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It's almost like being born again.

I have this analogy I use when my son was first

born. When we're in the car, I'm just seeing him looking out and experiencing everything

for the first time as a new human being. I almost feel the same way. I'm living life as a new person is what it feels like.

Oh, you are in for a treat on this Inside Health podcast with me, James Gallagher. You just heard from

Jimmy Olaher. He's lived with sickle cell disease for more than three decades. That's three

decades of pain for a lot of his life. But now scientists

are inching closer to a cure and Jimmy's one of the first people to benefit. On today's program,

we're also going to explore whether women get better care from female doctors and if a book

at bedtime actually improves our sleep. Spoiler alert, yes it does. But let's

stick with sickle cell and in order to understand Jimmy's story, I think we all need to

understand the disease a bit better. Now it runs in families, particularly those of African

descent and it affects hemoglobin. So that's the stuff that's packed inside our red blood cells and it carries oxygen

around the body. Now to continue the lesson, here's Dr Kate Gardner, who's a consultant

hematologist at Guy's in St Thomas's Hospital in London. Sicle cells are an inherited

condition. So there's a genetic mutation that creates abnormal hemoglobin, sickle hemoglobin, which makes

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