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Welcome back, friends, to another episode of the Juice Box Podcast. In every episode of Bolus 4, Jenny Smith and I are going to take a few minutes to talk through how to bolus for a single item of food. Jenny and I are going to follow a little bit of a roadmap called Meal Bolt. Measure the meal, evaluate yourself, add the base units, layer a correction, build the bolus shape, offset the timing, look at the CGM tweak for next time. Having said that, these episodes are going to be very conversational and not incredibly technical. We want you to hear how we think about it, but we also would
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like you to know that this is
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kind of the pathway we're considering while we're talking about it. So while you might not hear us
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say every letter of Meal Bolt in
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every episode, we we will be thinking about it while we're talking.
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If you want to learn more, go
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to juiceboxpodcast.com meal bolt but for now, we'll find out how to bolus for today's subject.
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Nothing you hear on the Juice Box Podcast should be considered advice, medical or otherwise. Always consult a physician before making any changes to your healthcare plan. This episode of the Juice Box Podcast is sponsored by the Omnipod 5 and at my link omnipod.com juicebox you can get yourself a free what I just say a free Omnipod 5 starter kit. Free.
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Get out of here.
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Go click on that link omnipod.com juicebox check it out. Terms and conditions apply. Eligibility may vary. Full terms and conditions can be found@ omnipod.com juicebox links in the show notes links@juiceboxpodcast.com Today's episode is also sponsored by Dexcom the Dexcom G7, the same CGM
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that my daughter wears.
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You can learn more and get started today at my link dexcom.com juicebox Jenny
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I got a note from somebody the other day that said are you in Jenny well don't all yet are you
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always get lovely note. I mean you know some of the notes are very inquiring. I think that that's great.
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Well this lady said can you do some bolus for us for healthy food? Okay. I said we're just doing the ones people asked about. I don't know. It's funny, as I started to think about it is. I don't know what she meant by healthy food, but when I. Oh, she
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didn't give any examples. It was just healthy.
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Can you please? Well, the McDonald's one had come out, and the best. I got so many, like, really interesting little notes from people about the McDonald's one. But the best one was, I don't eat at McDonald's. I just tuned in to hear Jenny try to hold her gasp inside.
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That's kind of funny.
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And I said, well, that did happen so many times.
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It did.
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But at the same time, I think it made this person say, and you know, what about healthy foods? As I started thinking about, I was like, aren't healthy foods easy to bolus for? Like, aren't they carb counts for the most part. And a little bit of pre bolus in the right place. And where am I miss thinking it?
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That would be my first, I guess, way to explain it as well. In general food, that is. And I wouldn't even say. Let's just say clean food. Right.
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That's how it makes me think. Something that's not processed or has a ton of stuff in it.
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Yeah, right. I mean, the ingredients are all readable. They're real food ingredients. There might be like sodium or ascorbic acid or something. But again, those are. They're still real food. Yeah, right.
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Why don't we do bolus for real food today?
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I. Okay.
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All right.
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And what kind of real food do you want to eat?
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Well, Jenny, now, this is the problem, right? Because she didn't give me any examples. And I am. I grew up a trash person, so I don't know how I'm supposed to think of what people eat.
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Well, when I think of real food, I think of the food on the plate didn't necessarily come from a box, let's say. And there are some packaged foods that are still quality foods that are somewhat processed. I think of bean. You can buy dry beans. There's a whole process. Like you have to soak them and then cook them and then drain them and rinse them. It's a process. Right. Which most people in today's world, they just don't have the time for. So then you purchase canned beans. Okay, great. They're processed, but they're not full of a bunch of junk.
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Yeah, okay.
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Things like dry. Let's do quinoa. Quinoa is dry. You buy it in a package that doesn't mean it's not a quality, nutrient dense food. It's just the way that we now have to buy it. Right. Even if you have a co op or something you go to and you buy it from their bulk, it's still technically dehydrated and you know what I'm saying?
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No, I do. I wonder if when she said, you know, real food or healthy food or however she put it, I just pulled up a list, I just, I just went and I said, like, give me a list of real foods that humans eat most often worldwide. And I mean, and it's chicken, pork, fish, bananas, beans, you know, garlic, tomatoes, broccoli. Broccoli, yeah. Cabbage, bananas, apples, oranges, grapes. And now I'm thinking, if she's having trouble bolusing for this stuff, is it more about settings and timing? Is it maybe back to the basics? Because this shouldn't be difficult, right?
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It shouldn't be difficult. And that is, it's a good place to start. Is it that your settings aren't right? That's the first place of evaluation. If you're sitting down and you're eating, let's give a meal of something like grilled vegetables, some baked salmon and maybe blueberries. Okay?
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Okay. Yeah.
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All real food. You might put a little oil on it to cook it, you might, or butter, you might put some seasonings on or whatever. But in general, that's real food. You can count on the nutrients that you look up, that you get from chat, GPT, from a photo, from whatever. You can count on the carbs, proteins and fat being real and, and not impacted by a bunch of other additives or ingredients. And so a meal like this, you'd essentially say, well, what are my carbs? Right. I've got some broccoli, pretty low carb, very low glycemic, got a good amount of dietary fiber in it. Even has. Vegetables are by weight, actually a little higher in protein. Most people don't think they can get protein from veggies, but you can. And then you've got your blueberries, which are also a carbohydrate source. Again, pepper, pretty low glycemic. So a meal like this, once your settings are set, should be pretty easy to bolus for. There's not much on the back end that you're going to have to worry about.
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It just feels to me that a person who's eating that way, like, I just know from talking to you, really mostly like, you eat like this and I've seen your graphs for years, they look like I expect Them to look almost all the time, right. And around food. And so her. Just as we're chatting about it now, I'm like, maybe this. Maybe I really. Maybe I really was onto something all those years ago when I was like, it's just timing an amount. Like, use the right amount of insulin at the right time. Like, I might have been onto something, you know? And when you're talking about, you know, chicken nuggets and French fries and Cinnabon and all the other things that are on that. That bolus four list, which is growing because you and I have been making it for a while now. Those are like. Like Rube Goldberg meals, you know what you mean? Like, there's. Yeah, there's arms sticking out of places that you have to think about, and you don't, like, really understand all the pieces that are there. It's so big and unwielding, like abstract art.
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You have to look at it for a long time to kind of pull the parts apart and say, I don't know. I think the artist was saying this.
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Yeah. And I think I need some insulin here for that part and a little more over here for that thing that's going to come at me. And, oh, there's the boot down here that cooks the toaster that's going. Need insulin 45 minutes from now. And like, okay, now when you. That's hard to understand. You put together a plate with fish and a broccoli and a half a potato or something like that. Like, I mean, it's count the carbs pre bolus and make sure your blood sugar is moving in the right direction when you start eating. And you should be okay.
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Right. And something fair to bring, which I love, actually, I love this question. So whoever asked it, thank you. I think it's a wonderful way to highlight the fact that all the hard things that we've addressed, they are truly hard. They're things like you said, we have to pull them apart. We have to figure out what parts are going to hit when. And then it still is the timing of when to put the insulin in the right way. Right. But simpler foods, real, just basic. Essentially, you need the information, the carbs. And then you just need to know that your settings are starting in the right place. And then even bolus timing isn't that difficult. And with today's technology, we have our CGMs that are pointing our glucose trend in a direction or stable or in the other direction that then goes into the consideration, too. But it's a little less cumbersome than what we get from more, I guess, full and complex meals.
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I mean, I believe there are probably plenty of people, I'm probably chief among them at some point in my life that would look at a Cinnabon at the mall and think, oh, that's very sugary, but not think about all the fat that's in it. Right. Or you get a, People don't think about how something's cooked sometimes. Right. Like you, you, you commented during the, during the McDonald's bowls for. You're like, is this all fried? And I was like, Jenny, they don't even have an oven in there. What are you talking about? And
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I do remember that I've never.
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Yeah, yeah. So I guess I, I feel like this is maybe a good spot to bring up that there's a settings calculator on the website and maybe if you're having that much trouble bolusing for simple clean meals, maybe your settings are off or, you know, you know what I'm saying? Like, maybe that's a good place to go.
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I do. I also think another consideration here is maybe, maybe this person was also asking because they were considering doing a bit of turnaround in what was typical for them to eat and maybe they've got down what they were doing and now that they want to eat a little cleaner, let's call it, the food is simplified in a way that you're right. Maybe the settings actually were catered to the type of intake they had and they had it figured out. But now that they've started eating a little bit cleaner or home cooked meals and they know what goes into their food, they may actually be seeing things that are not responding like they'd expect with the settings they've got. And therein lies a good question of, well, what do you do with that? Right? You have it figured out for harder stuff, but now the simple stuff comes in and it all goes wonky and it should be easy, easier.
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Yeah. So if you were eating differently and then changing to cleaner or I mean, honestly, if you were a sedentary person and then suddenly got more active and because maybe those two things go hand in hand, I'm going to get some more exercise and eat better. Right, Right. You, you wouldn't realize after time that the settings you have now, what your carb ratio is, your bolus, you know, correction factor, your basal insulin. Those settings, what those settings are, are set up for a sedentary person eating not cleanly.
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Right.
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And now you suddenly get active and oh gosh, I seem to mess up all my meals. Listen Last night. Last night. I already told Jenny about this. I feel like I'm saying something twice to somebody, but last night, my family took me to a concert. It was my Christmas present. And Arden had a class late in the afternoon. She runs in the house. She's like, I haven't eaten yet today. And she looks around, looks around, looks around and. And grabs a muffin, then runs upstairs and gets ready to go to this thing. Like, we are. We gotta go. You know what I mean?
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Right?
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And it's like a muffin from Costco. It's not.
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Oh, my.
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Yes.
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Those are gigantic.
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And it wasn't the big, big one.
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It was a smaller one.
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They figured out not to give you six giant ones. They now give you eight slightly less giant ones.
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Oh, they.
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But like, she grabbed it off the counter. Bolst. While she was eating it, and now we're sitting in the car for an hour, driving, and I'm watching her blood sugar. Just 2:30. It is just sitting there. It ain't moving. All right? And the algorithm's pushing, and it isn't moving. So we Bolst and it's not moving. But eventually we're like, fair enough. There's enough insulin in here. Like, we have to stop.
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Gonna hit at some point. Yeah.
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Park the car at the NJ Pack center, by the way. NJ Pack Center. Thank you for building another parking lot, because it's a disaster there, but still the traffic is horrible, and you had to walk and you get out of the car. We're late. Hustling through the parking garage, up a bunch, get to the escalator. Escalators out of order. Ran up the stairs, run inside, get our tickets. Everybody's got to go to the bathroom. Run in the bathroom. Like, we're going to see Yo Yo Ma. Like, I'm not seeing it. Like, I want to be on time. Like, we're hustling. Right.
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You're not seeing, like, a dog jump through hoops or something.
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This is one of these things that. Listen, this doesn't belong here, but you should go sit quietly in a room, be very still, Listen to Yo Yo Ma play once in your life. It'll change how you feel about being alive.
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omnipod.com juicebox and so like, I'm trying to get to this thing and we sit down and I'm not very involved in her care anymore. But, but I think just out of repetition, the last thing I did before we turned our phones off was look at her blood sugar. Because I know from years of experience something's gonna go wrong. This is gonna be it right here. Right?
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Right.
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But I wasn't thinking about at that point, oh, we gave her a bunch of insulin. She was stuck high. We just weren't. I didn't think about any of that till the next day, till today. But no kidding, I opened up my phone and I was like, hey, you're one 45 arrow straight down that you're, you're crashing. And I said, what do you have with you? And she goes, I have two juice boxes And a pack of Gushers in my purse. And I said, well. And I reached in my pocket and I pulled out a fistful of gummy bears. I said, I brought gummy bears. And she was like, okay, so. And I don't know that I'm ever going to be able to stop myself, Jenny. I think if you and I went somewhere I would stick like snacks in my pocket for you. Like, I just think, I don't, like, I don't know how to not do that. You know what I mean?
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So you just. Yeah, yeah. No, you're a good, you're a good parent and a good friends.
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You're lovely. So she's, she's having a couple of gummy bears and I'm like, do a juice. And then you can see on her face, she goes, but I only have two juices. If I do one and we have a problem, what am I going to do? I watched her work that out in her head and she goes, I'll just get up if it's a problem. And I thought, I do not want you to have to get up and miss this. And no kidding, if you have to get up, I'm going to go with you. Right.
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And I don't want to miss this.
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And I don't want to miss this either. Yeah, yeah. And I said, drink a juice, let's do a couple gummy bears. I think we're good. The single arrow down went to double arrows down. Arden does not see double arrows ever, ever, ever. So what was it? It was bad timing, bad amount. Suddenly having more exercise. And so like in, in that, that moment that could happen to you in your real life, you could be. Yeah. And, and so listen, juiceboxpodcast.com settings you're going to be met with a calculator. It just asks for your weight in pounds and it's going to give you a starting point to think about your settings. I am not saying it is going to be a, it's going to be right or anything like that, but maybe a great opportunity for you to go back to your doctor and say, hey, I looked at this calculator and it says my basal should be more like this, but mine's way higher. Maybe that's when you're going to find out that you're over basiling yourself to make up for the fact that you don't count carbs. Well. Or who knows what. You know, collection of variables are being hidden by your settings and now you take those variables away and suddenly your settings are way off. That happens.
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And in this case, the variable being had, she had like some scrambled eggs and, I don't know, an apple, it would have been very different. The stuck high wouldn't have happened. You wouldn't have been prompted to bolus. Bolus to kind of get it or allow the algorithm to do what it was. Again, all the things. And yeah, it just brings into light the true amount of variables we do have to look and consider every single day.
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Yeah. 100% the life portion of it. That's hard to write down on a list and make sense of or that I wasn't even thinking was happening while it was happening. Right. But, yeah, but if you're, if your settings are rock solid and all. All Arden would have had to have done is pre bull us and we would have been okay. But because of the rush, that didn't happen. It threw everything off and then you see this cascading problem.
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Yeah.
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The same thing could happen to you, you know, if you're like, hey, I used to eat like this, but now I want to have. What did the lady call it? I want to eat healthier.
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Healthier.
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Yeah. So go get your settings. Right. I mean, I'll just. For people. I'm looking at it right now. I typed in 150 as a weight. As soon as you type in that number, it asks you if you're highly sensitive, have standard sensitivity if you're resistant or highly resistant. When you click on one of those things, it chooses your modifies your daily dose. Right. So like at the standard number 450, it has 37 and a half units. But if you go to resistant, it goes to 44.3. If you go to highly sensitive, it goes down to 30.7. There's also like a little slider. You can fine tune it to maybe, you know, if you really feel like you know better, or maybe you and your doctor could do it together, whatever, as soon as. And then it gives you your basil, your carb ratio. And it's not perfect, but it's, it's a good way to look at your settings now and then look at this and go, why are these so far off?
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You know, it's a good starting place. I think another way to use that tool could also be, let's say you feel like you are highly resistant because you know your lifestyle. And let's say it's the turn of the year and you're like, I'm going to make some changes. Right. I'm going to start walking three or four days a week. I'm going to do this class, I'm going to also clean up my pantry. I'm going to get rid of this, I'm going to bring this in instead. You could potentially use that tool. Then you're the same weight, but now, goodness, you've cleaned things up. You've gotten a lot of the resistant generating foods out of your intake and you're adding exercise. So maybe now you're more normal sensitivity, you could use the tool at your same weight to see, goodness, how much should my dosing change? Taking your current, let's say you're on a pump, taking your current profile and just scaling it back to see, does this now hit better? I mean, even those on MDI could do the same thing. They could say, okay, well, it told me, or I'm using this basal dose now that I'm more sensitive and I've cleaned things up. Gosh, look at how much less I can probably start to use. And again, it's not like a big jump. It's just a scale it back and see what ends up working. But you could use that tool as a starting place instead of trying to just figure it out in your brain and pick something from the air.
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I'll tell you another thing you can do with it very simply is if you're looking for motivation about like weight loss, even, like if you put in here 170 pounds, it tells you your total daily insulin is 42 units. Well, guess what? If you lost 20 pounds and you went to 150, it goes down to 37, you know, and especially now with GLPS, I'm getting a lot of notes from people. I just got a really great one yesterday. Person thanked me. But there are people who are losing 30 pounds quickly, right? And then they're losing another 20. And then, you know, like, imagine you weighed 200 pounds and you're using, you know, I don't know, you're using 50 units of insulin a day and then all of a sudden you're down 50 pounds and it's down to 37. Like, what a great motivator. Like, because.
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Absolutely.
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You know, listen, we'll talk to people all the time, like, I want you to use the amount of insulin you need. I want your, you know, I think the way I've said it before, I'm pretty comfortable with, I can't tell you how to eat. But if you're going to make a poor health decision with food, let's not also make a poor health decision with
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diabetes with your blood sugar.
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Yeah, yeah, right. Let's at Least have the blood sugar part together. But that might be a motivator for people. I don't know what motivates people anymore. That note I got yesterday was from a guy whose kid has diabetes. It's not even him. He listens to the podcast for the child. I did that weight loss diary and he said that motivated me. I've lost like £30 already, and I'm like, that's awesome. You know, like, how so whatever motivates people? I don't, I don't know. Right. But maybe. Or just go mess with the calculator just to give yourself a shot. Now, once you have good numbers from it or a starting point, there is another calculator. So that one's going to be juicebox podcast.com Bolus4B O L U S4 by the way, these all have like a ton of disclaimers you're going to have to click through to use them. You know, they're educational purposes only. Talk to your doctor, that kind of stuff. But once you have those numbers from the settings, then you can take those numbers and put them into the calculator. And once, if I did it the way I meant to, by the way, I want to say these calculators were made by like vibe coding on AI, Just so you know, you know how they came. So if you take that number. Insulin to carb ratio for 150, which is. I'm looking at the other one here, 13.3. Let's just believe these. Insulin sensitivity, it has 48. And we're going to make our target blood sugar on the calculator 90. There's a little thing here you can, you can calculate. You can put a cap on how much, you know, it can give you. It'll kind of like yell at you if you, if it goes over 25.
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Max bolus limit.
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Yeah, very nice. Right? So then we take carbs all of a sudden and we say, hey, a 50 carb meal, no fat, no protein. I, you know, I have no insulin on board. My current blood sugar is, you know, 100. I'm trying to get the 90. I have a stable arrow. It says simulate the strategy and it tells you 3.97 units for the 50. And it gives you a little like, wait 10 minutes on a pre bolus thing. Suggestion. But the.
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I was gonna.
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Yeah, go ahead.
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Sorry.
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No, no, no, jump in.
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Yeah, I was gonna say. And to compare for again, somebody who's considering moving to a healthier intake. Now, take that carb content and add into it, especially if you're working on weight loss, potentially, or stabilizing your weight to keep yourself where you add into that 50 grams. Now, the meal contains 30 grams of fat and 50 grams of protein.
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Yep.
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And then what is the dose difference? My goodness.
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Yeah, it doubles it. Basically. It's still 3.97 up front, but now it's asking for 3.53 over the next eight hours. So the theoretical requirement is seven and a half units. And that's, you know, now you're setting square wave boluses, or, you know, extended boluses. A lot of you are on algorithms right now that don't accept fat as an input. So the algorithm's just gonna fight with the. The rise and it's not gonna use nearly enough. And not only that, but then now you can come back. It's such a great point. You come back again and then cut the fat down to 15 and cut the protein down to 25 and then hit it again and see to yourself, oh, now it's five and a half units of insulin. And.
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Right.
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What happens If I lost 10 pounds and these settings change again? Like, yes, whatever's going to motivate somebody to do a bigger idea. I hope these things help you. I hope you play around with them and they make sense for you and help you.
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That's what I was going to say. I think the beauty of technology is that tools like this can give you more insight when you're working really hard to navigate some changes that, you know are going to eventually pay off. They are going to be better for you. Right. But it's hard when you. I'm a very visual learner myself, and so when I can see it there, I say, oh, wow, look at that. It definitely makes a really big difference. Whereas sometimes it's something that's said, but you don't really have anything to attach it to. No, I mean, it doesn't really make sense.
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This is a lot to understand, and it's a lot easier if you don't really have to understand it. You can just see it and it go. And it makes your brain go, oh, okay, I see why that's important. And no, no, I've just had enough conversations with enough people to think that, oddly enough, around using insulin, people don't think about the food that much. Right. Like, it's. It's the whole thing. Right. You're controlling the impact of the food with the insulin. But we don't talk about it that way. And I understand. Listen, I understand why. Bigger picture, you or your kid gets diagnosed you don't want to feel like your life is going to change. And so what does the doctor say? Oh, nothing's going to change. Just count your carbs and use insulin. Right. They're not thinking beyond the bigger picture. They're okay if your blood Sugar goes to 250 and comes back down five hours later. That's. And if you're not okay with that, then I gotta look at the rest of these variables around exercise and body composition. What am I eating? You know, and not not. And I don't mean what am I eating, like, punitively. I mean, like what I am, what's in there and what does it need so that it doesn't cause a problem for me, blood sugar wise? That's all.
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And that's why I think these conversations that I have the opportunity to have with you are valuable from my perspective in what I see out in the world of people with diabetes, because these are the tidbits, the pieces that don't ever make it into the. On the discussion table in the room. With many clinicians, I'm not saying all, but with many clinicians, it is a starting place of count your carbs. Here's your insulin to carb ratio. This is how it works. This is easy math, but it never goes farther than that. There aren't enough of these beyond the base discussions that people need in order to feel like they have some ability to succeed.
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When I realized, talking to you years ago, that the settings that somebody gave my daughter at her diagnosis were from simple math equations, and I was like, you were like, yeah, that's what we all do. We use them. I was like, wait, so I can know the math too? And she was like, yeah. And I'm like, oh, okay. When I realized that. And then I realized that Arden was diagnosed at such a small age, at such a small weight, and she was gaining weight, and no one ever reevaluated her settings, it was the oddest thing. And it took me a long time to figure out that that wasn't happening. And I think, listen, the numbers are gonna. It's been a long time ago now, but I think I realized that when her insulin sensitivity was like, one unit moves her 350 points. And I was like, what? That's not.
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C
But it doesn't.
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That's not right at all. And I sat there thinking, like, where did we get that number from? And I'm like, oh, that's from three years ago. Yeah. And I'm like. And then I sat in that office. It was one of the first times I thought, oh, these people are not going to be helpful to me. I see. Okay, I got it. I'm going to have to pay attention. Okay, but how does that happen? Like, because there's a little kid, she's diagnosed in the hospital, £17 on death's door. I swear to God, she. A day and a half on insulin. She was 19 and a half pounds. And then on the years that's followed, she's 20, 25, 30. Like, she's gaining weight appropriately. Ever changed her settings again? And we're over there struggling and I don't know why, And I. And they're like, no, are you counting the carbs? Right. I'm like, I mean, I think so. You know, like, anyway, you could spin out of control really quickly then. Nothing wrong with going back once in a while and say to yourself, hey, and I, by the way, I slow rolled this out. I put it out to the community on Facebook first. I got a lot of good feedback from it. Jenny is sharing it with people privately now, which makes me feel comfortable talking about it more. But I got. I got back from somebody who's like, I thought that calculator was going to be a joke. And I put it in. She's like, it matched all my settings. And I was like, right on. And I said, do you think you have good settings? She goes, my stuff works, like, right? And I was like, good, good. Like, go. You know, try to help yourself. I don't know.
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Absolutely no. And, you know, that's one of the things that I always take a look at, especially with my younger population, I ask all of my, like, what's their weight? How are they on their growth curves especially? Are they staying on it? Are they veering off of it in one way or another? And then we look at their. Their intake. And then with some of the algorithm pumps, too, that are adaptive algorithms, something really valuable to look at is for little kids. As the system adapts to giving them insulin, kids are also growing. So over time, it has to adapt to that growth and it gives more and they need more insulin. But what gets left behind are their manual settings.
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B
Yeah.
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C
And unfortunately, if you ever did have to use manual pumping mode, then things like the base basal for only use in manual mode, it might be three units behind what the system has adapted to giving in the automated basal profile.
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B
Yeah.
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C
So it's really important to pay attention to all of these kids, specifically through the growing years. But even adults who might be making life changes again, kind of going back to this woman who Maybe what's healthy food look like for bolusing, right? Maybe something changed, so you should pay attention to that a hundred percent.
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B
And, you know, you said just now, but, like, real specifically, Omnipod 5, like, you start off with a setting, and that thing's adjusting your insulin now into the future, into the future, into the
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C
future all the time.
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B
You suddenly go back to manual. Those settings have nothing to do with you anymore, right? Maybe. Or maybe not. I don't know. But, like, you certainly don't know, that's for sure. And I. I think it's worth just looking at once in a while. You could change your eating habits, could change your body composition, could change your activity level, could change. There's a lot of different things that are changing. You can't just keep staring and going like, oh, well, that part is done now. It is not. Let's just not set it and forget it. I know you want it to be, but it just, in a lot of cases isn't. Especially with growing kids or people whose lives are changing and people's lives are changing a lot now. I mean, honestly, Jenny, look at me. I don't even look like the same person. I look like two years.
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C
No, you don't.
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B
It's insane. And then there's the guy on the thing. I lost £25 already, people. I got a note from a woman the other day, said, never stop making that podcast. I believe she said she's lost 130 pounds and she lost listening to my weight loss diary, right? And then you know what the next problem becomes? One person says, I'm in the ER and DKA because of my glp. And I'm like, no, you are not in the ER because of your glp. You're in the ER because you're not taking enough insulin. That's a different thing. And so, like, then people see that and they get scared of it and. And, like, so there's more to nothing. Listen, between this, your relationship with your mom, politics, the world, nothing's as simple as. As a banner, you know, statement. The headline's never the answer. So you gotta dig into this stuff. That's what I'm gonna leave with everybody with, like, dig into this a little bit. Try to figure it out.
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C
Absolutely, yes.
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B
Jenny, you were terrific. Jenny Helps. We should call this episode Jenny Helps.
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C
Yeah, I like that.
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B
That's nice, isn't it? It'll be called Bolas for Healthy Food or something like that. But, you know, whatever. All right, I'll talk to you.
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A
This episode of the Juice Box Podcast is sponsored by the Omnipod 5 and at my link omnipod.com juicebox you can get yourself a free what'd I just say? A free Omnipod 5 starter kit. Free.
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Get out of here.
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Subscribe, Share an episode the reason that happens in podcasting specifically is because podcast players don't have a sophisticated Recommendation engine like YouTube or TikTok does. They can't watch listener behavior and then give you content that you might like. Word of mouth skips that line completely. It's an instantly expanding reach engine and really the only thing I've ever found that helps to keep the Juice Box podcast growing. So subscribe and follow because that the algorithm understands. Set up automatic downloads. Listen to the show, but share it with somebody else. Leave a five star review. Make it a thoughtful review that the algorithm can understand. I really appreciate the time it takes you to do those things and I
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