Taking Control Of Your Diabetes

1. A CGM for Prediabetes? Yes, It Can Help Getting the news that you have prediabetes can be a shock, but it can also be an opportunity to start making small lifestyle changes that can help improve your health. This is where a CGM can have a big impact. When you use a fingerstick to check your blood sugar, you only see your glucose for one fleeting moment in time. With a CGM, you can see your glucose levels every 5 minutes, 24/7.

By far one of the coolest parts of the diabetes conference was being around so many other type 1s who share in the struggles (and triumphs) of living with T1D. Most of us live and work in a world where we are the only person we know with type 1 diabetes, so being around hundreds of other people who “get it” felt…normal. We learned…a LOT.

Weekly Basal Insulin: Frequently Asked Questions 💉 Who might benefit the most from weekly basal insulin? Weekly insulin may be helpful for people who struggle to keep up with daily injections, are nervous about starting insulin therapy, have a busy or unpredictable schedule, or who depend on others to administer insulin for them. 🚫 Is there anyone who should NOT use once-weekly insulin?

Reading Time: 4 minutes A cure for type 1 diabetes has been dangled in front of our noses for years like a carrot on a stick, with the promise that it’s only 5-10 years away. But it’s always been just out of reach, no matter how fast we ran toward it. Until recently! Over the past few years, research in the field has accelerated, and the race to find a type 1 diabetes cure is picking up speed.

Let’s Start with the Size The first thing you notice about the MiniMed Flex is the size. Actually, the first thing you notice is that you almost do not notice it at all. This thing is tiny. Really tiny. The MiniMed Flex is much, much smaller than the 780G, and the difference is immediately obvious. It slips into a pocket more easily, takes up less space, and is simply less noticeable on the body.

DIY Loop App I’ve been using the Loop app for several years, and I love it. Loop is an automated insulin delivery app that connects insulin pumps with CGMs. It’s not FDA-approved, but thousands of people use it and have great success with it. One thing I like is that you can get a new operating system update once or twice a year, which would be impossible if you had to go through the FDA for each update.

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Diabetes and Liver Disease: Frequently Asked Questions ❤️‍🩹  Is there a cure for liver disease? While there isn’t a cure for liver disease currently, it can often be improved (and sometimes even reversed) in early stages with lifestyle changes. The liver has an amazing ability to heal itself when underlying causes like inflammation are addressed.