i hope you're learning to be more of a healthy you. hello. i'm arthe hello, i'm arthel neville. >> welcome to this special father's day edition of house call. >> and dr. david samadi. and chief of robotic surgery. good to see you both. >> happy father's day. in hop or of father's day we want to go over some healthy tips for dads and the best way for him to stay healthy and

activity as he grows older. is there a way to continue to pete your challenges and to cope your mind and your body active? >> well, first of all, arthel, my father's also 90 today. and i want to wish him happy father's day. president bush jumping out of the he helicopter at the age of 90 is an inspiration for all of us. it's about meeting your challenges, having a goal, overcoming that goal. after all, he has parkinson's disease. we have plenty of patients that are 90, have high blood pressure, diabetes. what can you do? can you keep active to overcome cognitive decline? can you work on your computer? can you even walk? you know, what can people at 90 do? the idea of having a goal, reaching that goal, continuing to stay active physically and mentally will help us to cope you alive. and, again, this is an inspiration, not just to see president bush do this. he's done it every five years.

to see him do it at the age of 90, to meet that goal is such an inspiration. >> but most people can't be like president bub. what can the average person do? >> he has set up just a high bar for everybody else, every 90-year-old out there is going to try to get into some plane and start jumping. i would be worried. there is a great story. i wouldn't be surprised if he would do it at 95, and god bless him. i would say there are three things we want to be careful about. our population is getting older. by 2020 we will have a quarter of the population over 65. and that's not such great news for medicare. but putting that aside, i would tell you that mind, heart and your bones. those are the three things that i can summarize for you. as we get older, you don't have to necessarily be sicker. how many times do you go to the kitchen and say oh, my god, why am i here again?

so that senior moment is always there. we always talk about the fact that as we get older, sleep more. because good quality sleep helps with your cognitive skills, helps with your memory. one of the things i want people to know about is vitamin b-12. deficiency in vitamin b 12 can mimic symptoms of alzheimer's. what's good for the heart is good for the mind, and vice versa. healthy diet, exercise. when you get older, you will have arthritis, bone issues. so non-weight bearing, swimming, yoga. jumping from a plane sometimes. >> when you get older, it's harder to sleep. things are more difficult, people who are older are not sleeping more. >> that's why we have to watch out and not have alcohol late in the evening or caffeine in the evening. stick to a more regular sir kadian rhythm.

i've written a book about the mind/body connection. the spirit has something to do with your physical health. in this case, not everybody can jump out of a helicopter, but you can do something that stretches you, that challenges you. >> how strong is that mind/body connection? >> it's huge. many studies show the connection between how your brain is doing and the rest of your body. >> even if it comes to playing blackjack, even trying to play some kind of a game. do some homework with the grandchildren, as long as you're teasing your brain and your heart, and the other thing is vitamin a, b, c and d. these vitamins will grow less and less as you get older. >> they go less as you -- >> as you get older, those vitamins start to go down. that's why vitamin d-3 and calcium.

i personally take about 2,000 units a day to prevent ost osteoporos osteoporosis. >> c is important for your bones, nails, skin. and d is extremely, vitamin d-3 is becoming the secret to all of our health. >> we don't get enough sunlight. and to emphasize david's point about b-12, especially in elderly people, it leads to a cognitive decline. >> the bowels are not really absorbing those vitamin b-12. sow want to check with your doctor. >> what president hw bush did was amazing. could it one day be possible for doctors to diagnose patients without physically examining them? we're going to ask our doctors about that. and what it could mean for the future of medicine. that's up next ok

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i'm captain jeff ross to employed in afghanistan from forward operating base ganbury with the second brigade combat time. wanted to give a shutout to my father-in-law eric and my dad dave and to my wife and daughter back home at ft. campbell. i miss you all and will see you all soon. >> imagine being treated by your doctor without ever having to visit his office. it may sound far-fetched but according to a growing number of doctors it's actually the future of medicine. dr. samadi, you're up first on this one. so is video diagnosing easy to do? >> it's easy but the question is whether it's a good thing or

not. i'm a huge fan of this. i like the technology. the fact that your doctor could be sitting here and the patient could be in cincinnati, and we can have a conversation and take care of them. in fact, i will tell you that as of a month ago when we announced this prostate cancer 911 website for prostate cancer patients, a lot of people came in and i was able to talk to them so i opened the access of good doctors to a lot of patients that may not be able to really come and see us so i think this teleconferencing is actually a great way to go. medicare, up until last year, spent about 6 million years paying the doctors and always had a problem with the fact that i'm not face-to-face with you and i'm not in my office, are we going to get paid what is the reimbursement, those questions. american medical association this week came up with a huge guideline that doctors can use some of this technology and do remote control consultations, and actually can get paid so i think with 30 million people coming on health care system. patients from the v.a. system and other countries, this for me

as a robotic surgeon, teleconferencing, a great way to go. >> marc, what if you don't have a doctor? what if you don't see a doctor, don't have a doctor? could this be the only way you could actually get assistance instead of going to the e.r.? >> if you're in the rural area that may be that. that's one of the reasons why the ama endorsed it this week. two kinds of telemedicine and one is in realtime where we're live, like this. another is where they are sending me or david the information and we'll get to look it over later to see if it can help us. the limitation is a lot happens with intuition, taking a look at somebody. you don't look quite right, eric, i don't mind it but trying to figure out what a person looks like and carries themselves. that's intuitive medicine, but i want to say a lot depends on the quality of medicine you're receiving and it depends all the time. a group starting with ekgs, beam

an ekg across the world. what is the information i'm getting, because if i'm sitting there and you're on a video screen i might not have what i need, but if i can get your heart rate and blood rate and ekg and blood test, if you can show a picture of your rash and i can see it with a really good cameras, maybe in the future telemedicine can take place of most of the medicine. >> what if you live in the mountains or live in a rural area where you don't have access to medical care? can you do this and have experts from the big cities take care of you by telemedicine? >> absolutely. this is the way it's going to go. in 2020 they are expecting this market wore $6 billion. right now the way it would work is you would go to a local doctor. have prostate cancer. you are equipped with that information. then the local doctor in ohio, for example, does only like 50 surgeries a year. you'll want to come to new york city and see us where we do 50 hundred surgeries. we have all of that information and go online and do a

teleconference together. i already have the physical exam. marc talks about history of physical, i agree, because to a lot of diseases that's important. if i have your pathology and know your psa i can have enough information to solve your problem. >> something called telementoring that david is talking about, may do an operation some place like the domincan republic and somewhere else they get to see it. another thing that's really exciting. in rural areas you can go into a clinic. seen by a nurse, nurse practitioners and the doctor is there on a video screen. i'd rather be there on person but that's in a situation where i can't physically get there. >> we're there now. >> medicine is change, and his point is well taken. the fact that we sit here at lennox hill hospital right in the heart of manhattan and we're doing a robotic surgery and people in the dominican republic, south america and other places can see the live operation and learn from us the teleconferencing and telementoring.

>> marc, your point is fantastic. if you don't have a doctor, you can go to an office and have an expert like you guys take care of you. >> and we're not on here endorsing or replacing ourselves. not quite extinct. >> i'm going to convert him by the end of the year. >> you want a nurse there and then you look in by video. it's terrific. even on an iphone. >> you're not advocating the face-to-face because as you mentioned, dr. samadi, the -- you know, the population is getting older and some of this technology stuff is very frightening for older people. whoa, is this the only way i'll see my doctor in the future is through a computer and then that there leave me how the? >> people will get used to it. will get more used to it. in the end the best is to be face-to-face, but in the future even older people will say, hey, i'm sitting at home. i can't go anywhere. let me beam that information to my doctor so he can help me now. i have chest pain, an ekg, slap it on. it goes to the doctor. >> he's been in our operating

room. the idea 12 years ago, arthel, sit here and do a remote-controlled surgery ten feet away and operating inside you was like "star wars," crazy. today prostate surgery under pros kate cancer at the hands -- >> do you envision a row to the operating thousands of miles away? >> we're getting closer and closer and with verizon, high speed wiring, a dream come true. it's a great point. >> could have someone operating on you and you never get to meet him. >> coming up, does this sound like you? >> meet him on tv. >> does this sound like you? >> sounds like me. take your medicine for high blood pressure and cholesterol, right, but you don't have a lot of time to exercise, so coming up what doctors will tell us what you could be neglecting the most important part of staying healthy. stay with us. ♪

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and back now at "sunday housecall" and our weekly segment should i worry, the segment that we talk about everything that worries us. one viewer asks i'm taking meds for blood pressure and chet ral, but i don't feel like exercising. should i worry? dr. siegel? >> yes, you should worry. >> wow. >> and i'll tell you why. there's a new study out of oregon this week that worries me. it's a study that looks at 3,000 men over seven years, so this is a really long study, and it says that men over the age of 65 who are taking statins were 40 minutes less per week of exercise, 40 minutes less per week. that's the amount of exercise we

actually need to prevent heart disease and actually we said earlier in the show you needed if you have heart disease. we need the exercise and one-third of all older americans, eric, take statins so what's the cause here, eric, that's what i want to talk about. what is the cause? because statins give you muscle aches and people out there because of the muscle aches don't want to exercise or because you say, huh, i got the statins, i don't don't need anything else. my cholesterol's going to be low -- >> you're looking at numbers your cholesterol's just gone right down into the basement. >> but exercise is more important than anything else. much more important. statins are very important. and i'm not going to go on the show here and say not to take them because if your doctor prescribes them you may need them. if you're at high risk of heart disease, if you already have heart disease. i am pro statin but i'm even more pro exercise. >> dr. samadi, a lot of people have o'take blood pressure medication. and i understand that. but is there any other better way to treat it? there are so many side effects

to this medication which i think causes problems. >> listen, i'm with you 100% on this. and we've talked about, for example, if you have to take something start with something which will have the same effect as lipitor. lifestyle changes. watching what you're eating. low fat, high fiber would reduce your cholesterol. you should try all of those. but my concern, and again, this is not a criticism of medical doctors but everybody should be on aspirin until proven otherwise and every cardiac surgeon, a lot of them say take your lipitor or crestor and now we're pulling back and saying wait a second, it causes muscle pain, we don't know why they're not exercising and now we're back to square one. you're taking the effect of people doing the exercise because they have this kind of muscle pain. we're back to the same exact thing. are we overtreating our patients with these medications? my answer is yes. i think you should change your lifestyle first, change your diet, stick to exercise. as a last resort, then you write the prescriptions.

not the other way around. >> you hear the mantra, like baby aspirin, fish oil, and statins. >> well, here's where i want to agree with david. there's no such thing as a one size fits all in medicine. it's got to be a doctor and a patient, hopefully not by telemedicine, a doctor and a patient sit there and decide what is useful. i say statins are useful. i don't think they're last resort, but not everybody should be taking them. for a while everybody was going on them. and one out of three elderly americans are taking them. that could be too much. >> baby aspirin. >> again, not for everyone. >> but we had a segment about this, eric, if you remember. if you have some of these receptors, after the colon biopsy, remember, those patients would benefit from aspirin. but to say that everyone should take aspirin, every patient is coming and taking aspirin, we're overdoing it. it's too much. >> you mentioned taking the vitamins. and i like that approach. but you should obviously talk to your doctor first because is it possible that some of the over-the-counter herbal remedies may counteract with your

prescribed medication? >> point well taken. and red yeast rice, you should talk to your doctor and tell him you're taking it. but there's also some genetic component to high cholesterol. some people automatically have extremely high triglycerides, no matter how much you run and whether you jump from the plane or whatever healthy food. it's not going to go -- that's when medication can save your life. >> in the future, and he's sitting right in this direction i was going to say. >> is that a compliment? >> yes. >> in the future we're going to be able to tell who needs what based on their genetic profile. we're going to say this group needs an aspirin, this group needs lipitor. >> until then exercise, even if you are taking your statins. >> talk to your doctor. absolutely. >> we've heard of cow's milk and even goat's milk. but camel milk? that's right. milk from a camel coming out. why some are calling it the next big thing.

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well, it is being hailed as the next super food. what is it? ye now. >> it is hailed as the next super food at research showed there was less cholesterol than could you's move and more protein and vitamin c and iron. >> you are not convincing me to start drinking scam -- camel milk. >> it is popular and the train

has left the station already. 40 whole food companies now are serving camel milk and the reason is it is easy to digest, supposed to have better or more insulins and it goes on and on and on. if you can afford it it is $18 a pint. i would rather put gas in my car. but, also, look, we talked about the mers and every topic, they kept saying it is coming from drinking cap people moves milk. for me, at least, i am nod an advocate. it tastes...supposeed to taste like vanilla and salt. it is as close as it comes to the mother's milk. >> i don't know if you are up to drinking mother's milk. >> i am not endorsing for a

republican i will reveal at end the it is high in protein and lower in cholesterol and has the kind of 2359y acids we like and it does not cause as many allergies so maybe some people have to have it because they are allergic to could you's milk and it is good for the immune system. i will reveal on national tv i am could sure and will not drink cow's milk because it is not kosher. >> cow's milk? >> camel's milk is not kosher. it is not kosher. it is not kosher. >> it is supposed to be easier to digest milk but i don't think we have enough camels in the country, we have about 5,000. >> a lot of examples. >> it is very expensive but there are advantages. it is for certain people. it tastes good but a little bit too much salt. >> anyone want to donate a camel for father's day?

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