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Mercury levels of certain fish. i would just refer to the cdc website every now and again just so you're educated and up-to-date what's going on with mercury levels. alisyn: quickly i want to get to one that really took me aback when i read, emily, what you say the research suggests. in your book you say there is no evidence that bed rest is helpful in preventing or treating any complication of pregnancy. women are assigned bed rest all the time by their doctors. how can it not help? >> so, we just dope have any evidence that it does. i think it is important to remember that it's true a lot of...

In december, when we were 17 weeks in utero my wife had to have an emergency abdominal surgery. and it was not looking very good. and she was -- it was pretty grim. they said that possibly both of them wouldn't survive, mother and child. at that point we actually didn't know if it was a boy or a girl. and when she was in the hospital, and we were both crying, right before she went into surgery, she just said if it's a girl, we're going to name her hope. >> you knew then she would be hope and mom, you were telling me, hope sort of has become this acronym for what? >> h is had trouble conceiving...

>> this looks like artery deep vein thrombosis. it happens to be common among women, particularly pregnant women. we know know the secretary is not pregnant. it result from bed rest which is pro lodged and we show she was told to stay in bed after her concussion for some time. in the hospital we generally put people in blood thinners or put them in pressure stockings to prevent this deep vein prom bow is from happening. when it does oh skirt's painful, there is usually swelling of the calf and isn't surprising. secretary clinton had been on airplanes so much over the last few months. it doesn'...

Related to her bed rest. rick: this is the latest in a spring of health problems for the secretary. it started with what we were told was a stomach virus. then came the concussion. and now the bloodclot which may or may not come before or after the concussion. is all of this related to each other? >> i think she has had a string of bad luck. she is 65. she came down with the stomach virus which happens to be going around and many of my patient have this. then she suffered a concussion from falling. i don't think the concussion is a bloodclot. but i think prolonged bed rest does result in somet...

Couple weeks and we're 20 years of age then we maybe have a 20% likelihood of developing a blood clot. if we're 60, it may be higher, approaching 60%. so the situations put us at higher risk for blood clots. >> what about if you've had it before? the new york daily news is reporting that back in 1998 she had a blood clot behind her left knee. is a recurrence common? >> like many illnesses blood clots are really the summation of risk factors. what i mean by that is you may inherit something. you may be put into a situation and they come together and show itself. there are certain inherited thin...