Does anyone know Dr. OZ?

I assume he is just being paid by certian companies to push their products. I think some stuff might be legit, but sometimes I am not sure how much I should trust him.

Seen his show?

I think if you were to take everything he recommended, just in a weeks worth of shows, you would have at least 100 products totaling 1000s of dollars. Unrealistic to really take his advice. Chia seeds seem legit though. But overall, a veggie/fruit diet with (limited) organic meat and eggs, rice and bread seems the best, at least for me. Keep it simple, in other words.

I also took some elderberry liquid this winter (which has been brutal by DC standards) and spent maybe a total of about week being sick the entire winter) so maybe that helped the immune system, who knows..

 

I've seen his show a few times. It can be interesting, and his credentials are legitimate.

That being said, if someone is on mainstream daytime television, you've got to question what they say. At least a little.

 

He's an obvious corporate tool

There's a chain of pharmacies around here that use him as advertising.
"Buy X, as seen on Dr. OZ'

He's had a few controversies over the years. Something about apple juice and a few others.

 

More or less my sentiment.

There is always a nugget of truth, in my opionion, mixed in with even some of the biggest propaghanda. You just have to learn to discern it. But yah, I have been thinking that for years. I almost never really trust anything in any of the major media sources. But any way, back to Dr. Oz..

 

I looked in a few times, he mostly seemed to be a fad pusher. Healthy balanced living is the best, I went vegan for ethical reasons but it did have a major positive effect on my health since it caused me to reduce a lot of the bad things and eat far more fresh & healthy things. Also getting off ones butt daily and moving helps a great deal.

 

Ive never heard of DR OZ,but am thinking about going properly vegan for a few months to lose some weight,save some money,get my cholesterol down and get on top of my diabetes type two.I already eat a lot of brown rice,just thinking of things to augment it with.

 

I think some of what he says is at least somewhat correct.

There has been a backlash against multi vitamins. I don't "buy" it. I still take them (but they are made from real food):

http://www.doctoroz.com/episode/triple-your-fat-loss?video_id=3193383039001

 

Seems I heard that he is a famous heart surgeon, or was before his TV show.

 

Dr Oz is almost as bad as self diagnosis.

 

That was my impression too. I saw some of his shows a few years ago but have not seen the show is a long time. I think the only take-away that stuck with me was drinking tart cherry juice. At least I think I heard about that from him.

Exactly.

 

I've seen his show many times while visiting my mom. I don't remember him plugging any certain products. From what I've seen he seems to recommend a natural/non pharmaceutical method before anything else.

Of course he'll suggest blank from his "friends" at blank company. It's still a tv show. Needs sponsor and advertising money to stay afloat.

 

I don't know enough about Dr. Oz to say.

Even if he's giving you the latest info from scientifically valid studies, you still have to be careful though.

Many of these studies are funded by industries that know that they can dramatically increase sales if the right study is published.

While many of these studies may produce valid results, they may mislead people into drawing the wrong conclusions.

A lot of studies just show correlations rather than a real cause-and-effect relationship. Also, just because a type of food/supplement has some good effect doesn't mean that it doesn't also have some bad effect

 

I've seen his show a few times, and while he seems to present some good information here and there, it seems like mostly a big infomercial geared toward getting people to buy things without really addressing the underlying cause of most health problems. For the average soccer mom, there might be some things to be gained from watching his show, but there are much better sources of information out there when it comes to health and nutrition. When it comes to things like losing weight, you don't need to spend tons of money buying products. You just have to know how and what to eat.

 

Nice to see Mercola on the show. Of course there are lot of things that can be said for Dr. Mercola -- good and bad -- but I find his advice to be mostly sound and accurate. Speaking of Mercola and multivitamins, I actually take Mercola's multivitamins, which are a far cry from the cheap, synthetic vitamins you buy at the grocery store, which are worthless. Most of the studies which demonize vitamins don't tell you which vitamins they're talking about, as if all vitamins are the same. There is a huge difference between cheap, synthetic vitamins, and quality, whole food vitamins which are actually properly broken down and assimilated in the body.

 

dr. oz also pushes cannabis!

 

Doctors misdiagnose people all the time.

 

ok - he does ONE thing right, that does not validate everything he says

 

NO I clearly stated in my op that EVERYTHING he says is the gospel truth.

 

Have you heard of "Megafood" vitamins? Those are the ones I take. I get them at this local chain store in DC called "YesOrganic". There are maybe between half a dozen to ten of them in the city. (edit: google search tells me there are 7 locations, 6 of them in DC)

 

MegaFood makes excellent quality vitamins. Definitely a brand I recommend. The only thing is they're not very potent.

The Mercola multivitamins I take offer 5,000IU of vitamin D per serving.