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>> good to see you. >> have a seat. >> and even the simplest of greetings, this handshake would have been nearly impossible just eight months ago. >> day-to-day, shaking hands was very painful. >> range of motion is back. >> putting on my jacket, reaching up, like anything that had to do with bending my wrist down was painful. tucking in my shirt hurt and it -- it just got to be so every once in a while i'd wake up in the middle of the night and it would be aching and it was something needed to happen. >> bill lost his arm in a motorcycle accident as a teenager. but the active kid from south d...

This is the disease over here. is this what's causing the problem? >> that's the loss of cartilage that's at the end of the bone. >> arthritis, the inflammation is causing the pain? >> absolutely. >> we got a glimpse of this. this is a model. show us how this works. >> we take the bones and shape the ends of the bone. i want to take the implant off to show you. three dimensional cuts. they are from the front. this is from the side. the implants basically replacing the bone we take out. >> how much does an implant like this cost, roughly. >> somewhere in the $6,000 to $12,000 range. >> this is ...

Away, the coast goes to $344 billion, again, due to obesity. you start to take a macro look at all this, overall, the expenditures, percentage of overall health care spending, about 21%. why? simply because america is too fat. that doesn't take into account what is happening into your body. let me show you a couple things as a doctor. we talk about the effect on heart disease all the time. you look at someone's heart specifically, you go in, start to strip away the heart, what can happen, blood vessels become too small, heart has to work increasingly harder, beats faster, makes it more difficu...

Faster, makes it more difficult to sustain itself and potentially lead to heart failure. a huge problem. also something simpler, like this. this is an x-ray of somebody's knee. take a look over here, one bone on top of one another, cartilage has disappeared, bone on bone, painful, a result of simply weighing too much. we can put a price tag on all of this. that's what this is all about. if you're obese, the majority of your adult life, you will spend an additional $179,000 as compared to someone at a healthy weight. those numbers simply don't lie. our health care system is no doubt bearing the...

And something simple like this. this is an x-ray of somebody's knee, one bone on top of one another, cartilage has disappeared, bone on bone, painful, a result of simply weighing too much. we can put a price tag on all of this. that's what is the all about. if you're obese, the majority of your adult life, you will spend an additional $179,000 as compared to someone at a healthy weight. those numbers simply don't lie. our health care system is no doubt bearing the brunt of this extremely costly trend. a talk show host and author, dr. phil mcgraw is on a mission to help americans fight obesity,...