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Today I invited our girl Camila Ramon to join us once again
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so please help me welcome her.
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I want to say thank you so much for having me.
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First off. Second off,
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I am obsessed with this setup.
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I'm obsessed with the trend.
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Let's go. Thank you so much.
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This also feels cool.
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I feel kind of diva right now.
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the world is your runway,
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honey. I think you OK.
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Once you're doing it,
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I'm just, it's like I'm sitting down,
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but except my body is moving.
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Camila, how has your background influenced your approach to wellness and
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fitness? Yeah, I think it influenced everything,
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every aspect of my life,
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every aspect and everything that I do,
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and especially in the way that I communicate,
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fitness is not only my passion,
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but it's my profession.
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It also is the reason why I can advocate for our community
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but I also grew up in Miami.
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So it was a part of the culture that I was brought
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up in. Now I get to have conversations about health and
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wellness with everybody from all over the world so I think that's
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really exciting for sure.
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Within our Latino and Hispanic community,
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there are a lot of people who actually skip doctor's appointments.
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What is something that we can do to make it easier to
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schedule those checkups that are super important?
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Your overall health not only encompasses.
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Your physical health, also your mental health and then also your
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medical health. So going to the doctor and being seen is
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very important because even though we feel good,
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that doesn't necessarily mean that there's absolutely nothing going on.
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Early detection and anything really is the best way to go.
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Being aware of what's happening in your body is always the best
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There was a survey conducted by Aflac called Wellness Matters
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It Concluded that Latinos were not taking charge of our health
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and wellness. What's something you have done to kind of facilitate
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those difficult, awkward conversations with our families,
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with their parents? 58% of Hispanic Americans we're actually using urgent
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care as our primary health,
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which means that we're not really developing a relationship with our doctor
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which means that nobody's really like taking care of us.
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And if you have nobody that you have that relationship with,
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and nobody's going to be like,
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hey, you need to go get this,
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this and this checkup,
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and get your regular screenings to make sure that you're
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OK. Yeah, one of the things that actually came out
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of the Affleck Wellness Matters survey that was really great was that
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we're actually leading the way,
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which was very surprising to me in terms of conversations surrounding mental
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health. We want to continue to have these conversations.
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I would say the best way to have these conversations is to
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just have honest and open dialogue about.
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Why it's beneficial, how it has made,
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how you're feeling that if you need support and just know that
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you're in the right place,
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lore please baby you're not loan lamente.
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Camila, what are some quick and easy ways for us busy
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people to, to stay healthy?
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It starts in the morning like.
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You wake up in the morning,
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you have a decision to pick up your phone and scroll,
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doom scroll first thing in the morning.
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I doom scrolled for a little bit instead of getting up we're
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not perfect. We're not perfect,
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girl. The feed's been really good this week.
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I just got to say I've been a little distracted.
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The more that we take care of ourselves,
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the more we elevate our entire community,
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which I think is very important.
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Something alarming that I found in the survey,
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which is honestly the reason why I joined this campaign was that
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Hispanics and Latinos are being diagnosed with cancer at twice the
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rate of the regular population,
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so 40% of these diagnoses are happening in these,
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so regular checkups, but 56% of us Latinos,
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we're delaying these appointments.
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We're not going like I told you 58% of us are going
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to urgent care versus the primary care doctor,
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so we're not going or we're not getting to this information quickly
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and early detection is so crucial and so important.
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So we have to like take control of our health,
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especially as it pertains to these screenings,
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but like just take the hour and go to the doctor's appointment
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and then noque tranquilitos via that's it.
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How, how can we make sure that we lead the way
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in bringing this new way of putting our health first.
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We all just need to know that early detection is key.
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So like call your abuela,
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remind them to go to the doctor,
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make sure that they're getting their checkups,
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that they're not postponing the things that they need.
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Also take care of yourself.
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We have a lot more power like in,
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in the way that we take care of ourselves,
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we motivate the people around us to take care of ourselves,
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right? But you can help your family members and support them
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in ways that maybe you haven't thought about before.
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Maybe your family members have a difficult time communicating.
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The doctor's office or get they get overwhelmed with that kind of
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logistics so maybe just call set up the appointment for them,
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have everything set up for them,
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and then you just like have them go or you can make
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a cute little date out of it like call your Tia,
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I haven't seen you in so long.
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Have you been to the doctor?
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have some drinks, and then,
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or maybe not before the doctor.
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LOL. Some non-alcoholic beverages in my head I was thinking like
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a sparkling water, but then it turned into that,
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right? Mars straight.
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But then we go to the doctor and then we like knock
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two birds with one stone and and and we can move on
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with our lives. That's it's just,
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it's,, we take care of ourselves,
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we take care of our community,
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so continuing to do that would be like what I would recommend
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for sure. You are a woman I do look up to
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who is a fierce woman that has mentored you or greatly inspired
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Honestly, I would have to say my abuela.
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Well as somebody that I have always,
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always, always looked up to Euna luchadora,
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no Novajalerazos like, and the last time that I went to
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Argentina, we, we trained together and she's like still moving
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and grooving and getting it in.
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She has always inspired me because that was beautiful.
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Thank you so much for joining us.
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Just to remind our audience,
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where can we keep up with you and all you do on
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social? I'm Camila Ramo with.
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Three ends at the end on social on Instagram and I'm very
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active on TikTok as well.
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And then if you want to learn more about the survey,
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make sure you check out Aflac.com/S/weness Matters because you can find not
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only like information about everything that we talked about today,
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but in addition to that,
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like you can find resources that can help support and there the
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website has Spanish resources.
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Camila once again. Bye.
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