dr. siegel. dr. siegel: mr. chairman. can you hear me? thank you. mr. chairman and members of the committee, thank you for inviting me here. i present testimony on whether hydraulic fracturing can, other than in a very rare local situation, degrade water quality found in shallow aquifers. i offer this testimony on my own behalf. criticism ranges from concerns over climate protection and concerns over lifestyle changes and economic inequities. one issue commonly raised is whether natural gas can contaminate drinking water aquifers. a concern highlighted by two scientific tapirs published by scientists at duke university and 2011 and 2012. researchers reported their results from sampling. 141 domestic water wells and northeastern pennsylvania and adjacent new york for methane and other substances. they showed a graph indicating that higher concentrations of natural gas appears in water wells closer to gas wells. they said the results suggest important environmental risks worldwide. when i read these papers, i felt that 141 samples were too foo -- few to m

dr. siegel: not quite. in my experience, which is largely restricted to the appalachians the kinds of problems that pennsylvania experiences tells us -- before the industry took notice, and now that amount of spillage has decreased. as far as the -- a few handfuls -- rep. perlmutter: would that be the problem in dimmock ? mr. holstein: it could have been drilling but it could have been casing as well. that was natural gas coming into people's homes. as far as the other fluids associated with the industry, it is mostly a surface issue. those are readily taken care of, in most cases. in terms of the flow backwater it is my understanding that most of the flow back is reused to drill new wells. the quantity of flow back has gotten small. ship it to ohio or something for injection. the industry has developed ways to do that. in pennsylvania, there was a remarkable situation where one of the companies -- and i forget which 1 -- suggested developed a way to drain: mind's -- to drain coal mines, but there was a sta

dr. marc siegel. he's a columnist at "usa today". >> congratulations. >> well, we are going to start today with a new study showing that americans have fewer types of gut bacteria than people in less developed countries. dr. samadi, it seems like this makes sense. what sort of gut bacteria are you talking about and why do we have less of it? >> we've spoken about this before but it's a very, very important thing. we have in our guts about 100 trillion, 100 trillion bacterias and some people have said that almost 90% of us are bacteria and 10% is human. so this co-existence in our gut is very important. a lot of good bacteria and bad bacteria. that balance, arthel, is very important. once you change that is when we start having a lot of chronic disease. diabetes, colitis. they looked at the u.s. population and compared it to people in new guinea that haven't been exposed to all of the antibiotics wewe have. what they find is the diversity of bacterias in those tribes are a lot more than us. we're not --

dr. siegel. and author of the inner pulse unlocking the inner code of sickness and health. >> and chairman and professor of yo ewe olgs and. >> major advances in cancer research. the utah researchers announced a new treatment for mel know many which they say works by injecting viruses. >> this is exciting. we've been talking about viruses to kill cancer for about 100 years now but now they're starting to make headway. fighting cancers is like a war but we're getting to the point where we have guided missiles and they go into the cancer cells and the biggest problem was to teach the body that these cancer cells are foreign because before cancer hid in the body and melanoma is not being attacked by the immune system. they're taking a cold sore virus and getting it to get picked up by the melanoma cell. once it's inside the cell, then the immune system sees it and says there's that virus an invader and comes marching in with what's called t cells to destroy the melanoma. you have the various killing

dr. siegel says it's okay. now i'll have two or three. i would say not drinking at all is great. we have study after study that show one glass of wine may improve your circulation. that doesn't mean i'm recommending it. i think the problem is people under report and have always done so. >> you go to the doctor and they have the list. doctors used to say that you add three or four drinks. >> they said that here. >> always double the amount of alcohol they say. the message to a lot of the teenagers is if you have to drink, make sure that you eat some fatty food before you go to the party, because that absorbs some of the alcohol. >> like what? >> fries. >> some type of food. drink a lot of water before you go in and watch your drinks. there's a lot of these things going on where you put your drink, and somebody can put something in it. there's a lot of pressure on these kids. just go slow on this, but now not only teenagers, we're seeing among adults, especially women, this is on the rise, because of the pressure of what's going on in the society, et cetera. this is something to be

dr. siegel, can nagging cause mental issues among girls? >> among anyone.he line. we're not talking about neurosis. we're talking about role modeling, both genetic and environment. genetic if you have a successful mother maybe you inherited that gene. my family, my grandmother was very prominent politician. my mother ran her own business. my sister is professor. my wife is a physician. i think that casts -- not just women. it is men looking up to their fathers. women looking up to their mothers. this study showed more likely to attend universities, more likely to succeed. i'm a big big believer in this especially in a society which is still partly sexist. partly saying women, stay at home. >> my parents aren't, if you look what they accomplished in their lives, they are are not super successful. they were business owners. but they were extremely successful parents. they set out, they treated that as a career. >> weigh in a little bit on my mom, bt. she is amazing. not pushy at all. she let her children, i mean she let me -- >> not neurotic? >> not at all. s

dr. marc siegel with us.n as we head into barbecue and picnic season, how afraid should we be? >> the problem with listeria and the bluebell is that it gets added at the distributer level, and that's very hard to control, charles, because they check the ice cream, and it doesn't have this bacteria in it. charles: but then they pull a big tub of chocolate chip, and wasn't it in more than just one product in one state? >> that's why i think it's the distributer. in other words, it's not where the ice cream is made -- charles: at the ice cream plant, it can still be con tam may noted? >> of course. someone gets it on their hand then it gets into the ice cream and the yogurt, and it swarms especially in hot seasons. it's a big risk to pregnant women. anyone that's immune know compromised or a pregnant person has a problem with this particular bacteria, it can be life threatening. they've got to really control it. charles: this is scary stuff. three people dead five people ill, i know in a normal year a fair amoun

dr. siegel. dr. siegel: mr. chairman. can you hear me? thank you. mr.d members of the committee, thank you for inviting me here. i present testimony on whether hydraulic fracturing can, other than in a very rare local situation, degrade water quality found in shallow aquifers. i offer this testimony on my own behalf. criticism ranges from concerns over climate protection and concerns over lifestyle changes and economic inequities. one issue commonly raised is whether natural gas can contaminate drinking water aquifers. a concern highlighted by two scientific tapirs published by scientists at duke university and 2011 and 2012. researchers reported their results from sampling. 141 domestic water wells and northeastern pennsylvania and adjacent new york for methane and other substances. they showed a graph indicating that higher concentrations of natural gas appears in water wells closer to gas wells. they said the results suggest important environmental risks worldwide. when i read these papers, i felt that 141 samples were too foo -- few to make such a s

dr. siegel. unlocking the inner code of sickness and health. >> and chairman and professor of your ewe olgs and. >> major advances in cancer research. the utah researchers announced a new treatment for mel know

dr. siegel has the details on that next.look at comcast and time warner shares trying to save their $45 billion merger deal. both companies will sit down with department of justice officials on wednesday to discuss competition issues, that's according to "the wall street journal." adam shapiro joins us with more on this story to. >> when you talk about what's in the balance billions upon billions of dollars. it hangs in the balance when representatives from comcast and time warner cable, well, they're planning to meet with officials from justice department and fcc this wednesday. the combined company would control 30%, think about that 30% of the country's pay tv market and 57% of the broadband internet market. staffers told "the wall street journal" the merger is anticompetitive. comcast and tomb warner cable -- time warner will attempt to convince the merger's necessary to compete against emerging tech-based t providers -- tv providers. comcast says it will bring benefit to consumers yep, without any competitive harm. comc

dr. siegel. mr. chairman, i'm going to be respectful of my colleague's time and our witnesses' time and yield back within my prescribed time. >> thank you, mr. johnson. and the gentleman from virginia mr. buyer, is recognized for his questions. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i would like to thank all the witnesses too for being here with us today. dr. siegel, you expressed some concern about the duke professor studies and the bias and the sample collection, the 146, two of them -- or some of them near two of the wells that had failed. and yet when you gather your 12,000 or whatever you're working on, they were gathered by employees of chesapeake. a natural gas exploring. why is that inherent bias much greater than researchers working for a university? >> i think you mischaracterized what happened with the chesapeake. chesapeake gas, to my knowledge what i was told, is they hired national consultants who sampled for them and national recognized certified labs by epa and so forth to do the analysis. so ch

dr. siegel and samadi join us for "sunday housecall." for now, i'm eric shawn.to "sunday morning futures" and maria. >>> thank you, eric. hillary clinton under a hot media microscope as more follow-up reporting emerges from the explosive new book "clinton cash." she's accused of doing favors while secretary of state for donors to help her family's charitable foundation or for companies that hired her husband for lucrative speaking engagements. in some cases, she's being accused of covering up her behavior by failing to disclose the money that was actually received because her e-mail server has been scrubbed. while there's no hard evidence yet of any wrong doing, there's a lot that looks bad. it raises one big question. will this stop hillary clinton from winning the white house? we bring in our panel on that. ed rollins has been a long-time strategist to political and business lieders. judith miller is adjunct fellow at the manhattan institute. and steven moore, visiting fellow for the project of economic growth at the heritage foundation. good to see everybody.

dr. marc siegel. author of the inner pulse unlocking the inner code of sickness and health.u can read his stuff in usa today now too. >> we'll get to see you more now. >> congratulations. >> we are going to start with a new study showing americans have fewer t

dr. marc siegel.olumnist at "usa today". >> congratulations. >> well we are going to start today with a new study showing that americans have fewer types of

dr. siegel is here joining me now. what is concerning about this?e of the rate of increase number one. several states have regulations that minors are not allowed to purchase e-cigarettes. the fda is not regulating e-cigarettes at all. they are very addictive. if you are a young person a teen, we are concerned they could be a gateway drug and that is the concern the cdc has because nicotine is addictive and in the developing brain nicotine causes a problem. the vapor is much heathier but the by products have cancer-causing agents. it is not harmless. if i was sure you would just use an e-cigarette and that was it i use it to help smokers quit sometimes, but we are talking about smokers where everything else failed. not teens finding the bubble gum flavor and want to be hit. >> advertising is trying to suck in young kids and people who want to be cool like cigarette advertising did back to the cowboys ads. you have mad men showing people being glamorous and those are a couple ads for blue electronic cigarettes. it says filthy crossed out, dirty, cros

dr. mark siegel.ts he lied on the senate floor when he said mitt romney didn't pay his taxes. that influenced the election in favor of president obama but no penalty for harry reid. he lied, no penalty. we have that new at noon. the indian religious freedom lot getting three times more coverage on the other networks than the e-mail scandal from hillary. brent bozell on that can't wait. our two two minutes away. stuart: president obama is a very successful politician but his presidency is in complete disarray. his years in the white house looking creasing we like a failure. let me start with his political success. how come he is so good at it? he knows how to play hardball and homeless remember the irs intimidating conservatives? remember harry reid saying mitt romney hasn't the taxes? that was a lie and harry reid knew it but if the senator now says it worked, and mitt romney loss. that is hard ball. the president is very good at it so how come almost everything else has gone so wrong? the climate giv

dr. siegel you expressed concern about the duke study is of the 146 of those that failed but with the 12,000 you were working on they were gathered by the employees of chesapeake. why is the inherent bias not that much greater than working for a university? to make you miss characterized chesapeake. chesapeake gas is a hired a national consultant who had a national recognized certified the lab to do the analysis. but they hired independent contractors who are hired with environmental work to do sampling. i don't see that those samples could have been compromised or would have been bad chesapeake hired independent consultants to do the sampling like i hire a laboratory to do an analysis for me. >> you expressed some concern about those that our critical to the failure to your connection in the original peer review but the authors declare no competing interest even though they were paid for you were funded by a chesapeake. >> i don't think it was an oversight that the editors fully understood that chesapeake for any other large corporations will much as two and over 34,000 analysis it is a col

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dr. marc siegel, part of our medical a-team. martha what's next?ator rand paul who was here yesterday calling out fellow republican senators. here is what he had to say about john mccain and lindsey graham. >> this comes from a group of people who have been wrong about every foreign policy issue over the last two decades. if anyone who is the most opposed president obama's foreign policy it's me. martha: why he is attacking members of his own party on defense and foreign policy? bill: you ever posted something online and later regretted and wish it did not exist? check out a new app to wipe your history clean. is that possible? there might be an app for that. >> medical history? ♪ martha: so the head of the irs is on capitol hill facing tough questions about wasteful spending while cutting the budget for customer service. a new report find the irs spending decisions are harming taxpayers. doug mckelway is looking into this for us from washington. a lot of frustration in tax season. irs claims they don't have enough people or money to do the job, ri

dr. marc siegel.t commercial i see a fantastic tableau of married life. >> united healthcare and other insurers are worried the middle class is not signing up. i grew up in the middle class so did you. and every dime is being checked carefully. when you find out it's going to your deductible. you say what do i need obamacare for if i'm going to pay out a pocket for 1000 dollars or more before i get anything covered. the employer market, 80% have to pay towards their deductible before they get care. >> i think the most commonly bought or purchased obamacare plan is the bronze plan of the metal plans. i think for a family the deductible is $10,000. per year. >> exactly. you're not going to get any services. those poor people if they break a bone on that table, it's not going to be covered under obamacare. that virtual doctor visit i don't think he can see whether they broke a bone. that virtual visit is not covered under obamacare. that doctor can't see if they hurt themselves. >> what you're telling me

dr. marc siegel will separate fact from fiction he said on that today. >> pizza shop owners getting deatheaking their minds about the indiana religious freedom law but did a tv crew twist their comments. we'll talk about that coming up. >> i do not think it is targeting gays, personally. i don't think it is discrimination. it is supposed to help people that have religious beliefs. bill: there is an update out of indianapolis now. lawmakers unveiling changes to that state's new religious freedom law, hoping to diffuse concerns the law might have allowed for discrimination. this from last hour, state capitol indianapolis. >> was never intend toddies crime nate against anyone. its goal was to simply create a new standard, that is the common standard across the country and federal courts, 30 other states. reaching agreement to clarify the law which will unequivocally state as speaker said, in the strongest possible terms, that indiana's rfra law is not and will not be able to discriminate against anyone anywhere at anytime. bill: that moves comes as owners of a indiana pizzeria get death thre

dr. marc siegel, langone medical center. looking into this. it is new.e florida, texas and ohio. what is it, doctor? >> it is dangerous. 136 deaths were ascribed to this and drugs like this. it is called gravel because it looks like gavel. it is based on a chemical called alpha ppp. similar to a chemical bath salts had in it. bath salts got banned. let me tell you how it works. it works in the brain on hormone called dopamine. dopamine is happy hormone and making us feel great it builds up in the brain. we don't know how much builds up. too much, causes very aggressive, very violent behavior and cause hallucinations and psychosis. why people are unking are naked with this. that's why they're attacking -- bill: with have a couple of examples. police were saying this, earlier in the week, arrest ad man on "flaaka" running make asked across a street people chasing him. back in february a man on "flaaka" was accused of kicking in glass doors on "flaaka." a man reportedly impaled himself on a metal fence. >> it is synthetic. called a guinea pig drug just for

. >> joining us professor marc siegel. >> and dr. david samadi from lenox hill hospital. good to see you, docs. >> happy passover. >> same to you. we start with major advances in cancer research this month. a new

. >> joining us, professor marc siegel. >> and dr. david samadi from lenox hill hospital. good to see you, docs. >> happy passover. >> same to you. we start with major advances in cancer research this month. a new treatment was announced for melanoma that works by quinn jebtsing tumors with viruses that are wired to destroy them. how does this work? >> this is very exciting. we've been talking about viruses to kill cancer. but now they're finally starting to make head way. fighting cancer is like a war. but we're getting to the point now where we have guided missiles, where they go right into the cancer cells. and the biggest problem that had to be overcome was to teach the body that these cancer cells are foreign. because before cancer hid in the body. and melanoma is not being attacked by the immune system. they're taking a herpes, a cold sore virus and getting it to be pecked up by the melanoma cell. once it's in the cell, the immune system sees it and says there's that invader and comes marching in with t-cells to destroy the melanoma. so you have a twofer. it's still

dr. siegel. think of iced tea as one of the good guys. >> i think it is one of the good guys.s called black tea. it has oxalate. he had about 16 glasses a day. it's too much. it's a very rare case that he went into kidney failure. he had fatigue muscle aches, nauseous. he was drinking 16 glasses of this a day. it causes kidney stones. it solidifies in the kidneys. if you have a tendency or a family history of kidney stones you got to look out. >> what else is loaded with oxilates? spinach, rhubarb. these particular tree nuts, peanuts walnuts, they have a lot. >> how many nuts would you have to eat a day? >> you don't want to be eating nuts the entire day. >> here is a cup of nuts. you don't want to have like ten of these. you can have one of these. >> i'm in trouble. >> whole wheat bran has it and chocolate. >> all kinds of chocolate? >> especially dark chocolate. >> what can i eat? >> you can eat all of this stuff here. the key is in moderation. >> what can i go crazy with? >> here is the good news. something that no one knows, your personal chemistry experiment. if you are g

dr. marc siegel reports on that. also we have the stars from deadliest catch.how one monster storm threatened the entire fleet. look at that. now, that is a ratings winner, and we're going to help 'em. two days away from tax day, and here's a new report that shows the top 20 percent of income earners pay 84 percent of federal income taxes. how does this happen? ashley webster. >> well a good question. talk about paying your fair share, this comes from the tax policy center, a nonpartisan group based in washington. i want to say that because it's not some skewed numbers from a conservative-leaning group. whether those people are upset with the 1%, you have to understand how much of the tax burden the highest earners are shouldering. three million people earn, 3.2 million people are the top 1% earn user in this cub. concern earners many this country. as you said, the top 20% pay 84% of all federal income taxes. 40% 40% of americans pay negative income taxes. so they are being, essentially they're being supplemented by the other 60%. stuart: so the bottom 40% of i

dr. marc siegel.astic reputation. would you come to his side on. this i would come his side for that point of view. he who lives in glasses houses. i don't think anybody should be telling any university like colombia to remove dr. oz from faculty. great reputation as a surgeon number one and number two they don't know what's going on at colombia. some of these doctors have questionable reputations themselves. one of them actually lost his license and went to federal prison for two years for medicaid fraud. how dare he sign a petition to say another doctor should be removed from a faculty. that's a witch-hunt. totally against that. >> as far as critics who say dr. oz is just after the money. he just wants the coin. he says i bring the public information that will help them on their path to be their be we provide multiple points of view including mine which is offered without conflict of interest. that doesn't sit well with certain agendas which distort the facts. critics would say he is distorting the

dr. mark siegel who's in texas.isoner, was also in the van on the other side of a metal partition. apparently they have those so they can't hurt each other and according to "the washington post" the other prisoner heard gray do what he said sounded like he was intentionally trying to sbir himself. how badly could somebody injure themselves in the back of a police van like that? >> steve, you could sustain a brain injury and you could get a head injury that way and a neck injury. there's no way that you could sever your spine bashing your head into the wall or the side of a car or anything like that. that is not the cause of a severed spine in this case. >> right. so no matter how hard you try, you can't do it. we remember the quarterback that banged his head in celebration and sprained his neck with a helmet on. >> exactly. >> so it seems implausible he hurt himself severely. >> he may have hurt himself but not to the extent where he would sever his spine. no chance. >> okay. doctor, you're down in crawford, texas,