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Feb. 6, 2026 - Dr. Oz Podcast
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Taraji P. Henson's Cancer Scare & Mental Health Truth | Dr. Oz | S10 | Ep 99 | Full Episode
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Personal Health Scare Revealed 00:02:37
Actress Taraji P. Henson.
Is this a real stomach?
That's a real stomach.
You might want to say that before I go sticking my finger in there.
Reveals her personal health scare.
Next thing you know, I'm passed out on the floor.
The doctor said it could lead to stomach cancer.
And her rapid weight gain turned out to be a 50-pound tumor.
A mask that weighs about as much as a six-year-old.
Plus, Dr. Pipple Popper weighs in if your bumps and lumps could mean danger.
Coming up next.
Y'all ready for season 10?
Yeah!
I love you.com Taraji P. Henson is one of Hollywood's biggest stars.
From her hip TV show, Empire, to her new funny movie, What Men Want.
Taraji, she can do it all.
But recently, Taraji opened up about a health scare that caused her to make big changes to save her life.
And guess what?
She is healthy, she is happy, and she is here.
Taraji, come on out.
Baby, we love you.
Thank you.
I'm over here.
So excited.
You don't get that kind of applause.
You do.
Yes, you do.
I'm so happy you're here.
Thanks for having me.
We actually were at the women's finals of the U.S. Open, experiencing one of those moments in American history.
We both watched Serena Williams and Naomi Osaka in an unforgettable match.
We were there for the big moment.
We were.
And we were looking at, we were next to each other, staring at each other.
Yes.
Just trying to make sense of what's happening.
But what men want is a new movie, which everyone is going to love, and we're going to talk about it in a second.
But before I get to bed, Justin Schmollett, who's been on the show, who we all adore, was seriously injured.
It's been called a hate crime.
I don't know if you've been able to speak to him at all.
Well, you know, I had to check on my baby.
Exactly right.
Cass May from Empire, a good friend.
He is resilient, and his mother raised him right.
He is just, at his very core, he is love.
That's just who he is.
And love is always going to win.
Vegan Drink Revelation 00:07:55
Hankin tried, the devil tried it, but no, not this time.
Just if you're watching this entire audience, all of us are saying we love you very much.
Yes.
Yeah.
Thank you.
I adore you for a lot of reasons.
And I think it's probably why a lot of people like you so much.
You're real, you're authentic, and you want to talk about stuff that matters.
You've had two health issues in your life that we're going to discuss today that are going to save lives.
Yes.
They may have already been partly responsible for making you as healthy as you are now.
The first has to do with your stomach.
Yes.
And I know you had a recent warning from a doctor about stomach cancer.
What happened?
Well, I was filming, it actually will be out April 5th, a movie I did called Best of Enemies with Sam Rockwell.
And I got really sick on set and I couldn't hold water down.
It happened once before when I was in Monte Carlo and it prevented me from coming home.
I was stuck in a hospital and they're speaking French and I'm sick.
I think I'm dying and no one understands what I'm saying.
Anyway, cut to I'm in Macon, Georgia, and I have this bout of throwing up.
I couldn't hold down water.
Next thing you know, I'm passed out on the floor.
That's why my makeup artist sent me.
We go to the hospital.
And long story short, it's bad gastritis, like really bad.
And the doctor said to me, if I don't change some of my ways, I was gonna get stomach ulcers, which would ultimately lead to stomach cancer.
I was like, well, you have my attention.
So, you know, I mean, literally, it was due to drinking coffee for so many years.
I had gotten so many warnings.
And from college, you know, that was just habit.
And after a while, I formed that habit.
And then I used to get really bad cramps on my cycle.
And so I would take ibuprofen in any bottle of ibuprofen, buprofen, what did it say?
It says, do not take on an empty stomach.
Exactly.
That coupled with the coffee.
And you know, I like to drink socially, wine, all of that is acid, and it was eating through my stomach.
And I had no idea.
So I had to cut all of that.
I don't drink coffee anymore.
At all.
I will, like, if I have it, it's been, it's like months at a time.
And I have to be like really tired because I have other alternatives to do.
Can I show you what was happening inside your body?
Can you please?
I think this, because once I saw it for myself, that's when I was like, I have to make a change.
Come on over here.
I brought you a little present.
I always wanted to do this.
You always?
Well, you know, you have to put the purple gloves on.
Yes.
And I know you've been looking forward to this, but if you really see what it looks like inside, it'll reinforce some of these difficult decisions like giving up to coffee.
Are you ready, everybody?
This is what a healthy stomach looks like.
Okay.
So the swallowing tube comes in here.
There's a little hole here.
It fills in the stomach there.
And there's a big muscle here that regulates how much of this acid from your stomach goes into the rest of your body.
Put your finger in through that hole and just feel how tight that is.
It's called the sphincter.
Is that a real stomach?
It's a real stomach.
Okay.
All right.
You might want to say that before I go sticking my finger in there.
We got these from the medical school.
It's a real stomach.
Okay.
I mean, I am on Dr. Oz, like, duh.
But I want you just to feel how hard these sphincters are.
So push through that if you can.
No, I trust you.
You trust me?
Okay.
Yeah.
Well, the reason I bring that up is because some of the things we eat mess with that sphincter.
Yes.
And these are hard, these are strong muscles.
You can, I can, with one finger, hold it like this.
That's how tight that sphincter is.
And it's designed to protect us so that we don't have the acid going the wrong place because it's got to be really acidic to eat the food.
Right.
I guess the food.
You don't want it going where it's not supposed to go.
Right.
And one of the things that happens is the inside of the stomach, if you just, you see how those, actually there's the inside of the sphincter.
Can you all see that?
Wow, you see.
Just feel the outside of the sphinx.
It looks like a chitterling.
No, thank you.
But you see these folds, they're normal.
Right.
Now, what happens if you don't take care of yourself is this.
Ooh, hoo!
Ooh-hoo!
And it's real.
What if I said it wasn't real?
Would you touch it then?
Yeah, if you, because it was plastic, something about that felt too real.
That's why I was going to ask.
Well, the thing about seeing the real body is that you can appreciate how sacred your body is.
Yes.
Because you recognize how remarkable this is.
But just to put these next to each other, you see how this is a very different appearance than this?
Yeah.
This stomach is the stomach of someone who made some mistakes most likely in their life.
And I point that out because the different kinds of folds, different kinds of layering.
But in particular, do you see this little thing here?
I do want you to feel that if you don't.
Are those ulcers?
Well, it started as one probably, but this is what cancer looks like.
Oh, look at that.
You see how it's sort of invading the tissue?
Look at her hands.
They're right behind your back.
They're locked.
At least show people what your hands look like.
No, because you set me up.
You should have said that was real in the beginning.
Well, it is real.
It's a doctor's shower, by the way.
No, no, it dawned on me after a while.
Our hands are like this.
All right, so these folds are very different.
And if you can prevent this from happening through lifestyle, you'll do that, right?
And so the green is the cancer.
Yeah, well, this is actually the cancer.
And the green is the inside of the cancer will sometimes develop an ulcer itself.
Ooh, that's horrible.
So.
Don't drink coffee on an empty stomach.
Among other things.
That's good.
Everything you close off you.
I think you're about as scrimmage as anyone's been up here.
I'm taking Taraji to the operating room next time.
Have you ever seen an operation?
No, I don't want to.
My stepfather is a dentist, so he always watches those surgery shows.
And just like he's with popcorn and peanuts, and like somebody's body is open and blood is everywhere.
And he's just watching it.
And I don't know how he does it.
That's for the doctors.
That's why I'm an actress.
Okay.
Let's stay in our lane.
So you made sure you give up coffee.
Yes.
Alcohol and you change.
Well, I don't drink hard alcohol anymore.
I just can't do it anymore.
You know, I just, I go to sleep.
So I still like wine, though.
I like wine.
I just don't drink it as casually as I did.
And fatty foods are really a problem, especially fatty meats and the like.
Because it creates, I don't think we have enough to break it down.
Am I right?
Yes.
I know a little something.
She knows.
She knows.
I had to learn.
So what are you eating now?
I eat mace vegan, plant-based.
Chickpea is my friend.
Are you also vegan?
Yeah, I'm totally vegan.
You're totally vegan?
Yeah, totally vegan.
That's tough to do.
So I don't do any dairy, any cheese.
If I do cheese, it's nut cheese.
If I do milk, I have a milk, a nut milk maker.
So I drink a lot of almond milk that I make.
I'm so impressed.
Yeah.
I mean, look, you do what you got to do if you want to live, right?
Yeah.
Makes a difference.
Yeah.
And your fiancé, is he into this?
Actually, he's more of a pescatarian, but he still likes chicken.
You know, we have Harold's chicken in Chicago, so he loves that.
And yeah, they know.
And I made, he likes this sow's soup.
I make a sow's.
Anybody Caribbean descent in here?
Yeah.
A sow soup?
Sow.
It's S-O-U-S.
And it's a soup.
And it's from the Caribbean, right?
Yeah.
And so when we went to Turks and Caikos on a vacation, we had some.
And I went home and I learned how to make it.
And that's like his favorite soup.
So I will make him that, and then I'll make me a vegan version with like mushrooms.
Taraji's Health Mission 00:16:03
So has it made a difference?
Do you feel different?
I do.
I have a lot more energy for sure.
Good.
Yeah.
All right.
We'll be right back with Taraji and her health mission that her father inspired.
Now you can get your morning meal anytime.
What's it, what do you call it?
Egg product?
Egg product, right?
But how does it last all day?
There's no clear guideline on what an egg is.
Do you really know what's in your fast food breakfast?
Plus, we should get some coffee for one of those airport chain joints.
Our morning jolt.
But is there a dark side to that dark roast?
All new oz.
That's coming up on Monday.
We're back with Taraji P. Henson.
So.
So, can I ask you about the work you've done around mental health?
Yes.
The stigma around mental health is really hurting this country.
It is.
And amount of people speak out about it, which is why I treasure you being here.
What got this issue on your radar screen?
Why is it important to you?
Well, it's important to me because actually I founded my foundation, the Boris Lawrence Henson Foundation, named after my father out of necessity.
I suffered a trap.
There he is.
Hi, Daddy.
I miss you.
I suffered trauma in my life, and so did my son.
And when it came time for us to sit down and talk about it and get some help, it became an issue because you have to be culturally competent in order for me to feel safe sharing my deepest secrets and what my fears and being vulnerable.
So when it came time to look for a therapist that looked like me, there were none.
It was like looking for a unicorn.
I mean, I'm not saying they don't exist, but it wasn't easily accessible.
So I discussed it with my best friend who also had her bouts with anxiety.
And so we decided to do something about it.
And I think in the African-American community, it's been such a taboo.
We really don't take care of our mental.
We don't.
And we should.
We suppress a lot, you know, and it comes off as, and when we do express ourselves, it comes off as rage.
Well, we have a lot to be upset about, right?
I mean, but, and, not to shun those feelings, but they need to be channeled or they need to be expressed in a healthy way.
And what I found disturbing is that we can talk about our thyroid.
I can sit up here and talk about my gastritis, but when it comes to our mental, which is all a part of total health care, we miss that beat.
And that's because for so many, for so long, we've been told to pray our problems away.
We've been demonized.
We've been misdiagnosed.
There's a lot of trust issues.
So I decided to do something about it.
And I think the misconception with celebrities and people that you look up to in film and moot and television is that we got it somehow we got it all together just because we have money.
Well, money doesn't make your issues go away.
Because when they yell cut on set and I take this wig off and these lashes, he looked at my hair like that's a wig.
But when you know, when the you know, Taraji and the limelight comes off, I go home to real problems just like everybody else that money can't solve.
You know?
Why did you name it after your dad?
Because my father was a Vietnam vet and he suffered from his own mental issues and he was very vocal about it.
That was important.
It made an impression on me, you know, because then I would hang out with my white friends and they would be like, I'd be like, girl, let's do lunch at 11.
Oh, no, I had my standing appointment with my therapist.
And I was like, I want a standing appointment with a therapist.
I need one.
I need one of those.
You touched on something that's so important.
Yeah.
You know, the anxieties we all feel, I always wonder why are we all completely paralyzed by fear, anxiety, self-talk, all the stuff that happens.
I think you're more connected to that than a lot of us.
How does that affect you?
I mean, I think I have to deal with a lot of my things when I'm preparing to portray a character.
If I'm lying to the girl in the mirror, then how can I tell this character's truth?
So I can't miss those beats in my life.
So acting to me has become very therapeutic.
Not to say that I don't need a therapist because I do need a professional, but I need to speak to a professional, but I'm just very aware of who I am because this is my instrument.
So I have to be.
Why do you think?
And again, I respect your honesty about this.
And I suspect in some ways acting is therapeutic for you because it forced you to confront sex.
Absolutely.
What needs to happen in the African-American community?
What needs to happen?
Yeah, for folks to embrace this more.
We need to start talking about it more.
I think, and what I'm seeing activity just by me launching and going public with the launch of my foundation, I'm starting to see chitter chatter and people actually talking about it because you put a face to it.
Because I feel like my fans pretty much, you guys trust me, right?
Yes.
They do.
Right?
They trust me.
And I think when you see someone that you trust and you've looked up to for so long, say, hey, it's okay.
I'm suffering too.
Then it makes it go, oh, it's like a sigh of relief.
Like, I'm not the only one.
I mean.
That's right.
You're right.
So, when we ask our audience, and we do this, guys, we ask you a lot of times to the reason we do these surveys, and they're pretty professionally done, is to find out what's bothering America.
The biggest epidemic we have right now is loneliness.
People just don't feel connected, and so they don't have the usual tactics like talking to your mom or a best friend or a group of people that you hang with.
So, what's a tactic that you use personally to get past it?
Get through your day.
I mean, you know, I make sure I keep in touch with my friends, and I have such a great core of friends that check on me.
So, it's all about the people you have around you, too.
You know, get off the internet, get off the social media, put the phones down, reconnect with humanity again.
You know what?
You're a beautiful person on the outside and on the inside.
She's beautiful.
Thank you.
Here you go.
Coming up.
Do you know what men want?
Honest question: Do you actually know what men want?
What am I thinking right now?
What Taraji does, and we're about to find out about that a lot more.
Stick around.
Thank you.
The death row interview: you haven't heard his own words that will haunt you.
He grabbed my tape recorder and began talking.
That's coming up on Tuesday.
I'm Dr. Oz.
As they seen from Taraji PX is Hilarious DeWitty, What Men Want.
It's funny, it's actually romantic, which I really thought was cool about it.
But I gotta say, the idea that you can actually read our minds, and of course it take off from about women, because I wish we could read your minds as well.
Throwback to that.
What does the movie mean to you?
Tell us about it.
For me, it's a celebration of just being yourself.
And I think that's the beat we miss when we're courting.
If you're honest from the beginning and you put it all on the table, it's really not that complicated.
It really isn't.
We make it more complicated than what it is.
And that's really what this movie is saying.
Like, we really want the same things.
Ideally, so the movie director Adam Shankman is here.
You may recognize Adam from his years as a judge until you think you can dance.
Come on up, Adam.
Dance your way up here.
Yay!
Dance your way up here.
I was good to see you, man.
So I talked a little bit about, especially in the era of Me Too, and Time's Up, and there's so much anger and frustration.
It is very difficult, I think, for us to predict what others are thinking, men or female, but it's especially difficult to cross genders.
Walk me through what this movie means to each of you.
What's the way we could take this and make this part of what we do without being able to bang our heads and read minds?
Well, first of all, I want to say thank you for having us.
And also, nothing says come see our comedy like poking through a disembodied diseased stomach.
Best cancer.
That is unique promotional tool.
That is amazing.
And almost nothing in the movie is as funny as watching you dealing with that stomach.
Like, it looks just like that.
The movie to me is about the importance of listening to each other, not making assumptions about each other.
It's about, as Traji said, that men and women both want the same thing at the end of the day, which is to feel safe and appreciated and ultimately respected.
I need men to know that this is not a man-bashing movie in any way.
Not at all.
And that both of us signed on to this movie saying that we will not make a movie about a woman who is made whole by the love of a man.
Right.
Yeah.
It is about a woman who becomes open to relationship and healthy interactions with people because she sort of realizes that she's powerful in her own self.
So having a badass woman like her.
I was the only reason to make the movie for me.
Oh, you're so sweet.
No, it's true, though.
I'll pay you later.
Thank you.
You got it.
Look, we all know what we want, which is love with each other.
But there's other things you want, including good health.
So, we can play a little game here called What Men and Women Don't Want.
There we are.
You ready?
Here you're cards.
You notice there's a male on one side, female on the other side.
I'm going to say a health condition that none of us wants, none of us want one of these conditions.
You're going to tell me if men or women get it more often.
Very simple.
Men or women get it more often.
For example, not in the okay.
For example, nail fungus.
Do men get that more often or do women get that?
Toenail fungus.
The audience, what do you guys speak first?
I guess we have the smartest audience in America.
Oh, I will.
Okay, I'll change that.
The only reason why I said women is because of the nail shops.
No, the nail shops.
Oh, well, that.
Yeah, but I should clarify it's toenail fungus.
Oh, toenail, men.
Man.
They're smart.
Life on set.
Oh, that.
Oh, yeah.
Okay.
Yeah, it's Mitch.
You know, okay.
Okay.
But she got it right.
I five.
It is men.
And you know why?
Actually, mostly because women once in a while let your toes breathe, right?
Yes.
You open toe shoes.
Men never do.
We were in hunting boots.
They've been at work.
So, you know, we get all kinds of fun.
Okay, we're going to move up the ladder to difficulty.
Second topic: men or women who get hemorrhoids more often.
Audience?
A little more mixed here.
I'm just going to listen to them.
I'm not asking the audience anymore.
Interestingly, so women get more hemorrhoids when they get pregnant, right?
Yes, we'll have to have their babies.
Yeah, but men catch up.
Go like this.
I don't know if you know this, but this tissue is exactly the same tissue as your anus.
And so I've been kissing her ass for so long now.
I just had ass mouth on TV.
Okay.
Yeah, we were.
But at the end of the day, this is all based on a true story.
What is a true story?
I've been kissing her ass.
Oh.
Since the day I took this job.
You see why?
You see why we had him delete our fearless leader?
He knows comedy.
He knows comedy and timing.
We're going to call that what a tie.
All right, last one: all the marbles.
Audience, don't say anything because Taraji's listening to you.
Bad breath.
Is it more of men or women?
Who gets it more?
What would a man?
Women!
The answer is women.
Well, I'm cheated.
How did you know that?
That's why I'm gay.
Listen, guy, Taraji Pattim's new movie, What Men Want It Opens Today.
I'm telling you, I've seen it.
It is fantastic, hilarious.
The best of Taraji and everybody around you.
God bless you.
Go see it!
We'll be right back.
Odd weight gain.
We all experience it at some point.
But what happens when it turns out to be something deadly?
Could happen to you.
You won't want to miss this.
We've all been there.
You put on a few pounds and then a few more.
Until one day, you look down at your body and it doesn't even look like it did last year or even last month.
But what if a ballooning bulge wasn't weight gain at all?
What if it was something growing inside of you that could kill you?
That's what happened to Brenda and she never saw it coming.
It's an outrageous story and a medical mystery solved just in time.
Take a look.
About two years ago, I noticed I was putting on weight and I was having hot flushes, so I just thought it was just menopause.
I started walking a little bit more and eating less and it got to the point where I was not eating at all.
And strangely, I wasn't losing the weight.
I was gaining it.
I looked in the mirror and I was stunned.
I didn't even see who it was there.
It was a different person.
Reality hit, and I realized that this extra weight could actually kill me.
It could have cost her her life, but Brenda didn't just have normal weight gain.
She had a 50-pound tumor inside of her, and she's joining us now via Zoom to share her story.
So, Brenda, even though you experienced these symptoms, you didn't go to the doctor for months.
Why?
I just thought it was just menopause.
I didn't have any idea.
It was a tumor growing in me.
I just chopped it up to gaining weight because I had all the symptoms of menopause.
Now, if your symptoms got worse, and then your health began to decline rapidly, what happened?
I couldn't walk very far.
I couldn't breathe.
I couldn't eat.
I'd take one bite of food and it felt like it was in my throat.
The big part was I wasn't sleeping.
I couldn't get comfortable.
Just getting up from a couch to walk to the bathroom just took the breath right out of me.
So Brenda made an appointment with the doctor, which is the right thing to do.
She had a CAT scan done, which we often do just to look around.
And what he found was shocking.
It was a 50-pound tumor.
And if matters couldn't be worse, it was a potential cause for limiting blood supply and oxygenation to her major organs, which is why she was having all those symptoms.
I mean, just think about this.
A mass that weighs about as much as a six-year-old growing inside of you.
And I'm sure you were all very nervous when you saw this.
Let me show everyone why Brenda's surgery was so dangerous.
And if you look inside the belly, and these are the lungs, these red things up here.
This big circular structure is a mass in the middle of the belly.
That's the uterus down here.
You see that little itty bitty structure?
That's the uterus.
And these are the intestines squeezed out of the way.
Kidneys are crushed on the side.
The liver is pushed away.
The spleen, everything's just moved out of the way.
And because your stomach was shrunk, right, there wasn't room for food to get in there.
So no intestines can work when there's no room.
So of course you're full all the time.
Probably affected your urination, everything else.
But let me actually show you the CAT scan that Brenda saw.
This is a CAT scan, real fat.
There's her spine, right?
This whole mass is not supposed to be there.
This whole thing, again, it weighs what a six-year-old weighs in the middle of the belly, and there's the liver pushed up, and the intestines crushed, the stomach is crushed down below, which is why it was serious.
They needed to operate immediately.
Leah's Painful Journey 00:05:08
Now, thankfully, after two hours of surgery, they removed the tumor with no complications.
They actually found that it was benign.
There's the scar after it was removed.
So Brenda, after the surgery, you say your husband barely recognized you.
How much weight did you lose?
I weighed 229 when I went in.
I came out, and this was post-surgery.
I weighed 182, and they said I wasn't done losing weight yet.
So I really don't know exact amount, but it was close to 50 pounds when I went to the doctor.
All right.
So when they removed the tumor, they found out that there was something else that was worrisome.
An estimated 200 million women around the world have this.
One in 10 women in this country.
But many of you are undiagnosed, even though it's a very common disease.
So Brenda, I'm going to wish you well.
God bless you for sharing your story with us.
And I'm going to help everyone understand what else they found.
Because Brenda's, you know, her problem, this sign of patients often miss, is brought about by something called endometriosis.
So I brought in an OBGYN extraordinaire and an endometriosis specialist, Jessica Shepard, to give you the three flags to spot if you're suffering from endometriosis.
First off, why does it go undiagnosed so often?
Brenda figured out she had this 50-pound tumor, but she didn't realize she had endometriosis.
Endometriosis is one of those diseases and conditions that we see in women's health that is often overlooked.
It takes seven to ten years to diagnose endometriosis.
And the reason why it's often missed, it's one of those diseases that mimics something else.
And so, you know, you could have normal menstrual pain, but if it's very severe, that also could be a clue.
But also, it can affect the bowels, it can affect the bladder.
And so, so many times you may have pain issues that affect those organs, not realizing that it's endometriosis, which is when you have the tissue that's supposed to stay inside of the uterus has now gone outside of the uterus can be anywhere in the pelvis.
The other thing I know folks will often complain about is intercourse pain.
When you're with your husband or spouse or loved one trying to be intimate, you get discomfort.
Yeah, and that's because many women don't go into their gynecologist's office and complain of specifically that issue.
And so that's also why it's overlooked.
People feel awkward about it.
Don't be embarrassed about life.
Not changing life-threatening problems.
Bowel movements can be painful.
Yep.
When they're on the bowel, and sometimes we've seen patients where we're going in to diagnose and we see endometriosis and it's on the bowel, but can it actually invade the bowel?
And so that's why they'll have painful bowel movements during their period.
And when it gets really severe, they can even have painful bowel movements all the time, not just during their cycle.
Joseph, thank you.
Thank you.
Appreciate the knowledge.
When we come back, Dr. Pinkle Popper is in the house, and we are taking boils, bumps, and bulging lumps to a whole new level.
Stay with us.
Now you can get your morning meal anytime.
What do you call it?
Egg product?
Egg product.
Right.
You really know what's in your fast food breakfast.
That's coming up on Monday.
Give a gym of a flatter, tighter stomach without having to exercise.
Well, there's a brand new procedure, you can hear it right there, that promises to build muscle and burn fat simultaneously while you are laying down.
I'm always skeptical of treatments like this, so I asked dermatologist Dr. Denny Engelman to be here today to explain it.
She's with her patient Leah.
She was part of a groundbreaking study into this treatment to find out once and for all, can you get abs without exercise?
So Dr. Denny, tell me what you're doing.
I hear the music, the noise.
Yes.
So this is called BTL M Sculpt, and what it's doing to my patient Leah is actually the equivalent of 20,000 crunches in one session, which is 30 minutes.
Leah, I see your stomach coming literally pulled together.
Is it uncomfortable when you're going through this?
It's a little uncomfortable, but it's not unbearable.
See that pull?
Oh my goodness, that's something else.
And how long does this take to see a result?
There it is again.
Yep.
So you can see results after we set Leah up.
I mean, she will have more definition in her abdominals, but the results continue to improve over the next four months.
All right, so Leah did just that four 30-minute sessions in those couple weeks.
This is Leah's abdominal area before.
Look at it.
And there she is now.
Leah, what do you think of those results?
I'm really happy with the results.
I mean, this has been an area that's been so stubborn no matter how much I go to the gym, and this has really given me the definition that I want.
Are you sore afterwards?
Yeah.
You are?
Yeah, you can feel like you've been worked out.
Like it did a bunch of crunches.
Yeah.
Gosh.
This is expensive, Dr. Engelman.
You take care of a lot of people.
You know, we all want an easy fix.
Yeah.
But it doesn't really replace actually doing crunches and watching what you eat.
That's right.
I mean, we certainly want to maintain a healthy lifestyle.
Diet and exercise are so important.
But just like Leah said, there are certain areas that are still stubborn, and so that's where it is.
And even in a real self-interview, 90% of patients said that this was a great way to go and they were so pleased with it.
So it's adjuvant, but it's not going to replace a healthy lifestyle.
Audience, who's next?
Yeah, I thought so.
Thank you both very much.
I'm glad it's working with you.
Together, change is happening.
Our journey is just beginning.
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