Dr. Oz And Mr. Hyde: What Medicine Should Learn From Mehmet

Dr. Oz explains what those shifting hormones do in this short clip. I found it especially interesting that he calls progesterone “The Valium of the brain.” He says it's the drop in progesterone levels that causes menopausalIn the current issue of The New Yorker, Michael Specter, journalism's great chronicler of how we know what we know, profiles Mehmet Oz, the surgeon and TV star who Oprah herself sainted as “America's doctor.” (Go read it now, then come back.) In theDr.

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