Yesterday I was a guest on Gary’s podcast, ‘Think like a pancreas.’ If you don’t know, Gary is a former Diabetes Educator of The Year and founded, Integrated Diabetes Services, his clinic outside of Philadelphia that is type 1 focused. He and his type 1 staff work both on site and remote.
Our podcast talk centered around the myth that you can control your blood sugar and diabetes. I will post it when I get the recording. Meanwhile, I had to laugh when I woke up this morning and looked at my CGM (above). Really…at 6 am, while I was still asleep, my blood sugar starting rising to 150. How the heck was I supposed to control that? The subsequent rise at 9 am, when I got up and started moving, was the Dawn Effect. Another thing I can’t control.
We’ve got to break this myth that you can control blood sugar. It’s insidious and harmful. If you missed it, you can read what I wrote about the topic on diatribe, ‘Why Controlling Blood Sugar Shouldn’t Be the Goal.’
