The guides
Learn the stuff nobody hands you a manual for
Written plainly, tagged by mode, and honest about what belongs to your care team. Every guide here is education, never dosing advice.
28 guides
A gym session playbook
A before, during, and after structure for training with T1D, so the thinking happens once instead of every session.
4 min read
Alcohol and T1D: the deep dive
Why alcohol causes delayed lows, what your liver is actually doing, drink-by-drink glucose behavior, the overnight plan, and the CGM alarm problem nobody warns you about.
6 min read
Building muscle with T1D: the practical guide
Training, eating, and recovering for muscle growth when your insulin comes from a pen or pump. What changes, what doesn't, and what belongs to your care team.
9 min read
Cardio drops you, lifting spikes you: the why
Different kinds of exercise push glucose in different directions. The physiology explains a lot of confusing CGM graphs.
3 min read
Cutting without crashing: eating below maintenance with T1D
The live question in every T1D lifting thread: how do you build or keep muscle in a calorie deficit when every low costs you the carbs you were trying not to eat? The shape of the problem, what competitors with T1D actually do, and the questions to take to your care team.
10 min read
Diabetes burnout is real, and it isn't a character flaw
The exhaustion of a disease with no days off, what it looks like, and what actually helps.
4 min read
Fasted training: what the morning actually does to you
Fasted morning workouts are being sold as a cheat code for type 1. The evidence says something more useful: morning sessions are more predictable, not magic, and predictable is the whole game. What the hormones do, why lifting and cardio go opposite ways before breakfast, and what fasted even means when your basal never stops.
8 min read
Fasting with T1D: Ramadan, intermittent, and everything between
What research says about fasting safely with type 1, why CGMs and closed loops changed the answer, and how to plan a fast with your care team instead of around them.
5 min read
Flying with insulin: storage, security, backups
Carry-on rules, security screening with pumps and CGMs, keeping insulin cool, and the backup math that makes trips boring.
5 min read
Heat, hydration and the sensor: training in summer
Heat speeds up insulin, dehydration changes what a CGM can see, and a sensor under load reads differently from a sensor at rest. When to trust the number during a hot session, when to distrust it, and why a fingerstick settles arguments.
7 min read
Hot tubs, saunas, and heat with pumps and CGMs
Heat changes how insulin, pumps, sensors, and adhesive behave. The disconnect rules, what temperature does to your devices, and how to soak without sacrificing gear.
4 min read
Insulin, carbs, and muscle: the science
What insulin actually does for muscle, why running high works against you, where the anabolic window went, and the honest truth about insulin misuse in gyms.
8 min read
Piercings with T1D: healing is the whole game
Piercings are fine with type 1. The difference is longer healing, higher infection stakes, and a few placement choices worth thinking through first.
4 min read
Prebolusing: why timing beats math
Rapid insulin isn't rapid. Understanding the gap between injection and action is one of the highest-leverage ideas in T1D.
3 min read
Questions worth asking your care team
Appointments are short and the questions you meant to ask evaporate in the parking lot. Steal these.
3 min read
School days: building a plan the school can follow
Your kid's safety at school depends on systems other adults can run without you. Here's how to build them.
4 min read
Sick days: the plan you make while you're healthy
Why a cold pushes glucose up and a stomach bug pushes it down, what ketones are telling you, and when home care stops being enough.
8 min read
Sleep, recovery and the next day's insulin
One short night measurably reduces how well insulin works the next day, in people with type 1 specifically. Why the 3 a.m. alarm night and the following day's stubborn highs are the same story, what that means for training, and why your sleep belongs in the appointment alongside your glucose.
7 min read
Steroids, SARMs, and peptides with T1D: what's documented
No hype, no lecture. What research and community reports say these compounds do to glucose, what nobody knows yet, the legal reality, and what to watch.
5 min read
Supplements and pre-workout with T1D: what is known, which is not much
Creatine, caffeine, beta-alanine, the stimulant pre-workouts, and the protein tub. What the research actually shows for type 1, where the type 2 findings do not transfer, and why the first few sessions on anything new are sessions to watch the sensor.
7 min read
Taking over your own T1D, one piece at a time
Going from parent-managed to self-managed is a skill transfer, not a birthday. A roadmap for teens, with notes for parents.
4 min read
Tandem Mobi + Dexcom G7: setup and real life
Pairing the Mobi with the G7, the 15 Day sensor question, taming overnight alerts, fixing connection dropouts, and what the community wishes it knew sooner.
5 min read
Tattoos with T1D: what actually matters
Yes, you can get tattooed. Prep, placement around devices, long-session glucose drops, aftercare, and the honest truth about medical alert tattoos.
5 min read
The first weeks: a map, not a syllabus
What actually matters right after a T1D diagnosis, what can wait, and why messy is normal.
3 min read
Time zones and T1D: the concepts
Why crossing time zones matters for insulin, what changes for pumps versus injections, and how to plan the shift with your care team.
4 min read
Training around lows: the fear, and the hours after
Fear of going low is the number one reason people with T1D train less than they want to, and the delayed low after exercise is the thing nobody explains. The mechanism, the timing, what the people who train every day actually do, and what to take to your care team.
9 min read
Type 2 remission: what the trials showed, and what the word does not mean
Remission is real, measured, and not a cure. What DiRECT and the NHS programme found, who it tends to work for, why it does not apply to Type 1 at all, and how to read the headlines without being sold something.
11 min read
When insulin costs more than you have
The emergency option most people do not know exists, the $35 programs, and where to start looking. Links to the programs themselves, because only they can tell you what you qualify for.
4 min read