Is an Alzheimers Cure Close? New Drug and What You Can Do Now | Dr. Oz | S9 | Ep 161 | Full Episode
Dr. Oz and experts like Gautri Debbie and Heather Snyder reveal a groundbreaking Alzheimer’s drug targeting "type 3 diabetes" by lowering blood sugar, while stressing lifestyle changes—intermittent fasting, Mediterranean diets rich in folate, vitamin E, and omega-3s—can cut risk by one-third. Marcia Gay Harden shares her mother’s care journey, highlighting gut-brain fiber (berries, onions) and repurposing pain through gratitude. Meanwhile, Dr. Rotio Rivera debunks hair oil myths, promoting L'Oreal’s sunflower-camellia blend for instant shine, before pivoting to ASMR’s viral calming effects, despite its unproven science. Small shifts in diet and sensory habits may offer big protective benefits against cognitive decline and stress. [Automatically generated summary]
Why is it the biggest breakthrough in the last 15 years?
Finn.
It is naturally depressing.
It's heartbreaking.
It's tragic.
Academy Award-winning actress Marshall Gayhardt is opening up.
She's revealing the scary first moments when her own mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer's.
We dismiss it, we deny it, because to accept it is probably one of people's greatest fears.
Coming up next on Dr. Oz.
Ready to save some lives today?
Yeah!
I love you, Becca.
Our hunt for an Alzheimer's cure has encountered a new breakthrough.
For the very first time in 15 years, a new drug is making headlines around the globe and offering brand new hope in our fight against the disease.
And the best part, you can harness the cutting-edge science behind this new drug with simple lifestyle steps right now.
We're giving you access to a team of Alzheimer's experts to show you how.
First, please welcome neurologists at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City and director of the New York Memory Healthy Agency Surgeons, Dr. Gautri Debbie.
Welcome.
Thank you.
And the senior director of medical and scientific operations at the Alzheimer's Association, Dr. Heather Snyder.
And the director of the Alzheimer's Prevention Clinic at New York Presbyterian Wild Cordell, and author of the Alzheimer's Prevention and Treatment Diet, Dr. Michelle Isaacson, and my friend.
Nice to see you.
So let's start with this brand new Alzheimer's drug.
This thing is, I mean, it's all over the place.
A lot of you have probably seen some of the buzz on it.
Why are we so excited?
Why is it the biggest breakthrough in the last 15 years?
Well, you know, we're finding a new way to affect brain function using a drug just by lowering sugar in the bloodstream.
Now, we can lower sugar by eating less sugar, but this drug could be a blockbuster.
And now we need to put into clinical trials and prove whether or not we can really have the next cure for Alzheimer's disease.
That probably catches you off guard, right?
The thought that a drug that works on blood sugar might help the brain.
But in fact, Alzheimer's, and we've talked about it on the show, is type 3 diabetes.
It's diabetes of the brain.
So why is that so?
Well, let me show you, Dr. Us.
So when it comes to the brain, and when it comes to the body, sugar builds up in the body.
It builds up in the body, and to get into the brain, to power the brain cells, you have to knock on the door.
Politely knock.
Take the sugar.
Sugar comes in.
Brain cell takes it.
It powers up the brain.
But the problem is, now I'm going to play insulin.
I'm going to shepherd that sugar into the brain to power up the brain cells.
But what happens in diabetes?
The brain and the bloodstream can't handle all that sugar.
The sugar gets overloaded.
You have to knock louder and louder.
And no matter how loud you knock, you can't go in.
Sugar can't get into the brain cells.
Can't get into the brain cells.
And what happens then is the sugar builds up.
We have more and more sugar.
And then what happens is there's inflammation.
This is like pressing the fast forward button to Alzheimer's disease.
Amyloid, the bad protein, it gets accumulated.
It builds up the sticky plaque and it can increase the rate of decline in Alzheimer's disease.
So how do you actually change that dynamic when the brain cells are not going to listen to the insulin anymore?
They become resistant.
They become diabetes cells.
Well, ideally, we could have a new drug.
And if that drug works in the brain cells, then you know what?
Maybe we don't even have to knock.
Or we can just push the door open.
We push the door open, the sugar goes in to power up the brain, less inflammation, less amyloid accumulation.
Perfect.
That all makes sense.
Seems pretty elegant.
We avoid the toxic sugar when it's not supposed to be outside here in the bloodstream, which is what we're stepping on.
It's not a red carpet, guys.
This is a neurologist version of a bloodstream.
And the brain cells, if they don't have sugar, they can't work.
So we sort of behave slow because we don't have nutrients.
Like if your body didn't have enough sugar, it would focus slow.
So how close are we to this revolutionary drug like you can't do that?
We're still several years away.
We first have to do the studies, replicate them in humans, and then, you know, could be four, five, six, seven years down the line, maybe that blockbuster drug will come.
But today, right now, anyone can simulate the effects of this lowering insulin, lowering sugar drug by changing their lifestyle.
For example.
Well, for me, I do intermittent fasting.
Intermittent fasting means that I'm actually not eating between dinner and breakfast for sometimes up to 14, sometimes even more hours, several nights a week.
So lots of times, I'll actually maybe skip breakfast, have my two meals a day.
I'll eat less food overall, eat less carbohydrates, and absolutely eat less sugar.
That's a way to calm down the insulin release from the pancreas in the body and absolutely protect the brain.
So if folks are worried about Alzheimer's, or in fact if they have concerns about diabetes even, let's make it easier.
12 hours a day for half the day, you don't eat.
It sounds impossible, or it does it.
Think about it.
You already don't eat between dinner and breakfast.
That's probably 10 hours for most of us.
It's about an extra two hours maybe to get you to that threshold, which I keep hearing about for general health anyway.
So if it opens up the brain cell door, I'm into it.
Great.
Exactly.
All right, next up, Dr. Snyder has the lifestyle change that can help you harness the power of this drug.
And she says it's to eat in the context of exercise.
What does that mean?
Well, we all know we should be eating a heart-healthy diet, right?
So dark leafy vegetables, low-saturated fats.
And it's really doing that in the context of being physically active.
So find something you love to do and keep at it.
Just that activity together with a better diet makes a difference, that mimics this drug?
Absolutely, it makes a difference.
It makes a difference for our overall brain health.
Let me shift gears, salt.
This is a big deal for a lot of us.
We've talked about salt in the context of the heart, but you argue that this new research on salt and its link to Alzheimer's could change everything.
Well, there's new research that suggests that salt or a high-salt diet actually impacts blood flow in our overall body, including to our brain, and may affect how our brain's able to function at its best.
You show us?
Yeah.
This is, you know, again, it's a spectrum of diseases.
So salt affects us in a spectrum of ways.
So go ahead.
So this is a graphic of the blood vessels into our brain.
And a high-salt diet impacts a number of things, including our gut and the balance in our gut.
And that impacts blood flow in our overall body through something called nitric oxide, which lines all of our blood vessels and regulates blood flow, including into our brain.
There's a part of our brain called the hippocampus, which is important in forming memories and memory overall.
And if it's not getting the blood and the food source that it needs, it's actually going to impact its overall ability to function, including forming those memories.
So I'm just trying to, so I'm clear on this.
I was reading the research for the show.
When you give rats a lot of salt or mice, rodents, you affect the hippocampus, you affect the memory.
And so for us, that will be sort of the same as forgetting where you are, forgetting something important.
Well, one of the things that this study suggests is that these mice that ate a high salt diet actually had challenges with recognizing their environment or forming memories about their environment.
And we call that spatial memory.
And so that suggests that a high salt diet can impact our ability to form memories in different ways.
And so you end up feeling like you're lost, even in a place that should be very familiar, which one of the things that we notice in folks who have Alzheimer's.
Well, and the study also suggests that these mice that ate the high salt diet had challenges with activities of daily life.
So in people, this might be something like getting dressed in the morning, getting ready to go to work or out for the day.
The things again that make us who we are.
So thank you very, very much.
Thank you.
Again, the new research says that Alzheimer's, I just followed through, because it's a spectrum disease, that it may not react the same in everybody.
So, Dr. Debbie, the biggest fear that I think our viewers have is when they hear the word Alzheimer's, they think one day they're going to become a shell of who they are.
That's why it's the single most feared thing that we have right now in America in our health.
And you're actually arguing with some groundbreaking work that that's not the case at all.
That's absolutely not true.
Patients, most patients with Alzheimer's actually live and function at home, and only a very small percentage end up in nursing homes.
And that's because people don't realize that Alzheimer's is really a spectrum disorder, just like autism is.
There are many different types of Alzheimer's.
As you see in this graphic, depending on the type of Alzheimer's you have, a different part of your brain gets affected.
So, Judge, what does the blue mean?
The blue is a part of the brain where the nerve cells are affected.
So, there are fewer nerve cells in those areas.
So, depending on the type of Alzheimer's you have, you see in some types of Alzheimer's, barely, very small areas of the brain.
So, this would be the kind of Alzheimer's we don't want to get because so much of our brain is affected.
But this may only affect some memories.
This may affect our ability to speak, our ability to communicate with people, to express ourselves.
Everything else would be normal.
Everything else could be normal.
Even your memory could be normal.
Memory, your ability to understand, to live, you just can't speak normally.
Yeah, you can't speak normally or you can't navigate normally.
So, it can be very circumscribed depending on the type of Alzheimer's you have.
And most people with Alzheimer's can live functional lives once they get the appropriate treatment.
I'm hearing a lot of hope.
I'm hearing about drugs that for the first time in 15 years are changing the opportunities we have.
I'm hearing that we're not all the same.
I'm hearing that lifestyle changes today can make an impact.
Up next, a newly discovered early Alzheimer's warning sign that you need to know about.
We've got a brand new quiz to determine if you could be at risk.
Here's the first question as we go to break.
True or false?
I often have diarrhea, constipation, or other digestive problems when I'm feeling stressed.
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Are they turning this healthy bird into a lot more than what you bargained for?
All nuance.
That's coming up on Monday.
We're back appealing a new quiz to determine whether you're at risk for a surprising new Alzheimer's warning sign.
You can take the quiz right now on Draz.com.
I want to get started right now with the audience at home.
Just keep track of how many times you answered true.
These are all true, false.
Dr. Debbie, take it away.
First couple questions.
Okay, true or false.
I often have diarrhea, constipation, or other digestive problems after a stressful event.
I often feel like I'm unable to relax or sit still no matter how drained I am.
When someone snaps at me, I spend the rest of the day thinking about it.
All right, so three questions.
Who said yes to those?
And yeses?
Oh.
I said yes to one.
Which one?
The last one.
So you perseverate when people say something mean to you?
And you can't get out of that rut, huh?
It bothers me for the whole day.
You're not alone.
You're brave enough to say yes, but we'll keep going now.
Again, keep track of how many you say yes to.
Dr. Debbie.
True or false, no matter what I do, I can't take my mind off my problems.
It always seems like the people around me are happier than me.
How many yeses there?
Oh, a very high-handed.
Hold that for a second.
So what's your name?
April.
April.
So what part of that resonates with you?
The sometimes it seems like other people are happier.
Yeah.
And what do you do to get out of that?
I think about the good things that are happening for me.
Does it work or sometimes even with that, you still get stuck?
It can fluctuate back and forth.
Sometimes it'll work and then sometimes it'll be like, is that gentleman with you or the young lady here?
My daughter.
Oh, give it to your daughter.
So, what do you think about her?
What's your mom's saying?
I think that she should be happy.
I think that she stresses herself out unnecessarily, especially about like my siblings.
There's five of us, but we're pretty much grown, but she has unnecessary stresses.
I like what you said that, because we all have stress.
It's the unnecessary part we've got to work out.
Okay, Dr. Debbie, keep going.
True or false, I have trouble falling asleep, and my mind often races at night.
I've experienced shortness of breath or tightening of my chest due to worry or panic.
Mom, your hand went up.
Both of mom and daughter.
So what's your deal?
Well, my name is Summer.
I have anxiety.
I keep, I have two kids.
I'm very busy and I find myself feeling anxious where I'm just like, oh my gosh, what am I going to do?
What's next?
And I could be doing nothing and I still have that anxiety.
So I have, I don't know, I try not to stress.
So what you just said was perfectly scripted for what I'm about to say.
Really?
So I thank you very much.
This is really important.
There's a brand new study out there that suggests that if you answer true more than false, you may have this new surprising Alzheimer's risk factor.
It is anxiety.
The exact word Summer used several times.
Mom has it.
A lot of us have it.
And Dr. Debbie, I want to get back to you on this because it's an important issue, everybody, because anxiety is something that we sort of took for granted here.
But it turns out that anxiety is related to Alzheimer's.
How so?
Well, a recent study from Harvard found among 270 people between the ages of 62 to 90 that when they had anxiety and symptoms of anxiety, they were more likely to have this brain deposit of amyloid, which is found in patients with Alzheimer's.
So these patients were at a little bit higher risk for developing Alzheimer's disease.
So Summer, I want to say something to you, mom, and everybody else who put their hands up for one of those seven anxiety questions, basically.
It's just a link.
We don't know if it's anything more than just a correlation.
So we don't know if people who have Alzheimer's get anxiety because they can't figure out the world anymore because things are starting to slow down, or if having the anxiety causes irritation, inflammation in the brain that could lead to the plaque.
So bottom line, how do we know when anxiety has crossed over to becoming potentially a problem?
So there are some people like Summer who at a very young age, you know, you're just anxious and that's okay as you get older, if you're an anxious person at baseline to stay anxious.
But if there's a sudden change and you suddenly become anxious later in life without a clear problem, you haven't suddenly lost your job, you're not having trouble paying the rent.
Troublesome children like Summer?
Yeah, trouble with children like Summer.
Then you worry.
And if the symptoms persist, then that's a good time to seek help.
Go to see your doctor because taking care of your mental health is as important and is linked to taking care of your brain health.
Thank you very much, Dr. Debbie.
Her book's called The Spectrum of Hope.
Check it out.
Science-Backed Anti-Alzheimer's Nutrients00:03:45
The nutrient trio is up next.
You can use this nutrient trio to just simply add it to your diet to fight off Alzheimer's disease.
That's what we're going to say, and we'll be right back with it.
Cherish Periwinkle, abducted by this man.
And they walk up and walk out the front door, and that's it.
But now Cherish is dead.
What really happened the day this innocent girl was killed?
That's coming up on Tuesday.
If you're looking for a way to help stave off Alzheimer's that you can do today, look no further than your own pantry.
That's what the latest research points to time and again.
And we're about to reveal the science-backed trio of anti-Alzheimer's nutrients that researchers want to add to your diet today.
They are folate, which you can find in asparagus and lentils and chickpeas, right?
So it's kind of B vitamin.
Vitamin E, which is in things like almonds and spinach and potatoes, sweet potatoes in particular.
And omega-3 fats.
These things are found in walnuts, talk about them all the time.
Your chia seeds, but you also can get them in avocados and fish sauce, which we'll talk about in a second.
Now, one study found that participants who ate these nutrients as part of a Mediterranean diet had a one-third lower risk of developing Alzheimer's.
But how, how do you actually do it?
You're not going to move off to the Mediterranean.
How in this country do you add these foods to your diet without having to revamp your entire eating plan?
I'm going to grab this fish sauce.
I've got three women here who found a way to incorporate this nutrient trio into the foods they already know and love.
Kim, for example, loves cheesy omelets for breakfast.
Absolutely.
And I understand you found a little tricky way of including some of the omega-3s.
Yes, my grandfather actually was diagnosed with Alzheimer's.
Once that happened, we went to the kitchen and we said, let's find some memory-boosting foods for us to incorporate in our dailies.
So omelets are a staple.
And here we put chickpeas in it to add some folate and some spinach for vitamin E.
And the fish sauce gives it a little bit of kick.
It's savory.
Wouldn't you agree?
It's superb, actually.
I'll tell you what I love this.
I thought fish sauce was made for vegetables.
I thought it was for fish.
But this is actually made from fish, from sardines and trovies and the like.
And it's actually got a nice little taste to it.
It's very high in omegas.
Yes.
But they're using it in Thai food a lot.
This got a very exotic flavor.
Congratulations.
Thank you.
Are you feel sharper now?
Absolutely.
Kim is always sharper.
I can remember my recipe.
Your recipe.
Next up, Sandra loves chicken salad.
Gets it every day for lunch.
How do you revamp that chicken salad favorite of yours?
Dr. Oz, you know I love a crunch atop of a crunch, so I had to add the asparagus, which is crunchy for folate, slivered almonds for vitamin E, which I love.
And then to get rid of the mayo, I went ahead and added some omega-filled avocados.
It's wonderful.
Nice job.
Thank you.
Next up, Tiffany, she's going to love these zesty tacos.
These tacos are as zesty as she is.
And what did you do to modify this with our Alzheimer's tree?
Well, you know what?
I had to get creative because when I went vegan, I had to come up with a full body textured alternative that would meet the standard.
What do you think?
Mushrooms, which are to die for.
Yes.
It is zesty.
It is zesty.
But what it is, is lentils.
It gives you that folate, right?
And walnuts.
But the surprise, the schnick attack that makes this a touchdown taco.
It's adding the sweet potatoes for the sweet, spicy taste.
And it just takes on all of the different spices, the oregano, the cumin.
It's so yummy.
You described that beautifully.
Thank you.
You have an excellent memory now.
Marcia's Healthy Lifestyle Choices00:09:15
Absolutely.
Your trio.
338.
If you go to druze.com right now to print out all the entire guide with all these brain-boosting foods and the recipes as well.
Make this for your family.
You'll be thanking me for it.
We'll be right back.
Up next, Academy Award-winning actress Marcia Gay Harden is opening up about how she's taking on Alzheimer's.
How are we going to fight this crippling disease?
We're going to fight this disease together.
That's Academy Award-winning actress Marcia Gay Harden and one of the hottest TV medical dramas, Code Black.
Now she's also known for her powerful roles in theater and films like Polak and Mystic River.
Today Marcia's opening up about how she's taken back the power from one of the most common and feared diseases, Alzheimer's.
And she's revealing the scary first moments when her own mother was diagnosed and what she's doing to fight back against this disease.
Please welcome Marsha Gay Harden.
I'm so happy.
Thank you.
Come join us.
Thank you.
Oh my goodness.
So in addition to all your wonderful accolades for acting, you have finally accepted a position playing a medical professional, which has always impressed me.
when actors do that.
Well, that you say that is wonderful to me because this is the one place where I would feel like, well, how am I doing?
How am I doing?
It's a fascinating role and you learn so much and I actually have learned so much respect.
And I think in the clip that you saw, one of the things that I've learned is how much they advocate not just for the patient, but for the patient's family.
Yes.
But you have to learn a lot of terminology in medical school.
Do you have to do the same to play a doctor?
You absolutely do.
We had to do something called boot camp.
Michael Seitzman, our showrunner, wanted us to do boot camp.
So we had to learn how to put on the gloves with a snap because that's a good thing to do when you're an actor.
Pooh!
And then you deliver your great line.
We had to learn things like thoracotomy and all these big phrases.
The problem with me is I learn them.
I learn them for the day and then I forget them.
I mount the door and I forget them.
You have to do central line.
You have to learn all of these things.
Your job is very, very difficult.
That's all I have to say.
Now, there's some places that we have to learn medical jargon where it's life-changing.
And I want to thank you very much because you've come on to talk about your mom.
Her beautiful mother was diagnosed eight years ago with Alzheimer's.
And I wanted to, through your eyes, have America understand what it's like because they know you from your Academy Award-winning performances in Paul Lock and other roles you played.
When did you first notice there was a change in her?
It's progressive.
That's one of the first things.
And the very first things that people will notice look like just aging.
And that's the hard part of it.
You forgot where you put your keys.
You walk into a room and you're like, what did I come in here for?
And the family around you will typically say, because it's what we hope and believe and think, ah, it's nothing, ma.
We dismiss it.
We deny it because to accept it is probably one of people's greatest fears.
So what we try to do in my family is sort of repurpose our pain toward change.
So what is the most encouraging thing that you've learned as you've taken care of it?
What silver lining has there been?
Even if you're not making lemonade from lemons?
You have it on your show, actually, because you've done some really amazing things to bring awareness to this.
The most important thing I learned is how the gut and the brain are connected and how it's all connected.
And of course it makes sense.
You know, it's all, the body's connected.
One of the things I learned as a doctor is like, I think of the body now like a car.
You know, you move this piece of plumbing over here, plumbing, you move this over here and you put it over here and the whole thing can work together.
Well, the body's, you know, our body is like that.
So what we put in our gut affects what's going on.
I love how you just said this.
I don't know if you noticed this.
You said, what I've learned as a doctor.
Oh, you busted me so badly.
It was perfect.
You consciously have to take that role on, right?
Like all the roles you do, you have to actually be that person.
So it's sort of important for people to appreciate what it's like to be a doctor.
By the way, to be a good patient, try to put yourselves in the shoes of your doc.
How do I make it more efficient for them, deal with their issues?
One thing I always teach the residents is if you're not good emotionally, you can't help the patients emotionally.
Nobody's happy to see you.
I mean, they're all pretty much dealing with an issue you don't want to have to deal with.
So you've got to be there to continually recharge that.
If your battery's gone dead, you can't do that.
That is true.
And that actually, that would be good advice for caregivers as any caregiver of Alzheimer's caregivers.
They have to recharge their own batteries as well.
But what I was going to say about sugar, that's the hugest thing, that sugar.
So now I've got 13-year-old twins.
So to try to cut sugar out of the family diet.
I'm a single mom with 13-year-old twins.
But now, this is what's so great about the younger generation.
They're involved with their own destiny in terms of eating.
How are they processing your mother's Alzheimer's?
I think they don't know her.
And so they process it through their greatest fear is that I would get it.
Well, let's talk about you.
Alzheimer's, not to alarm everybody, is one of the most genetically linked ailments.
Right.
It's still only maybe one-third of the risk, but it's meaningful.
So have you had yourself checked?
You don't have to share if you don't desire, but where are you in your own assessment of the risk that you may have for getting Alzheimer's?
So I want to test myself.
I had written in my book that I was going to test myself and I simply haven't done it yet.
But I did do the DNA, the 23andMe.
Good.
And I signed up for the gene test and that, and I don't have the Alzheimer's gene, but as now we know, that doesn't mean that you won't get Alzheimer's.
They are considering it genetic and lifestyle.
So the part I can control is lifestyle.
Of course.
That's what I'm trying to do.
And that's a big wake-up call for a lot of folks.
If one-third of it is genetics, you got dealt a bad card, but you win the game by playing the two-thirds risk that's driven by lifestyle.
All the things you've mentioned, I want to come back to and touch on because they're so important.
They're so fundamental.
And I've had the biggest world experts, as you know, on the show talking about this.
But when people see someone they know and they adore and they love, and they know you in a very different way, and they can appreciate how you process it, they can begin to as well.
So when we come back, Marcia's going to share what she's been doing every day to reduce her risk of Alzheimer's, and maybe listen to her kids as well.
Plus the powerful way she says anyone can connect with a loved one struggling with this disease.
Stick around.
Turkey consumption is growing nearly four times faster than chicken.
Turkey burgers.
Turkey dogs.
Turkey bacon.
Are they turning this healthy bird into a lot more than what you bargained for?
All nuise.
That's coming up on Monday.
We are back with Academy Award-winning actress Marcia Gay Harden, who's been opening up about how to take back the power of Alzheimer's disease, which tries to strip from so many of us.
She's now revealing how she reduces the risk every day in her own life.
These are tips you guys can all use as well.
These are powerful ways she's been able to connect with her mom, some of these tips, all of which becomes important as we create this quilt that humanity has always represented.
So let's start off with some of the things you talked of earlier.
Sugar.
There's no question Alzheimer's is probably diabetes of the brain.
So the first tip is to cut back on sugar, but it's hard to do that, right?
Because people crave it.
It hits their brain like crack cocaine.
It's a dopamine hit, isn't it?
Right.
So what do you do in the hardened household?
Well, we like to have occasional treats for the kids.
So one of the things I discovered was this paleo chocolate cream walnut gram crack.
Look at this, my friends.
Look at this.
Right there.
Decide if you want this in your life.
Can this be part of your future?
So beautiful.
And what you're using are dates for the sugar.
Then you use coconut oil, which is super good for the brain.
Coconut, you pop through that and you get the coconut milk.
Coconut oil, you use dates.
You crush up the walnuts with dates for the crust.
And you use chocolate.
You can use stevia, chocolate with stevia, so there's actually no sugar in it.
And then you're going to.
Then when you have this.
If you speak French, you would have to say, this is dangerous.
Well, you just stepped in the French by mistake.
I'm sorry.
Look how big my bite was.
I wasn't even ashamed.
I wasn't even ashamed of that.
It was this huge bite.
But you can convention.
Can I eat it?
Please, yes.
I want you to like our version of your cake.
So dates are fantastic because they've got nutrients in them.
And here's my deal with sugar.
I'm sorry.
Like that?
I'm really busy right now.
Orgasmic.
How do you say that in French?
You don't, you show it.
Okay, and moving on, Dr. Rosha.
So, but I think sugar in general, when we purify it and refine it and take it away from the nutrients it's naturally associated with.
Listen, sugar was bait for us all, right?
If you eat a date, there's sugar in there, but you're getting all those, the fiber, the nutrients, and with all that, what the heck?
Take a look at the bottom of the bottom.
And the nuts, good fat, good fat, all of this is good fat.
Oh, my goodness.
It's really good, right?
Oh, that fills your mouth completely.
This is so rich.
Like, literally, you could have one bite of it.
We're going to put the recipe up on Dr.Raj.com.
You'll love this.
Oh, I love it.
It's great.
Oh, good.
Good, good.
It's a paleo recipe.
Next up, Marsha mentioned earlier that there's a connection between our gut and our brain.
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Right.
Which is profoundly important.
And it comes down, of course, to the biome that you were touching on.
Turns out there's soluble fiber that really turns on the good bacteria and it snaps the bacteria, the bad guys, back in place when they're not cooperating.
So these are examples of all the soluble fiber foods that I think could appeal to the average American.
These are called allium and onions and artichokes.
They have the allium family.
Berries come as asparagus.
The beans all work.
And the most provocative work I've seen on Alzheimer's that might benefit your mom and certainly us is the reality that when we have the bacteria in the gut that reduces inflammation in the brain, people seem to perform better.
Maybe the disease hasn't disappeared.
The plaques might still be there.
But the cells that work, they work better.
So cyoctane fuel feed the cells.
Now, let me elevate it to a little more spiritual level.
This amazed me.
And I love your book.
It's emotionally honest.
It's intellectually on target.
But I didn't realize that she had learned how to arrange flowers.
There's a whole way of doing this.
And I've got a picture of one of her arrangements.
Oh, right.
Please explain what this is to America.
And how did she even learn this Japanese art?
She's an incredible woman.
And so one of the things my mother did so beautifully was she was a Japanese flower arranger.
It's called Ikabana Flower Arranging.
Ikabana.
Ikebana.
And I think you have a picture of one of my mother's arrangements.
This is one that someone here did, a beautiful arrangement.
It was originally a gift created by the Buddhist monks, is how this art form started.
And it was a spiritual practice where they would think of nature and they would arrange, like in this case, this one would probably be, I mean, these two are competing a little bit, but the longest one would be heaven, and then the next one would be earth, and then the lowest one would be man.
And so the eye moves in a triangle.
So I've sort of taken it up trying to do it.
Oh, you have?
And I will send my mother pictures of it.
And she'll look at the pictures.
And when I do a good job, she'll go, oh, yes, I love the way the colors go together.
And when I don't do a great job, she'll go, interesting.
It's interesting, Marsh.
That's mothers.
Let me ask you probably the most important question I'll ask today.
How do you recharge yourself when so much of your soul is pouring into making sure your mom knows who you are, knows who she is, and maybe gets to meet your kids a little bit?
Gratitude.
I think you have gratitude, and then I think you repurpose your pain.
And of course you have to fill your life with things that you love.
You know, you look around you at the things you love and you have gratitude for them.
Marsha eat hardened.
God bless you all.
God bless you.
God bless you.
You have got a fantastic book.
It's called The Seasons of My Mother.
There's the cover right there.
Go pick it up and share it, especially if you've got someone in your family who's struggling.
God bless you all.
Thank you.
God bless you.
Right back.
Let's go.
Cherish Periwinkle.
Abducted by this man.
And they walk up and walk out the front door.
And that's it.
But now Cherish is dead.
What really happened the day this innocent girl was killed?
That's coming up on Tuesday.
Short and long, straightened, curly, thicker thin.
No matter what kind of hair you have, today I want it to be nourished and shiny.
But first, I needed to find out what your hair was craving.
Take a look.
Today is all about getting rid of your dry, dull hair and helping to bring back its shine and sparkle.
So let's see what Beatle Blazes have to say about their lackluster locks.
So tell me about your hair.
My hair, it's been getting really dry lately.
And it's been a rough winter for my hair.
I need to do something a little different.
Thin, fine, flat.
Don't have no luster.
Some shine, something.
It's a shine like the shirt's got going on.
It's a backdrop.
So tell me what your hair is lacking.
It's lacking volume and shine big time.
Yes, girl, we gotta turn that straw into gold.
It has no shine whatsoever.
Oh, wow.
I want that glow.
Okay.
I got the mommy glow.
I need the glow.
You need the hair glow.
Flat ironing is the reason why you don't have your shine.
I didn't know how to properly flat iron my hair.
The fix just might be an oil.
Have you ever tried oil before?
I'm kind of afraid.
You're afraid?
I'm afraid.
I'm afraid it's going to look oily.
Well, I haven't been able to find anything to give it the moisture as well as the lift it needs.
Dr. Oz, help us bring back that shine.
I'll bring you back that shine.
I bring you Dr. Rotio Rivera on behalf of my trusted sponsorship partner, L'Oreal Paris.
I see these beautiful women confused.
There's so much misinformation about oil and their hair.
So what are they getting wrong?
Well, actually, Dr. Oz, not what they're getting wrong, but understanding what oils truly are and how they can transform any hair.
There are actually two myths I want to dispel today about oils and hair.
Myth number one, oils are heavy and greasy, not true.
When formulated correctly, oils can be actually extremely lightweight and work for any hair type and be nourishing, from hot, fine hair to like thick and oily like mine.
Myth number two, all oils are the same.
Not true.
All oils are not the same.
Are you hearing those myths?
We're clear on this.
So motor oil doesn't work.
We're talking about the kind of oils that do work in your sex.
But let me show you how adding oil to your hair, they actually nourish and revive it again.
So I built a very simple demonstration that many of you may be familiar with.
The silver in your home, right?
So silver tarnishes, obviously, but in its polished form, it's fantastic.
It's beautiful.
But you don't always take care of the silver in the home.
You don't take care of your hair either so much.
It does like our hair.
And so over time, this beautiful, untarnished, shiny bit of hair, in this case, silver, can be tarnished, right?
And what causes that?
You put your hair through exposure to sunlight, harsh and abrasive cleansing agents.
You go swimming with it, right?
You don't protect it in the way you ought to.
So all those things begin to make your hair look dull.
And it makes it dull, and then you lose the shine because you're actually losing the natural lipids in your hair, which gives you the shine and nourishment.
All right, so if we put it into the right kind of oil, the kind of oil that you're describing today, you dip it in there, and pretty soon you begin to see some changes.
And then when you use the oil in the right way, go ahead and demonstrate.
You actually take away that tarnish.
And then all that goes away and you have shiny hair.
But you say, as you pointed out at the very beginning, because of the myths that we have around oil, we often are mistakenly thinking we shouldn't be using oil.
But there are some oils.
And since they're not all the same, which ones do you recommend and why do you think they work?
Dr. Ross, I recommend the L'Oreal Paris Elvive Extraordinary Oil.
This lightweight oil has been formulated to penetrate the hair fiber to replenish that oil that has been lost like we just saw.
That way it doesn't sit on the surface.
There's two key oils that we discover in our labs that are very important in the formulation: the sunflower oil and the camellia flower oil.
In just one use, then any hair type will be revived, shiny, and nourished.
In just one use?
In just one use.
And you brought evidence today.
I did.
All right, so come on back here.
This is, again, in theory, if you use the Elvive product, you'll be able to have your hair look within a day a dramatic change that I think you'll appreciate visually.
Take it away.
So what we're looking here is images taken by our instrumental evaluation team in New Jersey.
They took hair.
This hair has been lightly bleached, so it's even more dry and less shine.
What you see, flat, lack of shine, really, like you can't see the color of the hair.
We use Asamba.
It's a polarizing imaging system.
And what you see with just one use is that clear shine.
Look at that shine right there.
10 times nourish the hair.
What happens with the hair when it's 10 times nourished with the Elvive Extraordinary Oil is that it reflects the light beautiful.
And that's exactly what you've seen this huge band of shine in any hair type, whether it's fine, it's dry, whether it's thick, any hair type in just one use.
Let's see.
Because we asked someone to do this from our audience.
We gave the L'Oreal Paris Elvive Extraordinary Oil to one of our viewers to try out last week.
She's here, Vicki.
Hello, Vicki.
How are you all?
Well, I'm well.
So I'm going to ask you, teach us what your experience was like.
What were your issues beforehand and how did using the product change it?
Okay, well, my hair is kind of in between.
It's not thin, it's not super thick.
And it's curly, but at moments it can be frizzy.
And with the weather, especially this past winter, it's been a nightmare.
but also I'm a first time mommy.
So in discovering, well, thank you.
And with hormones.
Dr. Os.
With hormones, there's so many things going on with my body and even my hair.
So with my hair, there's, you know, drying out more than normal.
And then just kind of like the texture and products that I may have used may not have worked the best currently.
So how did you actually apply it to your hair?
Well, after I shampoo, you know, get myself prepped, I would go ahead and just put some, especially towards the ends, you know, definitely in the ends.
And then even like later in the day, say if I'm going out somewhere, just to kind of give it a little extra shine, then I would put it, just apply it in the hair and kind of pick up the volume.
And when you use it in the shower, did you wash it out or you just left it in?
Oh, no, I mean, I would go ahead and, you know, shampoo, condition my hair, and then afterwards I would use the oils.
And these are coming through.
Yeah.
Is that the right way to use the product?
I like to say that there's a thousand and one ways to use the extraordinary oil.
One way, if you have fine hair, you could use it before you shampoo in the shower.
If you have thick and oily hair like I do, then you could use it after you're done in your shower with dump hair at your tips of your hair.
Or like she said, it's an excellent way just to have it in your purse throughout the day and just for some extra shine, you just put it on.
You know, there's really no right or wrong way.
The magic of this oil is actually the way it was formulated.
You could use it anyway and however it works for your hair.
That's the magic of this extraordinary oil.
Are you happy with the result?
Yes, I am.
I will say this.
Being a first-time mommy, I have the glow now.
And now my hair has the glow as well.
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You are just blowing all over.
I know.
Thank you.
Where do you find it and what does it cost?
At Walmart for just under $6.
That's great.
Especially, you know, budgeting now.
Oh, high five on that.
High five on it.
We did the budget.
Congratulations.
All right, so here's the deal.
I want everyone, because now y'all want to look great.
I want to help you all nourish your hair.
So thanks to my trusted sponsorship partner, L'Oreal Paris, I was going to give them each one drop.
Is that enough?
Yes, it is.
But I think we can be more generous.
How about a full product?
You're all going home with a full bottle.
L'Oreal Paris Elvi Extraordinary Oil Treatment.
I'll be right back.
Turkey consumption is growing nearly four times faster than chicken.
Turkey burgers.
Turkey dogs.
Turkey bacon.
Are they turning this healthy bird into a lot more than what you bargained for?
All nuise.
That's coming up on Monday.
There's a new viral obsession that millions swear is helping them de-stress and fall asleep.
And it's gotten the attention of all the big blogs, including Mashable and Bustle and a bunch of others.
I asked my go-to tester, Renatha, to try it out.
So, Tebo, what is this new viral sensation?
Dr. Oz, I mean, I can't believe it myself, Dr. Oz.
It is people watching videos of other people, okay, cutting soap.
I just don't understand it.
Cutting soap?
They're cutting soap.
Can you guys believe it?
What is all that?
They're weird, right?
I couldn't either.
I was confused by this.
What would that?
Take a look.
I mean, hundreds, more even, of videos of people doing this, right?
Soap being cut or peeled into hundreds of pieces, right?
Like this, lots of pieces.
And then people watch these things to relax.
That looks dangerous.
Right?
Now, I want you all to be super quiet.
All right.
All right.
Scott, bring up the audio on the video.
Now you'll hear.
You hear that?
Oh, Renatha.
Oh, oh, oh.
You stacked the whole monitor.
Can you hear that sound?
Okay, this is called ASMR.
These videos, that's what they're about.
They trigger sensations through sounds and visual stimulation.
And Renatha, my med team, she's going to wake up in a second.
She's going to like this.
They looked into how this ASMR works.
Take a look.
Remember when Mama sweetly whispered lullabies in your ear when you were a fussy baby?
Well, it turns out those soft sounds that calms you then could calm you now.
And millions swear by it.
ASMR, which stands for Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response, has taken over the web.
There are tons of popular online videos featuring repetitive sounds, ranging from whispering to paper ripping, tapping, and even soap cutting.
This is a huge trend.
It's a full-on sensory sensation sweeping the nation.
But since it's only been studied for less than a decade, medical professionals and researchers are still trying to understand how it all works.
Here's what we do know: soft and gentle sounds can trigger a static-like sensation in an individual's head or neck that then travels to other body parts all the way down the spine, down to your feet, or giving you a spa-like sense of tranquility.
Some even call it a mind gasm.
So I don't know about you, but Renata was so relaxed he fell asleep when I was explaining this soap cutting stuff.
But can you all see this?
There's something so cool, soothing about it.
The sound, the sensation.
What do you guys think?
Get up.
I still think it's a little wacky.
Forget about what you and I think.
There are millions of folks using this thing.
I think it's worth trying.
I know that hearing sounds, feeling palpations, using your senses, it wakes you up in some ways and it puts you asleep in others.