2023-05-30 19:09:17
WIRED: What would be your keys to finding more reliable information to maintain a much healthier life?
Dr. Want to: We have many guides. I like to recommend to my patients that they see Life’s Simple 7, an outreach effort from the American College of Cardiology, where you can see what are the seven points that most impact the health of the average human:
1. Quit smoking
2. Eat better
3. Exercise
4. Lose weight
5. Watch your blood pressure
6. Control cholesterol
7. Lower blood sugar
There are multiple ways to carry it out. There is the Mediterranean pattern, which can be adapted to countries like Ecuador, Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, Costa Rica or Panama. They are eating patterns, which can be located in our eating context. It is important to see exercise as a biological demand, rather than as a life suggestion. That is, start to see it as peeing and pooping. The how does not matter, you can do it in your pajamas at home, in front of a television with a YouTube routine or you can do it in a gym fancy, whenever you do. I believe that Hispanics have to have a style of mind more proactiveprevent the disease from arriving, and try to start looking for ways to actively prevent it.
WIRED: Your voice as a Spanish-speaking communicator of medicine is growing. Tell me about your future plans.
Dr. Want to: I am happy because, honestly, I would never have imagined the places I have reached. I am part of a round table of health educators at the White House. I have had to see people who have done so many things for the country, for Latinos. I would love to continue in that line. I had the opportunity to be on a panel with the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), to talk about the future of vaccines. It was amazing to be with all these people who have 30 or 40 years of experience fighting the battle, as we say. The truth is that I am very honored that it is possible for me to become an International Consultant of the WHO/PAHO, to see how we can generate campaigns that are truly impressive, through social networks and other means of mass dissemination, especially in terms of health, vaccinations, etc.
WIRED: The good news is that more doctors and healthcare professionals are raising their voices on social media.
Dr. Want: CI think that something that the pandemic has left very good is that I see more and more doctors on social networks. The truth that fills me with hope. So, to all the doctors who want to be disseminators on social networks, please, I beg you to do it, because people, especially Hispanics in the United States, consume a lot of information on social networks and if there are no professionals in the health with a moderate vision in this space, we are going to lose the battle against misinformation, so do not hesitate. Do it. Help, save lives, improve lives, do it.
WIRED. How do you see the future in terms of health? Encouraging?
Dr. Want to: Of course, the hopeful future exists. I know that there are many people who are opposed to medical and pharmaceutical advances. They are free to think what they like. But the reality is that we are entering a new stage of cancer immunotherapy. I am not an oncologist, but it fills me with hope for my patients, for my family, for the people I love, because it is very probable that the panorama of cancer or certain types of cancer will change dramatically in the next 10 or 15 years. Advances in medicine and obesity, we will have more and more weapons available to people who really need them and much more efficient. This really fills me with hope. And the other point is Alzheimer’s, as a society we owe a lot to research in this field. Little by little we have more evidence that a healthy lifestyle is crucial, strength training is crucial. And hopefully, more and more we can have more effective treatments that really make a difference in this disease.
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