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Published Apr 15, 2022

#664 Defining Diabetes: Dictate the Pace

In this episode, Scott Benner and Jenny Smith discuss nighttime diabetes management and highlight the importance of proactive strategies and understanding insulin action to maintain control over blood sugar levels. They use sports metaphors to provide insights into 'dictating the pace' of diabetes care, particularly emphasizing the benefits of timing and pre-bolusing.
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  • Nighttime Strategies

    Managing blood sugar levels overnight is crucial for those with diabetes, and it requires strategic planning. and discuss the importance of setting alarms and adjusting insulin to maintain stability. Jenny shares her experience of waking up to high blood sugar levels due to a malfunctioning pod site, emphasizing the need for proactive measures.

    At 230 in the morning, getting your ass out of bed and changing that pump and giving your shot, that's not easy to do, right? But what it did was it saved your next day.

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    Understanding how insulin works, like warming up before a run, is key to dictating the pace of blood sugar management 1 2.

       

    Personal Insights

    Personal stories highlight the challenges and solutions in managing diabetes at night. recounts a night where her pump failed, leading to high blood sugar levels, and the subsequent effort required to stabilize them. She emphasizes the importance of understanding one's diabetes management tools to avoid such situations.

    If you ignore that, you wake up, you're 300, you spend 5 hours fixing.

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    Scott advises listeners to build their knowledge gradually, likening the podcast to a compendium of diabetes management insights 3.

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