if you have your own hit or miss, tweet it to us. that's it for this week's show. thanks so my panel. and to all of you for watching. hope to see you right here next week. time now for sunday house call. >> welcome as always. joining us, professor of medicine, author of the inner post, unlocking the koefd sickness and health. >> and chairman and professor of urology at lenox hill hospital and chief of robotic surgery. good to see you both. >> good to see you, as always. >> you picked a nice color for today. >> thank you. i tried. my mom is happy about that. this is fascinating p. we are talking about bionic limbs no longer unique.

doctors per forming the world's first bionic hand on three austrian patient who are not labelled to could just about everything. so how common place will these limbs become and how reliable is the technology. dr. siegel, we will start with you. is the future now? >> the future is now. 1.7 million people in the united states missing at least one limb. for those people out there, this is an amazing day. the department of defense has been working on research for these kinds of artificial limbs for seven or eight years now. they got approval for deka. like luke from the star wars trilogy. it is a mind-driven limb. in other words, your mind drives your upper arm to then fire the prosthetic limb. >> what's new about that is -- >> connected to nerves? >> exactly. nerves in the upper arm were

attached to the prosthetic limb and then your brain was able to fire it. that's the one that was approved last year. let me tell what you is new today. in the study from austria, they took some nerves from the thigh. because they said, those nerve fre the up are arm aren't enough. they aren't strong enough. so they transplanted nerves from the thigh into the arm. what's left of the arm. then into prosthesis. the key here is mind control. you are able to control the prosthetic limb with your mind. pick up marbles. put a key in a lock. do a zipper. all the things you need do with daily function. that's the new game. and that's the future. >> i think what's interesting about this is that the only way this is going to work is that the whole robotic technology, also technology of the nerves and the muscles, all of that, science has to come together for this to work. this is three patients.

they had some nerve injury to the brakal plexis. the brakal plexis is a group of nerves on the upper arm with some injury. now there is no function on the lower part of their arms. what it involves is much more complex than mark just mentioned. they have to amputate and they have to be willing to go for that. they have to amputate the part of arm. they have to bring the muscle and nerves and repair it, that part that's missing. so the whole contact between the brain and nerves would function and brick the pros see the ice into it. very complex process. but a huge break through in this field that's going to work. and i want you to pay attention to the video that you just showed. because to understand how sensitive this is, you are taking an egg and moving it over. right? and if you don't have a feedback from those, you could crush that egg or the way they are moving, look at that. that's process by itself is so sensitive and now they are also have added some sort of feedback

from the prosthesis back up. it is huge progress. >> can this goat a point where if you have this type of damage, it will be very common. >> yes. yes. but i want it distinguish the point david just made with what i said earlier. 1.7 million people are people that lack a limb. this particular stud oou is looking at people that had damage to nerves up here that allow to you move your hands. they still had their hands but their hands weren't working. they made a prosthesis, attached it, and the first training they did is they had you to learn the fake hand or new hand with your mind. then once you had done that, they gave you the option. do you want your other hand, that is not useful, amputate ped. that's a very specialized situation with people have what's a brakal plexis injury. from the department of defense, this will apply to all people who have am app amputations.

starting with our warriors. >> who pays for this? does insurance cover this? >> not now. >> this is in the official initial phase and it'll probably pan out they will pay for it. what i also find interesting is, 90% of the time we save the nerve in order to save the function. 10% of the time the cancer has gone into the nerves. we will take that nerve in order to save someone's life. we used to take a piece of nerve from the lower extremity and plant it in the area where the nerve is gone to see if the central function will come back app data was not as promising. in this particular one they were able to bring the muscle and nerve and graph and do the repair. so they have done an amazing job. and it is working well for them. >> same thing with this -- >> sorriry. >> same thing with this bionic arm. maybe wau at comment about it. >> i want to make a comment

about what david does. he works with robotics everyday. we are working further and further into robotics where you don't just have some prosthesis that hangs there and is a space keeper. now we are actually able to get it useful again. that kind of robotics is an extension of robotic surgery which we -- >> how soon will this be accessible to people who need it. >> it is going through trial. it is done in europe. and it'll be available here. so fa are they have total of seven of these type of patient out there. but like anything else, 15 years ago when i was starting to go robotic surgery for prostate cancer, people said this is crazy. today, a lot of people are doing this. when you're in the operating room a couple of years ago, we were able to zoom in and see the sensitive nerves around the organs. and how much we have changed and

how far we have come -- >> and the bionic eye -- >> this is going on at mayo clinic. remember that the retina of the eye is like a a camera. you can't see because basically your film is overexposed. now what they are doing is implanting a computer chip in the back of the eye and put the computer on your hip. and the camera at the outside of your eye. have you a camera, report images, computer on your thigh signals the chip at the back of your eye to signal the optic nerve or brain, you can't see the way we can see but maybe you can see the way jordan could see on star trek next generation. >> in the light. >> the light and you see some images. >> it is basically the whole retina, which is the receptors, are not working. so they put in exactly what mark said. microchips, camera, processor. and a lot of patients who have

pig pigmentosa, they have tunnel vision and not good night vision. as a result of this 66-year-old person able to get this eye, not only able to see the light and also see his wife. >> we hope you like what you see. >> he wants to say that after 30 years of blindness, now that he open his eyes, he wants to he soot wife the same way. hopefully she hasn't gained weight. i guess that's joke. >> fascinating. >> big progress in technology. >> amazing. amazing. >> you had your coffee yet this morning? guess what? doctors will tell you how good coffee now is turning out. especially for one terrible disease. drink your coffee, the doctors will fill us in. and you ever find yourself tossing and turning in the middle of the night? >> all the time. >> well one viewer relies on a popular allergy medicine to get sleep. you hear about people doing

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and we're back now on sunday house call. muscular sclerosis affects about 4 million people around the world. doctors say you can reduce that by drinking four cups of coffee a day. doctors praise coffee as the happy beneficial drink. >> i hate to say i told you so. about four years ago we called the shot on this. everybody came on attack by saying it causes heart disease.

and it may do some of that stuff but we are finding more and more and in fact this week, in the american academy of neurology in washington, d.c., they reported this, that if you are having three to four cups, something about three to four, now most studies say six, i think that's too much. but something kicks in. around three to four cups of coffee a day that can reduce and it has neuro protection. what does that mean? cases like ms, parkinson's, alzheimer's, coffee reduces the -- >> in where? >> inflammation in your body. in the case of ms, we think this is obviously inflammatory and autoimmune is attacking the sheets, right? not the caffeine itself but a lot of the antioxidants that it has. it can reduce some of the inflammatory processes.

>> what are sidokynes. >> they are the factors themselves. it can also reduce the risk of diabetes which is really fascinate pg. >> but that is if you're not adding a ton of sugar to your coffee. >> your point is well taken. every time i talk about three to four cups, that is black coffee. i drink three to four cups. for every cup of coffee, i drink two glasses of water. so you get fluid, hydration. no sugar, no milk. and everything we talked about is going live on twitter. plus all of the benefits of melanoma, diabetes. >> you talked about the benefits of coffee. caffeine, too much of it can make you jittery. you talked about acid reflux. but there are a lot of benefits. i call it the happy drink. i don't know what it has, but it makes you feel good. >> doctor first introduced this on this show and i give him credit for that.

there is more and more observational research. meaning we look at populations and we are finding that if you drink a lot of coffee, four to six cups in most studies, in what we are talking about is four cups in the american study, six cups in the swedish study. but let's say four cups. that's the number dave sid talking about. it looks like it decreases your risk of type two diabetes. decreases risk of cancer. decreases risk of melanoma. now parkinson's, alzheimer's, and today we are talking about ms. the doctor from hopkins thinks it is the caffeine in this case. it may be caffeine in some cases. mostly the coffee. but the antioxidant affects. i don't want everyone to rush out and have four cups of coffee today without talking to their doctor first. because -- >> stand up and choke you or -- >> no, i'm not disagreeing with

you. do you have ulcer disease? do have you a tendency for ulcer disease? do you have to a reason i don't want to you have an acidic stomach? some precursor problem that could lead to esophageal cancer. what am i worried about? can you tolerate an increased heart rate. i don't think coffee has anything do with heart disease but can you top rate an increased heart rate. do you have anxiety? do you sleep at night? also, don't have a lot of coffee right before you go to bed. >> what is the cut-off time? even if you can handle four cups of coffee. >> a good rule of thumb is not after dinner. though i certainly break that rule myself. for most people, don't have coffee at 9:00. >> you get up in the middle of the night and urinate and it is not good for you. >> i think a lot of this, a lot of good points just came up. but most studies talk about the fact that even decaf is good for you because it is mostly the acid or that antioxidant.

not the caffeine. tea is also good but not as coffee. it also leads to osteoporosis so take your vitamin d and exercise. but if you have reflux, heart disease, pregnant, stay away. for everybody else, cheers. >> and he's gotten me to drink a lot more coffee. i don't sleep at night. >> then you should stick around, i want to hear your take -- >> for a lot of people that complain, do i get paid by pharmaceuticals about all of this medical marijuana. i don't have stock in any coffee company. i don't get paid by anybody. this is all research for you. >> this report looks good. >> i want to hear what you say about this, using a popular allergy medication as a sleep aid. is that a sleep way to get shuteye? and we will look at surgery with questionable long-term benefits

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works. we're back now. we're at sunday house kael call, on our weekly segment, shusz i worry. one viewer writes in saying i take ben brill sometimes to help me sleep. is it safe? doctor siegel, we've often heard of parents giving ben drill to the kids on the airplane so they can sleep. what do you think? >> i want to speak directly to the viewer. here is the useful advice. for some people, if you have a lot of allergies and that's why you are staying up at nice, a

stuffed nose and watery eyes, and that's why you can't sleep, maybe. but don't do it without a doctor getting involved because as you get older it leads to urinary retention, it can make you sleep walk. i actually prefer if i'm going to use over-the-counter merchandises i don't like ben drill, i prefer valerin. or melatonin. >> what was that. >> in valeriant, if you take that, it will cause your body to make more melatonin, the natural hormone of sleechl i like that better than ben drill. >> i have to tell you something, i don't do it anymore but i used to take children's ben drill sometimes to go to go to sleep. i used to do that. and it worked, i would get to sleep. >> the most important word you use was sometimes.

sometimes you can get away with it. but if you are going to take it all the time. and sometimes you can drin with sedative behavior is going to affect you, et cetera a not good. it can lower your blood pressure, and affect you long term i'm spleetly against it. i think the valerian, and the natural herbals, are better. produce the melatonin, buy fine the underlying problem. >> we all have it. >> america is not sleeping. >> are you under a lot of stress, the cell phone is going. >> i can't shut off my mind. >> i think a lot of times sleep apnea, hormonal changes, stress, the effect of the environmental changes and temperature changes, there is a whole list of thing. you want to treat the underlying problem not the knee jerk reaction. >> warm miming. >> that upsets my stomach. >> heat up the warm milk with braeds. put butter on the bread, warm

the bread up -- >> by the way, only a little bit did i have the children's ben drill because i have weak stomach. >> once in a while i think it's okay. >> go to sleep the same time every night, exercise regularly. >> nobody can do that, doctor, decrease stress. >> this is somebody who -- >> very good. week we are looking at some of the most overperformed procedures coming up next. stick around for that. 73% of am. ...to cook healthy meals. yet up to 90% fall short in getting key nutrients from food alone. let's do more... ...add one a day 50+. complete with key nutrients we may need. plus it supports physical energy with b vitamins. one a day 50+ oh i'm on the cookie air and that's it.... i prefer real food, fruit, nuts, and whole grains. great grains cereal starts whole and stays whole. more processed flakes look nothing like natural grains. let's get real.

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new evidence that shows some surgical procedures work in the short-term but maybe not in the long term. dr. samadi, what's this about? >> this is coming from aarp. there were basically four procedures that they think is being overdone. one of them is cardiac accident. the other one is spinal fusion for back pain. and also hysterectomy for myomas and finally knee arthroscopy. >> i knew you were going to say knee surgery. so many. >> where they are legit or not, i don't want to go there, but the bottom line is maybe obesity has a lot to do with it and you are of more pressure on the knees. but the bottom live on this whole thing is there are options.

for example, myoma, you may need hoe more moanal changes or mobilization. and the whole point is to get a second opinion. it's always good to talk to a couple of surgeons. cardiac stents to stabilize angina may not be the best. >> is it that you have an unstable senator or is it that you have symptoms, did you try losing weight, try exercise, dry death, when it comes to the knee, did you try physical therapy, try losing weight. when it comes to the back, spinal stenosis or narrowing of the cancel. yoga, exercise. the kpee here is what did you try first? and the final point about the issue with the fibroids, we can take part of them out now as david said with robotics,

scopes. and we don't have to take out the whole uterus. it was done in the '50s and singtsz. it was sexist. >> four seconds. >> get a second opinion. >> thank you, as always. >> thanks for watching. >> welcome to a brand new hour of america's news head quards. >> israeli prime minister bening gin -- netanyahu will be arriving in the united states soon. >> he is scheduled to address congress on tuesday make his case against an emerging nuclear agreement with iran. the planning and timing of his trip adding to growing tensions between the u.s. and our closest ally in the middle east. connor powell joining us live from