DoctorOz: Gastric Balloon for Weight Loss & Double Chin Fat Treatment | Dr. Oz S7 Ep 19

Use breakthroughs that make you feel good, today. Can this balloon help you lose that last 20 pounds? I like this idea, I like the concept. The groundbreaking procedure you'll only see on Oz. Then, ditch your double chin without surgery. This material actually kills the fat cells, it makes them literally burst. Plus, you took the ice bucket challenge, now see why it was worth it. Up next. We'll save lives today. You guys ready to get healthy? Today's show is a special event all about good news, because it turns out that good news is good for your health. From breakthroughs on the health front, to inspiring stories that will leave you in the best mood ever. Good news helps us cope with stress in our lives. Now, on today's show, how the ice bucket challenge, remember that swept the nation last year? You wanna come down here? You can sit down if you want. You get so excited you wanna stand, go ahead. So, you remember the ice bucket challenge? So, that challenge is fantastic, because it actually led to medical breakthroughs in ALS research, we're gonna talk about those. The new FDA-approved weight loss balloon, which you guys have not heard about, but we're gonna talk about today. Some are saying it's probably the best news out there for many dieters, and there's a brand new injection in a doctor's office that erases the dreaded double chin. So, let's get started by showing you how good news has a direct effect on your health. So, here's how scientists see what good news does. When you hear it and feel it, it actually lights up your brain in different areas. This activity actually does a lot of cool things, including releasing hormones throughout the body. Those hormones affect you in very profound ways. For example, they affect your heart, which pitter-patter, pitter-patter, beats quickly. Your eyes, the pupils dilate, because you become alert. You breathe deeper, bringing more oxygen in. All of that culminates with you just feeling more excited about everything. The more good news we share, it turns out, the better we are at nurturing relationships, having new experiences, helping others, and just being grateful for what we're going through in life. So, savoring your good news can reduce your stress and boost your mood for lots of good reasons, and today's show was inspired by just that, good news. So, who better to partner with than the website that curates good news? It is called Upworthy, and millions of you are obsessed with it, too. Take a look at why this literally viral medicine. So, you've heard bad news travels fast, but these days, good news is traveling even faster on the web. There's a growing movement that harnesses the power of social media for positivity, and it's positively viral. And websites like Upworthy are leading the way, turning feel-good news into clickable content. What did you think? What did you think when I told you I was gay? Thought you were kidding. Sharing thought-provoking, inspiring stories that are both entertaining and courageous. The single biggest prognosticator for a child's success in life is having access to one kind, caring adult, and I am going to be that kind, caring adult. As users post and repost positive pieces for others to experience. That's amazing. It's connectivity that's working big time. Upworthy has been named the fastest-growing media site of all time, with an average of over 20 million unique visitors each month, and more than 7.7 million fans on Facebook. So, it looks like meaningful content could be here to stay. And that also sounds like good news. I want to welcome with great joy Upworthy co-founder Peter Keckley, and deputy editor Erica Williams-Simon. Congratulations. I love, so does my wife, by the way, all the stuff you guys post out there. Why do you think, Peter, that people need a website that makes you feel good about what's going on around us? I mean, I think it's a great question. I think so many websites leave you feeling, you wake up, you read the news in the morning, you feel more confused, you feel like issues are complicated, you feel like the hardest problems in the world might have no solution, and anybody who's working on it might just be making it worse. We think that's just a disservice. We set out to focus on those big, hard society-level issues, but talk about them in a way that leaves you feeling engaged, energized, excited afterwards, so that you're more likely to take action, you're more likely to do something in the world to make a change. Erica, why do you think, more than ever, we need good news stories now? Well, you know what, I mean, since the beginning of time, humans have craved interaction, they've craved connection, and they've craved stories, and the idea of sharing stories is not new, but what's new right now is our ability to share them wider and farther than ever before, the scale, as a result of technology, but also, like Peter said, everything that's going on in the world, people are longing for stories that show them the best of who they are, who they can be, and what the world can be if they get involved and make a difference. But you use sort of the same kinds of language that we talk about when we try to give people information, it gets too much at times. You just wanna be a fuel guide, and that's what we try to do for you all the time, just try to push you in the right direction, and you guys are doing it with a nice, friendly little nudge. So let's get to the first story. It's a very good news story for a lot of reasons, and all of you, everyone, you can hear my voice probably, helped it happen. It's the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, and it led to an actual ALS breakthrough. Take a look at the challenge. It was featured on Upworthy and all over social media. This is the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. Ah! I am ready for the ice now. Ah! Oh my God! Whoa! I feel it. It's working! Whoa! Ah! Oh my goodness. I hope they like me. I have to point out that there are big chunks of ice in the buckets of water that were tossed in my head by my own staff, and I can see them smiling as they did it. As we talked about afterwards. Erica, why this Ice Bucket Challenge? Why was it such a phenomenon? I mean, this was a moment that people, it gave people the opportunity to do something. Even though it was a small action, pour water on your head. What does that actually do? But it, again, provided people an opportunity to share stories, to share a cause that is so important and so under-reported. You never heard about ALS. Most people hadn't before this challenge. And so what Upworthy tried to do with this story was not only share the videos of people pouring water on their head, but also share the stories of people with ALS who were so empowered by the challenge and the support. Well, it worked. And we all got involved to make it happen. And this viral trend paid off in a big way. Let's go through the numbers. A lot of good came out of the campaign. 115 million dollars raised by everybody who pitched in. So where did it go? 15 million dollars went to public and professional education. That's important, because we learn about what this is and what we can do about it. 23 million to patient and community services to help people in need. And 77 million dollars went to research. So, you want to know what that research showed? Because you already have advances. I need two volunteers. Who wants to help me? We've got two folks here. Were you guys part of the ALS challenge? Yes. Oh, good, all right. Come on up. What's your name? Roddy Smalling. Rhonda. Roddy. Did they throw ice on you or just cold water? I threw ice on my husband. Oh, you didn't actually get water tossed on you. No, I was the one that did it. Yeah, that looks pretty cold, doesn't it? Yeah. No. And how about you? Did you actually get the water tossed on you? I did. You did. Can thank you very much. Congratulations. We'll get you back later. Okay, here's the deal. We actually didn't know that much about what was actually causing ALS. So think about this little tube as the blueprint of your body. Sort of the genes of your body. So normally, when you have proteins wiggling their way around your genes, let's pretend that's what that is. Go ahead and take that. The ice bucket, this kind, this just represents normal proteins in your body. Pour it down there. What ends up happening is, elegantly and dangerously, it passes by the blueprint, doesn't damage it at all, looks just fine, and passes through the rest of your body. Everyone's happy. Save a little bit for yourself for later on. We'll be needing that. Here, you and I can hold onto this. All right, now, what ends up happening when you have ALS is instead of that water, the proteins, gently coming down through the body, go ahead and pour that in there. You still get this really goopy, junky stuff. And what they showed was that this goopy, junky stuff begins to clunk up your body, literally begins to overflow like that. And all these junky proteins mess up the blueprint of your body, so no longer does it work the way it's supposed to work. And what they're now beginning to figure out is how do they damage this blueprint? And when we figure that out, we'll actually be able to figure out ALS, this disease that is so deadly so quickly, we'll get ahead of. So, come on over here. Keep getting in the middle here, just in case you want to toss it on you. All right, on three, are you ready? How about a couple drops? A few drops? Yeah. All right, you do it. I don't want to be blamed. Go on, you do it. Drops. Really? One drop. One ice cube. Thank you. Oh, a little more than that. All right, all right. You're good sports for doing that. All in all, it was worth getting drenched for. Coming up, more medical news, the medical weight loss breakthrough. For anyone who can't seem to lose those final 20 to 30 pounds, you're going to want to see this. Stay here. Next, a new FDA approved procedure that can help you break through your weight loss plateau. And what it does is fill your stomach up like you've had a big Thanksgiving meal. We're going to show you how it works and if it's right for you. Fullness is epic and it's right away. Coming up next. Queen Latifah opens up. We rushed to the emergency room, you know, to see what was going on. An issue close to her heart. One in five people could develop this in America. That hit her close to home. All nuance. That's coming up tomorrow. Today's about good news and we are talking medical breakthroughs. Now, the FDA just approved a balloon that can be inserted into your stomach to help you lose 20 to 30 pounds. This device could be the good news you've been waiting for to help you break through your weight loss plateau. So take a look. The Federal Food and Drug Administration recently approved two intragastric balloons. And that's big news for those struggling to lose weight and want to avoid prescription drug therapies or invasive surgery. Made by different companies, both balloons are aimed at adults with body mass indexes of 30 to 40. Unable to lose weight through diet and exercise alone. In one study, participants lost an average of 22 pounds. That's 10% of their body weight after the balloon had been in place for six months. Participants with the balloon device also maintained an average 19 pounds of that weight loss three months after it was removed. Could these intragastric balloons be the good news breakthrough within nearly 80 million American adults battling obesity? Bariatric surgeon, Dr. Michael Snyder is at the forefront of this breakthrough and is one of the first doctors in the country to perform this procedure. So how do you think this is gonna revolutionize your field? How's it gonna help folks? How's it different from what we have currently available? Up till now, really, we've had two options. We've had diet, exercise, lifestyle changes, and bariatric surgery, bands, bypasses, sleeves. This is the perfect middle procedure. 40 million Americans have a BMI of 30 plus, so this is really what's for them. They need help, they need to get things started differently. What will happen when they're full? That's what this does. So Dr. Snyder recently placed a balloon in two patients. So I'd love to understand what made these two patients good candidates. What makes anybody a potential candidate? Well, first is that they were selected, they were safe medically, and also they really tried to make changes in their lifestyle without durable success. And their BMIs were 30 and 34, respectively. And BMI is on the scale of 30 to 40, which the balloon is for. Their overweight was about 30 and 45 pounds, respectively. Right, so not gargantuan over where they wanna be, but enough that they could make a difference, maybe. Right, enough that we know that it's hard for them to have good success without some help, and that's what this is. This is the perfect middle procedure. So walk us through an operation. You actually have the footage from one of the first procedures done in America. This is looking down the stomach. It's a retroflex or backwards look. This is a balloon in place before it's inflated, and I'll show you the stuff later. But what happens is a two-man procedure. One is holding the scope in the tube, and the other is inflating the balloon. It takes about 600 to 700 milliliters to fill the balloon. Takes about seven or eight minutes to actually fill it. So the whole procedure's about 20 minutes. And when it's done, the patient will have a grapefruit-sized balloon in their upper stomach. And the upper stomach is really where fullness is located. That's where your stomach senses stretch. All right, so let's show an animation so you're really crystal clear on what this involves. So let's say you put that tube down through someone's mouth and introduce it down the swallowing tube, the esophagus, down into the stomach. We just saw that footage. So once it's there, the balloon begins to get expanded over a few minutes with saline, a salt solution, and then it's left behind. And what it does is fill your stomach up like you've had a big Thanksgiving meal. And so because you're big in there, you don't wanna have a lot of other stuff. You feel satiety, you feel full, even though before this procedure you wouldn't have. After about six months, you go back in there, you take a catheter to pull the saline, that salt solution out, shrinks the balloon down, and out it comes through the mouth. So you brought a couple balloons for us to look at. I want you all to understand what this could entail since I know a lot of you are thinking about how this might be able to help you. It's an endoscopic procedure. So the first step is we put a scope down, look around your stomach, make sure it's appropriate and safe to place it. Then we put this catheter in, and it has the balloon on the tip and it's deflated. And it goes down and it's relatively easy to go in with a patient that's sedated. This is attached to an IV bag, a sterile solution, and it's basically just a matter of filling the syringe and injecting it, and eventually you end up with about a 600 to 700 cc, whatever you believe, balloon filled with a dye that is an indicator that if it were to rupture, which is quite rare, you would know. So a lot of women are probably wondering how to use that as a breast implant as well when you're done. I'm sure the company would love to sell you these as a breast implant. So six months in your stomach and it's reusable. Exactly. So why at six months? No, it's because we have to take it apart. We have to punch a hole in it. You don't want that as a breast implant. Why does it have to come out at six months? What's the reason for that? So the reason is that the whole art of this is not just having a balloon, because it's easy for me to put a balloon in. It takes 20 minutes for the procedure, but it's really how we reboot your hard drive. So six months of use of the balloon with me teaching you how to do diet and lifestyle and exercise management, then when it comes out to make sure that that has durable success. So you have the advantage of the balloon to make you full and for the things that we try to work now, whether it's passed, they didn't, but in the future to teach you how to then, once you lose the weight, how to maintain it. So how does it work? How quickly do you see benefits? Right away. I mean, you're full right away. The fullness is epic and it's right away. When you said Thanksgiving full, nothing better has been said about this. That's a turkey right there. Right, people wake up and they're like, I'm full. How much weight is rationally lost over those six months? So what happens is in the trial, we studied people that had the balloon and not and we compared them to each other and people lost an average of 38.4% of their excess body weight. That's the weight above what we consider normal or healthy, okay? And so in people that didn't have the balloon, they lost not much less. And the numbers it showed was 22 pounds versus seven pounds. They lost 22 pounds of weight in six months on average. On average, and it was maintained at 19.4 six months later after it was removed. So they didn't regain the weight. No. Because they had learned lifestyle lessons with the support of this. They had some support. I gotta say, can you get this paid for by insurance yet? Not yet. And you know that always insurance is a little behind. They know it's clinically safe. We've done over 220,000 applications worldwide of this particular balloon, but in the U.S. it's new. And obviously the government and the insurers want to make sure it's a reasonable option for their patients. Yes, I like this idea. I know it's brand new, but I like the concept that we can nudge people along the right direction. Yeah, I think it would be helpful. Congratulations. Thanks for having me. All right, how many of you complain about the double chin? It just won't ever go away? You see it in selfies all the time? Well, there's good news out there. A new shot to make it disappear without going under the knife when we come back. Woo! Next, ditch the double chin. Could a new injection be the solution to a sleeker profile? It melts it all away without going under the knife. Skin gets its elasticity back and reminds you of when you were younger. Get rid of the sag without the surgery. Coming up. Queen Latifah opens up. We rushed to the emergency room to see what was going on. An issue close to her heart. One in five people could develop this in America. That hit her close to home. All Nuaz. That's coming up tomorrow. I have some good news you can use if you don't like your double chin. Most of us have one. I call it my selfie neck. Here I am, proudly displaying it. The FDA just approved a brand new drug that busts fat cells from your neck and it melts it all away without going under the knife. Joining me now is plastic surgeon, Dr. Yael Halas. This actually sounds too good to be true. What is this new drug? I mean, it challenges my brain to think we can actually get rid of this neck that we've been bothered by for so many years. Yeah, and all without surgery. And so basically what it is is deoxycholic acid, which as you know is a bile acid. Exactly what we have naturally in our gallbladder to dissolve our fat. And what we do is we're synthetically producing this in the laboratory and injecting it directly into the fat pad to eliminate the fat cells and doing it without surgery, just like liposuction. So you get the balloon for your stomach and the needle in your chin. Yes, absolutely. We take care of all your problems. So let me show everyone what Dr. Halas is talking about. So let's say this mannequin is you and it has to be done the right way. So there's a fat pad, it's right there, but it's specifically located in between the two jaw bones. If you go underneath there, there's some very important nerves that you don't wanna hit. So there's highlighted areas where you'd actually create a little template. All these little black marks will be the places you might be able to safely inject without hurting nerves and glands. The needle goes fairly deep. Skin's up there, down to this deep level of fat. And when it's injected, this material actually kills the fat cells. It makes them literally burst. So they're destroyed and they no longer can accumulate more fat. Now, that's different than when you lose weight. When you lose weight, the fat cells shrink. They get smaller, but they don't disappear. But when you make those fat cells die, they don't come back. They can't store fat anymore. And when you get rid of that fat, the skin gets its elasticity back and you get back to a shape that reminds you of when you were younger. So this shot is supposed to help this chin go from what many of us experience, which looks like this, to somebody just a few months later like that. I think it's a pretty big difference. Only if it can be done non-invasively. Is it worth getting this? And that's why I'm curious about it. How many treatments do you need to get a response like that? So the FDA studies showed six treatments done one month apart. And the only thing is you needed about 50 injections. They're tiny little injections to get that result. We're seeing really great results though with just two to four treatments. So a lot of patients are really getting great results easily. And how much does it cost? It's about $1,600 per treatment. So it's still expensive. It's a bit expensive. Come on over here. Dr. Hollis brought us a patient. Her name is Amy. And she has an interest in this area. Thank you. Thank you for joining us, Amy. Thank you. So why do you want to get this procedure done? Over the past few years, I've lost some weight, about 40 pounds. And this is just one area I've not been able to lose weight from. It always seems to be the same. I have that double chin selfie. I live in scarves. So summer with a scarf on can get a little hot. It's not just a fashion statement. No, no, not at all. So thank you for agreeing. I know we numbed you up a little bit before. You did, yes. Put your head back, I'll help you out. Okay. And you can see that we've actually marked the spaces where the needle's gonna be entering. I'll hold your hands. Slash hold you down. No. The doctor will actually show us how this works. Yeah, so we have her nice and numb already. And we marked the spaces, so we know that we're going to be very safe where we're injecting. And we're really focusing right here into the fat pen. We're just gonna do a couple of injections. And it's gonna be right safely into the grid. You're all right? Yep. Okay, good. I wanna ask you questions because you can't move your mouth, and I apologize for that. Normally I wanna know if it hurts or not, but you can't answer me. So I'll guess. As you do this, is there any way of knowing how much to put in each area? So yeah, from the studies we know very clearly that we're just doing a very precise amount. Though we can contour it, so we know, so for everybody we can get a nice precise result. The company has been really good about, and it's also very important, about training the doctor specifically. So this is something you really wanna go to the website. It's not, you just don't wanna go to just any doctor. You wanna go to a doctor that's been trained, and just go to the MyChiBella.com website to make sure that you're getting a doctor that's been specifically trained. And how long does it last for? As long as you maintain your weight, just as you were explaining before. These fat cells are destroyed, so you're gonna have this result forever. As long as you maintain a good, healthy weight. When, if you do gain the weight, the weight is gonna go elsewhere because these fat cells are gone. All right. Let me lift you up now a little bit. Quite a few of those, just a few seconds. Did it hurt? Not at all, I couldn't feel it at all. And I'm sorry, how many months later do you actually visibly see the change in the double chin? So we're gonna bring her back. We wanna see the patients back once a month. And from about each injection, she's gonna see about a 20% improvement, so. You want some good news? I'd love great news. Dr. Ailes agreed to do the rest of your treatments for free. Woo! She's very kind. I do appreciate it. Amy, congratulations. Good luck. Thank you. Wonderful story, Dr. Ailes. Up next, some good news from my audience. You don't wanna miss this. Later, a pay it forward story that became contagious. All started with one customer, one dollar and one Post-it note. A simple gesture that became a big slice. We told him to keep the change, it was already paid for. Of kindness, coming up. All new Oz. It was pretty scary at the time. Queen Latifah opens up about the number one killer of women. We rushed to the emergency room, you know, to see what was going on. I remember you called me once and I panicked. An issue close to her heart. One in five people could develop this in America. That hit her close to home. I never thought it could happen to me. A wake-up call for women everywhere. All new Oz. That's coming up tomorrow. Welcome back to our Good News Hour. Now, we're about to give a family a really big bit of good news, but come along with me. And go do it. We've all experienced that amazing feeling of getting good news. A big promotion, a clean bill of health. Now, earlier in the show, we revealed what happens when you get good news. Remember all those good things that happened to your body? All those good hormones that changed? So in today's conversation, I wanted to hear about your good news. So who's got some good news recently? How are you? I'm good. What's the news? I beat breast cancer. You did? Congratulations. Who else has got good news? Are you Caitlin? I am. What's your good news? Actually, I'm not gonna tell you that. What do you do for a living? I'm a teacher in Newark, New Jersey. Good for you. And who are you here with? I'm here with my whole family. I have my fiance, Eric, my dad, Ray, my mother-in-law, Lana, my father-in-law, Roman. You got all their names, too. My grandma, Betty, my mom, Carolyn, and my stepdad, Mark. Was it hard to get you all here together? No, no, no. You came to watch her, huh? All right, come on. If you're a teacher, I want you to help me a little bit. So we're gonna pay. You know how they have word of the day and letter of the day? I do, I play words with friends. You play words with friends? Yeah. Okay, so we're gonna use the letter S, which I happen to love. So S, it can start with surprise, right? Lots of surprises in the word S. They can be a good news. S is also the first word in science. Do you like science? I do, I teach it. You do? I do. What grade do you teach? Second grade. Second grade, oh, you're so cute. Sometimes. When they get older, they can not be so cute. Yeah, it's fine now. All right, now, we need a science word of the day. Okay. I'm gonna show you the science word of the day. You ready? What is that? Is that a sonogram? That is a sonogram. And who's that in there? That's my sonogram. We're having a baby. They're having a child. Yeah, as they all celebrate. The men are more emotional than the women in this thing. Eric, how are you? I'm good. Let me just check your pulse for a second. Let me check, hold that for a second. You're checking the pulses here. So the heartbeat's fast. Is it going yet? Okay, and your pupils are dilated up, Mom. Are you excited? I'm excited, I'm nervous, excited, I'm shocked. I can hear your breath going back, yep. She's breathing fast, too. Listen, I want you all to be happy. This is a perfect example of why good news gets folks going. So, to help you get started, I got something for you. I got a little diaper cake for you. How cute is that? This may come in handy. Yeah, you'll need many more than that, but it's a good start. Look how cute. Congratulations. Are you in shell shock still? Yeah, this is great. I love this. It's a great feeling. And, yeah, I'm definitely shocked. It'll wear off in a few minutes, and it won't come back again. All right, the simple acts of kindness can change the world, and they really can. Up next, see how one pizzeria is paying it forward with a simple idea that has seized the imagination of an entire city. Next, how a single Post-it note could change a life and deliver a slice of humanity. And coming up later, a video that will have you seeing things not as they are, but as they truly should be. These videos can actually change lives. Coming up. Whoever said a doctor's visit isn't fun has obviously never been to the Dr. Oz show. Is that right? Make your appointment today. Go to droz.com slash tickets, and sign up for free tickets. Today is all about good news, and this inspiring story that I'm about to share all started with one customer, one dollar, and one Post-it note. Watch how one kind gesture became a movement. I've been homeless on and off for the past five years, but at least I know I can look forward to 11 o'clock when I know I can get some fresh hot pizza. Now we've given away almost 10,000 slices of pizza. I feel, you know, welcome. I feel like, you know, like I almost bought the slice, but I know I didn't. We don't always have a chance to come in and get fresh hot food whenever we can, and for people to donate money, you know, towards slices of pizza for us, like, really made a change in Philadelphia. Nathan Whatman is here today. What gave you the crazy idea of having customers paid forward by paying a buck ahead of time for pizza? Yeah, sure, so I originally started Roses to sell pizza by the slice for a dollar. They're modeled on the concept in New York, and I'd read ahead, and I had learned that they naturally serve homeless people because it's affordable food, so I knew that we'd be seeing a lot of homeless because they couldn't afford our product, but sometimes they'd come in short, right? So one day, a customer learned this and came in, and he offered to pre-purchase a slice for the next person to come in short. He referenced a tradition in Italy where customers can pre-purchase cups of coffee for people in need, and the cafe will put an empty cup on a shelf behind the register to signify to everyone that there's something outstanding. So he suggested using paper plates. They were a little too big, so I ran out, got Post-it notes, and put one up on a wall behind the register. After a couple days, we had accumulated about three pizzas worth of free slices to give away, and a homeless person walked in, only had a couple cents in his cup, but we told him to keep the change. It was already paid for, and through word of mouth and social media, it's just kind of. I'd love to know what it's like for the customers. Yeah. How has it changed how they feel about themselves? Yeah, so when you go to a restaurant, you're normally there to enjoy the food, right, with you and your friends, and there aren't a lot of restaurants with a social mission behind them. You know, customers are excited to participate in our system. We have homeless people come in regularly whenever they're hungry to redeem the slices, so they get a really firsthand view of the difference and the improvement that they're making in the community, and it's just awesome to see those relationships build. So I don't know if it's true or not, but I heard there's one particular individual that has become pretty prominent. He was homeless, and he sort of double-paid it for it. Yeah, yeah, so it's actually not uncommon now to see a lot of people come back, and they're dressed up, button-downs, jeans. You know, they're working, and we kind of recognize them because they used to come in and get slices off the wall, and when you're homeless, you can't take care of yourself to the same degree when you're working. So it's just awesome to see a lot of people come back pretty regularly, and they've improved their lives. They've gotten free pizza. They've been able to reinvest money into other areas of their lives, get a place, get a job, and be up and running and great members of society, and, you know, it's one of the most rewarding parts of Rose's. You pointed out that you're a bit unique in that you sell things that are only $1, like the pizza. Can other businesses replicate what Rose has been able to accomplish? Oh, yeah, absolutely, and I encourage them, right? So it's easy, right? If you sell an affordable product that can help someone in need, you can quickly create a limited menu, right, of affordable items that you're already paying customers can buy, which increases sales, and then if you invite homeless people in to redeem them and to use them, then you're immediately making a positive difference in your community. It's really awesome, it's a ton of fun, and I think a ton of businesses could replicate this. Yeah, it's good business, but as you mentioned, it's good for the people, everyone involved. You know what I love about giving? It's what, you know, because you grow when you give. People who give actually live longer than people who get what they gave them, which is why in many, like Habitat for Humanity, you all know that organization? When I first met the owner of that place many, many years ago, he said, he always put a piggy bank, it looked like a house, but a piggy bank, in the homes of people who are getting the homes, and I said, why would you do that? Because these people have no money, that's why they're taking the house, and he said, because they deserve the right to give. They deserve the ability, when they're doing a little better, to contribute. Even if it's a quarter a month, that piggy bank's totally built, and that piggy bank's for the next person's house. So I love this idea. So I've encouraged everyone to write a message on a little sticky note, just like you would have at Roses, that sort of tells people who are homeless or someone that you don't know who might benefit to come on in. So I've gotten a couple of those here. My note, by the way, says you are loved, which is, I think, what people need to hear. When we do the free clinics, all they have to hear is that, and the stigma, the shame that goes along with not having insurance or being homeless goes away. So I wanna see what you guys, hold them up, let me see. Let me see what we got. Oh, they haven't written them yet. All right, I'll wait, I'll wait. Now take your time, don't mind me. Who wants to tell me what they're gonna write? Hmm, yes, go on up, ma'am. Yell it out, I'll repeat it, we'll pass that up to her. Stay strong. Of course, just stay strong. You are blessed. All right, so. Stay happy. You're important. So, there are 173 people in this audience, and each one of you will be giving a slice of pizza away at Rosas. So I thank you all for being part of this, and we will post every one of those tickets up there. Congratulations. Up next, meet the man whose brilliant idea is revolutionizing how schools can encourage reading and fitness at the same time. Stay here. Later, what does love look like? A video that surprised even me. Queen Latifah opens up. We rushed to the emergency room, you know, to see what was going on. An issue close to her heart. One in five people could develop this in America. That hit her close to home. All nuance. That's coming up tomorrow. Joining forces with the website Upworthy to bring you good news. Upworthy.com shared an inspiring story about a school counselor who set out to change the way kids thought about reading and exercise. Now, his idea sparked schools across the country to get minds and bodies working in an entirely new way. At Clemmons Elementary, the students are really into reading. Maybe because they are doing it with something every kid loves. Riding a bike. I think it's fun that you can read while at the same time you're exercising. Scott Ertle founded Read&Ride because he knew it was hard for kids to sit still for long periods of time. As a school counselor, you know, I wanted to personally be able to make a difference with the students at my school who are struggling to read. So teachers are always looking for fun ways to give kids either more energy or to release some of the energy that they have that's pent up. So Scott founded a way for kids to cycle their energy into reading. And I was trying to think, okay, put myself in their position. Well, when do I like to read? And if I'm riding an exercise bike, I would actually read a book. And I thought, if it works for me, maybe this would help kids have a positive experience with reading. The kids loved it immediately. I really wish I could have a bike at my house so I could read and ride at the same time. It's not only good for reading, it's great for health. I have diabetes. I have type one and I've had it for about seven months and my blood sugar's down low and regulated. As a teacher, I've seen reluctant students who aren't really into reading really take to this. Those kids who are no longer having to focus so much energy on trying to stay still, they're able to focus on what's really going on in the text. All the exercise bikes used for the Read&Ride program are donated from members of the community. It is so exciting to see the Read&Ride program grow and grow and grow. Now we're in over 28 states and over 50 schools. It's awesome. When you tell kids to sit still and be quiet all day long, it kind of beats them up. It takes the energy right out of them. Whereas if you have an appropriate way to help them release that energy, you've made a connection that makes a huge difference. We love Read&Ride! So I'm racing Scott Erdl, founder of the Read&Ride program. Tell us how this program has improved the lives of kids. Children are able to be able to get some movement during the day when they need to so they can learn more. Whether they have extra energy and they need to burn off some of that extra energy or they're kind of running slow and tired or lethargic or just bored during the day to help them pep up their steps so they can learn more. So when you first launched this program, did you get resistance from the kids, their parents, the teachers? The kids were excited from the very get-go. The teachers are exposed to new programs all the time and I wanted to make sure that they didn't have anything to be afraid of, so we kind of had to create rules as we went along to make it a safe space for kids to be able to have fun while they learn. Come on over here. I want to talk about where this program is going in the future. Bikes are one way of doing it, but you made a very good point. You can take kids who don't want to stay awake and wake them up. You can take kids who have too much energy, frenetic energy, and calm them down. So you've got a bunch of other things you could do besides bikes. Absolutely. A lot of teachers throughout the country, or actually throughout the world, are using yoga balls for kids to be able to sit at their desk to get rid of some of that extra movement. There's also wiggle seats and these little bands that go on the desk. These are my favorite. You know what these are for, anybody? You know how kids are always wiggling their feet and moving around? You could put this in the kitchen table probably and get some mileage out of them. That's right. A lot of homeschool moms use them at home when the kids are doing their work or when they're doing their homework. They're able to bounce their feet and stretch their legs to work out those wiggles. You know, it quiets the home down a little bit. Absolutely. I want you to keep growing your program. I'm very proud of what you've done. So years ago, we started this program called Health Corps. So it's all a program that helps kids learn how to eat right and stay fit. It's really about mental resilience. That's what all this is about. You realize that if you can take care of what's going on inside your body, you can change the world outside of it. So on behalf of the Health Corps organization, there's an advisory committee, and one of those members is called Merrill Richmond, and he works with CORE Health and Fitness, and they are donating bikes to your program. Wow! Wow, great! I hope help. And in addition, Health Corps is coming into your community, a two-day cutting-edge program on nutrition, exercise, mental strength for all participating schools, and I want them to help you out in any way they can. So God bless you for what you do. Congratulations, Scott. Thank you. Thank you very much. Now, next, the video launch of Outboarding.com that now has over 130 million views worldwide. See why. The search is on. We're looking for a nurse to join our core team of experts to provide wisdom, expert commentary, and advice. If you'd like to nominate yourself or a nurse who made a difference in your life, go to DrOz.com and click on hashtag nurse search. My name is Angela, and I'm a neonatal ICU nurse, and I'm nominating Anna Wilson from California. She's a cardiac nurse practitioner and instructor at Cal State San Bernardino. I truly look up to her, and she makes me want to be a better nurse every day. I've got one more video that I've been waiting to share with you. Tomorrow, you'll be talking about the video called Love Has No Labels. Now, I am back with Erica and Peter from Upworthy. Why do you think Love Has No Labels has become so popular? I mean, it was such a fantastic video. It was about disability, race, gender, identity, bias, but at the core, it was about love. It was about an emotion that so many of us share and experience, and it was such a relatable, empathetic way to communicate what love really does look like. No labels. Yeah, I love the surprising way they developed it, because you can't have labels when you actually look inside of each of us. Peter, throughout the show, we've talked about so many things Upworthy has done, all the ways you can feel good. Why are you so proud of the whole good news movement? I mean, it's really humbling to see the change it can affect in so many people's lives. I think we are happy every time that we get 100 people to watch a great video, much less a million or 10 million or 100 million people, but what really matters to us and what feels good about the experience of sharing these videos with people are the letters that we get back. So we showed this amazing video that was talking about breaking down boundaries and coming out of the closet, whatever closet you're in, and we got an email that night saying, if I hadn't seen that video last night, it would have been too late. So I think these videos can actually change lives. Showing good news can actually change the world. Can we post that video, take a look at it? Definitely. All right, so you can find that on DrRoz.com. In fact, a lot of the videos, all the Upworthy videos you showed today, the entire clip's gonna all be on DrRoz.com. I wanna thank you guys very much. Thank you for having us. You're wonderful partners. I wish you the best. Thank you so much. I hope to see a lot more of you. Thank you. And remember, healthy and happy starts at home. I'll see you next time. Thank you.