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Welcome to Episode 51 of 'not ARTIFICIALLY Sweetened', THE podcast for both people living with diabetes and health professionals that facilitate diabetes care!
We are easy to find. Just download one or more of our top streaming platforms (Spotify, Pocket Casts, Apple Podcasts or the LiSTN Audio App) from the Android or Apple Stores, launch the app, and search for 'not ARTIFICIALLY Sweetened'!
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, and the new range of CDE MiWell™ (https://cdeonline.co.za/miwell/) Reduced Calorie products.
Whether 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 meet real people, discuss their real issues and stories, and together discover real answers to many vexing practical issues in diabetes and its care.
Stan and Michael lead in by encouraging us not to ignore ‘feeling tired’ and they remind us that diabetes is not always to blame…
Our studio guest this week is Dr Claudine Lee, well known to us as a family doctor who has a genuine joy in working with and being able to change the lives of people living with diabetes. Claudine had a wealth of local and international clinical experience and training in anaesthetics, ENT, obstetrics and general surgery, and ophthalmology before entering general practice in the Howick/Hilton area of KZN and undergoing training in the management of diabetes. Claudine now has special interest in and passion for diabetes, and she is an outspoken advocate for enabling diabetes technologies, especially continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) - “#CGM is my mantra”. Away from work Claudine is a devoted mom who loves to be physically active either in yoga or hiking.
Together, we discuss
The usual lack of diabetes training in medicine Claudine’s love for humanity and how that and time spent is important in holistic diabetes care The importance of teaching in learning and in diabetes practice Financial and care access barriers to providing ‘best’ diabetes care Creativity and imagery in medicine Life-changing ‘sacred retreats’ with people who live with diabetes Artificial intelligence versus the intuitive caring health practitioner Why Claudine is such a staunch advocate for CGM and how to optimise such technologies Factors that facilitate healthy outcomes in diabetes careKirsten from SA Diabetes Advocacy talks about the need to source funding to continue and grow the work of diabetes advocacy in South Africa
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 @ [email protected]
For health professionals working in diabetes
The 6-Module, 23 CPD point CDE Academy Very Low-Calorie Diet Course for Healthcare Professionals can help you assist your clients with excess adiposity and type 2 diabetes to improve their cardiometabolic risk profile, reduce their chronic medication burden, doses and costs and to possibly achieve remission of their diabetes. More information and registration @ https://academy.cdeonline.co.za/vlcd-course/
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://my.learna.ac.uk/l/diabetes-ambassador-cde
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Thank you for joining us as we celebrate Episode 50 of 'not ARTIFICIALLY Sweetened', THE podcast for both people living with diabetes and health professionals that facilitate diabetes care!
We are easy to find. Just download one or more of our top streaming platforms (Spotify, Pocket Casts, Apple Podcasts or the LiSTN Audio App) from the Android or Apple Stores, launch the app, and search for 'not ARTIFICIALLY Sweetened'!
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, and the new range of CDE MiWell™ (https://cdeonline.co.za/miwell/) Reduced Calorie products.
Whether 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 meet real people, discuss their real issues and stories, and together discover real answers to many vexing practical issues in diabetes and its care.
Stan and Michael begin by discussing the mind-blowing performance of Warren Vernon Driscoll in the stage show, Queen: It’s a Kinda Magic (https://www.facebook.com/queenitsakindamagic/), flu vaccination and problems around bladder continence.
Then, as promised in Episode 42, ‘The Glucose Glitch’ Lurina Fourie, T1D Advocate, poet, Content Creator and professional photographer living with type 1 diabetes, joins us again to involve you our listeners by sourcing your pressing questions on anything related to diabetes. Facilitated by Lurina, we provide unprepped general guidance in response to your questions on:
Possible links between type 1 diabetes in kids and their ability to concentrate The long-term effects of drinking sugar-free cool drinks in kids with type 1 diabetes Telling people at work that you have diabetes Causes of ‘insulin resistance’ in type 1 diabetes The association between traumatic life events and the development of type 1 diabetes Relieving the nighttime discomfort of peripheral sensory neuropathy Diabetes as a ‘degenerative disease’Kirsten from SA Diabetes Advocacy joins us to remind us to support an Insulin Advocacy petition by the Society of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes of South Africa (SEMDSA). Read more and access the petition link here: https://bit.ly/4ayiy2E
We want to hear from you!
Thank you to all who sent in questions! Send in your questions for our next Q & A session to Lurina @ [email protected].
If you have any questions, suggestions, comments for Stan or Michael, contributions for future episodes, or if you'd like to advertise on this podcast, email us @ [email protected]
For health professionals working in diabetes
The 6-Module, 23 CPD point CDE Academy Very Low-Calorie Diet Course for Healthcare Professionals can help you assist your clients with excess adiposity and type 2 diabetes to improve their cardiometabolic risk profile, reduce their chronic medication burden, doses and costs and to possibly achieve remission of their diabetes. More information and registration @ https://academy.cdeonline.co.za/vlcd-course/
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://my.learna.ac.uk/l/diabetes-ambassador-cde
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Welcome to Episode 49 of 'not ARTIFICIALLY Sweetened', THE podcast for both people living with diabetes and health professionals that facilitate diabetes care!
We are easy to find. Just download one or more of our top streaming platforms (Spotify, Pocket Casts, Apple Podcasts or the LiSTN Audio App) from the Android or Apple Stores, launch the app, and search for 'not ARTIFICIALLY Sweetened'!
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, and the new range of CDE MiWell™ (https://cdeonline.co.za/miwell/) Reduced Calorie products.
Whether 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 meet real people, discuss their real issues and stories, and together discover real answers to many vexing practical issues in diabetes and its care.
Stan launches the Episode by reflecting on several older adults living with diabetes that he sees, and how, with good management, they are living many healthy decades with the condition. Others may be battling with issues like chronic pain, polypharmacy, constipations, falls and cognitive decline, where referral to a specialist in the care of the older adult should be considered. Michael then warns of possible online scams involving GLP-1-based therapies which are currently 'popular’ for their potential weight loss benefits and Stan adds to the ever-expanding list of ‘other’ benefits of members of this class of drugs.
Diabetes treatment is far more than just medication…
For the rest of this Episode, Stan and Michael focus on the need for positive health behaviours and improved wellbeing to support medical therapies in the management of chronic conditions like diabetes. Understanding that this will often require changes in pre-existing behaviours that were not so healthy, they explore the principles behind facilitating these preventative, treatment and maintenance changes so that we can together improve health outcomes.
Kirsten from SA Diabetes Advocacy is still on leave, so in advocacy message from us here in the CDE Academy, we join with SA Diabetes Advocacy to support an Insulin Advocacy petition by the Society of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes of South Africa (SEMDSA). Read more and access the petition link here: https://bit.ly/4ayiy2E
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 @ [email protected]
For health professionals working in diabetes
The 6-Module, 23 CPD point CDE Academy Very Low-Calorie Diet Course for Healthcare Professionals can help you assist your clients with excess adiposity and type 2 diabetes to improve their cardiometabolic risk profile, reduce their chronic medication burden, doses and costs and to possibly achieve remission of their diabetes. More information and registration @ https://academy.cdeonline.co.za/vlcd-course/
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://my.learna.ac.uk/l/diabetes-ambassador-cde
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Welcome to Episode 48 of 'not ARTIFICIALLY Sweetened'!
We are easy to find. Just download one or more of our top streaming platforms (Spotify, Pocket Casts, Apple Podcasts or the LiSTN Audio App) from the Android or Apple Stores, launch the app, and search for 'not ARTIFICIALLY Sweetened'!
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, and the new range of CDE MiWell™ (https://cdeonline.co.za/miwell/) Reduced Calorie products.
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 meet real people, discuss their real issues and stories, and together discover real answers to many vexing practical issues in diabetes and its care.
Stan and Michael kick-off by asking is it safe for people with diabetes to get a tattoo or body piercing.
Our studio guest is Pitso Molemane, a radio personality, journalist and Diabetes Survivor, Warrior and Activist who has lived with type 1 diabetes for four decades. Pitso’s advocacy activities include an advocacy group, Fighting Diabetes (www.fightingdiabetes.co.za / [email protected]), which he founded, penning a monthly diabetes awareness column in The Sowetan, and as a member of the International Diabetes Federation network of ‘Blue Circle Voices’.
Voice, action and education
With a wealth of grassroots insights and activism experience, Pitso shares his thoughts on:
The taboos that often surround diabetes and how these influenced his life as a child with diabetes His search for a career in which he could help people with diabetes Writing and talking about diabetes and his lived experiences His positive, pragmatic and vital ‘secrets’ to managing his diabetes Diabetes advocacy and support in South Africa and globally Creating relationships with his diabetes care team health professionals What has and hasn’t changed over time in diabetes The roles of government and the media in diabetes awareness and care - are they doing enough?Kirsten from SA Diabetes Advocacy is still on leave, so diabetes advocate Lurina Fourie joins us again this week in her personal capacity. This week, Lurina encourages others with diabetes to share their lived experiences with diabetes with others, especially health care professionals.
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 @ [email protected]
For health professionals working in diabetes
The 6-Module, 23 CPD point CDE Academy Very Low-Calorie Diet Course for Healthcare Professionals can help you assist your clients with excess adiposity and type 2 diabetes to improve their cardiometabolic risk profile, reduce their chronic medication burden, doses and costs and to possibly achieve remission of their diabetes. More information and registration @ https://academy.cdeonline.co.za/vlcd-course/
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://my.learna.ac.uk/l/diabetes-ambassador-cde
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Welcome to Episode 47 of 'not ARTIFICIALLY Sweetened'!
Our listeners in 32 countries can find us on our top streaming platforms, Spotify, Pocket Casts, Apple Podcasts and the LiSTN Audio App!
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, and the new range of CDE MiWell™ (https://cdeonline.co.za/miwell/) Reduced Calorie products.
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 meet real people, discuss their real issues and stories, and together discover real answers to many vexing practical issues in diabetes and its care.
This week, Stan and Michael discuss the place of reduced calorie meal replacements as part of a therapeutic Very Low-Calorie Diet (VLCD) approach used to reduce medication burdens and costs and possibly achieve remission of type 2 diabetes. They also reflect on access to diabetes care in the context of South Africa’s Human Rights Day on 21st March.
The rest of the Episode is anchored in an exploration of a relatively rare role in the wider diabetes care team. To assist us with this, Specialist Dietitian in Paediatric Diabetes Jessie Chien joins us from the United Kingdom to share her experience and insights. Jessie is passionate about helping children and young people living with diabetes, and their families navigate the world of food, insulin and blood glucose management. Together we explore:
Inequality in and the many potential barriers to access to and the delivery of diabetes care The reasons why Specialist Paediatric Dietitians are needed in diabetes care Pragmatic healthy eating assistance for families across developmental stages and life events Enhancing food freedom and family function The power of physical activity and structuring eating Transitions in paediatric diabetes care Care continuity The vital need for coeliac disease screening in type 1 diabetes Clues indicating possible disordered eating and eating disorders Enhancing the care enabling potentials of diabetes technologiesKirsten from SA Diabetes Advocacy is on leave, so for our weekly diabetes advocacy message, Lurina Fourie kindly joins us this week in her personal capacity to encourage others with diabetes to build the diabetes community and in so doing, to build and empower themselves.
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 @ [email protected]
For health professionals working in diabetes
The 6-Module, 23 CPD point CDE Academy Very Low-Calorie Diet Course for Healthcare Professionals can help you assist your clients with excess adiposity and type 2 diabetes to improve their cardiometabolic risk profile, reduce their chronic medication burden, doses and costs and to possibly achieve remission of their diabetes. More information and registration @ https://academy.cdeonline.co.za/vlcd-course/
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://my.learna.ac.uk/l/diabetes-ambassador-cde
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Welcome to Episode 46 of 'not ARTIFICIALLY Sweetened'!
Our listeners in 32 countries can find us on our top streaming platforms, Spotify, Pocket Casts, Apple Podcasts and the LiSTN Audio App!
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 meet real people, discuss their real issues and stories, and together discover real answers to many vexing practical issues in diabetes and its care.
20th March marked World Oral Health Day, and the theme for this year is ‘A Happy Mouth, is a Happy Body’, a reminder of the intricate connections between oral and systemic health.
In an Episode devoted to exploring oral health we bring in another awesome studio guest, this week being Dr Tumane Daniel Mafojane (aka Dr Dan), a Specialist Periodontist and Head of the Clinical Unit of the Department of Oral Medicine and Periodontology at the School of Oral Health Sciences at the University of the Witwatersrand. Dr Dan is passionate about the management of periodontitis in people living with diabetes, in collaboration with their diabetes team clinicians. He is also a fervent road runner.
Together we explore:
The specialities of periodontology and periodontal medicine and other dental care specialities Why oral health is so important for health of the body and quality of life The importance of the mouth in providing early clues to systemic disorders The anatomy and physiology of the mouth and the ‘good’ and ‘harmful’ ‘bugs’ therein Gingivitis (symptomatic and reversible) and periodontitis (asymptomatic and irreversible) and the important differences between them The bidirectional relationship between periodontitis and diabetes and cardiovascular disease The role of the high cariogenic diet in the development of dental caries How periodontitis develops and the importance of prevention Brushing and flossing and the whys behind these preventative self-care actionsIn our weekly SA Diabetes Advocacy message, Kirsten discusses the last of five important Diabetes Advocacy Projects they will focus on in 2024 - this week, they focus on food security for people with diabetes
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 @ [email protected]
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://my.learna.ac.uk/l/diabetes-ambassador-cde
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Welcome to Episode 45 of 'not ARTIFICIALLY Sweetened'!
You can find us on our top streaming platforms, Spotify, Pocket Casts, Apple Podcasts and the LiSTN Audio App!
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 meet real people, discuss their real issues and stories, and together discover real answers to many vexing practical issues in diabetes and its care.
This week Stan and Michael reflect on nerve symptoms in the context of diabetes and some important caveats to remember. They also discuss foetal alcohol syndrome and reasons why preparing for any pregnancy, especially with diabetes, is vital to avoid the loss of any opportunities to prevent possible birth defects.
In our weekly SA Diabetes Advocacy message, Kirsten discusses the fourth of five important Diabetes Advocacy Projects they will focus on in 2024. This week, the focus is on the use of long-acting metformin in the public service.
Lytle Johnson joins us as our studio guest for this week - Lytle is an Industrial Engineer from Sunninghill who currently consults on some exciting automotive manufacturing projects. Lytle spends his weekends outdoors to race enduro, watch his fiancé compete in horse riding events, or to sail. He enjoys training every day after work and then finishes the evening off by cooking exciting meals. Lytle has some amazing friends from his years of study in Pretoria, and looking ahead, he is excited to strive for some podium places in dirt-bike racing, possibly at this year’s Roof of Africa in Lesotho. Lytle also has to manage type 1 diabetes, but his optimism and enthusiasm for everything he does is truly inspirational!
Lytle tells us about:
His slow road to diagnosis of diabetes in 2022 and how his quality of life improved as a result The joy of racing a motor bike off-road and his fear of losing this ability The stigma he experienced once diagnosed especially when buying insulin and when trying to enter enduro races again His vastly differing experiences with health professional caregivers His optimism and excitement for life ‘Over-monitoring’ his blood glucose levels and the blessing of continuous glucose monitoring His comfort in advocating for diabetes His love for experimental cooking and how his balanced lifestyle helps him to maintain good diabetes managementWe 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 @ [email protected]
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://my.learna.ac.uk/l/diabetes-ambassador-cde
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Welcome to Episode 44 of 'not ARTIFICIALLY Sweetened'!
Catch us on our top streaming platforms, Spotify, Pocket Casts, Apple Podcasts and now the LiSTN Audio App!
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 meet real people, discuss their real issues and stories, and together discover real answers to many vexing practical issues in diabetes and its care.
We start the show discussing our presence on a new premium South African Audio Aggregator App - LiSTN Audio App is free to download and use on iOS and Android, and no sign-up or sign-in is required. This means that anyone can access it anytime. Long-time and new listeners get an exceptional, personalised experience – check it out and support an App that supports diabetes care and education !
In our weekly SA Diabetes Advocacy message, Kirsten discusses the third of five important Diabetes Advocacy Projects they will focus on in 2024, their Counselling Social Worker Support Project.
Stan then reviews the current common problem of gout, especially in poorer communities, some less understood drivers and he cautions on some treatments for the condition.
Michael introduces the potential problems of ‘normalcy bias’, ‘optimism bias’ and denial in diabetes self-care, with reference to Col Jeff Cooper’s colour coded levels of awareness in avoiding dangerous situations. We learn that a state of relaxed awareness is the sweet spot for our health and safety.
Our studio guest for this week is Mark Savary (MSc Genetics, UKZN), and multi awarded marketing executive, diabetes advocate, patient support programme & product launch specialist. With 20 years of professional experience in diabetes, Mark shares:
His early career in diabetes and why he developed his passion for the condition His realisation of the gap between diabetes care expectations and the self-care choices of people with diabetes Essential skills in reaching people with diabetes and the biggest barriers The biggest changes in the evolving pharma sector – people with diabetes are now central His own personal experience with diabetes since his diagnosis in 2015, and the painful but useful lessons learned The positive experience he had with his diabetes doctor once he returned from denial The power of continuous glucose monitoring in helping him to understand the interactions between his diabetes and his self-care. His advocacy journey and the fulfilment of his desire to ‘give back’ to the diabetes community His wise and well-informed ‘take-home’ messagesWe 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 @ [email protected]
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://my.learna.ac.uk/l/diabetes-ambassador-cde
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Welcome to Episode 43 of 'not ARTIFICIALLY Sweetened' – we are now one year old!
Catch us on our top four streaming platforms, Spotify, Pocket Casts, Apple Podcasts and Podbean.
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 meet real people, discuss their real issues and stories, and together discover real answers to many vexing practical issues in diabetes and its care.
We start the show with our weekly SA Diabetes Advocacy message – this week, Kirsten discusses the second of five important Diabetes Advocacy Projects they will focus on in 2024, Transitional Care for 12-20-year-olds.
In response to listener request for us to focus a bit more on ‘education’, we revisit the principles of the often-misunderstood classification of diabetes, into type 1, type 2, gestational and ‘other’ specific types. In doing this, we dispel the many myths and misconceptions around this - we hope that the insights provided will help to change the medical and self-care of diabetes.
With one of the ‘other’ specific forms of diabetes in mind, we introduce our studio guest for this week, Andries Els. Andries works as a heavy vehicle warehouse manager in Johannesburg, and as a specialist in K9, firearm and security training. Andries and his career choices are remarkable given that he also has diabetes because of cystic fibrosis related damage to his pancreas.
With an amazingly positive attitude (and powerful physical appearance), given the usual historical poor outcomes associated with cystic fibrosis, Andries shares
The appearance of diabetes during his high school years, while battling many of the usual complications of cystic fibrosis The great family support he has always had Starting insulin pump therapy Dealing with the massive demands of cystic fibrosis care in addition to managing diabetes Essential differences in nutritional care for type 1 diabetes versus cystic fibrosis related diabetes, and the need to take pancreatic enzyme replacements Battling with health professionals who do not understand the management of cystic fibrosis related diabetes Recently starting a miraculous but difficult-to-access therapy (unnamed for legal reasons) for the condition, which has essentially normalised his health, his cystic fibrosis related risks and his expected lifespan News on pragmatic advocacy for this medication.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 @ [email protected]
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://my.learna.ac.uk/l/diabetes-ambassador-cde
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Welcome to Episode 42 of 'not ARTIFICIALLY Sweetened', our first Episode for 2024!
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 meet real people, discuss their real issues and stories, and together discover real answers to many vexing practical issues in diabetes and its care.
This week, we remind listeners of our mission to bring everyone affected by or involved in diabetes or chronic healthcare together in support of greater mutual insights and diabetes advocacy.
With ‘nothing about us without us’ in mind, our studio guest is Lurina Fourie, ‘The Glucose Glitch’, a professional photographer living with type 1 diabetes, poet, T1D Advocate and Content Creator.
Lurina, who we first met in Episode 36 of nAS last year, came to us with an amazing idea to involve our listener community more by sourcing their pressing questions on anything related to diabetes. We were more than happy to step up, so in this Episode, facilitated by Lurina, we provide unprepped general guidance in response to your questions on:
Type 1 diabetes and eating disorders ‘Diabetes Distress’ / ‘diabetes burnout’ Erectile/sexual dysfunction Mental health tips for teens living with diabetes and feeling different National Policy frameworks for people with diabetes, covering discrimination and school concessions and accommodations, and consistency in medical funding decisions Policy regarding assessment for school concessions and accommodations Which is better for blood glucose, low glycaemic index bread, or sweet potatoes and squashes? The validity of serum creatinine measurements as an index of kidney function in body builders taking creatine monohydrate supplementsIn our next Community Advocacy Message, Kirsten de Klerk from SA Diabetes Advocacy discusses the first of five important Diabetes Advocacy Projects they will focus on in 2024 - this week, the focus is on continuous glucose monitor access in the public health sector.
Thank you to all who sent in queries! Did you find the resulting Q & A session useful? 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 @ [email protected]
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://my.learna.ac.uk/l/diabetes-ambassador-cde
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Welcome to Episode 41 of 'not ARTIFICIALLY Sweetened', our final for 2023!
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 meet real people, discuss their real issues and stories, and together discover real answers to many vexing practical issues in diabetes and its care.
This week, we look back on our first season of podcasts and advocacy messages, and we invite the feedback of our listeners to help us shape the 2024 season. As a background to introducing our studio guest, Stan again reflects on the rise of novel medications like Ozempic which has diverted attention away from aspects of chronic care ‘beyond the prescription pad’.
In this vein, our studio guest this week is Nina Johnson, who currently practices as an accredited Body Stress Release Practitioner. Before this new career path Nina had more than three decades of high-level experience in Banking, Warehousing, Transport and IT, across communities with diverse environments, cultures and languages. Nina has also lived with type 1 diabetes for 23 years.
In a vibrant and passionate chat, Nina talks about
Her experience as a Body Stress Release (BSR) Practitioner for the past three years The origins of this complementary health practice in South Africa, and how it engages the body’s innate capacity for self-healing what BSR can achieve with alleviating physical, emotional and mental stress and pain, and in promoting overall confidence and wellbeing The personal approach of BSR with clients and its therapeutic interface with chronic health conditions The physical nature of BSR centering on the spine, and the reading of the body feedback to the practitioner’s touch Her personal journey with type 1 diabetes, her extensive advocacy efforts and living with the condition in Kazakhstan and Qatar The importance of living a life of gratefulness and joy and in looking after all aspects of your being Her first experience of BSR as a client, deciding to do a BSR Course and what she learned The need for self-help work for stress overload The need for practitioner engagement and mindfulness in the consultation environment Celebrating what is right in the world to be able to cope with what is wrong in the worldWe wish our listeners and our advocacy partners a blessed, healthy and restful holiday season!
We really 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 @ [email protected]
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
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Welcome to Episode 40 of 'not ARTIFICIALLY Sweetened' 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 meet real people, discuss their real issues and stories, and together discover real answers to many vexing practical issues in diabetes and its care.
Stan talks about common urological symptoms seen in the diabetes - he reminds us that not all health challenges in people with diabetes are caused by diabetes. Symptoms like ‘toilet-mapping’ may thus need referral to a urologist. Michael offers an easy way to discern if urine frequency is related to above-target blood glucose levels.
Endocrinologist Prof David Kerr is our studio guest this week. Happily living as a “Scotsman in the Golden State” of California, USA, David joins us on Thanksgiving Day to share his unique insights into technologies in the field of diabetes. His vast experience and current appointments make David ably qualified in this area – He currently serves as a Senior Investigator in Diabetes Research & Digital Health Equity @ the Sutter Center for Health Systems and Director for Digital Health @ the Diabetes Technology Society (both in Santa Barbara, California), and as an Adjunct Professor @ Rice University Electrical and Computer Engineering, Houston, Texas.
With many unexpected insights from an optimistic ‘tech guru’, David shares,
His early years leading a large hospital department in internal medicine and diabetes, the first uses of insulin pump therapy and continuous glucose monitoring (CGM), and the resultant quality of life gains and an enhanced ability for people with diabetes to ‘experiment’ with their self-care. His move to Santa Barbara in 2014, and his learnings in the democratisation of diabetes care from the large Hispanic population there The possible ‘life’ learnings from CGM data - what we still need to learn to make this more effective with ‘life getting in the way’ His insights into ‘food as medicine’ as the creator of ‘Farming for Life’, a novel programme examining the impact of medical prescriptions of locally sourced, seasonally available fresh vegetables for adults with or at risk for developing type 2 diabetes. Secrets behind helpful diabetes tech and the limitations of socio-economic determinants of health, reading age and digital literacy His thoughts on ‘DIY’ community-led tech Novel opportunities for pairing CGM with lifestyle interventions instead of new drugs Reasons why diabetes education delivery has to change The need for personalisation of the care of ‘my diabetes’, ‘digital champions’, and community health workers How funders decide on funding new tech, or not… Appropriate ‘doses’ of tech The role of and concerns about artificial intelligence in healthcarePlease participate in our listener polls and questions below!
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 @ [email protected]
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
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Welcome to Episode 39 of 'not ARTIFICIALLY Sweetened', now with listeners in 29 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 meet real people, discuss their real issues and stories, and together discover real answers to many vexing practical issues in diabetes and its care.
Stan comments on the many surgeries he is seeing at the moment – in this context he pleads with colleagues to explain why insulin may need to be commenced in a hospital setting and why a simple ‘prescription’ is not enough. Michael reflects on the ‘damp squib’ of World Diabetes Day in terms of media coverage, and Stan laments the lack of advance in the education narrative.
Our studio guest this week is a ‘national treasure’, who has a great passion for diabetes, and who bravely ‘speaks truth to power’'. Dr Patrick Ngassa Piotie is a medical doctor with a PhD in public health. Patrick currently is a senior programme manager at the University of Pretoria Diabetes Research Centre, where he focusses on non-communicable diseases. Patrick is a strong advocate for access to quality diabetes care in developing countries, and a leading advocacy light in South Africa – he uses this talent as the Chairperson of the SA Diabetes Alliance.
“Old ways won’t open new doors” - Patrick Ngassa Piotie
We reflect on the just-past Diabetes Summit for 2023 in the context of the diabetes crisis in South Africa, what went well and what was learned from the day. Also on the ‘moonshot’ 90-60-50 diabetes targets in the National Strategic Plan, which unfortunately is plagued by chasms between policy and delivery.
In a wonderful story of grit, tenacity and insight, Patrick also shares his
Early life in Cameroon, Central Africa and the genesis of his interest in medicine Studying medicine in Mali, and working in Cameroon, and his boredom and frustrations dealing with infectious diseases and a lack of resources Decision to move to South Africa and study public health Immense struggles and eventual success in entering and completing his Master’s degree Struggles to enter the workplace and his progress to a PhD degree and employment in a research setting – “I found my way into what I was supposed to do” ‘Real’ thoughts on why diabetes care isn't where it should be (“the political leadership is the issue”), comparisons between the HIV/AIDS and diabetes stories in South Africa, the ‘low-hanging fruits’ in diabetes care (education, diabetes nurse educator training and recognition, a diabetes registry, use of new drugs and community health workers) and his ‘plan B’ strategy to continue the fight… Commitment to fight for people with diabetesSA Diabetes Advocacy is taking a break until next year...
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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 @ [email protected]
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
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Welcome to Episode 38 of 'not ARTIFICIALLY Sweetened', dropping on World Diabetes Day 2023!
Now with listeners in 29 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 meet real people, discuss their real issues and stories, and together discover real answers to many vexing practical issues in diabetes and its care.
This week Stan and Michael talk about the global shortage of GLP-1 receptor agonist medications driven by social media influencers and social networking, and some caveats in swapping between member molecules even in the same class and in storage and transport.
We have a truly inspirational studio guest this week, Siyabonga Kwanele Zuma from Howick in KwaZulu-Natal. Siyabonga has a Bachelor of Social Science degree in Housing, Development Studies and the Built Environment from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, but his true passions lie in being a writer, poet and a diabetes advocate. He has also been living with type 1 diabetes for over 15 years. As a poet, he goes by his first name and middle name, Siyabonga Kwanele.
In a transformational story, Siyabonga relates:
His introduction to diabetes, through the diagnosis of his older sister with type 1 diabetes at the age of 16, followed by his own diagnosis the next year How both him and his sister were initially misdiagnosed with influenza His journey with diabetes encompassing feeling robbed of his childhood, living a double life while denying his diabetes because of stigma, and the temptations of peer-pressure which lead to him tossing ‘self-control’ and becoming addicted to marijuana and alcohol The life events that led to a complete change in perspective, increasing self-awareness and self-acceptance, leading to him acknowledging and sharing his diabetes diagnosis and living a life of authenticity and openness as a rational, responsible person who is at peace while living with diabetes His rising interest in writing poetry, and in creative diabetes advocacy and social commentary His leadership style and current involvements in diabetes advocacy His forthcoming books, ‘Millennial Thoughts’ a collection of poetry and prose about experiences of love, loss, and anxiety, and a tell-all autobiography The dependable support he has shared with his sisterWe also hear two of Siyabonga’s poems.
Catch Siyabonga on:
LinkedIn: Siyabonga Kwanele Zuma
Facebook: Siyabonga Kwanele
Instagram: @siyabonga_kwanele_
Tik Tok: @siyabonga_kwanele
YouTube: Siyabonga Kwanele
X: Dankie_SirKwanel
In our next Community Advocacy Message, Kirsten de Klerk from SA Diabetes Advocacy discusses important Diabetes Advocacy Events taking place during National Diabetes Month.
Please participate in our listener polls and questions below!
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 @ [email protected]
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
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Welcome to Episode 37 of 'not ARTIFICIALLY Sweetened'!
Don't forget the upcoming SA Diabetes Summit for 2023. Find out more and register here: https://lcp.live/registration-2023-diabetes-summit/
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 meet real people, discuss their real issues and stories, and together discover real answers to many vexing practical issues in diabetes and its care.
Stan and Michael reflect on the just-past 25th CDE Postgraduate Forum in Diabetes Management, the growing ‘layers’ of physiological insights and care resources being identified, and the JEDI approach to learning included (Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion). They also look forward to the upcoming World Diabetes Day on 14 November (themed ‘Know Your Risk, Know Your Response’), and the SA Diabetes Summit taking place in Pretoria on 15 November.
Joining us in studio for this week’s episode is Holly Heinzelmann, a BSc graduate and current Law Student, Public Speaker, Writer and Critical Thinker.
In a deeply personal conversation, Holly shares:
Her ‘epic’ experience at the CDE Forum as a person with lived experience of type 1 diabetes, and her positive feedback on the inclusion of people with diabetes as session facilitators Her thoughts on who the real customer is for the pharma and diagnostic industries and the pharmacoeconomic case for including innovative technologies in diabetes care Why continuous glucose monitoring is a vital part of her diabetes self-care. Her experience as a person also living with cerebral palsy which affects her balance and ability to walk – Holly discusses how this affects her diabetes self-care both in treatment of hypoglycaemia and in physical activity, and how her chronic health challenges reduce her access to the privilege of ‘living with spontaneity’ Her thoughts on the subject of ‘disability’, working towards making this a neutral term, how others view the ‘value’ of people with various disabilities, and how others often assume wrongly that a physical disability is paired with a cognitive disability. Her current involvements in disability and diabetes advocacy, and why all people should take this advocacy seriouslyIn our next Community Advocacy Message, Kirsten de Klerk from SA Diabetes Advocacy announces 3-5 km Sweet Life Community Walks taking place in Durban, Johannesburg and Cape Town on Saturday 18 November.
Please participate in our listener polls and questions below!
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 @ [email protected]
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
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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/
Please participate in our listener polls and questions below!
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 @ [email protected]
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
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Welcome to Episode 35 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.
This week, Stan and Michael remind listeners of the upcoming 25th CDE Postgraduate Forum in Diabetes Management. They also continue their discussion on keeping in contact with the diabetes care team. This week they cover the principles of ‘emergency contact’ in community-based proactive preventative care, and how 24-hour telephonic ‘Emergency Hotlines’ provided by CDE Branches nationwide have been integral in preventing many thousands of unnecessary admissions and in saving many lives.
Our studio guest is Alisha Lalbeharie, a passionate podiatrist from Ladysmith, KwaZulu-Natal
Alisha discusses:
Her essential insightful preventative and treatment roles as a ‘lower-limb’ medical professional within the diabetes care team Possible neurovascular and other risk factors that affect lower limb and overall health in diabetes The importance and cost-effectiveness of regular foot examinations in all diabetes related consultations in the prevention of lower-limb amputations in diabetes The scarcity of podiatrists in South Africa, with only one university on the African continent (the University of Johannesburg) training podiatrists Her leadership and education roles as KZN Branch Chair for the Podiatry Association of South Africa Her specialised training that allows her to practice as a registered foot care medical professional The adverse impacts on quality of life, health and risk resulting from poor foot care Mood matters in holistic, person-centred foot care Her practice-changing learning experiences and insights gained while participating in the CDE Academy Foundation Course in Diabetes Care for Health Professionals The importance of comfortable, supportive footwear and daily self-examination and foot care in foot health The role of social and digital media in the evolution and expansion of safe, ethical access to health and podiatry care Her passion for excellence in practice management and Her hopes for the future of podiatry and diabetes related foot care in South Africa – a field currently in crisisIn our next Community Advocacy Message, Kirsten de Klerk from SA Diabetes Advocacy talks about the inclusion of people with lived experience of diabetes as session moderators in the upcoming SA Diabetes Summit for 2023. Find out more and register here: https://lcp.live/registration-2023-diabetes-summit/
Please participate in our listener polls and questions below!
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 @ [email protected]
For health professionals working in diabetes
The CDE Postgraduate Forum in Diabetes Management is a state-of-the-art interactive weekend learning event for health professionals interested in the management of diabetes. Register for our 25th Annual Forum at the Maslow Hotel in Sandton (27-29 October 2023) @ https://www.cdediabetes.org/index.php/for-healthcare-professionals/annual-forum
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/
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Welcome to Episode 34 of 'not ARTIFICIALLY Sweetened'!
Now with listeners in 27 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.
This week, Stan and Michael remind our listeners of the importance of keeping in contact with the members of the wider diabetes care team – this week we cover the principles of ‘regular, routine contact’ in community-based proactive preventative care.
John Hay joins us in studio this week - John is a retired motor parts importer, and his interests include refurbishing old cars and golf. He has lived with an interesting and relatively rare form of diabetes for 53 years, and his story offers our listeners the opportunity to revisit what they think they know about diabetes!
John, Stan and Michael reflect on John’s:
presumed diagnosis of type 1 diabetes as a young man following an insurance medical and an atypical presentation prolonged hospitalisation on admission (a wholly unnecessary action nowadays) past treatments and monitoring methods fortune to be care for by an insightful endocrinologist, CDE Founder, Prof Larry Distiller participation in a trial investigating tablet treatment of his diabetes life-changing discovery that he has a variant of ‘monogenic diabetes’ – we discuss what this means, how John’s treatment changed dramatically, and the implications for his children and grandchildren Relatively unburdened clinical course and freedom from microvascular complicationsContext and ‘the story’ matter in the diagnosis of diabetes! Don’t miss or forget the important lessons in this Episode!
In our next Community Advocacy Message, we remind listeners about the upcoming Diabetes Summit for 2023. Find our more and register here: https://lcp.live/registration-2023-diabetes-summit/
Please participate in our listener polls and questions below!
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 @ [email protected]
For health professionals working in diabetes
The CDE Postgraduate Forum in Diabetes Management is a state-of-the-art interactive weekend learning event for health professionals interested in the management of diabetes. Register for our 25th Annual Forum at the Maslow Hotel in Sandton (27-29 October 2023) @ https://www.cdediabetes.org/index.php/for-healthcare-professionals/annual-forum
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
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Welcome to Episode 33 of 'not ARTIFICIALLY Sweetened'!
We apologise for poor sound quality in some places
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.
Stan and Michael start the show by discussing common skin conditions that occur in the context of diabetes or ‘pre-diabetes’, which may warn of potential harms brewing below the skin – two examples include eruptive xanthomas and acanthosis nigricans. We also highlight a recent article which again reminds us about common misconceptions around when type 1 is usually diagnosed and who is most at risk of misdiagnosis. In the information reviewed, up to 62% of cases of type 1 diabetes were diagnosed after the age of twenty years and 37% after the age of 30 years.
Joining us in our virtual studio this week is Elné Visagie, a Counselling Psychologist, Lecturer and Researcher at the University of Pretoria.
Elné shares
The reasons behind her professional passion for diabetes Insights into her current PhD research topic – cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) to improve self-management in type 2 diabetes Insights driving CBT - the complex interactions between emotions, thoughts, and behaviours and how this triad can be further modified by values, attitudes and beliefs and past experiences News of the development of new CBT guidelines for type 2 diabetes from her research The gauging of ‘readiness to change’, and who generally will benefit from CBT and who may be an inappropriate candidate Practical examples of the CBT approach and process The importance of a client-centred collaborative approach and the development of trust and rapport The value of self-compassion and mindfulness in the facilitation of behaviour change Her thoughts on empowering non-psychologists with the core skills of CBTIn our next Community Advocacy Message, we remind listeners about the upcoming Diabetes Summit for 2023. Find our more and register here: https://lcp.live/registration-2023-diabetes-summit/
Please participate in our listener polls and questions below!
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 @ [email protected]
For health professionals working in diabetes
The CDE Postgraduate Forum in Diabetes Management is a state-of-the-art interactive weekend learning event for health professionals interested in the management of diabetes. Register for our 25th Annual Forum at the Maslow Hotel in Sandton (27-29 October 2023) @ https://www.cdediabetes.org/index.php/for-healthcare-professionals/annual-forum
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
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Welcome to Episode 32 of 'not ARTIFICIALLY Sweetened'!
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.
For our ‘clinical pearls’ this week, Stan and Michael warn of the dangers and discomforts that may occur with too-rapid reductions of blood glucose levels following diagnosis or a prolonged period of hyperglycaemia. We also chat about the upcoming World Diabetes Day which takes place annually on 14 November - this year's theme is ‘know your risk and know your response’. Check out your personal risk for type 2 diabetes @ https://worlddiabetesday.org/type-2-diabetes-risk-assessment/
Our studio guest is Abdullah Khan, a community pharmacist from Athlone Pharmacy in Cape Town. Besides his role as a pharmacist, Abdullah's community sees him as a social worker, psychologist, confidant, pillar of strength, and a passionate advocate for children, youth, older adults, community health and diabetes.
In his typical soft spoken and kind manner, Abdullah reflects on his:
Years as a BSc and Pharmacy student, including his leadership, political and regulatory exposures Growing affinity and passion for diabetes first as a Pharmacy intern and then as a practice owner Role in founding a community support group for diabetes, ‘Diabetic 101’, and the many strategies he uses to attract attendees and supporters to this free community outreach and education programme. Work to highlight and promote the central role of the community pharmacist in the wider diabetes team, and in forging communication and referral bridges with a variety of local health professionals Learning journey on the CDE Academy Online Foundation Course in Diabetes Care for Health professionals, and how his experience benefitted his daily clinical practice Commitment to continuous education and upskilling Experiences with heartbreaking financial hardships affecting healthcare access in his community and how he tries to assist Insights from years of practice for new pharmacy students, health professionals, and people with diabetes – ‘passion’ infuses the ‘guardian angel’ role he fulfils in his communityIn our next Community Advocacy Message, Kirsten de Klerk from SA Diabetes Advocacy reminds our listeners about their online Diabetes Advocacy Training Course – for more information and to sign up for their 2024 Courses, please visit www.diabetesadvocacy.org.za - click on ‘Advocacy’.
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For health professionals working in diabetes
The CDE Postgraduate Forum in Diabetes Management is a state-of-the-art interactive weekend learning event for health professionals interested in the management of diabetes. Register for our 25th Annual Forum at the Maslow Hotel in Sandton (27-29 October 2023) @ https://www.cdediabetes.org/index.php/for-healthcare-professionals/annual-forum
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/
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