welcome back, everybody. if you re not listening to your own doctor you might want to listen to this. because the nation s leading physicians, all of them voting to declare obesity a disease in this country. effective defining 78 million american adults and sadly 12 million children as having a medical condition that does require treatment. dr. samadi, here we go again. another wake-up call. do you think americans will listen and stop overeating? this is a game changer. because now they re going from being very concerned to a real disease. and it s going to change the whole environment of how insurance companies and doctors are going to really treat this. but we have a problem. there s a real epidemic. nobody will deny this. over $150 billion goes into diabetic and obesity-related expenses and medical costs. one out of three americans are suffering from this. two-thirds are overweight. we have to do something. i m glad that they re coming up with this. whether the whole stigmatizing
smoking, alcohol. you got to know your blood pressure. you got to know your cholesterol. you got to get your weight down. you have to exercise. you cannot be sedentary. you got to watch your diet. all wake-up calls. autopsy shows he didn t have a problem before. he died of a sudden heart attack. i don t want to scare anyone out there. that can happen, too. you get a plaque rupture. you don t even know you have heart disease. that can happen. they talk about that meal. the reports he just had another light meal. a meal is not going to do it. if you don t have the evidence of that as the autopsy had shown, how do you know you have a problem? first of all, i personally really miss him. his programs were fantastic. the big thing is, how do you distinguish between heart attack and acute sudden death? that s what you want to know. when it comes to heart attack, it s basically it s a vak cue l vascular issue. there s a plaque. there s a blood clot. it stops the blood flow. you get chest p
needs to be done. in the field of cancer, i think obesity is a major problem. increases the estrogen. you have cancers such as breast cancer, endometrial, insulin growth factors that cause cancer. something needs to be done. i m glad the ama is on it. there is a connection between being overweight and having cancer and other diseases. over 20% of people are obese in many regions especially in the south. obesity in my practice predisposes to all the other diseases i treat. whether it s a condition or disease shedding a spotlight on it is crucial. diabetes up to over 9% all over the country. it s because of obesity. you don t have enough insulin. you make insulin in your pan crease. it s not enough to do the job when you re obese. we have to figure out a way to get people to lose weight. david mentioned cancers. cancer of the colon, cancer of the kidney. prostate cancer related to obesity. obesity is directly related to heart disease. it s related to stroke. it s related to diabetes.
case the nerve is literally atrophied. it never developed. it s important for adults for a tumor that can destroy that nerve. you put the implant right on the brain. why it took so long? it s very difficult. just like david says it s very difficult, it s difficult to operate on the brain itself. there is worry about bruising the brain. you have to be very careful. younger you do this the better and again, and the other problem is speech is not as well developed in this kind of situation. a child like this may have a problem understanding, interpreting speech. you have a microphone involved and a processor that helps him interpret speech. the environmental sounds around and the processor helps him interpret speech. he heard daddy loves you but he may not know what it means. he is using the visual cues and sign language. he was on fox and friends and was amazing going
a lot of symptoms. that s not specific. acute cardiac arrest which is what he had, it s a sudden plumbing problem. the heart stops. that s some sort of electrical problem. some sort of arrhythmia problem. if you have a heart attack that s massive it s going to turn the heart out of sync. then you can collapse. loss of consciousness is a symptom and it s already too late. the question is what do you do? if you have nitroglycerin give them immediately until 911. time is up in essence. i don t recommend people do this. if you re desperate and you see the heart is really in trouble you can hit the person in the chest really hard. right here. you saved a life doing that. this week. last week unfortunately there was a patient that happened i a party. you just basically hit them hard. you can jump start until 911 gets there and buy time for you. it s scary. i d love next week to talk to our viewers about what you can do if you find somebody stricken. it might be a good thing to talk a