Juicebox Podcast: Type 1 Diabetes

#1948 Juicebox Rewind — Week 606

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#1947 Emily Is Twelve

Emily is 12, plays volleyball and the flute, and wants to be a lawyer. She came on because her mom did. A short, funny conversation with a kid two years into type 1 — plu

#1946 Thirty-Seven Years and Still Learning

Marla has had type 1 for thirty-seven years and found the podcast last year. She talks about what she has changed since — splitting her basal, tightening her alarms, and

#1945 The Hippocratic Oath

Steven was 37, throwing up for months, and told he might have HIV — by a doctor looking at a blood sugar of 600. Two years later he runs a 5.6 and his doctor wants it hig

#1944 The Catnip

Scott asks Jenny Smith for help with a problem he can't solve: how to explain the podcast to a room full of diabetes educators without sounding like everybody else with a

#1943 Both Feet on Both Pedals

Oliver is an engineer who spent fifteen years being told his A1c was fine. Then he pointed an AI model at his own loop data and found out what his settings had really bee

#1942 Everything Here Is Free

Scott walks through everything he has built on the website — the transcript library, the 504 builder, the Pro Tip Lab, the estimators, the audio app — and it is all free.

#1941 I Chose Wealth Over Health

Danny has had type 1 for thirty-eight years and has lost both legs to it. On September 1 he lands in Newark and drives to San Francisco alone, to meet as many people with

#1940 Joint Pancreas

Michelle and Don's son Carter was diagnosed at six. Two years in, they talk about the signs they missed, staying a team through it, and the thing Carter said when he hear

#1939 Good at Talking to People - Part 2

Part two of Elizabeth Maddock Dillon's interview with Scott: why storytelling works when instructions don't, what he thinks doctors can and can't do, and the three things

#1938 Good at Talking to People - Part 1

Elizabeth Maddock Dillon turns the microphone around. An English professor writing a book about sugar interviews Scott about how the podcast began — the diagnosis, the ac

#1937 Immunostimulation with Dr. Faustman

Dr. Denise Faustman of Harvard and Mass General returns to explain her BCG vaccine research in type 1 diabetes — a phase 2 trial, a surprising metabolic discovery, and wh

#1936 Naming This

Scott and Erika Forsyth plan their next series out loud — the reasons people avoid their own diabetes care, and what happens when you give each one a name. twiist - A d

#1935 My Body Beeps

Katie Lockwood is a therapist and author with cystic fibrosis and CF-related diabetes. She writes picture books that put kids with medical conditions on the page — includ

#1934 All In It Together

Hannah, 19 and pre-med, has had type 1 since age 15. She talks candidly about recovery from an eating disorder, working diabetes camp, her mom's later diagnosis, and find

#1933 Blinded by the Light - Part 2

Ryan returns after the Juice Cruise: 38 years with type 1, a vision journey through retinopathy and cataract surgery, a harrowing overdose the night before surgery, and w

#1932 Smooth Blood Sugar

Elias is 10, pre-boluses like a pro, runs a 6.2 A1c, and mentors other kids as a youth ambassador. A bright, funny catch-up a year after his first visit, plus a word with

#1931 Fight Fire with Fire - Part 2

Managing type 1 on a fire scene, a candid detour into what people get wrong about the podcast, and Nick on a GLP: half the insulin and a firehouse case against the stigma

#1930 GLP and Type 1: The One Yard Line

They said GLPs weren't for type one. Then Lilly enrolled 905 people. Here's what the research actually shows, and the part about your settings nobody's talking about. t

#1929 Fight Fire with Fire - Part 1

Nick is 28, a professional firefighter, and has had type 1 for thirteen years. Diagnosis at almost-15, the teenage years he calls a rebellion, and the 2022 turnaround tha