Episode 346: Allison Herschede

Low Carb MD Podcast

Drs. Brian Lenzkes & Tro Kalayjian

Diet, Mental Health, Lowcarb, Nutrition, Keto, Brianlenzkes, Health & Fitness, Jasonfung, Doctortro, Intermittentfasting, Trokalayjian, Medicine, Meganramos

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Thank you for joining us for another episode of the Low Carb MD Podcast. Allison Herschede is a Registered Nurse, Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialist, the author of a book about diabetes and pregnancy, and is the lead diabetes educator at diaVerge. She helps her clients consistently achieve normalized blood sugar levels, dramatically reducing their blood sugar averages and A1c.

In this episode, Dr. Brian, Dr. Tro, and Allison talk about…

Allison’s Type 1 Diabetes diagnosis and how she learned to reverse it
How to determine the ideal ratio of fat to protein in your diet as a person with Type 1
How fasting and sleep quality factor into the life of a person with Type 1
The Type 1 Grit online community and the important role it has played in Allison’s personal health journey
Technologies that Type 1 diabetics may find useful
How different forms of exercise effect the blood sugar levels of Type 1 diabetics
Allison’s #1 recommendations for those struggling with Type 1
The work of Dr. Richard K. Bernstein on Type 1 Diabetes

For more information, please see the links below. Thank you for listening!

Links:

Allison Herschede:

Grit Pregnancies (book): https://www.amazon.com/Grit-Pregnancies-Healthy-Pregnancy-Diabetes/dp/1737084309?&linkCode=sl1&tag=diaverge-20&linkId=ce496d7d76ef7ae96790602c61157a91&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl
diaVerge Website: https://www.diaverge.com
Type 1 Grit Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/Type1Grit/
T1 Pal: https://t1pal.com
Allison’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gritcde/?hl=en

Dr. Brian Lenzkes:

Website: https://arizonametabolichealth.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/BrianLenzkes?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^author

Dr. Tro Kalayjian:

Website: https://www.doctortro.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/DoctorTro
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/doctortro/

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the low-carb MD podcast. No one is beyond help. No one is beyond hope.
0:07.0	As we have always said, we are bringing you medical information and cutting-edge science,
0:12.0	but none of this is medical advice.
0:15.3	Please seek out input from your own doctor. Hello and welcome back to the low-carb MD podcast.
0:25.0	How are you doing man?
0:28.0	Oh, I'm doing great.
0:30.0	This is a special day.
0:32.0	This is a special day for me. I met our guest at the SMHP conference in Boca. There's one upcoming in San Diego by the way, which you all should attend, but I we met for the first time in Boca and I was moved. I was so moved by her talk and I was so moved by the entire type one community.
0:57.4	I was like we got to get her on, we got to get her on the podcast.
1:00.8	I've already sent her, you know, her patients her way. She is a diabetes educator. She's a
1:08.9	registered nurse certified diabetes care and education specialist.
1:14.0	She is an author of a book about diabetes and pregnancy.
1:19.0	She knows more about, she knows everything about hacking, closed loops, so hopefully we'll hear about that.
1:27.0	She's lived with Type 1 her entire life, so she knows what it takes. Guys, I am so happy that Alice Norschidi
1:38.6	here. I am just ecstatic. I'm ecstatic. I'm excited. We're happy to have you here. Tell us everything we need to know.
1:46.4	Just kind of backstory or? Yeah, well first start. We're happy to have you here.
2:00.5	Yeah, I'd love to hear the backstory you know I'd love to hear you know you don't just wake up and become a registered nurse and diabetes educator and author on type one and lecture on type one and you know the lead sort of educator at Diaverge.
2:11.0	So I just yeah how did it start? Well I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in
2:18.6	1981 at the age of one year so I'm giving my age away.
2:24.0	And for the first 30 or so years, I went by the ADA recommendations.
2:32.0	I was wildly out of control. At the age of 14, I had an A1C, a
2:37.4	hemoglobin A1C of 14%, which is about average of 400 milligrams for best leader.
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