Juicebox Podcast: Type 1 Diabetes

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By: Scott Benner

Obtainable strategies for living well with diabetes. Throw away your fear and learn to be Bold With Insulin! Visit the show at JuiceboxPodcast.com

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#1980 Three Years Low Carb
#1980
Today at 4:05 AM

Diliara's daughter was diagnosed at eight. The family went low carb for three years and it worked — until it didn't. She and Scott talk honestly about what that community gets right and where it goes wrong.

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#1979 Five More Minutes
#1979
Yesterday at 4:02 AM

Julie's daughter already had an immune deficiency, a liver condition and a heart issue when type 1 arrived on a family trip overseas. A nurse later told them how close they had come.

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#1978 Juicebox Rewind - Week 611
#1978
Last Saturday at 4:02 AM

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#1977 Animating Type One for Neurodivergent Kids
#1977
Last Friday at 4:01 AM

Radhika is a pediatric endocrinologist. Molly is the mother of a neurodivergent daughter with type 1. Together they are building animated diabetes education for people the usual materials were never made for.

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#1976 Founder Story: Brave One
#1976
Last Thursday at 4:00 AM

Brandi's daughter was diagnosed at three. She built a nonprofit that matches kids with type 1 to older mentors who have it too — and she is still figuring out how to run it.

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#1975 CGM Burden
#1975
Last Wednesday at 4:04 AM

Erika Forsyth is back. She and Scott take apart the paradox of CGM data — why more information can make you feel worse, and how checking every five minutes starts to run you.

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#1974 Lower the Threshold
#1874
10/06/2026

An engineering student who was diagnosed in the middle of a semester — found in a dorm shower, five days in the hospital, and back at school almost immediately. She also has a needle phobia.

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#1973 Founder Story: Jon Fawcett and Sugarpixel
#1973
10/05/2026

Jon Fawcett built Sugarpixel so his daughter would wake up to her alarms. He and Scott talk about making a physical product one at a time, and why neither of them wants to grow much bigger.

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#1972 Juicebox Rewind — Week 610
#1972
10/03/2026

This week on Juicebox in 5 minutes.

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#1971 Next Person Who Speaks Loses
#1971
10/02/2026

Jackie Waldie is a special education advocate, a former teacher of the year, and a mom of a kid with type 1. She and Scott take apart the 504 meeting — what to ask for, and how to actually get it.

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#1970 Once You Step on the Plane
#1970
10/01/2026

Four weeks after his diagnosis in 1992, thirteen-year-old Christian flew to England alone for language school. Today he lives in Switzerland and travels constantly — and he has a system.

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#1969 Elena and Sarah
#1969
09/30/2026

Elena was diagnosed her senior year of high school and is now managing it on her own in college. She and her mom, Sarah, talk about the handoff — and the nights Elena sleeps through a low.

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#1968 Hide and Go Seek
#1968
09/29/2026

Kristen is a pediatric nurse who gives Tzield for a living. Her own son was caught at stage two, got the infusion, and she talks about what it bought them — and what it costs.

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#1967 Healthy Little Girls Don't Sleep All Day
#1967
09/28/2026

Gina was diagnosed at seven with a blood sugar of 2,000. Fifty years later she chairs a university social work department and brings Scott an idea: the story you tell about your diabetes can change.

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#1966 Juicebox Rewind — Week 609
#1966
09/26/2026

This week on Juicebox in 5 minutes. With a guest co-host. 

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#1965 Bolus 4 - TBT1
#1965
09/25/2026

Scott and Jenny Smith pick the four foods they will bolus for live on stage at Touched By Type 1 — and then practice on air. Crab cakes, key lime pie, a Cubano, and cheese curds.

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#1964 Undiabetic
#1964
09/24/2026

Katie Beth Hand had an islet cell transplant in January. She has been off insulin since March 3 with an A1c of 4.9. Six months later, she returns to describe what it actually feels like.

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#1963 Irritable Uterus
#1963
09/23/2026

Lea is a paramedic who had gestational diabetes, was told it would resolve after delivery, and watched her blood sugar stay high anyway. A year into a type 1 diagnosis, she talks about what everyone missed.

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#1962 They Thought I Was on Heroin
#1962
09/22/2026

Cynthia was told she had type 2 and put on Ozempic. Three years later she was found barely conscious in a school parking lot and spent three days in the ICU with a blood sugar of 120.

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#1961 Terrible People Live Forever
#1961
09/21/2026

An emergency room nurse was married to a man with type 1 for seven years and still didn't understand it. Then her daughter was diagnosed. She speaks anonymously about learning it late and managing it across two houses.

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#1960 Juicebox Rewind — Week 608
#1960
09/19/2026

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#1959 Dr. Joanna Mitri from twiist
#1959
09/18/2026

Dr. Joanna Mitri is an endocrinologist and Sequel's chief medical officer. Scott brings her a list of questions from the audience about twiist — coverage, cost, sensors, tubeless, and what's next.

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#1958 Body Fullness
#1958
09/17/2026

Heather has had type 1 for twenty-nine years and was in the first human trials for Dexcom. Now she teaches mindfulness to people with diabetes — and has some language for what Scott has been doing all along.

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#1957 You Just Need to Move On
#1957
09/16/2026

Kelly's son was diagnosed with type 1 at five. For a year and a half nobody would retest him for celiac — until a stranger's comment on a Facebook post and a nurse practitioner's cell phone number changed everything.

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#1956 Founder Story: Insulin in the Window
#1956
09/15/2026

John Wilcox was diagnosed on his ninth birthday, noticed insulin pooling in his pod window, and turned it into a company. He talks about building Diatech Diabetes, selling it, and running marathons with type 1.

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#1955 Lotus Flower
#1955
09/14/2026

Scott has spent a week stewing on something and asks Jenny Smith to let him record it: what the attention economy is doing to people trying to learn how to manage their diabetes.

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#1954 Juicebox Rewind — Week 607
#1954
09/12/2026

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#1953 Autism and Type One
#1953
09/11/2026

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#1952 Addy Tayler Has Nothing to Teach You - Part 2
#1952
09/10/2026

Part two with Addy Tayler: what the algorithm actually rewards, why reach keeps shrinking, and whether any of it adds up to helping somebody — all fit around a full-time job and a toddler.

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#1951 Addy Tayler Has Nothing to Teach You - Part 1
#1951
09/09/2026

Addy Tayler posts about diabetes to 85,000 followers around a full-time job and a toddler, and spent years ducking Scott's invitations because podcasts scare her. Part one: diagnosis at 24, a baby a year later, and vitiligo.

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#1950 Name a Rule You Break
#1950
09/08/2026

A Facebook post asked people to name a diabetes rule they break. Hundreds answered. Scott and Jenny Smith go through the list and plan a series around every one of them.

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#1949 Diabetes Overload
#1949
09/07/2026

Ashley was working as a diabetes educator when her own son was diagnosed. She talks about the burnout she had already watched up close, and what she does differently because of it.

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#1948 Juicebox Rewind — Week 606
#1948
09/05/2026

This week on Juicebox in 5 minutes. 

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#1947 Emily Is Twelve
#1947
09/04/2026

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 — plus a word with her mother.

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#1946 Thirty-Seven Years and Still Learning
#1946
09/03/2026

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 what perimenopause did to all of it.

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#1945 The Hippocratic Oath
#1945
09/02/2026

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 higher.

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#1944 The Catnip
#1944
09/01/2026

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 thing to sell.

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#1943 Both Feet on Both Pedals
#1943
08/31/2026

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 been doing.

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#1942 Everything Here Is Free
#1942
08/29/2026

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. Ends with a song.

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#1941 I Chose Wealth Over Health
#1941
08/28/2026

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 diabetes as he can.

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