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Your Best T1D Year — 192 episodes

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1

Why Sleep Deprivation Hits Harder When You Have T1D

2

One Night of Poor Sleep Reduces Insulin Sensitivity

3

What's Really Causing Your Unexplained Blood Sugars

4

Sleep and Blood Sugar in Type 1 Diabetes

5

Why People with T1D Can't Sleep Through the Night

6

Why Your Mystery Blood Sugars Might Be a Sleep Problem

7

So Many Of Your Community Wins // Part 2

8

So Many Of Your Wins // Part 1

9

The Mental Side of T1D that Nobody's Treating // Allison Nimlos, The Diabetic Therapist

10

Banting Would Want You To Drink More Water

11

Your New Baseline For Water

12

What Are We Learning About Refilling?

13

The Vicious Cycle of Low Potassium

14

Why Your 180 Looks Like a 220

15

Before Insulin, Dehydration Was a Death Sentence

16

Sick Day Hydration Protocol

17

The Yeti, The Stanley, The Owala

18

Why 3 Glasses of Water Really Matters

19

What Each Glass Of Water Actually Does

20

Sick Days & Dehydration

21

Protect Your Kidneys

22

Electrolytes & Why T1Ds Need More

23

The Cortisol Dehydration Spiral

24

Why Your Insulin Feels Slow

25

Your Brain Is 75% Water - Here's What Happens When You're Low

26

The 9 Year Study That Changed Everything

27

The Hormone Nobody Talks About - Meet Vassopressin

28

Does Coffee Count? The Hydration Debate

29

Why Standard Hydration Advice Fails Us Living With T1D

30

What Dehydration Does To Your Blood Sugar

31

The Hydration Challenge // Why Your Blood Feels Like Aunt Jemima

32

Life After the Low Blood Sugar Challenge

33

Untangling "I'm lows" from "I deserve this"

34

Old You vs New You and Low Blood Sugar

35

The Mental Weight of Low Blood Sugars

36

Decision Fatigue And Low Blood Sugar

37

From T1D To Cured // Katie Beth’s Life After Islet Transplant

38

What To Do When You Still Over-treat Lows

39

Low Blood Sugars & Emotional Eating

40

Super Bowl Low Blood Sugar Game Plan

41

When Other People Offer to “Help Us” During A Low

42

How To Stop Low Blood Sugars From Running Your Day

43

What Panic Treating a Low Actually Costs You

44

The Real Reason Lows Turn Into Overeating (Don't Be Mad At Me)

45

What Happens When You Wait Too Long to Treat a Low

46

Why Your Brain Fights Glucose Tablets (And How to Retrain It)

47

Why Your Brain Panics During a Low (And What to Do About It)

48

The Low Blood Sugar Rebound Nobody Warns You About

49

Why Glucose Tablets Work Better Than Food for Low Blood Sugar

50

PBMs, Insulin, And The Broken System Keeping Prices High with George Huntley

51

The Rule of 15 (And Why We Ignore It)

52

Passing Out from a Low Taught Me This About Treating Blood Sugar Safely

53

Glucose Tablets vs Food for Lows // What Actually Works Faster

54

Why Your Low Blood Sugars Keep Rebounding High (and how to stop it)

55

12 Months of Wins - What This Year Taught Us

56

Get Ahead: Pre-Build Your Best T1D Year

57

Post Holiday Reset: Small Moves Win

58

The Best Gift: Finish Strong, Start Real

59

Stacey Simms: What 2025 Taught Us About Type 1 Diabetes, Community & Beyond

60

The Moment You Decide Changes Everything

61

The Science Behind Every Diabetes Habit

62

2026 T1D Habits Roadmap Revealed

63

Celebrating Your Unseen Wins

64

How Far T1D Care Has Come

65

How Naomi Garlick Created Glow Gummies to Fix T1D Lows

66

Treating Lows: Tablets & Gummies That Work

67

Your Wins That Changed Everything

68

Looking Back: The Year That Changed Us

69

Day After Reset + December Sneak Peek

70

Thanksgiving Without the Glycemic Hangover

71

Dr. David Ahn on Diabetes Burnout, Getting Off Track, and the Psychology of T1D

72

Diabetes Signal Overload? Here’s How to Reset Your Alerts & Mind

73

How to Build a Diabetes Backup Plan That Actually Works

74

How to Handle Travel, Buffets, and Holidays Without Blood-Sugar Chaos

75

Carb Counting Reset: How to Stop Guessing and Get Numbers You Trust

76

How to Tune Out Diabetes Noise and Focus on What Matters

77

How to Reset After You Drift: Nate Checketts on Mindset, Movement, and Micro-Habits for T1D

78

How Long It Really Takes to Get Back on Track with Type 1 Diabetes

79

When Type 1 Diabetes Feels Like Hydroplaning: How to Regain Control

80

Why You’re “Off Track” (and How to Get Your Edge Back with T1D)

81

Building a Diabetes Distress Support Team

82

Diabetes Distress: Taming Alarms & Alerts

83

Dr Bill Polonsky on the Diabetes Distress Scale

84

Peer Support That Helps Diabetes Distress

85

Diabetes Mindfulness Without the Fluff

86

Diabetes Distress Paths: Skills & Feelings

87

Tracking Diabetes Distress Triggers

88

What the 28 Diabetes Distress Questions Show Us

89

Marriage & Diabetes Distress // Special Guest Gina Greathouse

90

Diabetes Distress: How to Use Your Score Without Shame

91

The 7 Questions That Measure Diabetes Distress

92

How Common is Diabetes Distress, Really?

93

Diabetes Distress Isn’t Depression

94

Where Did Diabetes Distress Come From?

95

Mindfulness with Diabetes Sangha

96

No Time To Reset, 60-Second Stress Tools for Type 1 Diabetes

97

Evening Resets for Type 1 Diabetes, Better Overnight Glucose

98

Exercise and Type 1 Diabetes, Why Workouts Spike You and What Helps

99

CGM Alarms and T1D, Reset Fast and Take Control

100

T1D at Work, Quick Resets for Midday Spikes

101

Type 1 Diabetes, Food Joy, and Five Minute Resets with Mila Clarke, @thehangrywoman

102

Pre-Meal Micro Resets for Type 1 Diabetes, Lower Post-Meal Spikes

103

T1D Mindset Reset, Choose Curiosity Not Judgment

104

T1D Reset Toolkit, Small Tools That Change Your Day

105

5 Minutes That Help T1D, The Science and the How

106

Type 1 Diabetes, Why Stress Spikes Blood Sugar and What To Do

107

T1D Stress and Blood Sugar, Five Minute Reset

108

When to Call It: Replace Tech Before Frustration Wins

109

Your Pump Is Better at Math Than You (And That’s a Good Thing)

110

Special Guest // Justin Eastzer @diabe_tech

111

Track Smarter, Not Harder: Food & Management Apps for T1D

112

CGM Accuracy, Lag & When to Trust Your Gut

113

Low-Tech Wins: Tracking Without a CGM or Pump

114

Sunscreen, Sweat & Sensor Survival

115

CGM Site Rotation & Skin Strategy

116

Special Guest // Endocrinologist Dr. Monica Gomberg

117

Why Pump Site Rotation Actually Matters

118

Alarm Fatigue, App Overload & Notification Chaos

119

Bluetooth 101: Keep Your Tech on the Same Side

120

Tech Troubles & Triumphs

121

Can You Exercise Without a CGM?

122

Special Guest // Rob Howe - Diabetics Doing Things

123

How to Plan for the Exercise (or race)

124

Why Lifting Isn’t Just for Dudes in Tank Tops

125

Let’s Talk About Basal Insulin

126

Stacking Habits (Without Burning Out)

127

What If I Go High and Low?

128

Special Guest // Ginger Vieira - Movement, Mindset, Blood Sugars

129

Zone 2 Isn’t Just for Triathletes

130

The Blood Sugar Dip Before the Spike

131

You Don’t Have to ‘Earn’ Your Movement

132

Explaining Your Low Snack to Strangers

133

What If I Crash at the Gym?

134

You Made It to the End—and the Beginning

135

Pre-Bolusing with Inhaled Insulin: Timing, Benefits, and Considerations

136

What the Numbers Actually Say

137

Wins That Don’t Show Up on a Graph

138

Your Pre-Bolus Toolkit

139

Pre-Bolusing with AID Tech (Yep, Still Worth It)

140

What to Do When It Goes Sideways

141

The Pre-Bolus Window

142

Type 1 Diabetes - True Stories

143

True Stories, Real Stats—And a Book Launch!

144

But What If I Go Low?

145

Why Food Always Wins the Race (Unless You Pre-Bolus)

146

Let’s Talk Pre-Bolusing (Without the Shame)

147

You Did That. Sleep, Struggle, and a Whole Lot of Growth.

148

Diabetes Tech: Friend or Sleep-Sabotaging Frenemy?

149

Dear Caregivers: You Deserve Sleep Too

150

The Real Reasons We Don’t Go to Bed On Time

151

Sleep, Stress & T1D Burnout (It’s Not Just You)

152

Why You’re Hungrier After a Bad Night’s Sleep

153

Sleep, Brain Fog, and the Carb Count You Forgot

154

Why Sleep Affects BG Variability, Not Just Averages

155

What Sleep Does to Our Morning Basal Needs

156

Craving Carbs After a Bad Night of Sleep? Here’s Why.

157

Sleep & High Blood Sugar: What’s the Connection?

158

The 10PM Alarm (And Why I’m Actually Using It)

159

The Most Ignored T1D Hack (That Works While You Sleep)

160

What Changed After 4 Weeks of Walking?

161

How Walking Helped Me Avoid a Blood Sugar Spiral

162

Feeling Stressed? Walk It Off (Literally)

163

Is 10,000 Steps a Magic Number? (Spoiler: Nope)

164

Can Walking Prevent Highs Before They Start?

165

Can Walking Lower Stress with T1D?

166

Why You Might Actually Need Fewer Steps Than You Think

167

How to Walk Without Worrying About Going Low

168

How to Use Walking to Lower a Stubborn High

169

Walking with Insulin On Board: What You Need to Know

170

The Best Time to Walk for Blood Sugars

171

Why Walking Helps T1D (And It’s Not Just Steps)

172

Welcome to April’s Challenge: One Step Closer

173

Wrapping Up March & The Next Big Win for April

174

The Final Clue – What This Challenge Was REALLY About

175

The Hidden Clues – What We Didn’t Expect to Learn from Tracking

176

How Small Tracking Habits Can Lead to Big Wins

177

Keeping the Momentum

178

What Worked, What Didn’t

179

How to Keep Using What We Learned (Without Tracking Forever)

180

Eating Out vs. Eating at Home – How to Track Carbs in Both Situations

181

What We’ve Learned So Far – Surprising Patterns from Tracking

182

What’s REALLY Affecting Our Blood Sugar? (It’s More Than Just Food)

183

How to Track Carbs Without Overthinking It

184

The “I Don’t Want to Track” Episode

185

Why Keeping a T1D Log Will Change Everything (Even If You Hate Tracking)

186

How to Keep Glucose Tabs on You 24/7 (Without Them Turning Into Dust)

187

What Happens When We Ride Out a Low Too Long ⏳

188

Why Our Brain Fights Glucose Tabs (And How to Retrain It) 🧠

189

How Over-Treating Lows Sneaks in 20,000 Extra Calories a Year 🍩

190

The Science – Why Glucose Tabs Work Faster Than Other Snacks 🔬

191

Why Glucose Tablets Are Actually a Game-Changer 🧃

192

Welcome to Your Best T1D Year Ever