So, I Talked to Dr. Oz Today…About Fibromyalgia + Season 5 of the Dr. Oz Show… (Part 1)

“The Dr. Oz Show” Premieres Its Fifth Season
With All-New Celebrity Guests, Must-See Topics and Surprise Stunts

To kick off Season 5 of “The Dr. Oz Show”, I was invited to interview him over the phone. From what I understand, season 5 is going to be the most exciting and entertaining season yet.

Dr. Oz told me…

“One thing we that we got a lot of feedback from our audience on is they like laughing on the show. They like when we take an uncomfortable topic…and we bring a levity to it. We’re affecting America with [a healthy dose of fun] and there’s all kinds of ways of getting folks to enjoy life AND learn about their health.

We can use fear to get you to pay attention to your body but we can use humor. And I would argue that for most Americans having a good time in life + laughing their way through life is an important as losing weight if they’re going to be healthy.

I think that’s a message that I’m going to make loud and clear this year on the show. I want you laughing in every show…and also having soulful moments.“

And if you know me, he had me at Laughing + Soulful Moment

He also mentioned that the show is going to be at a faster pace than it was last year. He is not going to do an entire show on a single topic or even two topics. He is planning on having three, four or five topics in each show. It’s a much more lively show and everyone is out of their chairs a lot more than previous years.
After learning about season 5, I asked two health related topics. Here’s the transcript from my first question…

Dr. Oz Answered My Question About Fibromyalgia

Stacey Weckstein: Hi Dr. Oz. I reached out to my social media community and crowd sourced questions for you.  I received a lot of questions about Fibromyalgia. Women were telling me that medications weren’t working, they’ve had many sleepless nights, and some had questions about Mickel Therapy? I was wondering what women can do to reduce their symptoms of Fibromyalgia? And can they actually remove their symptoms completely?

Dr. Mehmet Oz:  So Fibromyalgia is a close cousin to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. And these are a constellation of ailments which unfortunately doctors did not acknowledge as being real until the last few years which meant that many women – because this predominantly effects women – would go to their doctor feeling that all their joints were hurting, that when they did activity it was impossible because of the discomfort, they were chronically exhausted to the point where even when they slept they didn’t feel rested.

And doctors would tell them it was all in their mind. And I highlight that because many of the people writing you have been harmed by that accusation that they were, you know, imagining ailments or it was all in their head.

Is that they’re real problem. It’s a probably where we don’t have a simple solution but we have simple things that are effective in helping a bit. Let me walk through one or two of those.

The single most important thing to do for people who have Fibromyalgia is activity. It’s hard to do because they’re in pain.

But even simple activities like walking around the house, or if he can walking around the mall, or any activity that lets you stand a little bit can help dramatically help reduce the short circuiting of the body which is what Fibromyalgia represents.

That’s literally what’s going on. The energy systems in the body have short circuited so they can’t provide the energy a body needs to function which is why they feel exhausted and in pain all the time because the muscles are being starved of nutrients.

Besides some modicum of physical activity the more the better but whatever they can tolerate because of discomfort.

I give a lot of folks D5 Ribose. D5 Ribose is a sugar like product but it doesn’t have significant calories in it. They can replace their regular table sugar with it.

It’s a building block for the energy packets that cells need to make to live that a good friend of mine who is a physician who has Fibromyalgia has said changed his life. And it’s been used in many, many patients with some success. So I often encourage that to folks.

And the other last little tip is cut out all the inflammatory foods, fried foods, the white foods, white rice, white flour, you know, all these are, you know, if you’ve got a gluten problem, or a dairy problem it’s a good time to get rid of those foods in your diet because any inflammatory product worsens Fibromyalgia. We have done shows on it. And we will do more this year as well.

Stacey Weckstein: Okay. Great and anything related to getting more sleep?

Dr. Mehmet Oz:    Well interestingly most people with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia are sleeping enough. Now they actually have too much sleep. The reason when I – and I cover sleep a lot on the show because it’s the single most underappreciated cause health problems in America.

And I always tell people I want you sleeping between seven and nine hours. The reason I say nine hours because most people don’t even get close to that. But if you’re sleeping more than nine hours there’s often a problem that makes you have to sleep that long fibromyalgia is one of those problems.

But yes if you’re unable to get good quality sleep for at least seven hours that’s a major challenge for fibromyalgia patients but more than nine is not good for them either.

Stacey Weckstein: Thank you.

Dr. Mehmet Oz:    You’re welcome.

(Aren’t we just so polite.)

I’ll share my next question and Dr. Oz’s answer in my next blog post.

About The Dr. Oz Show

The three-time Daytime Emmy Award-winning “The Dr. Oz Show”, hosted by the two-time Daytime Emmy Award-winning host, Dr. Mehmet Oz, is now in its fifth season.  “The Dr. Oz Show”, which is currently seen in 118 countries worldwide, debuted domestically in 2009 with the biggest ratings in nine years in daytime television.

Dr. Oz, the world-renowned cardiothoracic surgeon, served as health expert on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” since 2004, sharing advice with viewers to help them live their best life from the inside out. Dr. Oz has co-authored six New York Times Best Sellers including “YOU: The Owner’s Manual”, “YOU: The Smart Patient”, “YOU: On a Diet”, “YOU: Staying Young”, “YOU: Being Beautiful” and “YOU Having a Baby” as well as the award-winning “Healing from the Heart”. He has a regular column in TIME Magazine and O The Oprah Magazine.

Dr. Oz is vice-chair of the Department of Surgery and Professor of Surgery at Columbia University.  He directs the Cardiovascular Institute and Complementary Medicine Program at New York Presbyterian Hospital and performs 100 heart operations annually. His research interests include heart replacement surgery, minimally invasive cardiac surgery, complementary medicine and health care policy. He has authored over 400 original publications, book chapters, and medical books and has received several patents.

Cleared in over 99% of the country, “The Dr. Oz Show” is co-produced by Harpo Productions and Sony Pictures Television (SPT) and distributed by SPT.  “The Dr. Oz Show” is executive produced by Mindy Borman and Amy Chiaro.