Dr Oz

0:06Dr. Oz is going to be epic. This is the month you win the fight over fact. Once and for all, if you fell off the wagon. Well, get right back on. New ways to blast back facts. The newest weight loss game changer. The superfood that's out of this world, and so much more. I'm not giving up on you. Next week, you're gonna be operating, though. Next week, I get to operate. Something you look forward to on those weeks come up? I love operating. Yeah, and it goes, it's good for everybody because it lets the producers come up with new ideas for the next month's shows. It gives me the opportunity to ground myself back in the hospital. And I guess it's very different when you're actually looking someone in the eyes and connecting with them, than looking into a camera. You actually begin to believe that you're on the camera, which is not real, and everyone can at home can tell, but you can't tell.

0:51So it grounds me, it centers me. And I just try to capture the emotion around that and apply it to folks. And you know, they, not my team, but there's another group of folks that take me in the hospital and they're doing surgery. And they make shows out of them. What's that like? Obviously you're certain, you know what, you're doing your professional, but still like having that around the things. Well, they're not really, because they don't even notice they're there. They're running around with these little flipcams and they're always capturing everything that's happening, but they're not interested in how I threw this ditch. They're interested in what happened when I didn't throw the right stitch, or when a patient's struggling, or I'm trying to tell a family some issue that's going on. And they just tabulated and they collected and they try to tell that story separately. Right, we're here to promote the show. So we should probably talk about the show a little bit too, which you mentioned the producers next week will have time to think of some stuff.

1:37So what are upcoming episodes? Well, I ran into Whoopi Goldberg and who tapes the view in the same building as me. So we see them all the time. And I always hug her and I see how she's doing, but what I'm really doing is smelling her because she smokes. And they actually built a bus stop outside our building. So there's no bus that goes there. Just so she could go out and smoke there. And every time I give her a hard time, she just sort of wave it off. And then one time she said, I know you're trying to help, but you should know that I'm an addict. And because I'm an addict, I have to cope with that in some way and cigarettes are the way I cope. So I think I'm better off smoking the other things that could be happening to me. And I never brought her up again. And I ran into her the other day and she called me and she said, smell me. Which is a nice thing for Whoopi to say to you. And I didn't, she didn't smoke cigarettes.

2:23I said, what happened? She said, I finally got the message. So I actually had so sure it's coming up. We just, I just taped it. And she's gonna tell the story that she told me this day in the world, which is just riveting about what finally convinced her to change. And then of course we surprised her based on once I knew what was going on. Now I had all these kinds of machinations of trying to trick Whoopi. I'm so curious, I wanna know but I kinda wanna leave this surprise too, but I hear another show coming up is Poison and Food. Explain that, because I would like to talk about nutrition a little bit. There's a very interesting fellow called the Health Ranger who's gone out on the limb, are doing and doing testing to prove that a lot of the foods that we think are okay for us actually have toxins in them, especially foods that came from other countries where the soil is polluted so badly that these heavy metals get into the food there and they just get into our food. Cause we're all global now

3:08with the way our food comes in. And so I am fascinated by this argument and I think he's right. I think he's on to something. I think even some of the organic foods that we're getting, like the protein powders. They end up, some of them having a lot of stuff that you don't want in there. And you're paying extra money to buy protein powder. Why would you want something coming along for the ride? That's really not quite what you wanted to be a market for. But what I especially love is this gentleman had historically always refused to come on my show. Because he said this was a lightning rod item and we wouldn't be brave enough to tackle it. And it took us five years, but we convinced him that at least trust us to come on the show. So we'll see what people think about it. But I like doing investigative pieces cause we have the ability to shed light on problems that are out there that no one's talking about. And then the audience is so graciously interested in the information, they act on it.

3:56They'll go to the website and see who's making good stuff and begin to support the good people. That's what you want. You want companies making good foods to do well, make a lot of money. And people making bad food, not to do so well. We have the power as consumers though. We both do. Three times a week with our pocketbook, absolutely. On the, see the organic thing versus the soil and other countries, interesting, I bought some organic peaches the other way. The other day found out there from Mexico and I was like, love Mexico, don't get me wrong. But I don't know if I trust the government regulations on the soil there. So is it, what's your recommendation? Organic, if it's coming from other countries or is it better to go local? I think you're better up by local if you can. I have big worries about the foreign food supply. I also think you're spending money to import things that are ideally not gonna be shipped that far distance. Peaches are a good example. I love peaches. In fact, peaches are fabulous.

4:43But canned peaches are pretty good if there's no syrup added to them. And I think more and more of us are getting comfortable with the idea that I get my blueberries from Canada. And I feel welcome. Thank you. They're beautiful, small, little wild blueberries and I freeze them. They're just raw blueberries. I mean, I just happened to store them for three months and I've raised them because I can eat them all at once. And you have the opportunity to do that. There's similar things you could do elsewhere or just buy the frozen versions of them. But it does make me concerned that our food supply's been changed as much as it has been. Changed while I was reading the other day that corn doesn't exist in the same form that corn existed 100 years ago. No, not at all. And then when we end up with, and soy and alfalfa and the many examples of that, we take down some of the defense mechanisms that we naturally would have had to protect these crops. But we also hurt ourselves sometimes because when we take foods, whether they've been genetically modified

5:28or naturally changed, we don't know how to cope with them. So I'll give you two examples. Is it possible that when we genetically modify food so that it doesn't or is resistant to some of these pesticides that it might not be so happy in our gut either? Because the way that these things kill the pestle instead of that invades them is that it explodes their intestines. So you start to think, well, maybe that's why I'm having a GI problem. Or they take a week which has not been genetically modified. It's just been modified. It's different than it used to be. The gluten in wheat might be more irritating to our intestines in this new form. Purely hypothesis, I have no proof of this at all. But you have to back in your mind realize that there's a lot more allergies that used to be there. Even people who never had allergies are not having allergies. So is it possible that there's something going on? And the kids are the canary and the coal mine.

6:14We're gambling with their wellbeing. So what do we do? How do we fix that? Is it education? What is it? I think a lot of it is being more transparent. Is pushing for things like labeling on foods so that we know exactly what's in there. And then holding folks accountable. Listen, I have dealt with food manufacturers at many levels. They're not bad people. They're trying to sell you stuff that they think is good for you. They really do. And sometimes, I don't even know it's not good for you. But all of us have the opportunity to be very thoughtful about how we select what we're eating. And again, we have all the power. No one else has the kind of influence we have because we will fight and win the battle for health in our kitchens, in our living rooms, in our bedrooms. So since we have that power, that's not to advocate that to somebody else. That's to keep it to our own and open up a huge list of opportunities by using it. That's good closer. Perfect.

7:00Thank you so much.