WEBVTT - Best of TMI Part 2 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:00.760 Piece of the planet. 0:00:00.840 --> 0:00:03.000 Y'allamagine the God here. And as we come closer to 0:00:03.080 --> 0:00:05.160 closing out this year, I just want to say thank 0:00:05.200 --> 0:00:07.760 you for tuning into the Black Effect Podcast Network. There 0:00:07.800 --> 0:00:09.760 have been so many great moments over the past year. 0:00:09.960 --> 0:00:12.000 Take a listen to some of those captivating moments in 0:00:12.000 --> 0:00:16.160 this special best of episode. 0:00:14.560 --> 0:00:17.000 Mallory and the Ship Boy my Son in general. We 0:00:17.160 --> 0:00:19.200 are your host of Tami. 0:00:19.000 --> 0:00:24.000 Tamika and my Son's Information, Truth, motivation and inspiration name. 0:00:24.160 --> 0:00:25.079 New Energy. 0:00:27.840 --> 0:00:28.120 Dope. 0:00:28.800 --> 0:00:32.000 All right, well, let's get into our guest, good conversation, 0:00:32.200 --> 0:00:32.880 lots to learn. 0:00:33.000 --> 0:00:38.680 Check it out. Our friends have joined us again too. Well. 0:00:38.760 --> 0:00:42.680 First of all, our sister Keisha ya coach Jesse has 0:00:42.720 --> 0:00:45.600 been with us a number of times, and so it's 0:00:45.600 --> 0:00:49.080 really good to have y'all on our show because y'all 0:00:49.120 --> 0:00:54.400 been doing everybody else's show to talk about you know, 0:00:54.640 --> 0:00:58.720 what has recently took uh what recently took place as 0:00:58.720 --> 0:01:03.400 a family that I think is incredible, beautiful, amazing, And 0:01:03.440 --> 0:01:04.240 I see. 0:01:04.640 --> 0:01:07.319 Keisha, Lakeisha, That's. 0:01:09.319 --> 0:01:13.720 How it has already just you know, helped you to 0:01:14.560 --> 0:01:17.720 walk into your advocacy, which I knew was going to 0:01:17.840 --> 0:01:20.319 happen for you at some point and it's beautiful to 0:01:20.440 --> 0:01:21.520 watch that. Now. 0:01:22.120 --> 0:01:25.119 So first of all, let me just introduce you all properly. 0:01:25.600 --> 0:01:31.080 Lakeisha Randolph is now a black She is the leader 0:01:31.240 --> 0:01:34.120 of the Black Fertility Matters community. 0:01:34.319 --> 0:01:35.840 Okay, let's get that straight. 0:01:35.959 --> 0:01:41.640 So I feel an organization on the way, something big 0:01:41.800 --> 0:01:43.800 buildings and a lot of things. 0:01:43.840 --> 0:01:45.240 I can see it in the future. 0:01:45.959 --> 0:01:51.360 And she Keisha has had to have IVF has also 0:01:51.880 --> 0:01:55.440 now an egg a donor. You are have received eggs. 0:01:55.480 --> 0:01:57.880 So I know Coach Jesse's gonna get all of this 0:01:58.160 --> 0:01:59.640 language clearness. 0:02:00.200 --> 0:02:03.320 It's okay, we all learning. I'm learning. 0:02:03.480 --> 0:02:07.040 I'm learning all the things. 0:02:07.120 --> 0:02:11.360 And then Coach Jesse health AFT activists and founder of 0:02:11.440 --> 0:02:14.960 the detox now but she's also our big sister that 0:02:15.120 --> 0:02:17.680 keeps us healthy, keeps us mentally stable. 0:02:17.720 --> 0:02:21.240 And we don't listen like we should, but we appreciate you. 0:02:21.639 --> 0:02:25.320 Coach Jesse, Love you all. Thank y'all so much for 0:02:25.440 --> 0:02:28.040 joining the show today. And I think it would be 0:02:28.160 --> 0:02:32.120 great for us to hear from you, Keisha about that story, 0:02:32.240 --> 0:02:35.680 what took place and how all these other incredible women 0:02:35.760 --> 0:02:36.600 got involved. 0:02:37.000 --> 0:02:38.640 Well, thank you so much for having me. 0:02:38.919 --> 0:02:42.400 Yes, I am Lakeisha Laurel or Latisha Randolph or Keisha. 0:02:42.800 --> 0:02:45.560 I am the founder of a support group called Black 0:02:45.560 --> 0:02:48.760 Fertility Matters. I wanted to start the support group for 0:02:49.040 --> 0:02:53.320 women who have been on the road and who have 0:02:53.400 --> 0:02:57.160 been dealing with infertility for as long as I have. 0:02:57.320 --> 0:03:00.000 I've been dealing with infertility for over twenty five year 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:04.119 years I have. I've had two failed IVF cycles. I'm 0:03:04.120 --> 0:03:08.080 currently on the show Love and Hip Hop Atlanta season eleven, 0:03:08.160 --> 0:03:11.440 about to be season twelve, telling my story alongside of 0:03:11.480 --> 0:03:15.920 my sister Yandy Smith, who volunteer to donate her eggs 0:03:15.960 --> 0:03:16.280 to me. 0:03:16.919 --> 0:03:18.400 So I am I am. 0:03:18.320 --> 0:03:19.680 The receiver, she is the donor. 0:03:20.240 --> 0:03:21.520 Yandy Smith is the donor. 0:03:21.960 --> 0:03:26.880 I am receiving her eggs to conceive have my own child. 0:03:27.080 --> 0:03:30.480 So we're on our journey to motherhood. I wanted to 0:03:30.520 --> 0:03:33.919 provide a support group for women who may. 0:03:33.840 --> 0:03:40.640 Feel ashamed, guilty, depressed, anxiety, who go through an emotional 0:03:40.720 --> 0:03:45.440 roller coaster dealing with IVA and infertility soul. This is 0:03:45.520 --> 0:03:46.920 where my. 0:03:46.960 --> 0:03:50.080 Sister, alongside with my sister Yandy Smith, introduced me to 0:03:50.120 --> 0:03:54.160 Coach Jefse who is our health and wellness coach. I've 0:03:54.200 --> 0:03:58.400 also detoked with her many years ago, and Coach Jesse 0:03:58.640 --> 0:04:02.360 introduced me and ye Be who to our fertilities doctor, 0:04:02.600 --> 0:04:06.320 which is doctor Daniel Lane. Unfortunately she had to go, 0:04:06.400 --> 0:04:10.680 but she is an amazing fertilities that have been working 0:04:10.680 --> 0:04:14.080 with me and Yandy on our journey or my journey 0:04:14.080 --> 0:04:14.720 to motherhood. 0:04:16.040 --> 0:04:17.920 So that's a little bit about our story. 0:04:17.960 --> 0:04:21.000 We wanted to uh and Coach Jesse and doctor Lane 0:04:21.000 --> 0:04:24.719 wanted to also join the Black Fertility Matter to help educate, 0:04:24.800 --> 0:04:28.560 support and provide resources for the black and brown community. 0:04:29.240 --> 0:04:31.640 I just felt like I wanted to continue to tell 0:04:31.640 --> 0:04:32.120 my story. 0:04:32.160 --> 0:04:33.599 I didn't know where to start. 0:04:33.839 --> 0:04:37.279 I reached out to LaToya Bond, Yandy Smith, Coach Jessee, 0:04:37.440 --> 0:04:39.680 doctor Lane, and said, listen, I need to tell my 0:04:39.720 --> 0:04:43.400 story because it's not only gonna help me. It was 0:04:43.440 --> 0:04:45.680 a time where I couldn't even talk this much about 0:04:46.080 --> 0:04:49.960 my process what's happening without me crying. So now for 0:04:50.000 --> 0:04:51.720 me to be able to stand up here and say 0:04:51.760 --> 0:04:54.680 I'm providing a support room for myself and other women 0:04:54.720 --> 0:04:55.920 who are going down. 0:04:56.040 --> 0:04:58.880 This journey, it's amazing. It's amazing. 0:04:59.120 --> 0:05:03.000 I just thank you guys for telling my story and 0:05:03.080 --> 0:05:06.359 having Coach Jesse, doctor Lane, and Nandy Smith joining the 0:05:06.400 --> 0:05:07.839 Black Fertility Matters team. 0:05:08.160 --> 0:05:12.520 Well that's powerful. Well how long have you been trying 0:05:12.560 --> 0:05:13.520 to conceive a child. 0:05:13.720 --> 0:05:16.240 So I've been literally trying to conceive a child for 0:05:16.279 --> 0:05:21.560 over twenty five years. I've been dealing with fibroids and demetriosis, 0:05:21.760 --> 0:05:26.680 and then I went to a fertilities who you know. 0:05:26.760 --> 0:05:30.240 My gyn said, okay, you cannot conceive due to age. 0:05:30.360 --> 0:05:34.520 Once you're over forty, your egg count becomes low. And 0:05:34.600 --> 0:05:37.599 then because I have fibroids and in demetriosis makes my 0:05:38.480 --> 0:05:42.760 fertility even harder. So I've been dealing with infertility for 0:05:42.800 --> 0:05:45.920 over twenty five years, and now I know long that 0:05:46.080 --> 0:05:48.640 can conceive healthy embryos. 0:05:49.120 --> 0:05:55.120 Coach Jesse, you know our audience, our listeners are no 0:05:55.600 --> 0:05:59.000 stranger to your story. But I think in the context 0:05:59.320 --> 0:06:02.320 of what Lakeisha has been dealing with, it would be 0:06:02.360 --> 0:06:05.440 great to be reminded of your story and how you 0:06:05.480 --> 0:06:07.920 got into this work, and then if you could give 0:06:08.000 --> 0:06:11.440 us some insight on you know, what was the process, 0:06:11.440 --> 0:06:14.480 what was your planning process to support Lakisha? 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:18.840 Yeah, you know, first of all, Lakeisha, she rat. 0:06:18.960 --> 0:06:22.000 She just My heart went out to her when I 0:06:22.080 --> 0:06:26.279 learned to her story because I battled in fertility that 0:06:26.400 --> 0:06:27.640 was paused by five roids. 0:06:28.000 --> 0:06:32.760 I battled bibras for thirteen years and infratility pause it's 0:06:32.800 --> 0:06:33.680 one news. 0:06:34.080 --> 0:06:36.440 And that first episode of what I called My Million 0:06:36.480 --> 0:06:40.520 Dollar Baby Journey, where I had by BYBX cycles, the 0:06:40.560 --> 0:06:44.000 in vitual fertilization cycles that Keisha was mentioning, and the 0:06:44.040 --> 0:06:45.920 first one I had miscarriage. 0:06:46.960 --> 0:06:50.880 Three failed IVF cycles after that, and even after we 0:06:50.960 --> 0:06:55.080 did conceive my daughter on the F cycle had major 0:06:55.240 --> 0:06:58.479 life threatening situations. Whatever even told. 0:06:58.279 --> 0:07:01.000 Me actually because of the terminating my intet twenty one 0:07:01.760 --> 0:07:05.000 running more weeks because in the journey I was either 0:07:05.040 --> 0:07:10.040 having fibrant turvey or ideas because the fibrides kept coming back, 0:07:10.600 --> 0:07:12.360 and here they were now back. 0:07:12.520 --> 0:07:15.280 And this literally in the Life of My. 0:07:15.320 --> 0:07:19.680 Baby where they said that red from a hostile environment 0:07:19.880 --> 0:07:24.600 at twenty Now, thank god my journey, even though my 0:07:24.720 --> 0:07:31.640 night stopped coming, nothing but follow on clear day, I. 0:07:31.520 --> 0:07:32.880 Do have my miracle baby. 0:07:33.760 --> 0:07:39.120 I guess in our last few shows, I don't know 0:07:39.160 --> 0:07:41.240 if we even notice it, but we've been talking about 0:07:41.280 --> 0:07:46.120 health a lot. I realize, especially with all this extra weight, 0:07:46.200 --> 0:07:47.840 that a lot of people act like they don't know. 0:07:47.880 --> 0:07:51.440 But I have a few friends, including my dear friend Peaches, 0:07:51.480 --> 0:07:53.320 that does not let me forget, because she will send 0:07:53.320 --> 0:07:55.480 me a picture of myself out somewhere in a minute 0:07:55.480 --> 0:07:58.440 and be like, you see this circling the fat in 0:07:58.520 --> 0:08:02.800 my cheeks, my name, and it's okay because I do. 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:04.760 We do that for one another. It's not like she's 0:08:04.800 --> 0:08:09.280 trying to like disrespect me or anything or shame me, 0:08:09.640 --> 0:08:11.920 but she knows what I want to look like. And 0:08:11.960 --> 0:08:14.280 I realized that I didn't have to be in the 0:08:14.360 --> 0:08:17.800 situation that I'm in the backfat this and that all 0:08:17.800 --> 0:08:20.920 of these things happened to me because I thought that 0:08:21.240 --> 0:08:22.559 I could just still. 0:08:22.640 --> 0:08:24.600 I thought I was still thirty. I don't know what 0:08:24.720 --> 0:08:29.400 I thought, but it's not. It isn't so ill. 0:08:30.080 --> 0:08:32.400 And what I realized is working out by itself is 0:08:32.440 --> 0:08:34.679 not enough. Like you do have to actually take care 0:08:34.679 --> 0:08:38.640 of your inside. I never knew this whole theory of 0:08:38.679 --> 0:08:39.319 gut health. 0:08:39.480 --> 0:08:41.720 I never heard that before in my life. 0:08:42.360 --> 0:08:45.000 I knew your stomach, but then when I hear people 0:08:45.040 --> 0:08:48.320 talking about how much is happening in your gut, I'm like, Wow, 0:08:48.640 --> 0:08:51.240 there's so many concepts that I can tell you right now. 0:08:51.440 --> 0:08:53.840 My family members that live in. 0:08:53.679 --> 0:08:57.280 Alabama, North Carolina, no wherever we talking about no gut. 0:08:57.080 --> 0:08:59.480 Health like at all. We did these things. 0:08:59.559 --> 0:09:03.560 It was it was can you try that good piece 0:09:03.559 --> 0:09:05.840 of pork chop and tear it up? Now they don't 0:09:05.880 --> 0:09:08.120 live like that anymore because so many people have died 0:09:08.160 --> 0:09:11.199 from art disease and whatever, and over time people have 0:09:11.320 --> 0:09:14.720 become introduced to these things. But that wasn't the thing 0:09:14.760 --> 0:09:17.640 we were talking about today though. Today we get an 0:09:17.640 --> 0:09:21.920 opportunity to talk to doctor Robert Singleton, the second, who 0:09:22.160 --> 0:09:28.360 is an anesthesiology physician, and he also is very big 0:09:28.600 --> 0:09:33.720 on the internet talking about health, and you know, I 0:09:33.760 --> 0:09:37.199 don't know if enough of us, Like I was talking 0:09:37.240 --> 0:09:39.560 to someone recently and they were like, oh, certain things 0:09:39.640 --> 0:09:42.560 never show up on my page. It's also what you 0:09:42.720 --> 0:09:46.000 follow like and what you're interested in. And when I 0:09:46.040 --> 0:09:51.079 came across the algorithm, when I came across doctor Singleton, 0:09:51.320 --> 0:09:54.000 obviously we were introduced to him by LaToya Bonn and 0:09:54.120 --> 0:09:56.640 our team and they were like, hey, you got to 0:09:56.679 --> 0:10:00.120 check this guy out. It's some real robust discussion and 0:10:00.200 --> 0:10:03.800 rich discussion going on on his social media about health 0:10:03.920 --> 0:10:04.600 in general. 0:10:05.040 --> 0:10:06.600 And I'm grateful that. 0:10:06.559 --> 0:10:09.800 He's taken some time today Scrubs and all to come 0:10:09.840 --> 0:10:12.680 on and be a guest on TMI to talk about 0:10:12.720 --> 0:10:15.520 our health and help us get straight on like what 0:10:15.800 --> 0:10:20.400 we posed to be doing to get health in our community. 0:10:20.480 --> 0:10:24.360 Wes how you doing, doctor, and how you doing today? 0:10:24.520 --> 0:10:27.199 I'm doing great, great, glad to be here, and I'm 0:10:27.200 --> 0:10:29.960 glad that we're talking about health because it's so important. 0:10:30.000 --> 0:10:33.560 Like you said, there's so many different health conditions that 0:10:33.640 --> 0:10:37.960 affect us as black people disproportionately, and so it's important 0:10:37.960 --> 0:10:41.600 that we have conversations like this to help ourselves, to 0:10:41.640 --> 0:10:42.560 help our communities. 0:10:42.960 --> 0:10:43.480 Absolutely. 0:10:43.559 --> 0:10:43.719 Let me. 0:10:43.840 --> 0:10:48.480 Let me give a few points about how legendary you are. 0:10:48.679 --> 0:10:53.760 You are a board certified anesthesiologist in Chicago. 0:10:54.960 --> 0:10:56.880 You went to Howard University. 0:10:56.960 --> 0:11:02.120 We have Howard University nutcases that follow us that they 0:11:02.120 --> 0:11:06.679 don't pull, they do not play about the ahu you know. Okay, 0:11:06.960 --> 0:11:11.120 but you are a medical school grad from Howard and 0:11:11.160 --> 0:11:17.520 then also the ambassador for the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation. 0:11:18.080 --> 0:11:20.480 This is a very very serious topic for me, and 0:11:20.520 --> 0:11:23.600 I'll tell you why in the second. And since completing 0:11:23.600 --> 0:11:27.720 your anesthesiology training in twenty sixteen, you've been committed to 0:11:27.760 --> 0:11:30.840 serve it as an advocate for patients and their families, 0:11:31.200 --> 0:11:36.160 practicing evidence based medicine and insurance patience safety. And I'll 0:11:36.160 --> 0:11:40.480 tell you why this topic is so sensitive for me 0:11:40.720 --> 0:11:47.360 around anesthesiology. My mother in twenty twenty, prior to twenty 0:11:47.400 --> 0:11:49.920 twenty March of twenty twenty, she had been told she 0:11:50.000 --> 0:11:53.440 has an issue with her esophagus where it closes and 0:11:53.480 --> 0:11:54.040 she has. 0:11:53.920 --> 0:11:57.600 To have it stretched, maybe years or so. 0:11:57.600 --> 0:12:00.720 So this is something that we believe pretty much know 0:12:01.240 --> 0:12:06.480 that it became her new reality after working at near 0:12:06.559 --> 0:12:11.200 right next door to the World Trade Center during nine eleven. 0:12:11.679 --> 0:12:14.960 So my mom, you know, she was there and the 0:12:15.000 --> 0:12:19.920 fumes and whatnot, and then her esophagus changed as a 0:12:19.960 --> 0:12:22.880 result of the pollution that so many people down there 0:12:23.000 --> 0:12:25.240 faced and what have you. She lived, thank god, but 0:12:25.280 --> 0:12:27.080 she did start to struggle with this thing. 0:12:28.360 --> 0:12:29.520 The last time that she. 0:12:29.520 --> 0:12:32.880 Was getting before this twenty twenty incident, the last time 0:12:32.960 --> 0:12:38.360 she was getting her esophagus stretched, the doctor told her 0:12:38.400 --> 0:12:40.960 that they did not like the way that she responded 0:12:41.000 --> 0:12:44.600 to the anesthesia. They said that when it was time 0:12:44.640 --> 0:12:48.439 for her to wake up, she was having a major difficulty. 0:12:48.600 --> 0:12:51.040 They did not like the way she rebounded, and they 0:12:51.120 --> 0:12:55.040 felt uncomfortable about it. However, with my mother, her situation 0:12:55.240 --> 0:12:59.280 is either you get the stretching or go into complete 0:12:59.320 --> 0:13:02.559 liquid dye, and even then she can choke and die. 0:13:02.640 --> 0:13:06.319 So she doesn't have a lot of options, right, So 0:13:06.360 --> 0:13:09.439 they did the surgery in March of twenty twenty, and 0:13:09.600 --> 0:13:12.280 sure enough, my mother had a stroke and lost the 0:13:12.320 --> 0:13:16.400 ability on her left side. My mother was a dance 0:13:16.440 --> 0:13:20.040 instructor for a number of dance classes in her community. 0:13:20.400 --> 0:13:23.079 You cannot be her in my line on the dance. 0:13:23.520 --> 0:13:25.040 You got vible videos. 0:13:24.640 --> 0:13:28.640 And every eighty million people watching her videos of her 0:13:28.720 --> 0:13:30.600 line dance instructing and all of that. 0:13:30.679 --> 0:13:32.920 And now she's in a wheelchair. 0:13:32.960 --> 0:13:35.079 She moves around a lot better, you know, over to 0:13:35.200 --> 0:13:38.000 time things have gotten better, but she does not have 0:13:38.120 --> 0:13:40.400 the ability to do much with her left side and 0:13:40.440 --> 0:13:41.960 she needs twenty four hour care. 0:13:42.480 --> 0:13:44.480 So anesthesia is. 0:13:44.480 --> 0:13:49.400 A big topic of a place of pain for us 0:13:49.440 --> 0:13:53.200 when we even start talking about it, And ironically it 0:13:53.280 --> 0:13:55.600 is coming up on the timel she's beginning to choke 0:13:55.679 --> 0:13:58.560 again because in twenty twenty, once they did get through 0:13:58.600 --> 0:14:02.680 the surgery, she's starting to have the same issues again, 0:14:03.000 --> 0:14:04.199 and here were people. 0:14:03.960 --> 0:14:05.480 Having to try to figure out what to do. 0:14:05.559 --> 0:14:08.760 So, just for the personal reference, this topic is you 0:14:08.760 --> 0:14:11.800 know you and what you do is very sensitive to me. 0:14:11.880 --> 0:14:14.320 But again, thank you so much for joining us, and 0:14:14.480 --> 0:14:16.360 we just want to hear on sure how you got 0:14:16.360 --> 0:14:18.360 into this in the first place. 0:14:19.240 --> 0:14:23.480 Yeah, so, I've always wanted to be a doctor. I 0:14:23.640 --> 0:14:27.600 just didn't know what type. I really liked surgery, but 0:14:28.080 --> 0:14:30.720 anesthesia is one of those fields that doesn't get a 0:14:30.720 --> 0:14:35.280 lot of exposure or it's not as known as the 0:14:35.360 --> 0:14:40.800 other fields. Everybody knows about pediatricians and cardiologists, but anesthesia 0:14:40.960 --> 0:14:46.640 is a really behind the scenes type of medicine and 0:14:47.160 --> 0:14:50.960 for most of the time you don't really you know, 0:14:51.080 --> 0:14:54.360 see or hear much about anesthesia because for most of 0:14:54.400 --> 0:14:58.000 the procedures that we do, everything goes smoothly. But we 0:14:58.120 --> 0:15:01.400 do have those in instances where there are emergencies, where 0:15:01.400 --> 0:15:06.240 there are traumas, where there are you know, incidences of 0:15:06.280 --> 0:15:09.600 cardiovasculic collapse, difficulty breathing, or we have to step in, 0:15:10.520 --> 0:15:14.080 and those are very critical moments where every moment matters. 0:15:14.760 --> 0:15:18.400 We saw that a lot with COVID and just even today, 0:15:19.640 --> 0:15:23.120 you know, it's essential that patients have anesthesia doctors to 0:15:23.200 --> 0:15:27.000 make sure that their procedures are safe. And so I 0:15:27.120 --> 0:15:31.320 gravitated towards anesthesia. I've been doing this practicing independently since 0:15:31.360 --> 0:15:35.840 twenty sixteen. Absolutely love it. I can't see myself. I 0:15:35.880 --> 0:15:39.480 could not see myself doing any other any other job. 0:15:40.440 --> 0:15:43.360 That's amazing. I just I would like to know, like 0:15:43.760 --> 0:15:46.320 being an anesthe geologist, being in the field of medicine, 0:15:46.800 --> 0:15:49.480 what do you think are the biggest things that affect 0:15:49.520 --> 0:15:52.240 Black people that you can think of? 0:15:53.200 --> 0:15:55.280 Yeah, so we have, like I said earlier, a lot 0:15:55.320 --> 0:15:59.960 of unique diseases and a lot of issues that affect 0:16:00.080 --> 0:16:04.360 does disproportionately. One big one and today's the last day 0:16:04.360 --> 0:16:07.680 of heart health minds, But one big one is as 0:16:07.680 --> 0:16:12.800 far as cardiovascular disease, our people are between thirty and 0:16:12.920 --> 0:16:17.640 fifty four percent more likely to die of a cardiovascular 0:16:17.680 --> 0:16:24.360 disease compared to our non Hispanic white counterparts. We die 0:16:24.560 --> 0:16:28.040 of heart attacks more, we have higher rates of obesity, 0:16:28.120 --> 0:16:31.280 higher rates of diabetes, and there's a lot of different 0:16:31.320 --> 0:16:35.800 reasons for that. But it's important that we have conversations 0:16:35.840 --> 0:16:39.800 like this, we spread reliable health information and take some 0:16:39.840 --> 0:16:40.960 steps to reverse that. 0:16:41.320 --> 0:16:45.120 Tell me the connection, because you know we can dispel 0:16:45.160 --> 0:16:47.920 the myth right now. You're anesthesiologists, people are like you 0:16:48.000 --> 0:16:50.520 just put the needle in on and knock me out, 0:16:50.640 --> 0:16:53.760 Like what do what is your role or how do 0:16:53.800 --> 0:16:57.280 you even know about all these other medical things because 0:16:57.320 --> 0:16:59.080 people would think that that's not your area. 0:16:59.720 --> 0:17:02.520 Yeah, so that's a good question. You know, We as 0:17:02.600 --> 0:17:06.159 anesthesia doctors are periodical positions, and so whenever a patient 0:17:06.200 --> 0:17:09.040 is before me, I have to make sure that they're 0:17:09.080 --> 0:17:15.720 optimized respiratory wise, cardiovascular wise, that all their organ systems 0:17:16.119 --> 0:17:21.000 are are ready to undergo the stress of surgery and anesthesia, 0:17:21.119 --> 0:17:24.160 and so I have to I have to manage diabetes. 0:17:24.200 --> 0:17:28.240 I have to tailor each anesthetic to each patient because 0:17:28.440 --> 0:17:32.119 it is not a one size fits all thing. I 0:17:32.240 --> 0:17:36.280 desire and tailor my anesthetic to each patient's need. And 0:17:36.560 --> 0:17:39.600 the biggest thing, you know, if there's there's no surgery 0:17:39.960 --> 0:17:43.639 without anesthesia, and so we it's essential that we're there 0:17:43.960 --> 0:17:47.560 to make sure that patients are are still, that they 0:17:47.560 --> 0:17:51.399 don't have pain and they can go through having a 0:17:51.400 --> 0:17:52.360 surgical procedure. 0:17:53.040 --> 0:17:58.080 Mm hmmm. So I asked you about you know, what 0:17:58.240 --> 0:18:01.160 are the things that affect us? What do you think 0:18:01.400 --> 0:18:05.119 causes those things? It is our personal lifestyle choices. Is 0:18:05.160 --> 0:18:07.719 it that we're forced to eat certain foods and what 0:18:07.720 --> 0:18:10.560 do you think are the biggest things that causes those 0:18:10.600 --> 0:18:11.679 situations that we have. 0:18:12.800 --> 0:18:15.840 You know, that's it's it's multi factorial. There's a lot 0:18:15.880 --> 0:18:19.959 of different things. Uh. Some of it is cultural, you know, 0:18:20.000 --> 0:18:23.200 the kind of foods that we gravitate towards as a culture. 0:18:24.520 --> 0:18:27.040 A lot of us don't have health clubs and our 0:18:27.040 --> 0:18:30.040 neighborhood we don't have neighborhoods that are safe enough, safe 0:18:30.119 --> 0:18:33.000 enough for us to go on walks and jogs. Uh, 0:18:33.040 --> 0:18:37.560 many of our people living uh, food deserts where you 0:18:37.600 --> 0:18:41.280 don't have access to whole foods or you know, organic 0:18:41.359 --> 0:18:46.879 healthy produce that's at a reasonable price. And so there's 0:18:46.960 --> 0:18:50.800 things that you know, within our society are keeping us 0:18:50.800 --> 0:18:54.840 from being healthy and also just lack of information that's 0:18:54.920 --> 0:18:58.600 keeping us from changing our habits in the way that 0:18:58.600 --> 0:18:58.960 we live. 0:18:59.119 --> 0:19:02.159 Yeah, it's environ mental racism is what we call it. 0:19:02.400 --> 0:19:05.960 And you know, and I mean and food desert's a 0:19:06.119 --> 0:19:10.640 real thing. When we first arrived in Louisville, Kentucky, where 0:19:10.720 --> 0:19:13.119 we were fighting for Breonna Taylor, we lived there for 0:19:13.119 --> 0:19:18.360 three months. During that time, we learned how the people 0:19:18.440 --> 0:19:23.679 were suffering, Like one supermarket in the entire area where 0:19:24.240 --> 0:19:28.960 all these hundreds of thousands of people lived one supermarket 0:19:29.280 --> 0:19:29.600 did not. 0:19:29.680 --> 0:19:32.440 I went in there one time. The fruit was terrible. 0:19:32.600 --> 0:19:36.040 It wasn't even a good supermarket, right, And so we 0:19:36.200 --> 0:19:40.160 found out that we had to, you know, start bringing 0:19:40.240 --> 0:19:44.000 fresh produce just to deliver to the community to even 0:19:44.040 --> 0:19:47.320 have a conversation. And it's so important for people to 0:19:47.600 --> 0:19:52.400 understand that between our activism, your work as a doctor, 0:19:52.840 --> 0:19:55.960 it all connects, because you can't even have a conversation 0:19:56.040 --> 0:19:58.919 with somebody about fighting for Breonna Taylor while they're hungry. 0:19:59.040 --> 0:20:03.480 It's like, you know, hey, I hear you terrible what 0:20:03.560 --> 0:20:07.919 happened to that system? I'm hungry, but I'm hungry and 0:20:07.960 --> 0:20:10.320 maybe after you feed me then I can meet you 0:20:10.359 --> 0:20:14.000 on the battlefield. So I hear you, you know talking 0:20:14.000 --> 0:20:16.960 about Well, first of all, tell us the conditions. 0:20:16.960 --> 0:20:17.639 You said, it's. 0:20:17.480 --> 0:20:20.439 Heart Health Month, and I know that applies to all 0:20:20.640 --> 0:20:24.480 of us as black people and other races. But what 0:20:24.480 --> 0:20:27.200 would you say at the top two issues? 0:20:27.320 --> 0:20:31.480 Maybe there's more for men and women that are. 0:20:33.160 --> 0:20:36.639 Avoidable, like things that you know, if we just don't 0:20:36.720 --> 0:20:40.320 do this, more than likely we will not have these issues. 0:20:41.000 --> 0:20:43.480 Yeah, So there's there's three major issues, and I mean 0:20:43.600 --> 0:20:46.119 like you said, there's a lot of issues that we 0:20:46.160 --> 0:20:51.960 could talk about, including high cholesterol all and but the 0:20:52.000 --> 0:20:56.080 big three would have to be obesity, high blood pressure, 0:20:57.080 --> 0:21:01.920 and diabetes. City high blood pressure and diabetes. Those are 0:21:01.960 --> 0:21:05.840 three issues that affect us as black people more and 0:21:05.920 --> 0:21:11.439 for the most part, they are somewhat reversible, treatable, preventable 0:21:11.920 --> 0:21:17.080 if we are if we just do some common sense 0:21:17.160 --> 0:21:19.800 things to improve them and educate ourselves. 0:21:20.240 --> 0:21:22.440 You know, my thought of the day today is around 0:21:22.520 --> 0:21:32.200 this idea of sobriety. You know, I am really I 0:21:32.240 --> 0:21:34.080 don't know if I want to say proud of me, 0:21:34.840 --> 0:21:37.000 because I don't even know. I don't I really don't 0:21:37.160 --> 0:21:41.480 have all of the lexicon. I'm literally developing it. Five 0:21:41.560 --> 0:21:47.679 years later, I'm writing my first real speech about my 0:21:49.680 --> 0:21:53.240 process to get sober and what I went through and 0:21:53.280 --> 0:21:57.000 how I initially got addicted and what was at one 0:21:57.040 --> 0:21:59.440 point something that I didn't even know was a part 0:21:59.440 --> 0:22:01.960 of addiction. And I had no idea the first time 0:22:02.000 --> 0:22:03.720 I swallowed a pill that it was a part of 0:22:03.760 --> 0:22:07.000 an addiction thing. And I certainly didn't understand the political 0:22:07.600 --> 0:22:12.359 nature of addiction and that there's actual forces working towards 0:22:12.359 --> 0:22:13.960 like I didn't think any of that. I didn't know 0:22:14.080 --> 0:22:16.320 there was a story and a situation out there in 0:22:16.320 --> 0:22:20.560 the world that can explain why we're addicted to these pills. 0:22:20.560 --> 0:22:22.400 So I didn't know. I didn't know so many other 0:22:22.440 --> 0:22:23.159 people was on it. 0:22:23.200 --> 0:22:25.120 But now that I'm more educated and now that I'm 0:22:25.119 --> 0:22:28.400 more confident, right now that I've been able to kick 0:22:28.440 --> 0:22:31.680 shame and the ass about this particular issue and other 0:22:31.720 --> 0:22:33.560 things like you know what I'm saying. One thing i 0:22:33.600 --> 0:22:35.960 will say is one of the things that I'm beginning 0:22:35.960 --> 0:22:38.600 to realize that certain parts of my story I'm not 0:22:38.760 --> 0:22:43.280 able to tell because other people's lives will be impacted. 0:22:43.359 --> 0:22:45.960 And I'm talking about things from childhood all the way 0:22:46.000 --> 0:22:48.840 to now. You don't tell or you don't want to 0:22:49.320 --> 0:22:53.199