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Dr. Corey Hebert is one of the leading voices in Health and Wellness and Sickle Cell care. · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: The decision makers. Is what he likes to do. It's
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  Speaker 1: what he likes to share. Now it's time to hear
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  Speaker 1: from my man, Rashan mcdonnoll Money Making Conversations. Here we go.
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  Speaker 2: My guest today is doctor Corey Abert. He's the Chief
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  Speaker 2: Medical Officer of Dealer University and an assistant professor at
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  Speaker 2: LSU Health Services Center and Tulane University Medical Center in
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  Speaker 2: New Orleans, Louisiana. Also an er physician for over twenty
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  Speaker 2: five years and one of the leading voices for sickle
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  Speaker 2: cell care. Doctor Abert is also co hosting a new show.
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  Speaker 1: Called Living Your Life.
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  Speaker 2: He interviews incredible people who refuse to let a life
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  Speaker 2: threatening illness hold them back from success. He also talks
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  Speaker 2: to top medical, community and entertainment influences. The series Living
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  Speaker 2: Your Life brings attention to families and individuals thriving despite
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  Speaker 2: sickle cell disease or sickle cell trade. Please welcome for
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  Speaker 2: the first time on my show, Money Making Conversations Masterclass,
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  Speaker 2: Doctor Corey Abert. How you doing, sir.
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing great. And you know it's kind of funny.
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  Speaker 1: We've we've our passed across many times in the many
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  Speaker 1: years that you have been out on the on the road.
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  Speaker 1: I remember one time in South Africa we were doing
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  Speaker 1: a lit some Absolutely, yes, it's good to be good
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  Speaker 1: to hear me, and I'm glad.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know when you when you go through New Orleans,
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  Speaker 2: especially as much as I've been New Orleans and plus
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  Speaker 2: South Africa, that it means that we're doing something right,
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  Speaker 2: because I know as far as your brand, you're nationally
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  Speaker 2: known in the media Today's show Good Morning in America.
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  Speaker 2: Your face is very familiar when people turn on the tube,
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  Speaker 2: which gives credibility about your brand when you talk, because
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  Speaker 2: you are a brand.
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  Speaker 1: Doctor Aberro correct. Well, you know, I think it's a
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  Speaker 1: It's a word that people use very loosely now they
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  Speaker 1: want to get their brand. But I've been doing this
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  Speaker 1: for twenty five years. So I hope that I put
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  Speaker 1: enough skin in the game and boots on the ground
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  Speaker 1: that I could say officially that I do have a brand.
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  Speaker 2: But how did it all start? You know, because you
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  Speaker 2: know you don't.
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  Speaker 1: You don't. I'm talking about the media poor of it all.
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  Speaker 2: Because you went to college, just like we all went
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  Speaker 2: to college. When you get that degree, then you went
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  Speaker 2: to medical and then you start serving the community in
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  Speaker 2: the degree format that you chose in college. But how
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  Speaker 2: did the media transition happen in your career?
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  Speaker 1: You know it. It's a funny thing. You never know
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  Speaker 1: how stuffs gonna happen. So so basically, I finished, finished
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  Speaker 1: medical school, finished residency. But during residency in New Orleans,
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  Speaker 1: we were the murder capital of the world in nineteen
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  Speaker 1: ninety seven in New Orleans and we are the murder
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  Speaker 1: capital of the world once again, which makes me very sad.
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  Speaker 1: But we were, and I would be in the emergency
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  Speaker 1: room and see all these people, black people, are poor
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  Speaker 1: people just coming to the ear in the middle of
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  Speaker 1: the night for like stuff that like for ringworm or
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  Speaker 1: for like an ear infection or something. I'm like, man,
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  Speaker 1: why why are you here in the middle of the night.
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  Speaker 1: And they're like, well, we didn't know where else to go.
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  Speaker 1: So when somebody that looks like me gives me some
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  Speaker 1: inkling that I can help them by just giving them information,
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  Speaker 1: I feel I needed to do something about it. So
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  Speaker 1: I was I was married at the time, and I
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  Speaker 1: went to my wife and said, look, I want to
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  Speaker 1: start a TV show called Urban Pediatrics and then move
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  Speaker 1: it to urban Medicine. And I want to do it,
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  Speaker 1: and I want to tell people and empower people on
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  Speaker 1: their health because people out here are dying, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and inconvenicent their lives. Little things, I said. So I
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  Speaker 1: went to the public Access TV station in the New
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  Speaker 1: Orleans and then and they asked me. I told them
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  Speaker 1: all what I wanted to do, and they said, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you can do that. That'd be great for the lo
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  Speaker 1: lo price of three hundred dollars a month. Now, let
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  Speaker 1: me tell you some that doesn't sound like a lot now,
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  Speaker 1: but in nineteen ninety seven and you making twenty five
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  Speaker 1: thousand dollars a year, that was a lot. And my
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  Speaker 1: wife said, you're not about to do that. I said, look,
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  Speaker 1: this is a sacrifice we're going to have to make.
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  Speaker 1: So I started, and I started at two o'clock in
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  Speaker 1: the morning at on channel one hundred and ninety five.
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  Speaker 1: And two years later I was at six o'clock on
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  Speaker 1: Saturday after Saturday evening afternoon on channel eight, which was
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  Speaker 1: their number one spot. So I moved up people wanting
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  Speaker 1: and it was a great thing. Then right before Hurricane Katrina,
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  Speaker 1: NBC came calling and said, we saw this show man,
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  Speaker 1: it's really good. What we want you to put We
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  Speaker 1: going to put you on the network. I said, that's awesome,
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  Speaker 1: and then Hurricane Katrina came washed everything away. Now the
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  Speaker 1: reason why I'm gonna get to the point real quick
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  Speaker 1: he is because this is like what you're talking about
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  Speaker 1: with the show. I had a defining moment, and people
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  Speaker 1: will have defining moments in their lives and you got
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  Speaker 1: to step up for them. And God will let you
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  Speaker 1: know when it is. After Hurricane Katrina, I lost My
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  Speaker 1: office was fine, my house was fine, everything was fine.
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  Speaker 1: But I was the only doctor practice in medicine for
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  Speaker 1: about three months and it was these eighteen hour, twenty
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  Speaker 1: hour days. Was horrible. Man. But one night, about two
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  Speaker 1: weeks after the hurricane, NBC called me and said, can
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  Speaker 1: you come and talk about health after Hurricane Katrina? Because
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  Speaker 1: people are spread throughout the United States? Man, we need somebody,
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  Speaker 1: come on, can you do it? I was laying in
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  Speaker 1: my bed. It was ten o'clock at night. I was
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  Speaker 1: tired of hell, and I was like, you know what,
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  Speaker 1: this may be a defining moment for me. I got
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  Speaker 1: to get up and I got it do this and
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  Speaker 1: I went to the TV station that night and I
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  Speaker 1: was on TV for one, two hundred and twenty seven
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  Speaker 1: consecutive nights after that, and that's when doctor Oz came calling.
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  Speaker 1: That's when Oprah came calling. That's when all the networks
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  Speaker 1: came calling. Because I was bringing edutainment but at the
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  Speaker 1: same time bringing that information in a way that nobody
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  Speaker 1: was given it at that time. So you know, that's
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  Speaker 1: how it all happened. And then ever since then. You know,
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  Speaker 1: once you become that voice where people trust you, know you,
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  Speaker 1: you move forward, And that's what happened.
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  Speaker 2: Now do you just putting in the eighteen hour days
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  Speaker 2: and still doing TV simultaneously?
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  Speaker 1: Oh yes, sir, yes sir, because after after that, after
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  Speaker 1: that hurricane. Man, look I was lucky I wasn't working
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  Speaker 1: twenty four hours. You know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I bring that up, doctor you Bert, because
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  Speaker 2: we always talk about dreams, We always talk about commitment,
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  Speaker 2: We always talk about effort because everybody wants the pie,
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  Speaker 2: but don't nobody want to make the pie. And that's
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  Speaker 2: what we're talking about right here, is that you could
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  Speaker 2: have laid in bed and say, hey man, I'm tired,
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  Speaker 2: but something told you to get up, and it told you,
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  Speaker 2: and that's called effort.
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  Speaker 1: That's call.
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  Speaker 2: Wanted to fulfill your dream through application. But then when
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  Speaker 2: they brought you back the next day, at what point
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  Speaker 2: did you in your mind you go should I stop?
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  Speaker 2: Should I keep doing this? Doctor Heberrow? Well, when did
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  Speaker 2: you do? You ever start questioning the process? Because they
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  Speaker 2: kept asking you day after day to continue this whole run.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Now, it's funny you would mention the word process,
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  Speaker 1: because I was laying in my bed just the other
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  Speaker 1: night and I had another defining mind. I'm telling you that.
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  Speaker 1: And it's been twenty some years later. This is what happened.
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying to figure out why we can't do better
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  Speaker 1: as a people. I'm trying to figure out why we
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  Speaker 1: can't get more black people into medical school. And I
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  Speaker 1: realized something. You know, when we were coming up, right,
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  Speaker 1: we had to process a lot of stuff, and we
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  Speaker 1: actually had to go through a process. So when you
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  Speaker 1: want to go to the movies, when you were growing up,
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  Speaker 1: you had to pick the movie, pick the movie theater,
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  Speaker 1: pick the time, pick the way you get the money,
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  Speaker 1: pick the friends you want to go with, pick how
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna figure out how to get there, all this
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  Speaker 1: kind of stuff, and then you have to make sure
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  Speaker 1: you got it right, because there were no phones to
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  Speaker 1: contact people. So if your friends were got there and
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  Speaker 1: you were later, or somebody else was late, it was
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  Speaker 1: just it was just a mess. So you had to
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  Speaker 1: figure out the process. And that's how your brain developed. Remember,
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  Speaker 1: our brains aren't really concrete until we're twenty five years old,
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  Speaker 1: so everything that your brain is still developing up until
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  Speaker 1: that time. If you remember, that's why you couldn't rent
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  Speaker 1: a car before you were twenty five years old. That's
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  Speaker 1: where that came from anyway. So but what I realized
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  Speaker 1: is that these young people when they want to see
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  Speaker 1: a movie, what do they do? They press a button.
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  Speaker 1: When they want some food, what do they do? Press
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  Speaker 1: a button? When they want to go somewhere, They press
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  Speaker 1: the button. Everything comes to them. Everything is on demand.
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  Speaker 1: So that means that their brains as they were being
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  Speaker 1: as their brains are being developed, then they don't understand
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  Speaker 1: the same process that we had to go through to
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  Speaker 1: make things happen. But the problem is that the process
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  Speaker 1: to be successful is old school, so the process to
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  Speaker 1: be successful hasn't gravitated so that they can understand how
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  Speaker 1: to actually go through the process. So there is a
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  Speaker 1: disconnect and a divorce between the young brain and how
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  Speaker 1: to process to get through things and the old way
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  Speaker 1: things go to actually be successful. And until we tell
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  Speaker 1: the young people it ain't gonna change, so you need
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  Speaker 1: to adapt to the process. Or we come from the
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  Speaker 1: top and say the process is gonna change, We're gonna
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  Speaker 1: have a big disconnect and these old white establishments aren't
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  Speaker 1: about to change the process so young black people can
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  Speaker 1: can get it, So we have to educate. So my
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  Speaker 1: thing was, I understood the process by which I was
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  Speaker 1: going to become successful, and it meant showing up and
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  Speaker 1: going somewhere to make that happen, not something coming to
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  Speaker 1: me to make that happen. And that's what I did
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  Speaker 1: in that bed that night, to get up and go
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  Speaker 1: somewhere and keep going to meet it, not wutting it,
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  Speaker 1: letting it to meet me. Come off.
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  Speaker 2: I'm talking to doctor Corey Abert, chief medical officer of
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  Speaker 2: Dealer University and an assistant professor at LSU Health Services
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  Speaker 2: Center and Tulane University Medical Center in New Orleans, Louisiana,
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  Speaker 2: e R physician for over twenty five years. So he's
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  Speaker 2: on the front line. But more importantly, he's one of
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  Speaker 2: the leading voices for sickle cell care. Docd Abert, you
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  Speaker 2: have a show coming out called Living Your Life as
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  Speaker 2: co hosted. You co hosted with care Spaces. Why is
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  Speaker 2: this show important and why are you hosting it or
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  Speaker 2: co hosting it.
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  Speaker 1: The reason why is because, first of all, kid is
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  Speaker 1: crazy and I love kids, so we have a ball.
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  Speaker 1: But really, primarily what we found is that sickle cell
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  Speaker 1: disease in America is a disease that people don't talk
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  Speaker 1: about because it affects mostly brown people. Let's be honest, right,
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  Speaker 1: The sickle cell was the first disease ever genetically mapped
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  Speaker 1: in the entire world. But we've only had three or
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  Speaker 1: four drugs since nineteen forty to come out to try
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  Speaker 1: to help. And so what I noticed that everybody in
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  Speaker 1: America has to be tested at birth for sickle cell
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  Speaker 1: disease and sickle cell trade. But I started seeing that
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  Speaker 1: all the young women that were coming to me, and
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  Speaker 1: they had their babies with sickle cell disease, babies in pain,
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  Speaker 1: having all types of problems these new born babies. The
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  Speaker 1: women didn't have any idea that they had sickle cell trade.
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  Speaker 1: Even though the test was done on the women at birth.
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  Speaker 1: So like when the best, say the lady had a
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  Speaker 1: baby when you know she's twenty years old, that test
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  Speaker 1: was done, but she didn't have any idea of the results.
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  Speaker 1: Because when I was in medical school, it was taught
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  Speaker 1: that sickle cell trait actually was silent and didn't cause
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  Speaker 1: any problems for you. It just was if you, you know,
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  Speaker 1: had sickle cell trade and you made it with somebodycycle
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  Speaker 1: sell trait, your baby could have sickle cell disease. People
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  Speaker 1: weren't taught that. But what we find is that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the number one cause of death in new Black military
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  Speaker 1: recruits was sickle cell trait up until about five years ago.
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  Speaker 1: And seventeen young black men have dropped dead in NCAA
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  Speaker 1: sports from sickle cell trait. And if you go on
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  Speaker 1: a high altitude environment like an airplane that's unpressurizing the
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  Speaker 1: cabin or helicopter, or go hiking or skiing, or work
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  Speaker 1: out too hard and have bone pain without getting enough hydration,
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  Speaker 1: you can die from sickle cell trait. And there's four
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  Speaker 1: million people in America with sickle cell trade, black and white,
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  Speaker 1: and so this is a health crisis. If you don't
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  Speaker 1: believe me, go to the CDC website as clear as
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  Speaker 1: day in block capital letters, you can die from sickle
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  Speaker 1: cell trade. But the problem is people in America don't
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  Speaker 1: even know if they have sickle cell traite because they
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  Speaker 1: were taught that it wasn't a big deal. But so
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  Speaker 1: that's why this is an emergency. And people are not
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  Speaker 1: getting care when they have sickle cell disease when they
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  Speaker 1: go to the er, they're not getting care. Care go
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  Speaker 1: to the er, and he had to wait eight hours
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  Speaker 1: in excruciating pain, and people thinking he's a drug seeker
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  Speaker 1: because nobody knows how to treat the one hundred thousand
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  Speaker 1: people that have the disease that alone, the four million
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  Speaker 1: people that have the trade. So we got to get
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  Speaker 1: out there. We got to explain this to people. We
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  Speaker 1: got to educate them, but we got to entertain them
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  Speaker 1: because that's my brand edutainment. I make you laugh, I
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  Speaker 1: make you cry, but I give you information and then
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  Speaker 1: with that information you can do whatever you want with it.
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  Speaker 1: But my job is to give people information worldwide.
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  Speaker 2: Now that's what that's what living your life is about.
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  Speaker 2: But you said something in the middle of your conversation
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  Speaker 2: with me about drug or people who feel drug seekerts
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  Speaker 2: that that people come in there, they're in pain. They're
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  Speaker 2: letting the nurse know, the doctor knows that they're in pain,
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  Speaker 2: but they're being labeled as people who are just there
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  Speaker 2: to get drugs. Explain that, well, how did that start
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  Speaker 2: and why is that such a problem.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So basically what happens is when you have sickle
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  Speaker 1: cell disease, you have a lot of pain. You have
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  Speaker 1: a lot of issues when it comes to lung health,
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  Speaker 1: kidney health, spleen health, your vision, everything can be affected
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  Speaker 1: by sickle sellf disease. And when you're like a two
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  Speaker 1: year old girl and you have some pain with a
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  Speaker 1: little pink dress on going to the er, you know,
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  Speaker 1: asking for some pain medicine, everybody thinks that's cute, right,
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  Speaker 1: that's cute, right, even though little kids. But when you
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  Speaker 1: are a twenty five year old, six foot tall, one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and eighty pound person talk about you're in pain
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  Speaker 1: and you need some morphine, they're like, wait a minute,
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  Speaker 1: this ain't quell. This disease is supposed to be cured.
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  Speaker 1: So people think that sickle cell disease is cured because
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  Speaker 1: theoretically there is a cure that for the low low
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  Speaker 1: price of five million dollars in about five people have
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  Speaker 1: gotten it in the world since the beginning of time,
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  Speaker 1: So that's not a viable option right now. So people
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  Speaker 1: have to live with this disease and when they have pain,
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  Speaker 1: they have excruciating pain ten out of ten. But most
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  Speaker 1: doctors have never taken care of a sickle cell patient.
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  Speaker 1: They don't even know what that looks like. So when
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  Speaker 1: you go into an er and you are a a
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  Speaker 1: an adult asking for morphine and they've never taken care
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  Speaker 1: of a patient like this, they think you're a drug secret.
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  Speaker 1: They label you a drug seeker, and then you can't
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  Speaker 1: get the medicine that you need. It's a it's a
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  Speaker 1: very horrible, horrible process. And then you you know, you
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  Speaker 1: treat like a second class citizen. It's just it's a
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  Speaker 1: horrible thing. So what we have to do as a
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  Speaker 1: people is we have to get our minds right and
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  Speaker 1: get some legislation so we can identify people with sickle
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  Speaker 1: cell trade. That's the first thing. I know that.
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  Speaker 2: That's I know that for a fact because I saw
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  Speaker 2: it happen. And then it feels like now today that
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  Speaker 2: sickle cell is still on the back burner of America
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  Speaker 2: and the medical minds.
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  Speaker 1: Is that correct? It is, and I think it's because, well,
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  Speaker 1: you know, things fall out of favor because you know,
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  Speaker 1: when it's not important to a particular group of people
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  Speaker 1: that has the biggest voice, then it's not really addressed.
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  Speaker 1: So I mean, sickle cell disease is in about one
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  Speaker 1: hundred thousand people. About one hundred thousand people have that. Now,
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  Speaker 1: when you look at a country with you know, two
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  Speaker 1: hundred three hundred million people in it, one hundred thousand
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  Speaker 1: people theoretically is very small. So you know, people say, well,
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  Speaker 1: it's just a rare disease, so we don't need to
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  Speaker 1: do all that for a rare disease. But the point is,
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  Speaker 1: I don't consider it rare because it happens to my people.
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  Speaker 1: That's the first thing. The second thing is that when
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  Speaker 1: you start talking about four million people that have the
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  Speaker 1: trade that could actually have symptoms and die, then that's
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  Speaker 1: not such a small number. So that's why I'm putting
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  Speaker 1: this on my back so that we can have that
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  Speaker 1: telethon again, so we can bring some more of the
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  Speaker 1: awareness to this disease because it's disabling. And I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: give you one step further I think it's criminal, and
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  Speaker 1: that's right. I called it criminal. The fact that ninety
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  Speaker 1: seven percent of young black women that have a baby
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  Speaker 1: with sickle cell disease, meaning that baby's going to be sick,
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  Speaker 1: maybe probably die early, being pain, lots of life, always
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  Speaker 1: in the hospital. Ninety seven percent of these women that
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  Speaker 1: have this baby had no idea that they had sickle
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  Speaker 1: cell trade. But the test is already done on those
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  Speaker 1: women at birth. So what I'm saying is for us
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: not to know that, and we're we're spending billions of
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: dollars on trying to find a cure. Can we just
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on empowering the community
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: to know if you have trade. So maybe if you
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: know you know you have trade, and you meet a man,
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: or if you're a woman an you meet a woman
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: and you want to have a baby with them, you
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: should know if it's the possibility of your child could
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: have sickle cell disease. You might want to go ahead
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: and do it. You might not want to go ahead
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: and do it, But the point is you need to
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: know because that baby is going to be a huge
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: emotional change in your life. That baby's going to be
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: a huge financial change in your life. That baby is
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: going to have a lot of pain and distress, and
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: it's like, so it's a big decision to make, but
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: you need to know the information. So I think that
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: what we're trying to do here is we're going to
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: try to get a national registry. So all of you
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: out there listening, if you were if you're in your forties,
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: that test was done at birth, if you're in the
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: mid forties, every all the way down to just born today,
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: that test was done on you. And you can go
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: find the results. And if you can't find a result,
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: you can go straight to your doctor right now and
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: get that test redrawn, okay, and see if you have
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: the trade. And I think it's very very important for
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: you and your children to know so they can make
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: some informed decisions.
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: Well, the interesting thing about this whole conversation I'm having
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: with doctor Aberry is that you know, I have the
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: sickle cell trade. My wife she had the sickle cell trade.
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: So you're absolutely correct.
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: We had we had to make a conscious decision about,
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: you know, bringing a young child into this world. Fortunately
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: our child does not have sickle cell disease, and so
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: but that doesn't matter. You know, when my wife was pregnant,
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: you know, she was always fearful of that whole situation,
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: and then I wasn't aware of to afterwards. You know,
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: that's a lot of stress that can be put on
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: a couple, especially the woman in the couple in the relationship,
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: because all you want is a healthy child. That's do
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: you want that miracle? You want the five fingers on
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: one hand, five toes on the other. You know, ten ten,
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: you know that's what you want when you when you
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: bring a child in the world physically and then you
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: when you slap them on the behind, you want them
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: to scream. You want them to be alert.
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: And when you have.
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: Sickle cell a disease, that, like you said, when it
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: comes into your life, it's costless, time consuming.
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: Your child may spend.
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: Many hours and many days and maybe even many weeks
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: into the hospital or the care and they can never
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: live a life. But we on this show Living Your Life,
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: the whole approach on that show is about showing people
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: who have the trade, people who have sickle seale disease
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: living successful lives. Correct that it's correct.
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: I mean, you know there's some people that if you
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: embrace your disease. If you do what you're supposed to do,
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: you should be able to live your life like like
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: anybody else. But the problem is of the one hundred
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: thousand people that have this disease, we have lost meaning
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: loss to follow up, meaning they're just out there. We
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: don't know where they are. About seventy thousand of these people,
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: we don't know where they are because when you get older,
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: you know, people don't if you are ashamed to have
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: this disease because it caused the problem in your work.
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: Meaning if like say Care right here, who is the
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: cust of the show. Said, Care is an actor, right,
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: so if he wants to be if he wants to
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: be in a movie and he has to tell them
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: that he has sickle cell, he may not get the
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: part right because they're gonna say, if he gets a
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: sickle cell crisis in the middle of filming, then they
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: got to shut it down. They can't, he can't be
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: in the movie. So that means they're losing one hundred
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: two hundred thousand dollars a day. They'd rather do somebody else,
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: So that's discrimination, and then they're out there suffering in silence.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: So we what we hope is that we with this show,
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: we bring people out because there's treatments. There's treatments now
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: newer treatments that can make your life a lot better.
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: But we got no we had to know where you are,
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So that's what we put
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: you know. But here's the thing.
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: We're talking about just America right now. Sure, a one
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: hundred thousand, but that number swells when you get outside
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: of the United States. Talk about the global impact of
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: how sickle cell affects different countries and how different countries
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: are dealing with.
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: That as well. Yes, absolutely there are more people with
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: sickle cell disease in the world than in the United
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: States by far. Because remember this was this was something
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: that was done. You know, this was an evolution from
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: the African continent. This was an evolution so that we
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: can remember that people are dying of sickle cell or
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: dying of malaria, and so if you developed sickle cell trade,
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: then you were able to survive malaria. That's where sickle
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: cell trade camp. It was an evolution of survival. Okay,
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: So now what you got to remember is that the
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: subsherent part of Africa, that's that has that issue. But
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: if you start going towards you know, Saudi Arabia, and
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: you start going towards Iraq and Turkey, all these people
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: are migrating from the same place, so they have more
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: sickle cell disease and trade over there. But the issue
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: is they don't have universal screening, so they're just dying.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: They're just living a horrible lives because they just don't
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: even know that they have it. So that's why this
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: is a global issue. And so I presented this concept
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: at the south By south West conference. That's where a
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: bunch of nineteen year old billionaires with hoodies go and
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: talk about how they can save the world right And
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: these dudes, when I explain to them more happening, they said,
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: wait a minute, we have a worldwide problem, a worldwide problem,
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: and we're not doing something about it because of the
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: lack of the aggregation of the data that already exists.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: Think about that. That's criminal. We wouldn't be doing that
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: in any other disease.
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: Absolutely absolutely, And that's why I wanted to bring that
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: up because a lot of people look at the sickle
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: cell as just a black illness, a black disease, a
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: black something to tied to our culture, but it's really
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: a global thing where you when you get out of
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: the one hundred thousand, you start going worldwide, we get
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: into the millions, not the one hundred thousand, not to ten, not.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: Two or four people.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: We go into the millions of people who are impacted
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: or affected by sickle cell trade, which in turn leads
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: to sickle cell disease. If the person you are happen
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: to have a child with and y'all both have the trade,
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: then you can eventually lead that to one out of
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: four chances your child can have sickle cell disease. As
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: a person who has sickle cell trade, what things should
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: I be looking out for to make sure that I'm
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: living a healthy life or a long life and not
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: doing anything silly, doctor Abert.
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: The first thing you need to do is you need
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: to make sure that you get enough sleep and get
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: enough water. Okay, those are the things that you just
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: need to do just to be helped. There. Don't care
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: if you have sickle cell trade or not. You just
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: need to get enough sleep, get enough water, and decrease
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: the amount of stress in your life. That's across the board, Okay,
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: but with somebody with sickle sell trade or disease. You
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: need to make sure you eat well. You got to
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: get this processed food out of your life. You got
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: to eat more plants, you gotta eat more vegetables. You
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: gotta eat more things that are good for you and
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: decrease some of this processed food. That's another thing. Also,
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: you got to listen to your body. Okay, if you
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: have sickle cell trades. The reason why people sickle cell
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: trade dies not because they just all of a sudden
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: have this attack and fall out. That's not what happens.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: They just don't know that they have sickle cell trade.
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: So when they're working out and they start feeling faint,
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: they think that that's what's supposed to happen because that's
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: just normal. And then they just keep pushing and pushing
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: and pushing, and that's when they have the problem. Right, So,
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: if you got to listen to your body. If you know,
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: if you're going to a high altitude environment, if you
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: know you're gonna be working out a lot, and you
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: haven't worked out before and you start having these issues,
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: just stop. Just stop, hydrate and rest, and then you'll
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: be absolutely fine. I also tell people with sickle cell
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: trate they probably should be taking some folate in their multivitamins.
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: They need to make sure that they have enough vitamins
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: in their body because your body to make red blood
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: cells needs vitamins and it needs folate folic acid, and
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: that is in every multi vitamin. But I would say
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: take a little bit more because it can't hurt you, okay,
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: And I want you to do that. And also if
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: you're out there in your sickle cell disease, I really
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: want you to think about there's a lot of medicines
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: out there. There's and I need you to kind of
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: go and look at some of them because they're out there,
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: and we need you to get your get your minds
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: right and then come out of the out of the hiding.
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: We need to fix this situation.
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: Well, you know that it's all about information, and well
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: one thing on this show I try to bring information
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: because of the fact that this is the show I
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: always talk about entrepreneurship and how to succeed. But if
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: your health isn't right, can't fulfill your dreams. And more important,
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: you cannot mislead yourself to believe that it's gonna be
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: all good because you're not ill. But certain things have
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: to happen that makes you successful. How can we get
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: in touch with you, doctor Abert? Are you on social
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: because I definitely want people to follow up because your
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: cause is to provide that information. Your cause is to
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: make sure people live healthy lives.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: That's right, And I put this kind of information out daily.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: So it's at Instagram it's Corey c O r e
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: y h e b e r t m D, So
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: that's at Corey abear m D. On Twitter, it's at
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: Corey abear m d