Dr. Jeffrey Kopin: Get your blood pressure checked

Dr. Jeffrey Kopin, Chief Medical Officer for Northwestern Medicine Lake Forest Hospital, joins John Williams to talk about the importance of stretching as we age, if there are benefits to taking supplements, a nasal spray flu vaccine approved by the Food and Drug Administration being available for purchase for self-administration, when new COVID vaccines will be available, and what we know about new blood pressure guidelines.

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