I have Type 1 diabetes. I love to write. I’m happy when I am helping others. I speak up when it’s important. I have a passion for sharing knowledge and learning new technology. I was BORN to BLOG!
I’ve met so many other T1Ds on this journey who are cool and love to help others. We put our heads and hearts together … to bring more resources and knowledge to our amazing diabetes community. We’re making improvements every day … come back often, let us know what you think. And my gratitude for my amazing webmaster, Dave (an honorary T1D)!
And thank you for stopping by!
— Joanne Laufer Milo, The Savvy Diabetic
Savvy Reviews: Cody and His Type 1 Diabetes AND Thrive Glucose Revival
It's my total honor to bring you 2 great diabetes finds!!! Cody and His Type 1 Diabetes is the most charming little story about Cody (a shih-tzu maltese mixed doggie) who gets diabetes. It's short, filled with adorable photographs ... you'll just fall in love...
Savvy Eating, 3/20/19: Mushrooms, Skinny Noodles, High Carb Diet=Impossible Mission
Are Mushrooms Really a Miracle Food? was reported by Markham Heid for Medium | Health, 13 March 2019. The mushroom business is booming. Worldwide production is up 30-fold since the late 1970s, and the average person now eats about 11 pounds of mushrooms per...
Savvy Updates 3/18/19: 3D Printed Pancreas, Exercise & Glucose Tolerance, All of Us, Hearing
3D Bio-Printed Bionic Pancreas was discussed by Marin Hensel of InsulinNation.com, 12 March 2019 ... so interesting! According to Michał Wszoła MD, PhD about the 3D Bio-Printed Bionic Pancreas work being done with his team and Bionic Consortium in Poland, the goal is...
Savvy Sleep: It’s Vital!
After having a recent sleep study in which I was diagnosed as having sleep apnea (I stop breathing and my brain oxygen drops) and RSL (kicking many times/hour), I decided to ask a bit about sleep and Type 1 diabetes. When I ask T1 friends if they are tired, they...
Savvy Updates 3/11/19: FDA Shake Up, Senseonics New CMO, Lilly and Cannabis, Gut Microbes
FDA chief Scott Gottlieb steps down, leaving pet projects behind, (by Eric Sagonowsky on FiercePharma.com, 5 March 2019) is the big shake-up that will iimpact our T1 community. Gottlieb was biopharma-friendly—to the point where the Nasdaq biotech index plummeted...
Savvy Living, 3/8/19: Meditation and Becoming Buddha, Dalai Lama’s Antidote to Destructive Emotions
Becoming Buddha, The One Most Remarkable Trait Of Long-Term Meditators’ Brain, was written by Laura Vismara for Medium | Change Your Mind, Change Your Life, 5 February 2019. Experienced and high-level meditators share some common traits. They are generally more...
Savvy Eating, 3/6/19: A.I. Diet, Fat and Memory, Junk Food and Bears
The A.I. Diet ,,,Forget government-issued food pyramids. Let an algorithm tell you how to eat ... according to Dr. Eric Topol (cardiologist) for the Opinion Section of The New York Times, 2 March 2019. Despite decades of diet fads and government-issued food...
Savvy Update 3/4/19: Alertgy CGM, History of CGM, Stop Calling Physicians as ‘Dr.’
Alertgy’s Non-Invasive CGM Wristband was reported by Martin Hensel on InsulinNation.com, February 2019. The Alertgy GM is a band that you wear around your wrist that works with an app on your smartphone to measure your blood sugar. The Alertgy wristband acts as...
Savvy Living, 3/1/19: CBD/Marijuana and Type 1 diabetes
I've been wanting to look at this for a while ... and I've tried to find a local medical doctor and a medical group willing to host a discussion about CBD oil and Type 1 diabetes. But most places I checked would not go on the record to host or even discuss this...
Savvy Eating 2/27/2019: NUTS,
Nuts Linked With Lower CV Risk in Diabetes, as reported by Jeff Minerd of MedPageToday.com, 22 February 2019, based on a study at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and published in Circulation Research. Eating more nuts -- especially tree nuts such as...
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