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Welcome to Episode 36 of 'not ARTIFICIALLY Sweetened'!

Now with listeners in 28 countries, this Episode is brought to you in support of diabetes awareness and care by the CDE Online Pharmacy (https://cdeonline.co.za/), the online store of choice for people living with diabetes.

If you're living with diabetes or a health professional that facilitates diabetes care, you're in the right place!

Join our journey, as we grow together in understanding, insight, and self-awareness to change lives for the better. Our deliberations are always honest, challenging and thought provoking. Nothing is off the table as we discuss real people, their real issues and stories, and together discover real answers to many vexing practical issues in diabetes and its care.

In this Episode, Stan and Michael anticipate the upcoming 25th CDE Postgraduate Forum in Diabetes Management. They also discuss the differing course, treatments and outcomes of type 2 diabetes in identical twins, often due to differing environmental influences, and they continue reviewing the principles of ‘emergency contact’ in community-based proactive preventative care.

Our studio guest is Lurina Fourie, ‘The Glucose Glitch’, a professional photographer living with type 1 diabetes, poet, T1D Advocate and Content Creator – “I didn’t come here to be average!”

In an unmissable heart-to-heart discussion, reflect on Lurina’s

• Amazing poem, ‘This is me’, which offers two vastly differing perspectives of living with diabetes depending on how you read it (we read it twice – listen to find out why!). For a video of Lurina introducing the poem and diabetes advocates reciting it, please check it out on Lurina's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tawfyOsj3H0
• Positive approaches to overcome the challenges of diabetes, including finding a community of people with similar experiences and focusing on what is going well
• Social media handle, 'The Glucose Glitch’
• Infectious optimism and her happy, fulfilled and positive approach to life, despite her challenges
• Experiences of interactions with her health professional carers, and the utility of her lived experience
• Creative advocacy role and efforts, especially among school children
• Marriage to Steyn, and his supportive role in her life
• Passion for photography and its role in her ‘vision’, and her advocacy efforts
• ‘Big picture’ approach to self-management of diabetes,
• Positive and wise perspective on possible future ‘diabetes burn-out’ and complications of diabetes – “I can’t steal today’s joy for the worries of tomorrow or the day after that”.

We play out this Episode with a few bars from Steyn Fourie, 'n bekende Suid Afrikaanse sanger en liedjieskrywer. Check out his YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@steynfourie8261/featured

In our next Community Advocacy Message, Kirsten de Klerk from SA Diabetes Advocacy talks about the need to ensure the accuracy of newer and more cost-effective continuous glucose monitoring systems in South Africa.

Don't forget the upcoming SA Diabetes Summit for 2023. Find out more and register here: https://lcp.live/registration-2023-diabetes-summit/

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We want to hear from you! If you have any questions, suggestions, comments or contributions for future episodes, or if you'd like to advertise on this podcast, email us @ Podcast@CDEDiabetes.co.za

For health professionals working in diabetes

The CDE Academy Foundation Course in Diabetes Care for Health Professionals is a real-world-applicable online learning experience at one’s own pace. Access it 24/7/365 & earn 30 CPD points: https://academy.cdeonline.co.za/

Learna/University of South Wales offer a one-year, online, part-time, distance learning Postgraduate Diploma in Diabetes Care. Sign up for a second year to earn an MSc in Diabetes. Gain a competitive edge and enhance your client care! Register @ ⁠https://www.diploma-msc.com/p/diploma-in-diabetes⁠