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Exercise and type 1 diabetes with Dr Michael Riddell

Inside Exercise

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The Problem With Double Diabetes

People with type one have not got the insulin release that they need to have from their pancreas. The person with type two has a problem where they're depending on how advanced they are, but they produce more than normal. So it just becomes, you know, staying lean and exercising and things. And then physicians will just prescribe more exogenous insulin. But if you look at this other group that I work with, these are lean elite level athletes or college level athletes. They're on 20 units of exogenous insulin a day. They're super insulin sensitive. They're lean, they're fit, they're likely going to live longer. We've got a real problem if we have

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