Controlling Blood Sugar With Diet | Brian Carlsen, MD, and Lauren Plunkett, RDN

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🗓️ 13 August 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Discover how a plant-based diet can benefit people with type 1 diabetes.

Dr. Brian Carlsen of the Mayo Clinic and dietitian Lauren Plunkett from Mastering Diabetes both have type 1 diabetes. They discuss how they've been able to reduce their insulin needs in half by changing their eating habits.

They join "The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll on The Exam Room Podcast.

In This Episode

- Why a low-carb diet can be detrimental to T1D patients

- Protein needs for people with diabetes

- Eating fruit with diabetes

- Carbohydrate tolerance

- Exercise for regulating blood sugar

- The importance of consistency

- The difference between type 1 and type 2 diabetes

- Sugar cravings

- And more!

This episode was recorded at the Lotus Health Symposium in Rochester, Minn.

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Dr. Brian Carlsen

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Rochester Clinic

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0:00.0	Today on the exam room. How many units were you using initially and how many are you using today?
0:09.0	I think at my high point I was somewhere up in the 60s or 70s a day of total daily insulin and now I can be anywhere usually between 25 and 35
0:18.4	Cut it in half cut it in half and that was I think maybe I was even higher initially it was one of those things
0:23.9	where I feel like it's a blackout in my memory of times that were so bad that you kind of put that
0:28.8	safety space that safety box in your brain of like I don't want to remember all the things but when I
0:33.7	I published a book of my story I had to tap into that stuff to bring out like this is
0:39.0	really the difference that it made for me from 11 to becoming a professional but my quality of life
0:44.9	and where I am right now the stability of that with how I can exercise and
0:49.7	like trust it is really like I'm good.
0:53.0	A1C I'm happy with, like we're good. Welcome to the exam room podcast brought to you by the Physicians Committee.
1:06.4	Hi, I'm the Weight Loss Champion Chuck Carroll, raising health IQs,
1:10.2	coast to coast and around the world.
1:13.0	High to the exam room is listening in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Richardson, Texas, and Birmingham, England.
1:20.0	Wherever you are, we appreciate you helping to make the world a healthier place.
1:25.0	This is episode 66 of season 7 number 565 overall.
1:32.0	Today is all about diabetes, specifically type 1 diabetes, a chronic
1:39.7	condition affecting about 1 and a quarter million people here in the United States and about 9 million
1:46.6	worldwide. And so today we will be speaking with two of those people. Extra extraordinary humans who have cut their insulin requirements in half
1:57.2	by changing their diet and lifestyles. So making his return to the show today is Dr. Brian Carlson, a brilliant mind from the Mayo Clinic and for the first time we will be joined by registered dietician Lauren Plunkett from mastering diabetes.
2:16.7	Both will be sharing with us their lives, living with type 1 diabetes, and how their changes have helped them thrive.
2:25.8	Plus, how they're using their experiences and journeys to help others now live their best lives as well.
2:34.0	And in addition to their incredible stories,
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