Join us for Episode 62 of 'not ARTIFICIALLY Sweetened', THE podcast packed with unfiltered reflections on all thing’s diabetes!

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This Episode is brought to you in support of diabetes awareness and care by the CDE Online Pharmacy (https://cdeonline.co.za/), the online store of choice for people living with diabetes, and the new range of CDE MiWell™ (https://cdeonline.co.za/miwell/) Reduced Calorie products.

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, and self-awareness to change lives for the better. Our deliberations are always honest, challenging and thought provoking. Nothing is off the table as we meet real people, discuss their real issues and stories, and together discover real answers to many vexing practical issues in diabetes and its care.

“Live your life with diabetes”

Stan and Michael are joined in studio this week by Salih Hendricks, a kind and generous person who has lived with type 1 diabetes for 42 years and who experienced a lower-limb amputation 4 years ago. Salih is a fervent advocate for diabetes, and he shares his lived experience with many around the world on a wide variety of platforms .

Salih shares a lifetime of experiences and insights:

• His association with the long-standing advocacy organisation, Diabetes South Africa
• How he was ‘born’ into diabetes and his family life surrounded by the condition
• His double diagnoses of diabetes insipidus at 12 and type 1 diabetes at 17 years
• His time of denial and rebellion - “I just wanted to live a normal life”
• ‘Paying it forward’ by warning others about the regret he feels from the years of his denial of diabetes
• The shock of the diagnosis of his son with type 2 diabetes at age 21
• His passion for global diabetes advocacy, peer support and preventative diabetes care
• The complications of diabetes within his family
• His misdiagnosis of peripheral arterial disease which resulted in his lower limb amputation
• Diabetes and its potential complications
• The importance of the clinical psychologist in diabetes care and in coping with the grief of his limb amputation
• The blessing of diabetes in his life

Advocacy message

Lindie Motsoane shares her passionate efforts in community diabetes advocacy

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For health professionals working in diabetes

The 6-Module, 23 CPD point CDE Academy Very Low-Calorie Diet Course for Healthcare Professionals can help you assist your clients with excess adiposity and type 2 diabetes to improve their cardiometabolic risk profile, reduce their chronic medication burden, doses and costs and possibly achieve remission of their diabetes. More information and registration @ https://academy.cdeonline.co.za/vlcd-course/

Iconic CDE Meetings

Ethical Narratives in Chronic Care (23 August 2024)

The 26th CDE Postgraduate Forum in Diabetes Management (23 - 25 August 2024)

For more info on these deep learning experiences, and to register, please visit:

www.cdediabetes.co.za/ethical-narratives-in-chronic-care

www.cdediabetes.co.za/annualforum

Learna/University of South Wales offer a one-year, online, part-time, distance learning Postgraduate Diploma in Diabetes Care. Sign up for a second year to earn an MSc in Diabetes. Gain a competitive edge and enhance your client care! Register @ https://my.learna.ac.uk/l/diabetes-ambassador-cde