Behind the Bastards
CZM Rewind: Part Two: Dr. Oz: Why 'America's Doctor' Is A Bastard
Thu, 28 Nov 2024
It's still a CZM Rewind week! Enjoy the second part of this unfortunately prescient episode where Robert is joined by Matt Lieb to discuss Dr. Oz.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
What is Dr. Oz's impact on health advice?
It was everywhere when that came out. It was literally not just like bed, bath, and be everywhere. It was everywhere.
Get like bones. You can fly like a bird.
And again, those are studies in animals, but it's the kind of thing where a responsible doctor would say, well, some studies in animals have shown that this might cause bone density loss. So unless, you know, your weight is a really disastrous health situation and your bone density is fine, I wouldn't recommend this. Dr. Oz is just saying it's a magical weight loss cure.
I mean, he's not wrong. He's not wrong.
Yeah. Oz called raspberry ketone, quote, the number one miracle in a bottle to burn your fat. This is a fun one. First of all, it's all gasoline. Part of why people well, actually, part of why part of why people are attracted to stuff like this is that like raspberry ketone, that's natural. It sounds like, oh, if I just like getting raspberries, that's going to help me lose weight.
This chemical in a natural, healthy fruit.
of course it makes sense that like some wonderful plant-based medicine would be able to help me lose weight yeah raspberry ketones don't come from raspberries they can but it takes 90 pounds of fresh raspberries to produce a single dose as a result they are manufactured synthetically a fact dr oz did not feel the need to explain because again he's really critical of gmos and it might seem hypocritical to note that raspberry ketones are actually synthetic lab nonsense um
I love when people say things like it's natural. It's like I think cyanide is natural. There's a lot of like natural poisons out there. Fucking snake venom is natural.
The fucking arsenic in the apple juice that he's worried about is natural. Yeah. It is possible, based on animal studies, that these ketones may have some ability to reduce or slow weight gain. But no studies have ever been conducted on how raspberry ketones impact human beings. There have been reports that they increase blood pressure and heart rate in humans. Dr. Oz does not warn about this.
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