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    Should you follow advice from T1 runners?

    I recently had cause to review the long-term outcomes of runners featured in my ~10 year old copy of Diabetic Athlete’s Handbook. Searching online, I found almost none of them maintaining performance 5 or 10 years down the track, even after allowing for their increase in age. Many had declined...
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    Science 1, doctors 0

    Despite never making the 100m team at school, and decades with t1, I recently ran the fastest ever electronically timed 100m in my home state in my age group (55+). Yes, faster than every non-diabetic masters athlete. Same for the 200m. With continuing legal threats by doctors against me, I am...
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    Ski marathons

    Despite taking up skiing at a late age and living in a hot dry place, I have just started my quest to become a world loppet master at the age of 57. That involves skiing marathons in 10 different countries. I have just done the Australian hoppet - 42km - in 2:40, and the NZ muster, also 42km...
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    Poor outcomes in Australian teenagers with T1

    Most Oz T1s have ready access to specialist medical and dietary advice, yet the Medical Journal of Australia recently reported very high levels of obesity in teenage T1s. Higher than the general population, and higher than historical levels. And low numbers reaching HbA1c targets. The current...
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    What research do you want done?

    As the story on sleep apnoea and diabetes says, the association has been known for 20 years. Now we have a more precise estimate of the degree of association. Is this the kind of research people with diabetes want? Or would you rather research that tests treatments. If you could direct...
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    Rules for T1 runners

    A recent 2 mile run in Sydney demanded that Type 1s provide an acceptable blood sugar reading in the 30 minutes before the start of the run. I will NOT be participating in any event which imposes such a demand. Other T1s may wish to consider what they will do before such a demand becomes routine.
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    Dental disease and diabetes

    I have always brushed my teeth well, but at the age of 16, had my first filling. Over the next 20 years I had many clear dental visits, but about a dozen invasive procedures, mostly fillings. Then I got diabetes and substantially reduced my carb intake. Over the following 20 years I have not had...
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    Diabetes is not all downhill. You can improve.

    I was hopeless at sport at school. The only team I was good enough to join was the chess team. There must be hundreds of people on this forum who were way better than me. Yet playing chess and studying maths did pay off in the end. I could see through doctors' incompetent and unscientific...
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    Poor Medical Advice

    Some overweight doctors have threatened legal action against me if I publicly reveal how I stay thin and never hungry despite being 56, type1 and on lots of prednisone. If your doctor does not support free discussion of new approaches to obesity, it is not surprising that you are in this part...
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    Steroids for diabetes?

    I recently ran 5km in 20:20. I haven't run that fast since I was 19. That was 37 years ago. How? Doctors at the Medical Board have suggested I might be using prednisolone to manage my diabetes. No, this is not a misprint. After I suggested they amend or retract it, they chose instead to repeat...
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    New Nice guidelines

    The updated NICE guidelines for doctors state "Do not advise adults with type 1 diabetes to follow a low glycaemic index diet..." (my emphasis) How is this consistent with the ethical obligation of doctors to discuss alternative treatments? Surgeons are required to discuss the pros and cons of...