Judged by a Number: Living with Type 1 Diabetes with Amber Clour
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 14 January 2021
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Diagnosed just a few weeks past her eight birthday, it wasn't until she was an adult that she realized how isolated she had always felt as a result of being a diabetic. She and another type 1 had befriended each other, and after talking about diabetes type 1 diet and exercise types, they realized that combing forces and sharing information might help others.
Listen and learn
- What she hopes to accomplish with her blog, diabetesdailygrind.com, and podcast, Real Life Diabetes Podcast,
- What a "day in the life" type 1 diabetes insulin regimen looks like from her perspective and what kinds of effects stress has on management, and
- What other factors, like decision fatigue, are added in to that management and how she advises listeners to reach out for mental health support.
After several decades with type 1 diabetes, Amber Clour is more than an expert in self-management. But her knowledge has even more depth because of the research and interviews she's done for her podcast and blog. She says that while a lot of people with type 1 are able to be discrete about management, many don't understand that it is a 24-hour, 7-day a week, 365-days-a-year effort.
Furthermore, because the metabolism process of the human body is so different for everyone and varies under conditions like stress, there's no one-size-fits-all care guide. This constant focus on insulin action mechanisms takes concentrated energy. Further, it's important not to over treat with insulin, a potentially deadly outcome. This constant stress can also lead to mental health issues.
"You can feel like you are alone on an island," she says, but sharing with other people who know what it is like has made a big difference in her life, and she hopes her blog and podcast do the same for others. In addition, she has concerns that minimal direction is passed on to patients facing type 2 diabetes treatment as well.
She hopes to help educate and inform others about available resources and technology, and is starting a new series called Just the Facts, Please, which will focus on straight information sharing from an expert.
For more about her work, see diabetesdailygrind.com.
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| 0:25.1 | sleep science, cancer, stem cells, ketogenic diets, and more. Here come the geniuses. |
| 0:30.3 | This is the Finding Genius Podcast. |
| 0:33.0 | That is Richard Jacobs. |
| 0:35.0 | Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the Finding Genius Podcast. |
| 0:41.0 | My guest today is Amber Cluerer. She has a blog called Diabetes Daily Grind.com. |
| 0:47.0 | She also has her own podcast and we're going to talk about her experiences. She has type 1 diabetes herself. So welcome, Amber. Thanks for coming. |
| 0:56.8 | Thank you, Richard, so much for having me. Yeah, tell me about a little bit about your journey. |
| 1:00.5 | How did you discover type 1 diabetes and then well, how did you... your try to make it as short and sweet and as humanly possible, but I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes |
| 1:14.4 | 21 days after my 8th birthday, so I'm not going to date myself too much, but I've had it for a few decades, |
| 1:20.2 | and realized after meeting somebody else while I was an adult that I had never really had a type one friend or anybody really to communicate with. |
| 1:32.0 | So growing up I felt like I was a little bit on an island |
| 1:36.3 | without ever really knowing it consciously during those very difficult years as a teenager and then in |
| 1:41.9 | college and all those other things. |
| 1:43.2 | So in meeting this other person who is a lovely fellow type one, |
| 1:47.7 | we had a similar vision to write a series of books about life with diabetes over the decades. And in looking at that we thought, you know what, why don't we start with a blog to see if there's any interest because there's a large investment, I'm sure, with publishing a book. And so we started the blog, started telling her own story and we're |
| 2:04.7 | pleasantly surprised when we started getting a lot of comments and a lot of |
| 2:08.6 | feedback oh my gosh you understand what I'm going through and all these things and |
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