Bringing Preventative Healthcare to the South Bronx

0:00 Speaker 1 Sunday morning. Well with us today is a good friend of mine, doctor Mason Pinsla, and just what he reinvented healthcare in the Bronx. And that got my attention because so many people in the Bronx need healthcare. And doctor Pimsla give us an update what the heck is going on in the Bronx that everybody should know about.

0:22 Speaker 2 So I work in the South Bronx and what’s going on is that there is just, especially with the immigration that it has occurred over the past few years, the amountations that have been coming into the South Bronx with multiple medical problems different cardiovascular, diabetes, obesity, everything, mental health and a big one and it just hasn’t been addressed

0:48 really that much. The resources haven’t been there, and thankfully HAC has provided those resources, and I have just taken those resources and really unleashed them on the patients. So, for instance, there are patients that come in that are due to the lack of eating proper foods, are becoming so obese and it becomes a vicious cycle. You become obese,

1:14 you start getting cardiovascular, you start getting diabetes, and then Medicaid and all the insurance companies start having to pay for this. So what I’ve been doing, which I thought it was unique and I wish other people doing, is I reached out to novartists and they’ve been so helpful and providing free ozembic and wigobi to me to provide

1:35 to these patients. And I use the weight loss drugs that cost thousands of dollars and I give it to people Medicaid and that don’t have insurance, and we don’t have to charge Medicaid or insurance, and I provide it free of charge. So a lot of patients here in the Bronx that are obese and that are developing cardiovascular

1:55 disorders diabetes, heart failure. I’m giving these medications. They’re losing weight, their diabeteses are improving. It’s not costing anyone anything, and I’m just feel very good about that, And the patients feel good because they feel more confident they could then go out and get jobs. Their health is not becoming a social determinant. Social determinant is a determinant that prevents

2:22 someone from getting the health care, from getting their diseases taken care of, and from you fully living their full life.

2:33 Speaker 1 So you are taking care of people that are needy and not getting health care the way they should be getting in places like the Bronx, which might have secondary treatment facilities, and the health situation depending on the foods they eat traditionally. I mean, I’ve gone to the South, I’ve gone to almost every state, and the difference in

3:01 the way people eat in well, let’s say I live in Manhattan. The difference between people eating Manhattan and eating different other burrows, it’s a big difference. How can we better tell people the right things to eat? And are you moving in that direction at all?

3:24 Speaker 2 Yes, big difference. That’s right. You can go to the different counties. A lot of people don’t realize what you just said. And the foods and the cultures direct that. I could walk out here in the South Bronx out of my hospital and you have the food trucks, and you have the bodegas and the mescans and restaurants, and

3:44 the people are eating. And it’s also an economically tortillas, all these fatty foods. So what I push, I do push it. I push the Mediterranean diet. I’m a big believer in the Mediterranean diet. I’m big on the fishes, I’m big on lean me I’m big on beans Legomes Goya, which actually is a big company and very helpful is

4:07 you know. They they do something that I involved with the Dominican Republic Parade. I am a big supporter of and those are very healthy foods. But in the Bronx in.

4:21 Speaker 1 Either way, if you eat what I’ve been telling people, and I talked to doctor Peter Michelos all the time with his philosophy. Doctor you know, live long and prosper If our creator made the food, then you should be more confident in that than if a large manufacturer made the food.

4:41 Speaker 2 Yeah, I agree with doctor Michelos. I’ve listened to him. He’s one of your best medical guys you have on there. With the plant based diets are very very very helpful and very good. And we have something here that we started here at Lincoln called Lifestyle Medica lifestyle medicine and it’s all based on plant foods and diet and it

5:05 really helps the people here in the South Fronts because they’re not eating properly. So yeah, that is the main ideology is the diet, right, So that’s the main cause of the majority, of course is genetic.

5:18 Speaker 1 But yeah, you know, there was an all expression or me and you were growing up. Crap inles crap out. You know, I’m saying it in a nicer way.

5:29 Speaker 2 No, it does, it does, crap it goes crap out. And the thing is, you’re right. I have a lot of patients so they can’t get it out that it’s constipated that I have to work on because of the foods, you know, and it’s it’s difficult and especially as you get older. Armageriatrician as well, that’s my subspecialty. And you

5:48 know your colon gets dry, and due to getting dry and poor food, you’re not getting it out as much to want well.

5:55 Speaker 1 I will tell you what else I’ve discussed with doctor Peter is that the fact is if you don’t go every day, I mean, your body is trained to get rid of toxins, whether you cough it up and flem, whether you urinated out, whether you fought it out, or whether you get it out on well whatever. But if

6:24 you leave it, if you leave it in your colon too long and it has toxins in it, that’s what causes colon.

6:30 Speaker 3 Cancer one hundred And as you’ve had my friend doctor Lewis diaz on there, he will tell you that as well, it is such a.

6:41 Speaker 2 Be and that’s why the colon cancer rate has gone up so much in people younger than fifty, younger than forty five, because you’re not cleaning their colon ass as much.

6:54 Speaker 1 Because the bottom line is keep stuff moving. Otherwise, you got get the toxins out of your body and you’ll be healthier.

7:04 Speaker 2 One hundred percent. Take fiber I prescribed all my face in STILLI and fiber batter in their water bottles. I try to push that. It’s huge, huge, it’ll help it move.

7:16 Speaker 1 Doctor Mason Rinslow. We’re out of time, but let’s continue to talk because you know, we want people to live longer.

7:23 Speaker 2 Absolutely, John, it was a pleasure. Thank you for having me on be Well.