dr. safd samadi. chief of robotic surgery. >> and dr. marc siegel, associate professor of medicine at nyu's langal medcon centical. joining us from london this morning. welcome to both of you. >> good morning, docs. >> good morning. >> we begin today with a potentially major change for blood pressure patients. have you heard about this? after new guidelines say they may not need the medication after all. dr. samadi, what does this mean if you have high blood pressure. should you stop taking what you're using? >> if you're on blood pressure medications and your doctor is guiding you and you're doing well, we don't want you to stop, but this is big news about high blood pressure, and the new guidelines is normally we call high blood pressure anything over 140 over 90. now, it could be up to 150 instead of 140 to be officially called high blood pressure. >> they raised the high blood pressure if you're older. >> from 140 to 150 if you're over 60. under 60, nothing has changed. if you're diabetic, if you have kidney disease, instead of 130,

dr. samadi. some people not getting the vaccinations. we talked about that a lot. >> that's exactly the reason we have this problem. pockets in texas because of religious reasons, in brooklyn there was a family, 50 people got this partly because of that exactly false information out there. we should just debunk this and put to it rest. this vaccine is safe. it does not cause autism. this comes from 1998 when andrew wakefield published a paper that said maybe this will cause autism. since then that paper is withdrawn. there's no proof this causes autism. everyone needs to go and get this vaccine. this vaccine usually is given between 12 and 18 months. it's fairly safe. the second boost is about five years old. as marc mentioned, it's extremely contagious. how do you know your child has it? four days of fever followed by three days of c, cough, common cold symptoms, congress jungt itis. and then a rash through the whole body. in the mouth you'll see white patchy lesions. that's the typical part of measles. there's no treatment. you can get

dr. david samadi is here. great to see both of you. >> great to see you. >> we're ready to learn. >> we start with something that's really important. this has to do with a new warning about a disease that many of us rarely worry about. that's measles. you have it when you were a kid? measles have been practically eradicated in the country, but they say this year, new pockets are creating some concern. dr. siegel, measles are back? why, and what can we do about it. >> measles is a virus. the thing we need to know is that it's a wildly contagious virus. we talk about flu on the show a lot. to give you an idea, if someone in your house has the flu, there's a 1 in 4 chance you're going to get it. if someone in your house has measles, there's a 94% chance you'll get it. it starts with runny nose, high fever, red eyes, and then a few days later, this red, red rash on the upper part of the body and then it spreads. the centers for disease control told me measles is a perfect example how a health problem anywhere is a

dr. david samadi, chairman of urology. >> and dr. marc siegel, associate professor of medicine. author of "the inner pulse, unlocking the secret code of sickness and health." >> we begin with something that's really important. have you heard about the meningitis outbreaks at some college campuses? now a fourth student has been struck by meningitis at the university of california santa barbara. it's a similar strain, they say, of the disease that sickened eight people already at princeton university in new jersey. dr. samadi, how dangerous is this? first, how is meningitis spread, and you think it could be scary if it gets on a college campus. >> frightening. >> yes, frightening, not only because of the disease by itself, but the fact it's been around since march and it hasn't gone away. usually, they have a short period and they disappear on its own. the fact it's gone from princeton to santa barbara is that's a reason why cdc made an unprecedented decision to bring in the vaccines from europe, to really, against fda approval, to see if we have to vaccinate our teenage and colle

dr. samadi, can you re-create the foods? is that what the fda is calling for without the trans fats, or are they going to take the food away? >> they're not taking the food away, but they're taking the trans fats away, which is a smart thing to do. the science shows it increases heart disease, coronary artery disease, increases the bad cholesterol, and lowers the hdl. this is a good call from the fda. >> can't be good for the brain, either? >> absolutely. we picked up on that from the first segment. absolutely. with the fda coming in and getting rid of this trans fat, we're going to see healthier population out there. the move started in 2003 when they said you have to put it on the labels. in 2007, all the new york restaurants eliminated and banned trans fats. and now we see that hopefully it will be out of our diet. this is a good thing. trans fat was created in order for these foods to be tastier, that they look better, they last longer. they have a better texture like pizza, french fries, everything else, and they have a

dr. samadi, first of all, what is autoimmune disease. >> autoimmune disease is basically our immune system fine, working correctly but attacking the wrong target which is our own organs. for example, type i diabetes you're going to see our immune system will go after the pancreas and that's how you get die beatous. autoimmune disease i think it should be changed to syndrome. it's not one disease. between celiac disease, thyroiditis and on and on, fibromyalgia, lupus, there's a whole series of autoimmune that everybody wanted to hear and that's why we're doing this. the ideology and cause behind this could be viral. people talked about epstein barr virus could be bacterial, could be some of the heavy metals we have and all the other things or could be the toxic food we have and we use. what do doctors do when they come to me i don't see a lot of them but they usually give steroids and they want to reduce the amount of inflammation. that's temporary. that's only taking care of the symptoms. but the truth is that our diet is not so healthy. we talk about sugar. i made a list of the things tha

dr. david samadi. >> good morning. >> some of the tests you really should have when necessary? list of them. blood pressure screening, cholesterol and thyroid screening. why should you have those? >> blood pressure is very important because it's a silent killer and you want to make sure your blood pressure is usually around 120 over 80. if your blood pressure is high, you want to make sure that you repeat it at least a couple more times before you really make sure that you have it. the reason is because heart disease and stroke, these are silent killers and you want to know what your blood pressure is. our biggest problem in this country is the high consumption of salt. we're consuming about 3500 milligrams of salt. we should be around 2500 milligrams. if you're a diabetic, have kidney disease you want to go to 1500. check your blood pressure around the age of 20 every year. cholesterol is important because that is another risk for heart disease and coronary artery disease et cetera. your cholesterol level should be less than 200. start checking it at the age of 20 because we h

dr. safd samadi. chief of robotic surgery. >> and dr.siegel, associate professor of medicine at nyu's langal medcon centical. joining us from london this morning. welcome to both of you. >> good morning, docs. >> good morning. >> we begin today with a potentially major change for blood pressure patients. ve

dr. david samadi, chairman of urology. >> and dr. marc siegel, associate professor of medicine.of "the inner pulse, unlocking the secret code of sickness and health." >> we begin with something that's really important. have you heard about the meningitis outbreaks at some college campuses? now a fourth student has been struck by meningitis at the university of california santa barbara. it's a similar

dr. safd samadi. chief of robotic surgery. >> and dr. marc siegel, associate p also the author of the enter pulse at nyu's langal medcon centical. joining us from london this morning. welcome to both of you. >> good morning, docs. >> good morning. >> we begin today with a potentially major change for blood pressure patients. have you heard ou

dr. david samadi is here. to see both of you. >> great to see you. >> we're ready to learn. >> we start with something that's really important. this has to do with a new warning about a disease that many of us rarely worry about. that's measles. you have i

dr. david samadi is with us. chairman of yourology and chief robotics surgeon. good to see you. >> we begin today, we talked about testosterone the other week. now there's a new warning from the fda saying a chemical found in common food items like french fries, potato chips, and cookies can actually cause cancer. cancer-causing chemicals in what we love? >> we're going to talk about the testosterone topic, too. >> we're talking about a chemical called acrylamide. we already don't like the food that acrylamide is in. we have been talking about it on the show for a long time. we're starting off in a good place. we like fruit and vegetables. that doesn't have a lot of acrylamide. we like low-fat dairy. you know what has acrylamide. it's a chemical that's formed by processi sugars and amino acid like a kimical equation and it forms acrylmide in stuff like french fries, toast as it's browning. as your food is browning or as your french fries are frying, you get acrylamide. the more you fry it, the more you get acrylamide. the thinner the french fry, the more you get

dr. david samadi from lenox hill hospital. we're ready to learn. with something that's really important. this has to do with a new warning about a disease that many of us rarely worry about and that's measles. measles have been practal

dr. david samadi is here, too. chief of robotic surb iic surge. doctors, great to have you here. so much. >> thank you. >> first, you begin with some of the

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dr. samadi is here with information that could save you time, money and maybe your life. ♪ ♪ ♪ ooh, homemade's homestyle soup with farm grown veggies. just like yours. huh. [ male announcer ] and roasted white meat chicken. just like yours. [ male announcer ] you'll think it's homemade. i love this show. [ male announcer ] try campbell's homestyle soup. a a >>> welcome back. nearly $750 billion is wasted on unnecessary medical services in the u.s. >> when it comes to common health problems, how do you know when to visit the doctor or not and when it's a waste of money or worth your time? dr. david samati is here to tell us exactly that. good morning. >> good morning. >> so let's go through some of the symptoms. there are a lot of things people experience often. cough. you have a chronic cough. is that a big issue? >> chronic cough, the definition is actually having it over two to three weeks. 90% of these are really nothing important. post nasal drips. we want people to know that even reflux, if you have acid reflux can cause this irritation. cough is a great thing. it's defense mechanism th