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Juicebox Podcast: Type 1 Diabetes

#236 Defining Diabetes: Bolus

Juicebox Podcast: Type 1 Diabetes

Scott Benner

Type1, Diabetes, Insulin, Medicine, Health, Health & Fitness, Celiac, Cgm, T1d, Nutrition, Parenting, Ardensday, Omnipod, Type1diabetes, Dexcom, Juvenilediabetes

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🗓️ 21 June 2019

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Defining Diabetes: Bolus

Scott and Jenny Smith, CDE define the terms that are at the center of your type 1 diabetes care

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Jennifer holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Human Nutrition and Biology from the University of Wisconsin. She is a Registered (and Licensed) Dietitian, Certified Diabetes Educator, and Certified Trainer on most makes/models of insulin pumps and continuous glucose monitoring systems. You can reach Jenny at [email protected]

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Transcript

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0:00.0

I always like to give consideration to the things that we take for granted.

0:03.2

For instance, some of the words that we use on the podcast.

0:06.2

I get notes from you guys all the time.

0:09.5

My favorite one very recently was, I didn't know until I was listening to the

0:13.2

podcast for months that I was doing MDI I mean I knew I was injecting insulin but I

0:18.9

didn't know it was called multiple daily injections and that people shorten that

0:22.4

to MDI.

0:24.2

So I thought, you know what, that probably happens to more people than I realize.

0:28.0

And so today is the first of our new mini episodes.

0:31.9

They're just going to be a few minutes long. They'll happen on

0:33.8

Fridays and they're going to be with me and Jenny Smith as we define diabetes.

0:38.2

I think I want to call this defining diabetes with Scott and Jenny.

0:44.0

D'Dand, they'll be like music and there's no music, I have no money for music.

0:48.0

Anyway, just imagine like game show music in your head and then I'll say the thing.

0:52.0

So I'll give you a second second you get the game show music

0:53.9

running right like card sharks or something like that you got it going ready

0:57.7

hey everybody it's defining diabetes with Scott and Jenny I'm gonna this weird, I'm not talking like that.

1:03.3

Anyway, this one's bolus, okay? That's where we're going to start. Bolus, that seems like a good

1:07.5

reasonable place to start. Do you believe it or not? There are people who listen to this

1:10.0

podcast who send me notes and say, I don't know what Bolus means.

1:13.6

So you will in a second.

1:15.0

I think by the way, it means more than you think.

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