The Practical Diabetic (Leon Tribe)

My thread is a place for intelligent discourse. Ask questions, present supplementary evidence. Let's learn together. However, if the best you can do is push your own, irrelevant agenda, or offer little more than hyperbole and ad hominem, I will likely block you. Nothing personal.

This Month in T1D Research (Feb 26) is now out 🙂 [youtu.be/H6C9cJCYGXY]

For those that travel, I'd seen a remedy for removing creases/wrinkles from suitcase clothing by spraying the garment with 1tsp of fabric softener with 100mL of water while it is hanging. I tried it and it seems to work. I'll give it a full trial at #ATTD2026

Australian Domestic travel adventures. As usual I was assured the machine was safe by one officer and asked for a doctor's letter by another. The supervisor knew the exception to the letter rule which is when there is a very obvious pump attached no letter needed.

For those involved in lived experience advocacy, I highly recommend seeing the movie "I Swear". Take some tissues ;) #ISwear

Flying home, I got a patdown with no resistance and priority boarding thanks to the lanyard. Brisbane airport rocks!

Breakfast of champions means it's interstate travel again. Managed to get a patdown after being asked if I had 'certification'. I provided none but after a few discussions got the desired outcome.

@FatCatAnna No occlusion alarm, no. I'd knocked the site while lifting a box but I thought the tube was still in place. It seems it was not the case :)

@PracticalDeeb Ouch! So far I've not experienced this with the Orbit softs (ordered by accident instead of micro). I guess the pump didn't alarm occlusion?

Well that explains why I've been running a little high for the last couple of days.

Can you Spare a Rose so people with type 1 diabetes can get access to insulin? practicaldiabetic.com/2026/02/07/why… No worries if not but please consider spreading the word.

Here's This Month in T1D Research for January 2026 as well We talk about: - Carb Counting with AI - AID/Looping and sleep quality - Sweaty feet and heart disease - The impact of family on diabetes management - Strategies for early stage T1D management youtu.be/hvhaLrxmI-M

This Month in T1D Research has finally been compiled for December 2025. We talk about - T1D and pregnancy - CGM accuracy - Using AID on airplanes - Using Ozempic/Wegovy with T1D - Combining GLP1-RAs with SGLT2i's - Managing T1D with "poo-pills" youtu.be/1kaPAd3WRtc

An oldie but a goodie showing relative risk. '1' on the y-axis means you have the same risk as the general population. So, 6 or below, and you're good. For higher, the ones which go up the fastest are eyes (DR/NPDR) and kidneys (Neph) so get those annual checks.

There was some talk a while ago about the BCG vaccine providing benefit to T1Ds although I'm pretty sure the jury is still out on it. I just discovered, growing up in the UK in the 70s, meant I received this vaccine roughly 40 years before getting T1D.

@parthaskar Where do I buy a ticket? ;)

No words 😂

Something to make you think and do some 'research' danheller.substack.com/p/top-10-t1d-m…

Recent shipments from IFL Australia received in Ecuador, the Philippines and in Egypt with the latter for refugees. Thank you 🙏all IFL team members, donors and delivery chain people.

The November 2025 edition of This Month in T1D Research is out youtu.be/IuWCsUcggHM We look at: - A new marker for T1D progression - A possible link between the gut microbiome and T1D - Maternal protection from T1D in the womb - Hydrogel protection for transplanted cells

With a recent update of the CamAPS software, there is a tiny green '9.2' in the widget icons which changes as my BGLs change (the large 9.2 at the bottom of the screen is thanks to xDrip+). Even without clever hackery with xDrip+ I can now see my BGLs on the lock screen :)

Something which seems to be across chronic diseases and politics is "Rage-Grifting". Basically, the monetising of Rage-bait. There is money to be made in making up conspiracies and playing to people's feelings of impotent rage, than there is in being part of the solution.

Interesting new study looking at close to 200,000 US adults over 30 years to see how a low carb diet affects the risk of type 2 diabetes. The conclusion was it is protective only if it uses plant-based protein, healthy fats, and high quality carbs. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12…