Here's What You Need to Know About Diabetes
Food, We Need To Talk
Juna Gjata
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2024
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
In today’s episode, in honor of World Diabetes Day, we’re diving deep into diabetes. Did you know that one in two people in the United States have either prediabetes or diabetes? This means that even if you don’t have diabetes, someone you love probably does. Today, we break down what diabetes is, the differences between type 1 and type 2, whether prediabetes and diabetes are reversible, and most importantly, why having diabetes should never be a source of shame. We’re joined by the two lovely ladies from the Diabetes Digital Podcast, and if you have more questions, you can find additional information on their website.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone. Happy November and also happy early World Diabetes Day. Yes, you know, World Diabetes |
| 0:08.5 | Day is November 14th. Woo, woo. And today is November 11th. And diabetes is actually a topic, |
| 0:15.1 | strangely, we have never covered explicitly on the podcast. Crazy, right? Because we get questions |
| 0:20.4 | about it all the time. |
| 0:21.7 | And it's a topic that hits really close to home for me because my mom has type 2 diabetes. |
| 0:25.9 | And I have watched the effects of it on her over the past decade. And honestly, a lot of the time, |
| 0:30.2 | I just feel like I don't really understand what diabetes is or like how it works or what I should be doing to best support her. |
| 0:36.8 | So I'm really glad that we |
| 0:38.1 | are finally having this episode. Also, Yuna, I will share this one. It's really close to home for me |
| 0:43.2 | because my blood sugars have been sneaking up and I'm really looking for what I can do in |
| 0:50.3 | addition to all the things I thought I was doing so well. So in our bonus episode, we'll get |
| 0:54.4 | kind of deep into what I'm trying to do for myself. And of course, I take care of oodles of patients |
| 1:00.0 | who have diabetes and have many of the dread complications of the disease. I love the word |
| 1:05.3 | oodles. That was fun. I have oodles. That's why we quantify patients. Yeah, I guess so. |
| 1:11.6 | So today's also a really special episode because it's not just Eddie, me, and an expert. |
| 1:17.5 | It's actually going to be us collaborating with two fellow podcasters, the two ladies from the Diabetes Digital Podcast. |
| 1:25.3 | And it was so fun chatting with them. |
| 1:27.3 | And I have to say that we sort of screened each other, I mean, us two and them. |
| 1:31.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:31.7 | And when we decided that we were going to talk about evidence-based recommendations, and everyone smiled, |
| 1:38.8 | and we're going to stay away from the, what, the snake oil, what they call it? |
| 1:43.4 | The potions. |
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