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Jan. 23, 2026 - Dr. Oz Podcast
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Best Cooking Oils for Weight Loss and Metabolism Truth Revealed | Dr. Oz | S9 | Ep 96 | Full Episode
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Healthy Cooking Oils 00:14:56
With all the new cooking oils, hemp seed, flaxseed, walnut oil, which ones are healthy and which ones are all hype.
Eating these kinds of fat can also start to stimulate your metabolism.
The best ones to help you lose weight.
Plus, let's get the kids smartphones.
What could possibly go wrong?
Kirk Cameron on the smartphone threat.
They seen your kids.
not-so-obvious dangers we need to help them navigate coming up next are you ready to say some lives today I love you, Dr. Long.
...over coconut oil being possibly unsafe hit.
I know a lot of you, like me, were shocked.
But that's not the only new oil out there.
More and more alternative cooking oils are popping up on grocery store shelves, and you may be confused over whether they're healthy or not, and which ones are just hype.
Today, Dr. Vark Hyman is here with a new food investigation to help us get to the bottom of it all.
He says it is time for an oil change.
So what are the benefits of choosing the right fat?
Well, you know, we've got it all wrong on fat.
We've done a 180-degree turn in America.
The dietary guidelines, the last ones, eliminated any restriction on total fat and even dietary cholesterol.
And the reason is that fat doesn't make you fat and fat doesn't cause heart attacks, which we all thought sugar does.
In fact, eating the right fats has enormous benefits.
Not only can it help speed up your metabolism and lose weight, reverse diabetes, but it can help bounce your hormones, boost your brain power, even give you a nice skin.
And we're going to cover all those oils today.
All right, so let's start first out with the right quantity because part of the catch here is you got to be able to eat the right amount of the right kinds of oils.
So what are the recommendations?
Well, quality is always important in whatever you eat.
So if you focus on quality first, right, you want to eat real food, right?
Not highly pressed food.
But the quality matters.
But I would recommend probably one to three and picking the right oils because they will help you stimulate your metabolism.
They'll help improve your overall health and help you lose weight.
So for the average viewer right now, is it fair to say that three tablespoons of oil, the right kinds of oil are probably reasonable?
Yes, but there's one huge caveat warning, big warning.
Yes.
You can't have sweet fat because combining fat and sugar together is deadly.
Think of french fries, donuts, ice cream.
That will put on the pounds and cause heart disease.
So you got to cut down the starch and the sugar if you're going to bump up the fat.
All right, so now you know how much.
Let's walk through individual categories.
First up, the heart, my favorite organ.
What are the best heart-healthy oils?
Well, these two oils are tremendous.
One is hemp seed oil, which is dark green.
It's got so many antioxidants and polyphenols, and flaxseed oil.
These come from seeds, and they are very powerful because they contain omega-3 fats.
So this is a smoothie.
Now you can use it on salads, you can use it on vegetables.
You can't heat it, but you can put in smoothies, which I do.
I even have people rub it on their skin.
I have patients with eczema or dry skin.
I have them rub on hemp oil and flax oil.
It actually helps to heal the dry skin.
I'll put the Shrake recipe in on Dr.Oz.com.
I'll tell you, a lot of smoothies aren't very smooth.
This is very smooth.
Soak in smoothie.
It's good.
All right, so category one, the heart.
And I think a lot of doctors are getting more comfortable with the right kinds of fats might help the heart.
But the one area that there's a big debate still, and that's the fact that oils may help you lose weight.
So the right kinds of oils have a very important effect on your hunger.
So we're all sitting in here living our lives with a little bit of hunger, hoping we're full, but sensing hunger.
If you eat healthy oils, it'll take care of your cravings, but more importantly, it'll take care of your hunger.
So once you've eaten enough of the right kinds of oils, you'll feel what is called full, right?
You won't want it anymore.
But interestingly, something else happens.
Eating these kinds of fat can also start to stimulate your metabolism.
And your metastability goes faster and faster as you pour in more and more of those healthy oils into your body.
That results in your fat cells beginning to burn away.
As they smoke away because you have less appetite because you're not hungry and because your metabolism is fast, you'll get this kind of a benefit where it'll seem like your fat's pouring out of your body.
Which, interestingly, you point this out to me, the right kinds of fats may relax your body fat.
Yeah.
So they can sort of do lipogenesis.
It's powerful.
It's a process, rather.
Exactly, right?
It's so powerful.
When you eat the right fats, you shut up the hunger switch in your brain so you're not hungry.
You speed up your metabolism to actually burn more calories just doing nothing, sitting on the couch.
And you open the switch so the fat can get out of the fat cells.
Because otherwise, it's locked in there like a one-way turnstile when you eat a lot of sugar and carbs.
When you eat the fat, it actually opens up that and you get the fat out of your fat cells.
Very powerful.
So when you begin to see these kinds of phenomenon happening, it stimulates questions, including one from my bike club member Elaine.
Take a look at her question.
Hey, Dr. Oz, I'm trying to cook healthier, and there are so many different oil options.
I really want to use something healthy.
Can you help me?
All right, let's answer the question.
The best oils for weight loss are Dr. Hyman?
Well, these two in particularly are good oils.
One is walnut oil, and the other is something you probably never heard of called black seed oil.
I'm going to get to that in a minute.
So, walnut oil has omega-3 fats.
It's got an anti-inflammatory polyphenols.
It helps with insulin resistance and blood sugar control.
But the black seed, or it's also called black cumin or black caraway seed, is this amazing seed that they reviewed the database on all natural products that actually help with weight loss.
And this came out on top.
Why?
Because it cuts your appetite, it prevents you from absorbing sugar from your gut, and it actually helps reverse insulin resistance.
So, when they did a through-put screening on all these various powerful natural compounds, this one came out on top.
So, you can put on salads, you can put on vegetables.
I think it's fantastic.
It's really good.
I have this with cheese once in a while, but never on a salad.
Yeah, it's good.
Clever.
All right, next: the best alternative oil for cooking.
This is really important because a lot of us make mistakes.
We burn away the healthy benefits of our oils by heating it up too much.
That's right.
So, you have oils for different things.
So, like what we talked about the walnut oil, the black seed oil, the flax, hemp seed, you don't want to heat with those because they oxidize and they can become damaged.
So, you want something you can saute in, that you can cook food in that's not going to smoke.
We'll talk about that in a minute.
But the avocado oil has a very high smoke point, and it's actually you can cook and stir-fry vegetables at high temperature without damaging the oil.
And it also has monounsaturated fats, so it's like the olive oil, so it's got benefits like that.
And it's also got great polyphenols that come with avocado, so you're getting a triple benefit with that.
So, we know that when the oil smokes, you're damaging the healthy benefits we're looking for.
So, what is the benefit of having an oil like avocado that doesn't smoke so you're like 500 degrees or something?
A lot of us think olive oil is good, we cook with olive oil, but it has a low smoke point, and it'll start smoking, and that damages the oil, it makes it rancid and oxidize, and it damages all the basic beneficial nutrients in there, and it creates all these toxic compounds that actually make you sick.
So, you don't want to eat it.
It's like eating rancid oil.
When you have avocado oil, you can use it at high temperatures and it doesn't cause that problem.
So, just a little comparison: avocado oil smoke point is 520 degrees, which means you can bake eggs in it without any trouble, right?
Yeah, on a pan, fry your eggs up.
Extra virgin olive oil, like we had over there, 325 degrees.
If you're unsure of your oil's smoke point, I didn't realize this, but it's actually on the label.
They write it right here.
This avocado oil.
See right there, is it 500 degrees?
You see all that?
Most bottles of oil are going to give you the correct temperature.
So, check it, use the one that makes more sense for the cooking that you're doing.
If it's a low smoke point temperature, then make sure it's on a salad.
Don't heat it at all.
That's right.
Go to droz.com to get a full guide for all these alternative cooking oils.
It'll help you buy the right ones.
Up next, grandma's favorite cooking fat.
What is it?
It may be making a big-time comeback in a very unlikely place.
Find out why health food stores are selling.
Are y'all ready for this?
Throw me that box over there.
Da-da, lard.
They're selling lard!
Be right back.
There's like an atom.
Wicked nannies.
That's the Bruce.
And there was one on her back.
Daycare disasters.
Missy porn is here.
Do you really know who's watching your kids?
I told you she was having them going to jail.
All nuance.
That's coming up tomorrow.
There it is, lard, the old school classic cooking fat that grandma used to create your childhood favorites.
It's making a comeback in a very unexpected place.
Yeah, you can applaud.
I know you wanted this back.
The health food store now has lard.
Now, people all over social media and YouTube are now praising lard, saying it is the new it fat.
But is lard healthy?
Well, let's investigate.
Dr. Mark Hyman is back.
He's becoming a voice in favor of lard.
I gotta say, I'm not yet convinced.
So Mark, Josh, you and I both went to med school.
We were taught that lard just filled up arteries like porn cement and blood vessels.
That's right.
It's like a heart doctor.
It's like the enemy.
It is.
And yet it's making a big comeback in the health food stratosphere.
I think when humans or man starts to mess with Mother Nature, we can get trouble.
So about early 1900s, we switched away from lard and other animal fats as the cooking fats to vegetable shortening.
And you know why they call it shortening, right?
No.
It shortens your life.
Oh.
It's harsh.
It's harsh.
And it's actually pretty toxic.
It turns out that lard is now a cooking fat that can be used and it is actually making a comeback and it's available in health food stores and other places.
Alright, so 50 years ago when the big move away from lard towards shortening vegetable fats that were adulterated.
Which now are recognized as the government as non-safe to eat.
They're considered non-toxic.
True, but the American Heart Association, major groups will say, you know what, lard saturated fat, that's not good for your heart either.
No, true, right.
So we still have the story that saturated fat is bad.
And turns out that there's very little evidence that's true.
It was based on some population studies, but there's been 17 large reviews of all the literature, even randomized controlled trials showing that saturated fat doesn't seem to cause heart disease, probably neutral.
It's not a health food, but it's not going to be causing heart disease.
And you got the French paradox where they're all eating cream and butter and they're not getting as many heart attacks.
But come on over to the truth, too, because I think I'm going to give you my thoughts on this and see what you think about it.
I think an analogy is a traffic light, right?
It's not just red and green.
You got a yellow light there, too.
So green light is mito and polyunsaturated fats.
They're good for you.
Yellow light fats are, I think, the saturated fats.
Maybe they're not as toxic, as bad as people have been saying, but I'm not sure that I put them in the same category as well.
No, I wouldn't say they're a health food, but they're probably neutral when it comes to heart disease.
And then there's the shortening food you're talking about, the shortened.
The trans fats, right?
The trans fats.
They're in the red light category.
We don't want any of those.
We all know that.
Everyone's sort of agreed on that.
Those are adulterated as well.
For many reasons, stay away from them.
So moderation ends up becoming what Keith Fray.
How much of these fats do you recommend we eat a day?
Well, of the saturated fats, four tablespoons a day if that's what you are totally eating of all your fats, saturated fats.
But if you're having saturated fats, other parts of your diet, maybe two tablespoons a day.
All right.
We know a lot about these fats.
Some of us have heard of some of these things.
There are other kinds of animal fats as well.
So there's beef tallow.
There is duck fat.
And then, of course, the lard, which comes from pigs.
I didn't realize this.
Lard is only from pigs.
Yeah.
All right.
So walk us through these.
So these are all becoming more popular.
So beef tallow was what all the fast food restaurants used to use for French fries.
And then they removed it and put in vegetable oil.
And some of them are going back to it now, actually.
Oh, no.
And it actually is a food that was used by the Native Americans from Buffalo, which is similar as tallow, as the main food that fueled the development of America with pemmican bars, which is like the power bars of the Native Americans.
They were 70% fat.
They were 70% tallow.
So this can be used in cooking and other go full circle.
Unbelievable.
It is pretty amazing.
If someone tried to sell you something that Native Americans ate and were able to live on this continent with, you'd say, oh, I want to have some of that.
And that turns out that's beef tallow.
It's true.
And duck fat?
And duck fat is a very tasty fat.
It's a very yummy fat when you put it on food, so people love it.
It's got a lot of monounsaturated fats like olive oil, so lots of benefits.
And the lard for the pork.
Lard, yeah, it makes things taste great.
These aren't things you just want to pour on your food all the time, but they're things you can use in cooking safely.
And they're much more stable.
They don't oxidize.
They're stable to room temperature.
And they have a lot of benefits.
So they're being sold now in health food stores.
What do you look for?
Just looking for lard?
Yeah, you want to be careful.
You don't want to have factory-farmed animals, right?
So you want organic, pasteurized, grass-fed, whenever possible.
And they're out there.
All right, so I guess I'm curious about the flavor.
Are you curious?
So there are all the different animals.
So I asked my go-through tester, Renatha, to join us.
Renata, come on out there.
And Renata.
Hello, hello.
Renata's already tasted these.
She will retaste them with us.
But you have now tried the beef, the tallow, and the duck.
Please walk us through a tasting of these.
Okay, so go on dig in.
Now, listen, with the beef tallow, right?
Now, have you ever had oxtail stew, okay?
Render down.
That's beef tallow, okay?
That's beef tallow on this toast right here.
So you're getting those drippings.
I mean, it's basically the drippings.
Sprouted grain, by the way.
Cheat on the fat, have the right bread.
That's very fat.
Exactly.
And that's a good, you know, that's a good mindset to have.
If you're going to cheat on the fat, have some nice whole grain bread with it.
Right?
Okay.
So that's that.
That's good.
Yeah, so that's the beef tallow.
And now, duck fat.
Mmm.
Okay.
My mouth is watering.
Okay, my mouth was watering.
It's nice, luxurious.
Okay, it's smooth.
All right.
So, you know, for the duck fat, that is the taste that I get from that.
That's a lot easier for me than the beef tallow.
Yeah.
Okay.
That's nice.
That's for me.
All right.
And how about the pork lard?
And now, first of all, don't call it a comeback, but I had no idea lard was back, okay?
You know, I remember my mom cooking it fat.
Yeah, I remember my mom cooking, using it when I was younger.
But, you know, with the pork, pork lard, I'm telling you, you are getting, yeah, look at your face.
I feel so guilty admitting this.
Look, we are substituting.
This is the best.
We are substituting.
Exactly.
Exactly.
It's giving you all that bacon-y flavor.
Yes, right.
So this is giving you flavor town with all three of them.
All right, so between the two of you, I have changed my mind today about lard.
But again, I can tell you one thing.
Traditionally, lard was used for deep-frying donuts, making pie crust, right?
It was that fat sugar combo about the hymen was talking about earlier.
So we want you to avoid that.
I'm not talking about that.
Don't do that.
I'm saying maybe we can have a little of this fat in a healthy way.
Yeah.
Exactly.
And not just system in the right direction.
Lard DebateResolved 00:03:30
But I have not eaten lard as an adult.
I'm going back to this.
So this is really coastal.
Don't call it a comefat, yes.
All right, so here's a question.
Can we make this healthy?
Where viewers put lard to the test in their kitchens?
People like you put it to the test.
Could they create healthy food options with lard?
That is next.
The kiss heard round the world.
Is it okay to kiss your kids' lips?
That's weird.
That's coming up on Friday.
We've been talking about all the new cooking oil alternatives And Dr. Hyman says lard.
That's right, Dr. Hyman said it.
Lard is one of them.
It is the latest chapter in his Pro Fat Crusade.
So he asked two viewers to bring in their favorite recipes made with fats.
The first one is actually made with lard.
Radath and Dr. Hyman are going to help taste it with me.
Tiffany made it.
So what did you make and how did you make it?
So these are broccos.
They're breakfast tacos.
What's that?
Broccos?
Broccos.
That's clever for those little fingers to get in there.
It's delicious.
It's healthy for you.
My friends, I make them from them all the time.
They absolutely love them.
And yeah, so how I made them was I started off by baking some smoked salmon.
Oh, salmon.
That's a wrong animal.
Bacon.
Baked bacon and salt.
Now we're talking.
Bacon and IR.
Oh, there's toothpicks.
Sorry, don't kill yourselves.
I have a lot of smaller.
I'll tell you everything.
So then I diced up some mushrooms, onions, peppers, sweet potatoes, and I saw Tayton's lard.
Right?
So it sounds weird, but it actually, it's delicious.
Were you shocked when we asked you to cook with lard?
At first, I was, but it turned out great.
And, you know, apparently there's health benefits to it, so I want to stay healthy.
Roth, what do you think of the taste?
Don't lie to me, girl.
I'm not lying.
You did this.
I did not miss the bread.
No, I don't miss the bread because of the savoriness of the lard.
So girl.
How much lard did you put in this?
Brocco.
One tablespoon.
Oh, right.
Right online.
Pork rice.
It's totally.
It's a little messy, but you know, you are what you eat, right?
I'm proud of you.
It's like a lot of vegetables, a lot of protein, good fats.
Awesome.
And it augments the flavor of the dish.
It's perfect.
So just what he said.
All right, next we got Kimberly's here.
Kimberly made a paleo-friendly dish.
Yes, I did.
With beef tallow.
So not pork, but beef tallow.
What did you make and how'd you make it?
So I made a paleofriendly rosemary encrusted chicken.
And I used, you know, I seasoned it with lemon, I used rosemary, obviously, and some paprika, salt, and pepper.
And why is it paleofriendly?
Because people who eat paleo don't want to eat a lot of refined products like refined vegetable oils, for example.
So this is sort of a natural kind of ancient fat that's been used for thousands of years.
Oh, you got a fist bump I saw.
I took from your mouth.
It's true, though.
You know, initially, I thought it, I would have thought we were punking you when you got the call, but it's a very wise idea because you take a chicken dish.
If I put duck fat on this, it probably would have tasted a little bit flat.
But the beef tallow just mixes and matches just perfect.
Punches up.
I earned you a fish pump.
Nice job.
If you want to learn more about lard and how to make your own, head over to drive.com for a quick video.
And when everyone else, make sure you check out Dr. Hyman's book.
It is fabulous.
It's called Food.
What the heck should I eat?
Which is a big question we're all asking.
So answer that question by picking up his book and give one to a friend as well.
It is in stores right now and is doing very, very well.
We'll be right back.
Parents' Concerns About Kids and Phones 00:14:20
Coming up, Kirk Cameron's here worrying about these.
That's right, your kids and cell phones.
Did you know that there's more computing power in one of these than was used to put a man on the moon?
It's pretty incredible.
Find out the effect these devices have on the brain and how to limit their power over your family.
That is next.
You know it from the beloved 80s family sitcom Growing Pains.
And he's one of the biggest Christian movie stars there is.
But today, Kirk Cameron is here on a mission.
As a father of six, he's speaking out about what he calls one of the biggest risk factors facing our children today.
The inherent dangers of this.
A smartphone.
Take a look.
One Mother's Day, Chelsea says to me, I want to get the kids smartphones, all of them.
I said, okay, let's do it.
Let's get the kids smartphones.
I mean, what could be simpler?
and what could possibly go wrong.
And then I saw a story on the news of what happened to a man named Tim Woda and his son There was this grown man who was soliciting my child.
And I said, where'd you meet this person?
He said, I met this person on Facebook.
I said, well, that's not possible because you don't have a Facebook account.
He had this whole digital life that I had no idea even existed.
I decided I needed to get to the bottom of understanding how technology and my kids were interacting.
Unfortunately, a lot of parents are saying just do whatever you want.
50% of kids feel they're addicted to their social media.
Yeah, if you're a kid with a smartphone, if you could look up anything you want.
It's a free-for-all.
You can look at pornography.
There's constant reinforcement, pings, tings, new friends.
I got to create my life the way I want it to be seen.
It wasn't my true reality.
My daughter has tons of Instagram friends, but she has no friends.
They're more like strangers that have been identified.
They call it like fatty.
You're just so dumb.
The words they start giving you is the words you believe.
That becomes their life, their social media world.
But that world can be quickly upended.
I had a gun at my head.
There's never been a generation like it.
We're blazing a new trail.
We are the pioneer parents.
If the devil wants to come knocking on my door looking for my children, he's going to find out real quick he came to the wrong house.
Okay, maybe that was a little over the top.
Kirk Cameron!
Pleasure at your being here.
That is very funny, but it's very scary at the same time.
It is, right?
And I think all of us know exactly what that feels like to say, I want to protect my kids from anything that might harm them.
And living in this digital social media world, it's a whole new ballgame.
The rules have altogether changed.
I like that you're clever in putting a little levity into the broader message because we do all want to a helicopter parent.
Yeah.
But there's a profound change that's happening to the kids in our lives.
I suspect that's what really got you motivated to move, to dedicate part of your life to doing this.
Dr. Oz, to me as a parent of six kids, my wife and I have five teenagers right now at the same time.
God bless her.
Yeah.
Well, you know, I can't think of anything more important than making sure that we're protecting our kids.
And with a social media and digital world, there's all kinds of dangers.
I mean, there's exposures to pornography at earlier ages than ever before.
There's connecting with dangerous adults who prey on our children through the phone that we give them for a Christmas present, right?
Not to mention the addiction reports that are coming out now with even the inventors of these platforms saying they don't want their own kids on them.
And so what are we as parents to do?
And Chelsea and I decided we wanted to get in front of it.
And so we wanted to make a documentary that would help parents in real practical ways raise kids in a social media world.
And let's be clear about this.
This phone you just held up.
And this is your commentary actually.
This phone has the same computing power as what we use to put a man in the moon.
Isn't that amazing?
Incredible this is.
And yet, if we try to protect our kids, we're seen as helicoptering.
You argue we need to be pioneer parents.
What does that mean?
Well, I think that we are the guinea pig generation.
Your parents, my parents, didn't try to figure out how to keep us from viewing inappropriate material on a cell phone because they weren't invented yet.
And we all know technology is not going anywhere.
So trying to keep our kids from technology probably isn't a great idea.
That won't last long.
We love technology, but we want them to use it responsibly.
And we need to help them with wisdom and perspective and experience so that they don't get harmed in the process.
You did a lot of homework.
You looked into what's really out there.
What scared you the most with all this digital stuff that you figured out with experts and some peers you spoke to?
So I interviewed a guy whose son created a false identity on Facebook that he didn't know about.
It turns out he wasn't communicating with another 15-year-old boy.
It was an adult predator.
So those are very scary.
But I think the things that really bothered me was the not so obvious dangers, like the fact that childhood is being stolen away from a lot of kids and they don't get the kind of social interaction that they need to be able to have a future marriage that works, future family where they can relate to their kids, hold down a job.
Those kinds of things necessary for successful adulthood are being stolen away from our kids and they don't even know it because it's just fun.
They're curious and they wind up spending 10 hours a day looking at a screen.
So it's not so much the dangers outside that are out there, it's the dangers inside that we unleash.
Our inability to actually grow and mature and have empathy and connect.
And you know this better than anybody.
I mean we need more than just data to be healthy, flourishing human beings.
We need relationships.
That's the kind of stuff.
Come join me.
I want to show everyone what we're talking about when I speak of the inner dangers of these devices.
This is pretty straightforward.
Let's talk about phone addiction, right?
And you discovered a shocking statistic, which really caught my attention.
50% of kids, half of all kids, feel like they're addicted to social media.
Half of them.
They're telling us this.
This is concerning because their brains aren't even developed enough to figure it out half the time.
So let's see what happens inside their brains when they're feeling this.
So every time that phone bings, they get a little notification up there, right?
Your brain gets excited.
One new message.
The reward center of the brain releases dopamine.
That's the brain's feel-good hormone.
The dopamine binds onto the receptors of your brain cells, causes them to activate.
It's like your brain gets a little present, a little gift.
Every time your phone bing dings, over time, as this happens thousands and thousands of times, it can change your behavior.
It makes you want to go back to that phone more and more to get a little bit more reward.
Like an adult, but for kids, it's even worse.
Sound familiar?
That's because it's the same brain pathway that's responsible for drugs and for gambling and all the things that we fear at the most.
We don't actually control it nearly as much as we think we do.
Which is why I want to come back to you with someone who's thought about this with your six kids.
What can we do right now?
What should parents be thinking about doing in their homes to make sure their kids don't fall prey to something that we know is addictive that was actually created to be addictive?
It was, and that's what concerns me is that even the creators of this are saying, we don't want our kids on this ourselves.
I think that at the end of the day, there is a beautiful relationship that we have with our kids that nobody else can do for us.
We can't outsource parenting to Siri or to any piece of technology.
There are great little devices that help us block and filter content, but at the end of the day, staying connected with our kids is the main idea.
Being in relationship with them so that they can see that, mom, dad, I need you.
You have wisdom.
You have experience.
You have perspective that I need.
And I can't ask Siri the real important questions that I need to ask my parent or my teacher or some kind of a mentor that really loves and cares about me.
We go one step further in a different direction.
The kids aren't, at least when they're teenagers, able to have accounts that we don't have access to.
That's right.
So at least we can, once in a while, peek.
I know that seems intrusive, but I figure as long as we're paying the bills, we get to be a little intrusive because that's how we show our love.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
All right, we come back.
I want you to meet a boy who was cyber bullied so badly he even attempted to take his own life.
He is here with a critical message for your family.
So stay with us.
Do you really know who's watching your kids?
All news.
That's coming up tomorrow.
My friend showed me Facebook and I was like, heck yes, I'm going to add all my friends.
Like, it's going to be so much fun.
And I would always get comments.
They told me I wasn't going to be able to graduate high school.
I wasn't going to be able to read.
Just a lot of this negative stuff that was on my life.
I went through a little bit of bullying.
They called me like fatty, and they would just be like, oh, you're just so dumb.
But I would get that.
I know dumb isn't like big, but I would just get it so consistently.
It was just like all the time, just you're dumb, you're stupid.
The words they start giving you is the words you believe.
I had a gun at my head.
That's a clip from Kirk Cameron's documentary, Connect: An Investigation into the Dangers of Kids Being Connected on High Tech Devices like this one.
Simple phone, incredibly powerful.
Now, you just heard Mancini describe how he almost took his own life, his young life, the age of 15 from cyberbullying because of what happened on this phone.
So thank you for being here, Mancini.
Thank you for having me.
Describe how bad the bullying had gotten, so much so that you actually contemplated taking your own life.
Yeah, I was 15 at the time, like it said, and it was bad.
Like my parents were working late, and I would be in my room all the time alone.
And you would just get words: fatty, lame, worthless, dumb, stupid.
And it was sometimes they even go racial too, like go back to Mexico or being here.
And it was just things where you like you're 15 at the time, you want to be the popular kid, you want to be the kid that everyone likes.
But that was, yeah, it's, yeah.
So they weren't talking to your face, because that's hard to do.
They were using this to send messages.
They were doing both, but it was more on the phone, on social media.
How was that as a parent?
You're seeing a young kid, Mancy, if you don't mind, Patasi, you're young.
A 15-year-old contemplating taking his own life.
How did they make you feel?
Well, it's heartbreaking because, you know, as a father, you want your kids to feel strong and you want your kids to have friends.
And it's amazing to me the level of peer pressure that kids are dealing with today.
Because when we were kids, you'd have maybe three or four kids, you know, call you names and they'd gang up on you.
But now it's three or four hundred or thousand who all want to join in on the joke, and it can be devastating to the world of a teenager.
Were your parents in on this?
Or were they in the dark?
No, they were definitely in the dark and they never knew.
And there was one point where they were working so late and then I was just tired of the comments.
I said, this is this is, I'm tired of it.
I'm tired of being caught all this.
And my stepdad, my stepdad, had a safe full of guns because we used to go hunting.
And I went down and I grabbed a gun and I said, I'm done with this.
I put it to my head and pulled the trigger.
You pulled the trigger?
But it was on safety.
Oh, jeez.
And so I took it off safety.
I said, all right, here we go.
And I had it back on my head.
And then once I put it back on my head, my parents opened the garage door and I had to go put it back.
And I can say that that was a God moment for sure.
Wow, you better believe it.
So what made you decide not to try to take your life again?
What changed?
I went to a conference and a pastor said, you're worth living for.
You're not hopeless.
You're hopeful.
And I am now at a church helping youth and helping them if they go through it.
50 years.
Good for you, Mancini.
So, Kirk, if a parent suspects their child is being bullied, and a lot of us don't have a look, so that's part of the message that I'm hearing from you, Mancini, is look, what can we do?
What do you recommend?
Well, what we tell our kids is the best strategy is not to return evil for evil, but overcome evil with good.
And to remember that a lot of the kids that are doing the bullying are people who feel so insecure themselves that they try to put others down in order to lift themselves up.
And they're jealous of things oftentimes.
And so I think if our kids can hear from us as parents that your identity is not formed by what other people tell you you are, but who your mom and your dad tell you you are, that you're our child, we love you, we're proud of you, and you get your identity through your relationship with God, like Mancini is saying, that results in a healthy self-image.
What do you think about this documentary that Kirk's made?
I think it's amazing.
I think it's definitely needed for this generation and this era as kids because you see a lot of it and it's sad and we want to stop it.
So you can speak to a young generation in a way that Kirk and I can't.
And I want you, if you don't mind, look into that camera right there and tell folks that you want to influence what your life has been like and what they should be looking forward to.
Definitely say that your identity is in God, not in the words that they tell you.
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Ignore them.
Second thing is tell your parents, be honest with them.
They love you and most importantly, God loves you and you're not alone.
You're not alone.
That's probably the bigger message.
Thanks for being thankful.
Kirk, fantastic.
As always, something in that camera and blood makes it work.
Listen, if you're watching this right now and are in distress, I know some folks are, especially from bullying, there is help.
I'm going to put the number for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline right here at the bottom of the screen.
I'm also going to put it on droz.com where parents can also find four mom-tested.
They actually work mom-tested strategies for talking to your kids about bullying.
Don't forget to check out Kirk's new documentary, Connect, showing in theater, starting on March the 1st.
Share it with the friends at your life.
Take everyone to it.
We'll be right back.
The kiss heard round the world.
Is it okay to kiss your kids' lips?
I think this is fine.
It's unusual.
That's weird.
And could plucking your nose hair be dead on the loss?
That's coming up on Friday.
So question, do you feel sluggish, weighed down, constipated?
It's just blah.
If you do, you may be one of the 42 million Americans who suffer from occasional constipation.
And for all of you, I've got the two-week challenge to finally give you the relief your gut needs.
So I wanted to know, if your gut could talk, what would it say?
If my gut could talk, it would say, Houston, we have a problem.
If my gut could talk, it would say, well, ease the hostages and no one gets hurt.
It would say, come on, come on, you can do it.
Let's move it.
It really hurts.
Praying for a push.
We're not going anywhere.
Ladies and gentlemen, we're experiencing a delay due to the cream traffic ahead of us.
Hush!
What's going on down here?
Come on.
Oh, there's traffic.
Get moving, get moving.
Can we get some fiber in here?
Lots of rockets.
So I want to help you all get rid of that trap feeling and support your regularity.
So I've asked Jamie Krause, who's here on behalf of my trusted sponsorship partner, MetaMucil, to join me.
So what is the goal of MetaMucil's two-week challenge?
So Dr. Oz, most Americans are only eating about 15 grams of fiber a day.
That's about half of the recommended daily intake of 30 grams.
So the purpose of the Metamucil two-week challenge is quite simply to show everyone how easy it is to close that fiber gap by taking Metamucil, which is of course a psyllium-based fiber, every day.
It's really just one simple step to a healthier you.
So I've got some volunteers for Suella and Nicole are here.
They have been looking, looking for a solution to their gut issues.
And you guys have agreed to give this Metamucil two-week challenge play.
Absolutely.
Suella, why?
What's going down?
What's making you feel uncomfortable?
Well, I've been going through this one ongoing for about a year.
Just ready to get that junk out of the tummy, you know?
I know I don't drink enough water, so that could be a contribution to it, but I'm ready to take on that challenge.
And Nicole, what would it mean to you to get rid of the discomfort that I understand you're feeling?
It would be amazing.
I have four kids that I chase after all.
Oh, gosh.
There's no time to go to the bathroom.
No, no time at all.
And if I do, there's one of the four with me.
And when I'm home, everything flows smoothly, but it's when there's family functions and holidays or vacation and everything gets a little bit tricky.
So I understand your issues.
I think that video sort of captured what many of us feel, but I need two weeks from you.
Yes.
Will you give me two weeks?
You got it, Cameron.
All right, so let me show you why it's worth the investment for you.
Coming up, we'll be right back.
So Suella and everyone at home, and Nicole, you all have to be able to stick with this for two weeks to make it work.
But to understand it, you've got to get to the root of the issue.
And the big challenge for everybody is not enough fiber.
We touched on it, you just mentioned it.
It's something that we speak to a lot, but I want to bring it alive for you.
I'm going to show you why psyllium fiber may help you move this trapped stuff out of your gut.
All that waste that Suella was saying is weighing her down, is weighing a lot of you down too.
So when you're constipated, it sort of looks like this.
You're only seeing this part here, right?
The part that comes out.
But behind that, there's lots of things that are built up.
And when you're constipated, that stool builds up.
Now, normally your stool should be a little bit moist.
See, watch this.
See that?
But when you're constipated, all that moisture is out of there.
You get dried up.
You get so dry, it can sort of scratch it.
See that?
That's what it sort of sounds like.
Of course, you don't know what it sounds like if you don't do this.
But if you were to, it would be sort of dry like that.
Now, you don't want this inside of you, because when you have dried up stool, you can't push it through.
I can't get it to go.
Not so much fun.
That's what happens with all kinds of problems people complain about.
But when you take a gel fiber, like the psyllium, you mix it in there, you go ahead and get it.
Let's get this in there.
When you paint it in there, it does a couple things.
The psyllium absorbs water, right?
And the gel-like material then is formed, which what your digestive tract wants is just that, a gel material going through.
That soft gel, therefore your stool basically, can more readily flow through the digestive system.
So here's a couple examples.
Work with me on this.
Let's do this.
They move like train cars effortlessly through the system without difficulty until without you having to work much at it.
I'm over here straining going, oh, oh, oh, go ahead.
Ready?
And you're comfortably going down.
You're done.
You're out of the bathroom.
Life's going well.
And finally, a couple minutes later, I get that.
I can hear that hit the water.
Not a good feeling.
So we can do better than this by doing this.
And all you got to do again is just make sure you create that gel-like coating, that stool that's able to slide out.
Now, how much fiber can you actually add to your diet for Metamucil?
It's a great question.
The greatest thing is you don't have to change your whole diet, right?
You can just add Metamucil and make a big difference.
So let's talk about an example here.
One rounded teaspoon, that is a single serving of sugar-free metamucil, that contains three grams of fiber, right?
So that's 10% of your daily recommended intake.
Let's compare that to one slice of whole wheat bread.
That's 1.9 grams of fiber.
Or an entire cup of broccoli is only 2.4 grams of fiber.
So the psyllium, the metamucil has, a serving has more than either of these.
You got it.
That's the game changer.
In fact, to make it equal, I'd have to add an extra half a slice of bread and a couple of these florets of broccoli just to tie the score here.
And you mentioned our goal is to get closer to 30 and we get 15.
So how many teaspoons would I need to do in order to move on my Metamucil challenge?
Well, here's the deal.
So you can take Menamucil up to three times daily, okay?
You're gonna wanna start with one, and you're gonna wanna see what works for you.
I'm gonna show you an example.
I personally like to take two servings daily.
That's what works for my schedule.
Six grams of fiber.
Yeah, I like to take it in the morning and at night.
That's what works for me.
I do urge all first-time users, start with one time, see how it works for you, and then once you love Menomucil, you can find the right serving for yourself.
All right, where do I find it?
So you can find Menamucil at CVS or at retailers nationwide.
Who wants to be on the Medimusil Challenge?
How many interesting folks have?
I get the whole audience.
All right, so I want everyone to take the Medimusil two-week challenge.
You're going to go to druze.com for all the information you need to get started, but guys, it's pretty straightforward.
Now, for the audience here, all of whom put your hands up, I know there are 42 million Americans who are constipated, including I think everyone in the audience sounds like.
Half the camera guys put their hands up.
So how are we going to make them feel lighter?
What do you got for the people here?
Let's give it to them.
All of them?
Yeah, all of them.
All right, you're all going home with MetaMucil.
Oh, that is CBS gift car to come along with it.
We'll be right back, everybody.
Enjoy it.
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Wicked nannies.
That's the Bruce.
And there was one on her back.
Daycare disasters.
Mission pouring his hair in.
Do you really know who's watching your kids?
I told her she was going to go to jail.
Bon nuise.
That's coming up tomorrow.
It's one of the biggest health questions buzzing online right now because of this headline.
Look at that.
Holding back a sneeze might just kill you.
Doctors weren't a man.
But can a sneeze really kill you?
Should you ever hold a sneeze in?
Is that an article on Target or was it sort of made up and some of that stuff you always read about online?
So I looked into the headline news story that everyone's posted on.
And the patient in this case attempted to stop a forceful sneeze by pinching his nose and holding his mouth closed.
Now you won't make any noise if you do that.
That's true.
But not a little while, soon afterwards, the patient realized there was something wrong.
He had pain when he swallowed.
He absorbed a change in his voice.
He started to sound like this, like a little bit, like this, the whole time.
His neck had swollen, and when he tried to move it, it produced this weird, unsettling crackling, like cellophane, you know, crinkling cellophane, sounded like that.
So the doctors took an x-ray.
And on the x-ray, this is what they found.
Now, your tissue is supposed to look like this.
You're sort of solid.
But notice over here, that's his throat, right?
And that's a bone at the very top of your neck, the very top bone you can feel under your chin.
Look at all this area here.
It looks like someone's injected some air in there.
All these little lines, not supposed to be there.
None of this.
All this stuff is not bueno, bad, right?
It turns out the pressure had ruptured his throat, had ruptured this area in here, letting the air seep into his soft tissues and into the muscles themselves.
And it even got around his vocal cords, which is why I changed his voice.
Listen, guys, sneezes are a force of nature.
They can actually travel at speeds up to 100 miles an hour.
Even though this is a rare phenomenon, the next time you feel that tingle behind your nostrils, just go ahead and let it rip.
Remember, everybody, it's worth it.
And by the way, happy and healthy, it starts Health.
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