dr. natalie azar.u for being here. >> thank you for having me. >> you said last night that we just didn't have enough information to go on in terms of a layman's characterization of donald trump's health. do you understand more than you did before? >> i think that the letter that we got, the information that we got does give us a lot of information. and i would argue at this point an adequate amount of information, just to get a good picture of his general health. we have laboratories, his lipid profile, which was excellent, which i would anticipate, since he's on a statin drug. >> which is cholesterol? >> yes. >> but if it looks good and you are on a medication, that means that it's working for you. >> right. >> he said he did go through four different drugs before he found one working for him. >> sometimes people don't tolerate them. i don't know the details of why he had more than one. but suffice it to say, it appears to be working. we have, as you calculated, we have some vital signs for him, bloo

dr. natalie azar, nbc medical news contributor and joined by dr. john torres, thanks for being with us. neither of you are the personal physicians of donald trump or hillary clinton. we want to talk about what kind of information you might be able to get from what peter described. dr. azar, when you look at the list of information, the summary trump gave dr. oz today, as a physician who has not examined the patient, how helpful is that really? >> i think it depends on what is actually included in that one piece of paper. as i have said numerous times, somebody without a significant past medical history could re reliably summarize their medical history in one page. typically we expect a list of medications, allergies, medical history, relevant family history, social history like history of smoking, et cetera. we would also want to see a recent physical exam with vital signs and laboratories. the issue i think at hand now is that from what we have heard is something that's a little bit more in depth called review of system where is the doctor asks a patient a battery of questions asking a

dr. natalie azar. pneumonia is a kind of general term, isn't it? there's different kinds and severities of pneumonia. >> absolutely. pneumonia, very specifically, means an infection of the lung tissue. over 30 different organisms can cause pneumonia, viruses, bacteria, fungi. >> on this team, two people talked about it this morning. one was in bed for a week, the other was sort of up and walking around. >> exactly, so we don't know exactly what kind of pneumonia she was diagnosed with. we were given this generic term. some types, we give them a euphemism, walking pneumonia, refers to a mild kind of pneumonia where you can go to work, school, and continue your activities, but you're coughing and aio don't feel well and you feel fatigued. >> we know it was her coughing, according to her campaign, that led her to the doctor that led to this diagnosis. how serious can pneumonia be for any 68-year-old. >> the vast majority of people who are considered healthy, pneumonia should not be that serious. as we say with most infectious diseases, most older immu

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dr. natalie azar. we have questions that are embarrassing. people ask you all kinds of things. >> at work and at home. >> why do -- not me but other people -- why do their feet stink? >> there's a couple culprits. you can blame your shoes. you can blame your socks and you can blame your feet themselves. feet sweat. smell. what sweat does is creates this perfect environment for bacteria and fungus to grow and that's why feet end up smelling. so number one is good foot hygiene. clean your feet well. keep them as clean and dry as possible. in terms of sock, stay away from pollest polyester and nylon and change them every day. >> you can't recycle socks. kids in college, i can't turn them around inside out a >> right, guys? >> boys do that. >> why do people get constipated when they fly? >> you have to think what goes in goes out. one of the biggest culprits is dehydration. people don't drink enough water. you need to stay hydrated. you're eating different things. things with not enough fiber. people have bathroom anxiety. if you're not in your u

dr. natalie azar. good morning. >> good morning. >> let's break down what the study says, how do we change the timeline or what is the suggestion? >> tamron, basically what the study showed it was a meta-analysis which means it looked at and reviewed 146 studies of over 200,000 kids and found that there was a decreased introduced earlier on in life. now, what does that mean exactly? >> define. >> earlier on in life for nut products it's 4 months to 11 months and eggs it's between 4 and 6 months. it's important to put this study into context. the background here is that from about 1999 to 2009 there was a doubling of food allergies, everyone you know has a child with a food allergies. >> peanut allergies. >> exactly. interestingly this coincided american academy of pediatrics in 2000 that we should limit the exposure to allergenic foods in our kids, same thing when i had a baby in 2005 i was not supposed to give him peanuts until age one or two. >> now the study bucks that. >> right. but then as we foun

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dr. natalie azar an nbc news medical contributor.hat, overheating, and i have said a couple times earlier today i couldn't even wear what i'm wearing now to be appropriately dressed to anchor a broadcast. i was wearing shorts and a t-shirt when i came in early this morning. it was that horrible, that weather. but what you saw there, let's talk about what you think may have led to that. >> i think alex, the presumption it was due to the heat and dehydration and, frankly, just her schedule, as you and your correspondents have pointed out in great detail, she has an unbelievably challenging, tacking schedule that would be so physically for anybody, let alone somebody who is her age. and i mention that only because as we get older, the risk for cardiovascular disease and things like that obviously increases. but, again, i think the presumption that what happened today watis secondary to fatigu being overheated, possibly being dehydrated and frankly standing for a long period of time, there's something -- a fainting reflex think is not un

dr. natalie azar. >> if you crave sweets it's a girl. >> no. if you're more nauseous it's a boy. >> no. >> if you sleep on your left side you're having a boy. >> no. >> what about carrying high, carrying low. out front as opposed to wide? >> no. >> still even she couldn't resist. >> that leaves me to my next question, what do you think i'm having? >> i think you're having a boy? in the end we crowd sourced it. >> who thinks i'm having a girl? >> okay. and who thinks i'm having a boy? >> wow. okay. sounds like i'm having a boy. >> what is it? >> so shake and a pink shake. >> okay. >> would you like to do the honors? >> okay. you guys, i didn't really want to make a big deal of this or anything about what it was going to be, but -- oh, my gosh, what is that? >> it's a boy! >> yes. >> we popped for a plane? that's pretty good. >> we're having a boy. >> the masses were right. >> i know they said there is no science to it -- >> congratulations. >> thanks. >> i have to say to matt excellent secret keeping. >

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dr. natalie azar is a contributor. you won't diagnosis somebody watching on tv but i will ask you now that the fact that we know secretary clinton has pneumonia. what were your concerns looking at the video. >> when s pneumonia, which is an infection of the lung tissue, they can get dehydrated and weakened. they're more susceptible to feeling the effects of standing for an hour and a half and having a rigorous schedule. from what we know, the information objectively that we received is that she was diagnosed with pneumonia on friday. on the heels of a very prolonged cough as we all have heard about. and that she started antibiotics. we don't know what kind of pneumonia she has. she was given antibiotics. we can presume it was a bacterial pneumonia. certain kinds can present with coughing fits and spasms and low grade fever can result in what we call lingering fatigue and tiredness and muscle weakness. >> is there anything about her age that makes a pneumonia diagnosis more problematic or concerning? >> typically as we

dr. natalie azar is with us now. explain what's going on. >> we want to say we want to temper the enthusiasm. previous drugs have shown promise in early phase one trials and gone on to not show significant improvement in patients clinically. that's kind of important. these abnormal plaques of protein in the brain. patients given this drug for a year and in a time and dose dependent manner had a significant reduction of these plaques which means people that got highest dose had almost complete disappearance of these plaques. i want to say again does that translate something meaningful in terms of cognitive function. >> just because you have a reduction in thero production of memory and thinking problems or even halt the progression. >> exactly. here's where the important thing is that we do know that these plaques can start to surface years, even a decade before symptoms start so imagine if you could take a population of people who are at risk, either by screening or genetic risk and give them this drug that early and

dr. natalie azar is with us now. it's exciting, but explain what's going on. >> first of all, i want to say from the outset that we want to temper a little bit of the enthusiasm because previous drugs have shown promise in early phase one trials and gone on to not show significant improvement in patients clinically. i think that's kind of causes alzheimer's. we do know it's characterized by these abnormal plaques of protein in the brain. what these studies show is that patients given this drug for a year and in a time and dose dependent manner had a significant reduction of these plaques which means people that got highest dose had almost complete disappearance of these plaques. but i do want to say does that translate something meaningful in terms of cognitive function. >> i want to make sure i understand. just reduction in the protein plaques doesn't mean you slow the production of memory and thinking problems or even halt the progression. >> exactly. but here's where the important thing is, is that we do know that