#237 Diabetes Pro Tip: Setting Basal Insulin
Juicebox Podcast: Type 1 Diabetes
Scott Benner
4.7 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 24 June 2019
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Diabetes Pro Tip: Setting Basal Insulin
Scott and Jenny Smith, CDE share insights on type 1 diabetes care
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About Jenny Smith
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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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to episode 237 of the Juice Box Podcast. |
| 0:04.2 | Today's episode you know by the title is with your favorite guest Jenny Smith. |
| 0:09.2 | Jenny and I are here today to add an 11th entry into my diabetes pro tip series. |
| 0:14.6 | Please don't let the fact that this is the 11th episode in this series make you think |
| 0:19.0 | Basel rate testing probably not that important. |
| 0:21.1 | If it was, they would have moved it up sooner. Not even close. Having your probably not even |
| 0:23.6 | even close having your basal insulin correct is the core of everything you're |
| 0:28.1 | doing with insulin you can't trust that your bolus was right or wrong, you can't understand why you got low or why you got high. |
| 0:37.2 | When your basal insulin isn't correct, everything you see coming back to you from your |
| 0:42.2 | blood sugar experiences, from your blood sugar experiences from your glucose monitors |
| 0:44.8 | from your meter testing. None of it is actionable. None of it is valuable if your |
| 0:51.5 | basal isn't right. |
| 0:53.7 | Every time I speak with someone privately, |
| 0:55.6 | we start with basal insulin. |
| 0:57.8 | Doesn't matter if you're pumping or injecting, |
| 0:59.9 | and most people's basal insulin is significantly incorrect. If you're seeing blood |
| 1:04.6 | sugars that you don't understand, it's easy to see a low blood sugar and think that |
| 1:09.2 | means less basal. But that's not always the case. |
| 1:13.7 | At the end of this episode, I believe you're going to have a firmer grasp of what |
| 1:16.6 | basal insulin is, how to make adjustments to it, and why it's so important. |
| 1:21.7 | You really need to listen to this one. This is where it all starts. |
| 1:24.9 | This episode of the Juice Box Podcast is made possible by DexCom, |
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