All Episodes
Your Best T1D Year — 218 episodes
The Study That Proves Pre-Bolusing Works | 15 Minutes, 50 Points | T1D
Why Food Beats Insulin to the Finish Line | Pre-Bolus Science, T1D
Pre-Bolus with @bolusandbiceps | Amanda Mueller
The Simple Fix for Post-Meal Spikes in Type 1 Diabetes
Every Reason You Don't Pre-Bolus (and why they're all valid)
Fear of Going Low: The Real Reason You Don't Pre-Bolus
The After-Dinner Blood Sugar Spike, Explained | T1D Pre-Bolus Challenge
Why You Don't Pre-Bolus (you know you should)
While You Were Sleeping Challenge Finale
The One Sleep Habit That Improves T1D Time in Range
What "Good Enough" Sleep Actually Looks Like When You Have Type 1 Diabetes
How to Use Your Overnight CGM Data to Improve Sleep and Blood Sugar
T1D Sleep Hygiene: The One Pre-Sleep Habit That Actually Makes a Difference
Late-Night Exercise and Blood Sugar: What Your Evening Workout Does to Your T1D Overnight
T1D Sleep Stages Explained: Why You're Exhausted After 7 Hours of Sleep
Fear of Hypoglycemia: The T1D Sleep Problem That Doesn't Show Up in Your CGM Data
Cortisol and Blood Sugar: The T1D Overnight Connection You're Probably Missing
How Bedroom Temperature and Blue Light Affect Blood Sugar in Type 1 Diabetes
Your Pre-Sleep Blood Sugar Check Is a Sleep Decision, Not Just a Safety Check
T1D Sleep Challenge: Four Weeks In, What We've Learned
How to Adjust CGM Alarm Thresholds for Better Sleep with Type 1 Diabetes
CGM Alarm Fatigue in Type 1 Diabetes: How Your Alerts Are Wrecking Your Sleep
What Type 1 Diabetes Actually Does to Your Sleep Architecture | Episode 200
Bedtime Consistency and T1D: Why Timing Beats Total Hours for Blood Sugar Control
The T1D Sleep-Blood Sugar Feedback Loop
The Dawn Phenomenon in Type 1 Diabetes: Why Your Blood Sugar Rises While You Sleep
Why Sleep Deprivation Hits Harder When You Have T1D
One Night of Poor Sleep Reduces Insulin Sensitivity
What's Really Causing Your Unexplained Blood Sugars
Sleep and Blood Sugar in Type 1 Diabetes
Why People with T1D Can't Sleep Through the Night
Why Your Mystery Blood Sugars Might Be a Sleep Problem
So Many Of Your Community Wins // Part 2
So Many Of Your Wins // Part 1
The Mental Side of T1D that Nobody's Treating // Allison Nimlos, The Diabetic Therapist
Banting Would Want You To Drink More Water
Your New Baseline For Water
What Are We Learning About Refilling?
The Vicious Cycle of Low Potassium
Why Your 180 Looks Like a 220
Before Insulin, Dehydration Was a Death Sentence
Sick Day Hydration Protocol
The Yeti, The Stanley, The Owala
Why 3 Glasses of Water Really Matters
What Each Glass Of Water Actually Does
Sick Days & Dehydration
Protect Your Kidneys
Electrolytes & Why T1Ds Need More
The Cortisol Dehydration Spiral
Why Your Insulin Feels Slow
Your Brain Is 75% Water - Here's What Happens When You're Low
The 9 Year Study That Changed Everything
The Hormone Nobody Talks About - Meet Vassopressin
Does Coffee Count? The Hydration Debate
Why Standard Hydration Advice Fails Us Living With T1D
What Dehydration Does To Your Blood Sugar
The Hydration Challenge // Why Your Blood Feels Like Aunt Jemima
Life After the Low Blood Sugar Challenge
Untangling "I'm lows" from "I deserve this"
Old You vs New You and Low Blood Sugar
The Mental Weight of Low Blood Sugars
Decision Fatigue And Low Blood Sugar
From T1D To Cured // Katie Beth’s Life After Islet Transplant
What To Do When You Still Over-treat Lows
Low Blood Sugars & Emotional Eating
Super Bowl Low Blood Sugar Game Plan
When Other People Offer to “Help Us” During A Low
How To Stop Low Blood Sugars From Running Your Day
What Panic Treating a Low Actually Costs You
The Real Reason Lows Turn Into Overeating (Don't Be Mad At Me)
What Happens When You Wait Too Long to Treat a Low
Why Your Brain Fights Glucose Tablets (And How to Retrain It)
Why Your Brain Panics During a Low (And What to Do About It)
The Low Blood Sugar Rebound Nobody Warns You About
Why Glucose Tablets Work Better Than Food for Low Blood Sugar
PBMs, Insulin, And The Broken System Keeping Prices High with George Huntley
The Rule of 15 (And Why We Ignore It)
Passing Out from a Low Taught Me This About Treating Blood Sugar Safely
Glucose Tablets vs Food for Lows // What Actually Works Faster
Why Your Low Blood Sugars Keep Rebounding High (and how to stop it)
12 Months of Wins - What This Year Taught Us
Get Ahead: Pre-Build Your Best T1D Year
Post Holiday Reset: Small Moves Win
The Best Gift: Finish Strong, Start Real
Stacey Simms: What 2025 Taught Us About Type 1 Diabetes, Community & Beyond
The Moment You Decide Changes Everything
The Science Behind Every Diabetes Habit
2026 T1D Habits Roadmap Revealed
Celebrating Your Unseen Wins
How Far T1D Care Has Come
How Naomi Garlick Created Glow Gummies to Fix T1D Lows
Treating Lows: Tablets & Gummies That Work
Your Wins That Changed Everything
Looking Back: The Year That Changed Us
Day After Reset + December Sneak Peek
Thanksgiving Without the Glycemic Hangover
Dr. David Ahn on Diabetes Burnout, Getting Off Track, and the Psychology of T1D
Diabetes Signal Overload? Here’s How to Reset Your Alerts & Mind
How to Build a Diabetes Backup Plan That Actually Works
How to Handle Travel, Buffets, and Holidays Without Blood-Sugar Chaos
Carb Counting Reset: How to Stop Guessing and Get Numbers You Trust
How to Tune Out Diabetes Noise and Focus on What Matters
How to Reset After You Drift: Nate Checketts on Mindset, Movement, and Micro-Habits for T1D
How Long It Really Takes to Get Back on Track with Type 1 Diabetes
When Type 1 Diabetes Feels Like Hydroplaning: How to Regain Control
Why You’re “Off Track” (and How to Get Your Edge Back with T1D)
Building a Diabetes Distress Support Team
Diabetes Distress: Taming Alarms & Alerts
Dr Bill Polonsky on the Diabetes Distress Scale
Peer Support That Helps Diabetes Distress
Diabetes Mindfulness Without the Fluff
Diabetes Distress Paths: Skills & Feelings
Tracking Diabetes Distress Triggers
What the 28 Diabetes Distress Questions Show Us
Marriage & Diabetes Distress // Special Guest Gina Greathouse
Diabetes Distress: How to Use Your Score Without Shame
The 7 Questions That Measure Diabetes Distress
How Common is Diabetes Distress, Really?
Diabetes Distress Isn’t Depression
Where Did Diabetes Distress Come From?
Mindfulness with Diabetes Sangha
No Time To Reset, 60-Second Stress Tools for Type 1 Diabetes
Evening Resets for Type 1 Diabetes, Better Overnight Glucose
Exercise and Type 1 Diabetes, Why Workouts Spike You and What Helps
CGM Alarms and T1D, Reset Fast and Take Control
T1D at Work, Quick Resets for Midday Spikes
Type 1 Diabetes, Food Joy, and Five Minute Resets with Mila Clarke, @thehangrywoman
Pre-Meal Micro Resets for Type 1 Diabetes, Lower Post-Meal Spikes
T1D Mindset Reset, Choose Curiosity Not Judgment
T1D Reset Toolkit, Small Tools That Change Your Day
5 Minutes That Help T1D, The Science and the How
Type 1 Diabetes, Why Stress Spikes Blood Sugar and What To Do
T1D Stress and Blood Sugar, Five Minute Reset
When to Call It: Replace Tech Before Frustration Wins
Your Pump Is Better at Math Than You (And That’s a Good Thing)
Special Guest // Justin Eastzer @diabe_tech
Track Smarter, Not Harder: Food & Management Apps for T1D
CGM Accuracy, Lag & When to Trust Your Gut
Low-Tech Wins: Tracking Without a CGM or Pump
Sunscreen, Sweat & Sensor Survival
CGM Site Rotation & Skin Strategy
Special Guest // Endocrinologist Dr. Monica Gomberg
Why Pump Site Rotation Actually Matters
Alarm Fatigue, App Overload & Notification Chaos
Bluetooth 101: Keep Your Tech on the Same Side
Tech Troubles & Triumphs
Can You Exercise Without a CGM?
Special Guest // Rob Howe - Diabetics Doing Things
How to Plan for the Exercise (or race)
Why Lifting Isn’t Just for Dudes in Tank Tops
Let’s Talk About Basal Insulin
Stacking Habits (Without Burning Out)
What If I Go High and Low?
Special Guest // Ginger Vieira - Movement, Mindset, Blood Sugars
Zone 2 Isn’t Just for Triathletes
The Blood Sugar Dip Before the Spike
You Don’t Have to ‘Earn’ Your Movement
Explaining Your Low Snack to Strangers
What If I Crash at the Gym?
You Made It to the End—and the Beginning
Pre-Bolusing with Inhaled Insulin: Timing, Benefits, and Considerations
What the Numbers Actually Say
Wins That Don’t Show Up on a Graph
Your Pre-Bolus Toolkit
Pre-Bolusing with AID Tech (Yep, Still Worth It)
What to Do When It Goes Sideways
The Pre-Bolus Window
Type 1 Diabetes - True Stories
True Stories, Real Stats—And a Book Launch!
But What If I Go Low?
Why Food Always Wins the Race (Unless You Pre-Bolus)
Let’s Talk Pre-Bolusing (Without the Shame)
You Did That. Sleep, Struggle, and a Whole Lot of Growth.
Diabetes Tech: Friend or Sleep-Sabotaging Frenemy?
Dear Caregivers: You Deserve Sleep Too
The Real Reasons We Don’t Go to Bed On Time
Sleep, Stress & T1D Burnout (It’s Not Just You)
Why You’re Hungrier After a Bad Night’s Sleep
Sleep, Brain Fog, and the Carb Count You Forgot
Why Sleep Affects BG Variability, Not Just Averages
What Sleep Does to Our Morning Basal Needs
Craving Carbs After a Bad Night of Sleep? Here’s Why.
Sleep & High Blood Sugar: What’s the Connection?
The 10PM Alarm (And Why I’m Actually Using It)
The Most Ignored T1D Hack (That Works While You Sleep)
What Changed After 4 Weeks of Walking?
How Walking Helped Me Avoid a Blood Sugar Spiral
Feeling Stressed? Walk It Off (Literally)
Is 10,000 Steps a Magic Number? (Spoiler: Nope)
Can Walking Prevent Highs Before They Start?
Can Walking Lower Stress with T1D?
Why You Might Actually Need Fewer Steps Than You Think
How to Walk Without Worrying About Going Low
How to Use Walking to Lower a Stubborn High
Walking with Insulin On Board: What You Need to Know
The Best Time to Walk for Blood Sugars
Why Walking Helps T1D (And It’s Not Just Steps)
Welcome to April’s Challenge: One Step Closer
Wrapping Up March & The Next Big Win for April
The Final Clue – What This Challenge Was REALLY About
The Hidden Clues – What We Didn’t Expect to Learn from Tracking
How Small Tracking Habits Can Lead to Big Wins
Keeping the Momentum
What Worked, What Didn’t
How to Keep Using What We Learned (Without Tracking Forever)
Eating Out vs. Eating at Home – How to Track Carbs in Both Situations
What We’ve Learned So Far – Surprising Patterns from Tracking
What’s REALLY Affecting Our Blood Sugar? (It’s More Than Just Food)
How to Track Carbs Without Overthinking It
The “I Don’t Want to Track” Episode
Why Keeping a T1D Log Will Change Everything (Even If You Hate Tracking)
How to Keep Glucose Tabs on You 24/7 (Without Them Turning Into Dust)
What Happens When We Ride Out a Low Too Long ⏳
Why Our Brain Fights Glucose Tabs (And How to Retrain It) 🧠
How Over-Treating Lows Sneaks in 20,000 Extra Calories a Year 🍩
The Science – Why Glucose Tabs Work Faster Than Other Snacks 🔬
Why Glucose Tablets Are Actually a Game-Changer 🧃
Welcome to Your Best T1D Year Ever