marc siegel, associate professor of medicine at nyu's lango medical center. doctors, good morning. ur colleagues in san francisco must have been and are very busy today. marc, what do they deal with? how do they treat these patients? what's the first priority? >> right on the scene they have to triage. the way they've been triaging in california lately, something called s.t.a.r.t. a program they're using. they first will decide the people that can walk they set aside. those people are probably okay. in this case there were spinal injuries. you saw on the scene people that had injured spines they put on boards. they tape them, literally, their head to the board because they don't want any movement with a spinal injury whatsoever. can they breathe? do they need an airway to help them breathe? is there any bleeding going on? what is their mental status? those are the first things you think about. you know what happens in a situation like this? people get injured and they don't even know it. they get thrown about the cabin. they may have a head yinjury they're not going to know about ri

marc siegel is here. >> it's a weakening of the heart muscle in some reason.ase because they're calling it viral. it's ballooning out of the heart. the heart can thicken, it can be too strong for its own good or become like a balloon. they're saying it's a virus, it became like a balloon. it loses its pump. stuart: any connection to his-- he had frequent problems with alcohol? >> this is exactly what i was about to say and be careful how i say this. viral is different from alcohol. alcohol pickles the heart. it has the same impact. ten years of drinking will balloon your heart out in the same way that a virus would do in over a matter of weeks. my own personal opinion, dr. marc siegel here, is that given his history, i would be suspicious of alcohol having been the cause here rather than a virus, suspicious. i can't confirm that and that's not what they are saying, but it's putting two and two together. drinking over a long period of time can cause this exact impact and i want to say that on this program because i want people out there who are drinkers to thin

marc siegel.ee you as always. >> good morning. >> let me start with this stunning study. have you heard about this? it has to do with fish oil and fish oil supplements for men. a million of us take omega 3 fatty acids for our health and other benefits. they say it's good for our heart. new research shows that it could potentially raise the risk of prostate cancer. who better to tell us about that than dr. samadi, they tell you it's great and now it can increase your risk for prostate cancer? >> yes, there's confusion so we want to clarify this. this study that was published -- this study wasn't designed to find out if the fish oil causes prostate cancer. this was an incidental association that was found in this. we have to be very careful about this. part of this select study that looked at vitamin e, a few months ago we talked about vitamin e that can increase the risk of prostate cancer by 17%. now they're finding the same thing with omega 3 fatty acid. where do i stand? i want to answer the fol

marc siegel.ssociate professor of medicine at nyu's lango medical center and author of "the inner pulse: unlocking the secret code of sickness and health." >> dr. samadi is here, too. david samadi, chairman of neurology at lennox hill hospital and chief of robotic surgery. i'll go first. eric's doing great. i'm doing great. you might have the stomach virus definitely going around. hundreds of people have been sick across more than a dozen states. it's spreading, too. we wanted to ask you, dr. samadi, where is this coming from? it does seem in the nice weather you wouldn't expect so many people to be down with the flu or a virus. >> this is really nothing new. almost every other month we're coming up with listeria. we just had hepatitis a in the restaurants. now we see the psych lo spocycl. it's coming, jamie, from food, contaminated food and water. >> how do you know when you go to a restaurant or you buy something in the grocery store, maybe it even lives in your own refrigerator too long, y

marc siegel professor of medicine at n.y.u. medical center. good to have to hear.is touted by the world health organization as the deadliest thing around and in recent memory, how concerned should we be? >> it is too early to be concerned but not too early to pay attention that the wa joe has a history to overreact this is the same common cold by wrist. t2 which was probably the most serious example was not as bad as they thought at the time. it infected 8,000 in killed 770 in they thought itould be worse but when sars started the for the first few months it was deadly at about 50%. i am not making light of that b here's what happens over time the virus once to survive it will change and mutate to be less deadly also look at the hospital out in the committee -- community there are more cases that haven't been reported. >> that is the strange thing talk about 34 deat in saudi arabia. it seems impossible that no matter how good the who is could have a specific knowledge with the exact count? give us your thoughts. >> aig think this is many more cases because as the v

pick up part of that story with doctor marc siegel. you agree with everything?ou are seeing out there? i hear this again and again. >> i want to start with a particular comment he made. docrs are not really in the free market and that is really striking and i think we have to emphasize that. how much are your office expenses there, and what will that cost me to give you this antibiotic? melissa: that is a very important question. >> i don't have a lot of time to ask you that question, but i could probably charge whatever i wanted it because you have to do better. that is so far from the reality of the situation. so many regulations and so much of it is big insurance and big government. melissa: but obamacare was supposed to fix all that. that problem has been around for a long time. so how have things changed under obamacare? is it better or worse? >> insurance companies are paying u.s., the reason you are doing this segment today and there is a big exodus of doctors from private practice. >> why does the hospital want to buy that up. >> well, because they, in b

marc siegel, joins us live to talk about all of this and more next.na: well, the doc is this on this story about grammy award-winning singer randy travis now in critical condition at a dallas hospital after being diagnosed with a condition knowned as acquired viral cardiomy crop think. we've actually covered it in the past. you may remember the story of anna king, a little girl living in texas who's suffering from the same condition. here she is singing on youtube. she caught our attention last year when she decided to post videos singing about her condition. this one she sings to one of adele's top songs, she's got quite a personality, we encourage you to check out her web site. for more on this disease, though, and who it affects, how it affects them, dr. marc siegel is here. totally different cases but same condition. it affects all ages? no one knows exactly how it begins in the body. tell us a little bit more about cardio my crop think. >> we mean damage to the heart muscle. but let me make it a little easier for people. in this case and in the c

let's ask doctor marc siegel. that is a remarkable claim. millions will die.rbon tax. >> of course, none of that has been related. what about a methane tax? if you own a few cows. methane is probably a bigger problem to the o zone and the co2 coming from your cars. how serious will this get? what about al gore? stuart: rush holt is implying that the extra carbon in the air will create these wicked storms and that is what will kill us. do you see any problem with the extra carbon in the atmosphere? is that dangerous? >> well, stuart, we do not know. i always like to say a plus the does not equal delta. let's look on a practical level. how would that money help anybody? how does it lead to more research? real research is always great. this man is a buffoon. every step of the way. let him be taxed. >> a carbon tax would be a gusher of money. >> they would probably use it to pay for obamacare. >> a bigger point on this is that global climate change, global warming as it was originally called, it is all a wealth redistribution scheme. stuart: okay. >> now the poor

marc siegel. let's start off with people should be hydrated.most important things when we're trying to answer oreat. not? >> hydration, yes. water is what you need. sports drinks aren't necessary unless you're a professional agent lead. sports drinks have a lot of sugar in them which you can make you growing -- making groggy. >>gretchen: what does spicy food have to do with beating the heat. >> it is a body sprinkler system to cool you down. >>gretchen: this cayenne pepper, i should spring tell it on -- sprinkle it on for brian and steve? you talk about drinking water. what about jumping into the water? >> cooling you down any way you can is great. ice water is great. air conditioners are great. fans are no good. jumping into the nearest body of water would be great but if you're already lethargic and fatigued you could drown. make sure somebody is helping you. >>gretchen: what about medicines you're taking during a heat wave? stay on them, stay off them? what? >> that is a haoupbl problem. what you have -- that is a huge problem. what you have

marc siegel will be here to tell us what it means for all of us. a showdown in egypt as the clock is ticking. we are hours away from the deadline that was set by egypt's military leaders for president morsi to give in to the protesters or step down from office. this is a huge development. 15 million to 20 million are the estimates of how many people are been in the streets. if he does not step down, an hour from now the military says they will move forward with their own political plan. conner powell is joining us from cairo. >> reporter: egyptians appearing to expecting and bracing for a change as the deadline inches closer in just a few hours we'll know what the military says they are planning to do. protesters continue to fill tahrir square. but a lot of the action is taking place behind closed doors. morse are you * -- mohamed morsi reminded the world that he was democratically elected. the military is denying they are meeting with opposition litres. the military says it's not launching a coup. it says it wants to reach an agreement. tensions a

marc siegel, part of fox news medical a-team and professor of medicine at nyu langone medical center.ow are you? what is going on with this thing? >> it is cyclospora. it is a tiny parasite. usually people get in from traveling to other countries. it is on food and in water. you can not get it by touching somebody who has it. that is really good news. if you're in one of the states, nebraska, iowa, wisconsin, that is having this outbreak and someone you know in your family has it, you shake their hand, you will not get it from that. you will get it from the food or the water. wash your hand before you handle the -- bill: foodborne illness? >> exactly. bill: that comes from people handling food that have not what, washed their hands i assume? >> exactly. i want to point out how it could be in several states. why is it in several states? because usually in the irrigation. you're growing produce in one state or growing spinach or whatever it ends up being on. then you package it. it goes to another state. you sell it in a third state. that is how it tracks across state lines. it starts o

marc siegel, a big french study, and they say work more, you have less of a chance of getting dementiaheimer's disease has to do with the temporal lobe which is the side part of the brain. studies have shown more and more that an abnormal protein is building up, clogging the parts of the brain you need to help you with executive function, making decisions, memory, really thinking clearly, knowing who you are, who other people are. now, what's been happening is we've been looking at ways to slow that from occurring. and over five million people in the united states have alzheimer's disease, it's by far the most common kind of dementia. how do you slow its progress? one thing i'm hinting at is in the test tube, you try to prevent that protune from forming. but -- protein from forming. but studies have shown eating a mediterranean diet might help, more exercise might help, playing puzzles might help, bright lights in one study helped, so it's hardly surprising to me that the french looking at close to half a million people in a government study, actually, the government-held agency looked

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