Lauren Salko is a professional freestyle skier who has lived with type 1 diabetes since 1998. Today, she shares how she uses Basal-IQ™ Technology, a predictive low-glucose suspend feature on her t:slim X2™ Insulin Pump, to manage her blood sugar while skiing and in her everyday life. This ...
Excercise
Diabetes and Alcohol: How Does Alcohol Affect Blood Sugar?
Balancing diabetes and alcohol can be a tricky endeavor. Even in a non-diabetic, not only does alcohol affect certain people differently, different types of alcohol have very different effects on the ...
Hiking with Diabetes
One of the things I love most about living in Southern California is that I can be outside wearing shorts pretty much ...
Why Some Types of Exercise Can Make Your Blood Sugar Increase
Have you ever wondered why your blood sugar falls during certain types of exercise whilst roaring to sky-high levels ...
Food & Nutrition
The Best Breakfast Cereals for Diabetics
Whoever first decided that breakfast ought to be an enormous bowl of highly-processed carbohydrates, additives, and sugar is in big trouble. (Or at least, they ought to be.) While many people think ...
Keto Diet on a Budget: How to Save Money on Low-Carb Foods
The ketogenic diet and overall low-carb lifestyle sound awesome right? But the keto lifestyle comes with a downside that ...
My High-Carb, Low-Fat Experiment with Type 1 Diabetes
This is a detailed article about what happened when I tried to experiment with a low-fat, high-carb diet lead by Cyrus ...
Health & Lifestyle
Metformin Side Effects: What You Need to Know
Metformin is one of the most prescribed drugs on the planet with over 120 million people taking it for diabetes management, but that doesn’t mean it’s the most popular. Unfortunately, metformin ...
Diabetes and Your Eyes: Everything You Need to Know
As people with diabetes, we’ve been hearing about the threat that diabetes poses to our eyes since shortly after ...
Gifts for Diabetics: The Ultimate Guide (Always Updated)
Finding a thoughtful gift for a friend or family member with diabetes can be hard. That’s why I created this Ultimate ...
Products & Technology
Basal-IQ Moments with Professional Freestyle Skier Lauren Salko
Lauren Salko is a professional freestyle skier who has lived with type 1 diabetes since 1998. Today, she shares how she uses Basal-IQ™ Technology, a predictive low-glucose suspend feature on her ...
Gifts for Diabetics: The Ultimate Guide (Always Updated)
Finding a thoughtful gift for a friend or family member with diabetes can be hard. That’s why I created this Ultimate ...
New Life Insurance Option for People Living with Diabetes
Have you been denied life insurance due to living with diabetes? Or have you considered buying a life insurance policy ...