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Diabetes Nerd
Seriously? Another diabetes podcast? Yup. I couldn't help myself. In this podcast, we are breaking down diabetes cure research, insulin management tips, pump and CGM technology, other meds like GLP-1s, burnout, and inspiring stories.
These are real conversations about life with diabetes.
ABOUT THE HOST:
Ginger Vieira has lived with type 1 diabetes since 1999. She is an author, advocate, journalist, content creator, and diabetes content marketing specialist. Over the years, she's published many…
Episodes
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5 Months Later: Life with a Pancreas/Kidney Transplant
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the Diabetes Nerd Podcast, we catch up with Ali Dugger five months after her pancreas and kidney transplant. While she’s…
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Lockdown with Type 1 Diabetes: Are You Prepared?
Send us Fan Mail Emergency preparedness is crucial in today's world, especially if you live with a chronic illness like type 1 diabetes (T1D). It's a sobering…
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Losing Weight with Diabetes: What Actually Works
Send us Fan Mail Managing type 1 diabetes while chasing fitness goals isn’t easy, but it is possible. In this episode of the Diabetes Nerd Podcast, I sit down…
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Breaking the Binge-Eating Habit with Type 1 Diabetes
Send us Fan Mail Living with type 1 diabetes (T1D) often means constant focus on food, numbers, and control, which can sometimes spiral into disordered eating…
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Using a GLP-1 with Type 1 Diabetes Eliminated Her Food Noise
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the Diabetes Nerd podcast, I chat with Lindsay Cohen, a mother and advocate living with type 1 diabetes (T1D). You might…
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Going Low? Creating the Yummiest Glucose Product Ever
Send us Fan Mail In this week's episode, I sat down with Naomi, the founder of Glow Gummies, to discuss her standout product for managing low blood sugar. If…
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ChatGPT Fixed Her Insulin Pump Doses
Send us Fan Mail Ginger sat down with Kelsey Conover, known as @t1disco on Instagram, to discuss the challenges, successes, and chaos of living with type 1…
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She was Seizing: Her Wife Didn't Know if She'd Survive
Send us Fan Mail Are you afraid of going outside your target blood sugar range? Have you ever worked so hard to stay within it that it backfired? Ginger and BJ…
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GLP-1s with T1D: Answers to Your Burning Questions
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the Diabetes Nerd Podcast, Ginger and Tara sat down with Robert A. Gabbay, MD, PhD, FACP, who is Chief Medical Officer and…
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This "Unusual" Insulin Technique Has Us Hooked!
Send us Fan Mail Inhaled insulin doesn’t get nearly enough credit—but for both Kristin Schaner and me, it’s been a game-changer in managing type 1 diabetes. In…
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Was This Man Misdiagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes? Ginger Thinks So!
Send us Fan Mail Matthew Tremellen is the founder and CEO of DiabeticU, a company dedicated to empowering people with diabetes to take control and live their…
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Relationships & Diabetes: Hypoglycemia Makes for a Bad 1st Date
Send us Fan Mail Rage-bolusing, dating disasters, and the ruthlessness of type 1 diabetes (T1D). That's what my friend, BJ, and I are talking about during this…
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She Was in Diabetes Denial for Years!
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Ginger Vieira chats with Michelle Hale—better known as @globaldiabetic on Instagram—about the highs and lows of traveling…
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This Inspired Her to Care More About Her T1D
Send us Fan Mail Amanda Mueller opens up about disassociating from type 1 diabetes, the moment she got her sh*t together, and how finding others with T1D…
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Even Diabetes Clinicians Ride the Blood Sugar Rollercoaster
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Ginger Vieira chats with diabetes psychologist and author of "Diabetes Sucks and You Can Handle It," Dr. Mark Heyman. They…
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My Best Friend Doesn't Remember Life Without Diabetes
Send us Fan Mail We accidentally bestie’d so hard that now Tara can’t even remember a time before diabetes was part of the picture—wild, right?! 🎙️ In this…
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Ali's Pancreas Transplant Part 2
Send us Fan Mail Diabetes Nerd sits down with Ali Dugger to discuss how life is going months following a dual organ transplant. After experiencing severe…
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Travel Disasters with Type 1 Diabetes: Don't Make These Mistakes!
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Ginger and Ben Tzeel, RD, CDCES, share their most memorable T1D travel disasters — and how they survived the trip anyway. By…
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She Stopped Taking Her Insulin for a Week
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the Diabetes Nerd Podcast, Julia Flaherty shares the week she thought she could fix everything about her body by skipping…
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This Cures Constant Hunger with Type 1 Diabetes
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Ginger Vieira and Natalie Poulton discuss their personal experience taking GLP-1 medications like Mounjaro and Ozempic for…
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I Diagnosed Myself with Diabetes at 13 Years Old
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Ginger shares that funny little time in the 7th grade when she realized she had type 1 diabetes. Oh, by the way, the amazing…
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Eversense CGM: I Didn't Realize I'd Love It This Much!
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we are just a few days into my experience with the 365-day Eversense implantable continuous glucose monitor. Feeling totally…
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Ali's Fight to Live: Curing Type 1 Diabetes with a Pancreas Transplant
Send us Fan Mail Sounds amazing, right? Just get a new pancreas, and your type 1 diabetes will magically disappear. Not so fast. In this episode, Ali Dugger…
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The Side-Effects Are Killing You — But Your Doctor is Clueless
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the Diabetes Nerd Podcast, Tara Mayo — my best friend and business partner — shares the moment she realized her…
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Scary Diabetes Motivation: He Held a Gun to Her Head
Send us Fan Mail BJ Garceau shares the very scary day that changed the entire trajectory of her life with type 1 diabetes. Find BJ on Instagram…