Medications and Monitoring Health

Insulin is the most effective treatment for high blood sugar levels but is often reserved as a “last resort” for treating type 2 diabetes. Are these reservations justified? What if your doctor recommends insulin for you?

Hi again….I’m Toby Smithson with Diabetes Everyday hoping to make the diabetes management part of your life easier and even more effective. Please subscribe to this channel and visit my website diabeteseveryday.com for more of everything related to successful diabetes management and make sure to sign up for my newsletter.

I had a wonderful opportunity to participate in a podcast at Game Changers in Medicine about the “story of insulin.” It is a fascinating story, and my role was to represent the millions and millions of people with type 1 diabetes (mostly children) who were literally given the gift of life by the discovery, isolation and purification of this hormone. You can listen to the story here, and you’ll find me at about the minute mark.

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A low blood sugar — hypoglycemia — can pose an immediate threat to our life. Defined as a reading below 70 mg/dl, low blood sugar levels need to be treated effectively and quickly.

Hi, everybody, Toby Smithson here with Diabetes Everyday. I just wanted to have a chat, a conversation with you in today’s video, because I see this as one of those Diabetes Everyday moments. What I wanted to talk to you about was lows, having low blood sugars, which is blood sugar of 70 or below. I’ve heard this a lot from my patients and it was an aha moment when I had a low just this morning. I wanted to present this information to you.