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Speaker 1 (00:01):
What three five, K two to Beat of New York.
It's the Hollywood handled the show and the K two
morning crew. I couldn't be more excited, Ladies and gentlemen,
I cannot so great to have him on the show.
Doctor Mark K. Siegel very popular here in New York City.
Clinical professor NYU Medical Center, author, host of Serious XM Radio. Yeah,
he's part of the enemy Serious XM Radio show, doctor records.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
And he's a good dancer.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Now we're talking fiction. Now we got.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
I was gonna say, Marie, you know something about doctor
Siegel that I don't know about. Every time we surf
the net or we gather our morning or evening news,
we are inundated with a health threat here, a health threat.
There so much to be worried about, from Legionnaire's disease
to mosquitos, is COVID coming back.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Cancer is on the rise.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
We saw an outbreak of Legionaire's disease that was tied
to a bunch of buildings in Harlem, and that's because
of air condition. Every time I talk about a disease,
I want to tell the people, what's the risk of
you getting it? And you're not going to get it?
If you're not around those buildings with those air conditioner
problems that actually have the bacteria in them, so it's
not floating in the air legionnaires. And so that area
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is where it was confined to. And once they figured
out the buildings, they managed to clean out the air
conditioners that were causing it, and the problem went away.
They wouldn't tell the New York public which buildings it was,
but at least the New York City Health Department figured
it out. Just as by the way Hollywood, they seem
to have decreased the amount of garbage in the streets.
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I certainly hope that's true, because I was worried about
the rat problem here. We had a ratsar. We got
a rat csar. I don't know how you get rid
of rats, but you got to get rid of garbage.
And they think they've finally on the road. They're doing
that here, so we may be returning to the nineteen nineties.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Good goodness, all right, let's move on to the swarm
of killer mosquitoes. Tackle that next.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Well, the mosquito problem is worse in China, and you
saw that with them locking everybody down, putting mosquito netting
around hospitals. We're not seeing anything like that because we
don't have that those mosquitoes here, but there's a lot
of feeling and concern that return of mosquitos means return
of disease. We haven't seen dangay fever yet. We haven't
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seen chicken gun yet, but we're not we're not going
to actually see that. We could see it in the
Southern States, we're not going to see it in New York.
The mosquitoes are an annoyance here. We don't they don't.
They don't get us too sick here. What's getting us
sick is the ticks. We're seeing more tick born disease
here and those those awful little things. I mean, you
got to spray for them. You got to get the
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deer out. Deer are becoming like ridiculous. I mean everywhere
you look as a deer. And that's that's a problem.
That's even in Staten Island.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
We're seeing deer, yeah, exactly, among other animals too. We're
seeing that.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
I saw possible. I saw a possum by my house
the other day, a Possumly, I'm going, what is this
ugly thing with a long tail? And then it turns out.
It's a sweet thing. Pastags are sweet. Raccoons are nasty.
But we're seeing both coming back.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
And I have a question, doctor about this kissing bug disease.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
That's a mess that's called Shagu's disease, and that can
give you a lymph notes, flu like symptoms, fever. It's
a problem. It's treatable, but with an anti it's a
parasite disease. We're not seeing that in New York yet,
but it could be creeping up here because it's coming
into the Southern States also. I mean it's all by
the way the border. Everything's crossing the border and then
it comes up north. And Shaga's disease is a huge
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problem in South America. Huge.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
I got one for you, doc.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
With the kids back in school and all, what about
measles in New York?
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Should we be concerned?
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Are there cases?
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Is it high right now?
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Well, we're seeing that up in Westchester County. If you
get vaccinated against measles, and even one vaccine is ninety
three percent protective, measles is contagious. If you walk into
a room where measles has been someone with measles has
been two hours before, and you're not vaccinated. There's over
a ninety percent chance you've been again. That's how contagious
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this is. But the vaccine works. The vaccine works almost
one hundred percent of the time. I mean in New York,
you have to get this vaccine to go to kindergarten.
And that's the way it should be. It's it's really
a clear cut situation because we don't want this disease
coming back.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Okay, let's go to Marie.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
One more for Marie, one more for mine. I do
one more. Now that the kids are back to school,
what should moms and dads be given their kids every
day to keep their immune system strong and ready to
fight off all those nasty stuff that kids get when
they go back to school exactly when they bring it
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home with them.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Number one is a good night's sleep. Number two is
a balanced diet. We actually eat a bunch of vegetables
if people can afford it. Number three is not over.
We're doing the cell phone because you know, we're having
a lot of problems now with depression and anxiety linked
directly to iPhone use and to social media. So I'm
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all for getting some control over that. And you know
how you get control over that you don't do it yourself.
If you're at a dinner table and you're on your phone,
your kid's going to be on their phone. So why
don't we try more family activity. Those are my prescriptions
for going back to school exactly.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Oh I love that all right?
Speaker 1 (05:29):
You got books out of course, Like we talked about
your own author. What's your next book? What are you
drop in next?
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Doctor Siegel HarperCollins. We're publishing my book right before Thanksgiving,
The Miracles among Us, which is how you don't give
up hope. And the miracle that occurs may not be
the one you're expecting. It's the one that God gives you.
It's the one that may not even be medical. It's
some coincidence that occurs that alters outcome in a positive way.
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I've seen it again and again.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
I love it, all right, don't forget. Got to catch
this guy on Sirius XM. The radio show is called
Doctor Radio Reports. It's doctor Mark K.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Siegel. Thank you so much for being on the hot
of it happened you guys, no, no fight them. Aw
You're gonna be number one in New York.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Now.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
I'm gonna help you.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
We gotta have you on again. We want you to
be our resident doctor. That would be an honor, and
it was such an honor to have you on the show.
Thank you so much, doctor Siegel. We really do appreciate
it Hollywood, anytime I'm here.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Thank you, doctor.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Great to be on with you. Thank you. Shulman and
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