Julian Cann’s road to better health came from within. Born with sickle cell disease, Julian went through a series of ups and downs in his early life. He hit a low point in 2013, around the time of a breakup. At the time, Julian wasn’t eating nutritiously. He wasn’t exercising enough. He wasn’t living a healthy lifestyle. All those factors can cause symptoms – with severe pain the most common – or other health complications in people with #SickleCellDisease. Rather than continue down the same path, Julian decided to make a change for the better. “I just knew that I had to change that, and I had the opportunity,” Julian says. “So I just started slowly changing my diet, started changing the foods I ate. … I just started learning about better ways to live and start practicing, and then once I started seeing the benefits, I just kept going with it.” Nutrition and exercise became one outlet. Music was another, a way for Julian to channel his pain into something positive. Today Julian ...