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Doctor to check for the pdgh. find out what the best answer is and not everybody should take aspirin. >> i agree with that a lot because aspirin causes over 100,000 hospitalations a year from gi bleeding and people have high blood pressure and don't know it and they could end up with strokes. so it should be given out judiciously. it also causes less inflammation in the body. when you get your coloscopy that you can be tested for. if you have this enzyme that david is talking about, your chances of responding to aspirin and treating colon cancer is two to three times so if we can figure out in...

Cases. red meat, too much red meat, burnt meat, low fiber, alcohol, smoking, all of that, so what aspirin is supposed to do is reduce the inflammation or prostoglandins. there's another hormone called pgdh. that promotes aspirin, and if you have that enzyme, if you have that enzyme, aspirin can reduce the risk of colon cancer by two-thirds. if you don't have that enzyme, you're wasting your time and you can only cause gi bleeding and ulcer and side effects. you can get stool or biopsy. >> they automatically check for that? >> no. the doctor. if you have a family history of colon cancer or had ...

Drinking alcohol at a high proof which is also an irritant to your stomach. then combined to that they add isopropyl, which is rubbing alcohol and that causes gas streets and gi bleeding. it can also cause intoxication. can increase your chance of getting comatose from the alcohol poisoning and it lasts longer. so the whole combination is extremely dangerous and again extremely troubling. jenna: doctor, you have kids as well, as a medical expert i'm just curious how you file about stories like this? we did a story yesterday we had a lot of responses from viewers said, hey, don't talk about the...

I mean, you take one daily, what the doctors say. >> talking about the low-dose aspirin, 81 milligram aspirin and, julie, we know that there is significant protection for heart disease, and, there are enough published data to show that low-dose of aspirin for patients with heart disease or risk of heart attack or stroke, are actually very helpful and recently we talked about the use of aspirin, and the anti-inflammatory effects of aspirin on breast cancer, and colon cancer, but, those are mostly observational studies ain't doesn't prove that it helps and heart disease is different. the questio...