#138 Kris Freeman 2: Electric Boogaloo
Juicebox Podcast: Type 1 Diabetes
Scott Benner
4.7 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2017
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Four-time Olympian Kris Freeman returns to the Juicebox podcast to talk about living with type 1 diabetes as only he does. Straight talk.
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| 0:00.0 | Many years ago I found myself at a diabetes blogging conference where Chris Freeman was brought in to speak to the people who were there, me being one of them. |
| 0:11.0 | I learned that day that Chris was an Olympic cross-country skier |
| 0:14.9 | who had type 1 diabetes and as I listened to him speak about how he accomplished |
| 0:20.7 | what he accomplished and as I thought about how intense and crazy |
| 0:25.0 | cross-country skiing is. I just thought wow this guy's competing in the Olympics |
| 0:30.0 | with type 1 diabetes. Look how healthy he is. |
| 0:33.0 | Look how active he is. |
| 0:35.0 | Look how successfully is at this. |
| 0:36.0 | If he could do this, I could do this for my daughter. |
| 0:39.0 | It's one of the very first times I had that feeling. |
| 0:42.0 | Chris and I were speaking a few weeks ago about having him on the podcast. |
| 0:45.0 | Again, we couldn't find a reason why and then all of a sudden the Dexcom |
| 0:48.3 | warrior campaign came up and I thought this is great, Chris. |
| 0:52.1 | Come on, we'll talk'll talk you know for five seconds |
| 0:54.2 | about the warrior campaign and then we'll chat about diabetes because I love talking to |
| 0:57.8 | Chris about type one his attitudes are just so specific and oriented in facts and goals. I love the way he thinks about |
| 1:08.7 | type one. Please don't forget that nothing you hear on the juice box podcast should be |
| 1:13.6 | considered advice medical or otherwise always consult a physician before being |
| 1:17.6 | bold with insulin. |
| 1:20.3 | With that said welcome to episode 138 of the Juice Box Podcast. |
| 1:26.0 | Today's podcast is sponsored by Dexcom and Omnipod. |
| 1:30.0 | Please go to Myomipod.com forward slash juice box or deckscom |
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