#26 Olympian & person with diabetes Kris Freeman
Juicebox Podcast: Type 1 Diabetes
Scott Benner
4.7 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 4 August 2015
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Kris Freeman, four-time Olympic cross country skier, comes on the podcast to share his take on the controversial remarks posted on Twitter by the CrossFit CEO in 2015, and why Kris thinks Type 1 diabetes should be renamed. Scott and Kris discuss the challenges of living and working with others who have preconceived stereotypes about what it means to live with Type 1 diabetes. Kris describes the early years of his management and how he manages now in order to compete at the Olympic level in cross country skiing. Scott shares his thoughts on why having stable blood sugars are important and why he works so hard to keep Arden’s blood sugar stable overnight. They discuss Arden’s latest A1C and Scott’s management style and the techniques he uses to achieve it. Scott and Kris discuss physical activity and living well.
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| 0:00.0 | A day or so after the cross-fit CEO made his stupid tweet, which you can hear more about, |
| 0:07.4 | if you don't know, in episode 24 of the Juice Box podcast, I received a text message from four-time Olympian Chris Freeman. |
| 0:17.0 | Chris is a person who has type 1 diabetes and who competes for the last four Olympics in a row as a cross-country scare, which is something |
| 0:28.3 | that sounds physically impossible when you don't have type 1 diabetes, at least it does to me, but when you have diabetes it seems a little extra difficult |
| 0:37.2 | Anyway, Chris wrote something on Facebook about the crossfit incident. I liked it and he contacted me and said, |
| 0:44.4 | hey if you want to share that story that I told on Facebook, go ahead and share it. |
| 0:48.4 | I'd love more people to hear it. And I said, forget that. |
| 0:51.2 | Come on the podcast and tell it yourself. |
| 0:53.7 | So what began as a conversation about Cross Fit quickly went into just two people talking |
| 1:00.8 | about Type 1 diabetes. |
| 1:02.8 | And I think you're going to find it |
| 1:04.0 | it's very interesting to listen to a person |
| 1:05.8 | who is that in tune with their body, |
| 1:08.0 | talk about how they manage their type 1. |
| 1:10.1 | And then he and I get to kind of bounce things |
| 1:12.2 | back and forth about parenting kids with type one, |
| 1:15.5 | living with the disease. It's a really great, I really liked it and I think you're going to do too. |
| 1:20.0 | So just remember nothing you hear on the juice box podcast constitutes advice medical or |
| 1:25.1 | otherwise and this is episode 26 four-time olympian Chris Freeman. Hello? Chris, good morning, it's Scott. |
| 1:53.0 | Hey, how you doing? |
| 1:55.0 | Good, can you hear me okay? |
| 1:56.0 | Uh, yeah. |
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