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Initially coming to you live from Houston, Texas, home to the world's largest

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medical center. Everything looking Billy,
This is Your Health First, the most

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beneficial health program on radio with doctor
Joe Glati. During the next hour,

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you'll learn about health, wellness and
the prevention of disease. Now here's your

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host, doctor Joe Glatti. Well
the marvelous Sunday evening to everybody. Welcome

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our twenty first year here and every
Sunday, you know the drill. We

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are here to make you better consumers
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and truly make you begin to think
about your health and wellness, because so

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much of what we see is a
result of kicking the can down the road.

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Everybody is a little overweight, everybody
has a touch of diabetes, a

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touch of high blood pressure, and
the list goes on and on, and

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we are intervening too late. We're
waiting until the wheels and the hub caps

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and the transmission is falling out of
your car before you decide, you know

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what, I better take my car
in to get it checked out. How

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ludicrous would that be if you were
Let's say you're sitting around with a bunch

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of friends in your backyard and they
say, hey, what's what's new,

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Dave, And it's like, oh, you know, my my car is

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in the shop and the service manager
called me up and said I am going

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to oh, six thousand dollars worth
of repairs on a twenty thousand dollar car.

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And the first response will probably be
whoa, Dave, what happened?

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And you'll say, well, let's
see, it is April. Since November,

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the check engine light's been going on, and then like around Christmas time,

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there was this clicking and screeching sound
when I stepped on the brake.

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And then around uh, let's see, around Valentine's Day, when I would

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step on the gas, it would
not go out of first gear. And

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then by March, black smoke is
coming out of the tailpipe. And finally

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in the garage there was all this
fluid junk that was leaking onto the garage

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floor. And then what did you
do? Well? I called a tow

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truck to take my car away,
and you know, the service manager called

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me and said six thousand bucks to
fix. You would be laughed out of

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the backyard barbecue. They would say, what the heck is wrong with you?

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Why didn't you call sooner? Well, you know I thought it would

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go away. Well, that is
what we do with our body. The

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body is sending out signals, early
warning sign and we ignore it. And

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then when all comes crashing down,
you wonder, how that hell did this

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happen? How do I get into
this situation? And you may be sitting

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there tonight driving home from work,
driving home from Grandma's house, making a

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peanut butter and jelly sandwich for your
kids tomorrow for school, and you're like,

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come on, he's really being quite
ridiculous. No, that is not

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being ridiculous. This is what I
listen to every day, and I see

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patients that come in very very late, years too late. So just like

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your car that's blowing black smoke,
leaking transmission fluid, making sounds like it

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is a possessed vehicle, the same
thing is happening to the body. And

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the medical system really, which I
am part of, is engineered wrong.

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So for me to try to get
a patient some nutritional counseling, the insurance

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companies won't pay for it. That's
an out of pocket expense. How about

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if I try to write a prescription
for an exercise routine so that you could

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start to lose a little weight,
get in better aerobic shape, strengthen your

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legs, muscles, arms, and
back. Or how about even better,

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I'm going to write a prescription to
have you learn how to shop, prepare

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a meal, and eat right.
Blue Cross Blue Shield is not going to

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pay that bill. But if you
have a massive heart attack and need quadruple

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open heart surgery, a pacemaker,
then a kidney transplant, a hip replacement,

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they'll pay for that. But learn
how to cook, No way,

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And so that's where I really am
coming from. And I and I believe

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that you the consumer have to start
speaking up. And you may say,

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there's no way. I'm just one
guy, just me and my wife and

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two kids and a dog. I
don't have any power over Blue Cross,

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Blue Shield, United Healthcare, ETNA, Medicare. But there has to be

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a people's revolution of sort in the
healthcare space because we don't have enough hospital

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beds, we don't have enough clinic
space, we don't have enough doctors,

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nurses, PA's nurse practitioners to handle
this onslaught on slot. It's my New

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York and me coming out. Sorry, so anyway, that is it.

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We want to try to make you
think that is that is my goal.

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so this article I've got here is from

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a recent New York Times and it
has to do with well, this is

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the title. The device saves lives, but almost nobody has one at home.

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Well, what are they talking about. They're talking about automated external defibrillators

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a EDS. Now, let's be
honest. You can't go to an airport,

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a mall, a church, a
ball field, a supermarket, a

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hospital without seeing these aeeds every few
hundred feet at the place that you're at.

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Now, the AED, automated external
defibrillator is exactly what it is.

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It is a defibrillator. And if
you don't know what a defibrillator is,

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it is a device that shocks the
person's heart into a normal electrical rhythm that

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will support blood pressure. So the
learning point for this moment is that the

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normal heart, and the reason the
heart beats seventy times a minute or a

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little faster or a little bit slower, is because of electrical ativity in the

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heart. And it works in a
very orderly fashion. Starts at the top

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of the heart, moves down through
the bottom of the heart, and everything

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contracts in synchrony. It's synchronized.
You can have the top and the bottom

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contracting at different times. It won't
work and you get sick. But the

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defibrillator, the AED is really for
the most part, to simplify it here

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is reserved for people that have sudden
cardiac death, where the rhythm of the

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heart, the electrical activity is in
such disarray that nothing is happening. All

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of this chaotic electrical contraction does nothing. And if the heart's not beating,

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you have blood pressure drops, you
don't get blood circulating to the lungs to

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pick up oxygen to circulate it to
your brain and other vital tissue, and

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you die. So the risk of
dying of sudden cardiac death is relatively high

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because of this chaotic rhythm of the
heart. So the idea is as archaic

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as it seems, is to send
another electrical shock through the heart to get

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it back on course. It's like
resetting the fuse box in your house.

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But anyway, so the article here
is basically asking the question should people have

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these AEDs at home? Now?
Beware, you're going to probably drop a

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thousand bucks to get a home AEED. You could go online right now and

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type in home a ED personal a
ED and there will be a flurry of

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websites that will come up telling you
to buy one. Now, the central

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question is do you need one at
home? Well, you know, we

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have nine one one, we have
fire departments, police paramedics. There are

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people trained in CPR at the mall, at the hospital, at church,

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hopefully at the ball field that you're
at, the high school that your kids

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playing basketball at. But there's a
lot of assumptions that somebody is trained in

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CPR they want to come forward and
do this, So it's not a guarantee

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just because the ads there that somebody's
going to jump in and use it right

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away. Usually they will, but
that's another story. So the question is,

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if you're at home, you're on
vacation, you are on the road,

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somewhere, you're camping, should you
have an AD at home? Now,

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I've heard patients tell me that they
live in a very closely knit neighborhood.

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They have a big col de sac
there's ten or twelve homes and they

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chipped in together about one hundred bucks
to get in AEED, so they have

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a block AED, a neighborhood AED. And really, when you think about

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it, time is of the essence. Yes, you'd like to think you

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call nine one, the fire department
will be there and under five minutes,

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but it may not be and maybe
ten minutes. And if you're on the

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ground in with sun cardiac death,
it's almost guaranteed you're going to have irreversible

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brain damage and you'll be brain dead. So why not realize that in your

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call to sack of houses that the
Johnson family has an AED or has the

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AED of the neighborhood and you could
run out get them and apply it and

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you could save someone's life potentially.
So the story in and the article talks

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about a couple that was traveling in
an RV and they made it a point

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before they started on their road trip, pardon me to get an aeed keep

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it in their RV. Well,
wouldn't you know it, at the RV

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park where they were, somebody had
sudden cardiac death and to the rescue,

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they pulled this thing out and save
the guy's life. And so I would

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really say, in my professional experience, it would not be a bad thing

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to have an AED at home or
something that you would share within your neighbors.

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Or if your kids are playing sports
and they're not that big, they

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fit in at a little case that
wouldn't be too obnoxious to walk around with.

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But if you had one at the
little league field or at the swimming

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match. Whatever the case may be. You go camping, you're on vacation,

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you have your own AEED. Again, I would say, as long

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as you train yourself in CPR,
which is the chess compressions, the rescue

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breathing, choking, and how to
use an AED, contact the American Heart

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Association, get get your neighborhood to
participate, or you know your church.

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You're gonna have the American Heart come
out, American Heart Association come out and

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teach you how to use an AED. But so become a student of the

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machine. You don't want to order
it on Amazon and then have it sit

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in the box and say, gee, Grandpa is having sudden cardiac death.

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Now what the hell do I do? So I would do that as a

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public service. Then there are others
in the article that are saying, you

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know what, why spend a thousand
bucks. It's a very rare thing that

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is going to happen. You really
need to have this on your on your

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person. It's a good argument,
But I would air on the side of

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being prepared, always prepared, always
ready. Okay, so something to think

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about. I'll post the article on
the Facebook page. All right, we're

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is our website and on the phone
to nice no stranger to Your Health First.

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My sister Celeste Zerberini is calling in
from New York, New York,

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coming in from New York. And
if you don't remember, Celeste is a

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nurse and she has performed a number
of duties as a nurse, including hospice

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care and of course floor nursing in
the traditional sense. What are you doing

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now, Celeste? Why don't you
explaining to everybody? Well, right now,

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I'm working for the State of Connecticut, their insurance company which is called

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Husky Insurance, which services all the
Medicaid population. So I'm a nurse case

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manager and what I do is I
give educational counseling to all of our members.

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When somebody is discharged from the hospital
or they're diagnosed with something new,

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I just help them transition through that
process, you know, teach them about

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their new meds and you know,
better health habits and diet and exercise.

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So I'm a virtual health coach.
Basically, it's all telephonic. I do

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go out into the community and see
my families once in a while because I

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like to get that face to face, you know, visit in But so

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that's basically what I do, and
it's it's great. It's great. We're

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helping a lot of people, a
lot of people now that are you know,

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coming across the border that don't have
insurance. We're in sharing them and

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we're getting them proper healthcare. Right
now. At the end of the day,

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I would say, as as a
nurse, you are teaching an educating

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about health and wellness. Absolutely,
you know, there's so much more.

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You think of a nurse as doing
bedside which is great. I mean a

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lot of nurses are doing bedside care
and in the hospital and we can't live

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without them. But when you transition
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healthcare. They can't know how to
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fast. Yeah, and I would
I would think people that are listening tonight,

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they may say, well, you
know, I have a master's in

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biochemistry, I'm an engineer, I'm
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so I look, I know the
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and I think you would agree,
that doesn't guarantee that you're doing the smart

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thing to stay ahead of the complicating
factors that we all face. Oh absolutely,

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I have a lot of patients,

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you know, through my years of
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that's new territory. They've never had
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know the first thing about their meds, about balancing your proteins, in your

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fats, in your cards, sugars, you know, it's a whole you

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know, different perspective. And it
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know everything about just because I'm educated, I would know about engineering or something

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that sort. So I think we
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coach, you know, along the
way. So whether that be a nurse

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or you what you're doing, which
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So I think everybody needs a little
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you know, one of the challenges
where we're all living longer and the risk

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of us getting a chronic disease that
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sense disables us. So when you
look back a hundred years, people that

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had heart disease, kidney disease,
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their life was going to be cut
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these medicines and therapy and diagnostics that
we're living with the chronic disease and those

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that do the best are the ones
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is really education and knowledge. Absolutely. I just had an in service yesterday

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from one of our diabetic nurse educators
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that treating diabetes specifically is nine nine
in the patient's hand, right. You

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have to take the medications that you're
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diet that's prescribed, you have to
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supposed to do and what you're educated
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your whole team, and you're managing
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be in charge of your own healthcare. It's and that's what I try to

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empower my patients that you are in
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going to do this for you.
We can guide you along the way,

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but you're in charge right now.
The main reason for getting you on tonight,

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I have number one, been thinking
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this with my patience. More and
more I find and it is all based

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on my personal experience and yours as
well. So as a refresher for everybody

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tuning in a little over a year
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away at the beautiful age of ninety
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earlier at eighty eight, and so
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longevity gene on our side. But
the key thing is Mom and Dad really

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took care of themselves. Do you
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get into this any further, Celest, Yeah, And I knew you've talked

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about it a lot on the radio. Mom was amazing as far as she

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was way ahead of her time.
She always cooked real food, fresh foods,

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fresh vegetables, fresh everything. So
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and I've raised my kids to be
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have a little bit of a head
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of my friends at the same age. They didn't grow up like the way

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we did as far as food being
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lives and good nutrition. And they
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you there. Would you say it
is fair? And we're not. You

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know, your friends are going to
be listening tonight, of course, But

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are is it fair to say that
some of those are plagued with chronic disease

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that could have been prevented? What
do you think, something like if they

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if they if they ate better,
if they had a better foundation. Well,

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it's funny you say that, because
I was talking to one of my

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good friends who I went to college
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we had gone to college together,
and she's had a weight problem pretty much

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her entire life. She's she's obese, um and she's waned on and off.

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so I was chatting with her,
and she said, I cannot do

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this. I cannot lose the weight. And unfortunately, both of her parents

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died very young, and she has
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do what she's supposed to do.
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to eat right. She knows she
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balanced diet. And the advice I
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listen, just a moderate lifestyle change. Just cut the sugar out.

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but your body will feel better,
you won't have aches and pains, you

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will lose weight, feel better,
you'll sleep better. So I think it's

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just a matter of you know,
giving imparting our knowledge on our people,

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our friends, family, o,
our listeners, and just making those simple

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lifestyle changes. You don't have to
go on weight watches and all these crazy

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diets. Starts. Change what you
can change, and then once you start

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seeing the positive effects, then it
should snowball into you saying, okay,

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you know this is this is kind
of working, and look what else I

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could do? Exactly well, exactly
now looking at um our parents, Mom

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and dad, and you know,
again, I keep my fingers crossed that

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there there is not a lot of
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how you at at this stage in
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that you look at mom and dad
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Because I I that is what I've
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to tell I've been trying to tell
my patients that, to say, if

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you want to see how the next
five, ten, fifteen, twenty years

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is going to go, look at
your parents. So with that question,

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how do you look at yourself elf? And how do you look to say

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I better do X to prevent why
big question? But what do you think?

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funny because they after Dad passed away
and then we lost both of our parents.

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You know, somebody had said to
me, you know we're next,

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you know, we're next in line
to go, And I kind of hit

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home a little bit to say,
Okay, now I am. I'm going

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to be sixty two next months.
I'm in fair I'm in good health.

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I don't take any medication. I
don't you know. I exercise and I

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eat fairly well. But it has
really been embedded in my brain like I

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have to do everything that I can
in my power to live a long,

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beautiful life like Mom and Dad did. Now, they taught us how to

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eat well, and I think you
and I both have that thank goodness for

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that. But I'm I'm hyper focused
on eating fresh food. I think I

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mentioned to you earlier that I started
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watching what I eat. I only
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I've increased my water intake, I'm
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because in the back of my head, I'm thinking of what Mom and Dad

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have taught us and how they lived
such a long life. But they weren't

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really into exercise, right. I
mean, they eat well, but they

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didn't exercise. So I think that's
where you and I maybe have a little

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bit of head over them because we
do exercise. Yeah, And I was

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I was thinking I was a week
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gym on an elliptical, and to
my left and to my right were two

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really old women. And I'm saying
to myself, Mom would be caught dead

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in sneakers in sweatpants on an elliptical
at a gym. Could you figure that

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she wouldn't do it. She wouldn't
put the sweatpants on. We tried once

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to buy her sweatpants, but you
know, she was an old school god

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lover, you know. But they
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that. I know, you played
sports when you were younger. I played

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some sports, but it wasn't really
a thing. I know, when I

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was in my younger thirties and forties
and I was running a lot, Mom

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you better watch yourself, you know,

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don't sweat too much. You know. So that wasn't part of their lifestyle.

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say, okay, yeah, eating, well it was great, but you

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have to have some form of exercise, whether it be yoga, pilates,

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cycling, walking, walking is a
beautiful thing, you know. I got

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a new replacement a couple of years
ago because of all my years of running,

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and I walk a lot, and
it's just it's great for your body,

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it's great for your mind. You
put some good tunes on and it's

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it's your time, you know,
it's time to take care of yourself.

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Yeah. Absolutely, Hey, celest
we're going to take a quick break here

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and we are talking with my sister, Celeste Serberinia, nurse in New York,

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and we're talking out looking at your
parents dead or alive, and trying

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to figure out how you are going
to model yourself. Stay tuned. Final

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segment coming up. We're right back. Final segment of Your Health First every

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Sunday between seven and eight p m. Doctor Joeklate dot com is our website.

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I am on the phone tonight with
my sister Celeste Zerberini. How's the

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music selection for you tonight? It's
crazy, sort of feel like we're throw

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back in back in New York home, Yes, spitting in the records.

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All right. Look, you know, if you can have fun doing this,

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what the hell are we doing?
Right? Is that? Hey?

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You have to have fun no matter
what you do. You got to put

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a smile on people's face. I
know, I know, and it's through

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the music we play here. So
we were we were Celeste and I were

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talking about looking at your parents,
our parents as a window into your own

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health future. And I would say
that is probably the most valuable bit of

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information all of you have. Now. You may say, my father drank,

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my father smoked, my father was, you know, two hundred pounds

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overweight. I'm thin and I exercise. I think that is good. But

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Celeste, what would you say to
somebody that said, oh, my mother,

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my father, they were in terrible
shape. I'm going to do my

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own thing. I can't model myself
after them. They're not a good barometer.

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truth to that, but I think

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it's it's always where you can always
do better. You know, you look

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at somebody, you look at the
role models that you had in your life,

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and some people unfortunately didn't have.
We were blessed, Joe, you

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know, we were blessed with unbelievable
role models as parents. And I know

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that's not the norm for most people, and I see it in my population

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with my patients. But what I
try to impart on my members and my

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patients that I talk with that this
is your opportunity to take your life and

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do better for yourself for your children. And you know, I'm at the

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point now where I want to live
a long life. I have a lot

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more years that I want to live. I have seven grandchildren now, and

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I want to be a good role
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I think it's it's all about accountability, it's all about taking control. And

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you know, some people say,
well, and I think it goes the

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other way where some people will say, well, you know, I live

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like this, and I lived on
processed food. So that's all I know.

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right right. And what I what
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and we're in the era of digital
photographs, you know, just old old

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fashioned, you know, paper printed
photographs. I will look at them and

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I will realize that this was nineteen
eighty eight when this picture let's just say

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me, you and dad, okay, And I'm like, okay, nineteen

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eighty eight. He was born in
nineteen twenty four, he was, you

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know, whatever, age old,
And I'm like, holy crap, did

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I look do or did I look
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the same age. I think we
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I think we're healthier. Even though
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that was missing for them was exercised, right. That's my belief, right,

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And so I look at that it's
it's and I guess the bottom line

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here, Sirrett's least, is that
this wellness thing, or the prevention of

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disease or limiting the disease, is
an active process. And so in my

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brain, I look at a picture
of Dad or mom and I'm like,

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gee, when let's say I graduated
college or medical school, they were fifty

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five years old, and I'm like, did I look like that when I

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was fifty five or when I was
thirty eight years old? That's what Dad

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looked like and we were on vacation
and we were all little kids. I

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don't know. I look at it. But you know, as much as

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we love them, I say to
myself, yeah, I mean it is

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different, But can I do better
than them to stay out? Now?

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Am I going to live instead of
ninety seven? I'm going to live to

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ninety eight? You know, I
don't know. I could only hope.

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to constantly work to prevent something else that

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may be brewing that you can intervene
absolutely, And I think it's a big

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part is to listening to your body
and not ignoring signs. You know.

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I heard recently of a person who
I'd met whose wife started getting a little

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bit of swelling in her legs,
a little short of breath. Ignored it,

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ignored it. She was in virtually
good health. She dropped out of

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a heart attack. Um. So
those little signs that you know your body

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gives you because your body's always talking
to you, you know. So I

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think to not ignore signs, and
then on the flip side to prevention,

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you know, to just take better
care of yourself and be conscious of what

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you eat, because it is that
to me. I'm on this, you

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know, eating right, Um,
you know, mission right now, and

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but your whole whole life, I
think it has But you know that listen,

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we're all human and you know,
you know I live now with with

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my daughter and her family, and
there's always some junk in the house.

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You know. Easter came around,
the Easter baskets, oh my goodness,

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you know, so you know,
picking out the candy here and there and

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picking at this and taking at that. I think we come from the pampa

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of pickers, you know. So
so those are the things that I have

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to bow out and sitting no,
you know, maybe once in a while

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as a treat, but not here
and there as I'm passing by grab a

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Reese's egg. You know, those
are the things that you have to be

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as we get older, you have
to be more aware of that. And

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it's not total deprivation. Listen,
I still live, and I still you

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know, eat some things that maybe
I shouldn't, But I think the main

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focus has to be, you know, on a daily basis, eat right,

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healthy organic fresh fruit, you know, foods you know, you know,

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using smart oils to cook with you
know, no deep crying and things

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like that, right right, And
I think when when you look at your

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friend group that and you know,
some are newer friends, some are friends

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you've had for forty years, what
would you say if you could tell the

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one thing sort of like what you
were mentioning about your other friend you talked

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about, But what would you say? And this is for everybody listening tonight.

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The two or three things that are
within your grasp to change now,

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And it doesn't take money it doesn't
take extra training, but it's stuff that

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you could do right now. What
would you say, Well, I think

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the biggest thing, and I think
everybody struggles with this, is carving out

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some time for yourself, whether it
be going and it doesn't have to be

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for a five mile walk, but
just take some time before you go to

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bed at night. Say okay,
tomorrow, this is my schedule. I'll

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be able to get a walk in
or a workout in or something in for

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myself at this time. You know, from five to six, before I

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eat dinner, I'm going to go
out for a walk, Even something as

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simple as taking a bath, giving
yourself some time to yourself, get off

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the merry, go round for a
little bit and just just be within yourself,

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do a little bit of meditation,
try to find that peace within yourself.

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And that's something I've really been trying
to focus on lately, and it's

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been extremely helpful because we get so
hyper focused on our family and our job

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and every our neighbors, everybody around
us. Where you need to I think

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start once we get into our sixties, I think we have to really start

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looking at ourselves and taking better care
of ourselves. Absolutely, so just those

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little lifestyle changes is key. It
is absolutely it is all right. Well

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Celeste, always a pleasure having you
on. You always deliver a good punch

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here and we will continue talking.
And I really appreciate you coming on tonight.

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Oh I love it every time,
Joe, so talking to you.

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All right, right, all right, takeing it, have a good night,

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all right, love you too.
Heye alight, all right, that's

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my sister, So glad she was
able to come on. All right.

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Well we're going to end here with
a simple song. I can help.

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We are here to help all of
you. Doctor Joe Glatti every Sunday between

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seven and eight pm. You know
where to find us. God bless and

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be well. If you got a
problem, don't care what it is.

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You need a him. I'm not
gonna show you this sack a hill.

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I got two stro