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I want to define Pre-Bolus Jenny because I believe that if you just pre-Bollis you can knock about a point off your A1C.

It's not the first step when I talk to people, the first step is always, we need to get your basal insulin right, but pre-bullicing is incredibly

important. People don't do it for what I think of is probably two basic reasons. One is no one ever explained to him what it was, which is fascinating. And the second one is they'll say, I don't eat on a schedule. I'm a free loving person. I'm all cool and hip and everything about my life is free and easy and it's hard for me to tie myself down man.

Like like that's kind of it, right?

Then they'll complain about their blood sugar being high for five hours in the fight they were and I was like we just need five seconds worth of focus about 15 minutes before you eat.

So let's define pre-BOLA first.

So pre-BOLA thing essentially is when you take insulin at a set time before, keyword there,

before actually starting to take your first bite of food.

It allows time for our poorly named rapid acting insulin to get more

active in the system because food, specifically carbs, have very quick impact.

The saliva in your mouth starts to break things down so that when it gets to your

gut it's going to be easier even to break down.

So taking insulin before you start to eat, goal being about 15 minutes, give or take,

but a 15 minute rule of thumb to start with

if you've never been doing it

and you're hearing this and like,

oh, let's give that a try.

15 minutes is a good rule of thumb.

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