The Happy Type One

Uganda is a country struggling from political lockdowns, which is increasing their humanitarian crises. I spoke with Vivian Nabeta, founder of the Sonia Nabeta Foundation. In her counrty, kids need to travel up to 6h every 6 weeks, the majority of that by foot, to reach the nearest clinic for their next insulin vial. This issue got even bigger due to lockdowns and further limits of transportation.

Now, motoscylce taxis are being used to bring medication to remote areas, making Uganda a pilot country to reduce this travel gap families face, which otherwise prevents them from accessing insulin. I spoke with Vivian about her life saving project, how it all started and how to keep insulin cool without fridges.

Follow the foundation on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sonianabetafoundation/

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How can you possibly spend less time managing your diabetes and minimising decision making on a daily basis? I discuss just that in today's interview with the athlete Sid Sharma from Canada. After being diagnosed with T1D, Sid immediately got into cycling and has, since then, done many long distance races around the world such as London to Paris in 2016 with roughly 400km/2500miles and crossing the entire US from New York City to San Francisco in 2017, cycling for about 5.000km/3.00miles.

But not just that, him and his T1 diabetic wife follow the ketogenic diet and he says: “We are running diabetes on autopilot” and he continues saying, “it is about going away from this rollercoaster and having that confidence.”

Welcome back to season 4 and our journey around the world!

 I am excited to share Vassia Karpeta's story with you!

Vassia's journey as a dental volunteer began 15 years ago in Uganda, she then travelled as a dentist and T1 diabetic to a very remote monastery in Burma/Myanmar, where she continues to help build a dental practise to treat 1400 children, many of them are orphans.

In the podcast episode, she also shares how she managed to find a cool hiding place for her insulin with the help of one of the monks running the monastery.

Follow this weeks speaker: @vassia_the_dentist https://www.instagram.com/vassia_the_dentist/

Visit Vassias GoFund page to support her amazing work: 
https://gofund.me/3c0b9bb1

To read more about the extraordinary story of the monastery, check out this book in your local book store: “Children of the Revolution” by Feroze Dada.

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There you can also find an additional FREE downloads and many other free resources including blood glucose friendly recipes!

If you are struggling or want to take your health to the next level, send me a message or write me on instagram. I’m excited hearing from you! https://www.instagram.com/thehappytypeone/

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This is a very special episode! It is a recap of all type 1 diabetic speakers of this year. Throughout 2020, I ask the guests on my show to finish 5 sentences intuitively with whatever comes to their mind first. Listen to the spontaneous, short and often curious answers of more than 15 different speakers. The outcome is surprising, funny, motivational and inspirational.

The 5 sentences they got asked to complete are:


✨ Type 1 is…


✨ What I know today, I wish I had known back then is…


✨ I’m grateful for…


✨ I’m a gift to this world, because….


✨ One thing on my bucket list is….

If you did not manage to take notes, head over to my Blogcast https://thehappytypeone.com/, where you can get a summary of the key take-aways and many illustrations of todays show.

There you can also find an additional FREE downloads and many other free resources including blood glucose friendly recipes.

If you are struggling or want to take your health to the next level, send me a message or write me on instagram https://www.instagram.com/thehappytypeone/.

You can support me by subscribing and leaving a kind review on Apple Podcast: http://bitly.ws/aNWn This helps massively to run this free podcast for you.