dr. mark siegel. author of the inner pulse. unlocking the secret code of sick isness and health. thank you you both for joining us as usual. >> good morning. >> good morning, guys. >> nice to be joining you for the percent time. >> nice to have is you. >> thank you. interested in all of the top ives today. we are taking a look at some of the medical hopes doctors and scientists have for 2013 beginning with demeantia. affecting an estimated 35.6 million people. doctors are hoping to use mri scans to diagnose the condition. >> when you think of alzheimer's or demeanti dementt comes to mind is someone in their 70s or 80s. there s a soft type of demeantia that we are talking to today. a sub category. about 20% of these patients get this. this is actually happens in the younger population. so we are talking about people in their 40s and 50s that they are doing just fine and all of a sudden the memory goes and they start acting completely different behavior. the frontal part of the brain has to do with the personality. temporal is the language and memory and other things. they go from

dr. mark siegel is here.growth hormone,$.4 billion worth. >> i will try to agree with you on this. here is my thinking on this. here is the problem. the fda gets involved in 2005 and they say too many of its its sales of this drug going on being imported from overseas. the black market, the gray market, we're going to clamp down on that so the drug companies get involved and sales of this drug from 2005 to 2011 are up 69% over the same period your average prescription drug is only a 12%. they're stepping in to the gap. what data we talking about. this drug is unhealthy. no evidence it prevents beijing away a lot of people think, it is used for athletes that are not supposed to be using it. stuart: it is not a steroid, this is a human growth hormone which your body produces quite naturally. so you don't have side-effects of steroids so what are the negative side effects? is it a performance enhancer? >> it interferes with glucose metabolism, interferes with your liver. is not clear bulking up muscles are good

dr. mark siegel is here with the story. want to see if i have got this right. >> you always have it right. stuart: an exoskeleton is essentially a robot. a paralyzed person wears this robot, there's a backpack of some sort. >> not exactly. this is a big game change iran's big business. these things are running between one hundred and 1 forty thousand dollars. there are 30 run the country, 30 centers run the country and within a year or two they are going to be in the home and that is going to be huge. they allow a paralyzed person to walk again. is a robot. you put a backpack on your back but the actual device perhaps tyranny's and your hips, it uses your arms. you put your arms for ritter and did get your legs moving through motors. the backpack has a wireless device which leads to a computer. you have a handhold council that a nurse or you can manage. it sounds complicated but once you have used a few times, someone who is 30 years old, he can walk again. the medical benefits of this if you are up right and you are you st

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dr. mark siegel. >> thank you. >> heather: you can watch him and dr.omati on sunday health call. some, the medical hopes and dreams for 2013, and now, find a show on facebook as well. you're all over the place, dr. siegel. that's facebook.com-- >> 13 stories, very exciting tomorrow. >> kelly: great, awesome. and thanks for watching us and being a part of us. i'm kelly wright. >> heather: i'm heather childers, we'll see you here 6 to 7. ♪ ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] everyone deserves the gift of all day pain relief. this season, discover aleve. all day pain relief with just two pills.

dr. mark skiing siegel, associate professor of med.nd vice chairman of the department of urology at the mount sinai medical facility here. >> good morning. >> good to see you. we begin with a shocking report that has to do with the representative head injuries. how dangerous they can be. the researchers found substantial new evidence linking repeat concussion to say permanent brain injury. dr. siegel, when you are a kid you get your bell running and if you don't throw up, you're okay. go home. now we're seeing it has long-term effects. >> chronic traumatic enself lop think. we thought boxers had that. they had a risk of getting anger, getting depression, getting

dr. mark skiing siegel, associate professor of med.nd vice chairman of the department of urology at the mount sinai medical facility here. >> good morning. >> good to see you. we begin with a shocking report that has to do with the representative head injuries. how dangerous they can be. the researchers found substantial new evidence linking repeat concussion to say permanent brain injury. dr. siegel, when you are a kid you get your bell running and if you don't

dr. mark siegel in the last hour urging me to get a flu shot. you got fired up over that conversation. facebook page. lynne says probably and we will see in april, is he the nancy pelosi -- oh oh oh man. is he the nancy pelosi of madison? we all have the shot and wait till april to see if it worked. passing the bill in order to -- julie says this. you are wrong. i have chronic bronchitis and asthma. influenza is a respiratory illness. if i get it it will probably kill me. i don't understand your adamant disagreement about getting a flu shot. sylvan disagrees with me as well. think of others. get a flu shot. it is not all about you and your health. oh yes it is. i am sorry. i take your comments seriously. follow us on facebook. excellent conversation all day long. we have been in the christmas spirit for a while on "varney and company". playing holiday music all month. even though dozens of new christmas albums are made every year, classic christmas songs, the most popular. find out why at 10:45. it whenever heard of the small town of machine? is in belgium. i am sure you have heard of

dr. mark siegel is here. he is part of our medical a-team here at fox news.hing in us that makes us need to hear those stories, right? it is terrible and hard. i'm tearing up listening to it. i'm sure a lot of viewers are too. you want people to know, we can't do too much of that. it is still very early but we can't do too much of that. why? >> megyn, we have deep emotional centers in our brain that we get from our animal forebearers and we have to watch what emotions go through that. inevitably if we watch tv we'll get certain emotions. we heard trace gallagher give the amazing report about the courage of the principal and teacher. that gives us courage. we hear about the parent that lost a child. you and i are sitting here that we have young children and most important thing in our lives. we don't need fear. we need empathy. we need to care for her and passion for her. that's what we need to teach our children, we need courage, empathy, not fear. statistically chances of it happening, thank god to one of our children is extremely low even still. megyn: that

dr. mark siegel, good to see you.cked on my sister, she picked on me. maybe something deep ser going on. >> clayton, full disclosure, i would have to be disqualified from my sister and me, and my children. and i'm 152. >> alisyn: everybody fights with siblings, isn't this par for the course? what makes us think now that woo lead to depression and anxiety. >> the study sim pacts in teens, 12 to 15. studied over a year at university of missouri and a year later if they violated personal space and didn't give you your room and own video game. if one sibling was intruding on another's personal space, the result was increased depression and anxiety. the indication was let the person have their room, let them their space. middle children i think have it the worse, trying to figure out the space is, they're not the oldest, not the youngest. >> clayton: they're trying to figure out their roles. the middle kid not the youngest anymore, not the oldest and anxiety and depressed. put the risks on the scene, arguments about fairne

dr. mark siegel we appreciate you. >> going on technological world. >> my kind of world. thanks, man.ver chick-fil-a dent in culture in 2012. vladimir putin playing politics with kid's lives. trying to settle a score with the united states. we will explain the convoluted approach coming up. [ male announcer ] the more you lose, the more you lose, because for every two pounds you lose through diet and exercise, alli can help you lose one more by blocking some of the fat you eat. let's fight fat with alli. ♪ >> juliet: welcome back, as 2012 comes to a close. we are taking a look at some the year's most important culture wars. >> dave: todd starns here with the recap. >> juliet: good morning, todd. >> clayton: most clicked on stories for foxnews.com for the year. correct? >> that's correct. in the culture war area. what happened with us was what happened chick-fil-a came under fire when the protest was launched they came under attack by anti-christian, anti-chicken hetero phobic bigots is the phrase we used. chick-fil-a, the owner of chick-fil-a which is a privately held christian compan