time now for sunday housecall. >> and i'm grg. joining us is dr. marc siegel. associate frofessor of medicine at nyu, and author of "the inner pulse." >> and dr. samadi. chief of robotic surgery. good morning to both of you. >> good morning. >> let's start with this. there's underaged drinking, a growing problem in the u.s., and new studies shows the long term effects are more dangerous than once thought. this week is national college alcohol awareness week,

prompting all sorts of efforts to combat underraged drinking. dr. siegel, we all started college and you say, i'm going to pack on the freshman 15 because you're going to drink, but this is deeper than that. >> fox news did a report on this, and i'm going to ask you to follow the bouncing ball on this because we went to three different places, but the problem is alcoholism is a disease. as a disease, you can prevent it, and once you have it, you can treat it. it affects almost every organ in the body, the heart terribly, the brain, the liver we all know about, but it's really a serious problem. and college students are particularly susceptible. for this year for the first time in several years, alcohol problems among students is on the increase. over 100,000 cases of date rape or sexual abuse, over 700,000 injuries and almost 2,000 deaths due to alcohol every year. we went to trinity college where they have a program called night

watch where they have sober people go to parties and try to prevent drinking. that's a buddy system. then a place in soho, where they literally go to the origins of aa, where a surgeon, a drunk surgeon, if you can believe this. and a drunk stock broker got together and used the buddy sittest system to get together and quit. alcoholics anonymous is still the best way to quit, and demographics are going down. we have a package to show, and i want everybody to take a look. >> excess drinking leads to over 1,800 deaths per year among college students, and it injured over600,000. some colleges are fighting back. trinity college has several programs including night watch, nondrinking peers attend parties to keep drinking in check. >> i believe in this age, we still have the opportunity to make a difference. they're not set in their ways.

they're still in that maturational process. >> prevention is just part of it. the buddy system can also help recovery. this is the principle behind alcoholics anonymous. one drinker tells his story to another for healing. 11% of its members are now between 20 and 30 years old. >> why don't you just stop! >> off broadway plays based on the founders of aa, a drunk stock broker and a drunk surgeon, is becoming a major force in the fight against alcoholism. the creators are launching a national college and medical school tour. >> the biggest problem when kids get to college is they start to get isolated. it's a whole new social network they have to get into, and they're not used to it because they have done all this dating on screens, and so to break down the social barriers, they start to drink. alcoholism is called a disease of isolation. and connection is the healing. >> funded by donations to

hazelton, revenue from the play will be used for youth treatment scholarships. >> the fellowship and connection and community that comes from aa and other self-help programs is really a cornerstone for a lot of people's recovery. >> in the audience after the play, college students in the group shared their stories. >> like such a great program of alcoholics anonymous and this program has saved my life, and i love learning about the history because if it didn't play out the way it did, i wouldn't be here today. >> in the audience there, emotions ran very, very deep. and you could see even though that wasn't an aa meeting, what they were like. they commune together, share stories and build together strength to quit. >> dr. samadi, what is your take on this? >> i think this is a normal process when the teenagers go to college. they're under a lot of pressure, separated from their family, it's peer pressure, a cool thing to do on all these thursday nights and saturday night. you're working hard, no excuse for this, but everybody is doing

this, so it must be a cool thing to do. what we need to do as parents and doctors and physicians to educate the next generation, binge drinking is a real serious problem in the country. over 45% of college students are doing binge drinking. over 600,000 injuries as a result of this. if you're drinking over five drinks of alcohol fast in a short period, you're going to affect your judgment. your skills, it will affect judgment, and we'll get into this kind of trouble. the bottom line is you need to have someone next to you the whole time to watch over you. and if somebody passes out, call 911. they can aspirate, intoxicate and die. don't think they're going to sleep it off and be okay, because next day they're not going to wake up. >> if i could stay with you for saying the old freshman 15 you get on because you get to college and start drinking. we're talking about something serious, not the normal go to

happy hour and have a few drinks. this is actually really a problem. >> it's a serious problem. it's becoming a real disease. in the long term, it's going to affect your heart. we know that it affects the liver and then causes liver cancer, but guess what? the mouth and the gi, cancers as a result of alcohol. overall, this is just not a good situation for a lot of teenagers, and we see the number of rapes on the rise, sexual asults, et cetera. as a urologist, i can tell you they affect your sexual function. >> and we hear stories about alcohol poisoning on campus, and fatal poisoning. >> it's a social lubricant. you try to belong, you spend your whole life on facebook, next thing you know you're at a party, you wantrelax, and it's also a gateway drug to other drugs. you don't just drink. people who drink, they use drugs. it's true. if you start before the age of

15, you have four times higher chance of being addicted to this, and the message to a lot of women is women missing a lot of enzymes that men have so they don't dijust alcohol the same way. you can get more intoxicated faster. watch out for this. >> not just a weight thing. you're a bigger guy so you can afford more than i can as a smaller woman. >> that's right. >> let the record show, not intox caughted. >> most sober surgeon. >> and he's not a stock broker. >> all right, you guys stick around. lots more ahead. how important is vitamin d? and how worried should you be if you're not getting enough vitamin d? the doctors are weighing in. >> plus another alarming new report about what has been left inside a growing number of patients after they have surgery. details on that next. hey mom. yeah?

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time now for should i worry? it's our weekly segment about everything that worries us. this viewer asks, my doctor says my vitamin d level is low. should i worry? all right, i would answer, dr. samadi, she should move to california where the sun shines all the time. >> and pay more taxes over there. >> there you go. >> most important segment we have done is right now. you need to know what your level is, and the blood test for this is the 25 hydroxy vitamin d. and i'm going to post this on my facebook. if it's between 50 to 80, you're in good shape. you should take about 1,000 to 2,000 iu of vitamin d. if it's less than that, then you should talk to your doctor and maybe even go up to 5,000 units

until you come to the normal zone. the lack of vitamin d has been connected to anemia in children, asthma in children, people have talked about multiple sclerosis, but the biggest thing is my field of cancer, low vitamin d can increase the risk of breast cancer, proskate cancer, and colon cancer. you need to know where your level s are. where do you get the vitamin d? through the sun, 15 minutes a day is enough. people are concerned about african-americans because their skin is resistant to sun and they won't absorb it. obesity is a problem, because if you're fat and this is a fat soluble vitamin, it can suck it in and absorb the vitamin d. you want to make sure to get your level, find out what it is, and supply yourself with it. >> dr. siegel, you actually prescribed vitamin d for me. >> i check vitamin d levels,

vitamin d 25 hydroxy on every patient. the one hydroxy is what the kidneys do, but we want to check the 25 hydroxy, that's the level you should have checked at your doctor. every patient out there should have it checked. where do you get vitamin d? >> you can get it from oily fish like salmon, tuna, from fortified cereals, from fortified grains, from sunlight, and we're also telling you to wear sunscreen all the time, so you're getting mixed messages. i like sunscreen. i say supplement, get it in the food you eat. i recommend at least 1,000 units of vitamin d a day. it's a fat soluble vitamin. that means if you took too much of it, there is a toxic range. you can't go crazy taking a ton of it, but i also want to say that vitamin d supplements are something i recommend. i don't recommend all

supplements, i recommend vitamin d supplements. heart disease is associated with low vitamin d levels. anema, the study david is referring to, 7 of 10 children lacked vitamin d. it's good for bones. if you're out there feeling fatigued, having muscle aches and feeling exhausted, it could be vitamin d deficiency. in many parts of the country, it's a severe deficiency. i don't like people to have vitamin d deficiency. >> because we're talking about eating salmon, sardines, i eat that a lot and take vitamin d. talk to me about too much. >> you have to be careful about taking sardines and salmon. while it's good for the omega-3 fatty acid, too much isn't good for you. the people i'm concerned about is vegetarians because they don't get enough vitamin d, and if you have inflammatory bowel

disease, you might not be able to absorb enough calcium and phosphor. talk to your doctor about this because as mark mentioned, vitamin d has a vital role in reducing inflammation, reduces the inflammatory bowel disease, because it reduces cell division, which is important in cancer and on and on and on. i think tomorrow morning, if you haven't had this, check your blood level for 25 hydroxy vitamin d, and it's less than 50, you need to supplement this with vitamin d3, which is important. >> is it good to take vitamin d with calcium or not? >> always a good combination to take vitamin d with calcium. all of that has to be under the control of the doctor. >> vitamin d helps you absorb calcium. it's a super hormone, and we need it in the body. vitamin d helps the immune system. that's its most important function, so it might help you fight off infection. >> so where it's so cold and we don't see the sun for five or six months, we don't need to

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that since that since 2005, hundreds of patients have had surgical tools left inside of them following procedures. we're talking about sponges, towels, needles, all putting people at risk for serious harm. dr. samadi, i want to start with you and >> ask, why does this happen? how does it happen? >> unfortunately, this data is coming from 2005. about 2,000 mistakes have happened. wrong legs, leaving sponge, instruments behind. since then, a lot has changed in our hospitals. and i want to assure people that it's fairly safe. some of it is unfortunately the surgeons' mistakes. they may be running multiple rooms. now we have counts, meaning that, you know, when you're the captain of the ship and you run the operating room, you should think like a pilot. there is a takeoff where everybody has to check and count the number of sponges, needles, and that goods through many, many checkpoints. we should check the consent

forms. the nurses are all over this. they mark the site where the surgery is going to be. and the landing basically recounts everything else. so despite all of this, and the fact that there are bar codes on everything bar that you can scan them, mistakes unfortunately sometimes can happen. there's no excuse for it. the hospitals now, if the count is not correct, you can get x-rays. but having a communication on the day of surgery with your doctor, making sure that you read the consent, telling them which side they mark it -- >> i ask, which knee are you going for? you tell me when my mom had her knee replaced. >> there is a survey out of "usa today" that shows even more than this study does, number of cases. here is a couple of additional points. nine times for likely if it's an emergency case. four times more likely if they switch the procedure on you. you were supposed to get one thing and then you get another thing. the vast majority of the time it's sponges that are left inside which are found afterwards with an x-ray or some

examination and the patient has abdominal pain or doesn't feel well. sponges can be tracked. you can use dye on the sponge. 15% of hospital dose that. but the point about proprotocol. i've been in dr. samadi's operating room. that is not a place where this is ever going to happen. he's relaxed, doesn't go from room to room. ask your surgeon if he goes from room to room. is your surgeon actually doing the key operation? these are key things. he should be doing the operation and shouldn't have multiple surgeries going on. >> i did tell him to say this. but as we go towards the laparoscopic and closed cases, these case res going to go further and further lower. whenever there is any kind of a trauma, there's chaos in the operating room, labor and delivery happens to be top on the list .some of the surgery centers where they may not be

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rats, called determinan papala skin cells and they got them to reproduce and they stuck them back in the rat and the rat grew hair. the problem is, humans, it doesn't work. you take human scalp cells and you put them in culture, they're flat, they don't grow. now they tried a technique where they're hanging it from the petri dish and they found they did reproduce. so they took the skin cells and put it on the back of a rat and now it's start to go grow hair. is this ready for prime time? not yet. but they may be able to use this technique to figure out what drugs work to cure baldness. but in the meantime, i have my treatment, which is this. i walk around like this. if you see me walking on the streets, this is how i am. this hot comes from eric bowling from cashing in. i'm advertising five news. but this is my cure. >> listen, and a lot of people for men, you know, bald is beautiful. i think michael jordan is the

one who really made it currently beautiful. but it's a problem for a lot of men. they don't like it, they fight with it, they hang on to whatever strings they can. is there a way something -- oh, you know, don't give me that. don't even go there with me. >> no, he looks great with the hat. but is there really something more immediate that men can do? >> i think this is very, very exciting news. and every dermatologist i've spoken about, this is as close as we come to the treatment of hair loss. they've taken the cells and clone them into the petri dish and they can directly put it into the skin or put it on a skin graft and let it grow. five out of seven mice actually had hair growth. so we're getting very close. >> how close? >> it's about three years away. but if you look at where we've come from, 1988 we had menoxodill. that was huge. then later on, 1997, caroprecia. and now we're getting on the

molecular level and we're going to get there. so i would say in the future, you know, increasing the number of hair follicles. we have relocated the hair from the back of dr. siegel to the front. >> but really short for me, what if you are bald? is it possible you could get the hair it's a test that you use for diagnosis of prostate cancer.

>> we ought to do that as a segment. that's great information. we're out of time. that's going to do it for us. many thanks to our dr. siegel and somadi. >> media buzz is up next. mean extreme media rising up, ticked off. expressing outrage, this time about obama care. >> who misled them? who misled the president on this? are you telling me five days before that somebody let the president go out to the american public to give this speech and say this and make this promise? >> look, the president is frustrated. he made that clear in his remarks today. >> given all the problems that we've seen with people trying to enroll in this program, is the white house going to be delaying the mandate? >> no. does the white house owe the country an apology for this particular country? >> was this journalistic scrutiny too