See All ExpertsMike Roizen, MD
Chief Medical Consultant, The Dr. Oz Show
Dr. Roizen is a past chair of a Food and Drug Administration advisory committee and a former editor for 6 medical journals with more than 165 peer-reviewed scientific papers, 100 textbook chapters, 30 editorials, 4 medical books and has received 13 US and many foreign patents. He is also the co-author of 4 #1 New York Times best sellers: the YOU series.
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I went to an inner city market here in Cleveland, and as I moved over to the fresh fruit and veggie area, the women were fighting over apples. Then I learned that on the second and third of every...
Last week, I wrote an in-depth description of the first two secrets of my six secrets that make it easy for you...
You don't have to pop a pill, drink a shake, or apply some mysterious cream to keep the pounds off. In my many years of medical practice, I've found that eating right is always the key to lasting...
The jury said (in my view): Conrad Murray practiced outside of his area of expertise – he gave anesthesia or sedation without appropriate monitoring or understanding of how to ventilate for...
Dr. Paul White seems to be trying to defend Murray rather than just telling the facts. He is defending the undefendable – and not just allowing the interpretation of data.
No...
You want it. You need it. You crave it. You ignore buzzing alarms for it. You put pillows over your head to get three more minutes of it.
The truth is that getting quality...
Two vitamin studies were reported this week, one from Iowa examining death rates in women over the age of 55 and vitamin use; the other was a randomized controlled trial assessing the effect of...
As I stated in a prior blog about the trial of Dr. Conrad Murray, I wasn’t even planning on reading about it. But in the end, I couldn’t resist – it involves a subject I know too well –...
First, I have to answer a question Dr. Oz recently posed: Do you agree with Denmark’s move to tax fat food – at about 15 cents more for a hamburger and 40 cents more for a pat of butter? And could...
I was not going to comment on the case against Michael Jackson’s physician, Dr. Conrad Murray. I wasn’t even planning on reading about it. But in the end, I couldn’t resist – I know this area of...
Last week, America’s Brain Health Index ranked states by brain health. The top three brain-healthiest places in the US? Maryland, DC and Washington state. I helped judge the Index’s Beautiful...
What a week. Last Monday, I met with a group from a Wisconsin hospital system that wants to use the Cleveland Clinic Disease Reversal Program to help their employees and then their patients...
Gary Taubes’ recent features article “Is Sugar Toxic?” in The New York Times got so much play that I have to comment. Gary Taubes is a brilliant writer, but he is only partially correct...
The Japanese reactor situation has resurfaced big time so I thought I’d share some answers I gave yesterday to questions on youdocs@gmail.com.
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Yes, I was involved in it. The New York Times article by Pam Belluck on whether anesthesia, when used in young children, can lead to cognitive problems or learning disabilities, caused...
This week, the SPF 50 came out! After Sin City we went to Sun City, which is nearby La Quinta, California – just outside Palm Springs. I want to say thanks to a nice officer of the law who let me...
The biggest sexual organ is the brain, so I guess it is appropriate to talk about and raise money for brain health in sin city – or as I like to say, the world’s sexiest city. Now don’t get the...
I know I missed a week of blogging. Over the holiday was a time I chose to answer more questions and do planning for Cleveland Clinic’s corporate customers. Yes, we do wellness programs for...
We had a choice: a great dinner featuring samplings of only healthy favorites cooked by the world’s best chefs with great wine, a tour of David Cooperfield’s museum led by David himself, or going...
Earlier this week, Dr. Oz shared his (and my) 5 tips for your heart’s health – February is American Heart Month. Click here to...
Working side by side with Mehmet always invigorates me. Plus, we work late and often miss meals, so I tend to lose weight and waist when I visit him in New York (Mehmet and I usually do phone...
How can one not think of Congresswoman Giffords and the others who were killed or injured in Tucson … My father spent his last winters in Tucson living near that corner, so I have visited the...
I was not sure how to enter my exercises in Dr. Oz’s 11-week program Move It and Lose It in 2011 – so I thought I’d tell you my problems and the solutions.
First...
To summarize the major science of this month and my own New Year’s resolutions: Increase the functioning of your sweet -16 genes by choosing smaller portions, and add a little daily physical...
Another amazing week! Started in Chicago, then Cleveland, Norfolk, New York, Philadelphia, Washington, DC, and Cleveland. Our Cleveland Clinic–Northwestern combined Preventive Care and Integrative...
Another amazing week: started with a talk to the prim and proper City Club of Cleveland; then a radio show on tattoos (there is a new safe way to get them); a few days doing the business of the...
Before I recap my week, here’s what I have for you: a way of eating healthy for the big holiday meals. For dishes like stuffing and turkey, I have help from my partner in smart foods, chef Mollie...
The week that was: After the Chicago Health Expo last Saturday – more than 10,000 in attendance – I made a quick trip to Boston to talk about how good walnuts are for health. Sunday, I enjoyed the...
Last week – and what a week it was! – ended with Dr. Oz in Chicago for the Health Expo and free clinic hosted at Millennium Park. If you were there, you know how great it was (Lisa Oz was there...
My weight is now down 5 pounds following the Just 10 Challenge. Like Dr. Oz, I am too busy now to even eat.
Steps: 10,129
Breakfast: 1/2 salmon burger, coffee
Flossed and then...
Steps: 18,088.
Breakfast: 1/2 salmon burger, coffee
Flossed and then meditated.
Snack: coffee and an apple
Lunch: missed! Too busy. Had 3 mints and 3 cups of coffee
...
Steps: 11,123.
Breakfast: after my cardio exercise (48 minutes at average heart rate of 147, max today was 176), did 30 minutes of weight work. Coffee times 2 or 3 cups, one and a half...
Steps: 14,043.
Breakfast: after my cardio exercise (48 minutes at average heart rate of 144, max today was 173) I didn’t do weight work because I had to run out to give...
Steps: 12,577. Wow! Stepping during conference calls.
Breakfast: 2 -3 cups coffee (seems regular), 1/2 grilled salmon patty, apple
Snack: banana
Lunch: salmon sliders,...
Caregiver stress is the greatest stress, and biggest cause of premature aging. And we docs not only feel like caregivers, perhaps not as much as nurses or spouses, but controversies in medicine...
Steps: 10,123. Just made it and walked with wife after dinner.
Breakfast: 2 -3 cups coffee (seems regular), 1/2 grilled salmon patty, apple
Snack: banana
Lunch: Subway foot-long...
Steps: 10, 654.
Breakfast: 2 -3 cups coffee (seems regular), 1/2 grilled salmon patty, apple in the car driving to work – seems to make the drive less stressful
Snack: banana...
Started in Boston at a conference on certifying health coaches. Sat with the fabulous Dr. Pam Peeke and key nurse coach Linda (I am afraid of misspelling her name) and many others as we worked...
My steps: 13,942. Flew a red eye from Las Vegas (all I did there was give a talk – honest) to Boston in order to participate in a conference to develop certification for health and wellness...
My steps: 14,014. Breakfast: Coffee and 1/2 salmon burger
Snack: coffee
Lunch: salad with chicken, asparagus, berries, and steel cut oatmeal
Snack: apples and coffee
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Yes got up frequently to pee last night ... shouldn't have coffee after 7 p.m. Got up early to do cardio, then an early meeting with the famous developer Al Ratner and new dynamic Clevelander...
Saw first patient at 6:30 a.m. Then, on to the radio station to do some promos for LetsMoveIt.org, a CC promo to get the town healthier, then back to see patients, then a salsa judging (needed...
Had big clinic meetings this morning and afternoon, and a cocktail meeting this evening with the Wellness Leadership. There were diet sodas (no sugared sodas are available at the Clinic, which is...
Had budget and leadership meetings at the Cleveland Clinic (CC) to start the day – free diet sodas offered, but I chose coffee again. Saw patients, and then ended up the day with a voting by a...
Flew back to NY to the Oz show after a morning seeing patients to tape a segment with Mehmet for next week. Wanted a soda in the afternoon but choose coffee instead. Boy, do they have lousy...
We launched YOU: Raising Your Child on Good Morning America this AM. Weekdays with coffee and no soda are easy – but am seeing that if I reached for water and were...
I normally go through more diet sodas than any other day, but not today. Coffee only (with water). Man – today's is a tough day and the coffee is causing me to need to be...
Woke up at 8 a.m. to exercise – cardio and weights, but it did take coffee to get me to propel myself. Rewound and relooked at the Bed Bug show of Dr. Oz – sensational show. Coffee also got...
It is getting easier to not want a diet soda, but harder to avoid reaching for something with calories in it when I could have a diet soda. Filmed an episode for the Oz show at a first grade today...
Getting easier to avoid diet caffeinated sodas, but harder to wake up if there is no coffee around. Send coffee.
Went to the farmer's market for lunch on way back from filming spots for Cleveland Clinic's Move It campaign that will show during Brown's games (pray for wins for Da Brownies). Almost had a diet...
Well, 4 pounds down on the scale this morning (back on the Just 10 Challenge as well), and slept thru the night again....
Healthcare costs are the United States' largest drag on competitiveness for jobs with Europe and Asia, costing companies 2 to 3 times more in good ol’ USA. And that hurts our job market mightily....
Now 96 hrs diet drink-free (water, tea and coffee without artificial sweeteners do not count in my counts) and doing well from a need for soda. But think I OD’d on coffee earlier today....
Pretty easy … went to work today, and no problem save my scale said I was 2 pounds heavier than day 0 despite my daily workouts. That diet soda must have kept me relatively dehydrated. Haven'...
Break from the diet soda addiction of The Enforcer: Missed my diet soda as I worked out, but coffee is okay and had water for my post-weight-lifting walk. Didn't awaken to pee during the night...
The Enforcer's Break from Diet Soda: Now 24 hrs. without a diet soda … coffee is not doing it nor is water. Really felt like one, but I can do this.
Finished last soda. Saved 1 oz. for an emergency. At 9 p.m., nursed that ounce after the show.
Chocolate milk is not the only way to get kids enough calcium, so 1 thumb down for lack of creativity, a thumb down if full-fat milk, a thumb down for added sugar, and 2...
On September 7, Dr. Oz will discuss that he had a colon polyp and what you can do if it happens to you. He, of course, called Dr. Mike Roizen. It was then that I told him I did too (at age 53) and...
Gena Kolata is a great writer, definitely front-page quality. However, the New York Times front-page article on Sunday August 29th didn't start with a basic message: most memory loss after...
Ladies (and maybe men), if you’ve been influenced by Lady Gaga’s taste in shoes or can’t be seen without your 3-inch stilettos, you might be predisposing yourself to some high-heel...
Now many of you may not know (Mehmet, aka Young Dr. Oz has mentioned this on his show and it’s in the acknowledgements section of the YOU books) that I am an avid CAVz fan. (Cleveland Cavalier’s...
December 16, 2009
Fantastic Steve: no longer the unhealthiest…not the healthiest yet, but he has made the commitment! It’s the second day of Breathing Free for Steve. Rather...
Poppy, one of the Las Vegas sisters on today’s show (December 9, 2009), decided to try going vegan in order to boost her weight loss and health plan. So we hooked her up with the best vegan coach...
In a week, Steve Caves, our Unhealthiest American has become more comfortable walking, is executing proper technique during resistance exercises, and is learning to read labels. And he is self-...
The competition for the Unhealthiest American has ended. Steve won. So if your first name is not Steve, that doesn’t mean you can’t get healthier. You can and Steve will. At least he committed to...
One of the great ways I get to coach the Oz “Truth Tubers” like Rocco and the NFL moms is by email – so here is one from today:
From: Dr. Mike
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Only 4 days till kickoff -- no more preseason for the Oz crew. I was in the control room for the kickoff show and it was as good as I’ve seen Dr. Oz: his information superb, the show was grabbing...
The first Dr Oz show -- Sept 14th -- I think must be scary (not just exciting) for Mehmet. After all, he’s jumping out of his comfort zone of just being great doc in a high-powered...
The anticipation for the start of the show -- to see how audiences respond and read how critics rate it -- is killing me. It must be unbearable for the Wizard (he has a lot of nicknames, but that’...
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