The Healthy Diabetic

It’s Halloween week, and Graham opened with a confession about a bag of fun-size candy that was supposed to be for trick-or-treaters. So I asked him to go back to 10-year-old Graham: what did Halloween look like with Type 1 diabetes in the late ’90s?

His answer opened up a much bigger conversation. Before fast-acting insulin and insulin-to-carb ratios, management meant eating the same foods, at the same times, with the s...

Basal insulin is the foundation of everything. If it’s not right, it doesn’t matter how well you pre-bolus, how carefully you count carbs, or how dialed in your correction factor is. The whole system falls apart.

In this episode I break down everything you need to understand about basal insulin — what it actually does, what it isn’t designed to do, how to know if yours is set correctly, and why splitting your...

Within fifteen minutes we were deep in a conversation about glucose responsive insulin, closed loop systems, stem cell trials, the future of diabetes technology, and whether stress is ultimately the biggest driver of insulin resistance on the planet.

Glucose responsive insulin — or smart insulin — is the idea of a medication that sits in the body and only activates in response to rising blood sugar. No pre-bolusing. No c...

Dexcom rolled out a new data policy update to G7 users — and they did it in the worst possible way.

Mid-sensor. Mid-day. A message blocking access to blood sugar readings with two options: accept a policy update that most people will never read, or delete the app. No warning. No window to prepare. Just a screen standing between a diabetic and their numbers.

Graham and I break down what we know about what actually happened, what...

Charity Dimas has spent her career in healthcare — EMS, medical assisting, nursing school, and now organ procurement, where she works with deceased organ donors and has learned more about the pancreas than she ever expected. She was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes in March of this year. And the paradigm shift from knowing about diabetes clinically to actually living with it as a patient has been one of the most humbling and il...

Graham’s morning looked like this — woke up at 238, went for a run, hit 240, took two units, dropped to 69, had a fig bar, bounced back to 239. Meanwhile I woke up to a CGM reading of 267 when my finger stick said 160. A hundred milligrams per deciliter off. On day nine of a ten-day sensor.

In this episode Graham and I get honest about something that’s been frustrating both of us — CGM accuracy. Specifically ...

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 episode Graham and I get into why the diagnosis crisis ...

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 things changes everything about how you dose, pre-bolus, and tro...

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 my diabetes. Really lazy. I haven't been pre-bolusing. I haven't been c...

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.

In this episode I walk through exactly what happened...

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.

Graham and I also get into the endocrinologist relationship and wh...

In this episode, I opened this episode with a concept that I don't think gets talked about honestly enough — rage bolusing.

It's what happens when your blood sugar won't come down, the frustration builds, and you just keep dumping insulin on top of insulin on top of insulin hoping something finally works. It feels like taking control. It isn't. It's one of the most emotionally driven and potentially dangerous patterns in Type ...

In this episode, Graham and I get into something I find myself thinking about often - why is it so hard for people to eat well and live healthy lives? Not because they don't care. Not because they're lazy. But because the system is stacked against us. Ultra-processed foods are engineered to be addictive. Fast food is cheaper, faster, and more accessible than cooking a real meal after a ten-hour workday. And then the drive-through o...

In today's episode Graham and I talk about why some people are successful in their diabetes management and others aren't. 

Routines and building the right consistent habits are one of the foundations to a great management system. We jump into why some people thrive on structure and schedules and logbooks, and why other people do just as well without any of that. We talk about the guilt that comes with being a grinder who can't ...

I sat down with Madi Cheever - registered dietitian, T1D, and founder of Type 1 Type Fun. Madi had an extraordinary year. She published a book, launched her podcast The Bad Diabetic Club, hosted a nearly 300-person diabetes conference, traveled to Japan, and served as dietitian at multiple diabetes camps across the country. From the outside it looked like everything was firing on all cylinders. Behind the scenes she was completely ...

Once I understood the difference between insulin resistance and insulin sensitivity, everything clicked. Not just about diabetes - about why chronic disease is exploding, why autoimmune conditions are rising, and why the food systems most of us rely on are working against us instead of for us.

Graham and I dig into what insulin resistance and insulin sensitivity actually mean, how they affect blood sugar management on a daily basis,...

Diabetes doesn't hold me back, but it used to...

In today's episode, we talked about what it takes to manage diabetes as a caregiver and how making decisions for yourself is essential for building your confidence. 

What does it actually means to make yourself the priority - not in a selfish way, but in the way that every parent, spouse, coach, and person living with a chronic condition needs to hear. Because if you're taking car...

Welcome to Diabetes Confessions — a diabetes series where talk about my diabetes confessions and how I've learned to overcome the mental, physical, and emotional toll of living with diabetes. 

(Episode 2): Pre-bolusing is one of the most important things you can do to keep your blood sugar stable after a meal. I've known that for a long time. And for a long stretch of my life with T1D — I wasn't doing it. Not consis...

In today's episode, I asked Graham one question at the start of this episode — what are the two most important things that keep your blood sugar stable?

Two Type 1 diabetics. Fifty years of combined experience. Two answers that might completely change how you think about what actually keeps your blood sugar stable.

🔑 Key Takeaways

• Why organizing your diabetes supplies isn't just practical — it removes panic from an un...