Life After Sugar
Life After Sugar
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256. "I can manage my Type 1 diabetes with less sugar": Ty
41 minutes Posted Dec 7, 2025 at 12:00 pm.
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In this episode, I’m chatting with Ty, who was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes when he was just 8 years old. Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune condition where the pancreas stops making insulin, so the body can’t regulate blood sugar on its own and needs insulin from injections or a pump to survive. Ty takes us behind the scenes of what that has really looked like: from massive early insulin pumps, constant injections, organ transplants, and dialysis, to the medical tech that’s helped him surviv...