back, plus my own experience eating a fiery hot chip for the very first time.
I've never had one of these things.
It's not a pretty sight, people.
Stick around.
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Now, there's a new kid in town.
A lot of people didn't even know this existed.
It's actually been very big in Asia for many, many years.
Taste this.
Oh, that's good.
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That's coming up on Monday.
My mouth is on fire.
I'm really going to use some water right now.
But at the same time, I can't stop eating them.
They make me feel so good.
It's so hot, though.
My mouth is on fire, but I can't stop eating them.
Now my producers are stacking on fiery hot chips.
Some describe a euphoric feeling when eating them, even though their mouth burns with every bite.
They keep going back to more and more and more.
Today we're investigating the nationwide obsession, and I decided to try them for myself for the very first time.
Take a look.
All right, spicy chips.
You guys are talking about them.
I have never had them.
Interesting color, which almost is natural.
They smell safe.
Crushing.
I see why people like the texture in them.
Oh my goodness.
How do you eat these things?
I was scared to try them.
I know why now.
They are spicy.
I would eat a whole bag of these things.
Oh my goodness.
I can't even focus.
Why do people do it to themselves?
I actually ate quite a few...
After a while, I began to understand what you guys are all sensing.
They got tastier and tastier.
I just couldn't say no.
But hours later, my belly started to feel like a big balloon was expanding, so I skipped dinner.
That's the effect it had on me.
But while I was eating them, I kept going back for more, which is the question really I want to ask you, Mario.
Are they addictive?
What is it that pulls us in?
You know, this is what's known as a hypopalatable food.
So what does that mean?
Certain foods are engineered so that it's almost impossible to stop eating them.
It's not just you.
They're designed that way.
That's then what leads to that cycle of cravings and the feelings of loss of control, like you can't stop eating them.
It's a real thing.
I sensed it firsthand, and then I got to study about it.
And what you just mentioned, just to bring it to life, put the chip in your mouth, and what happens, right?
Put a spicy chip in your mouth, and a couple of things happen.
First of all, you get that burning sensation, right?
And that burning sensation, Mike is burning me up, releases all these hormones, endorphins, feel-good hormones, and then it begins to create this cycle.
These opiates now are turning us on, make us feel better than normal until they wear away because they don't last that long.
And then you got to put another chip in your mouth, right?
And we feel the need to keep going and the cycle continues over and over and over again.
So here are my thoughts, folks.
First, don't be overly alarmed by the headlines out there.
I'm not that worried about these.
Snacks like these are a treat every now and then, but they ought to be consumed in the huge quantities.
I know some of you are.
If your poop is turning red, that's a problem.
Binge eating is the internet there.
I've been hearing about it a lot, and that concerns me as well.
And excessive overeating is not what these products are designed for.
That's not why they're made.
So we actually reached out to one of the trade organizations who represent snacks like these, and they said, I'm going to quote them, spicy snack foods are safe to consume and produce and are produced in full compliance with FDA regulations.
As with all foods, they should be consumed in moderation.
That's what they're saying, in moderation.
Keep it in mind that individuals have varying degrees of tolerance for a wide variety of spicy foods and sauces available in the marketplace.
Guys, be smart about this stuff.
If you still want a crunchy, spicy snack, come on over here that you're going to love.
Try what I do.
This I actually tolerate.
It doesn't burn my mouth up.
I don't have to have too much of it either.
I put red pepper flakes in my popcorn.
Try it.
Next time you get a snack crunch at night, try this out.
We'll be right back.
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A Breakthrough Clip 00:06:02
One in five of you will develop heart failure at some point in your lives.
One in five.
And for many of us, it could be lethal.
But it's breaking news, and it's good news.
This little clip, it seems so dainty, but this little clip was just proven to be a major breakthrough that could keep that from happening to you or someone you love.
It's been 20 years in the making, and I want you to be some of the first to see the Mitra clip in action.
So let me show you first what I'm talking about.
And you'll get it immediately.
The heart's divided into different chambers, right?
Each one is separated these chambers from each other by valves, tiny pieces of tissue, like this.
See that valve there?
And notice the blood's not allowed to go backwards.
It has to only come in.
But if it starts to leak, the green that goes backwards is not supposed to go that way.
It's the wrong direction.
And so because of that, the heart has to work even harder and it begins to fail.
That's what heart failure is.
Not enough blood going forward, right?
And it also, by the way, backs up into the lungs, which makes you short of breath.
So we knew this 20 years ago when I was a young surgeon.
And I was at a conference with a Italian surgeon who had an idea.
He said, why don't we open up the patient and just put one little stitch here, like a zipper, it'll snap this valve shut so it won't leak anymore.
One little stitch.
The problem is, folks are so sick with heart failure getting into their chest, opening them up, stopping their heart.
It's hard to get them through the operation.
So I had an idea.
What if we were able to put that little stitch in there with a catheter?
And on the way home from this meeting on the plane, I wrote the patent for this mitra clip, and I, with my university, Columbia University, commercialized it, and it's become what I'm about to show you.
This clip now gets pushed through the groin, right?
It circles around with a catheter, like getting a stent in your heart, goes through the valve, it opens up, and it comes back and grasps the two sides of the valve, attach them to each other, right?
So when the clip is deployed, you notice the catheter is pulled out, only that little itty-bitty clip is there, smaller than the size of a dime.
So surgeons don't have to open.
By the way, this is a look from up top.
See how the valve opens all the way, but it's tethered in one spot so it doesn't snap far apart and leak.
So essentially, the heart can beat, the valve closes, and you don't have to do heart surgery.
You can just do a little catheter.
The challenge is what this clip really means, right?
It means maybe your father is alive to walk you down the aisle.
It could mean that you can travel like you always said you would, but now that your heart's not failing on you, you can do it.
It means you can live a happy, healthier, longer life.
I mean, wouldn't that be amazing if that was possible?
But this is the breaking news part.
A new study in the New England Journal of Medicine, our most prestigious journal, took a look at the clip to see how well it worked.
And Greg Stone, he's the first author right there.
He's at my institution at New York Presbyterian, led the clinical trial, which he worked on for a long time.
So how long did you work on it and exactly what did you do and see?
So Mehmet, this study took us almost 10 years to do.
And what we did was we took 614 patients with heart failure.
Their hearts were giving out because of a heart attack or other damage.
And they were treated with all the best medical therapies and any other devices, anything else that had been FDA approved to treat their heart failure.
And half the patients got the mitro clip and half of them were treated with all those usual therapies.
And we followed the patients for two years.
And the patients who got the mitro clip, we recently found out, almost immediately felt better.
They had more energy.
They had less shortness of breath.
And we reduced the rate.
We reduced the rate of them needing to be hospitalized for severe heart failure by almost half.
And most importantly, we reduced the chance of them dying by about 40%.
There's a big difference.
In my adult life, I haven't been involved with anything of this magnitude.
I don't know if you have.
These are big.
Yeah, these are big changes.
So I want you to meet Rhoda, who actually had this clip inserted into her heart in 2017 because her life was being affected by symptoms of a leaky valve.
What were your symptoms like before you had the procedure?
I was short of breath.
I was tired and I couldn't do my normal activities.
I could do them, but not the way I like to.
And what difference has it made in your life that you had the clip?
I don't even remember having it.
I just live a completely normal life.
I walk the hills, I walk the treadmill, I fly twice a year back and forth out work.
If you can say a hospital experience was excellent, Presbyterian hospital and the doctors and nurses were excellent.
You are kind.
I'm very proud of my hospital.
I really am.
But I got to say, if I can take a say, this is important.
The story is emblematic of why modern medicine evolves so quickly when it's done right so well.
Two surgeons, me and this other guy from different parts of the world, came up with an idea in the back of an envelope, right?
Been to a major university, Columbia University, supported the idea, commercialized it.
The hospital is willing to do the clinical trials.
A small company was created to develop it until a bigger company, Abbott, and I want to applaud them because they funded this trial, could take over and actually run what we needed to do, which is a 10-year program to figure out if we would actually save lives.
Rhoda, thanks to you, millions of Americans are not going to be aware of the solution.
They shouldn't be afraid at any age.
No, they shouldn't.
They should celebrate.
And I do want to say one more thing.
It takes a village to make this a reality.
You need heart surgeons and cardiologists and engineers and hundreds of others.
And some of these wonderful colleagues of mine are here today.
God bless you, Greg.
Thank you.
I mean, iconic individual.
This guy, Mike Mack was one of my teachers.
I give them a round of applause.
And everyone on Skype behind me, you guys worked hard.
Where are you at?
Waving to you.
Thank you, Mean Barton.
They made this little clip that proved it could make a big difference.
We'll be right back.
Thank you.
Day You Flip the Script 00:04:35
Up next, super athlete Tim Thibault is here opening up about his latest health challenge and why all of us can make today the day.
Plus, he's taking your questions about the buzziest health trend.
What is it?
Keto.
Come on, Dr. Os. Tebow on Keto.
Stay with us.
My next guest says, Today is the day.
The day you flip the script.
Break a bad habit.
Leave the past behind and go from autopilot to living with passion.
He has lived these lessons both on and off the field as a super athlete and a man of deep faith.
He's revealing his biggest health challenges yet today.
Please welcome Tim Keeboe.
Oh, my goodness.
Great to see you.
Thanks for having me.
You lay like a greyhound.
I mean, my goodness.
Thank you.
I thought I said, I'm jealous of that.
We're going to talk about that in a second, but I want to talk about some of the things you've been doing of late, and then we're going to tell you to spend a lot of time talking about how you look like this.
So you have to go through pretty intense training to be a pro athlete, but if you're playing football and baseball, it's especially a challenge.
How do you get your mindset first thing in the morning?
Take on the world.
Well, I think it's being able to have a mindset that says each day matters and every day matters, right?
And having the mindset that I'm not looking forward to one day, I'm going to try to make each day count and everything that I do in that day count.
You know, my goal is to have a life of purpose, passion, and meeting.
And that doesn't start one day.
It starts on this day.
And so I don't want to be that person that when my alarm goes off, I'm just like, oh man, I got to get through this day.
Because there's a lot of people that just want to get through a day.
But I want to thrive in that day.
I want to try to make the most of every day and every opportunity I have.
I just want to point out, he's got new books called This Is the Day.
We'll be talking about it a little bit.
And, you know, I think for a lot of folks, they don't recognize how precious that gift is of the present, right?
That's why it's called that, the day, the way we are right now.
Especially when you go through dark times, that comes to mind.
And you've had some health struggles over the summer as a pro athlete.
It's a big deal when you, for example, break your hand, which you did.
That is very disappointing.
I gotta say, I actually broke my wrist when I was playing football in college, and it messed me up big time.
It seems like it's just a small little injury, but it took away my ability to do what I really love doing, at least for a short period of time.
What happened to you?
Well, for me, it was, I was just at the plate and I was getting ready to swing, and it was OO count, and I swung, and I fouled the ball off, and I just felt my hand.
I go, something happened.
And sure enough, I broke my hand.
Is that possible to break your hand with a bat?
That's the question that a lot of folks are probably asking.
Let's show them the evidence.
Come on over here.
I've actually never talked about this bone before on the show, but it's called the handmate bone.
The handmate bone.
This is the x-ray they took of Tim's wrists.
And you see how this bone's nice and intact, and this bone's, and these are all the wrist bones.
Look at this one.
You all notice that little crack through here?
You all see that?
Not supposed to be there.
And this is a big one.
You better fight that.
This is a three-dimensional picture.
And I don't know if you can tell that this bone is sticking up a little bit.
You see where the arrow is?
This area right through here?
Can you all see that little crack?
So in your wrist, you can all do it with me right now.
Look at the creases on the skin.
And the first crease on your wrist, you see that?
And then follow that all the way over to where your pinky would meet that crease.
And if you push, there's a little bone there.
And I'll show it to you on this model.
So if I put this bone on top of my hand, you'll see there's a little area here that sticks up.
I don't know if you can all tell that.
I'll put my finger underneath it, my nail there.
You see how it sticks up a little bit?
It's really important.
Lots of things attach there.
And that's the bone he snapped off.
And it takes a lot of time to heal.
How does it affect you spiritually and emotionally?
Well, it's obviously a setback, but I'm someone that believes that every time you have a setback, it's just an opportunity for a comeback.
And it's why we love you.
But I think that that's true not just in sports, but in life, you know.
And through setbacks, sometimes we can learn more than any of the successes we ever have.
Praying For Miracles 00:03:50
I think having taken a lot of tests in my life, and you all have as well.
You learn more from the questions you get wrong than the ones you get right.
So true.
Teachers know that.
There's another part of your personality I want to talk about for a second, which you don't focus on too much.
But you talk a lot about gratitude, and I found you to be a very kind person, which I'm going to come back to in a second.
You know, when we're traveling around, you meet a lot of folks, and I'm sure people want to get pictures and autographs and all, but I understand recently you were on a flight and there was a crisis on the plane, one you don't want to have to experience.
And the man had slumped over and was apparently having a heart attack.
And you went over and comforted the wife.
You couldn't deal with the heart attack, but you did what you could do.
Well, you know, I was seated closer to the front of the plane, and then you hear calls over the plane: everybody stay in your seats, stay in your seats.
And so everybody kind of turns to look around, like, what's going on?
You got up immediately.
Well, even though they said, stay in your seat.
I didn't obey.
Sorry, Delta.
You know, I'm trying to look and see what's going on, and I'm thinking, like, okay, you know, I can't do anything.
I'm not a doctor.
But then I feel that nudge in my heart, like, you need to do something.
So I went back there, and as I got to the back of the plane, where the man was laying prostrate, and it was a very tough situation, you know, bleeding out of his mouth, he's unconscious.
And his wife and one of their friends just jumped into my arms.
And the first thing they said was, We've ran out of words, you pray.
And so I had never met them, never seen them before.
They just fell into my arms.
And so I started to pray.
I started to pray for her husband, for a miracle.
And to make a long story short, it didn't end the way that we had hoped or we had prayed.
But even in the midst of adversity and tragedy, we were able to gain encouragement because they were on that flight.
Debbie, who's the wife and Boots, who's the man that lost his life, were living out their dream and they had been doing it for so long.
And that's something that we all want to be able to do.
It's hard to wrap your mind around tragedies like that.
We actually reached out to Debbie and she sent me a note that she wanted to read to you.
She said, okay.
I was really thought, you know, impressed by the fact that she'd lost her husband, but wanted to express to you that it meant a lot that you showed up in her life to support her in her time of pain.
Up until that day, I'd only seen Tim on TV during football games.
But that day I met a man whom God used for his glory.
It was not fate, but all a part of God's plan for Tim to be on the flight with us.
So thank you for giving her hope.
How does it make you feel to have someone feel that way about you, to make a difference in Debbie's life, in her time of need?
Yeah, obviously that's encouraging.
And Debbie and her family are so amazing and getting to meet them at the funeral and get to know them and be able to love them and care about them.
But I think I gained more encouragement from how she handled that situation than anything.
But then I think the people on board also encouraged me that there's a lot of tough times and adversity we go through.
But when adversity strikes, you can see the best of humanity come out.
And I saw it on that plane.
And it's pretty special.
God bless you for saying that.
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Keto Secrets Revealed 00:06:34
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It's one of the hottest diets around.
You're always asking me about it.
The ketogenic diet, which focuses on high-fat foods to help burn body fat.
So again, high-fat foods, they say, will burn body fat.
How's that possible?
Well, superstar pro-athlete Tim Thibault is back to break down the truth about this strengthy diet and to show you his top keto secrets of success.
I mean, this thing is everywhere.
And with that fact that pro-athletes like you, who, you know, get paid to manage your body and have advisors giving you insights is in love with the diet means a lot to me.
So what has it done for you?
Oh, it's done so much.
To be honest, I've been on this for over seven years now.
And so I was kind of on it before the trend.
And for me, it's not just about my body or staying lean or trying to be in shape.
It's also about my brain.
It's about waking up each day and fueling your brain so that you feel cognitively ready to go and ready to take on the day.
All right, so break it down.
Give me a plate of keto.
What would you normally have on it?
I would have all of this stuff.
I love cashews, love steak, love chicken.
You know, obviously you got to have your vegetables.
So I'll even make like spinach shakes.
I'll put cauliflower with my fish.
But not a lot.
No, not necessarily as much, but I will have a lot of fat.
So I know the bacon looks really good.
And a lot of people are like, no, I stay away from bacon.
I don't stay away from bacon.
I love it.
You eat bacon.
I eat bacon.
I love bacon.
Yes.
Gosh.
We'll come back to that in a second.
But yeah, this is a 75% fat.
You may actually have a little more protein I know because you're an athlete.
But this is the rough breakup of it.
So I like you have questions about it because it does seem too good to be true.
So let's go to Leah over here.
What's your question, Leah?
Does keto really burn fat and how does it work?
How does it work?
You want to show everybody how it works?
Sure, let's do it.
Give me a little animation.
It's based on Tim's body, right?
And what it could be and what it is now.
So sugar, obviously, is everyone's favorite energy source, right?
And whether you eat it from foods and whatever source it might be, cookies or ice cream, but also even healthy carbohydrates, it converts to sugar in your body.
And when you eat too much of that sugar, you begin to get big and wide, like you can see here in this little animation.
By eating a ketogenic diet, right?
These are the foods that Tim was just talking about, right?
Not the foods, like there's an avocado there, but you can have bacon too.
And this conceptually, you're eating primarily fats.
And as long as you do this long enough, instead of running on sugar, your body has to switch over to burn some of the fat that you store.
So all that fat, you know, those love handles in this animation begins to shrink away a little bit.
And when you break down fat, you create a chemical called ketones.
Ketones.
And it's those ketones, which we all know about in medicine, but you just figuring out in the pop culture is important to understand, is what gives rise to the phrase ketosis.
You'll sometimes smell ketones on the breath of people who are on a ketonic, ketotic diet, ketogenic keto.
Can you smell my breath?
No.
That was really close.
Yes.
Minty, fresh breath.
Why don't you have ketones coming out of your mouth?
Now he's saying checks and checks and blood tests.
I know your keto are dry.
Why don't you have ketos in your breath?
Probably it's because I brushed my teeth.
I don't know.
All right, next question is from Alexa, and it's about a keto snack because we all need snacks.
How are you, Alexa?
Good, how are you?
What do you got for us?
Did you try one?
I have not.
Don't try it yet.
Nope, you got it.
Just one second.
It's all about timing.
You're smiling at me.
I especially love carbs, so how do you not get bored of fats and proteins, especially in snacks?
Well, that's a really good question.
For me, I have snacks like this, and this is a healthy snack that's sort of like a Reese-Pecie type treat.
And it will have coconut oil, it'll have real cacao, so it's like a fat bomb for me.
So it's, I think it tastes pretty good, especially when you haven't had sugar in years.
But it also kind of gives you that sweet flavor and a little bit of a crunch, so it's kind of like a Reese-Pecy.
You didn't add sugar to this because it's quite sweet.
No sugar.
Stevia, if you like Stevia, you can put Stevia in.
What do you think of it, Alexa?
It's really good.
It's really tasty and light and refreshing.
Come on, Alexa.
If you were on a desert island, what ketogenic food would you take with you?
I would want to take those Reese Peasies, but I think they would melt.
So I think I'd take avocado.
Avocado.
Babylon.
There it is, guys.
And Tim says he actually eats three avocados a day, which that seems high to me.
Is that what you really do?
Yeah.
If you literally just cut it open, have a half, have another half later, it's such an awesome meal replacement.
Can I ask you a personal question?
Of course.
Has your poop ever turned green?
It actually, it's a good one.
I get why you said it's a personal question.
I guess I don't really check.
Everyone looks.
Everybody looks.
But in theory, Alexa, just to warn you, he's a big guy, but if you were to have, you know, four or five, six of these babies a day, it could create problems in that regard.
But just to do the math, three avocados is 700 calories if you have all three.
That's 63 grams of fat.
So it makes a ketogenic diet, but it's a lot of calories for a lot of folks.
So you need to work out if you're going to have that many calories or have two avocados.
Now, more little hack.
Notice I would normally have you would too, some kind of chip with this.
He uses cucumber.
Oh.
Which is pretty clever.
Give it a shot.
Don't be so fearful here.
It's not going to bite you.
But these are the kind of hacks.
It's healthy, but it also gives a nice little crunch.
Oh, she's waiting.
She's waiting.
Oh, wow.
That's really good.
There you have it.
Did Tim do that keto, keto?
Would you go keto?
I definitely would.
More convinced today.
How many folks are more open-minded to keto now that you heard from Tim?
Put your hands up.
Oh, you got the whole audience on board.
Well, if that's the case, check out Tim's new book.
It's called This Is the Day.
There's a beautiful picture of it there.
Pay attention.
This guy's got a lot of good wisdom.
We'll be right back.
Up next, my good friend Sandra Lee is here revealing all on the surgery that changed her life forever.
It is so important that we be here together.
I hope my story helps save lives, your life.
Stay with us.
You're about to see my friend, television chef and author Sandra Lee, like you have never seen her before.
Sandra's Journey Revealed 00:07:49
She allowed cameras to follow her for months as she fought against breast cancer and won.
And now her journey has been turned into an amazing new documentary.
Take a look at this moment between Sandra and her longtime partner, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo.
Right after the surgery, they changed her life forever.
You're a great patient, they said.
You're so great.
And so finally, maybe just rest because your baby is sleeping.
You never see her healthy sweet.
Please welcome Sandra Lee back to the show.
I didn't know what to expect in the documentary.
I do want to applaud you because you allowed the most intimate moments, moments that most of us have never seen you in.
In fact, you allowed some fairly graphic scenes of the actual surgery itself to be shown so that we all get the real picture of what it means.
But why would you take that risk?
You make yourself vulnerable by showing this.
They did say that.
They said, are you sure you want people to see this side?
And what it is, is I couldn't find this for myself to get through this.
I didn't understand what my decisions meant.
So we created it so that other people would understand what does a diagnosis mean?
What does a treatment look like?
What do you go through day by day, step by step, appointment by appointment, surgery after surgery, all of those things.
And it's not just a tool for people who have been diagnosed, are diagnosed, or will be diagnosed.
It's for their families and their friends to understand what's going on.
Because someone might be acting a certain way and you don't get it.
If you watch this film, you're going to completely get it.
Let's talk about your family.
Was the governor, our incredibly popular newspaper?
The governator.
The governator.
Andrew Como.
Was he nervous about being seen?
I mean, there's a moment where he takes you into the operating room.
It's incredibly loving.
And he's just trying to say goodbye to someone that he cares about a lot that she goes under anesthesia that will change her life.
Yeah.
And yet, you know, he did it.
People are talking about Oscar for this movie.
I mean, it's nice, actually, but part of it's because it's more than just a nice story.
It's a story that's going to change lives and save lives.
It's going to save lives.
It needs to save lives.
Three years ago, when you started this process, it was a big question, Mark.
I just want to hear from you as a friend.
Are you doing okay now?
I'm doing great.
And can I just tell you something?
When I was here with you before, I had just been diagnosed and I wanted to take you, I'm going to cry, I wanted to take you in the back and say, what the heck?
By the way, if you get breast cancer, you can say the F word.
It's fine.
And then you can pick up your big girl pants and you march it down.
But right after I left you, I had to go to the hospital to a doctor's appointment.
And I literally, in the film, you see that moment between us and you see me leave you and you see how happy I was just to be with you.
So thank you for being my friend.
Well, God bless you.
So I had an opportunity to talk to someone who cares about you dearly who wanted to just add a little something extra.
So a little surprise.
So take a look at this.
I am so proud of you.
I'm so proud of what you're doing.
I'm so proud of the strength that you showed as you went through this.
And I'm so, so proud that you're taking the pain that you went through and you're making it a positive for other people.
that speaks volumes about you.
He's so sweet.
He cares about you a lot.
Wow.
13 years and three kids.
Yeah.
Why do you have to make me cry?
I don't want you to cry.
I want you to feel the love from the people who are around you.
Aw, that's so sweet.
Anyway, it was a very tough journey for everybody.
It's not just the person who's diagnosed.
But for me, this is my way to push out to all of you because I love you and we're all in this together.
But get your screenings.
The epidemics are coming.
The epidemic in breast cancer is coming younger and younger, girls in their 30s and 40s.
This is an epidemic.
You need to be responsible for your health.
You need to go out and get screened and you need to make your family also go out and get screened.
If you want to understand why, take a look at Sandra's documentary.
It's called Early Detection, A Cancer Journey with Sandra Lee Debuss this Monday, October 8th, on HBO, and it will save a lot.
Now, coming up, are you living in fear about getting breast cancer?
Because that's one of the reasons people don't get the screening, even though I think it's getting easier and easier to get screened.
Are still doing them.
Sandra has an important message she wants every woman watching to hear.
So stick around.
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I think you're grieving.
I'm grieving.
How many people see me over there?
always happy.
They smile at me.
Do you feel sound?
That was Sandra Lee and her sister Kimber in the hospital following Sandra's life-changing breast cancer surgery.
Kimber's joining us on the couch now for a little insight into your sister because she's so on top of everything.
She's got everything figured out, so strong.
What was it like to see her in a moment of weakness?
Well, right there in that particular clip, she was mourning.
She was mourning the loss of her breasts, which, you know, we as women become very attached to.
So it was very difficult watching her be in pain.
Difficult watching anyone be in pain, especially someone that you're very close to.
You know, you want to take the pain away from her, and there's only so much you can do.
So.
Sisters are unique.
What's your big message for America?
Well, I think that it's really important that people understand what an epidemic breast cancer is.
And you hear about it every single October.
And I used to be the person that walked in the stores and said, it's supposed to be orange and black in October, not pink.
God certainly showed me, right?
It is about saving lives.
It's about everything that is important in the world.
And that is that we all stay here with our loved ones and that we stay on top of each other and that we care about each other and take care of one another.
It's about the governors changing the laws in the different states to make screenings more accessible and affordable.
And Andrew has created the blueprint to do just that.
And so all you have to do is take that blueprint and either refine it for your state or just use it and implement it and save lives.
The earlier you get detected, the better your chances of survival.
That does not mean you don't get metastatic later.
I do not want to discount the women who live with metastatic breast cancer every day of their lives.
But cancer is cancer, whether it's breast cancer, liver cancer, lung cancer, cancer is cancer.
It's not there to be your friend.
It's there to kill you.
So like if someone's coming out your kids, you take them out, right?
Someone comes after your kids, you take them out.
Cancer comes after you, you take it out.
That is all.
Thank you very much.
Congratulations on the movie and all that you've done.
It's being so open about this.
Kimberly, thank you.
Gotcha.
I'm moving underway to make testing cheaper and more readily available.
You get lots more information on draj.com.
Thanks for watching.
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