"Well, when a 350-pound man walks in the
emergency room and says he can't breath,
you assume he's having a heart attack
and you ask questions later."
Now, emergency room doctors are
trained to make decisions quickly,
but not always accurately.
And so had we had some information
about our heart health to share with him,
maybe we would have gotten a
better diagnosis the first time.
I want you to consider the following chart,
of systolic blood pressure measurements
from October 2010 to July 2012.
You'll see that these measurements start
in the prehypertension/hypertension zone,
but over about the course of a year and a half
they move into the normal zone.
This is about the heart rate of a healthy 16-year-old.
What story is this data telling you?
Obviously it's the data from someone
who's made a drastic transformation,
and fortunately for us, that person
happens to be here today.
So that 350-pound guy that walked
into the emergency room with me