The Healthy Diabetic

Graham came in with a stat that stopped me in my tracks — 800 million people worldwide are now living with diabetes. That’s almost one-ninth of the entire global population. And cases have quadrupled since 1990.

But the number that is shocking is that  about 11 million people in the United States  have diabetes right now and have absolutely no idea.

In this episod...

Welcome to Diabetes Tips & Tricks - a brand new series on the Podcast dedicated to deep diving into the specific topics that impact your blood sugar every single day.

In this first episode we start with the most important tool in every T1D's toolbox — insulin. And not just what it is. But how it actually works, when it works, and why understanding those three...

Welcome back to Diabetes Confessions - a series where I press record and get honest about the things I've done with my diabetes that I'm not proud of.

I almost didn't record this one. Because what I'm about to confess goes against everything I talk about on this show. But that's exactly why it needs to be talked about.

The last couple of weeks I've been lazy with ...

I've had Type 1 diabetes for almost 20 years. And for almost 20 years, every time I've gotten sick, my insulin needs have gone up — sometimes dramatically. Inflammation increases insulin resistance. That's just how it works. So when my symptoms hit hard this week and my blood sugars started running low instead of high, I had to stop and figure out what was actually going on.<...

After almost 20 years living with Type 1 diabetes, I've started to see a pattern that I can't unsee.

Almost every challenge I hear from clients, from listeners, from people reaching out on social media comes back to three or four specific things. And when those things click for you so many other problems start solving themselves without anyone having to try that hard.