Ep58 Arjun Panesar: CEO of Diabetes Digital Media (DDM) - The Future of Diabetes Management
The Fat Emperor Podcast
ivor cummins
4.8 • 766 Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2020
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Recorded this discussion with Arjun last summer at the PHCUK.org conference - we discuss the future of diabetes management.
Hint: the epidemic will not be resolved with the methods used in the past - it's a brave new world!
Support their rapidly growing organisation at: https://www.diabetes.co.uk/
Also Join up with their Low Carb Program at http://LowCarbProgram.com
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Fat Emperor podcast. I'm your host, Ivor Cummins. We're supported by the Irish |
| 0:08.4 | Heart Disease Awareness charity, which advocates a simple CT scan to reveal your CAC score. So, |
| 0:15.0 | know your score and take action to prevent that premature heart attack. Everything you need to know |
| 0:20.3 | will be right here. |
| 0:21.6 | I'm here in the Royal College of General Practitioners in London |
| 0:27.6 | at the PHC UK conference and I'm meeting now with Arjun Panasar, |
| 0:33.6 | who is an IT expert at a high level, |
| 0:38.3 | but now is the leader of one of the biggest diabetes organizations |
| 0:42.3 | in the world, and if I may say so, |
| 0:45.3 | one of the most effective and useful. |
| 0:48.3 | So great to see, Arjun. |
| 0:50.3 | Morning, it's great to see you. |
| 0:52.3 | Yeah, excellent. |
| 0:53.3 | And I'd love to talk a little at first about that. |
| 0:55.0 | How did you transition from being an IT expert into something as specific and medical as diabetes? |
| 1:02.0 | Well, it was way back in 2003, and I was studying for an undergraduate degree in Artificial Intelligence down the road at Imperial College London. |
| 1:10.0 | And my grandfather happened to |
| 1:11.5 | suffer a quadruple heart bypass in May 2003, around about April, May time. He was asking, |
| 1:18.7 | he was asking the whole family what he should be eating because he had subsequently developed |
| 1:22.0 | type to diabetes based on essentially his health status. He wasn't sure what to eat, nor was the rest of our family, |
| 1:28.5 | and we're from quite a multicultural family, sort of Caucasian origins. We have sort of Indian |
| 1:33.5 | origins. It's quite a mix. And so we have lots of different types of breads that he could choose |
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