Vault: Dr. Oz Interview

Summary

The Bert Show – Vault: Dr. Oz Interview

Date: June 25, 2026
Main Guests: Dr. Mehmet Oz (Guest), The Bert Show Hosts & Listeners

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Episode Overview

In this engaging vault episode, The Bert Show welcomes Dr. Mehmet Oz for a candid and wide-ranging conversation. The show’s iconic blend of authenticity and humor shines as Dr. Oz tackles listener questions about health myths, diet, sleep, “urine therapy,” and more. The conversation keeps health advice practical, debunks common misconceptions, and mixes in memorable, lighthearted moments between The Bert Show hosts and Dr. Oz.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Who Does Dr. Oz Call When He Feels Sick?

• (00:55)
  • Host: “Who do you call when you’re sick?”
  • Dr. Oz: “My wife, like everybody else does. I don’t feel good. Take care of me. Feed me.”
  • Sets a playful, relatable tone right from the start.

2. Soft Drinks & Hidden Health Risks

• (01:18–02:52)
  • Listener (Tracy): Her husband drinks a 2-liter bottle of Dr. Pepper daily. He’s thin and claims it’s harmless since he doesn’t gain weight.
  • Dr. Oz:
    • “You are right. Smack him upside his head until he listens to this.” (01:44)
    • If picking one national dietary change, he’d banish soft drinks as a daily habit, likening them to occasional beers.
    • “It actually seeps some of the calcium out of your bones so it can predispose you to osteoporosis.”
    • Points out that “being thin and being healthy are not the same,” emphasizing quality of diet over mere weight.
    • Warns soft drinks stress the liver, provide empty calories, and fail to provide vital nutrients.
    • Notable quote:

      “Food is sacred…when you’re drinking a soft drink which doesn’t grow on the ground, isn’t in any way natural, it’s an away game for your body.” (02:20)

3. Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS) Explained

• (03:08–04:51)
  • Listener (Jennifer): Six years of infertility due to PCOS, now six months pregnant with twins. Is it true pregnancy or weight loss “resets” PCOS?
  • Dr. Oz:
    • Explains PCOS is the leading cause of infertility among young women, likens it to a “type of diabetes.”
    • “Women that have this problem are shaped more like bricks than hourglasses…because the hormones aren’t quite set.” (03:37)
    • Weight loss and dietary changes can “reset your hormones” and restore fertility.
    • Encourages dietary vigilance even after pregnancy for ongoing health.

4. “Urine Therapy”: Myth-Busting and Medical Facts

• (04:55–06:12)
  • Producer: “My friend is obsessed with urine therapy—drinking your own urine. Is there anything about it?”
  • Dr. Oz:
    • Notes he knows someone who does it and “they’re still alive,” but doesn’t recommend it.
    • Explains urine is sterile, can clean wounds in emergencies, and can be drunk (better than salt water) only if you’re desperate.
    • “But after a while, that toxicity will build up in you.”
    • “There are probably worse things you could do…but there’s no proven health benefit.” (05:55)
    • Memorable quip: “Only benefit about urine is free.”

5. Insomnia, Sleep Hygiene & Pills

• (06:12–08:58)
  • Host: Admits to taking Lunesta for six years due to early-morning show schedule; asks for advice on getting off the drug and sleeping better.
  • Dr. Oz:
    • Acknowledges the challenge of abnormal schedules and the body’s natural circadian rhythms.
    • Warns against long-term (over 90 days) use of sleeping pills for the average person, citing risks:
      • Builds resistance
      • Disrupts dream cycles
      • Masks underlying life or health issues
    • Advocates for “seven and a half hours sleep a day” and seeking a sleep expert if that’s impossible.
    • “If I had to pick one thing for folks to focus on this coming year—it’s try to get seven and a half hours sleep a day.” (07:41)
    • Shares his own disciplined nightly routine:
      • “I become a hermit at night. I won’t go out towards a certain hour. People think I’m sociopathic, but it’s not.” (07:51)
    • Notable advice:
      • “It’s not about time management. It’s about chi management. It’s about energy management.” (08:30)

6. The Dr. Oz Touch: Respect for Guests & Oprah’s Advice

• (09:07–09:49)
  • Co-host: Praises Dr. Oz’s respectful treatment of every guest.
  • Dr. Oz:
    • Credits his mother and Oprah.
    • “Oprah taught me one thing for sure: Let people be seen for who they really are.”
    • Encourages every guest to realize: “There are millions of people out there watching you who are gonna say, you know what? I see myself in her and I can fix myself. If she can fix herself.” (09:42)

7. Memorable, Light Moments

• (09:49–10:03)
  • Host: Jokes, “Would it be weird if I told you I was starting to get a guy crush on you?”
  • Dr. Oz: “Oh, I like it. Come visit.” (09:52)
  • Co-hosts riff on the idea of going to Dr. Oz’s show for a live role model segment, joking about live state exams.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Dr. Oz on Soft Drinks:

  “If I had to pick one thing to change in America in terms of our dietary habits, it’s soft drinks.” (01:44)

• Dr. Oz on Diet & Health:

  “Being thin and being healthy are not the same. I would rather be heavy and in good shape than thin and in bad shape.” (01:55)

• Dr. Oz on PCOS:

  “The remarkable thing about PCOS is that through aggressive dietary treatment you can actually lose enough weight that you reset your hormones.” (03:35)

• Dr. Oz on Sleep:

  “It’s not about time management. It’s about chi management. It’s about energy management.” (08:30)

• Dr. Oz on Respect:

  “Oprah taught me one thing for sure. Let people be seen for who they really are.” (09:40)

• Light moment:

  Host: “Would it be weird if I told you that I was starting to get a guy crush on you?”
  Dr. Oz: “Oh, I like it. Come up. Come visit.” (09:49–09:52)

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Important Timestamps

• 00:45: Dr. Oz joins the show
• 01:18: Soft drinks and hidden health issues
• 03:08: PCOS and infertility discussion
• 04:55: Urine therapy myth-busting
• 06:12: Sleep issues and the risks of long-term sleeping pill use
• 08:30: Time management vs. energy management
• 09:07: Dr. Oz on guest respect and Oprah’s influence
• 09:49: Playful “guy crush” banter

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Tone & Style

Light, witty, and conversational—the hosts bring humor and authenticity, putting Dr. Oz at ease and encouraging frank, practical answers. Dr. Oz offers science-backed advice with warm, motivational undertones.
This episode combines useful health education with the show’s trademark, genuinely funny and personable energy.

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Recommended Listening:
If you want a fun but genuinely informative take on popular health questions—with science, empathy, and laughs—this episode is a vault classic.

Transcript

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Listen, it's the vert show. Good morning, Dr. Oz.

[Dr. Oz]

Good morning. How are you?

[Host]

Great. How are you this morning? I imagine you always feel good.

[Caller Jennifer]

I do.

[Dr. Oz]

I get up in the morning and I just can't wait to get going. My mom used to get so frustrated by that when I was a kid.

[Host]

Like, who do you call when you're sick?

[Dr. Oz]

My wife, like everybody else does. I don't feel good. Take care of me. Feed me.

[Host]

We've got a whole bunch of Burch show listeners that want to talk to you. But our producer Tracy stepped in and she's got a real concern about her husband.

[Dr. Oz]

All right.

[Caller Tracy]

And I'm hoping you can tell me I'm right so that he starts listening to me. But my husband drinks a lot of soft drinks. We're talking. He goes through a 2 liter bottle of Dr. Pepper every single day. Now, he's a thin guy, so he says, well, I'm not, you know, it's not affecting my weight. And I don't smoke and I don't drink. It's my only vice. But I'm completely convinced. It's gotta be doing serious harm to be going through a 2 liter bottle a day for years without question.

[Dr. Oz]

You are right. Smack him upside his head until he listens to this. It's important that everyone understand that if I had to pick one thing to change in America in terms of our dietary habits, it's soft drinks. Really, I don't have any problem with having a soft drink once in a while. That's fine. It's just like having a beer. It's a reasonable thing to do. But two liters every is not wise. Here's why. First of all, it actually seeps some of the calcium out of your bones so it can predispose you to osteoporosis. But the other thing is, being thin and being healthy are not the same. I would rather be heavy and in good shape than thin and in bad shape. And so if you're drinking material that has empty calories in it, you're not giving your body the critical nutrients it needs to thrive. For example, if you don't have the healthy omega 3 fats in your diet, you're not going to be as smart as you normally would be. If you don't have the right precursors for some of the key hormones in the body, you'll be more predisposed to certain cancers and maybe even heart disease. So there's a lot of reasons why food is sacred. And when you're drinking, a soft drink which doesn't grow on the ground isn't in any way natural. It's an away game for your body. It puts your liver under a lot of stress because it has to continually cope with things that are coming from outside of you.

[Caller Tracy]

Thank you.

[Host]

This is going to be your new ringtone, isn't it?

[Co-host/Producer]

Correct.

[Caller Tracy]

I'm going to pull the audio of this and play it for him as soon as I get home.

[Host]

Here is Jennifer. Jennifer, good morning. You are on with Dr. Ross.

[Dr. Oz]

Are you very well? Jennifer, what's your question?

[Caller Jennifer]

I had a very difficult time getting pregnant. My husband and I tried for six years, mainly due to the fact that I had pcos. And I finally am currently six months pregnant with twin girls. And I was just curious. I heard so many rumors that after you have the babies and you've had pcos, your body kind of resets itself and the PCOS kind of goes away. And you get, like a second chance to make everything right, because the pcos, I mean, inhibits everything that I that I did. I couldn't lose weight, I couldn't get pregnant. Everything was out of whack.

[Dr. Oz]

Let me explain, everybody. PCOS means polycystic ovarian disease. It might seem like this weird, rare problem, but it's not. Probably the number one reason that young women can't get pregnant in America is because of this. And think of it as a is a type of diabetes. It's not diabetes, but it sort of works the same way. It's a problem in the way you metabolize certain hormones that leads you to make little cysts in your ovaries. The women that have this problem are shaped more like bricks than hourglasses. Often their waistlines aren't so well defined. Again, because the hormones aren't quite set. The Remarkable thing about PCOS is that through aggressive dietary treatment, which I suspect you're on, you can actually lose enough weight that you reset your hormones. And by doing that, all of a sudden you become fertile again because now you're back where you need to be. And so you're absolutely right that if you're able to get the weight off and keep it off. And by the way, in order to get pregnant, you have to do that. If you just keep doing the right things and eating the right things, not the two liter bottle of soda that we were talking about earlier, that you'll be able to stay full. And congratulations, by the way, on the pregnancy.

[Co-host/Producer]

Absolutely.

[Host]

Dr. Oz is on 11 Alive at 3 o' clock and MyAtl TV at 6.

[Co-host/Producer]

Dr. Oz, I have a question. My friend is obsessed with this concept of urine therapy. Is there anything about drinking your own urine?

[Dr. Oz]

You know, I have a good friend who does that all the time. They're still alive. But I don't understand why you want to do that. Urine is a waste product, obviously. And you're getting rid of urea, which is a material that is a breakdown product of proteins. That stated in fairness, urine is sterile. Right. So you can't put it on wounds. And if you're out in the outback and you get wounded, it is a thing that I can recommend folks try just to keep the wounds clean. You could drink your urine if you have to. It's better than salt water, but you don't want to drink much of it and after a while that toxic it will build up in you. So I don't think there's a huge health benefit of doing it. That stated, there are probably worse things you could do for yourself than drinking urine. Getting back to that 2 liter bottle

[Host]

again, the only way I'm doing that is if I'm in the middle of nowhere and there's zero water around anywhere.

[Co-host/Producer]

But there's this theory that like supermodels are doing it and all these different people are doing it. So I was wondering if there was really any benefits to it.

[Dr. Oz]

Again, as often the case with these types of fads, there's a theoretical reason why it makes sense, but it is impossible. As a doctor, I'll say this to prove that it actually has a material. There are lots of better things you can do. The only benefit about urine is free.

[Host]

Hey, Dr. Oz, we know you don't have too much time, but I know much like myself, like 50% of our listeners, I think statistics show, have problems sleeping. I'm on lunesta And I've been on this drug now for six years. What can I do to get off of this and get decent sleep?

[Dr. Oz]

Well, you're in a tough spot because you have to get up early in the morning. What time do you awaken? Usually?

[Host]

3:15.

[Dr. Oz]

Yeah, so it's just tough for any human being to be on a shift of that nature. The problem of course is that your circadian rhythms push your steroid levels, your hormone levels to their lowest at around 4, 4:30 in the morning. So it's hard to get up when your body's saying please don't. That stated, being on a sleeping pill for the average American more than 90 days, I don't think is a smart thing to do. With rare exceptions. Now there's some people going to need pills for their whole life, but for the vast majority of folks, your inability to sleep is a wake up call about other things that are going on in your life. And it means you've got to restructure your life in a way that allows this very natural seeming thing like sleep to occur. Because without that you will eventually oftentimes build up resistance to sleeping medications. Plus they hinder your ability to dream normally. And all these are important factors in how you process information, lay down hard, code, things like that. If I had to pick one thing for folks to focus on this coming year is try to get seven and a half hours sleep a day. And if you can't get it, you got to see somebody like a sleep expert who can figure out why not. Sometimes there's not medical stuff, right? Your sleep apnea or restless leg syndrome, sometimes you got aches and pains that keep you up. But oftentimes it's just fundamental sleep hygiene like figuring out how to reset your circadian rhythm in your case so you can actually get to bed at a time that allows you to get the sleep you need.

[Host]

Who has time for seven and a half hours of sleep in this day and age?

[Dr. Oz]

You know, I tell you, as crazy as it sounds, as many things as I'm busy doing, I do it every night and I work hard at it. I mean, I fight for it. I become a hermit at night. I won't go out towards a certain hour. People think I'm a sociopathic, but it's not. I just don't. I get up around 5:30 today I'm in the hospital. So you know, I come to the, you know, I see my patients, but normally I go to the studio at that hour because we start to go over scripts and stuff and I don't want to get up and not feel completely alert. Otherwise, when I'm doing an interview like this, I start fumbling my words. I don't look alert. And, you know, when 10 million people are watching you, they can tell when you're tired.

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[Host]

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[Co-host/Producer]

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[Host]

I think I feel lazy. If I got seven and a half hours of sleep, I think I'd feel so guilty that I'd be lazy.

[Co-host/Producer]

You'd probably feel better all day and be more productive all day, though.

[Dr. Oz]

That's it. You know, it's not about time management. It's about chi management. It's about energy management. You have a certain number of quality. You guys do it right now, right? You're on the air, and for the numerous hours you're on there, you guys have a ton of energy. And then when you and chi too, you're giving out energy to people who are listening to you. And then hopefully later in the day, you have some downtime. So you may be awake for 20 hours, but you're not going full speed for 20 hours. What we need to focus on is going full speed for 18 hours or 17 hours. So we get the seven hours that we need of sleep.

[Host]

Again, Dr. Oz is on 11 alive at 3 o' clock, and MyATL TV, 6 o'. Clock. Dr. Oz, I mean, we could have you on for four hours. The phone lines are lit.

[Co-host/Producer]

Absolutely. I just want to say I love your show and I love the way that you handle every single person like they are the most important person in front of you at that moment. You just. You treat everyone with the same respect that you treat everyone else. And I think that's the key to your show.

[Dr. Oz]

Well, you're very kind. I was taught that by my mom, and I'll never give that. But I tell you, it is such a blessing to be able to spend time with folks on the stage and have private conversations with them where they're willing to open up and serve as role models. And I talk to people backstage before we go out. Every time I say, listen, I never want you to be embarrassed. Oprah taught me one thing for sure. Let people be seen for who they really are. And all I want you to do is recognize that there are millions of people out there watching you who are gonna say, you know what? I see myself in her and I can fix myself. If she can fix herself.

[Host]

Would it be weird if I told you that I was starting to get a guy crush on you?

[Dr. Oz]

Oh, I like it. Come up. Come visit.

[Host]

Okay. We'll have lunch.

[Co-host/Producer]

He's done live state exams on his show. So you never know what's gonna happen if you go and visit Dr. Oz.

[Host]

If you're looking for a live role model on that episode, I can find somebody. But that's not gonna be me for it.

[Dr. Oz]

All right, guys, take care.

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[Host]

What a nice dude, huh?

[Co-host/Producer]

I love him. I love him.

[Host]

11 alive, 3 o' clock and my ATL TV 6 o' clock at night. Sanjay, you better watch it, man, if you're not good to me. He's coming off the bench and he will soon be my best friend.

[Co-host/Producer]

Well, Sanjay's a little freaked out by you. And soon Dr. Oz will die. I mean, no, I don't blame Sanjay either.

[Host]

I'm just saying. But there's always somebody on the bench eager to get into the game.

[Co-host/Producer]

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[Host]

And Dr. Oz is waiting.

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[Host]

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