The Diabuddies Podcast

23/08/2021

Packing up the Diabuddies...
For now 😭

We just released Boxes Up #4 - Checking in with The Diabuddies 🧃

With this episode, we announce the end of Season 1 of the podcast!
If y’all have been wondering we’ve been, the answer is planning our next steps.

Over the 44 episodes we published over 1.5 years, we have been humbled by all the stories, messages, and people we’ve met.
We’ve learned a lot about producing a podcast, strategies and trying to help as many people as we can through these episodes.

In the episode we also use ourselves as case studies of how we’ve been adapting our diabetes strategies to changing circumstances.
But most importantly, we wanted to post one more to say THANK YOU!
Thank you, thank you thank you. For your time, your ears, and continuing to share the podcast.

We plan on there being a Season 2, so stay tuned. Until then, don’t burst your beta cells too hard ✌️

04/06/2021

Our cohost Dr Garrett was interviewed on CGMs and long distance running the other day!
The bigger discussion on CGMs and the podcast didn’t make it on the article unfortunately, but still a fun read non the less!

You can check out the article below,
as well as our most recent Podcast on E39 “Usefulness of CGMs for Type 2 Diabetics and NON-diabetics” on all major podcast players.

Read the story of Garrett Panno, a chiropractor and long-distance runner who hit the "dreaded wall". He was determined to run the 2017 Chicago Marathon and raise money for the American Diabetes Association. Over a million spectators were cheering him on, but Panno’s blood sugar levels were dangero...

02/06/2021

If you are motivated to take control of your health, your insurance company should not limit you in that pursuit!

Even if you are Type 2 Diabetic, you should not have to be limited to 3 blood sugar checks a day or a CGM if those tools can be utilized to better your blood sugar, metabolism and life!

Want to hear more from this clip? Check out E39 “Usefulness of CGMs for Type 2 Diabetics and NON-diabetics” and many others like this on all major podcast players.

In Health,
Dr.’s Grady and Garrett
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31/05/2021

The fear of exercise and going low is something we diabetics face on a regular basis. But that shouldn't stop you from doing what you love and LIVING THE LIFE THAT YOU DESERVE.

Listen to the full interview on Episode 38 of The Diabuddies Podcast

29/05/2021

Sometimes life deals you a terrible hand. That doesn't mean you can't own it and find success with it!

Listen to the full interview on Episode 38 of The Diabuddies Podcast

25/05/2021

Running like Don Muchow (who we interview in our most recent podcast) isn’t the only form of exercise for diabetics! Throwback to when we interviewed Eric Zucaro who dabbles in a little bit of everything when it comes to fitness, but in particular loves Olympic Lifting.

In this clip, he talks about a recent Olympic lifting meet and his blood sugar chaos during it.

Whether one attempts ultrarunning, Olympic lifting, or CrossFit, these all provide a different set of challenges and therefore different management strategies when it comes to being diabetic in managing one’s blood sugar.

Want to hear more from this clip? Check out E36 “T1D can’t stop you! Olympic Lifting, Running, CrossFit w/ Eric Zucaro” and many others like this on all major podcast players.

In Health,
Dr.’s Grady and Garrett
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21/05/2021

Glucagon = The Liquid Wall

Don Muchow explains how a glucagon shot will cause you to dump all your glycogen, leaving you with no energy left to run.

Don goes on to tell us his experience with this after having a dangerous low while running across Texas.

You can hear all about it and much more in our interview with him on Episode 38 of The Diabuddies Podcast.

https://youtu.be/-q6LWF34S_g

20/05/2021

“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” - Lao Tzu

Don Muchow shares his amazing story of how he completed his transcontinental run. But a run like that is a great metaphor and physical representation of the journey of having diabetes.

It can seem impossible. It can hurt. It can take months and years to complete a task or a goal regarding it. However, if you break it up into smaller parts, anything is possible

Check out the full Episode 38 “Running from Disney Land to Disney World, and then some, with Don Muchow 🎙” on all major podcast players!

In Health,
Dr.’s Grady and Garrett
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19/05/2021

“You just kind of have to stumble and get back up” is what Don Muchow describes his mindset when he was learning to run with Type 1 Diabetes.

Recently, Dan ran over 2700 miles over the course of a few months in the midst of e pandemic and some family troubles.

In E38 “Running from Disney Land to Disney World, and then some, with Don Muchow 🎙” Don describes how he started running in his 40’s and made it all the way to his most recent achievement.

It’s NEVER to late to start. Especially once you realize you’re not alone!

You can listen to the entire episode on all major podcast players!

In Health,
Dr.’s Grady and Garrett
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18/05/2021

What’s stopping you from exercising? Really?
For Don Muchow, before he ran over 2700 miles, it was the fears of lows and hypoglycemia.

So much so, that he did not exercise for decades. Don first got into running when he was 40 year’s old. Until then, his diabetes ran rampant.

Don recently completed a run across America (Disneyland to Disney World)!
So in the course of almost two decades, he went from never running a 5k and afraid to exercise, to running across the country.

You can listen to the entire episode on all major podcast players! See show notes for details and below are the time stamps.

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Dr.’s Grady and Garrett
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14/05/2021

Dia-won’t budge!
Often diabetes can feel like a challenge that’s impossible to overcome. An immovable object that you are doomed to loose too.

Both perceived notions of our condition,
peer stress in the form of comments that weren’t intended to harm but hurt, and the idea that it’s your all fault, can make one feel helpless.

Well, you are not helpless.
We repeat:

You are NOT helpless.

Diabetes isn’t an immovable object.
The weight of diabetes gets lighter with little and consistent changes. And when there is enough momentum, becomes a fun and dynamic dance 💃

And in that dance is how you can Live Free of your diabetes! But to get there, to show up to that dance, it begins again with small changes.

And you do not have to go through those changes alone.

Check out our latest episodes of the podcast where we interview Diabadasses and cover topics just on those things.

In Health,
Dr.’s Grady and Garrett
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09/05/2021

In recent years, the idea of Molecular Mimicry is a concept researchers use to describe the onset of autoimmunity.

In Functional Medicine, this idea is used to help others reduce symptoms and calm down their immune system.

Here, @ and @ discuss this and how it relates to leaky gut in our E35 “Does Leaky Guy Cause T1D?”

Check it o it NOW on all major podcast players!

In Health,
Dr.’s Grady and Garrett
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04/05/2021

New episode! Out now on all podcast players.

In this episode, Dr. Grady and Dr. Garrett have the pleasure of interviewing Zach from Cedar Oak Kennels where he trains Diabetic Aert Dogs (DADs). He walks ...

21/04/2021

What does it mean to be a Diabadass??

To us, it means not allowing diabetes to stop you. Not allowing it define you.
Type 1 Diabetes is a condition not many really understand, and it’s unlike any other.

It’s a 24 hour job. With tens and hundreds of variables one needs to consider to really dial in their numbers.

Just thinking about your blood sugar numbers and trying to understand why your number are what they are at any given moment, can make you get bogged down, upset, confused, fatigued and distracted.

But despite the challenges. Despite obstacles, insurance companies, costs, and fears

A Diabadass chooses to live.

Chooses to still find a way to enjoy life. They choose to address their diabetes while having goals and smashing them both.

To us, if you have Diabetes, and you choose to get up and do this everyday, then

You are a Diabadass.

Check out our latest episode of the podcast where we interview another Diabadass on just these things.

In Health,
Dr.’s Grady and Garrett
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21/04/2021

Diabetes can’t stop you!

The other day we just dropped Episode 36 “T1D can’t stop you! Olympic Lifting, Running, CrossFit” with our guest Eric Zucaro

Eric is a and a fitness fanatic. We discuss the variety of modalities and things he does to help manage his sugars...

But more importantly, the modalities exercises and hobbies he does because that’s what he ENJOYS.

Taking a “diabetes doesn’t define me” mentality, and choosing the life he wants to lives first and allowing his diabetes to cooperate and flow with him second.

If you want to learn more, check out the full episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube and more! Let us know what you think ⬇️

In Health,
Dr.’s Grady and Garrett
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15/04/2021

Can you test for leaky gut? 🤔
That question is debatable and the best test(s) are still being figured out.

However, one of these tests is known as the lactulose/mannitol (LA/MA) double sugar test. Where one consumes a solution, and the amount of lactulose and mannitol is measured in the urine.

In the 2006 study we discuss on this week’s episode (E35), a random subgroup of type 1 diabetics (n=36), along with their relatives (n=56) and healthy control subjects (n=43), performed a LA/MA urine test to study their intestinal permeability (reference in comments).

In this figure, it shows how there wasn’t only a significant increase in lactulose, but a significant relationship of lactulose to zonulin as well. Further giving evidence of the relationship between leaky gut and T1D’s.

If you want to learn more, check out the full episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube and more! Let us know what you think ⬇️

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Dr.’s Grady and Garrett
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Sapone, A., Magistris, L., Pietzak, M., Clemente, M., Tripathi, A., Cucca, F., et al., & Fasano, A., (2006). Zonulin Upregulation Is Associated With Increased Gut Permeability in Subjects With Type 1 Diabetes and Their Relatives. Diabetes; 55(5): 1443-1449. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2337/db05-1593

13/04/2021

Zonulin 🚪
Is there any relationship Leaky Gut or increased intestinal permeability and Type 1 Diabetes?

On this weeks episode (E35) of the podcast, we discuss this type of relationship and go over an article on the subject published by the American Diabetes Association in 2006 (reference in comments).

In this figure, it shows how in a randomized controlled trial of 339 T1Ds, Type 1s had significantly more serum zonulin then their relatives and controls.

Zonulin is a protein, that when unregulated (more of it), it can increase how much passes your gut lining into your body. I.e., leaky gut!

If you want to learn more, check out the full episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube and more!

In Health,
Dr.’s Grady and Garrett
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12/04/2021

Why does the environment play such a big role in the development of T1D?

This week we discuss a scientific article published by the American Diabetes Association regarding intestinal permeability and the onset of type one diabetes.

Check out E35 “Does Leaky Guy Cause T1D?” NOW on all major podcast players.

In Health,
Dr.’s Grady and Garrett
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