not ARTIFICIALLY Sweetened - Episode 11 with Jonathan Collins

Welcome to 'not ARTIFICIALLY Sweetened'! Episode 11

Now with listeners in 11 countries!

This Episode is brought to you by the CDE Online Pharmacy (https://cdeonline.co.za/), the online store of choice for people living with diabetes.

If you are living with diabetes or a health professional that facilitates diabetes care, you are in the right place!

Join us on our journey, as we grow together in understanding, insight, and self-awareness and ultimately change lives for the better!

Our deliberations will always be honest, challenging and thought provoking. Nothing is off the table as we discuss real people, their real issues and stories, and together discover real answers to many vexing practical issues in diabetes and its care.

This week Stan and Michael reflect on how to enhance consultation care with insights from the ‘chronic care approach’ and by ‘preparing for your consultation’.

Apart from supporting people with diabetes to achieve optimum physical and mental health, diabetes care teams should also facilitate a life filled with optimal purpose and productivity. Our studio guest this week, First Officer Jonathan Collins, Boeing 737-800 Airline Pilot, Flight Operations Technical Writer and Diabetes Advocate epitomises this goal. In an inspiring discussion:

• We hear about Jonathan’s passion for flying which, like many other aspirant and qualified pilots, infused his life from a young age
• Jonathan relates his post-school qualification as a commercial airline pilot and ensuing role as a flight instructor
• He reflects on hitting the ‘turbulence’ of a diabetes diagnosis in February 2020, and his first steps on this new life journey. This included losing his ‘medical fitness to fly’ and his nearly one-year ‘evidence-based’ advocacy struggle to regain his ‘wings’, by working to align the relevant legislation in South Africa with international best-practice.
• We learn how Jonathan’s ongoing personal advocacy efforts are changing the lives of other aspirant or qualified South African pilots
• We realise how for many reasons, a pilot with type 1 diabetes may actually be a safer pilot - Jonathan describes the vital roles of modern technologies as ‘enablers’ in the legislative changes he facilitated, and how his Dexcom G6 continuous glucose monitoring system and his Tandem insulin pump help him achieve the set ‘time-in-range’ criteria which ensure passenger safety.

We also

• introduce the next Sweet Life Diabetes Community Advocacy Message – "Sometimes we just want to feel like everyone else!”
• and welcome an bonus studio guest, Bernard Brisolier, Business Unit Director, Abbott Diabetes Care to answer a listener question, “where is the Abbott FreeStyle Libre 3?”.

Remember that we want to hear from you! If you have any questions, suggestions, comments or contributions for future episodes, or if you would like to advertise on this podcast, please email us @ Podcast@CDEDiabetes.co.za

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