dr. siegel is going to talk to us about tea now. doc. sorry to interrupt you while you're drinking. >> david has made a great point on the show about coffee. four cups of coffee a day. i'm talking about tea today because i changed my lifestyle to some extent since i have been over here, and i have been having afternoon tea and i find it's better on my stomach, and i read the clinic of american nutrition has 11 studies involving tea, and they need better studies. they need the randomized trials we like. but very good for bone health. seems to improve behavior and concentration. decreases risks of certain cancers like that in the gi tract and maybe even the advancing of prostate cancer. it's overall very, very good for you and has a lot of health benefits and it's overall in my field, i notice there are some studies that show it decreases the risk of heart disease. and three cups a day. we say four cups of coffee, three cups of tea a day show a decreased risk dramatically of stroke. i'm going to have my four cups of coffee and three cups o

dr. mike siegel who is the author of the inner pulse, unlocking the secret code to sickness and health. >> and dr. david samadi is here. great to see both of you. >> great to see you. >> we're ready to learn. >> we start with something that's really important. this has to do with a new warning about a disease that many of us rarely worry about. that's measles. you have it when you were a kid? measles have been practically eradicated in the country, but they say this year, new pockets are creating some concern. dr. siegel, measles are back? why, and what can we do about it. >> measles is a virus. the thing we need to know is that it's a wildly contagious virus. we talk about flu on the show a lot. to give you an idea, if someone in your house has the flu, there's a 1 in 4 chance you're going to get it. if someone in your house has measles, there's a 94% chance you'll get it. it starts with runny nose, high fever, red eyes, and then a few days later, this red, red rash on the upper part of the body and then it spreads. the centers for disease control told me measles is a perfect example how

dr. marc siegel, associate professor of medicine at nyu's langal medical center, also author of "the inner pulse." >> and dr. david samadi is with us. chairman of yourology and chief robotics surgeon. good to see you. >> we begin today, we talked about testosterone the other week. now there's a new warning from the fda saying a chemical found in common food items like french fries, potato chips, and cookies can actually cause cancer. cancer-causing chemicals in what we love? >> we're going to talk about the testosterone topic, too. >> we're talking about a chemical called acrylamide. we already don't like the food that acrylamide is in. we have been talking about it on the show for a long time. we're starting off in a good place. we like fruit and vegetables. that doesn't have a lot of acrylamide. we like low-fat dairy. you know what has acrylamide. it's a chemical that's formed by processi sugars and amino acid like a kimical equation and it forms acrylmide in stuff like french fries, toast as it's browning. as your food is browning or as your french fries are frying, you get acrylamide.

dr. marc siegel, associate professor of medicine at nyu's langal medcon centical.ng us from london this morning. welcome to both of you. >> good morning, docs. >> good morning. >> we begin today with a potentially major change for blood pressure patients. ve

dr. marc siegel, associate professor of medicine at nyu's langal medical center and author of the inin pulse. >> and whatever you ate or drank wrong, we're going to fix it up. dr. david samadi is here, too. chief of robotic surb iic surge. doctors, great to have you here. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> first, you begin with some of the biggest medical stories of the year. the first one is really a shocking study this year, predicting the number of people living with alzheimer's disease is expected to triple. triple, by 2015. dr. siegel, why so many more? and what can we all do about it? >> a lot of reasons and this is a well-known survey. they looked add 10,000 patients at rush institute and followed them for a decade. the reason for that, number one on the list is we're getting older. many more baby boomers like you and me, eric, and we're getting older. >> generation x. >> yeah, okay. sure, sure, eric, but the main thing is that, you know, most of these alzheimer's patients are going to beover the age of 85. that's why the baby boomers are going to fill this void. then the issue of ob

dr. siegel, what's the difference between a gastric ulcer and something else? how do i prevent it? >> peptic ulcer disease, it affects the stomach and the upper part of the small intestine called the duodenum. most are the second part, the small intestine. today we're talking about the stop mack. the thing that worries me are people on non-steroidals, advil, aleve, aspirin, motrin, they can irritate the stomach lining. when you get an ulcer in the stomach lining, that's the problem. alcohol can lead to this problem. coffee, our favorite, big coffee fans, but it can lead to this problem. smoking is a big cause of it. if you have the problem, what do you do about snit you get treatment, you get medications, watch out for blood in your stool. dark tarry stools. you want to avoid dairy products. we'll talk more about this. you avoid spices, chocolate. >> you're taking all the fun out of everything. it can be pretty painful. how do you know when you've got one? >> let me ask you another question. how do you know you have gastric ulcer? stress, spicy food or type a personality? >> all th

dr. siegel, why so much more and what can we do about it? >> they looked at 10,000 patients at rush institute and followed them over a decade and found that increasing rate of alzheimer's and dementia. the reason for that is, number one, we're getting older. there's many more baby boomers out there like you and me and we're getting older. >> generation x. >> okay. sure. sure. but the main thing is that, you know, most of these alzheimer's patients are going to be over the age of 85. >> wow. >> that's why the baby boomers and then the issue of obesity, people not eating right, being on a lot of medications, all of those can increase your risk of alzheimer's. the good news is, though, associated with this, we're increasing our ability to discover it. in fact, two studies out just this month in december have looked at this. there's a groundbreaking study looking at cow proteins and it's very important in finding alzheimer's but they, for the first time, looked at it on a molecular level. very tiny on a level of a cell and found that even introd

dr. bruce siegel. doctor, thank you for joining us. this is a hugely underdiscussed element of aca, what's happening to hospitals. hospitals are forced to care for people and give them emergency care. with these funding cuts, that's becoming ever more difficult. give us, if you will, a picture of what it's been like for hospitals in states where there's been no medicaid expansion. >> it's really a nightmare scenario. the supreme court kind of blew a hole in the law. we have a situation where half the states aren't expanding medicaid. people still depending on hospital emergency room for care at the same time payments to essential hospitals are cut back, everyone assumed coverage would pick up the slack but it's not happening. >> i want to open this to our folks in new york, ben, what is happening in these largely red states with either republican held state houses or governorships is in many ways the worst part. the worse off of society given less, more is taken from them to the hospital. what is interesting is that you now have situat

dr. marc siegel, thank you. jenna: growing unrest in the ukraine is a big story this week. the latest on the fallout from the president's decision there to free ties from the e.u. and force closer ties with russia. what that means for us ahead. >>> next whiteout conditions for those of us in northeast cities. causing long delays for airports. when will the snow and freezing rain stop. a big question for us? we'll be right back after a quick commercial break. jenna: some big be developments to our top stories and breaking news this hour. jon: are we seeing a shakeup at the white house? a former clinton administration staffer just brought in weeks before the obamacare enrollment deadline. >>> and another big snowstorm right outside our studio. what it could mean for holiday shoppers and travelers really on the eastern seaboard. >>> we'll also talk to a member of the house foreign affairs committee as secretary kerry tries to sell the controversial nuclear deal with iran to congress. these stories and more all "happening now." ♪ ♪ jenna: first, as we mentioned, a shakeup at th

dr. marc siegel. which camera? i've got so many in this new studio.rotest on monday. why you ask? i say because the unions are getting desperate. my take on that next. ♪ tÑ >> on-line discount coupons otherwise known as groupon. a bank likes them and up goes the stock by 4%, not bad, huh? and then we have cookies. you know there's cookies that internet sites use to see what you like and then they target ads to you. there are the cookies. how do you feel about the nsa doing the same thing and how do you think the judge feels about that? well, he's here next hour. plus, the shampoo ad that's exposing gender double standards. men and women paying the same way and perceived very differently. dr. ablow responds to that. next monday, the teachers unions will take to the streets. there will be rallies across the country to quote, reclaim the promise of public education. here is my take. are you getting a little tired of this? i think that teachers do a difficult and demanding job and they do it well. but the site of union members taking to the streets and ch

dr. mike siegel who is the author of the inner pulse, unlocking the secret code to sickness and health. >dr. david samadi is here. great to see both of you. >> great to see you. >> we're ready to learn. >> we start with something that's really important. this has to do with a new warning about a disease that many of us rarely worry about. that's measles. you have i

dr. marc siegel, associate professor of medicine.of "the inner pulse, unlocking the secret code of sickness and health." >> we begin with something that's really important. have you heard about the meningitis outbreaks at some college campuses? now a fourth student has been struck by meningitis at the university of california santa barbara. it's a similar

dr. marc siegel, associate professor of medicine at nyu's langal medical center and author of the inin pulsehatever you ate or drank wrong, we're going to fix it up. dr. david samadi is here, too. chief of robotic surb iic surge. doctors, great to have you here. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> first, you begin with some of the

dr. marc siegel associate professor of medicine at the nyu langone medical center.king the secret code of sickness and health. great to see both of you. >> good morning. >> we begin with something that's really important. you heard about the meningitis outbreaks at some college campuses and now a fourth student has been struck by meningitis at the university of california santa barbara. and that's a similar strain they sa

dr. marc siegel, associate p also the author of the enter pulse at nyu's langal medcon centical. joining us from london this morning. welcome to both of you. >> good morning, docs. >> good morning. >> we begin today with a potentially major change for blood pressure patients. have you heard ou

dr. marc siegel associate professor of medicine at the nyu langone medical center. unlocking the secret code of sickness and health. great to see both of you. >> good morning. >> we begin with something that's really important. you heard about the meningitis outbreaks at some college campuses and now a fourth student has been struck by meningitis at the university of california santa barbara. and that's a similar strain they say of the disease that sickened eight students already, at princeton university in new jersey. so doctor, how dangerous is this first of all how is meningitis spread and you think it could be scary if it gets onto college camp uses. >> yes, it's frightening. not only because of the disease by itself but the fact that it has been around since march and it hasn't gone away. usually they have a short period and they disappear on their own. the fact it is also going all the way from princeton to santa barbara, that's also another concern. that's one of the reasons why cdc made the unprecedented decision to bring in a vaccine from europe, made by no

dr. marc siegel, associate professor of medicine. author of "the inner pulse, unlocking the secret code of sickness and health." >> we begin with something that's really important. have you heard about the meningitis outbreaks at some college campuses? now a fourth student has been struck by meningitis at the university of california santa barbara. it's a similar strain, they say, of the disease that sickened eight people already at princeton university in new jersey. dr. samadi, how dangerous is this? first, how is meningitis spread, and you think it could be scary if it gets on a college campus. >> frightening. >> yes, frightening, not only because of the disease by itself, but the fact it's been around since march and it hasn't gone away. usually, they have a short period and they disappear on its own. the fact it's gone from princeton to santa barbara is that's a reason why cdc made an unprecedented decision to bring in the vaccines from europe, to really, against fda approval, to see if we have to vaccinate our teenage and colle

dr. mark siegel, associate professor of medicine and the author of "the inner pulse, unlocking the secret code of sickness and health." >> and we will do a bit of that today.lse. the chairman of urology at lennox hill hospital is here and chief of robotics surgery. welcome. great to see both of you. >> great to see you. >> we talked about this the other week, but now there is a new warning from the fda that a common ingredient in potato chips and other food that can cause cancer. >> we will talk about the testosterone topic later on too. >> we will get to that. first, we are talking about a chemical called acrylimide. we don't already like the food it is in. we are starting off in a good place. we like fruit and vegetables. fruit and vegetables doesn't have a lot of acrylimide in it. we like low fat dairy and grains. you know what it is in? processed sugars and amino acids and it comes together like a chemical equation. it forms acrylimide in toast as it is browning, potatoes, french toast. as your food is browning or as your french fries are frying you get it. the more you fry it, eric,

dr. siegel, people who think they signed up and didn't. doctors who don't know what they can charge and deductible and co-- pay and how much cop fusion do you expect? >> as of thursday, we'll see a lot of confusion. i will want to add to the list. people who sign up on the website don't have active insurance and those with big deductibles because a bronze plan and they find out if they are sick that deductible applies. it is not like the old catastrophic you don't worry about the deductible. you do. and third group people who don't know how to get the insurance. they don't know if they go to a website. a patient who is 25 who could get it on his mother's policy. he is having urinary symptoms. he said he didn't know how to do it. i call that undocumented. yeah, maybe obama care in the future will lead to less uninsured. not now but sometimes in the future. but what about the people who have coverage and don't have it. it is a lot of pressure on doctors, jamie. >> and they were told if you want to keep your doctor you can and they can't. and

dr. mark siegel. >> thank you. >> let's, i just had a stress test. i'm not going to have a heart attack but it's scary. >> vice president cheney is an inspiration because he never considered himself sick. he, everything he did, everything he did, he did without any fear. just courage and that is an inspiration for 700,000 people that have heart disease and get sick every year. >> a lot of people, why don't people get checked more? you're our friend. another friend of mine make me go get checked. why don't people just do that? because isn't that cheaper than to what the alternative of getting sxik treatment? >> well, men don't tend to get checked we just wear it on our sleeves and don't go to see doctors the other killer is stress vice president cheney didn't consider he was under stress because he loved what he did. if you love your work you're going to do a lot. >> i'm on the air four hours per day. it must be stressful. i'm like i don't know what the word stressful means. >> they're getting stress from you. but you know, smshgs you love what you do

dr. mark siegel sat down with dick cheney for an interview about his new book and his thoughts about obamacareabout my heart. here is a sneak peek. >> you have been known as the steadying hand in a crisis. you are the person people want to go to in a crisis. what effect did that have on your in terms of stress? do you think that led to your heart disease in any way? >> i really don't. i know sort of the conventional wisdom is a stressful job can contribute to heart disease, and i think that's true. but i love my work. it wasn't stressful from the way i looked at it. i couldn't wait to get back to that next job. >> i love the scene in the book where you're out on the river, i think it's the snake river. cowl you tell us that story? >> yeah, i was living on batteries. i had to have power 24 hours a day because i had a pump attached to my heart keeping many alive. and i explained to him as we were getting in the boat that if i fell in, the system would short out and i was toast. he had artificial legs because he lost both legs as a marine in afghanistan. and he said yeah, i foe whknow you mean. w

dr. marc siegel joins us now from the medical a team.g to the administration, apparently 1.1 million people did sign up, although it's unclear exactly how many got medicaid and stuff like that. and the estimate was 3.3 million would at this point. we're just a little short of that big mountain there. >> first of all, you already said it. a lot of 1.1 million is getting medicaid. number two, another big chunk of the 1.1 million has back-end problems meaning they got something but when they go to the doctor's office it may not work. six million have already lost their coverage at the same time one million is signing up. the overall goal here of getting more insured people isn't working at all. if anything, we're getting more uninsured. even if that problem is ultimately taken care of, i think there's a bigger problem which is that the undocumented -- i'm calling a new term today, the undocumented. this is people who think they have insurance but don't, so they get to see me, they can't see me. or they never signed up. they said, i know i q

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dr. marc siegel's with me right now, what did he say, doc?sident cheney is alive today because of a state of the art medical technology that was developed in each case just in time to save him. everything from a heart assist pump to the ultimate in 2012, a heart transplant. cheney is a fierce opponent of obamacare which he says jeopardizes a patient's right to choose their own health care. his opposition to the medical device tax comes straight from his heart. >> i'm very worried about it. i think it's a terrible idea. the people who invent those devices and produce them pay taxes like everybody else. but this is a unique tax that's going to be on the first dollar of revenue that comes in to the people who have invented and created these devices. when you think about the stent, for example, i had quadruple coronary bypass in 1988, tough surgery. tents weren't available then. later on when i had a minor problem while i was in the white house, i got a stent. piece of cake. outpatient procedure almost. that development has saved the lives of mil

dr. marc siegel, to share his story, and he joins us now, hey there, doc. >> hi, jenna. killer in the united states, but what is the secret of surviving? former vice president dick cheney's personal story of overcoming heart disease is a story of hope. as told in his new book, "heart: an american medical odyssey," it is a tale of courage mixed with the latest scientific discoveries. many heart attack victims from the 1970s are dead. >> uh-huh. >> how come you're alive? >> combination of things. obviously, a donor, tremendous advances in medical technology, prayers of a lot of people all over the country, my family, and i was, as my doctor explained it, i had that first heart attack in '78. most of the things that saved my life hadn't even been invented yet. it's as though you get up in the morning to go to work, you're late, you jump in the car and head for the office, and every stoplight was red, but he said, cheney, when you got to them, they all turned green. >> the vice president beat the odds again and again undergoing procedures from a heart pump to a heart transpl

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dr. marc siegel from the fox news medical aid team joins us to separate flu shots fact and fiction.being here. last year 165 children tragically died as a result of the flu. is this a direct reaction to that in your mind? >> i believe it is. i think it's a direct connection. i think it's a bold initiative. it was a very severe flu season last year. so far milder this year. we haven't gotten to the peak. dr. varma deputy commissioner here in new york city is coming out saying, look, under the age of 5, that's when kids get severe complications. what the flu shot does best is it decreases severity. you have to create a herd immunity. kids are like a petri dish. preschool, everybody is sniffling, touching each other. you can't tell a kid wash their hands, stay away from another kid so it spreads from one to another. they will cut down on a tremendous amount of flu cases. i applaud this. >> the mandate is applauded. i'm sure a lot of parents are behind you. can you get the flu from a flu shot? let's go fact or fiction here. >> absolutely not. when they make a flu shot the first thing th

dr. marc siegel joins us with more. good morning. tell us about this medical mystery.sleep. she is thinking that's great. >> that is a great message. she thought this is the best year i ever had. i don't need sleep anymore. i'm exercising all the time. she was doing yoga every day, drink more and more water. but actually her body was hiding something. it was hiding a tumor and she didn't know it. >> the doctors found a tumor. did they remove it in time? >> she had a potassium level thaflts very -- that was very low. they started to investigate. they did an ultra sound and thought it was on her kidney. it was ten cent meters in size, huge. they managed to get the entire tumor and so far, so good. no recurrence. >> she takes medication every day to make sure it doesn't return and she's healthy now. how common this? >> extremely rare. one in several hundred thousand. very rare kind of tumor. we talk about an ovarian cancer which could be hidden and you don't know it until it is too late. something like thyroid disease is a problem where you have a lot of energy, you don't

dr. marc siegel. we're going to start cranking into these myths and see which ones are true or false.ill make kids hyper? >> that is a myth but almost all parents believe sugar will make kids hyper. one study out of yale shows it increases adrenaline. if you see kids going wild, you see i fed him ice cream or it must be the cake. it's not been shown scientifically to be the case. it's everything else, all the distractions and wild things going on. >> maybe the party, not the snacks. confetti is .onous if you eat them? >> that is a myth. there is one child who died in 1919 and they thought it was the poinsettia. they can make pets nauseous, vomiting but they are not poisonous. if you had a leaf of a poinsettia around christmas you're not going to get really ill and die tpwr it. it will make you a little nauseous but you will not die from it. >> eating at night won't make you fat? >> that's actually a fact. listen, eating any time will make you gain weight. it's not just night. the myth is your metabolism slows down and you eat at night and you're going to get fat. the problem at night

joining us is marc siegel associate professor of medicine, also the author of inner pulse, unlocking the secret code of safety and health. >> and drd samadi from lenox hill hospital. we're ready to learn. start with something that's really important. this has to do with a new warning about a disease that many of us rarely worry about and that's measles. measles have been practal