72. Hanna Boethius | Part 1: living with diabetes and hashimoto's

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0:00 our next guest on the show is an international speaker, writer, podcaster and action taker who also loves diabetes topics that are off the beaten track. She's passionate to find motivational, inspiring ways to bring about a change in diabetes management. Through her own company. She's inspired thousands of people with diabetes to live a healthier life by sharing her own story and experiences, as well as the puzzle pieces that she's helped others to find. She has a profound understanding of how things like nutrition and lifestyle choices can balance diabetes, and she's also the co founder of the very first interactive 100% real food event of its kind in Europe, called the low carb universe. How cool is that? Were a mix of lectures and workshops make it possible to dig deeper into interesting topics and learn from each other enabled warriors. Please help me in welcoming today's guests. The Fabulous founder of Hana diabetes expert, how to read yes everybody.
0:58 Thank you so much for having me. So,
1:01 what you're seeing here, it's awesome. And okay, let's get into the first part of our interview. So this part focuses on when you first started to get symptoms which later revealed diagnosis, keep listening and as always to find out how today's guests coped and thrived afterward in Episode Two, with some questions from our enabled warriors Facebook group if we have any, and then keep on listening for Episode Three for today's guest answers to the not so super quick secrets around there we go. Oh, my gosh, let's dive right in. Okay, for part one. So you've been living with Type One Diabetes now for 35 years, Hannah and Hashimoto thyroiditis for seven years. Yep. So and you say that the harsh measures is kind of the one in remission and stuff so can you tell us like how you were diagnosed with these things? What happened on that day?
1:48 I wish I could remember how I was diagnosed with Type One Diabetes ourselves only two years old. So it's a bit of a while ago, I mean, who can have 35 years of experience of something When they're only 25, I don't really know. But Stranger things have happened. But in all seriousness, all I know is what my friends have told me from that sort of time. And my mom didn't quite recognise me, her daughter, I was falling asleep everywhere. I had to go to the bathroom a lot for what my diapers or whatever it was at that time, and I was drinking a lot. I didn't quite I didn't have an appetite, or then I would have a real appetite because, you know, my body wasn't giving getting the energy, of course, but it was Yeah. And, and she was like, okay, right. There's something that is wrong here. And I'm going to take her to a doctor. And that was of course with a fingerprint tape test, even in 1985. There was a fingerprint test, although it took a long time to get the results. But yeah, it was very quickly established what it was and it was type one diabetes, meaning that The better cells in my pancreas had started getting attacked by my immune system. So they have started shutting down or to start to get kicked out really. And and yeah, that is basically what type one diabetes is. It's basically you don't produce enough insulin for your body so that it can work properly. And insulin is really needed by so many things in the body. It is the master hormone that regulates everything from hunger, to satiety to blood sugar to all of these things. And that's why it's so important and when that gets kicked out is kind of a big deal.
3:39 Yeah, I imagine it
3:40 is. And so I was put on insulin syringes at that part. Yes, at that point, it was insulin syringes still, and that has since progressed to insulin pens, and then an insulin pump and then another insulin pump and all this stuff. But to this day, at 35 years later, you I'm still taking insulin externally, and I will do so until the day I die unless they find the cure, which would be amazing.
4:08 Well, you never know, you know, any day now. Yeah. No,
4:11 I know. I mean, I have been promised for the past 35 years in five to 10 years, there will be a cure
4:17 every five to 10 years.
4:20 I'm kind of still waiting.
4:23 So yeah, I think people should get on that. Anyway. And so yeah, that was 35 years ago, and then seven years ago, and my antibodies, my thyroid antibodies started climbing. And that's when my doctor diagnosed me with early stage of Hutch motors thyroiditis, which is a new system again, those pesky little happy people attacking in other Oregon, which means that I have at least two autoimmune diseases that I know about. And yeah, so it's basically an autoimmune attack on your thyroid and that can make you Really, like sluggish and they can make you gain weight and it can make you it's a lot. It's a lot to do with metabolism. So that's why it has so many metabolic sort of effects that disease but I managed to take that into remission I don't I have complete

[@julliethomas8191]

Thanks for the video, I am using Freestyle Libre sensor with Ambrosia Blucon and check the glucose values on my phone directly without scanning the sensor and reader. Also, the app gives me updates with voice alerts when my glucose values go down.

[@jessieace553]

Hi Julie, thanks so much for your comment. Great to hear you've found an app to help you :) how long have you been diagnosed?