Join us for Episode 72 of 'not ARTIFICIALLY Sweetened', THE podcast packed with unfiltered reflections on all thing’s diabetes!

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Whether you're living with diabetes, a health professional that facilitates diabetes care, or supporting someone with diabetes, you're in the right place! Join our journey, as we grow together in understanding, insight, & self-awareness to change lives for the better. Our deliberations are always honest, challenging & thought provoking. Nothing is off the table as we meet real people, discuss their real issues and stories, & together discover real answers to many vexing practical issues in diabetes & its care.

Stan starts the show reminding health professionals that type 2 diabetes presents as a range of phenotypes that may not be the ‘average’ expectation of what we think it ‘looks like’ - understanding this facilitates better and more insightful care.

Facilitated by Lurina Fourie, we answer YOUR questions

Regular nAs Team Member, ‘The Glucose Glitch’, Lurina Fourie, joins us again to seek answers to your questions. Lurina works like a Trojan as a T1D Advocate, poet, Content Creator and professional photographer, while living with type 1 diabetes. Before the Q&A session, we checked what’s happening in the advocacy space from Lurina’s perspective. Then we discuss queries from:

• Anonymous on the risks of improving blood glucose management too quickly - early worsening of diabetic retinopathy, treatment-induced neuropathy of diabetes, relative hypoglycaemia, & insulin oedema – “make haste slowly!”
• André as to why he experiences a mid-morning rise in blood glucose. André, apart from the general guidance offered in the podcast, please check that you're not developing hypoglycaemia just before your glucose starts to rise, & possibly overtreating this. We'd also like to explore what you eat or drink from the time you return from your run and when your blood glucose starts to rise, & if you need to take any medications that can raise blood glucose.
• Tato on when to take a 12-year-old for an eye test & what this checks. Also, at what age do young people understand their condition?
• Bianca on the effects of weather & regions on blood glucose levels – we chat about some biological, environmental & emotional influences
• Anonymous on how to help someone with diabetes become aware of ‘burnout’ #SupportIsVital
• Lurina – if you had only one make-or-break piece of advice for people with diabetes to approach their condition, what would that be?

Advocacy message

Sane Mazubuko thanks HCPs & also reminds them to remember the human aspects of living with diabetes #thrivewithdiabetes

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For health professionals working in diabetes

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