alt Hacker NewsI found this video interesting on understanding what type 1 diabetic management looks like:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHaYPEDGaro
Beth McNally & Amy Rush - 'TCR in Practice: Navigating Insulin for Protein & Fat in Type 1 Diabetes'
At the end of the video there is some strategies described with automatic pumps.
And the graph a t=174 is kind of eye opening:
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Our almost 5 year old has had T1D for two years. We ended up going the way of a controlled lower carb diet for our entire family. Other than the greatly increased cost to eat this way, it has been transformative for diabetes management of our son, the amount of sleep we get, and the lessened risk of aggressive lows.
We've managed to keep our sons A1C in the 6-7% window after we changed our diet to be heavily carb controlled.
Non-diabetic who's interested in bio-feedback here. The GI graph is indeed dramatic[1].
Equally dramatic, in my experience, is the effect of exercise in modulating glucose spikes. It quickly became apparent that if I walked or worked out at the gym within 30mins of a meal, dGlucose/dt and subsequently max glucose would be dramatically reduced. Eventually, I got into the habit of planning exercise post high-GI meals as a way eliminate spikes.
It was an effective weightloss strategy for me as opposed to strictly a glucose regulation method and a positive experience as a whole as I got to develop an intuitive understanding of a physiological process I had only a theoretical understanding of before.
1. It would have been nice to see a labeled abscissa[2][x-axis].
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abscissa_and_ordinate