marc siegel. author of the inner pulse, unlocking the secret code of sickness and health. >> and dr. david samadi. chief of robotics surgery. good to see you both. >> you've always had some type of viral infection. remember what you had? the measles or the mumps or whatever else? now the new blood test may allow doctors to trace the exact viruses we've been exposed to. are they going to find out everything about me? >> not everything. i want to start by what is a virus. is virus is a tiny packet of genetic material. once it's in the body, we can't see it until it makes you sick but there's something called a sub clinical infection where you're not sick and you may have been exposed to it but i need to know if you've seen the virus before because those viruses can lead to auto immune diseases and cancer and all kinds of problems. i look at it this way. it's like a crime scene. you want to know who the perpetrator is and you follow the suspect. these days we check dna at the crime scene. we don't ha

marc siegel. of the inner pulse, unlocking the secret code of sickness and health. >> and dr. david samadi. chief of robotics surgery. good to see you both. >> you've always had some type of viral infection. remember what you had? the measles or the mumps or whatever else? now the new blood test may allow doctors to trace the

." >> marc siegel professor of medicine at nyu and author of the inner pulse, unlocking the secret code and health. >> and dr. david samadi professor at lenoxville hospital and chief of robotics surgery. good to see you. >> you have always had some type of viral infection. remember what you had? the meez les or mumps of whatever else we used to get? a new blood test can

marc siegel, professor of medicine at langone medical center and also the author of "unlocking the code of sickness and health." >> good to see you. >> thank you for coming in. >> we've been talking about maryland governor larry hogan, his diagnosis, set to begin claim therapy, the governor undergoing after he stays he has stage three non-hodgkins lymphoma. stage three, still is a treatable patient. >> yes. >> tell us about how they plan on treating him. >> well, this is a fairly aggressive cans their he's having so when you talk about lymphoma, which is a cancer of lymph nodes, they come in hodgkins or non-hodgkins which is what he has. non-hodgkins is more common and b-cell non-hodgkins is 90%. stage three is key and important information that's fairly aggressive and on both sides of the diagram and there's multiple lymph nodes. someone presents with a big lymph node and they may have weight loss, some night sweats or fever. they biopsy that and then they find out it's lymphoma and then they get a cat scan and p.e.t. scan and realize how far it's gone. most of the treatment chemothera

." >> marc siegel, professor of medicine at nyu and author of the inner pulse, unlocking the secret codef sickness and health. >> and dr. david samadi professor at lenoxville hospital and chief of robotics surgery. good to see you. >> you have always had some type of viral infection. remember what you had? the meez les or mumps of whatever else we used to get? a new blood test can allow doctors to trace the viruses that we have been exposed to. dr. siegel, they are going to find out everything about me and know what i have got. >> not everything but find out what you are infected. a virus is a tiny packet of genetic material. rna or dna. genetic material. what's it is in the body we can't see it until it makes you sick. there is a sub clinical infection where you are not yet sick. you may have been exposed to it and may never be sick but i need to know whether you have seen a virus before, because those viruses hidden in your body can lead to auto immune diseases, cancer, all kinds of problems. i look at it this way -- it's like a crime scene. if you were at a crime scene you want to kno

marc siegel professor of medicine at langone medical center and also the author of "unlocking the codeealth." >> good to see you. >> thank you for coming in. >> we've been talking about maryland governor larry hogan, his diagnosis, set to begin claim therapy, the governor

marc siegel, author of "the inner pulse, unlocking the secret pulse of sickness and health." >> good to see you. >> good to see you both doctors. >> a troubling new study out on sleeping pills. researchers say that when people begin taking certain sedatives their risk of having a car crash can nearly double. dr. samadi, is this true? >> well, you don't need a doctor to tell you this because there are a lot of side effects about the sleeping pills. the university of washington looked at about 400,000 records of patients who take these medications. we're talking about sleeping pills such as ambien, restoril, trazadone, all sedatives. i like them in a case where there's a crisis. let's say there's a real crisis in your family. you absolutely can't sleep. for a week or two i think it's good to use them to get through and get rid of them, but when you take a lot of these medications, they have a long effect. it's addictive, and it's not good for you, and i certainly, if you can stay away from it you should. a lot of times we talked about other sleeping pills. we've talked about ginger, va

marc siegel.cket challenge started it all and you couldn't get hard hit and hurt badly with cold water, but a ghost pepper challenge, where it's so much stronger than a regular jalapeno you can hurt yourself. >> yeah. >> the goal behind this hot pepper by the way, burns can actually take the seeds from the pepper and transmit it around and they don't taste the ka payson in a pepper but we taste it and it's supposed to ward us off and sure does. it is incredibly hot. elisabeth's point that our teens are interested in the social media, being on the camera. they think they're impervious to harm you can get burned throats, you can, reflux ulcers bleeding. this is really damage your stomach lining terribly. >> of course. kids know this is not just three officer four friends watching millions on social media, the pressure is compounded there. what about the kylie jenner lip challenge? we've seen kids go to the emergency room. get a little glass and suck until their lips become -- >> the danger with the

we are joined by one of our favorite doctors, marc siegel. mark welcome good to have you here.u think about this? how dangerous is this? >> tuberculosis is a bacteria. it's hard to get. but it is airborne and it gets you pretty sick. people lose weight. they can cough up blood and they get feverish and they can die from this. there are 10,000 cases in the united states last year. but this extensive drug he is and the type, very rare in the united states. only 60 cases over a 20-year period. so this is very rare. there has been a big study about what the risk is on planes. he had six cases and found that thousands of people exposed a few, counsel converted to t.b. positive as a result. a thousand exposed and two got it. lucky for 998. >> that's why the cdc is doing contact tracing. the chances of this occurring is extremely low. you have reported she is stable in chicago in the hospital. but i have to tell you 30% to 50% of people who get there is extensive drying distance recover and -- extensive resistance are covered. she is probably resist and the to the world-saving drugs.