Episodes
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#2001 Brooke Died Three Times
Brooke died three times in one day when her daughter was four months old. Four years later, a week after a clean checkup, Reese was in DKA. twiist - A different type of insulin pump has arrived ABLEnow save for today's needs or invest for tomorrow Eversense CGM MiniMed Tandem Mobi ** CONTOUR...
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#2000 Tiny Girl Big Show
Leah eats fire, juggles knives and shoots a bow with her toes. Two and a half years after diagnosis, type 1 is part of the act. twiist - A different type of insulin pump has arrived ABLEnow save for today's needs or invest for tomorrow Eversense CGM MiniMed Tandem Mobi ** CONTOUR NextGen smart...
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#1999 I Could Have Seen This Coming
Her sister was diagnosed at twelve months. Three gestational pregnancies, a type 2 label and a C-peptide of 1.1 later, Jessica had to demand the antibody test herself. CONTOUR NextGen smart meter and CONTOUR DIABETES app Dexcom G7 Go tubeless with Omnipod 5 or Omnipod DASH * twiist - A different...
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#1998 This Guy's Story Has a Twist - Part 2
Jacques kept going low at work. He tested himself through TrialNet at 45, the age cutoff, and came back positive for three antibodies. Then he got Tzield. Eversense CGM MiniMed Tandem Mobi ** twiist - A different type of insulin pump has arrived ABLEnow save for today's needs or invest for…
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#1997 This Guy's Story Has a Twist - Part 1
Jacques's daughter drank ninety ounces of water in one day. Days later her blood sugar was over a thousand, and that evening she did cartwheels in her hospital room. twiist - A different type of insulin pump has arrived ABLEnow save for today's needs or invest for tomorrow Eversense CGM MiniMed...
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#1996 Juicebox Rewind - Week 614
The last week and a little more. twiist - A different type of insulin pump has arrived ABLEnow save for today's needs or invest for tomorrow Eversense CGM MiniMed Tandem Mobi ** CONTOUR NextGen smart meter and CONTOUR DIABETES app Dexcom G7 Go tubeless with Omnipod 5 or Omnipod DASH * Get your...
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#1995 Dental Pamphlet
Samira is a dentist whose husband and daughter both have type 1. She left the hospital with brochures on eyes, kidneys, heart and feet — and nothing about teeth. twiist - A different type of insulin pump has arrived ABLEnow save for today's needs or invest for tomorrow Eversense CGM MiniMed…
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#1994 Multiple Daily Inhales
Liam was diagnosed ten days before his sixth birthday. Now he's fourteen, six foot three, and inhales his insulin. He and his mom Rachael explain how. twiist - A different type of insulin pump has arrived ABLEnow save for today's needs or invest for tomorrow Eversense CGM MiniMed Tandem Mobi **...
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#1993 You're a Bad Diabetic
A spider bite in Texas started it. Twenty-four years, an allergy to most insulins and nine years of bodybuilding later, her endo told her she was a bad diabetic. twiist - A different type of insulin pump has arrived ABLEnow save for today's needs or invest for tomorrow Eversense CGM MiniMed…
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#1992 If Jarvis Was Real
Scott and Jenny use AI live on air to teach you how to use it. A pizza talked through out loud, the Warsaw math run in real time, and eight prompts to steal. twiist - A different type of insulin pump has arrived ABLEnow save for today's needs or invest for tomorrow Eversense CGM MiniMed Tandem…
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#1991 Something in the Water
Brie Amazoned a glucose meter, forgot about it, then poked her daughter's finger for fun: 595. Three other girls on the swim team have diabetes too. twiist - A different type of insulin pump has arrived ABLEnow save for today's needs or invest for tomorrow Eversense CGM MiniMed Tandem Mobi **...
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#1990 Juicebox Rewind - Week 613
This week on the Juicebox Podcast in a few minutes - pluse a tune or two. twiist - A different type of insulin pump has arrived ABLEnow save for today's needs or invest for tomorrow Eversense CGM MiniMed Tandem Mobi ** CONTOUR NextGen smart meter and CONTOUR DIABETES app Dexcom G7 Go tubeless…
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#1989 Total Eclipse of the Heart
Amalie's son was diagnosed the day of the eclipse. She asked the doctor if they could watch it first. Then he told her he'd be dead in a month. twiist - A different type of insulin pump has arrived ABLEnow save for today's needs or invest for tomorrow Eversense CGM MiniMed Tandem Mobi ** CONTOUR...
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#1988 Six Years of Questions
April's two kids were diagnosed four months apart. She saved up six years of questions and asked every one of them, starting with: just tell me the bolus. twiist - A different type of insulin pump has arrived ABLEnow save for today's needs or invest for tomorrow Eversense CGM MiniMed Tandem Mobi…
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#1987 Bolus 4 - Alcohol
Beer, wine, liquor, cocktails and the canned stuff, with carb counts for each. Then the part that actually matters: why alcohol drops you hours later. twiist - A different type of insulin pump has arrived ABLEnow save for today's needs or invest for tomorrow Eversense CGM MiniMed Tandem Mobi **...
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#1986 Trio Version 1.0: Open-Source AID
Dan leads development on Trio. It now runs Omnipod 5, and he explains how an unpaid team scattered across the world keeps beating the industry to it. twiist - A different type of insulin pump has arrived ABLEnow save for today's needs or invest for tomorrow Eversense CGM MiniMed Tandem Mobi **...
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#1985 Woosah
Melissa's son drank a case of water a day. The pediatrician wouldn't poke his finger. Eighteen months later: a 5.4, and a mom learning to let go. twiist - A different type of insulin pump has arrived ABLEnow save for today's needs or invest for tomorrow Eversense CGM MiniMed Tandem Mobi **…
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#1984 Juicebox Rewind - Week 612
This week on Juicebox in 5 minutes. twiist - A different type of insulin pump has arrived ABLEnow save for today's needs or invest for tomorrow Eversense CGM MiniMed Tandem Mobi ** CONTOUR NextGen smart meter and CONTOUR DIABETES app Dexcom G7 Go tubeless with Omnipod 5 or Omnipod DASH * Get your...
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#1983 It Works for Me
Michela has eaten low carb for over a decade. She explains why it works for her, what it costs her, and why the way people argue about it drives everyone away. twiist - A different type of insulin pump has arrived ABLEnow save for today's needs or invest for tomorrow Eversense CGM MiniMed Tandem...
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#1982 Postcode Lottery
Monika is in the UK. Her daughter was diagnosed at six, and whether she left the hospital with a CGM came down to which hospital she happened to be in. She bought one herself. twiist - A different type of insulin pump has arrived ABLEnow save for today's needs or invest for tomorrow Eversense CGM...
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#1981 Third Place at the Science Fair
Veronica's son was diagnosed at five. He is extremely sensitive to insulin, hard to keep in range, and turned his own adhesive problem into a science fair project. twiist - A different type of insulin pump has arrived ABLEnow save for today's needs or invest for tomorrow Eversense CGM MiniMed...
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#1980 Three Years Low Carb
Diliara's daughter was diagnosed at eight. The family went low carb for three years and it worked — until it didn't. She and Scott talk honestly about what that community gets right and where it goes wrong. twiist - A different type of insulin pump has arrived ABLEnow save for today's needs or...
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#1979 Five More Minutes
Julie's daughter already had an immune deficiency, a liver condition and a heart issue when type 1 arrived on a family trip overseas. A nurse later told them how close they had come. twiist - A different type of insulin pump has arrived ABLEnow save for today's needs or invest for tomorrow...
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#1978 Juicebox Rewind - Week 611
This week on Juicebox in 5 minutes. twiist - A different type of insulin pump has arrived ABLEnow save for today's needs or invest for tomorrow Eversense CGM MiniMed Tandem Mobi ** CONTOUR NextGen smart meter and CONTOUR DIABETES app Dexcom G7 Go tubeless with Omnipod 5 or Omnipod DASH * Get your...
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#1977 Animating Type One for Neurodivergent Kids
Radhika is a pediatric endocrinologist. Molly is the mother of a neurodivergent daughter with type 1. Together they are building animated diabetes education for people the usual materials were never made for. twiist - A different type of insulin pump has arrived ABLEnow save for today's needs or...
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#1976 Founder Story: Brave One
Brandi's daughter was diagnosed at three. She built a nonprofit that matches kids with type 1 to older mentors who have it too — and she is still figuring out how to run it. twiist - A different type of insulin pump has arrived ABLEnow save for today's needs or invest for tomorrow Eversense CGM...
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#1975 CGM Burden
Erika Forsyth is back. She and Scott take apart the paradox of CGM data — why more information can make you feel worse, and how checking every five minutes starts to run you. twiist - A different type of insulin pump has arrived ABLEnow save for today's needs or invest for tomorrow Eversense CGM...
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#1974 Lower the Threshold
An engineering student who was diagnosed in the middle of a semester — found in a dorm shower, five days in the hospital, and back at school almost immediately. She also has a needle phobia. twiist - A different type of insulin pump has arrived ABLEnow save for today's needs or invest for…
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#1973 Founder Story: Jon Fawcett and Sugarpixel
Jon Fawcett built Sugarpixel so his daughter would wake up to her alarms. He and Scott talk about making a physical product one at a time, and why neither of them wants to grow much bigger. twiist - A different type of insulin pump has arrived ABLEnow save for today's needs or invest for tomorrow...
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#1972 Juicebox Rewind — Week 610
This week on Juicebox in 5 minutes. twiist - A different type of insulin pump has arrived ABLEnow save for today's needs or invest for tomorrow Eversense CGM MiniMed Tandem Mobi ** CONTOUR NextGen smart meter and CONTOUR DIABETES app Dexcom G7 Go tubeless with Omnipod 5 or Omnipod DASH * Get your...
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#1971 Next Person Who Speaks Loses
Jackie Waldie is a special education advocate, a former teacher of the year, and a mom of a kid with type 1. She and Scott take apart the 504 meeting — what to ask for, and how to actually get it. twiist - A different type of insulin pump has arrived ABLEnow save for today's needs or invest for...
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#1970 Once You Step on the Plane
Four weeks after his diagnosis in 1992, thirteen-year-old Christian flew to England alone for language school. Today he lives in Switzerland and travels constantly — and he has a system. twiist - A different type of insulin pump has arrived ABLEnow save for today's needs or invest for tomorrow...
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#1969 Elena and Sarah
Elena was diagnosed her senior year of high school and is now managing it on her own in college. She and her mom, Sarah, talk about the handoff — and the nights Elena sleeps through a low. twiist - A different type of insulin pump has arrived ABLEnow save for today's needs or invest for tomorrow...
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#1968 Hide and Go Seek
Kristen is a pediatric nurse who gives Tzield for a living. Her own son was caught at stage two, got the infusion, and she talks about what it bought them — and what it costs. twiist - A different type of insulin pump has arrived ABLEnow save for today's needs or invest for tomorrow Eversense CGM...
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#1967 Healthy Little Girls Don't Sleep All Day
Gina was diagnosed at seven with a blood sugar of 2,000. Fifty years later she chairs a university social work department and brings Scott an idea: the story you tell about your diabetes can change. twiist - A different type of insulin pump has arrived ABLEnow save for today's needs or invest for...
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#1966 Juicebox Rewind — Week 609
This week on Juicebox in 5 minutes. With a guest co-host. twiist - A different type of insulin pump has arrived ABLEnow save for today's needs or invest for tomorrow Eversense CGM MiniMed Tandem Mobi ** CONTOUR NextGen smart meter and CONTOUR DIABETES app Dexcom G7 Go tubeless with Omnipod 5 or...
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#1965 Bolus 4 - TBT1
Scott and Jenny Smith pick the four foods they will bolus for live on stage at Touched By Type 1 — and then practice on air. Crab cakes, key lime pie, a Cubano, and cheese curds. twiist - A different type of insulin pump has arrived ABLEnow save for today's needs or invest for tomorrow Eversense...
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#1964 Undiabetic
Katie Beth Hand had an islet cell transplant in January. She has been off insulin since March 3 with an A1c of 4.9. Six months later, she returns to describe what it actually feels like. twiist - A different type of insulin pump has arrived ABLEnow save for today's needs or invest for tomorrow...
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#1963 Irritable Uterus
Lea is a paramedic who had gestational diabetes, was told it would resolve after delivery, and watched her blood sugar stay high anyway. A year into a type 1 diagnosis, she talks about what everyone missed. twiist - A different type of insulin pump has arrived ABLEnow save for today's needs or...
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#1962 They Thought I Was on Heroin
Cynthia was told she had type 2 and put on Ozempic. Three years later she was found barely conscious in a school parking lot and spent three days in the ICU with a blood sugar of 120. twiist - A different type of insulin pump has arrived ABLEnow save for today's needs or invest for tomorrow...
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#1961 Terrible People Live Forever
An emergency room nurse was married to a man with type 1 for seven years and still didn't understand it. Then her daughter was diagnosed. She speaks anonymously about learning it late and managing it across two houses. twiist - A different type of insulin pump has arrived ABLEnow save for today's...
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#1960 Juicebox Rewind — Week 608
This week on Juicebox in 5 minutes. twiist - A different type of insulin pump has arrived ABLEnow save for today's needs or invest for tomorrow Eversense CGM MiniMed Tandem Mobi ** CONTOUR NextGen smart meter and CONTOUR DIABETES app Dexcom G7 Go tubeless with Omnipod 5 or Omnipod DASH * Get your...
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#1959 Dr. Joanna Mitri from twiist
Dr. Joanna Mitri is an endocrinologist and Sequel's chief medical officer. Scott brings her a list of questions from the audience about twiist — coverage, cost, sensors, tubeless, and what's next. twiist - A different type of insulin pump has arrived ABLEnow save for today's needs or invest for...
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#1958 Body Fullness
Heather has had type 1 for twenty-nine years and was in the first human trials for Dexcom. Now she teaches mindfulness to people with diabetes — and has some language for what Scott has been doing all along. twiist - A different type of insulin pump has arrived ABLEnow save for today's needs or...
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#1957 You Just Need to Move On
Kelly's son was diagnosed with type 1 at five. For a year and a half nobody would retest him for celiac — until a stranger's comment on a Facebook post and a nurse practitioner's cell phone number changed everything. twiist - A different type of insulin pump has arrived ABLEnow save for today's...
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#1956 Founder Story: Insulin in the Window
John Wilcox was diagnosed on his ninth birthday, noticed insulin pooling in his pod window, and turned it into a company. He talks about building Diatech Diabetes, selling it, and running marathons with type 1. twiist - A different type of insulin pump has arrived ABLEnow save for today's needs…
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#1955 Lotus Flower
Scott has spent a week stewing on something and asks Jenny Smith to let him record it: what the attention economy is doing to people trying to learn how to manage their diabetes. twiist - A different type of insulin pump has arrived ABLEnow save for today's needs or invest for tomorrow Eversense...
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#1954 Juicebox Rewind — Week 607
This week on Juicebox in 5 minutes. twiist - A different type of insulin pump has arrived ABLEnow save for today's needs or invest for tomorrow Eversense CGM MiniMed Tandem Mobi ** CONTOUR NextGen smart meter and CONTOUR DIABETES app Dexcom G7 Go tubeless with Omnipod 5 or Omnipod DASH * Get your...
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#1953 Autism and Type One
twiist - A different type of insulin pump has arrived ABLEnow save for today's needs or invest for tomorrow Eversense CGM MiniMed Tandem Mobi ** CONTOUR NextGen smart meter and CONTOUR DIABETES app Dexcom G7 Go tubeless with Omnipod 5 or Omnipod DASH * Get your supplies from US MED or call...
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#1952 Addy Tayler Has Nothing to Teach You - Part 2
Part two with Addy Tayler: what the algorithm actually rewards, why reach keeps shrinking, and whether any of it adds up to helping somebody — all fit around a full-time job and a toddler. twiist - A different type of insulin pump has arrived ABLEnow save for today's needs or invest for tomorrow...