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America right now with a lot of people battling obesitobesity. it turns that weight loss surgery cuts your blood sugar more than eating a healthy diet. what do you make of it? >> we have a major epidemic in this country. 1/3 of the country is obese that leads to diabetes. so we have a real crisis in this country when it comes to this. in the past, medical treatment vs. surgery has been a big debate and we see a great study in the "new england journal of medicine" even though it's a small series of 150 patients, they compared surgery vs. medical treatment. in the surgical group, they ended up h...

Also related to diabetes and heart disease, et cetera. >> let's come back to that in a moment. you have some concerns about that as a doctor. let's talk about the other component, which is an artifical pan crease, how does that help? is that type one diabetes? >> this is the type one diabetes. the kind of patients that are not producing any insulin, different than type two and the great news is that now, with this artificial new technology pancreas, and i never thought, in my career it say this, but this is a pump that you actually wear. it's an insulin pump with a shot in the blood that can s...

This and may need it in combat. you know what is exciting about this? it is targeted, antibiotics we're running out of use, and getting more and more resistance, and they target only the cell wall or certain proteins, bacteria figure it out, they figure out the combinations of the vault and you get resistance and we need a new technology and this uses genetics. sliced into the cell and goes right for the tissue that is affected and bam, you know, there is already a case of primates who had the ebola virus and were given nanotechnology and survived. this is an amazing technology. >> eric: when ...

Surgical skills and therapy or targeted, will probably play a big role, nothing this kind of technology. >> and is that a practical use and we mentioned it in the intro, it's helping wounded service members who have come back from combat and how does it work? >> a lot of the microchips, used for tags, they have use of cat scans, and information. in the case of injuries you can scan that, microchips are going to be faster. for example, the future of this, you can put in nano tubes under the skin and able to use infrared lasers to tekt your sugar level instead of sticking the finger which is tre...

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