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00:00Dr. Columbus, Baptiste, thank you for being here.
00:03Let's give him a round of applause, folks.
00:06All right, all right. It's a pleasure to be here.
00:08Thank you, thank you. We're glad you're here, man.
00:11So people think they see a lot of pink shoes and pink shirts,
00:18and people think that cancer is the number one cause of death in America.
00:26But it's not.
00:27The number one cause of death in America is?
00:31It's heart disease.
00:32Heart disease.
00:33So we understand that. We understand that it's heart disease.
00:36It's the beginning and the end of everything.
00:38So it's a centerpiece.
00:40And so a lot of times, just like what you said,
00:43commonly what ends up happening is we think women think that it's breast cancer.
00:50Breast cancer, breast cancer, breast cancer is the cause.
00:53It's absolutely not. It's actually heart disease.
00:55Absolutely. So now you are not just a regular cardiologist.
01:01You are an interventional cardiologist.
01:04Explain to the crowd what is an interventional cardiologist, besides a lot of school.
01:10Yeah, it's a lot of school. There's no doubt it's a lot of school.
01:12But I'm going to tell you what I like to do is I intervene on the heart.
01:16So, you know, I used to joke when I was in college.
01:18I went to an HBCU in Alabama and loved, loved, loved.
01:22So I used to joke and say I wanted to be a, I was a heart lover.
01:25You know, I was, you know, I didn't take care of everyone's heart.
01:28And one of the things that I do as a cardiologist is that when a heart attack is ready to happen,
01:34my job is to help stop it in his throats.
01:37My job is to help alleviate symptoms of chest pain, shortness of breath, and help you feel better.
01:43But I'm going to tell you, my real role as an interventional cardiologist is to intervene before you actually have a heart attack.
01:49So I'm going to tell you exactly how I do that.
01:53I do that, but when you hear music, you're supposed to get up.
01:58You're supposed to stand for a few moments, right?
02:00Correct.
02:01So what do you do when you hear music?
02:03All right, stand up and show them what you do when you hear music.
02:06Come on.
02:06One of these.
02:07Yeah, all right.
02:09You got to do something.
02:10That's what you got to do, something.
02:12Because guess what?
02:13Guess what?
02:13It brings joy.
02:14It brings joy to your life.
02:16Correct.
02:16All of a sudden, that little bit of move and that groove that starts to happen, it generates this whole dynamic that begins to dilate your vessels.
02:25It makes you happy.
02:26It makes you smile, and that smile becomes contagious.
02:29And it's something that I call selfish.
02:32Selfish.
02:32And we'll get back to that in a few moments.
02:34Okay.
02:34So your job is to make sure that when someone is having a heart attack, you stop it.
02:41That's right.
02:42That's right.
02:42Do you stop that in the operating room?
02:45Or do you stop it in the cat's lap?
02:47Where does that start?
02:49Where does that start?
02:50Yeah, so when a person starts having symptoms, and so here's the thing.
02:55First, you have to understand what symptoms are you having that make you think you're getting ready to have a heart attack.
02:59So for men, we always see that sign.
03:01We see it in TV movies.
03:03Crushing chest pain.
03:04They grab their chest, right?
03:06It's right here.
03:06It starts going in their neck.
03:07They get sweaty, and all of a sudden, they get shaky.
03:09That's not the symptom for women.
03:13So how many of you guys out there know what the symptoms are for women?
03:17I see a few hands.
03:18I don't think you count.
03:19You can't answer.
03:19You don't count.
03:21Come on, Doc.
03:21All right, so how many of you guys think it's chest pain?
03:25It's the number one symptom for women.
03:28All right, all right, all right.
03:29How many of you guys think the number one symptom for women is dizziness?
03:35How many of you guys think the number one symptom is just feeling a little bit tired?
03:39All right, yeah.
03:40I see your hand go up.
03:41How about you feel nauseated?
03:44All those symptoms, back pain, nausea, feeling as hard as you're feeling weak and tired,
03:50those are all symptoms of heart disease, along with chest pain, along with shortness of breath.
03:55So it can be any and everything that strikes in the moment.
03:58So when that strikes, that's when I get called into action, right?
04:02So I get called into action to come in, but really that's too late.
04:05But what I do in that moment is I get access to your artery, and I bring you to a cath lab.
04:11A cath lab is this sterile room.
04:14It looks scary.
04:15The dots and everything are there.
04:17We come in, and we either get access inside your groin, the upper part of your leg, or in your arm.
04:23And we slide little small straws inside of that, your artery.
04:27And from there, we pass smaller areas to your heart, and just the liquid that allows us to visualize the vessels.
04:33But we don't want to get there.
04:34We don't want to wait until that point to get there.
04:37What do you think is the number one thing, as far as prevention, that someone could do to not meet you?
04:48Because you're a nice fella, but I don't ever, ever, ever want to see you in a hospital.
04:54Because if you see him, something's gone drastically wrong, right?
04:58So what can we do to get to the point to prevent?
05:02Number one thing you think.
05:04The number one thing that I'm going to say that you can do, first of all, is to be aware.
05:09So just like when you're getting ready to go and buy something at the grocery store, or ladies, you're going out shopping, or you're going to buy a car.
05:15First thing you have to know is, do I have cash in the account, right?
05:18You have to have awareness.
05:20That's the first thing.
05:20That's key.
05:21Number one, awareness of what, you know, can my credit, can my account sustain the charges I'm making against you?
05:28That's number one.
05:29So first you have to know what your blood pressure is.
05:32You have to know what your blood sugar is.
05:35You have to know what your weight is.
05:37You have to know all these factors on a regular basis because these are the groundwork, the foundation that leads you coming in to see me.
05:46But there's one additional thing that you have to know about and check yourself.
05:51So there's something that happens before blood pressure, before diabetes, before all these things.
05:56Guess what it is?
05:57What's the first thing that happens?
05:59That's a precursor towards all those risk factors.
06:01It's stress.
06:04Stress is a thing that leads before all those things happen.
06:09So every single day, guess what you have to do?
06:11You have to get that stress in check.
06:13You have to know what that stress level is because it's so important.
06:16You just said a mouthful because I don't, one of the things I always say when I talk about the 10 things that can really make you change in your life tomorrow
06:27is you've got to decrease your stress.
06:30And I'm not advocating violence, but if you have somebody in your house that's causing you stress, they've got to go.
06:39They've got to go.
06:41And I'm telling you, the hard part about that is that it could be your child.
06:46It could be your spouse.
06:48And I'm not saying you kill nobody, but I'm saying they've got to go.
06:51You've got to give them a time limit, man, because it'll kill you.
06:54It will kill you.
06:55It will happen.
06:56No, there's no doubt it's going to kill you.
06:58But here's the thing.
06:58I'm going to tell you, the past two years, three years, how many of you guys have heard everything negative about black people?
07:06You've heard about that you're going to live sick, you're living sick or dying sooner, right?
07:10You've heard that you're more inclined to get COVID.
07:12You've heard about all these things out there.
07:14And guess what?
07:15It's real.
07:16It's real.
07:17But the one thing I wanted to make sure that you learn today is that there is a Wakanda out there waiting for you.
07:24How many of you guys know what Wakanda is, right?
07:27It's that fictional place where, guess what?
07:30You have all these superheroes, there's technology, and you have black pride, black love, black excellence.
07:35That's all there, right?
07:36Well, I want to tell you, there's a place.
07:37How many of you guys have heard of Blue Zones?
07:40No?
07:40A few?
07:41All right, so Blue Zones are the most long-lived people in the world.
07:44But guess what?
07:45Before Wakanda dropped in 2018, there was an article that came out called Black Blue Zones.
07:52That there are pockets that exist around America where you have some of the most long-lived people of African descent.
08:00Guess what?
08:01And so these people, guess what?
08:02They live in their 90s.
08:03They live to their 100s.
08:05That somehow, despite all the statistics, that they still are thriving and surviving.
08:10That guess what?
08:11That when we look at studies, there's one called the Dallas Heart Study.
08:14And what they did in Dallas Heart Study is they tracked what happened to African Americans over a period of time.
08:19And what they found was that there was a group of African Americans who had a gene that made them resistant towards developing coronary disease.
08:30That they actually, we took this.
08:31And this became the impetus for a new medication that we use to fight cholesterol.
08:36And so I want to tell you that there is a Black Blue Zone that exists within you.
08:40And the key for you tapping into this Black Blue Zone for you to counteract stress and from seeing me is called getting selfish.
08:49Getting selfish is the key because this is the central cog of every Black Blue Zone, of every Blue Zone around the world.
08:58And so selfish means, first you're going to start with what?
09:01Spiritual.
09:02You've got to get spiritual.
09:03And I don't even mean the religious fashion, but it can be.
09:06That means you take moments of meditation.
09:10That means you take moments of calm, of peace.
09:12How many of you guys, when you first thing you do and you wake up in the morning, you should check your phone?
09:17Who called me?
09:18Who texts me?
09:19What's on Instagram?
09:20What's on social media?
09:22I love the heads there shaking.
09:23No.
09:24A few moments of silence, of peace, of meditation, of thoughtful reflection are powerful.
09:30That's something that begins what's called the prefrontal cortex where thought begins.
09:35It helps strengthen the mind so now when you say, I want to set out to be a better person today, it helps you get to that goal.
09:42That's what spiritual is.
09:44The E stands for exercise.
09:46Now what we saw the doc do, the doc just got up and exercised.
09:49He didn't mean he had to do the guru of abs up there, but all he had to do was move something.
09:54Get up there and just move, right?
09:56Because guess what?
09:57By simply standing, stand with me for a moment, right?
10:01By simply standing, guess what you're doing?
10:04You're doing something called NEAT, non-exercise activity thermogenesis.
10:08What that means is by simply standing, you're burning calories.
10:11By simply standing, guess what you're doing?
10:13You're strengthening your cardiovascular system, by simply chopping, by simply walking, by moving.
10:22These are the things that life is made out of.
10:24Because guess what?
10:25When you stop moving, life is about over, right?
10:29So that's important.
10:30So you want to make sure that you need for exercise.
10:32What's the L stand for?
10:34The L stands for something that's absent in this world.
10:36And guess what that is?
10:37Love.
10:38Love.
10:39Now how many of you guys have been in a relationship before?
10:42Any relationship?
10:44How many of you have been in a relationship and know that love takes work?
10:48Love is work.
10:50Love is not easy, is it?
10:52Love takes real work.
10:53And love means, guess what?
10:54Love, you've got to be about action.
10:56What's that action?
10:57Forgiveness.
10:59Forgiveness.
11:00Gratitude.
11:01These are things that are actionable from love.
11:04And guess what saves have shown?
11:05That when you embrace forgiveness, when you embrace gratitude, that your endocidium, that lining of the vessels that's been described during this COVID phenomenon, it begins to relax.
11:16It begins to heal.
11:17It begins to dilate, which means that your blood pressure lowers.
11:21There's this power that's there in that moment.
11:24That when you begin to love and embrace love, the oxytocin.
11:28Because guess what stress does?
11:29Stress means you get ready to fight or run away.
11:33That's it, right?
11:34The fight or flight system.
11:35But guess what love is?
11:37Love is about oxytocin.
11:38The tend to befriend.
11:40The rug hormone that's there.
11:42We often describe it with women and breastfeeding.
11:44But it's just taking a few moments to have a conversation.
11:47This is what love is.
11:49Now what does that F stand for?
11:51Food.
11:51Real food I learned from my grandmother.
11:54Greens.
11:54Collard greens.
11:55Red beans and rice.
11:57Come on now.
11:57That's a big one.
11:59I want to stop right there and we're going to continue.
12:02Because when we talk about food, folks, this is what we have got to walk out of this room with understanding.
12:10There are going to be a couple of key things that we're going to walk out with.
12:12Because when I leave a meeting, I always say, who's responsible for what and by when?
12:18Nobody likes to be in a meeting with me.
12:20Because you ain't leaving without something that you got to do.
12:23Right?
12:24Food.
12:25You cannot exercise your way out of a bad diet.
12:30It's impossible.
12:31The numbers don't allow it.
12:33When you wake up in the morning, you burn 1,500 calories by just being around.
12:391,500.
12:40So that means if you eat 1,500, you don't gain no weight.
12:44But I want every one of you, when you get home, to go get your high school yearbook picture and put it on your mirror.
12:53And that's your goal.
12:56High school 5.
12:57I want you to be high school 5.
13:00Because if you think about what would happen here.
13:03If you had gotten on a scale every week after high school and weighed yourself, you would have noticed that you gained 10 and noticed that you gained 20.
13:16And you would have been able to deal with that.
13:18But you didn't do that until you were 20 years out of high school and now you're 30 and 40 over.
13:25And then you say, I can't do that.
13:27I'm done.
13:27Now, you have got to do this because good, wholesome, healthy food will decrease your cholesterol.
13:36Some of you weren't here when he said it at the beginning.
13:38The number one cause of death in America is heart disease.
13:43It ain't nothing else.
13:45So if you want to prevent that, you have to eat the right food.
13:50And you've got to step away.
13:52And I know it's hard.
13:54I know it is hard.
13:55But we are of the DNA of kings and queens.
13:59We can live through things.
14:02So you've got to step away.
14:03Yeah, I'm just going to add to that because here's the thing.
14:06You hear so much about food.
14:08But the thing is, everything should make sense when you say that out loud, right?
14:11I mean, we know what's good and what's bad.
14:13We understand that.
14:14But sometimes we set the bar so high that we get crazed by it.
14:19We feel like we can't overcome it.
14:21But here's the thing.
14:22All you have to do is small habits matter.
14:25Atomic habits, small changes.
14:27Then what you begin by doing is saying, guess what I'm going to do?
14:29I'm going to add a salad.
14:31I didn't say ranch soup with a few pieces of lettuce.
14:34I'm going to add a salad before each meal.
14:35I may go in and add fruit.
14:37Now, I'm going to focus on the things that I'm empowering my body with first before I consider anything else.
14:43Because guess what?
14:43You're a grown person.
14:46Some people say you're a grown person.
14:47But you're a grown person.
14:49What that means is what?
14:50You can choose to eat what you want, whenever you want, how you want it.
14:55So don't tell yourself you can.
14:57Tell yourself you can.
14:59Doc, I want to.
15:00You mentioned ranch.
15:02You mentioned ranch dressing.
15:03I did.
15:04Every tablespoon of ranch dressing.
15:07I'll tell you everybody about to get mad at me.
15:09Every tablespoon of ranch dressing has as much sugar as one Krispy Kreme donut.
15:15Okay?
15:16Okay?
15:16So, I mean, we talk about processed meat.
15:21Processed meat, which is, I'm about to kill y'all now.
15:25Don't be mad because you're kidding me, this is family.
15:27Processed meat, which is bacon, sausage, hot dogs, cold cuts, meaning if you didn't see it cut off of the turkey, then it's a processed meat.
15:38Processed meat is a class 1A carcinogen equal to smoking.
15:45Processed meat.
15:46So how much of this can you eat in a week?
15:48Processed meat in a week, you can have the equivalent of about the size of two eggs of processed meat for you not to have that increase of heart disease.
15:58Processed meat.
16:00Think about that.
16:02It's a decision, though.
16:03It is.
16:04It's a scary decision, but you've got to make it if you want to be around.
16:08We were just talking earlier, right?
16:10Were we?
16:10We were just talking.
16:11That's right.
16:11Young lady in the back.
16:12We were talking about this very thing.
16:14And if I say we sit here and we say we're going to put our money together and we're going to give you a world-class vacation at a hotel of your choice around the world,
16:23and you find out it has asbestos in it, y'all know what that asbestos is?
16:27Would you stay overnight in that hotel?
16:30Nah, you wouldn't stay there, right?
16:31Why?
16:32Because you said the risk of cancer is too high, even for one night.
16:35But what do you choose to do with your plate?
16:39Once a week.
16:41Once a day.
16:42Twice a day.
16:43Three times a day.
16:44You say, well, it doesn't matter.
16:45But every little bit matters.
16:48It matters.
16:49And the thing is, guess what?
16:51If you make small changes, you get big rewards.
16:54Big rewards.
16:54Big rewards.
16:55We're going to throw this out there because I want y'all to, some of you weren't in here when we said it.
16:59A bowl of rice equals two bowls of ice cream when it comes to the sugar content.
17:03A bowl of rice, two scoops of sugar.
17:06All right?
17:07And so, I mean, a bowl of rice is two scoops of ice cream, right?
17:11So, what you have to remember, though, is that when you try to step away from these things, expect it to be difficult.
17:20Expect it to be difficult.
17:21But just know that, don't just change from brown rice, I mean, from white rice to brown rice and think it's going to be okay.
17:28Because that's not going to be okay.
17:30Because you're going to decrease a little bit of the carbohydrates, but the lion's share is still there.
17:35People say, well, Doc, if you said a 22-ounce soda has much sugar, 12 Krispy Kreme donuts, what am I supposed to drink?
17:42Water, water, you've done enough.
17:49This is what we have to remember.
17:51And I'm serious about this, folks, because I love y'all.
17:54This is a love fest in here.
17:56I love y'all.
17:58But what we have to think about is this is not going to be the easiest thing for you to do.
18:06But it's the thing that you must do to live.
18:09And, you know, this is not a dress rehearsal.
18:13This is the show.
18:14This is the show.
18:16So let's do it.
18:17Well, you know, the one thing I'm going to tell you is, let me ask you a question.
18:21How many of you will raise your hands if you think that heart disease exists and begins, exists and can cause problems when you're 60 years of age and older?
18:31That heart disease causes problems when you're 60 years of age and older.
18:35How about if you're 40 years of age and older?
18:37Is heart disease present?
18:39Is heart disease present when you're 20?
18:42How about younger than that?
18:44Your teens?
18:46What's the number one symptom of people who drop dead of a heart attack?
18:51Nothing.
18:52So if heart disease begins when you're a teen, if heart disease begins when you're a teen and heart disease can lead to you dropping dead without any symptoms, that means all of us have to be about intervention.
19:07There is no prevention.
19:08There is only intervention.
19:10So when I say I'm an interventional cardiologist, it's true.
19:12That's what I get paid to do.
19:14To stop heart attacks before they happen.
19:17But guess what?
19:18That's what I'm doing right now.
19:19I'm trying to encourage you that you can have the power of an interventional cardiologist, but you get to save your money and not have to pay me.
19:30Because guess what you can do?
19:32You can adopt these things.
19:33Simple strategies that you're going to build towards this thing called health.
19:37That you're investing in your retirement.
19:40Every single time you're investing in your retirement, aren't you?
19:42You put money aside so what?
19:43So you can live the life you want to live.
19:45But guess what?
19:47If you get to that point and your health is gone, what's the point of putting that money away?
19:51But that money that you're putting away takes sacrifice, doesn't it?
19:54You can all enjoy it right now.
19:57So guess what?
19:57Making a change in the way in which you live life, you eat, you live, you love, you play, all plays a role.
20:05It takes sacrifice.
20:06It takes effort to do it.
20:09He said something I want to touch on too because he mentioned the social determinants of health.
20:16And what do those things mean?
20:18Where we live, where we love, where we work and where we play make a difference on our health
20:24because those things have been made to be much more difficult in the African-American community.
20:31So if I tell you right now, look, I want you to go to Whole Foods.
20:35I mean Whole Paycheck.
20:36I'm sorry, Whole Paycheck.
20:37Well, if I want you to go to Whole Foods and I want you to buy two bunches of broccoli organic,
20:45you're going to go there and look at me and say,
20:47I can get a 10-pound bag of potatoes and feed my whole family for this one little bunch of broccoli.
20:56Okay?
20:56So if you don't have the money because you don't have a good job because you did not go to a good school
21:01and then you have a criminal record and then you don't have an address,
21:05so you can't buy that food and then you can't live well.
21:10And all that was made because you weren't able to have a good education because you were put in a place where you couldn't.
21:17So that is where the social determinants of health come in.
21:20And that's why you have to fight against this every day.
21:25So you might not be able to get, you know, broccoli from Whole Foods,
21:30but you can go to Rouse's and, well, not Rouse's, anything.
21:34I'm not going there because that was a whole issue.
21:36Go to the grocery store.
21:38Y'all not from here, so y'all don't know that whole thing.
21:40But you go to the grocery store and get some frozen broccoli.
21:47Five to seven servings of fruits or vegetables in a day decrease your risk of cancer by 30%.
21:55Five to seven servings.
21:59I don't eat five to seven individual servings, but I tell you what,
22:02I put all of it in a Nutribullet and grind it up and drink it.
22:05I don't, and there's one other piece about the food thing.
22:10Well, Doc, that don't taste good.
22:13I don't care if it tastes good.
22:16Haven't you lived enough to know that at this point, healthy things might not taste good?
22:22It's okay.
22:23Not every, food is not made to taste good.
22:26Food is made as fuel for your body.
22:28If it tastes good, that's extra.
22:31That's lanyard.
22:32But if it don't taste good,
22:33you still need to eat it because you've got to make that car run with the right amount of octane.
22:40And if you don't do that, your car is not going to run right.
22:43And that is the same concept.
22:45But I'm going to push back slightly on that.
22:47I know.
22:47I'm going to push back slightly on that.
22:49So here's the thing.
22:51How many of you guys drink coffee?
22:54How many of you guys drink alcohol?
22:57Now, the first time you ever had alcohol, did you love the way it tastes?
23:00Exactly.
23:02Yeah, you didn't like it.
23:03How about most people who drank coffee didn't love the way it tastes?
23:05But guess what?
23:06You loved the way it made you feel.
23:08Now, all of a sudden, as you kept doing it because you liked the way it made you feel,
23:12you started getting a taste for it.
23:14You started acquiring a taste and started saying, oh, this is a good blend here.
23:18Right?
23:18Well, that's the same thing that's going to happen when you get asparagus.
23:21That's right.
23:21That's the same thing that's going to happen when you get Brussels sprouts.
23:24That's the same thing that's going to happen when you get those dark green leafy, those wild greens that are there.
23:30You're going to start to say, oh, I like that arugula.
23:32I like that pungent taste.
23:34And your body is going to start to like it because guess what?
23:37You were made well.
23:40You were made for superiority.
23:42You were made to have the right foods put in your body.
23:45Not fake foods, not drinking foods, but foods from the earth is what you were made to have.
23:50And that's powering.
23:50I agree.
23:51And let me tell you something.
23:53If you think that the white powder that we're addicted to in America is cocaine that's killing us, it's not.
24:00It's sugar.
24:01And the thing that will illustrate this point even more is just try to stop drinking high-sugar drinks.
24:09Just do that for one month.
24:12When you go back to try to drink it, it's going to taste like syrup.
24:17You will not drink it.
24:20We used to take Coca-Cola when we used to be able to see the engines in our cars and the car wouldn't start, the battery was out.
24:25You'd get the Coca-Cola, you'd pour the Coca-Cola soda, rather.
24:30Pour the soda on the battery, and it would eat the acid off the battery, and then the car would start.
24:42What do you think it does to your colon?
24:46Think about that.
24:47But if you stop eating processed foods, which foods which were made to, that, you think about French fries.
24:54French fries have extra stuff in them so that you can eat more French fries.
24:57It's made that way.
24:59So if you push back on that, and you start eating asparagus and broccoli, you will see that these foods that you think taste bad will actually taste good.
25:10But they may not taste good.
25:12Look at Dr. Griggs walking by.
25:14Dr. Griggs, good to see you, brother man.
25:17He'll tell you too.
25:18Get checked, get fit, get moving.
25:20If you have one thing you want to say, one thing you want to say for people that, when they're walking out of here,
25:28what do you want to tell them so they don't ever have to meet you?
25:31Yeah.
25:32Get selfish.
25:33I started telling you about getting selfish.
25:35Oh yeah, finish your selfish acronym.
25:37Remember, spiritual, exercise, love, food, real food, food from the earth, intimacy, which means relationship,
25:44someone that you can actually confide in, someone that you, whether even if it's your pet that gives you love and joy, right?
25:51The S means sleep, something people don't do anymore in this world.
25:54Sleep.
25:55Seven hours of sleep, maybe doing 15 minutes each increment over a period of time.
26:00And last one is H for humor or joy.
26:04Laughter is what you want.
26:05Follow me, check out.
26:08I'll give you a free little info guide on getting selfish before my book drops about it.
26:14There's power that's there so you don't have to see me.
26:17Remember, I'm intervening on your heart right now as you sit here and you listen.
26:23Take heed.
26:23Thank you, brother.
26:25And I want to, I want to, before, before y'all do that, because I want to give the big clap for you.
26:29Whenever I have a black audience, I have to say this.
26:33You don't know your sickle cell status.
26:35You need to recognize that one of the number one cause of death of new black military recruits in America is sickle cell trait, not disease.
26:45Trait.
26:46There's four million black people in America with sickle cell trait.
26:49And everybody in America has been tested for sickle cell trait at birth.
26:53It's a federal law.
26:55But right now, four million people, if you go on an airplane in an unpressurized cabin, if you go skiing, if you go on a hike at a high altitude, or if you're working out and you start feeling kind of ugh, you could die from a sickle cell crisis with sickle cell trait, not disease.
27:14If you think I'm lying, go to the NCAA where they screen the athletes.
27:21If you have sickle cell trait, you can't almost play college sports anymore because black men, 16 black men have died on the football field in America from sickle cell trait.
27:32They just drop dead.
27:34So if you don't know your sickle cell trait status and you're feeling a little tired all the time and you work out and your bones start hurting, you need to find out.
27:42And it's criminal.
27:43I was at a conference called South by Southwest, a bunch of cool white dudes with hoodies on, which was about billions of dollars.
27:50And they said, wait a minute.
27:51So you mean to tell me black people are dying in America because there's not the aggregation of the data that already exists so they can know if they have sickle cell trait or not?
28:03The test is already done?
28:06I said, yes.
28:07They said, this is criminal.
28:08This is criminal.
28:09So when you're all at home, you need to find out your sickle cell trait status.
28:13I wrote a book about that called Sickle.
28:15You get the book.
28:16But it's criminal what's happening.
28:18There's no registry for you to go.
28:19You got to go to your hospital where you were born or your state and find out.
28:23But you've got to know and tell your sons and daughters, we want to make sure that if they have trait, they cannot mate with a person that has trait or they can have a baby.
28:37Now, granted, some people are still going to do that.
28:39Okay.
28:39And this is kind of with the heart.
28:41Right.
28:41Some people are still going to do that.
28:42And that's fine.
28:43But 98% of young black women that have a baby with sickle cell disease had no idea they had trait.
28:48And that is criminal.
28:49So with that being said, please, do what you need to do so we ain't got to meet you, man.
28:54Follow this, man.
28:55Thank you very much, Dr. Columbus Baptiste.
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