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Speaker 1: What's up its way up at Angela Yee.

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Speaker 2: I'm Angela Yee, and we have a very special Wealth

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Speaker 2: Wednesday today. And wealth is not only about finances. It's

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Speaker 2: all about health too, right, because what do we say,

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Speaker 2: we say health is wealth and it is also.

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Speaker 1: Minority Health Month.

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Speaker 2: That's the time to talk about health disparities and how

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Speaker 2: we can improve our health and the health.

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Speaker 1: Of our communities.

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Speaker 2: Now we'll be specific to New York City today because

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Speaker 2: we do have health disparities here in heart disease all right,

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Speaker 2: cardiovascular disease, which includes heart attack and stroke. It's a

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Speaker 2: leading cause of death in New York and stroke prevalence

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Speaker 2: is higher among Black adults in the state than all

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Speaker 2: other racial groups. So I have a great panel of

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Speaker 2: people here today and I'll introduce you one by one.

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Speaker 1: But I'll start with you.

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Speaker 2: Paula Wheeler is the co founder of Black Health in Atlanta.

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Speaker 1: But you're from the d.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm from Detroit.

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Speaker 2: You're from Detroit but now in Atlanta, and you went

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Speaker 2: to college in Atlanta, and so I want to talk

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Speaker 2: about how well what Black Health is and how you

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Speaker 2: founded that.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely. So Black Health is a nonprofit organization. Our mission

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Speaker 3: is to advance health equity in black communities by implementing

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Speaker 3: anti racist programs, advocacy, education, and research. So it's an

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Speaker 3: organization I started with three of my very close friends

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Speaker 3: from Emory. When we were in school at Emory, we

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Speaker 3: were learning a lot. We were getting our masters in

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Speaker 3: public health, and we were just learning a lot of

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Speaker 3: like facts about health disparity. So every day every class,

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Speaker 3: we would like see all these graphs that were like, obviously,

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Speaker 3: black people up here, we have higher rates of everything,

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Speaker 3: and we're gonna die sooner of a lot of different illnesses.

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Speaker 3: And so we were learning all of these statistics. But

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Speaker 3: you know, it's easy to kind of take away from

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Speaker 3: that that like, maybe there's some potential like biological issue

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Speaker 3: start to have conversations about amongst ourselves was that really

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Speaker 3: it's racism, systemic racism that's causing those health disparities that

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Speaker 3: we see. So when we graduated, we were like, let's

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Speaker 3: do something about that, Like let's try this, you know,

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Speaker 3: start an organization. And when we started, we were really

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Speaker 3: just like open to anything, like we would take any opportunity,

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Speaker 3: any like anything, anyone asked us to do, we would

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Speaker 3: do it. And so but now we've kind of really

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Speaker 3: honed down some of the things that we provide. So

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Speaker 3: we provide health education, anti racists and critical race theory,

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Speaker 3: education and training to emerging and current health professionals. We

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Speaker 3: also do just like nationwide public health programs as well

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Speaker 3: as global, we also operate in South Africa and we

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Speaker 3: do research, advocacy and our community health events which we

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Speaker 3: really love doing. And you know, Angela, you were part

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Speaker 3: of one of our events.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, congression of that, Yeah, exactly.

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Speaker 3: So last year's Congressional Black Caucus Foundations Annual meeting, we

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Speaker 3: did an event in partnership with Amgen. It was our

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Speaker 3: Heart Health Equity panel that you hosted, did x job

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Speaker 3: and doctor Jones was there with us as well. Speak Yeah,

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Speaker 3: we have great pictures of you actually, yeah. Yeah, And

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Speaker 3: so we're just really happy to be able to bring

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Speaker 3: a lot of the things we talked about in that

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Speaker 2: Well, listen, this is just an inser and there's a

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Speaker 2: lot to unpack, but we're going to introduce everybody and

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Speaker 2: then have the conversation because you said so many things

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Speaker 2: what we're about to discuss. But next up, speak of

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Speaker 2: Carl Hasty from the Bronx.

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Speaker 1: Is that right, or I just want to make.

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Speaker 2: Sure the proudly from the Bronx. He's the Speaker of

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Speaker 2: the New York State Assembly. And so for you to

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Speaker 2: be here, I know a lot of what you do

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Speaker 2: has to do You're always out in the community, and

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Speaker 2: I remember during the pandemic like you were front and

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Speaker 2: And so I just want you to talk about why

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Speaker 2: there are healthy people here in the city.

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Speaker 4: Well, as you say, Angelie, you know, health is wealth

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Speaker 4: and and for me, we just want the whole person

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Speaker 4: I want to make sure that people can have a

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Speaker 4: have you know, good health. And so I try to,

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Speaker 5: Particularly the Bronx.

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Speaker 4: You know, the Bronx is known as the most unhealthiest

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Speaker 5: So it's a challenge. You know.

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Speaker 4: Are we making progress, Yes, but the mission is not

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Speaker 4: it's not finished yet.

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Speaker 2: Okay, well, thank you for that, Doctor Warren Jones, who

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Speaker 2: I had the pleasure of meeting when we were at

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Speaker 2: the Congression of Black Caucus last year. You have a

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Speaker 2: powerful story to tell. This is something that's near and

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Speaker 2: dear to your hearts. You're a family physition with expertise

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Speaker 5: Yes, your heart is the center of the family more

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Speaker 5: than your physiologic heart. It's your emotional heart, it's your

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Speaker 5: intellectual heart, it's the center of the family. You can't

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Speaker 5: be a family physician without focusing on that. My belief

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Speaker 5: strongly is that if we can keep families heart healthy,

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Speaker 5: we can keep them together longer. A lot of people

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Speaker 5: focus on how do you add years to someone's life,

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Speaker 5: But I want to focus on how to add life

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Speaker 5: to those years, And the way that you do that

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Speaker 5: is by having a healthy, strong family bond. You eat together,

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Speaker 5: you work together, you work out together and you pray together.

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Speaker 5: I'm so excited to meet the speaker because I went

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Speaker 6: School and live the part he loves you from that

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Speaker 5: I was at one forty seventh and third, one forty

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Speaker 5: Family Physicians. And it's not that Academy represents over one

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Speaker 5: hundred and eighty four thousand family physicians across America. It's

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Speaker 5: not about look at me. It's about how do I

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Speaker 5: leverage that position to get the right messages out. For instance,

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Speaker 5: And they'd say yes, And I'd say is heart disease

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Speaker 5: neither one is a health disparity. They are symptoms of

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Speaker 5: health disparities. It's the systematic problem, the system problem that

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Speaker 5: I'd love to talk with you more about that today.

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Speaker 5: I'm just so excited to be here with you. Thank

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Speaker 2: Oh no, I'm excited. I learned a lot from you

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Speaker 2: and so I can say that within my own family.

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Speaker 2: I know, you know, for myself, I know you reached

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Speaker 2: issues that I've had with my cholesterol being really high

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Speaker 2: when I was young. You know, I was in my

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Speaker 2: something that I continue to monitor. And so when we

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Speaker 2: but when it comes to heart disease, have we die

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Speaker 2: at a higher rate than any other group of people.

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Speaker 2: So can we talk about that a little bit.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely, And for Black health, we really like to

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Speaker 3: you need to do that. Like those things are obviously

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Speaker 3: really go back to what you were getting to, doctor Jones,

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Speaker 3: those social determinants of health. And how so, social determinants

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Speaker 3: to those social determinants of health. So that's why you

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Speaker 2: What are some things you've learned, Carl, just from being

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Speaker 2: some things that you feel like have been useful or helpful,

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Speaker 2: and what is some of the pushback that you feel

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Speaker 4: Well, we do try to do that as well, as

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Speaker 4: funding higher education, making sure that people do have access

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Speaker 4: the emergency rooms as their primary care physicians. That's often

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Speaker 4: the biggest challenge that I find in the BRONX, getting

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Speaker 4: people to want to go to their doctor rectly and

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Speaker 4: particularly people of color, to just try to move them forward.

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Speaker 2: And doctor Warren Jones, I talked specifically about cholesterol right now,

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Speaker 2: So can we discuss that a little bit because some

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438
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Speaker 3: do have a national colon cancer screening program. Because something

439
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Speaker 3: that's very important for us is kind of building this

440
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Speaker 3: bridge between the black community and doctors, because we know

441
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Speaker 3: a lot of times it's hard for us to actually

442
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Speaker 3: get there, whether it's where we live or our relationship.

443
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Speaker 3: Is a lot of mistrust between our communities and you know,

444
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Speaker 3: the medical system. And so where we kind of come

445
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Speaker 3: in as a as a nonprofit is to try to

446
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Speaker 3: help provide people with resources that they might not otherwise get.

447
00:23:00,800 --> 00:23:02,520
Speaker 3: And so one of the ones I also wanted to

448
00:23:02,560 --> 00:23:06,120
Speaker 3: plug was it's a program that Ampjin has. You can

449
00:23:06,160 --> 00:23:09,200
Speaker 3: go to what is my LDL dot com and actually

450
00:23:09,280 --> 00:23:13,920
Speaker 3: find out information and find out your eligibility to receive

451
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Speaker 3: a free LDL or like that that bad cholesterol to

452
00:23:18,240 --> 00:23:20,919
Speaker 3: get a free LDL test. So go to what is

453
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Speaker 3: my LDL dot com and get more information on how

454
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Speaker 3: you can get one of those tests if for some reason,

455
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Speaker 3: you know, you're unable to right now go to the

456
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Speaker 3: doctor and you just want to have that information for

457
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Speaker 3: yourself too. There are free resources, and so for black health,

458
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Speaker 3: that's really important for us to like give people free

459
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Speaker 3: resources and take some of that out of the clinic,

460
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Speaker 3: you know, and put it in people's hands.

461
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Speaker 2: You know, people will tell you that racism doesn't exist anymore,

462
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Speaker 2: depending on who you ask, But can we talk about

463
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Speaker 2: racism in the healthcare system and how that does affect

464
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Speaker 2: our community?

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Speaker 5: Well, do you know, the Institute of Matterson did some

466
00:24:01,720 --> 00:24:05,199
Speaker 5: research After many years folks were saying we're being treated

467
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Speaker 5: differently and having different outcomes as people of color, and

468
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Speaker 5: that there was disparity in the way we were managed.

469
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Speaker 5: And it wasn't until that research actually occurred by the

470
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Speaker 5: Institute of Medicine. They showed that for fully insured blacks

471
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Speaker 5: and fully insured brown people that the quality of care

472
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Speaker 5: they got was significantly lower than the quality of care

473
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Speaker 5: offer to fully insured whites. Now we're not talking about

474
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Speaker 5: people who were poor. We took the best, okay, of

475
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Speaker 5: both communities. And if you want to go to the internet,

476
00:24:41,920 --> 00:24:45,439
Speaker 5: look up the IOM Report on Health Disparities, okay, and

477
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Speaker 5: that'll show you. There's a graphic to show the difference.

478
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Speaker 5: So race plays a big role. The big problem I

479
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Speaker 5: would ask you to do is to try to find

480
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Speaker 5: the clinician, a physician, a nurse practitioners, someone that you

481
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Speaker 5: care care that you seek for health care who can

482
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Speaker 5: identify with you, someone that's either has a similar background

483
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Speaker 5: or similar gender, because the cultural relationship in healthcare is

484
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Speaker 5: critically important. I'll tell you about another family member who

485
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Speaker 5: complained for a lot of times, many years about a

486
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Speaker 5: misery on her side, and I kept telling her to

487
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Speaker 5: tell her doctor. When I finally moved close to where

488
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Speaker 5: she was. I had her to go see a female

489
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Speaker 5: physician that I knew would listen to her. She saw

490
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Speaker 5: on her Thursday, did a CT on a Friday, and

491
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Speaker 5: Monday removed a big cancer off of her kidney. Wow,

492
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Speaker 5: the misery on her side for those three years was

493
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Speaker 5: a cancer three years and nobody would listen to her

494
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Speaker 5: enough to be able to take it from her misery

495
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Speaker 5: to something physiologic. So you got to find a health

496
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Speaker 5: care provider, a doctor that you can communicate, communicate with,

497
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Speaker 5: especially surrounding heart disease and cholesterol management, because it affects

498
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Speaker 5: so many different systems. As we talked to and I'm

499
00:26:01,760 --> 00:26:05,760
Speaker 5: sorry everybody doesn't have a master's in communication of hard information.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you're right.

501
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Speaker 4: Yeah, Well, governmentally, one of the biggest challenges that we're

502
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Speaker 4: looking at, particularly amongst Black women, as maternal mortality.

503
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Speaker 5: Yes, and that's been a.

504
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Speaker 4: Huge issue here that we're trying to come up with

505
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Speaker 4: a legislation to have a commission to study why it

506
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Speaker 4: seems that more Black women seem to be dying during

507
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Speaker 4: childbirth than And as you said, it's not women who

508
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Speaker 4: are just don't medicate, it's women who have private insurance

509
00:26:31,080 --> 00:26:34,280
Speaker 4: are still not getting the same type of quality of

510
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Speaker 4: care as their white counterpart to have a baby. So

511
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Speaker 4: that's so governmentally, like I said, I try to take

512
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Speaker 4: the information, make sure that we can have legislation and

513
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Speaker 4: funding to try to figure out some of these challenges.

514
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Speaker 5: Well, I thank him for that, because it's not just

515
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Speaker 5: it's not just maternal mortality or funeral mortality. You've got healthy,

516
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Speaker 5: you've got well, you've got young, well insured people like

517
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Speaker 5: in my own family who still have small forgestationally babies,

518
00:27:01,200 --> 00:27:04,359
Speaker 5: babies born with low birth weight, and they fully insured

519
00:27:04,480 --> 00:27:07,439
Speaker 5: and they eat healthy. So a lot of research needs

520
00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:10,760
Speaker 5: to be done because babies that are born smaller at

521
00:27:10,800 --> 00:27:13,800
Speaker 5: greater risk of having problems later on. And I think

522
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Speaker 5: that mister speaker, if you can have them take a

523
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Speaker 5: look at that as well, I think that will help immensely.

524
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Speaker 5: American Congress of Obstetrics and Gynecology has a working group

525
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Speaker 5: on attacking feudal mortality. The track star Alison Felix. Felix

526
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Speaker 5: spoke to us last year and she talked about her

527
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Speaker 5: own experience how she almost lost her life with pregnancy,

528
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Speaker 5: and now we've got the track Start of Mississippi who

529
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Speaker 5: just lost her life last year. So I hope that

530
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Speaker 5: that work gets funded and done because we're losing too

531
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Speaker 5: many intelligent, beautiful Black women and their babies to this condition.

532
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Speaker 2: And you know, one thing that I have seen people

533
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Speaker 2: being more aware of is doula's and that the the

534
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Speaker 2: necessity of having a doula there with you to advocate

535
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Speaker 2: for you and know the questions to ask and know

536
00:28:06,320 --> 00:28:10,240
Speaker 2: some things maybe not necessary, some things maybe you do need,

537
00:28:10,640 --> 00:28:13,159
Speaker 2: and having somebody there that is well versed so that

538
00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:16,000
Speaker 2: they can make sure that they are speaking up for

539
00:28:16,040 --> 00:28:17,560
Speaker 2: you or telling you what it is that you need

540
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Speaker 2: to know, or when you're not able to make a

541
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Speaker 2: decision on the spot about something, being able to give

542
00:28:22,440 --> 00:28:26,040
Speaker 2: the information that you may need, because there's times that

543
00:28:26,080 --> 00:28:28,240
Speaker 2: women are having c sections that they may not need

544
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Speaker 2: to you know. Again, like just so many different things

545
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Speaker 2: that we may not have the information to know what

546
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Speaker 2: to ask or what to even say. So I think

547
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Speaker 2: that's something that has been really helpful lately, because doulas

548
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Speaker 2: is something I only heard of, maybe in the past

549
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Speaker 2: few years, but this has been around, you know, way

550
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Speaker 2: longer than that. And Speaker Hasey, you know what I

551
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Speaker 2: wanted to ask you about too, we were talking about

552
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Speaker 2: these social.

553
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Speaker 1: Determinants of health, and.

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Speaker 2: So what about stress, right like, because I feel like

555
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Speaker 2: us does add you know, to cardiovascular disease. And obviously,

556
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Speaker 2: doctor Warren Jones, you can tell us more about that.

557
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Speaker 2: But what are some things that you see people stressed

558
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Speaker 2: out about the most in New York that can cause

559
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Speaker 2: health issues.

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Speaker 4: I'd say lack of secure housing is a big issue,

561
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Speaker 4: you know. I'd say the big three, lack of lack

562
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Speaker 4: of access to healthcare, lacks of lack of access to employment.

563
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Speaker 4: You know, those are usually the big three motivators of stress.

564
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Speaker 4: And we see that even follows through and I've even

565
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Speaker 4: tried even when we're looking at educating our young people

566
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Speaker 4: that often we seem like we only worried about what

567
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Speaker 4: was happening, you know, to Johnny while he was you know,

568
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Speaker 4: in school.

569
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Speaker 5: For those you know, six hours.

570
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Speaker 4: But we also have to look at what is the

571
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Speaker 4: environment that Johnny's going home to and what is his

572
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Speaker 4: parents going through? This sometimes can affect the you know,

573
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Speaker 4: the entire families. That's why we're trying to, as I say,

574
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Speaker 4: you try to look at not not look at these

575
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Speaker 4: things as in silos. But how did they all come

576
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Speaker 4: together when it looks like even an individual individual person,

577
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Speaker 4: you know, do they have a job, do they have

578
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Speaker 4: good housing? And then as it goes on, you know

579
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Speaker 4: into the children. So those I'd say, the big, the

580
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Speaker 4: big things that can lead.

581
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Speaker 2: To stresscause sometimes people felt physically ill from the stress.

582
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Speaker 1: So is that a real thing?

583
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Speaker 5: Yes, it is a real thing. There was Actually there

584
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Speaker 5: were actually some studies that were done by the NIH

585
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Speaker 5: about ten years ago that would These were studies that

586
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Speaker 5: were done in the rat population and they showed the

587
00:30:31,160 --> 00:30:35,360
Speaker 5: rest the rat, stressed rat, the normal rat okay, and

588
00:30:35,440 --> 00:30:38,920
Speaker 5: they were able to show her not only the structure

589
00:30:38,960 --> 00:30:42,200
Speaker 5: of the rat change to where it was skinny and malnourished,

590
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Speaker 5: but it also had genetic changes that led to his

591
00:30:46,280 --> 00:30:50,920
Speaker 5: offspring or her offsprings and potentially having problems with stress.

592
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Speaker 5: So it's a very real, real thing. I tell people,

593
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Speaker 5: don't don't freak out about the word stress. There's two

594
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Speaker 5: types of stress. There's eu stress, you stress in dis stress. Distress.

595
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Speaker 5: EU stress is what you get when you're about to shoot,

596
00:31:05,200 --> 00:31:06,840
Speaker 5: go and run that track meet, when you go out

597
00:31:06,840 --> 00:31:09,120
Speaker 5: to run with your friends, that surge of energy that's

598
00:31:09,120 --> 00:31:12,640
Speaker 5: you stress. That's good for you. It's the distress that's

599
00:31:12,680 --> 00:31:15,280
Speaker 5: harmful when you're worried how am I going to feed,

600
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Speaker 5: how am I going to do this, and how I'm

601
00:31:16,960 --> 00:31:19,640
Speaker 5: going to do the others. So the number one thing

602
00:31:19,680 --> 00:31:23,960
Speaker 5: I think causes problems for many women around stress surrounding

603
00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:28,000
Speaker 5: stress is getting access to behavioral health support in order

604
00:31:28,040 --> 00:31:31,360
Speaker 5: to decompress someone that's stress and help them to learn

605
00:31:31,400 --> 00:31:34,000
Speaker 5: how to deal with it. And so they internalize it

606
00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:37,520
Speaker 5: because nobody wants to be viewed as weak. Okay, So

607
00:31:37,760 --> 00:31:40,400
Speaker 5: I think the thing that bothers me is that women

608
00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:42,959
Speaker 5: are the keys are the health of a family, and

609
00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:46,080
Speaker 5: if they're not healthy, how can the family? It's your fault.

610
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Speaker 3: No, But we talk about this a lot too in

611
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Speaker 3: our anti racism and health workshops, you know, like how

612
00:31:55,320 --> 00:31:58,760
Speaker 3: racism causes poor health outcosms. We teach just that concept

613
00:31:59,320 --> 00:32:03,120
Speaker 3: and stress itself, like stress that can come from racial

614
00:32:03,200 --> 00:32:07,200
Speaker 3: violence and discrimination that has a direct impact on negative

615
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Speaker 3: health outcomes. But then exactly as you were saying, speaker,

616
00:32:09,960 --> 00:32:12,240
Speaker 3: he see like there's a lot of stress that is

617
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Speaker 3: caused by these conditions in which people live on safe housing,

618
00:32:17,200 --> 00:32:19,160
Speaker 3: poor access to food, and just all the day to

619
00:32:19,240 --> 00:32:21,480
Speaker 3: day things that people go through and then that has

620
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Speaker 3: a negative outcome, negative impact on mental and physical health outcomes.

621
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Speaker 3: So it really works in a lot of different ways.

622
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Speaker 1: You know what else I want to talk about too.

623
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Speaker 2: As we're discussing this, Okay, these drugs that like ozempic

624
00:32:37,160 --> 00:32:39,920
Speaker 2: and we go, we all of that was for diabetes, right,

625
00:32:40,120 --> 00:32:41,800
Speaker 2: but now a lot of people are taking that for

626
00:32:41,880 --> 00:32:44,200
Speaker 2: weight loss issues. And then I see lawsuits popping up.

627
00:32:44,240 --> 00:32:47,680
Speaker 2: I see all kinds of things happening. So doctor Warren Jones,

628
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Speaker 2: I want you to just let us know when is

629
00:32:49,520 --> 00:32:52,280
Speaker 2: it time to get on this medication? Is it harmful

630
00:32:52,360 --> 00:32:54,640
Speaker 2: for people who are doing this? I mean, because listen,

631
00:32:54,640 --> 00:32:58,320
Speaker 2: obesity can lead to a lot of times to heart disease, right,

632
00:32:58,520 --> 00:33:01,360
Speaker 2: So I just want to get from you, doctor Warren Jones,

633
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Speaker 2: not from the internet, you know, your thoughts on that,

634
00:33:04,360 --> 00:33:05,840
Speaker 2: because I do know a lot of people who are

635
00:33:05,840 --> 00:33:06,680
Speaker 2: taking your zembic.

636
00:33:10,720 --> 00:33:12,640
Speaker 5: She showing us how to put you on the hot seat.

637
00:33:14,280 --> 00:33:18,360
Speaker 5: Ozempic is designed to help your body to metabolize the

638
00:33:18,720 --> 00:33:22,240
Speaker 5: sugars you take in and when your insulin isn't working. Well,

639
00:33:22,520 --> 00:33:25,880
Speaker 5: that's the concept. But one of the things that does

640
00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:29,520
Speaker 5: is it helps your body from taking in too much sugar,

641
00:33:30,360 --> 00:33:32,720
Speaker 5: and there's that extra sugar that you're not taking in

642
00:33:33,040 --> 00:33:35,480
Speaker 5: that's causing your body's weight to go down because it's

643
00:33:35,480 --> 00:33:39,120
Speaker 5: going out in you bowel movements. There's certain people for

644
00:33:39,200 --> 00:33:43,840
Speaker 5: whom those types of drugs are not helpful. If someone

645
00:33:43,960 --> 00:33:49,960
Speaker 5: has an irritable bowel disease or some other GI problems,

646
00:33:49,720 --> 00:33:51,800
Speaker 5: that may not work well for them. If they have

647
00:33:51,840 --> 00:33:56,719
Speaker 5: problems with severe constipation, it may not work for them. Okay,

648
00:33:59,280 --> 00:34:02,560
Speaker 5: I really ask people, don't make a decision. I was

649
00:34:02,600 --> 00:34:07,880
Speaker 5: looking at something this morning and it was saying, you

650
00:34:07,920 --> 00:34:09,640
Speaker 5: don't even have to go see your doctor. Just write

651
00:34:09,640 --> 00:34:11,600
Speaker 5: to us and we'll have you talk to someone and

652
00:34:11,640 --> 00:34:13,200
Speaker 5: we'll send it to your home.

653
00:34:14,960 --> 00:34:17,880
Speaker 1: Market.

654
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Speaker 3: Don't do that, women, because I get them all the

655
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Speaker 3: time Olympic and He's like, just right.

656
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Speaker 5: In and get folks. For some individuals, Uh, that class

657
00:34:32,160 --> 00:34:35,719
Speaker 5: of drugs may be the answer from having a bypass

658
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Speaker 5: surgery or something else, but you shouldn't make that decision

659
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Speaker 5: on your own. Take it to your medical home that

660
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Speaker 5: person or the team of people that are usual in

661
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Speaker 5: customary source care, those people whose phone number you have. Okay,

662
00:34:51,920 --> 00:34:54,000
Speaker 5: that when you walk in, they'll say, I haven't really

663
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Speaker 5: good to see you again, go and talk to them

664
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Speaker 5: and have them help you to make an informed decision. Now,

665
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Speaker 5: just remember that you also got to know when to stop.

666
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Speaker 5: Some of the lawsuits come from something called what GOVI face,

667
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Speaker 5: where some people lose so much weight that their facial

668
00:35:13,640 --> 00:35:18,600
Speaker 5: structures begin to slide down. Because it wasn't well, it's

669
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Speaker 5: once you start losing weight. Really it's it's it's called

670
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Speaker 5: it's called Osempic face and google it. Okay, yeah, but

671
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Speaker 5: so that's why it needs to be done in a

672
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Speaker 5: clinical setting. Done in a clinical setting. Right now, there's

673
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Speaker 5: too much me to hug. But I am not a

674
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Speaker 5: candidate for a GOVI or Ozmpics. So somebody you guys

675
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Speaker 5: have just stuck with me.

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Speaker 2: Okay, So you know, I do want to see for

677
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Speaker 2: all of us here today, what are some things that

678
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Speaker 2: we do in recognition for ourselves to make sure that

679
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Speaker 2: we remain healthy and that we are taking care of

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Speaker 2: our own cardiovascular health. Because I know, for me having

681
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Speaker 2: had that issue, it's something that always has stuck in

682
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Speaker 2: my mind ever since I had that high cholestero I

683
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Speaker 2: was like, I do not want to have to be

684
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Speaker 2: on medication for the rest of my life and it's

685
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Speaker 2: something that I've made lifestyle changes, but it's always a

686
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Speaker 2: work in progress, and so sometimes.

687
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Speaker 1: I fall, but I get back up there.

688
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Speaker 2: And so there are certain things that I've implemented in

689
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Speaker 2: my life long term to make sure that I'm, you know,

690
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Speaker 2: doing better than I have in the past.

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Speaker 1: So why don't we start with you, Paula?

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Speaker 3: Sure, Yeah, I love this question. And I was telling

693
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Speaker 3: you earlier too that I also was told by a

694
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Speaker 3: doctor that my cholesterol was a bit high and that

695
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Speaker 3: kind of shook me up as well. And so I

696
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Speaker 3: start to implement things very similar to you, Angela, Like

697
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Speaker 3: I go on walks a lot. I walk my dog,

698
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Speaker 3: and I make sure to go on long walks with

699
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Speaker 3: my dog just so that I can you know, exercise,

700
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Speaker 3: get that like low impact activity in my day. And

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Speaker 3: then I'm also really big back to our conversation about stress,

702
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Speaker 3: like I think a lot about what is stressing me

703
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Speaker 3: out and trying to eliminate those things from my life,

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Speaker 3: particularly as a black woman, knowing how heart disease is

705
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Speaker 3: for us. So I'm like, look, if this is stressing

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Speaker 3: me out, if this guy is stressing me out, if.

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Speaker 1: That's whatever, he's gotta go.

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Speaker 5: You're not good for my home.

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Speaker 3: I really am really like very big on my mental

710
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Speaker 3: health and my stress levels.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I know your job is stressful.

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Speaker 4: I'd say, to be honest, after the whole Andrew CMO,

713
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Speaker 4: the question of impeachment that was really a lot was

714
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Speaker 4: was on me. I know, the center of potential was

715
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Speaker 4: on him, but with the New York State Assembly being

716
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Speaker 4: the ones to decide whether he would be in peace

717
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Speaker 4: or at you, I really say, like after that summer,

718
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Speaker 4: I says, you know, I cannot let this job consume

719
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Speaker 4: me like that. So I said, I'm going to start

720
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Speaker 4: doing me things. Soon after that, I started to learn

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Speaker 4: how to play the guitar. I can't play eight print songs.

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Speaker 2: Okayrances his favorite. If you follow him, you know that

723
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Speaker 2: I just started.

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Speaker 4: You know, I do have a have a treadmill in

725
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Speaker 4: my house. I have a treadmill in my apartment in Albany.

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Speaker 4: We built this beautiful brand new y m c A,

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Speaker 4: which I'm remember I having been there, you know, recently, And

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Speaker 4: as you say, sometimes you know, you stay on top

729
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Speaker 4: of it and then sometimes you fall up. I find

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Speaker 4: that my weight kind of is worse when I'm in

731
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Speaker 4: Albany because sometimes I feel like I do stress eat

732
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Speaker 4: and as soon as I'm done, you know, I can

733
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Speaker 4: get back on my healthy, my healthy regimen. But it's

734
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Speaker 4: like you just try to get better. I do try

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Speaker 4: to walk a lot. Marcusia who drives me. He hates

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Speaker 4: when I.

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Speaker 5: Tell him I want to walk because he doesn't want

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Speaker 5: me to walk by myself.

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Speaker 4: No, But I just try to do those those small

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Speaker 4: things and really the managing of the of the stress

741
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Speaker 4: because sometimes with the stress it can trigger, you know,

742
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Speaker 4: the issue that I have with the bone starts from

743
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Speaker 4: the carts and then so I really just try to

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Speaker 4: figure out ways to just relax the stress.

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Speaker 5: I like to you know, play.

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Speaker 4: Video games and and you know, do fantasy sports to

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Speaker 4: kind of give me something outside of this, you know

748
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Speaker 4: job that I love that is that it's actually tough,

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Speaker 4: but doing more me things. Like I said, the guitar

750
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Speaker 4: is a really big stress relief. Of my two guitars,

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Speaker 4: this one is named the Laura and the other one's

752
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Speaker 4: named Dorothy.

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Speaker 1: Which is.

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Speaker 2: Why but you know it's more of the girls in

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Speaker 2: the songs.

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Speaker 5: But you know, well, I name the new car Nikki.

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Speaker 5: But that's kind of what I do. I love it

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Speaker 5: you're so genuine. I love it. I'm excited to be here.

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Speaker 1: And what do you do, doctor Warren Jones.

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Speaker 5: Believe it or not, I learned to compensate. I put

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Speaker 5: myself in a mindset where I'm not gonna let this

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Speaker 5: bother me, okay, And I try to manage my own

763
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Speaker 5: expectations instead of letting people set the expectations for me.

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Speaker 5: Sometimes people will look at me sitting down watching the

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Speaker 5: game and they don't realize that I'm doing mental gymnastics

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Speaker 5: that whole game, okay, and I'm working on things, and uh,

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Speaker 5: my wife gets upset because she she'll know I have

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Speaker 5: a big talk coming up, and when are you gonna

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Speaker 5: work on it. I've been working on it for three days.

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Speaker 5: But then I get out in a walk. I something

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Speaker 5: very simple that people can do if you're in a building,

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Speaker 5: walk the stairs.

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Speaker 2: And I said, I do that. Yeah, I'm in the airport.

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Speaker 2: I don't take the walk the move and walkway.

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Speaker 5: I walk. Yeah, two up and one down every day.

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Speaker 5: It's a good way to do it. And and also,

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Speaker 5: you know, really just put a reminder. I've got this

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Speaker 5: watch that says, stand up and walk, you idiot. My

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Speaker 5: wife is in the background. I mean, even if she's

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Speaker 5: not home, I still hear. Okay, no, but Tom, and

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Speaker 5: you also got to find somebody who can egg you on,

782
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Speaker 5: who can function in your best interests with you and

783
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Speaker 5: for you, because there are gonna be sometimes that you're

784
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Speaker 5: going to say, I really don't want to do this,

785
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Speaker 5: but there's somebody that look at you, that you know cares,

786
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Speaker 5: and then they will say you really need to and

787
00:41:01,600 --> 00:41:05,600
Speaker 5: that push your help. Sometimes the caring environment will work.

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Speaker 2: And accountability partners, that's what I call it.

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Speaker 5: All right, but thank you for the chance to talk

790
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Speaker 5: about this. You know, just think again about how black

791
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Speaker 5: women have the highest rate of death and complications of

792
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Speaker 5: cardiovascar disease. And who are the most important peoples and

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Speaker 5: people in our in our African American society. Our mothers,

794
00:41:29,640 --> 00:41:33,439
Speaker 5: our daughters are women, okay, and we and we've got

795
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Speaker 5: to help them to be healthy and let them know

796
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Speaker 5: that we love them enough to care about them. So

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Speaker 5: get them to go and get their screenings, because they'll

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Speaker 5: make my wife make sure I go, and sometimes I

799
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Speaker 5: have to remind her to go.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and honestly, and also passing it down to the

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Speaker 2: next generation. Sometimes we have such bad habits from our

802
00:41:51,600 --> 00:41:54,080
Speaker 2: whole lives, and our parents had such bad habits, and

803
00:41:54,120 --> 00:41:57,080
Speaker 2: our grandparents had such bad eating habits, and those are

804
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Speaker 2: things that we, you know, can pass down. And even

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00:42:00,400 --> 00:42:02,319
Speaker 2: like going to school in public school, the things that

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00:42:02,360 --> 00:42:03,440
Speaker 2: they feed you at school.

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Speaker 1: It's just a lot of.

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Speaker 2: Things that I think in the environment that can you know,

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Speaker 2: continue to keep this going.

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Speaker 1: But we have to be more aware.

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Speaker 2: And I think for everybody listening, if you have a family,

812
00:42:14,600 --> 00:42:17,600
Speaker 2: if you have children, just think about making sure that

813
00:42:17,680 --> 00:42:20,440
Speaker 2: they're doing things better. And sometimes that's leading by example,

814
00:42:20,800 --> 00:42:23,160
Speaker 2: making sure that you do things better. You know, get

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Speaker 2: a juicer at home and put some fruits and vegetables delicious,

816
00:42:26,880 --> 00:42:28,520
Speaker 2: and you can make your own juices with your own

817
00:42:28,520 --> 00:42:31,839
Speaker 2: favorite fruits and vegetables at home, you know, and then

818
00:42:31,880 --> 00:42:33,799
Speaker 2: your kids will start to give that to your kids

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Speaker 2: and they realize it tastes good, and so it can

820
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Speaker 2: be healthy and delicious at the same time. It doesn't

821
00:42:38,760 --> 00:42:41,959
Speaker 2: have to be healthy and nasty. You can have great

822
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Speaker 2: tasting things at home.

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Speaker 5: And one of the problems the speaker probably has an

824
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Speaker 5: Albany is everybody wants to take him out to dinner

825
00:42:49,239 --> 00:42:50,880
Speaker 5: to meet with him and pick his brain.

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Speaker 2: And if they're paying, okay, face time, but actually know

827
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Speaker 2: what it is.

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Speaker 5: I don't do a lot of that.

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Speaker 4: If it's not like a fundraising on an official dinner

830
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Speaker 4: or something like that. I kind of just say I

831
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Speaker 4: call my apartment the cave.

832
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Speaker 5: I kind of just you know, stay there.

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Speaker 4: But really what it is is the snacking while you're

834
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Speaker 4: sitting around. That is more than the you know, people

835
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Speaker 4: have chocolate. You know, we have a member's lounge. I

836
00:43:21,800 --> 00:43:25,920
Speaker 4: try to get more healthy things that we do have

837
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Speaker 4: healthy foods in there, but it's the it's the intimate

838
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Speaker 4: and snacking, I think is what kind.

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Speaker 7: Of testimony testimony from the Unfortunately, one of the exceptions

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Speaker 7: has a big candy bowl of like little the mini

841
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Speaker 7: kit cats.

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Speaker 2: And just we have this problem up here, I heard

843
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Speaker 2: because there's always like some sponsor. We have food every Wednesday,

844
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Speaker 2: you know, and it's like a lot of food and everything.

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Speaker 5: That the big meal. It's the snacking, Yeah, the little

846
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Speaker 5: snacks that I think kind of one meal to day.

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Speaker 5: I started it in the morning and I ended it.

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Speaker 1: Was okay, now I get it.

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Speaker 5: For the whole day, Yes, I just it just goes

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Speaker 5: all day.

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Speaker 2: Well, how can people reach all of you because we

852
00:44:12,440 --> 00:44:14,520
Speaker 2: do want to learn more about black health. And again,

853
00:44:14,920 --> 00:44:17,520
Speaker 2: if you guys want to get your get more information,

854
00:44:17,560 --> 00:44:19,399
Speaker 2: you can go to my l d L dot com.

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00:44:19,440 --> 00:44:22,080
Speaker 2: What what is my l d L dot com? And

856
00:44:22,120 --> 00:44:24,200
Speaker 2: that's where you can get more information on how to

857
00:44:24,200 --> 00:44:26,440
Speaker 2: get a free L d L test as well. But

858
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Speaker 2: Paula for Black Health, how can people reach you?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, please, we want everyone to stay connected with

860
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Speaker 3: Black Health. We have a lot of exciting programs. I mean,

861
00:44:35,280 --> 00:44:37,520
Speaker 3: almost everything we talked about today, we have a program

862
00:44:37,640 --> 00:44:40,120
Speaker 3: coming on this year that's going to address it. So

863
00:44:40,280 --> 00:44:42,520
Speaker 3: please find us on social media. We're on all social

864
00:44:42,560 --> 00:44:46,000
Speaker 3: media platforms at Black Health. That's b l k H

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Speaker 3: L t H.

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Speaker 2: All right, so much Angela, No, thank you, And again

867
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Speaker 2: that's what is my L d L dot com. That's

868
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Speaker 2: how you can get that free L d L test.

869
00:44:53,080 --> 00:44:55,319
Speaker 2: Now speak of Carl, do you want people to reach you?

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Speaker 5: Sure?

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Speaker 4: People want to know what they do anyway, try to

872
00:45:00,560 --> 00:45:02,759
Speaker 4: understand or ask, you know, what are we doing i'd

873
00:45:02,760 --> 00:45:05,239
Speaker 4: say in a government sense of on all of these

874
00:45:05,280 --> 00:45:08,280
Speaker 4: topics that we talked about today. And of course angel

875
00:45:08,360 --> 00:45:10,800
Speaker 4: thank you you know for doing this. You know, friendship

876
00:45:10,800 --> 00:45:13,239
Speaker 4: that we've had over the years. I appreciate you caring

877
00:45:13,280 --> 00:45:15,600
Speaker 4: about black people, but you can reach me a speaker

878
00:45:16,080 --> 00:45:17,800
Speaker 4: at NY Assembly dot gov.

879
00:45:18,320 --> 00:45:21,280
Speaker 1: Okay, great, thank you, and doctor Warren Jones.

880
00:45:21,719 --> 00:45:24,120
Speaker 5: Yeah. I invite people to feel free to reach out

881
00:45:24,120 --> 00:45:26,239
Speaker 5: to me if I can assist you. But I just

882
00:45:26,280 --> 00:45:29,359
Speaker 5: want to advise you of something. I can't treat you

883
00:45:29,440 --> 00:45:32,000
Speaker 5: over the phone. Okay, but if you've got a question

884
00:45:32,080 --> 00:45:34,240
Speaker 5: on how to phrase something to take to your doctor,

885
00:45:34,600 --> 00:45:36,760
Speaker 5: I can help with that. I can give you friendly advice,

886
00:45:36,800 --> 00:45:38,480
Speaker 5: but I'm not going to treat you over the phone.

887
00:45:38,719 --> 00:45:42,279
Speaker 5: You can use my email at d R W. A.

888
00:45:42,480 --> 00:45:45,520
Speaker 5: Jones at gmail dot com and feel free to ask

889
00:45:45,560 --> 00:45:50,400
Speaker 5: the question. The worst questions are those that are never asked. Okay,

890
00:45:50,440 --> 00:45:52,840
Speaker 5: that's a fact, so we can find a way to

891
00:45:52,840 --> 00:45:54,880
Speaker 5: do it. And I just want to tell you I

892
00:45:55,040 --> 00:45:58,480
Speaker 5: heard about black health long before I met them. You

893
00:45:58,600 --> 00:46:01,080
Speaker 5: got to be the chain you want to see.

894
00:46:01,200 --> 00:46:02,759
Speaker 1: I love having your community.

895
00:46:03,320 --> 00:46:05,640
Speaker 5: You got to be the change you want to see,

896
00:46:06,000 --> 00:46:10,240
Speaker 5: and they're being the change by going out, by structuring things,

897
00:46:10,239 --> 00:46:12,880
Speaker 5: by interfacing with folks who are willing to fund. You

898
00:46:13,000 --> 00:46:14,799
Speaker 5: got to be the change you want to see. So

899
00:46:14,800 --> 00:46:15,520
Speaker 5: thank you for that.

900
00:46:15,960 --> 00:46:17,719
Speaker 2: What if you have somebody who you love close to

901
00:46:17,760 --> 00:46:20,560
Speaker 2: you that you cannot get them to go to the doctor.

902
00:46:21,840 --> 00:46:24,200
Speaker 5: Word the hell out of them. That's what I do

903
00:46:24,640 --> 00:46:28,560
Speaker 5: every time. I've got folks that are smoking, and I

904
00:46:28,600 --> 00:46:30,960
Speaker 5: tell them all the time stop smoking. So they still

905
00:46:31,000 --> 00:46:33,239
Speaker 5: walking around so they don't have to see me. But

906
00:46:33,360 --> 00:46:38,200
Speaker 5: seriously worry them, but from a position of love rather

907
00:46:38,280 --> 00:46:41,120
Speaker 5: than annoyance, because if it's annoyance, they're going to turn

908
00:46:41,160 --> 00:46:43,880
Speaker 5: you off. But if you can find a way to

909
00:46:43,960 --> 00:46:47,400
Speaker 5: convey that. But you know how much I care, and

910
00:46:47,440 --> 00:46:49,920
Speaker 5: that's why I'm saying this to you, And tell you what,

911
00:46:49,960 --> 00:46:53,239
Speaker 5: if you're afraid to go, let's go together. I'll go

912
00:46:53,320 --> 00:46:56,160
Speaker 5: with you and I'll sit out there and if you

913
00:46:56,200 --> 00:46:59,160
Speaker 5: want go see the doctor, and you can have them

914
00:46:59,160 --> 00:47:00,920
Speaker 5: send me a copy of R and I'll go over

915
00:47:00,920 --> 00:47:03,600
Speaker 5: it with you. Okay, But you gotta give them a

916
00:47:03,640 --> 00:47:06,680
Speaker 5: comfort zone for them to know that it's safe to

917
00:47:06,719 --> 00:47:09,440
Speaker 5: do that. I hear things about people that their family

918
00:47:09,480 --> 00:47:12,600
Speaker 5: members will never ever hear because they've got to have

919
00:47:12,680 --> 00:47:14,799
Speaker 5: They know that with me, it's a safe zone. So

920
00:47:14,880 --> 00:47:16,960
Speaker 5: you gotta find a way to have that with someone.

921
00:47:17,280 --> 00:47:19,160
Speaker 5: I'm sure the speaker has that too, with people that

922
00:47:19,320 --> 00:47:22,879
Speaker 5: coming there and confessing his office the same thing. You know,

923
00:47:23,920 --> 00:47:26,040
Speaker 5: we gotta do that for each other. And that's how

924
00:47:26,080 --> 00:47:29,480
Speaker 5: we spread the love right excellent, we were loving in camp.

925
00:47:29,640 --> 00:47:30,680
Speaker 5: I do that to strangers.

926
00:47:30,680 --> 00:47:32,879
Speaker 4: If I see people smoking, I walk up to them

927
00:47:32,880 --> 00:47:34,480
Speaker 4: and say, those things are gonna kill you. And I say,

928
00:47:34,680 --> 00:47:36,880
Speaker 4: I say, this will all just love and affection and

929
00:47:37,000 --> 00:47:38,400
Speaker 4: I just want you to And I say that to

930
00:47:38,440 --> 00:47:39,280
Speaker 4: complete strangers.

931
00:47:39,719 --> 00:47:42,560
Speaker 3: So I will say, I'll put my public health perspective

932
00:47:42,600 --> 00:47:45,880
Speaker 3: on this one, which is just that like as a

933
00:47:45,920 --> 00:47:48,040
Speaker 3: public health practitioner, a lot of times what we think

934
00:47:48,080 --> 00:47:52,560
Speaker 3: about is like harm reduction instead of just totally. So

935
00:47:52,680 --> 00:47:54,840
Speaker 3: with's smoking, like a lot of people, it's hard for

936
00:47:54,880 --> 00:47:57,480
Speaker 3: them to just stop. So I had someone I love

937
00:47:57,560 --> 00:48:00,440
Speaker 3: dearly who smoked a lot, and I would tell them,

938
00:48:00,480 --> 00:48:04,080
Speaker 3: like just just document like how much you smoke, and

939
00:48:04,120 --> 00:48:06,640
Speaker 3: then next week, try to smoke one or two less

940
00:48:06,960 --> 00:48:10,160
Speaker 3: in the week, so like just reducing over time. And

941
00:48:10,239 --> 00:48:13,520
Speaker 3: so that's that's how I show love and understanding, compassion

942
00:48:13,560 --> 00:48:15,959
Speaker 3: and going along with them in that journey too, because

943
00:48:15,960 --> 00:48:18,279
Speaker 3: it's like just do what you can to get a

944
00:48:18,320 --> 00:48:20,279
Speaker 3: little bit more out of out of life, you know.

945
00:48:20,480 --> 00:48:20,920
Speaker 1: I like that.

946
00:48:21,000 --> 00:48:23,320
Speaker 2: So next time you go up to somebody say, listen,

947
00:48:23,640 --> 00:48:26,440
Speaker 2: document how much you smoke and just try to reduce that.

948
00:48:26,719 --> 00:48:26,959
Speaker 6: Yeah.

949
00:48:27,360 --> 00:48:30,640
Speaker 4: I have done that, though people they struggle saying, like

950
00:48:30,760 --> 00:48:33,160
Speaker 4: with weight and things like that. I tell them probably

951
00:48:33,239 --> 00:48:35,439
Speaker 4: to me. But the easiest thing was when I wanted

952
00:48:35,480 --> 00:48:38,120
Speaker 4: to start to lose weight was cutting out the sugary drinks.

953
00:48:38,960 --> 00:48:40,880
Speaker 4: Because you can still get to eat as much as

954
00:48:40,880 --> 00:48:43,000
Speaker 4: you did, but the amount of sugar that you take in.

955
00:48:43,560 --> 00:48:45,680
Speaker 5: I can't even drink those things anymore. They's so sweet.

956
00:48:45,719 --> 00:48:48,920
Speaker 4: But that was one way for people, you know, struggle

957
00:48:48,920 --> 00:48:51,160
Speaker 4: with their weight and stuff like that gilt to it,

958
00:48:51,320 --> 00:48:55,040
Speaker 4: but you don't realize how much calories you actually drink

959
00:48:55,120 --> 00:48:57,040
Speaker 4: drinking these super sugary drinks.

960
00:48:57,080 --> 00:48:58,200
Speaker 1: And read the labels too.

961
00:48:58,239 --> 00:49:01,239
Speaker 2: Sometimes you're buying things and you think it's healthy and

962
00:49:01,280 --> 00:49:02,400
Speaker 2: then you read the bag.

963
00:49:02,200 --> 00:49:03,600
Speaker 1: And you're like, whoa, I want to tell you what

964
00:49:03,640 --> 00:49:03,840
Speaker 1: it is.

965
00:49:05,880 --> 00:49:07,759
Speaker 2: In the um It'll be like this is ninety five

966
00:49:08,200 --> 00:49:10,120
Speaker 2: juice and you're like, what type of juice?

967
00:49:10,160 --> 00:49:10,360
Speaker 5: You know?

968
00:49:11,040 --> 00:49:11,799
Speaker 1: What does that mean?

969
00:49:12,560 --> 00:49:14,200
Speaker 5: An angel? One of the other things you can have

970
00:49:14,239 --> 00:49:17,560
Speaker 5: people do is be innovative. You know, every time I

971
00:49:17,600 --> 00:49:19,600
Speaker 5: talk to someone in January, they said, this is what

972
00:49:19,640 --> 00:49:22,560
Speaker 5: I'm giving up for the new year, and then it

973
00:49:22,640 --> 00:49:25,160
Speaker 5: only lasts one month, And to ask them, why don't

974
00:49:25,200 --> 00:49:27,480
Speaker 5: you come up with an innovator in an innovative solution.

975
00:49:27,520 --> 00:49:30,800
Speaker 5: Why don't you say, this is what I'm sacrificing this month.

976
00:49:31,480 --> 00:49:33,120
Speaker 5: If you can get the month to the month with

977
00:49:33,320 --> 00:49:36,480
Speaker 5: fewer drinks, Okay, I'm going to go back, and then

978
00:49:36,520 --> 00:49:39,120
Speaker 5: the week the month after that, I want to do

979
00:49:39,160 --> 00:49:41,200
Speaker 5: it again, and you can get in the habit of

980
00:49:41,280 --> 00:49:44,560
Speaker 5: finding out you really can live without those things. Especially

981
00:49:44,680 --> 00:49:47,400
Speaker 5: now that this is Black Health Month, we want to

982
00:49:47,440 --> 00:49:50,080
Speaker 5: focus on that and come up with some healthful ways

983
00:49:50,080 --> 00:49:51,000
Speaker 5: of doing things.

984
00:49:51,440 --> 00:49:53,600
Speaker 2: All right, perfect, well, Paula, thank you so much for

985
00:49:53,640 --> 00:49:56,200
Speaker 2: putting us all together, you know, in the same room.

986
00:49:56,200 --> 00:49:58,239
Speaker 2: I really do appreciate all the work that you've been

987
00:49:58,239 --> 00:50:00,280
Speaker 2: doing out of the goodness, and.

988
00:50:00,080 --> 00:50:01,720
Speaker 1: I really appreciate your support.

989
00:50:01,800 --> 00:50:02,919
Speaker 3: It has meant a lot of us.

990
00:50:03,239 --> 00:50:05,360
Speaker 1: All Right, Well, thank you again. Health is wealth is

991
00:50:05,400 --> 00:50:05,799
Speaker 1: way up.

992
00:50:06,160 --> 00:50:07,840
Speaker 4: And I will say it's like a lot of times

993
00:50:07,840 --> 00:50:10,560
Speaker 4: the elected officials or the professions, but I really say

994
00:50:10,560 --> 00:50:13,680
Speaker 4: it's like it's like the community groups, the on the

995
00:50:13,680 --> 00:50:16,719
Speaker 4: ground groups that really help make a you know community,

996
00:50:16,880 --> 00:50:17,560
Speaker 4: you know, wonderful.

997
00:50:17,600 --> 00:50:19,279
Speaker 5: So I want to thank you for what you do.

998
00:50:19,440 --> 00:50:20,239
Speaker 5: Thank you so much.

999
00:50:20,360 --> 00:50:26,040
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, it's way up, guys, way up.