Why Are We Dying From Preventable Diseases

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I was reading an article that says we're not we're not supposed to sleep with our cell phones on the side of the bed. They say, not even in the room. But what I be trying to understand is why do they sell us stuff.

Let's gonna kill it? That is, I mean, that's how I think that's the one.

No, But I mean this article was saying some serious ship. It was saying, basically, the radiation from the five G is like not humanly consumable, like it's not good for you. You should not have it in your space overnight, like it's already And I guess it's true because now you're talking about twenty four hours a day you're dealing with the radiation from the towers and your phone. And they said, do not even have it next to your bed. They talked about also like the tea television, the rays, like

I'm scared of the dark. Oh see, I'm scared of the dok.

I'm been scared since I was a kid. I don't play but no, no, nor don't play.

But that.

TM I the real con they's too much information. It's not but I but you.

Know, I do.

I sleep and I also, thankfully I am not afraid of the dark. When I was a kid, I was so afraid of the dark.

It wasn't funny.

I used to wake up and swore that I saw things running across the I mean it just was. I had a monsters in my it was bad. I was traumatized in the projects we had to with the aluminum for I told the story before over the light bulb so I can have a night light in my room, Like this is very very serious when I and I had to get over that. So now I will at least sometimes I turn TV and I just I won't even have it on too fall asleep because I can

Yeah, need the stuff.

But that's really I mean this thing. All I know is that the rate that we are being diagnosed with cancer, these little articles they hide it over here. It is behind a paywall. You might see one or two posts about it on socials. Meanwhile, this is information we really need to have.

So I need to create like a little phone box, right that you could put your phone in and blocks the radiation.

How would your family members reach you if something is wrong?

But you can hear it with blockeration, so you only use it. Take it off the box.

Well, I have a house phone, so I think maybe the house phone is still.

Is the radiation blocker.

All I'm saying is the rate to which we are getting being died knows with cancer, and people are saying, where are we getting all of this cancer from. Sure, the food is important, and they didn't specifically say that it's going to give you cancer. It basically implied and said that these are some of the things, and one of them is not being able to rest properly because it's like you have energy going all around you all the time. It's not healthy.

So I was just.

Reading that and it just it really brought me to my thought of the day because also, you know, Painkillers is one of my favorite shows on Netflix. I watched Painkillers, I've watched Dope Sick. I love these shows, and well it's not that I love them, but I'm into it because of my personal experience with opioids. And I as I was watching Painkillers for like the fifth time, I really honed in again on the Food and Drug Administration.

Yeah, big thing.

Well, actually it's not. And that's what's scary.

Well, explain that.

Well, because it's not like it's not it's not a forty thousand person department within the federal government. There are it's a smaller entity of people who have guidelines that they're pretty much checking off. I don't know why, Like, I don't know why I thought that these people was in white coats and there are people within the Food and Drug Administration that are actual doctors and all of that. So let me not scare people. But it's not as

Pretty much goes to you know, I put it in the song and so on, on painkillers, the serious and I'm like, oh, they pretty much make drugs.

You deal, we do a hundred years and they pay a fine.

The crazy thing is that when we looked at the reality is the family who created the the OXYI, which is one of the most addictive drugs in the world that's killed probably about a million.

I think it's one of that because.

It was that when they made it, they said it was a five hundred thousand.

There's a lot of parents.

Who are who have overdose to and they were they had to pay like a four hundred million dollars five with their billionaires.

So they paid this five.

They go back and they continue to make more money, and they ain't take Isak off the market. People are still being prescribed. And they know the addictiveness of it.

They know the mortality rate of it, they know all these things.

But if ray ray on the corner, he get caught with ten to twelve field, is he gonna do ten and twelve years? So maybe more so it's just like we we have to just be open mind. And that's why when you say you thought this was this robust, they know this is just another agency.

It's like any other agency. And because lobbied exactly say lobby I'm gonna say lobbyed, so right, And then then that means that outside entities like the medical industry, they have actual power and the decisions that's being made. It's just like, yo, this is why I don't like to talk about the sex stuff, because this is why people be like, I don't I'm not, I don't care about voting.

I don't want to because because it's a lot, because who's gonna vote when you know that they're playing around.

But you have to pay attention to these things right like when you elected president or you elect certain types of people, congressional members and others. These are the things that we because we're looking for police accountability, students, debt relief, women's health issues, we look at this and say, we don't always start reading the fine print of how people

This isn't The only people that have bosses is poor people. Oh that's it.

The transportation people are not, not the Deltas and the I love Delta by the way, not the American.

The pilots, you're crazy, you know. It's unny. They may they not forty, but I'm doing I want, I say what i want to do what I want.

But it's really the ones that own the companies Southwest, but the.

Pretty much pilots are contract it's pretty much because they don't even have any Jewish. The Delta, the airlines don't have any jurisdiction over the pilots.

Well they can fire them, yeah, but they got you they have. I think there are the pilots unionized because I know that the employees, like Delta employees are not unionized. People like me lost and are working to try to get them union.

When we have a situation, they pretty much said there's nothing that we can do to the point will win the pot.

Right because the fact the legislation is that the pilot is in charge on the plane. I mean it's it's it's very technical and that's the type of stuff. It's like, damn, we talk so much about who's sleeping with who who's and that type of stuff. Will be knowing. I'm trying to get myself to.

Learn you will. That brings me to my music segment. I just had one at first, but I'm going to introduce my song into this because of what we were just talking about. You know, we talking about painkillers, and we're talking about voting. We're talking about all these things. And you know this new remixed song that I have out right now to Jay Z's and it's the twenty fifth anniversary of the song reasonable Doubt and I mean of President Yet Presidents twenty seven, okay, And it's the

And also the second.

The second song is my twenty one savage man. I was listening to this album I was working out two years today and it's this song called letter Letter to My brother.

You know what I'm saying, And.

Is it really briant brother?

B are you d d a letter to my brother? And he was just talking about the realities that go on his street life, you know, like how you just you're trying to make it out sometimes, he said, he said a line that was crazy. He said, I've got a good heart. It is just in the wrong place, right, he said, most of us just have good hearts within

It's still adult track, and I hope that people will listen to it because I feel it they don't represent me. I hate to say it because I don't like it. I don't want Donald Trump is my president. I really don't. And I don't give anybody the impression that.

I'm for Donald Trump at all.

But Joe Biden really disappointed me. Not and I'm not talking about the fact that I knew I wasn't going to agree with on his politics because we was definitely going to fight him. We knew that we were getting ready. But no, he disappointed me. He disappointed me with this Gods situation. Definitely, I'm disappointed. I had an expectation, not that he would not be assigned this as he proclaims, but I had an expectation that when the people would that as the people rise up the way that we have,

I didn't spend nothing, anything, nothing. But let's get into it. I would guess.

I guess in our last few shows. I don't know if we even noticed it, but we've been talking about health a lot. I realize, especially with all this extra weight, that a lot of people act like they don't know. But I have a few friends, including my dear friend Peaches, that does not let me forget because she will send me a picture of myself out somewhere in a minute and be like you see this circling the fat in my cheeks, my neck, and it's okay because do we

How you doing, doctor, and how you doing today?

I'm doing great, great, glad to be here, and I'm glad that we're talking about health because it's so important. Like you said, there's so many different health conditions that affect us as black people disproportionately, and so it's important that we have conversations like this to help ourselves, to help our communities.

Absolutely.

Let me.

Let me give a few points about how legendary you are. You are a board certified and caesiologists in Chicago. You went to Howard University. We have Howard University nutcases that follow us that they don't pull, they do not play about the hu you know. Okay, but you are a medical school grad from Howard and then also the ambassador

The last time that she.

Was getting before this twenty twenty incident, the last time she was getting her esophagus stretched, the doctor told her that they did not like the way that she responded to the anesthesia. They said that when it was time for her to wake up, she was having a major difficulty. They did not like the way she rebounded and they felt uncomfortable about it. However, with my mother, her situation is either you get the stretching or go into complete liquid diet, and even then she can choke and die.

So she doesn't.

Have a lot of options, right, So they did the surgery in March of twenty twenty, and sure enough, my mother had a stroke and lost the ability on her left side.

My mother was a dance.

Instructor for a number of dance classes in her community.

You cannot be her in my line on the dances.

You got vible videos.

And every eighty million people watching her videos of her line dance instructing and all of that. And now she's in a wheelchair. She moves around a lot better, you know, over to time things have gotten better, but she does not have the ability to do much with her left side and she needs twenty four hour care. So anesthesia is a big topic of a place of pain for us when we even start talking about it, And ironically

Yeah, So, I've always wanted to be a doctor. I just didn't know what type. I really liked surgery, but anesthesia is one of those fields that doesn't get a lot of exposure or it's not as known as the other fields. Everybody knows about pediatricians and cardiologists, but anesthesia is a really behind the scenes type of medicine and for most of the time you don't really you know, see or hear much about anesthesia because for most of

Moments where every moment matters.

We saw that a lot with COVID and just even today, you know, it's essential that patients have anesthesia doctors to make sure that their procedures are safe, and so I gravitated towards anesthesia. I've been doing this practicing independently since twenty sixteen.

Absolutely love it.

I can't see myself I could not see myself doing any other any other job.

That's amazing. I just I would like to know, like being an anesthesiologist, being in the field of medicine, what do you think are the biggest things that affect black people that you can think of?

Yeah, so we have, like I said earlier, a lot of unique diseases and a lot of issues that affect us disproportionately. One big one and today's the last day of heart health minds, But one big one is as far as cardiovascular disease, our people are between thirty and fifty four percent more likely to die of a cardiovascular disease compared to our non Hispanic white counterparts. We die of heart attacks more, we have higher rates of obesity, higher rates of diabetes, and there's a lot of different

Tell me the connection, because you know, we can dispel the myth. Right now, you're anestesiologists. People are like you just put the needle in on and knock me out, Like what do what is your role or how do you even know about all these other medical things because people would think that that's not your area.

Yeah, so that's a good question.

You know, we as anesthesia doctors are periodicative physicians, and so whenever a patient is before me, I have to make sure that they're optimized respiratory wise, cardiovascular wise, that all their organ systems are ready to undergo the stress of surgery and anesthesia. And so I have to I have to manage diabetes. I have to tailor each anesthetic to each patient because it is not a one size fits all thing. I desire and tailor my anesthetic to

Mm hmmm. So I asked you about, you know, what other things that affect us? What do you think causes those things? It is our personal lifestyle choices. Is it that we're forced to eat certain foods? And what do you think are the biggest things that causes those situations that we have?

You know, that's it's it's multifactorial there's a lot of different things. Uh. Some of it is cultural, you know, the kind of foods that we gravitate towards as a culture. A lot of us don't have health clubs and our neighborhood we don't have neighborhoods that are safe enough, safe enough for us to go on walks and jogs.

Uh.

Many of our people living uh, food deserts where you don't have access to whole foods or you know, organic healthy produce that's at a reasonable price. And so there's things that you know, within our society are keeping us from being healthy and also just lack of information that's keeping us from changing our habits in the way that we live.

Yeah, it's environmental racism, is what we call it. And you know, and I mean and food desert's a real thing. When we first arrived in Louisville, Kentucky, where we were fighting for Breonna Taylor, we lived there for three months. During that time, we learned how the people were suffering. Like one supermarket in the entire area where all these hundreds of thousands of people lived, one supermarket did not I went in there one time. The fruit was terrible.

Yeah, so's there's three major issues. I mean, like you said, there's a lot of issues that we could talk about, including high cholesterol, and but the big three would have to be obesity, high blood pressure, and diabetes. Obesity, high blood pressure and diabetes. Those are three issues that affect us as black people more and for the most part, they are somewhat reversible, treatable, preventable if we are if we just do some common sense things to improve them

UH.

And then the last one, obesity, you know, we talked about it a little bit earlier. There's issues with access to adequate food and exercise. But obesity is one of the big things that you know, people don't realize the more weight you have that the more the harder your heart has to work to pump blood to all of those tissues throughout your body, and all that stress on the heart leads to elevated blood pressure and heart disease.

So do you think, you know, being a graduate of an HBCU, that it makes you focus on these things more, gives you more you know, insight into what's actually going on with black people? Do you think it affects that?

I definitely do.

Only about five point seven percent of doctors in this country are black, and it's been proven through many different studies that our people do better whenever we have positions that look like us you're more likely to take your medications, You're more likely to get age appropriate screenings, to take health advice if you are a patient of a doctor who you can trust, who you feel has your best interest, to understands you know, the words that you're using, who

The community and advocate.

And that's that's one of the reasons why I became more vocal on social media, because you know, I said, man, I have this platform, I have this sphere of influence. Let me try to educate people and try to get people to come on board with some of these issues and learn about their heart health and ways of being more healthy.

We talked about diabetes, and now I have people who have diabetes saying they can't get their medication because the folks that have obitity issues are using the medication to lose weight. And that's the old zembic piece. And we actually were talking about that a little earlier in this show. So I want you to to to sort of speak to this ozific phenomenon. I've recently learned that people have actually been using it for this reason for a longer time than we are now exposed to. But it wasn't

So ozempic is a medication and a lot of diabetes medications oral hypoglycimic agents. They have always had an off label use of weight loss, a side effect of weight loss, and you know, if you notice a lot of these drugs, the drug commercials years ago, they mentioned that weight loss is a potential side effect. So we've known that off label, these drugs can be used for weight loss, but it's just gotten that approval that now it can be used

It really comes down to h or.

I think the most important thing is to look at a person's overall health picture, which is why these drugs should be prescribed by a position. And so if you are somebody with severe heart disease with sleep happening with diabetes, a lot of times by losing weight, you know you can. Weight loss can cure diabetes, weight loss can cure high blood pressure, and so these drugs are important. Weight loss is important to prolonging your lifespan and making you healthier.

But what you're mixing that with if you have thyroid disease or something like that and you're taking ozepic because you're trying to be cute.

That you know, that's why the most important thing you have to have a position, and they're going to look at your total health picture, look at all the medical conditions that you have, and they'll be able to decide whether it's safe for you to take Ozmpic or not. There's some people because of their health conditions where it's not safe for them to take and they should explore other weight loss drugs or even surgery for weight loss.

So oh, surgery for weight loss?

What about the supplements and all those things? Did she mentioned?

So I am not I am the biggest person who will say if you don't need medications, you know, it

And so you know, we do have patients too on supplements. We just it's important that you tell your doctor that you are on those supplements.

I have seen cases where patients end up in trouble because they're taking supplements but not telling their doctor, and it's interfering with their meda prescribed medications. And so if you are taking supplements, it's important to tell your doctor.

M Yeah, because they can have high protein. That is a reaction. Why I see, I never I mean because I think the supplements. It's like, why do I have to tell anybody that I take supplements?

But I guess I see, this is another form of kind of like medication. So you don't want to, you know, just be contradicting medication. If they're prescribing you something, you want to let them know what it is that you're actually taking.

Yeah, but what would be a reason why somebody would want to hide that they would take in a supplement because black people just we just know, don't tell everything to anybody, right, you.

Know, if there's a lot of reasons, I don't think it's so much hiding. I think people just don't think it's important.

You might not consider it, right, That's what I was say. Medication.

You know, if you're taking, you know, some vitamins, you might not think, oh, I should tell my doctor I'm taking vitamin E or whatever or chen saying. But especially in the context of surgery, a lot of vitamins and supplements can increase your risk of bleeding. And so we need to know, and we specifically asked, but we need to know what are you taking both prescription wires, over the counter and selflement ours.

Do you do anesthesia for classic surgeon classic surgeons?

Are you in those rooms as well?

Yes, So I've worked with a lot of plastic surgeons. MA may makeovers, uh, prest augmentation, all the fun stuff.

That's why I needed my back.

So you so you've become this internet phenomenon. Do you get any hate on the internet? Do people tell you to shut up, you don't know what you're talking about? Or does it more love you know what.

Most of it is love. I will say that most of it is love. There are some topics that are very controversial. The first topic that really got me on social media was COVID and man whenever, as soon as you mentioned COVID, as soon as you, you know, bring it up, you're going to get people who are going to be very h It's yeah, it's very polarizing. You know, are vaccines good?

Are they bad?

And so COVID is probably the one topic where I'll get the most hate, but overall it's mostly love.

Let's close this out here.

But I want to just frame this. We were talking about it earlier and now I want to bring you into this discussion. We were talking about this show Painkillers. Say, what is it a documentary?

It's not. It's a show based on It's based on the true story, but it's not.

Dope Sick is the same. Have you seen Have you seen either one of these?

I haven't seen it.

You said you should watch because you mentioned the Food and Drug Administration, And what I thought this is these are based on true stories. Both of these shows Hulu cut has but.

It's based on the same It's based on the same family. It's based on a person who created I Cotting Right.

So, as you're going through this film, in my mind, prior to turning it on, I thought the Food and Drug Administration was two three, four, five big buildings in Washington, d C. With hundreds of thousands of people wanting things and doing things. And you know what I'm saying, like a major operation. And what we find out in these shows is that it actually is a few people at a desk on one floor in one building that's not even a building that's just for that in particular purpose

They denied them many many, many, many many.

Times, because they wanted to take their product from it being near death, you know, and what is it palatable care right, They wanted to take it from that to being used for more things and being more accessible to people, and the FDA consistently denied, denied, denied, denied. Then in the movie, because I went to check to see if this is true, eventually there was a meeting, something happened with the man from the FDA, which happens in all industries.

It's my mind, yeah.

Because I would think that that's illegal somewhere. But then again, as the show goes on, if this show continues, you find out about how many other people have left, you know, they might have been working for this law firm over here, working for the government.

And then they go into private practice. That's actually not illegal.

Many times we go into elected positions and into public office, and you when your time is up there, you want to go to private practice in some of these areas, So it's actually not illegal but I want that makes me question and wonder when we start talking about the FDA, and I do want to look and see FBA on my label. But am I really trusting and believing that what they're saying is right because how deep is their love?

Yeah?

Yeah, And I mean it's it's so unfortunate that we even have to have this conversation. I think that, especially within the past four or five years, we've had this discussion more and more. But there's there's no branch of

Yeah, that's the big takeaway, it really is.

And it's called the Sacler the Seckler.

Family, the Sackler family, right, okay.

So well, basically, you know, we just want to say thank you for coming here. And I like the representation man seeing a black man, you know, being in medicine and being knowledgeable. It maybe to start inspiring. You know, we don't see a lot of us in these spaces, and when you say it's only five percent of us in the space, that's crazy to me when we should be definitely present in spaces where where things affect us, you know, way worse than it affects everybody else. So

It's been all about legends, but the legends man legends, you certainly are one.

Thank you guys so much. I appreciate you.

Thank you doctor Singleton. We appreciate you and joining us. I don't know, anyway, I was gonna say, maybe I shouldn't talk about it, but you know, it is something that actually happened to me, and it had it was actually pretty traumatizing. So you know, during the Women's March, obviously, the the the controversy that we faced was very very significant, and I was being called anti Semitic, which you know,

She was real cool.

We actually sit around and talk for a little while. After the appointment, she became very short, she wasn't really interested, and you could tell that her personality towards me changed. And so I eventually, obviously we're smart enough to know

And there's some people who would say, well, why would you even.

Make the assumption that just because she was possibly Oh and by the way, she was a white woman anyway, so regardless of whether she was actually Jewish or not, she was a white woman. And at that time, there was so much hate against us from all different types of people, especially white people. And then you add the layer of whether whether they knew it was true or not, just the mere fact that I was getting called this hateful leader and you know, I'm anti Semitic or whatever.

And you know, so therefore, I.

Realized that I need to have my own people monitor and manage my health. I'd rather bet on my own people because at any given time, if you upset somebody, maybe from any community.

Not saying black people also.

But I, like I said, I'm pretty cool with black folks for the most part, for the most part, for the most part. But I realized that I need my care to be in the hands of people who look like me, you know, because you put in your hands and solar's life and you have no idea what they're behind, like what's going on back here.

Yeah, And it's also that you know, there's there's shared experience, there's there's a shared experience of last life in general that people are able to identify with and connected, you know. So I don't have any issues with people who don't

That you trusty.

It was all these things and just based off something in the media, false information that people put out into the media. It changed the whole creaction and her perception of you. And I'm just and I just think we're at a time where people are just so lazy and I don't and I don't get it. People are so lazy that they take anything that's put in the media or social media at face value.

Right.

They don't they don't do any research, they don't do any due diligence, They don't consider the individual. There are people that we know every day of our lives that will look at something that's put on social media and take it at face value. Sure, there are things should you should you pay attention, right, Like Denzel said, one of the realist things, he said, if you don't listen to it and to the media. If you said, if you don't listen to the media, then you're uninformed. But

It's no such thing. I don't agree with you.

You don't know. So what do you think?

Because I don't agree, I agree with you that misinformation is a problem. I think people when they turn their phone on, unless they really pretty much trust who they're talking to. That's like on this show, and there are many other shows big by Teszling. You think about you know a number of people you listen to Aman the Seals, You're listening to the Native Pod with Angela Rode, Tiffany Cross and what's our brother's name? Andrew Gillum, And there's

We know.

The New York Times was exposed for having a writer writing about issues or things that happen on October seventh.

To Israeli's that was not true because if you go right now.

And google rapes or you google children being beheaded. Even though not only has the American government had to say after President Biden said he saw something that he did not see now, they tried to say he didn't mean it that way. Whatever, he still said he saw pictures of babies beheaded, And then the Israeli governments had to say, you know what, actually there's no evidence of such, right so we know that, we know that. But if you go right now when you google, it's the shit still

That's what I'm saying.

You can't entertain at the expensive somebody.

Else's well, but there's no accountability mechanism unless you sue people you know, or whatever, and it's very expensive to go to court and go through all of that. And you know, I'm a person who has many friends that are lawyers, and they all are prepared at any time to go to that for me and for you, right. But there are a lot of people that don't have that, some people that even have the lawyers. And by the time you get to a certain level, lawyers are bleeding

So what I'm saying about entertainment is that I don't look at this thing and say, unless I'm you know again, unless it's somebody I trust, unless it's a video of something that's really moving to me, or unless I have the opportunity to speak to the lawyers, the family.

The people involved. I look at it and I just keep scrolling and see it. Okay, you put it in the bank, you heard it. You might hear it again.

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