F
rom the moment he burst onto the national scene with appearances on The Oprah Winfrey Show in 2004,
cardiothoracic surgeon Dr. Mehmet Oz has exhibited a unique ability to get people to listen when he talks about improving their health. With an approachable, everyman
demeanor, Dr. Oz, 58, has brought lessons from the latest research and medical breakthroughs to a wide au- dience without preaching or resort- ing to hard-to-comprehend medical jargon. Through his TV show, now in its
10th season, his website doctoroz. com, and a successful magazine, The Good Life, he has helped millions of people improve their health, and en- thusiastically says: “One of the best things about TV is that I get to call on people I want to learn from.” As he is learning from others in
the medical fi eld, he is passing on much of his vast knowledge to his audience — and the most important lesson he teaches is how to live longer and stay healthy. It’s information millions of Ameri-
cans will be seeking as they start the New Year with a renewed determina- tion to lose weight and lead a health- ier lifestyle. Here is some of the crucial infor-
mation he has imparted on longevity and health: One of the biggest contributors to
aging is “what’s going on in your gut,” he told a TV audience. “A lot of the infl ammation people
have in their bodies — joint pain, headache — it actually starts in their intestinal system because if the bacte- ria in your gut are waging a civil war against you, it’s a problem.” He explains the immune system’s
reaction to infl ammation, which has been linked to imbalances in gut fl o-
ra: “As infl ammation starts to perco- late out there, your immune system says, ‘I’m going to attack everything I can,’ including your joints, and you’ll get the fl u more often, it will mess with your sleep — all the things we know infl ammation does to a body. “And it ages us because we’re not
supposed to have continuous infl am- mation.” The solution? “Instead of having
just one kind of bacteria, you want to eat foods that give you lots of kinds of bacteria,” he said. “Foods that do that are greens, cruciferous vegetables, onions, even foods that have prebiot- ics.”
Dr. Oz stresses the importance of
eating foods from the allium family, which includes onions, scallions, gar- lic, and shallots, “to feed the bacteria the right things so they’ll grow the right way.” He adds that artichokes and avocados also will feed healthy bacteria in your gut. He created a daily 7-item checklist
to stay on the anti-aging path: 2 cups oolong tea 1 cup probiotic plus 4 cups prebiotics ¼ cup nuts and unlimited olive oil 2 tablespoons herbs and alliums Multivitamin Socially engage 10 minutes a day 7-minute workout In addition to that checklist,
during his years in the national spotlight, Dr. Oz has tried to put to- gether for his followers even more guidelines about what they need to do to live longer. He has stressed the following as
well, to help increase your life span. Eat purple foods. This is crucial, he has written, because these foods protect nerves and help form new ones. As we age, our brains can lose some connections and
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