Super Bowl Sunday!

Super Bowl LVI begins on Sunday, 13 February 2022, at 3:30pm PST

Are you Ready for a Snack Attack?

Our Super Bowl Quick Tip provides some strategies to enjoy all of your Super Bowl snacks.  

Disclaimer - These tips will not prevent you from gaining weight, but they might keep your blood sugar within goal.

Nightscout Check-Up

As of 1 February 2022, you'll need multi-factor authentication (MFA) to access your Heroku account. 

"You should select at least one (Salesforce Authenticator is recommended) but might use more than one (registering a build in authenticator like a fingerprint reader is also a good idea) and you should print your Recovery Codes and keep them together with your Nightscout information".   

There have already been reports of people losing access to their Heroku account due to enabling MFA by a single method that suddenly became unavailable (or forgetting what they just set up...). It may take days to recover your Heroku account if this happens to you.

SugarPixel CGM Display!

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When loopers are asked about the biggest benefit of looping, the most common response is "sleep".  While most of us are sleeping much better with loop's help, there's always the concern that we'll sleep right through the CGM alarm. 
 
Custom Type One, also known within the community as Jon Fawcett, has developed an exciting new CGM display and alert device.  SugarPixel is the world’s first dedicated CGM hardware monitor with random tone generation audio alerts, vibration alerts, customizable display options, and native multi-user following. 

Use SugarPixel for…

• Hard to wake teens and college students transitioning to independent care.
• Vibration alerts for hearing impaired and and dual audio-vibration alerts for heavy sleepers.
• Displaying BG values from multiple T1D at the same time on a single device.
• A quick glance from across the room or across the yard with the large display.

SugarPixel requires a Nightscout site to read CGM data from. Direct Dexcom integration is in the planning stages and Custom Type One hope to make it available soon with a software update.

To learn more about SugarPixel, the LoopFollow app, the AB Switcher Patch, and how to use your shiny new mac computer, click on the links below.  

Dr. Laura Nally:  Looping and Exercise

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Sunday, 27 February 2022
5:00 PM PST  (12am GMT)

Join us:
Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87024790917
or 
YouTube Loop and Learn channel 

Dr. Laura Nally is back, this time to talk about T1D, Looping and Exercise! Once again, she is very excited to be presenting to Loop and Learn … and looks forward to a lively Q&A session. As always, the event will be recorded and available for viewing and sharing the following day on our YouTube Loop and Learn channel.

Laura Nally, MD, was diagnosed with T1D at the age of 6 years in 1990. She trained to become a pediatric endocrinologist at Stanford University, where she began Looping in 2018. While at Stanford, she spent 8 days hiking Mt. Whitney (14,505 ft), the tallest peak in the contiguous US, with 9 teens and 2 adults with T1D, and went on to write the first Wilderness Medical Society Clinical Practice Guidelines for Diabetes Management.

She currently works at Yale University as an Assistant Professor and receives funding from the National Institutes of Health to study metabolic changes that occur on very low carbohydrate diets in youth with T1D. She also published the first case report of Looping in Pregnancy (click on the link below).

She spends her free time advocating to improve access and affordability of diabetes medications and supplies, serving as the legislative lead for the Connecticut #insulin4all Chapter of T1International.

Erik Verhoef, CEO of Seagrove Partners

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Chris Wilson:  Let's Rethink ISF

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• We’re on a mission to transform fundamental understandings and assumptions about the management of T1D. The answers are in the data. You can’t build a sturdy house on a cracked foundation.
• What's the #math involved in #T1D? It's calculating the retrorocket burn intensity and timing required to (safely) maintain a stable orbit in a universe where the "gravitational constant" is constantly in flux- and with rockets that don't respond for 30 minutes after you press "fire"
• Your ISF is static, right? That’s how it’s programmed in your pump. That’s what your Endocrinologist told you a million years ago when you were diagnosed with T1D. But what if it isn’t?
• What if this fundamental thing that we all thought we knew about T1D isn’t actually true?

Chris Wilson:  Let's Rethink ISF

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• We’re on a mission to transform fundamental understandings and assumptions about the management of T1D. The answers are in the data. You can’t build a sturdy house on a cracked foundation.
• What's the #math involved in #T1D? It's calculating the retrorocket burn intensity and timing required to (safely) maintain a stable orbit in a universe where the "gravitational constant" is constantly in flux- and with rockets that don't respond for 30 minutes after you press "fire"
• Your ISF is static, right? That’s how it’s programmed in your pump. That’s what your Endocrinologist told you a million years ago when you were diagnosed with T1D. But what if it isn’t?
• What if this fundamental thing that we all thought we knew about T1D isn’t actually true?

FDA Clears Omnipod 5!

"Omnipod 5 will launch through the pharmacy channel, providing customer benefits of no contract, no commitment, and no obligation. In the coming days, Insulet will offer Omnipod 5 in a limited market release so that the Company can incorporate learnings to deliver a best-in-class product experience. Omnipod 5 is expected to be broadly available shortly after the limited market release." 

Dr. Trang Ly, Insulet's Chief Medical Officer, spoke to the Loop and Learn community on Tuesday 1 February 2022.  Click the Replay link below if you missed this exciting community event.

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• We’re on a mission to transform fundamental understandings and assumptions about the management of T1D. The answers are in the data. You can’t build a sturdy house on a cracked foundation.
• What's the #math involved in #T1D? It's calculating the retrorocket burn intensity and timing required to (safely) maintain a stable orbit in a universe where the "gravitational constant" is constantly in flux- and with rockets that don't respond for 30 minutes after you press "fire"
• Your ISF is static, right? That’s how it’s programmed in your pump. That’s what your Endocrinologist told you a million years ago when you were diagnosed with T1D. But what if it isn’t?
• What if this fundamental thing that we all thought we knew about T1D isn’t actually true?