samadi is saying? smoking and alcohol. you go through college and you're a big smoker and drinker. you stop. you get married. you want to get pregnant. can you reverse any damage that's done? >> absolutely. are you can definitely -- i don't want to say reverse damage that's done. damage may not have been done. if you improve your lisfestyle, your ability to be fertile will improve. there's genetic factors. you don't want people to feel it's all their fault because some people have a problem they need to get fixed or can't get fixed and that's the reason they're infertile. but this is very happy news. >> i thought that was excellent question. i think the effect of smoking stays in your system for at least 10 to 15 years. all that depends on how much you smoked. if you're a heavy smoker, the sooner you stop the better off you are. most of the smoking and alcohol has to do with the mobility of the sperm. and when you get checked, if the first time the lab is abnormal, don't rely on that. it's always excellent choice to go for

samadi. how many people in america have this procedure? >> about half a million americans are now getting this kind of procedure. it's called cardiac stent. what has happened over here is that in 2006, they found out he has a low risk for heart attack. they've been following him. the doctors have done an amazing job. he goes in for a routine physical exam. nothing wrong. they get a stress test just to make sure he's okay. some changes on ekg. angiogram. they find one of the arteries are blocked. it was dielated called angioplasty. a stent is a scaffold, wire that stays there. going back to your question, there's a big debate in america. for example, bringing in cholesterol. his blood pressure. if he has it or any other risk factors. there has been some good studies. two clinical studies randomize, mind you, which is great. what they've looked at is long term there's really not much of a survival benefit between medical treatment and what dr. segel does with cholesterol and lowering your blood pressure than a cardiac stent. why are we doing

sama samadi. >> actually this article came out of jama. we've had a lot of discussion about overdiagnosis and overtreatment. the truth is look at some of the facts. screening we know in the last two or three decades has reduced the number offal mortality. when you screen and overdiagnosis, of course, if you look for them, you're going to find them. the truth is -- >> that doesn't make any sense to me. >> if you start screening for cancer, you're going to find more and more of these diseases. then the question is, which one really are life threatening and which ones are really indolent. which is a bad cancer and which is a good cancer. we never used to use the words good and cancer in the same sentence. now what we're looking is to really distinguish. let's say you see five guys that come up with prostate cancer. three of them may die from prostate cancer. two of them may go on forever without having any problem. that's what we're discussing over here. my issue with this whole thing is that at the same time the panel also recommended gettin

sama samadi. >> actually this article came out of jama.ve had a lot of discussion about overdiagnosis and overtreatment. the truth is look at some of the facts. screening we know in the last two or three decades has reduced the number offal mortality. when you screen and overdiagnosis, of course, if you look for them, you're going to find them. the truth is -- >> that doesn't make any sense to me. >> if you start screening for cancer, you're going to find more and more of these diseases. then the question is, which one really are life threatening and which ones are really indolent. which is a bad cancer and which is a good cancer. we never used to use the words

david samadi, chairman of urology at lennox hospital. dr. marc siegel is here.uthor of "the inner pulse: unlocking the secret code of sickness and health." that is what we do here on "sunday housecall." great to see both of you. >> good morning. >> let's get healthier, shall we? there's some new research actually in the fight against cancer. everybody wants to do what they can. scientists have discovered a way of firing up your immune system to go ahead and attack cancer cells. so dr. samadi, fire it up. >> yeah. our immune system is very complex. yet it's very interesting. over the years, we've talked about the fact that we have used any way to boost the immune system and weakening the cancer cells, which is the way to go. surgery and radiation and chemotherapy was a way to treat the cancer cells. what we're doing now in the future is really to boost the immune system. in urology, for example. for bladder cancer we've used tuberculosis to boost the immune system so they can treat bladder cancer. now we have taken some of the blood and re-engineered it and put i

samadi. sugar is almost as bad as salt, it turns out. it is in things we don't even know.us about the study. >> this is a very for one. it was published in new england jurn afl medicine. comes from seattle. they looked at about 2,000 pr advertise pants and followed them for long enough period that nice thing about the study is they looked at both diabetics and nondiabetics and had a control group and were able to see that among diabetics, you have an increase of 41%, increased risk of dementia and alzheimer's. will some connection between being diabetic and leading to this kind of alzheimer's. this is not a foreign topic to you. every week we are doing this. we talked about anemia and dementia. we talk about high blood pressure and dementia. now diabetes. >> not just diabetes, though. even people who are not yet declared diabetic but have sugar in their diet should be thinking about this. >> that's right. it is a very good point. that's a pre-diabetic people on the way to becoming diabetic. that's -- for. what exactly is the reason. in this study they were not able to answ

david samadi. chair of urology at lenox hill hospital and professor of urology at the hofstra north shore long island school of medicine. good to see you. we get another stud write out here that talks about the benefits of women making sure they eat plenty of fish to ghetto make a fatty 3 acids to do some sort of prevention for alleviate rheumatoid arthritis. >> it is very interesting because i think omega 3 patty acids is become the celebrity of all these herbs. every week we are getting news about this. for the longest time, omega 3 fatty acid, great for the heart, reduces inflammation and reduce it is risk of heart attacks. that's fairly established. we, in my field of prostate cancer, we thought it will help you to reduce the risk of prostate cancer. we are finding out too much of owe make 3 fatty acid is not great for prostate cancer. will has been a lot of publicity about this in the past month or so. talking about rheumatoid arthritis. the base of arthritis is all infloridamation. what omega

samadi? >> so copper is one of the metals that is absolutely essential to our existence. it's important for our connective tissues. it's important for red blood cells. and it's absolutely important to our existence. now what they're saying is there's too much of copper can actually damage what we call blood brain barrier. our brain basically has a barrier, has a gate. too much copper can really break that down and you will have accumulation of what beta amyloid,the plaque in alzheimer's. this has come back and forth. we've had mixed data about this. but what i will tell you is that if you have -- if you're deficient in copper -- >> you can test for it. >> you can test for it. that's a good point. 24 hour urine test. you take your urine for 24 hours. take it to the doctor. they check the level. or you can get a blood test for it. that's the way you know whether you have too much copper or not. we get copper from food. we get it from nuts, chocolate, oyster. it's all over. fruits and vegetables. even all the healthy stuff we've told you you would get copper from that. but y

saifd isdavid samadi. dr., go the shocking study about obesity is our country.say obesity may be deadlier than people thought. according to new research it accounts for about 18% of all deaths in our nation. how obese or how fat do you have to be before you tip over that line that it's really unhealthy. >> let's start with the definition of what obesity is. we call it a body mass index of greater than 30.

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samadi, and a member of the fox news medical a-team, thank you for coming in. >> sure. thank you.ion? >> so the throat cancer was always one of major risk factors with smoking and alcohol, and that has been in decline. now we know that 60% of all these throat cancers are related to hpv, and that's a really big news. the study that we're talking about that's coming from texas health center is that they did a survey of about 4,000 people, and now their -- they're finding out that poor dental hygiene correlates to getting these kind of hpvs which can relate to throat cancer. >> and about a year ago michael douglas, it was discovered that he had the throat cancer from this hpv virus. >> yeah. it was great that he really talked about it, he brought it to the news, and now more and more people are aware of this. hpv is extremely easy to get, there's no good vaccine for this, and about 10,000 men end up with this, about 3,000 women get this. but so now we're finding out that brushing your teeth and keeping a real good dental hygiene can prevent this kind of hpv contamination. even if you