Here's the show notes for Episode 59 of 'not ARTIFICIALLY Sweetened', THE podcast packed with unfiltered reflections on all thing’s diabetes!

Find us on Spotify, Pocket Casts, Apple Podcasts, or the LiSTN Audio App!

This Episode is brought to you in support of diabetes awareness and care by the CDE Online Pharmacy (https://cdeonline.co.za/), the online store of choice for people living with diabetes, and the new range of CDE MiWell™ (https://cdeonline.co.za/miwell/) Reduced Calorie products.

Whether you're living with diabetes, a health professional that facilitates diabetes care, or supporting someone with diabetes, you're in the right place! Join our journey, as we grow together in understanding, insight, and self-awareness to change lives for the better. Our deliberations are always honest, challenging and thought provoking. Nothing is off the table as we meet real people, discuss their real issues and stories, and together discover real answers to many vexing practical issues in diabetes and its care.

A powerful and inspirational story of addiction and redemption

We open the show with our Studio Guest, businessman and great grandfather, Leon Nafte, a charismatic ‘tell-it-like-it-is’ kind of guy. As at the time of this episode, Leon had been alcohol free 7219 days and he recently sky dived at age 79! In a frank and powerful story, Leon shares details of his:

Supportive resources for addiction

Leon Nafte is available to help others with addiction issues. Contact him through us at [email protected]

Alcoholics Anonymous South Africa https://www.aasouthafrica.org.za/

Narcotics Anonymous South Africa https://www.na.org.za/

Gamblers Anonymous South Africa https://www.gamblersanonymous.co.za/

Eating Disorders South Africa https://www.edsa.org.za/

Eating Disorders Anonymous https://eatingdisordersanonymous.org/

Advocacy message

This week, Earl Prinsloo pleads with health professionals to gain more insight into the understanding and management of diabetes.

Michael and Stan chat about why hospital admission should generally be avoided on diagnosis of diabetes, and we answer a question from Brennan Babb on using GLP-1 receptor agonist medications in the context of type 1 diabetes.

We want to hear from you!

If you have any questions, suggestions, comments or contributions for future episodes, or if you'd like to advertise on this podcast, email us @ [email protected]

For health professionals working in diabetes

The 6-Module, 23 CPD point CDE Academy Very Low-Calorie Diet Course for Healthcare Professionals can help you assist your clients with excess adiposity and type 2 diabetes to improve their cardiometabolic risk profile, reduce their chronic medication burden, doses and costs and possibly achieve remission of their diabetes. More information and registration @ https://academy.cdeonline.co.za/vlcd-course/

Learna/University of South Wales offer a one-year, online, part-time, distance learning Postgraduate Diploma in Diabetes Care. Sign up for a second year to earn an MSc in Diabetes. Gain a competitive edge and enhance your client care! Register @ https://my.learna.ac.uk/l/diabetes-ambassador-cde

Welcome back for Episode 58 of 'not ARTIFICIALLY Sweetened', THE podcast packed with unfiltered reflections on all thing’s diabetes!

Find us on Spotify, Pocket Casts, Apple Podcasts, or the LiSTN Audio App!

This Episode is brought to you in support of diabetes awareness and care by Diabetic Accessories (‘Making Diabetes Beautiful!’), and the new range of CDE MiWell™ (https://cdeonline.co.za/miwell/) Reduced Calorie products.

Whether you're living with diabetes, a health professional that facilitates diabetes care, or supporting someone with diabetes, you're in the right place! Join our journey, as we grow together in understanding, insight, and self-awareness to change lives for the better. Our deliberations are always honest, challenging and thought provoking. Nothing is off the table as we meet real people, discuss their real issues and stories, and together discover real answers to many vexing practical issues in diabetes and its care.

Stan opens the show talking about the science behind ‘very low-calorie diets’, and his clinical insights into this novel approach used to address many of the issues seen in the management of type 2 diabetes, and Michael talks about life journeys of growing competence from novice to master .

‘Creative Competence’ – adding your authentic creativity to your technical mastery…

Warren Vernon Driscoll, the inspirational lead in the international stage show, Queen: It’s a Kinda Magic (https://www.facebook.com/queenitsakindamagic/), joins us as our studio guest this week from Calgary in Canada . As an epitome of ‘Creative Competence’, Warren reflects on his:

Original music by Warren Vernon Driscoll on this Episode

From the 2018 EP, Better With Time.

Used with the permission of the artist.

Advocacy message

This week, Gabriela Richter invites fellow advocates to join her in supporting people with newly diagnosed diabetes.

We want to hear from you!

If you have any questions, suggestions, comments or contributions for future episodes, or if you'd like to advertise on this podcast, email us @ [email protected]

For health professionals working in diabetes

The 6-Module, 23 CPD point CDE Academy Very Low-Calorie Diet Course for Healthcare Professionals can help you assist your clients with excess adiposity and type 2 diabetes to improve their cardiometabolic risk profile, reduce their chronic medication burden, doses and costs and possibly achieve remission of their diabetes. More information and registration @ https://academy.cdeonline.co.za/vlcd-course/

Learna/University of South Wales offer a one-year, online, part-time, distance learning Postgraduate Diploma in Diabetes Care. Sign up for a second year to earn an MSc in Diabetes. Gain a competitive edge and enhance your client care! Register @ https://my.learna.ac.uk/l/diabetes-ambassador-cde

Let’s dive into Episode 57 of 'not ARTIFICIALLY Sweetened', THE podcast packed with unfiltered reflections on all things diabetes!

Find us on Spotify, Pocket Casts, Apple Podcasts, or the LiSTN Audio App!

This Episode is brought to you in support of diabetes awareness and care by the CDE Online Pharmacy (https://cdeonline.co.za/), the online store of choice for people living with diabetes, and the new range of CDE MiWell™ (https://cdeonline.co.za/miwell/) Reduced Calorie products.

Whether you're living with diabetes, a health professional that facilitates diabetes care, or supporting someone with diabetes, you're in the right place! Join our journey, as we grow together in understanding, insight, and self-awareness to change lives for the better. Our deliberations are always honest, challenging and thought provoking. Nothing is off the table as we meet real people, discuss their real issues and stories, and together discover real answers to many vexing practical issues in diabetes and its care.

Michael starts by voicing his frustrations with the ‘dumbing down’ of diabetes and its care. He explains his thoughts on ameliorating ‘The Egregious Eleven’ problem pathways in type 2 diabetes with more risk-mitigating diabetes insights from self-defence and military strategy. Stan talks about the difference between insulin supplementation and insulin replacement.

“Retired, but not tired!” – living a ‘Blue Zone’ life

Our studio guest this week is Lungi Siqebengu, a retired IT consultant in immovable properties, and current photographer, drone pilot, wood worker and active church, and community member. Giving the ‘Energiser bunny’ a run for its money, Lungi enthusiastically shares his:

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This week, Shiara Pillay talks about kids and diabetes camps!

We want to hear from you!

If you have any questions, suggestions, comments or contributions for future episodes, or if you'd like to advertise on this podcast, email us @ [email protected]

For health professionals working in diabetes

The 6-Module, 23 CPD point CDE Academy Very Low-Calorie Diet Course for Healthcare Professionals can help you assist your clients with excess adiposity and type 2 diabetes to improve their cardiometabolic risk profile, reduce their chronic medication burden, doses and costs and possibly achieve remission of their diabetes. More information and registration @ https://academy.cdeonline.co.za/vlcd-course/

Learna/University of South Wales offer a one-year, online, part-time, distance learning Postgraduate Diploma in Diabetes Care. Sign up for a second year to earn an MSc in Diabetes. Gain a competitive edge and enhance your client care! Register @ https://my.learna.ac.uk/l/diabetes-ambassador-cde

We’re back with Episode 56 of 'not ARTIFICIALLY Sweetened', THE podcast packed with unfiltered reflections on all things diabetes!

We're easy to find on Spotify, Pocket Casts, Apple Podcasts or the LiSTN Audio App!

This Episode is brought to you in support of diabetes awareness and care by the CDE Online Pharmacy (https://cdeonline.co.za/), the online store of choice for people living with diabetes, and the new range of CDE MiWell™ (https://cdeonline.co.za/miwell/) Reduced Calorie products.

Whether you're living with diabetes, a health professional that facilitates diabetes care, or close to someone with diabetes, you're in the right place! Join our journey, as we grow together in understanding, insight, and self-awareness to change lives for the better. Our deliberations are always honest, challenging and thought provoking. Nothing is off the table as we meet real people, discuss their real issues and stories, and together discover real answers to many vexing practical issues in diabetes and its care.

With Stan off sick this week, Michael dives straight into the show with co-opted co-host and studio guest Pitso Molemane, well known as a South African radio personality, journalist and Diabetes Survivor, Warrior and Activist who has lived with type 1 diabetes for four decades. We first met Pitso in Episode 48 and he graciously and at short notice agreed to co-pilot this week’s show.

Together Michael and Pitso ‘take the pulse’ of the lived experience of diabetes at a ‘grassroots’ level and explore concepts as diverse as erectile dysfunction, and thieving holders of the public purse:

Advocacy message

This week, Etienne Clarence, the husband of a person living with type 1 diabetes, encourages all advocates to participate in the SA Diabetes Advocacy Advocacy Course!

We want to hear from you!

If you have any questions, suggestions, comments or contributions for future episodes, or if you'd like to advertise on this podcast, email us @ [email protected]

For health professionals working in diabetes

The 6-Module, 23 CPD point CDE Academy Very Low-Calorie Diet Course for Healthcare Professionals can help you assist your clients with excess adiposity and type 2 diabetes to improve their cardiometabolic risk profile, reduce their chronic medication burden, doses and costs and possibly achieve remission of their diabetes. More information and registration @ https://academy.cdeonline.co.za/vlcd-course/

Learna/University of South Wales offer a one-year, online, part-time, distance learning Postgraduate Diploma in Diabetes Care. Sign up for a second year to earn an MSc in Diabetes. Gain a competitive edge and enhance your client care! Register @ https://my.learna.ac.uk/l/diabetes-ambassador-cde

Catch Episode 55 of 'not ARTIFICIALLY Sweetened', THE podcast packed with unfiltered reflections on all things diabetes!

We're easy to find. We're on Spotify, Pocket Casts, Apple Podcasts or the LiSTN Audio App!

This Episode is brought to you in support of diabetes awareness and care by the CDE Online Pharmacy (https://cdeonline.co.za/), the online store of choice for people living with diabetes, and the new range of CDE MiWell™ (https://cdeonline.co.za/miwell/) Reduced Calorie products.

Whether you're living with diabetes or a health professional that facilitates diabetes care, you're in the right place! Join our journey, as we grow together in understanding, insight, and self-awareness to change lives for the better. Our deliberations are always honest, challenging and thought provoking. Nothing is off the table as we meet real people, discuss their real issues and stories, and together discover real answers to many vexing practical issues in diabetes and its care.

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The ‘Glucose Glitch’, Lurina Fourie, encourages diabetes advocates by reminding all that your advocacy efforts matter!

Michael leads with a clinical advance in the science of ‘AGEs’ and uses this to contrast how many countries are advancing in diabetes care, and how in South Africa, the speciality of diabetes is dying from neglect, while the population at large suffers. Stan counters the population risks posed by unmanaged diabetes with the fact that people well managed in the CDE environment have relatively little to fear.

Our studio guest this week is is married father of two, Mark Langley – with an MSc in Property Studies, he is well qualified for his work in the property industry.

Apart from this, Mark is on a journey to discover more about how to live comfortably with two burdensome chronic health conditions, and not be boring or annoying doing it! In this momentous Episode characterised by deep self-awareness and brutal honesty, Mark shares some vital motivations, life skills attitudes and insights for others in a similar situation…

We want to hear from you!

If you have any questions, suggestions, comments or contributions for future episodes, or if you'd like to advertise on this podcast, email us @ [email protected]

For health professionals working in diabetes

The 6-Module, 23 CPD point CDE Academy Very Low-Calorie Diet Course for Healthcare Professionals can help you assist your clients with excess adiposity and type 2 diabetes to improve their cardiometabolic risk profile, reduce their chronic medication burden, doses and costs and possibly achieve remission of their diabetes. More information and registration @ https://academy.cdeonline.co.za/vlcd-course/

Learna/University of South Wales offer a one-year, online, part-time, distance learning Postgraduate Diploma in Diabetes Care. Sign up for a second year to earn an MSc in Diabetes. Gain a competitive edge and enhance your client care! Register @ https://my.learna.ac.uk/l/diabetes-ambassador-cde

We’re back with Episode 54 of 'not ARTIFICIALLY Sweetened', THE podcast packed with unfiltered reflections on all things diabetes!

We're easy to find. Catch us on Spotify, Pocket Casts, Apple Podcasts or the LiSTN Audio App!

This Episode is brought to you in support of diabetes awareness and care by the CDE Online Pharmacy (https://cdeonline.co.za/), the online store of choice for people living with diabetes, and the new range of CDE MiWell™ (https://cdeonline.co.za/miwell/) Reduced Calorie products.

Whether you're living with diabetes or a health professional that facilitates diabetes care, you're in the right place! Join our journey, as we grow together in understanding, insight, and self-awareness to change lives for the better. Our deliberations are always honest, challenging and thought provoking. Nothing is off the table as we meet real people, discuss their real issues and stories, and together discover real answers to many vexing practical issues in diabetes and its care.

Stan and Michael start by commenting on the common and possibly dangerous clinical issue of yearly changes in medical funder formularies and how this can negatively affect care continuity for people with diabetes.

Our studio guest this week is Andrew Heilbrunn, well known in professional diabetes circles as a doyen of the profession of biokinetics and the application of this discipline to the team-based management of diabetes. Since qualifying with an honours degree in Human Movement Sciences from Wits University and an honours degree in Biokinetics from the University of Pretoria, Andrew Heilbrunn worked for nearly 30 years as the Head Biokineticist at the Centre for Diabetes and Endocrinology, in Houghton, Johannesburg. He currently works in private practice. Andrew is well-known nationally and internationally for his expertise on the benefits of exercise in diabetes, cardiovascular disease, hypertension, obesity and osteoporosis. Andrew is also a devoted family man, an avid sportsman and sports fan and a thorough gentleman!

Together with Andrew we discuss:

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This week, Lyn Sewell guides listeners to previous episodes of this podcast where we have addressed the common issue of people battling with neuropathic pain.

We want to hear from you!

If you have any questions, suggestions, comments or contributions for future episodes, or if you'd like to advertise on this podcast, email us @ [email protected]

For health professionals working in diabetes

The 6-Module, 23 CPD point CDE Academy Very Low-Calorie Diet Course for Healthcare Professionals can help you assist your clients with excess adiposity and type 2 diabetes to improve their cardiometabolic risk profile, reduce their chronic medication burden, doses and costs and possibly achieve remission of their diabetes. More information and registration @ https://academy.cdeonline.co.za/vlcd-course/

Learna/University of South Wales offer a one-year, online, part-time, distance learning Postgraduate Diploma in Diabetes Care. Sign up for a second year to earn an MSc in Diabetes. Gain a competitive edge and enhance your client care! Register @ https://my.learna.ac.uk/l/diabetes-ambassador-cde

Please join us for Episode 53 of 'not ARTIFICIALLY Sweetened', THE podcast for both people living with diabetes and health professionals that facilitate diabetes care!

We are easy to find. Catch us on Spotify, Pocket Casts, Apple Podcasts or the LiSTN Audio App!

Once again, this Episode is brought to you in support of diabetes awareness and care by the CDE Online Pharmacy (https://cdeonline.co.za/), the online store of choice for people living with diabetes, and the new range of CDE MiWell™ (https://cdeonline.co.za/miwell/) Reduced Calorie products.

Whether you're living with diabetes or a health professional that facilitates diabetes care, you're in the right place! Join our journey, as we grow together in understanding, insight, and self-awareness to change lives for the better. Our deliberations are always honest, challenging and thought provoking. Nothing is off the table as we meet real people, discuss their real issues and stories, and together discover real answers to many vexing practical issues in diabetes and its care.

Stan and Michael kick-off by reminding our listeners of the effects of shift work on sleeping, eating, working and living with diabetes.

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This week, diabetes advocate Gabriela Richter, encourages health professionals to remember that everyone is unique and that their care needs are also unique.

We are joined in studio this week by Charlotte Meschede, a registered dietitian specialising in clinical nutrition and lifestyle education for diabetes and women's health. Charlotte recently joined the CDE Academy as a nutrition and education consultant - with her vast clinical, life, mothering and farming experience behind her, we are proud to have Charlotte as part of our team!

Charlotte shares her accumulated wisdom and reflects on:

We want to hear from you! If you have any questions, suggestions, comments or contributions for future episodes, or if you'd like to advertise on this podcast, email us @ [email protected]

For health professionals working in diabetes

The 6-Module, 23 CPD point CDE Academy Very Low-Calorie Diet Course for Healthcare Professionals can help you assist your clients with excess adiposity and type 2 diabetes to improve their cardiometabolic risk profile, reduce their chronic medication burden, doses and costs and possibly achieve remission of their diabetes. More information and registration @ https://academy.cdeonline.co.za/vlcd-course/

Learna/University of South Wales offer a one-year, online, part-time, distance learning Postgraduate Diploma in Diabetes Care. Sign up for a second year to earn an MSc in Diabetes. Gain a competitive edge and enhance your client care! Register @ https://my.learna.ac.uk/l/diabetes-ambassador-cde

Welcome to Episode 52 of 'not ARTIFICIALLY Sweetened', THE podcast for both people living with diabetes and health professionals that facilitate diabetes care!

We are easy to find. Catch us on Spotify, Pocket Casts, Apple Podcasts or the LiSTN Audio App!

Once again, this Episode is brought to you in support of diabetes awareness and care by the CDE Online Pharmacy (https://cdeonline.co.za/), the online store of choice for people living with diabetes, and the new range of CDE MiWell™ (https://cdeonline.co.za/miwell/) Reduced Calorie products.

Whether you're living with diabetes or a health professional that facilitates diabetes care, you're in the right place! Join our journey, as we grow together in understanding, insight, and self-awareness to change lives for the better. Our deliberations are always honest, challenging and thought provoking. Nothing is off the table as we meet real people, discuss their real issues and stories, and together discover real answers to many vexing practical issues in diabetes and its care.

Stan and Michael discuss several advocacy issues including low income globally for diabetes specialists and the need to sustain advocacy efforts led by a few over-committed individuals. And, then don’t forget to screen for osteoporosis in older people with diabetes - the loss of height is a too-late indicator...

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This week, CDE Academy Administrator and person living with and advocating for diabetes, Elré Clarence, encourages health professionals to upskill themselves in diabetes care so that they can better advocate with and for people with diabetes

Our studio guest this week is Dr Kenalemang Kgoroeadira, fondly known as MamaKena.

MamaKena is an academic, culturalist and Indigenous Knowledge Systems expert, holding a PhD on the Philosophy of Education focussing on Indigenous Knowledge Systems. She is an experienced teacher, primary school and technical college principal, school book and teacher’s guide author, and local and international lecturer on Indigenous Knowledge Systems.

She won provincial and national female farmer of the year awards in 2014, and serves as a board member or consultant for several organisations.

From a uniquely African perspective we discover that:

MamaKena also shares her contributions to farming and indigenous teaching and history, how she manages her own diabetes pairing modern and traditional herbal treatments, and her take on ‘faith’ and spirituality.

We want to hear from you! If you have any questions, suggestions, comments or contributions for future episodes, or if you'd like to advertise on this podcast, email us @ [email protected]

For health professionals working in diabetes

The 6-Module, 23 CPD point CDE Academy Very Low-Calorie Diet Course for Healthcare Professionals can help you assist your clients with excess adiposity and type 2 diabetes to improve their cardiometabolic risk profile, reduce their chronic medication burden, doses and costs and possibly achieve remission of their diabetes. More information and registration @ https://academy.cdeonline.co.za/vlcd-course/

Learna/University of South Wales offer a one-year, online, part-time, distance learning Postgraduate Diploma in Diabetes Care. Sign up for a second year to earn an MSc in Diabetes. Gain a competitive edge and enhance your client care! Register @ https://my.learna.ac.uk/l/diabetes-ambassador-cde

Welcome to Episode 51 of 'not ARTIFICIALLY Sweetened', THE podcast for both people living with diabetes and health professionals that facilitate diabetes care!

We are easy to find. Just download one or more of our top streaming platforms (Spotify, Pocket Casts, Apple Podcasts or the LiSTN Audio App) from the Android or Apple Stores, launch the app, and search for 'not ARTIFICIALLY Sweetened'!

This Episode is brought to you in support of diabetes awareness and care by the CDE Online Pharmacy (https://cdeonline.co.za/), the online store of choice for people living with diabetes, and the new range of CDE MiWell™ (https://cdeonline.co.za/miwell/) Reduced Calorie products.

Whether you're living with diabetes or a health professional that facilitates diabetes care, you're in the right place! Join our journey, as we grow together in understanding, insight, and self-awareness to change lives for the better. Our deliberations are always honest, challenging and thought provoking. Nothing is off the table as we meet real people, discuss their real issues and stories, and together discover real answers to many vexing practical issues in diabetes and its care.

Stan and Michael lead in by encouraging us not to ignore ‘feeling tired’ and they remind us that diabetes is not always to blame…

Our studio guest this week is Dr Claudine Lee, well known to us as a family doctor who has a genuine joy in working with and being able to change the lives of people living with diabetes. Claudine had a wealth of local and international clinical experience and training in anaesthetics, ENT, obstetrics and general surgery, and ophthalmology before entering general practice in the Howick/Hilton area of KZN and undergoing training in the management of diabetes. Claudine now has special interest in and passion for diabetes, and she is an outspoken advocate for enabling diabetes technologies, especially continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) - “#CGM is my mantra”. Away from work Claudine is a devoted mom who loves to be physically active either in yoga or hiking.

Together, we discuss

Kirsten from SA Diabetes Advocacy talks about the need to source funding to continue and grow the work of diabetes advocacy in South Africa

We want to hear from you! If you have any questions, suggestions, comments or contributions for future episodes, or if you'd like to advertise on this podcast, email us @ [email protected]

For health professionals working in diabetes

The 6-Module, 23 CPD point CDE Academy Very Low-Calorie Diet Course for Healthcare Professionals can help you assist your clients with excess adiposity and type 2 diabetes to improve their cardiometabolic risk profile, reduce their chronic medication burden, doses and costs and to possibly achieve remission of their diabetes. More information and registration @ https://academy.cdeonline.co.za/vlcd-course/

Learna/University of South Wales offer a one-year, online, part-time, distance learning Postgraduate Diploma in Diabetes Care. Sign up for a second year to earn an MSc in Diabetes. Gain a competitive edge and enhance your client care! Register @ https://my.learna.ac.uk/l/diabetes-ambassador-cde

Thank you for joining us as we celebrate Episode 50 of 'not ARTIFICIALLY Sweetened', THE podcast for both people living with diabetes and health professionals that facilitate diabetes care!

We are easy to find. Just download one or more of our top streaming platforms (Spotify, Pocket Casts, Apple Podcasts or the LiSTN Audio App) from the Android or Apple Stores, launch the app, and search for 'not ARTIFICIALLY Sweetened'!

This Episode is brought to you in support of diabetes awareness and care by the CDE Online Pharmacy (https://cdeonline.co.za/), the online store of choice for people living with diabetes, and the new range of CDE MiWell™ (https://cdeonline.co.za/miwell/) Reduced Calorie products.

Whether you're living with diabetes or a health professional that facilitates diabetes care, you're in the right place! Join our journey, as we grow together in understanding, insight, and self-awareness to change lives for the better. Our deliberations are always honest, challenging and thought provoking. Nothing is off the table as we meet real people, discuss their real issues and stories, and together discover real answers to many vexing practical issues in diabetes and its care.

Stan and Michael begin by discussing the mind-blowing performance of Warren Vernon Driscoll in the stage show, Queen: It’s a Kinda Magic (https://www.facebook.com/queenitsakindamagic/), flu vaccination and problems around bladder continence.

Then, as promised in Episode 42, ‘The Glucose Glitch’ Lurina Fourie, T1D Advocate, poet, Content Creator and professional photographer living with type 1 diabetes, joins us again to involve you our listeners by sourcing your pressing questions on anything related to diabetes. Facilitated by Lurina, we provide unprepped general guidance in response to your questions on:

Kirsten from SA Diabetes Advocacy joins us to remind us to support an Insulin Advocacy petition by the Society of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes of South Africa (SEMDSA). Read more and access the petition link here: https://bit.ly/4ayiy2E

We want to hear from you!

Thank you to all who sent in questions! Send in your questions for our next Q & A session to Lurina @ [email protected].

If you have any questions, suggestions, comments for Stan or Michael, contributions for future episodes, or if you'd like to advertise on this podcast, email us @ [email protected]

For health professionals working in diabetes

The 6-Module, 23 CPD point CDE Academy Very Low-Calorie Diet Course for Healthcare Professionals can help you assist your clients with excess adiposity and type 2 diabetes to improve their cardiometabolic risk profile, reduce their chronic medication burden, doses and costs and to possibly achieve remission of their diabetes. More information and registration @ https://academy.cdeonline.co.za/vlcd-course/

Learna/University of South Wales offer a one-year, online, part-time, distance learning Postgraduate Diploma in Diabetes Care. Sign up for a second year to earn an MSc in Diabetes. Gain a competitive edge and enhance your client care! Register @ https://my.learna.ac.uk/l/diabetes-ambassador-cde