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Managing Type 1 Diabetes doesn’t have to be overwhelming.
Each 5-minute episode of Your Best T1D Year is packed with practical strategies, mindset shifts, and a little humor to help you feel more in control and less frustrated by diabetes.
Hosted by Neil Greathouse, this Monday, Wednesday, and Friday podcast delivers quick, relatable episodes that make learning about T1D effortless - so you can build small wins that lead to big changes.
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Yeah. Hey. Welcome back to your best t one d year ever. I'm Neil Greathouse. Maybe you've heard of at the b d's.
Neil:That's like my Instagram name, which is actually kinda weird now that I think about it. But if you've got five minutes, then you've got time for this podcast. If you're making coffee, if you're scrolling on Instagram or TikTok, or if you're just recovering from the sheer amount of queso that you consume during the Super Bowl, and be honest, right, I know, I know, then this is a great time to listen to this podcast. So, let's just jump into this. Today, we're talking about something even more controversial than some of those Super Bowl commercials.
Neil:We're talking about glucose tablets. I know. People hate them. Like, let's just be could we just we just take a second? Like, glucose tablets and gels, so many of us, we hate them.
Neil:But I'm about to to convince you why they're actually the best way to treat a low e even if our taste buds say otherwise. I've actually been using glucose tablets all this month. A lot of you have. There's about a thousand. There's only 1,140 some people that signed up for these monthly challenges.
Neil:So you're not in this alone. But here's here's a real reason why people hate glucose tablets. Okay? Let's let's talk about the elephant in the room. We hate them because they're chalky.
Neil:They they they feel like medicine. There's they're not an exciting choice when our brain is screaming for a Reese's peanut butter cup or a slice of cheesecake or something. And that's actually the way that I have to start thinking about them. I have to think about them as medicine, not fun. And there's zero fun, zero fun, sir.
Neil:Right? There's no fun at all. But here's what nobody really ever tells us. We don't have to like them for them to work. They just work faster than most low snacks.
Neil:Like, I was carrying around a a bag of Skittles and a box of Mike and Ikes in my backpack for such a long time, but they work faster than than those ever will. They prevent that whole, I overtreated, now I'm riding this roller coaster. Like, that's a nightmare. I've it's like a fever dream. Here's the truth.
Neil:We don't need a fun snack to fix a low. Oh my gosh. I can't even believe I just said that. I'm mostly recording this for myself. Like, when I go back and listen to this, I'm gonna hate that that I said it out loud, but that's the truth.
Neil:I'll say it again. We don't need a fun snack to fix a low. What we need is the fastest, most efficient fix. And unfortunately, whatever, that's glucose tablets or gels. Now they do come in different forms.
Neil:Right? Transcend has some gels that are out there, hashtag not sponsored. But Transcend is is one of the gels is out there or all the different kind of glucose tablets. I'm shaking my glucose tablet, jar right now. But let's talk about why glucose tablets work better than most snacks.
Neil:Let's just break this down. They contain dextrose, which is another word for glucose, which is a k a exactly what our body needs. So most snacks that we go to, they have fructose or sucrose. You notice all these words end in o s e, that just means it's a sugar. But fructose and sucrose, they actually take longer to break down before our body can even use it.
Neil:So glucose tablets and gels have dextrose, which is glucose. Number two, they're perfectly measured. Right? They're four grams of carbs per tablet and it's really difficult to have one of those, oops, I ate 17 of these by accident. It's just we we can't have those moments because we don't really enjoy it that much.
Neil:And number three, they don't spike us later. Right? A Reese's at 2AM. Yeah. I'm I'm gonna be at 02:50 by the time I wake up and and looking at wrappers everywhere, not wrappers, but you don't like Reese's wrappers.
Neil:Glucose tablets, they just get us back to normal faster without a rebound. One of the biggest reasons that we should be using glucose tablets is they actually fix the problem instead of creating new ones. Listen, I get it. Changing habits is hard. Our brain has been trained to grab a snack during a low.
Neil:Remember, you're not doing a bad job. You're doing a difficult job. But little shifts like this, little small habit changes like this, they add up. This challenge isn't about forcing ourselves to love glucose tablets. It's about giving ourselves a faster, easier way to treat lows.
Neil:So we can get back to living our lives instead of fighting, blood sugar roller coaster. Okay. So new episodes drop every Monday, Wednesday, Friday. If you haven't, hit subscribe so you don't miss the next one. And if you want free worse resources if you want free resources to make t one d a little bit easier for you, head over to yourbestt1dyear.com.
Neil:Sign up for the newsletter. It's there's no catch. Okay? It's not a sales pitch. I'm not selling anything.
Neil:I just wanna actually help, and this is stuff that could actually help. Alright. I'll see you in the next episode. Remember, nobody remembers easy. What you're doing is pretty much incredible, and I'm excited to hear about your best t one d year ever.