NBC "The Titan Games" Contestant Chris Ruden Lives With #T1D
Diabetes Connections with Stacey Simms Type 1 Diabetes
Release Date: 01/01/2019
She Is Not Waiting: Carson & DIY Omnipod Loop: / Baseball GM Dave Peterson
Diabetes Connections with Stacey Simms Type 1 Diabetes
Would you ask your teenage daughter to be the first to try a new DIY diabetes method? Carson's family did. She's been Looping with Omnipod since last fall; as far as we know, she's the first person to do so. Pre-order the World's Worst Diabetes Mom, Stacey's New Book! We’ll talk about being a loop guinea pig, how her parents are doing and more. In our Community Connection this week, Stacey talks to Dave Peterson, the GM of the Worcester Bravehearts about his diagnoses with type 1 as an adult. Join the Diabetes Connections Facebook Group! Learn more about Open Omni Learn more about...
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Ask the D-Moms: Type 1 Diabetes at School
Diabetes Connections with Stacey Simms Type 1 Diabetes
This week, it's our Ask the D-Moms back to school edition. We talk about tech in school, schedules, 504s and when your kid only has twenty minutes for lunch. Stacey & Moira McCarthy answer your questions. Join the Diabetes Connections Facebook Group! Plus.. Tell me Something Good with a big brother who steps up, and a pageant appearance that makes a difference Pre-order Stacey's Book: The World's Worst Diabetes Mom! This podcast is not intended as medical advice. If you have those kinds of questions, please contact your health care provider. Sign up for our newsletter here ----- Use...
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When Type 1 Diabetes Leads to Inspiration: Krishna Kaliannan & Catalina Crunch
Diabetes Connections with Stacey Simms Type 1 Diabetes
Krishna Kaliannan is the founder of Catalina Crunch, a low carb cereal company. But that wasn’t the path he thought he’d take when he was diagnosed with type 1 in high school. In fact, he was so angry about the diagnosis that for a while, he considered ignoring the whole thing: Join the Diabetes Connections Facebook Group! Krishna made his peace – he tells us how – and he wound up creating a line of low-carb crunchy cereals. He also lives with epilepsy.. and shares that story as well. Sign up for our newsletter here In our Community Connection: Sugar Surfing for your doctor, a new...
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Women and Type 1 Diabetes (Full Panel): Real Talk About Periods, Menopause & More (Bonus Episode)
Diabetes Connections with Stacey Simms Type 1 Diabetes
This week, Stacey moderates a frank conversation about women’s issues and type 1 diabetes. This episode contains the full panel. Join the Diabetes Connections Facebook Group You'll hear about everything from periods to menopause to appearance issues with diabetes gear. The panel includes Elizabeth Forrest, the founder of Touched by Type 1, the conference where this panel took place, lawyer Risa Katz and Nicole Johnson, who is with JDRF now and was Miss America in 1999. All the women live with type 1 diabetes. This is the full panel - an excerpt ran in the episode immediately preceding...
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Women and Type 1 Diabetes: Real Talk About Periods, Menopause & More
Diabetes Connections with Stacey Simms Type 1 Diabetes
This week, Stacey moderates a frank conversation about women’s issues and type 1 diabetes. Join the Diabetes Connections Facebook Group You'll hear about everything from periods to menopause to standing up to your doctors. The panel includes Elizabeth Forrest, the founder of Touched by Type 1, the conference where this panel took place, lawyer Risa Katz and Nicole Johnson, who is with JDRF now and was Miss America in 1999. All the women live with type 1 diabetes. This is an excerpt of the full panel - we'll run the entire thing in our "Extra" bonus episode which will follow this one by...
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Omnipod Update from Insulet CEO Shacey Petrovic
Diabetes Connections with Stacey Simms Type 1 Diabetes
Insulet CEO Shacey Petrovic joins us for the first time and talks with Stacey about what's new and what's coming next. Petrovic shares the latest information on Dash, Horizon, Loop and more. Join the Diabetes Connections Facebook Group! Shacey also has a personal connection to type 1 diabetes: her father lives with it. She and Stacey talk about the dynamic of caring for a parent with T1D and how technology is changing that. Vote for us in the Myabetic Diabetes Awards! DiabetesMine Dash Review Omnipod Horizon studies In our Community Connection a little bit of a change from the AADE Conference,...
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T1D Milestones & Responsibility: Ask The D-Moms
Diabetes Connections with Stacey Simms Type 1 Diabetes
Ask The D-Moms is back. This time around we’re answering your questions about the “right” ages for diabetes development, wearing extra gear for DIY systems and a discussing about extra praise for diabetes routine stuff. Join the Diabetes Connections Facebook Group! Join Moira McCarthy and Stacey as they answer listener questions and share their own experience raising children with type 1 diabetes. Sign up for our newsletter here In our Community Connection segment, find out about the I Hear You campaign. In Tell Me Something Good, Stacey share listener milestones and gives and update on...
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Wait Wait, Don't Poke Me! The Diabetes Game Show
Diabetes Connections with Stacey Simms Type 1 Diabetes
It's our annual game show edition! Taped on location at the Children with Diabetes, Friends for Life Conference, we have a lot of fun with in-studio contestants and prominent panelists. Join the Diabetes Connections Facebook Group! Our panelists this year are: Dr. Stephen Ponder, founder of Sugar Surfing & a renown pediatric endocrinologist who's lived with type 1 for more than 50 years. Howard Look, founder of Tidepool and the father of a college-aged child with diabetes and Cherise Shockley, founder of DSMA (Diabetes Social Media Advocacy), Blue Fridays, WOCDiabetes and who lives with...
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Researching T1D Prevention - Full Interview with TrialNet's Dr. Michael Haller (Bonus Episode)
Diabetes Connections with Stacey Simms Type 1 Diabetes
For the first time, researchers have managed to delay the onset of type 1 diabetes. In a breakthrough study, TrialNet was able to delay the onset by two years. Join the Diabetes Connections Facebook Group! Stacey talks to Dr. Michael Haller in-depth about this and other studies. An excerpt of this interview ran in our previous episode. In this episode you'll learn more about how TrialNet works, other promising studies and why it's so difficult to prevent an auto-immune disease. Plus, an update on the funding for TrialNet and why they've changed how they re-screen families and individuals. Sign...
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Researching T1D Prevention: Dr. Michael Haller and TrialNet
Diabetes Connections with Stacey Simms Type 1 Diabetes
For the first time, researchers have managed to delay the onset of type 1 diabetes. In a breakthrough study, TrialNet was able to delay the onset by two years. Stacey talks to Dr. Michael Haller about that and other studies, about what TrialNet does and what we can do to help further this research. Join the Diabetes Connections Facebook Group! In our Community Connection, this week Project 50 in 50 hits a big roadblock – this was actually a big scare. We’ll tell you about it and what’s next for these two outdoor adventurers. Sign up for our newsletter here And in Tell Me Something Good,...
info_outlineThe new Dwayne Johnson / NBC show the Titan Games premieres this week and body builder Chris Ruden – a previous guest who lives with type 1 – is one of the contestants. You may have seen him in the commercials, he wears a prosthetic arm.
Chris talks about how the mental burden of T1D and the challenges of being born with a shorter left arm and only two fingers led him to the incredible path he’s on now. He’s got advice for all of us.
Listen our to 2017 interview with Chris here
Since our interview, Chris traveled to Uganda to help children with type 1 diabetes there. Learn more here.
Plus.. what is the T1D Fund? Have you heard about this from JDRF? Stacey talks to Karen Jordan from the Bay Area, CA JDRF Chapter about this newer way of raising money for research.
And something new this year: good news straight from you! Want to tell us something good? Email stacey@diabetes-connections.com and share your story.
This podcast is not intended as medical advice. If you have those kinds of questions, please contact your health care provider.
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1:30 Stacey Welcome / Explains social media, where to find the show and new sponsors who are keeping the show free
4:45 Interview with Chris Ruden
38:15 Stacey talks to Karen Jordan from JDRF about the T1D Fund
49:30 Tell Me Something Good! Great story from listener Kathleen
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