Your Best T1D Year
Your Best T1D Year is a podcast dedicated to helping people manage Type 1 Diabetes with practical strategies, mindset shifts, and humor. Each episode is about 5 minutes long and airs on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Hosted by Neil Greathouse, the show aims to make diabetes management feel easier through small, actionable habits.
Episodes
The After-Dinner Blood Sugar Spike, Explained | T1D Pre-Bolus Challenge
SHOW NOTES: You counted the carbs. You took the right dose. Two hours later you’re 240, and you have no idea why. If that number breaks your heart a little, this episode is for you. Neil sits in the problem of the post-meal spike, the one that feels like a personal failing but almost never is.This is the roller coaster every person with type 1 diabetes knows: spike, correct, drift low, sn
Why You Don't Pre-Bolus (you know you should)
SHOW NOTES: You already know you should pre-bolus. Your endocrinologist has told you. Every diabetes educator has told you. And you still dose with your first bite, same as the rest of us. Neil Greathouse, who has lived with type 1 diabetes since 1992, kicks off The Head Start, an eight-week challenge all about pre-bolusing your insulin, by admitting he doesn't do it perfectly either.Here
While You Were Sleeping Challenge Finale
SHOW NOTES:Eight weeks ago, Neil asked you to do one thing: write down how many hours you slept last night. That was the whole challenge. That was where it started. One number. And here we are.This is the finale of the While You Were Sleeping Challenge -- 24 episodes, 8 weeks, and the most thorough look at sleep and type 1 diabetes that Your Best T1D Year has ever done. Neil closes with t
The One Sleep Habit That Improves T1D Time in Range
SHOW NOTES:Eight weeks. Twenty-four episodes. The dawn phenomenon, cortisol, alarm fatigue, sleep stages, Fear of Hypoglycemia, CGM as a proactive tool. If Neil had to give you one thing to keep from all of it -- just one habit -- here it is: go to bed at the same time every night.This is not a joke, and it's not oversimplified. It's the finding from the 2023 T1D sleep study with 76 parti
What "Good Enough" Sleep Actually Looks Like When You Have Type 1 Diabetes
SHOW NOTES:Perfect is not the goal. This episode takes a stand on something that doesn't get said enough in health content of any kind -- and especially not in T1D content.If you've been measuring your sleep quality against general population benchmarks (the 8-hour standard, the 90% sleep efficiency score, the deeply uninterrupted ideal), Neil is here to tell you, with genuine care, that
How to Use Your Overnight CGM Data to Improve Sleep and Blood Sugar
SHOW NOTES:You've been sleeping next to one of the most detailed health monitoring devices that exists. Every single night. For however many years you've had your CGM. It has been logging everything -- every rise, every drop, every 3am event, every overnight pattern. It has been very patient about all of this.Most T1D people use their CGM reactively at night. The alarm fires, you check, y
T1D Sleep Hygiene: The One Pre-Sleep Habit That Actually Makes a Difference
SHOW NOTES:"Sleep hygiene" sounds like you're brushing your sleep's teeth. Nobody has ever said that phrase in a natural conversation. And this episode is not about a 12-step pre-sleep protocol that you'll implement on Monday and abandon by Wednesday when life gets in the way.It's about one thing. Just one. Because T1D brains are very good at building complicated systems -- we've been doi
Late-Night Exercise and Blood Sugar: What Your Evening Workout Does to Your T1D Overnight
SHOW NOTES:Your Tuesday 8pm HIIT class has opinions about your 3am blood sugar. The data is pretty clear on this. Neil is giving you fair warning before the episode starts.This episode covers the timing of exercise and its downstream effects on both sleep quality and overnight glucose in type 1 diabetes. Afternoon and evening exercise produce very different results -- not because exercise
T1D Sleep Stages Explained: Why You're Exhausted After 7 Hours of Sleep
SHOW NOTES:You slept seven hours. By any reasonable measure, that should be enough. You woke up feeling like you slept four. You weren't imagining it.This episode breaks down sleep stages -- light sleep, deep sleep, REM -- and explains exactly where type 1 diabetes disrupts the sequence. The most important stage, slow-wave sleep (NREM Stage 3), is where your body does its deepest repair w
Fear of Hypoglycemia: The T1D Sleep Problem That Doesn't Show Up in Your CGM Data
SHOW NOTES:Your CGM says 115. Flat arrow. No active insulin. You've checked it twice. The number is completely fine. And you're still awake at 2:48am.This is not you being dramatic. This has a name: Fear of Hypoglycemia (FOH). It's a documented, peer-reviewed phenomenon in T1D populations -- a specific pattern of nighttime hypervigilance that persists even when blood sugar is stable. The
Cortisol and Blood Sugar: The T1D Overnight Connection You're Probably Missing
SHOW NOTES:Cortisol isn't trying to ruin your blood sugar. It's trying to help. It has never once, in your entire life, acted with malice. It is a useful, important hormone that is -- in the modern world -- very confused about what an actual emergency looks like.This episode is about cortisol: what it's designed to do, what it's actually responding to in modern life ("quick question" emai
How Bedroom Temperature and Blue Light Affect Blood Sugar in Type 1 Diabetes
SHOW NOTES:Neil wants to be upfront: this episode is going to sound like wellness content delivered by someone standing in a field in linen pants. He knows. He can't control how it sounds. What he can tell you is that there's actual research behind all of it, it specifically applies to T1D glucose management, and he read most of it at midnight on his phone in bed with the screen at full b
Your Pre-Sleep Blood Sugar Check Is a Sleep Decision, Not Just a Safety Check
SHOW NOTES:You already do this. You check your blood sugar before bed, glance at your CGM, maybe set a temp basal. You've been doing it for as long as you've had T1D. Here's the reframe: you've been doing it as a safety check. "Am I okay to go to sleep?" This episode argues it's also a sleep decision -- and that shift changes what you're actually optimizing for.Active insulin at midnight
T1D Sleep Challenge: Four Weeks In, What We've Learned
SHOW NOTES:Four weeks ago, Neil asked you to do one thing: write down how many hours you slept. That was it. Just a number. And now here we are.This is the halftime checkpoint of the While You Were Sleeping Challenge. Neil does what any good coach does at halftime -- pulls everyone in, takes a breath, and goes over what we actually know. Because the first four weeks covered a lot: recogni
How to Adjust CGM Alarm Thresholds for Better Sleep with Type 1 Diabetes
SHOW NOTES:When did you last actually look at your CGM alarm threshold settings? Not to silence an alarm. Not to check a number. To actually look at the thresholds -- the settings, the specific values, when they were last changed.If your answer is "when I first set up the device," this episode is for you.Neil walks through what CGM alarm thresholds are, why they're not permanent features
CGM Alarm Fatigue in Type 1 Diabetes: How Your Alerts Are Wrecking Your Sleep
SHOW NOTES:How many times did your CGM alarm last night? If you have to guess -- or if you're honestly not sure because your arm is doing the silence-and-go-back-to-sleep thing on autopilot -- that's alarm fatigue. And it's a documented, peer-reviewed phenomenon that's costing you sleep in ways that quietly compound every single night.This episode is about the complicated relationship T1D
What Type 1 Diabetes Actually Does to Your Sleep Architecture | Episode 200
SHOW NOTES:200 episodes. Neil didn't plan on this. He definitely didn't plan on spending episode 200 explaining what your liver does at 3am without your permission. And yet here we are.This is the episode that contains the most important thing Neil has said in this entire challenge. Most T1D content talks about sleep in two ways: the safety angle (set your alarms right) or the wellness an
Bedtime Consistency and T1D: Why Timing Beats Total Hours for Blood Sugar Control
SHOW NOTES:You've been told to get eight hours. Here's what the research actually found.A 2023 study of 76 adults with type 1 diabetes tracked both CGM and sleep data for one week. The finding: sleep duration alone was not independently associated with time in range. What was? Bedtime consistency. Every extra hour of variability in bedtime was associated with roughly 10% less time in rang
The T1D Sleep-Blood Sugar Feedback Loop
SHOW NOTES:Bad sleep makes your blood sugar harder to manage. Worse blood sugar disrupts your sleep. Worse sleep makes your blood sugar worse. You've been running a feedback loop -- without knowing it.This is the episode where things click. Neil connects all the pieces from Weeks 1 and 2 into the full picture: the bidirectional relationship between sleep and glucose management in type 1 d
The Dawn Phenomenon in Type 1 Diabetes: Why Your Blood Sugar Rises While You Sleep
SHOW NOTES:You went to bed at a perfect 110. No active insulin. Flat arrow. You did everything right. You wake up at 182. Nothing happened -- no low, no alarm. You just slept. Except something did happen. You just weren't awake for it.This episode introduces the dawn phenomenon: the pre-dawn hormonal surge (cortisol, growth hormone, glucagon, epinephrine) that causes your liver to manufac
Why Sleep Deprivation Hits Harder When You Have T1D
SHOW NOTES:Sleep deprivation reduces insulin sensitivity in everyone. That's not a T1D-specific finding. Here's what is.In people without diabetes, the system has a feedback loop. Insulin sensitivity drops, blood sugar ticks up slightly, the pancreas compensates automatically, and the whole thing resolves before they're even awake. They make coffee, go about their day, and have no idea an
One Night of Poor Sleep Reduces Insulin Sensitivity
SHOW NOTES:Here's the number: 21%.One study. People with type 1 diabetes. Sleep-deprived condition (4 hours) versus adequate sleep (8.5 hours). Same food, same insulin, same activities. The sleep-deprived group showed a 21% reduction in insulin sensitivity the next day. Every single participant.This is the episode Neil has been building toward. If you've ever had a day where your insulin
What's Really Causing Your Unexplained Blood Sugars
SHOW NOTES:The pump site. The insulin. The food from six hours ago. The stress. The general vibe. Neil has blamed every single one of these for blood sugars that made no sense -- and for 34 years, he kept leaving one variable off the list entirely.This episode is about blood sugar archaeology: the 7am investigation T1D people run every morning. Holding the insulin vial up to the light. Go
Sleep and Blood Sugar in Type 1 Diabetes
SHOW NOTES:You went to bed at 112. Flat arrow. No active insulin. Textbook. You should be proud. You wake up at 218. So you run the checklist -- check the site, question the insulin, replay every meal from the day before. And you come up empty.Here's what this episode proposes: you were solving the right puzzle with the wrong set of clues.Neil connects sleep directly to blood sugar manage
Why People with T1D Can't Sleep Through the Night
SHOW NOTES:When's the last time you actually slept through the night? No CGM alarms. No blood sugar math at 3am. No lying awake wondering if your number was stable. If you can't remember, that's exactly the point.In this episode, Neil digs into something that doesn't get said often enough: type 1 diabetes makes sleeping harder in specific, documented ways. Not in a general "I have a lot o
Why Your Mystery Blood Sugars Might Be a Sleep Problem
SHOW NOTES:If you've ever woken up to a blood sugar that makes no sense -- went to bed at a perfect number, did everything right, and still saw a confusing morning high -- this episode is for you.Neil Greathouse, who has lived with type 1 diabetes since February 14, 1992, kicks off the 8-week While You Were Sleeping Challenge by asking one question: what was happening the night before you
So Many Of Your Community Wins // Part 2
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So Many Of Your Wins // Part 1
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The Mental Side of T1D that Nobody's Treating // Allison Nimlos, The Diabetic Therapist
79% of people with T1D experience shame related to their diabetes. Not occasionally. As part of their daily lived experience.Today's guest built an entire conference around that statistic. Allison Nimlos is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT), a Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialist (CDCES), and has been living with Type 1 Diabetes for 32 years. She knows this disea
Banting Would Want You To Drink More Water
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Your New Baseline For Water
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What Are We Learning About Refilling?
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The Vicious Cycle of Low Potassium
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Why Your 180 Looks Like a 220
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Before Insulin, Dehydration Was a Death Sentence
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Sick Day Hydration Protocol
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The Yeti, The Stanley, The Owala
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Why 3 Glasses of Water Really Matters
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What Each Glass Of Water Actually Does
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Sick Days & Dehydration
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Protect Your Kidneys
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Electrolytes & Why T1Ds Need More
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The Cortisol Dehydration Spiral
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Why Your Insulin Feels Slow
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Your Brain Is 75% Water - Here's What Happens When You're Low
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The 9 Year Study That Changed Everything
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The Hormone Nobody Talks About - Meet Vassopressin
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Does Coffee Count? The Hydration Debate
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Why Standard Hydration Advice Fails Us Living With T1D
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What Dehydration Does To Your Blood Sugar
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The Hydration Challenge // Why Your Blood Feels Like Aunt Jemima
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Life After the Low Blood Sugar Challenge
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Untangling "I'm lows" from "I deserve this"
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Old You vs New You and Low Blood Sugar
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The Mental Weight of Low Blood Sugars
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Decision Fatigue And Low Blood Sugar
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From T1D To Cured // Katie Beth’s Life After Islet Transplant
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What To Do When You Still Over-treat Lows
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Low Blood Sugars & Emotional Eating
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Super Bowl Low Blood Sugar Game Plan
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When Other People Offer to “Help Us” During A Low
Show NotesSuper Bowl Sunday is like a scientific experiment in chaos: long stretches of sitting, random grazing, adrenaline, and a snack table that basically yells your name. In this episode, we talk about what happens when a low hits in the middle of all that and why “I’ll just grab whatever’s closest” almost always ends with a 250 two hours later.We break down a simple three‑step game
How To Stop Low Blood Sugars From Running Your Day
Show NotesIf January was about realizing how often lows hijack your day, February is about noticing how much that’s already changing. In this episode, we zoom out on the first month of the Low Blood Sugar Challenge and look at what’s actually different now: shorter lows, fewer roller‑coaster rebounds, and a little less panic every time the CGM screams at you.We talk about why progress wi
What Panic Treating a Low Actually Costs You
Show NotesMost rebound highs don’t come from bad math or broken tech. They come from panic.In this episode, we talk about how quickly a low blood sugar can flip your brain into emergency mode, and why that urgency almost guarantees you’ll overshoot the fix. Not because you’re careless, but because your body is screaming for safety and speed, not precision.We walk through how panic treatin
The Real Reason Lows Turn Into Overeating (Don't Be Mad At Me)
Show NotesMost people think overeating during a low is about hunger. It’s not. It’s about urgency.In this episode, we talk about why low blood sugar creates a sense of panic that feels exactly like hunger, even when your body doesn’t actually need more food. We break down how urgency overrides judgment, why “just a little more” keeps happening, and how one low can quietly derail your bloo
What Happens When You Wait Too Long to Treat a Low
Show NotesWaiting out a low feels responsible. Calm. In control. Until it isn’t.In this episode, we talk about what actually happens when you delay treating a low blood sugar, how quickly decision-making and coordination can slide, and why “I’ll just see if it comes back up” often ends in panic eating or a scary crash instead.This isn’t about being alarmist. It’s about understanding that
Why Your Brain Fights Glucose Tablets (And How to Retrain It)
Show NotesIf glucose tablets work so well, why do so many people with type 1 diabetes avoid them like they’re punishment?In this episode, we dig into the psychology behind low blood sugar cravings. Why your brain wants comfort food instead of fast glucose, why tablets feel unsatisfying in the moment, and how past low experiences quietly train your reactions without you realizing it.This i
Why Your Brain Panics During a Low (And What to Do About It)
Show NotesLow blood sugar doesn’t just mess with your body, it hijacks your brain. That’s why perfectly reasonable people suddenly feel urgent, frantic, and out of control when their numbers drop.In this episode, we break down what’s actually happening in your brain during a low, why decision-making falls apart so fast, and why the instinct to overeat feels impossible to stop in the momen
The Low Blood Sugar Rebound Nobody Warns You About
Show NotesIf you’ve ever gone from a low blood sugar straight into the 200s and thought, “How did that happen?”, this episode connects the dots.We talk about the post-low rebound that sneaks up on people with type 1 diabetes, not because they did something reckless, but because panic treatment feels necessary in the moment. This episode breaks down why lows often lead to highs, how stacki
Why Glucose Tablets Work Better Than Food for Low Blood Sugar
Show NotesMost people don’t hate glucose tablets because they don’t work. They hate them because they’re boring. No crunch. No comfort. No emotional payoff.In this episode, we talk about why glucose tablets actually outperform food when it comes to treating low blood sugar, and why using snacks instead quietly sets you up for rebound highs later. We break down how fast dextrose hits your
PBMs, Insulin, And The Broken System Keeping Prices High with George Huntley
Show NotesIf you have ever stared at your pharmacy receipt and thought, How is this even legal? this episode is for you. George Huntley has lived with type 1 diabetes since 1983, spent 25+ years running employer health plans, and now sits at the center of national advocacy work on insulin access and drug pricing.In this conversation, George breaks down how pharmacy benefit managers PBMs
The Rule of 15 (And Why We Ignore It)
Show NotesEveryone with type 1 diabetes has heard of the Rule of 15. Treat a low with 15 grams of fast-acting carbs, wait 15 minutes, and recheck. Simple. Logical. Universally ignored.In this episode, we break down why the Rule of 15 sounds great on paper but completely falls apart in real life. We talk about what actually happens to your brain during a low, why waiting feels impossible,
Passing Out from a Low Taught Me This About Treating Blood Sugar Safely
Show NotesIf you’ve ever brushed off a low blood sugar because you were busy, embarrassed, or convinced you could “power through,” this episode is for you. In this one, I tell the story of the only time I’ve ever passed out from a low, on the floor of a Bob Evans restaurant, and what it permanently changed about how I treat blood sugars.We talk about how easy it is to ignore early warning
Glucose Tablets vs Food for Lows // What Actually Works Faster
Show notesMost of us treat lows with whatever is closest, juice, crackers, cookies, cereal, and then act surprised when we’re 250 an hour later. This episode walks through why glucose tablets beat Oreos, juice boxes, and random pantry snacks when it comes to speed, control, and preventing rebound highs.You’ll hear the science behind glucose tabs, including research showing they relieve h
Why Your Low Blood Sugars Keep Rebounding High (and how to stop it)
Show notesIf it feels like every low blood sugar ends with you stuck at 240 and wondering what just happened, you’re not imagining it. This episode breaks down why over‑treating lows quietly wrecks your graph, your energy, and your long‑term risk, even when you think you’re just “saving your life” with snacks.You’ll hear how hypoglycemia followed by big rebounds triggers oxidative stress
12 Months of Wins - What This Year Taught Us
The final episode of 2025 is part celebration, part science, all community. Neil reflects on the biggest lessons, wins, stumbles, and connections - and shares what's next for Your Best T1D Year in 2026.What You Can Do TodayCelebrate your choice to keep going—share your best win, fail, or "not yet" for 2025Sign up for the newsletter and new January freebies at yourbestt1dyear.comGet the st
Get Ahead: Pre-Build Your Best T1D Year
Want to beat "National Quitters Day" and actually love January? Neil shows why starting your habit plan before the calendar flips is proven to work - early commitment changes outcomes.What You Can Do TodayPick your first January habit today and write it down or put it in your phoneShare your start at yourbestt1dyear.com for an instant head startDM @thebetes to lock in your commitmentResou
Post Holiday Reset: Small Moves Win
Feeling pressure to overhaul everything after the holidays? Neil dismantles the "reset" myth, shows how micro-habits change blood sugars and burnout, and gives you permission to ditch perfection for progress.What You Can Do TodayChoose your "one small move": hydration, sleep, tabs, or a DM to your support teamWrite it down or say it out loud—no performance required, just actionStart fresh
The Best Gift: Finish Strong, Start Real
It's Christmas Eve and you made it. This episode celebrates doing the little things, real-life T1D holiday stories, and the one decision that matters for finishing strong and starting 2026 right.What You Can Do TodayPick your realistic "holiday win"—even if it's just treating one low or saying no to food guiltDM @thebetes your holiday success or survival storyGet on the January roadmap an
Stacey Simms: What 2025 Taught Us About Type 1 Diabetes, Community & Beyond
Stacey Simms, host of Diabetes Connections and creator of Mom's Night Out, shares her favorite T1D moments from 2025, what surprised her, what disappointed her, and the unsung habits actually working for families.What You Can Do TodayCheck out Diabetes Connections podcast for more community storiesFollow @thebetes and join the conversation about favorite T1D winsConnect with another T1D p
The Moment You Decide Changes Everything
Breakthroughs happen when you decide, not at your next doctor's visit. This high-energy episode explores how small, intentional decisions outlast resolutions, with real listener wins and zero perfection required.What You Can Do TodayName the one thing you're doing in January and write it downText "I'm in for 2026" to a friend or claim your roadmap at yourbestt1dyear.comMake your move toda
