1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:02,840 Speaker 1: From our science will save us file Continuous glucose monitors 2 00:00:02,880 --> 00:00:06,200 Speaker 1: this is for type one diabetes have helped over nineteen 3 00:00:06,200 --> 00:00:09,120 Speaker 1: thousand kiwis reduced the risk of amputations and vision loss. 4 00:00:09,440 --> 00:00:11,680 Speaker 1: Now Heather very is the Diabetes New Zealand boss and 5 00:00:11,760 --> 00:00:14,840 Speaker 1: as well as Heather Morning, Our Good Morning make Are 6 00:00:14,840 --> 00:00:17,360 Speaker 1: these monitors the same ones they're wearing on Hollywood all 7 00:00:17,400 --> 00:00:19,200 Speaker 1: the time and lots of glovies and stuff where you 8 00:00:19,640 --> 00:00:22,000 Speaker 1: buy your own glucose monitor and monitor? Are they the 9 00:00:22,000 --> 00:00:22,480 Speaker 1: same thing? 10 00:00:24,200 --> 00:00:26,920 Speaker 2: Well, they could be, yes, I think they are. But 11 00:00:27,280 --> 00:00:27,880 Speaker 2: because it's. 12 00:00:27,760 --> 00:00:29,720 Speaker 1: Become a thing you realize in the fitness world that 13 00:00:29,760 --> 00:00:32,000 Speaker 1: your monitor your glucose on an ongoing basis. 14 00:00:32,800 --> 00:00:36,120 Speaker 2: Well, that's an interesting thing that for type ones these 15 00:00:36,159 --> 00:00:39,240 Speaker 2: are actually life saving and life changing. So it's a 16 00:00:39,280 --> 00:00:40,879 Speaker 2: little bit different from the Hollywood one. 17 00:00:41,680 --> 00:00:43,800 Speaker 1: Is it just type one or type two? 18 00:00:45,760 --> 00:00:50,000 Speaker 2: Anyone who's insulin dependent would benefit from wearing these. At 19 00:00:50,040 --> 00:00:53,040 Speaker 2: the moment, farmac are only funding for type one. They're 20 00:00:53,080 --> 00:00:56,560 Speaker 2: very expensive, about two hundred dollars a month, so there's 21 00:00:56,560 --> 00:01:01,280 Speaker 2: been a bit affordable especially for young, young families. You know, 22 00:01:01,360 --> 00:01:03,760 Speaker 2: type one as comes as young as that's when you 23 00:01:03,800 --> 00:01:07,000 Speaker 2: get it generally in use so it's not only a 24 00:01:07,040 --> 00:01:09,640 Speaker 2: financial burden, but you know, let's say it's a social 25 00:01:09,640 --> 00:01:12,880 Speaker 2: burden because these ones are actually type ones are having 26 00:01:12,880 --> 00:01:15,720 Speaker 2: to practice fingers eight ten times a day in order 27 00:01:15,760 --> 00:01:19,440 Speaker 2: to check their blood sugar levels. But these c gms 28 00:01:19,480 --> 00:01:21,200 Speaker 2: mean they don't have to do that, and then also 29 00:01:21,280 --> 00:01:23,840 Speaker 2: talks to their phones and gives them alerk exactly. So 30 00:01:24,520 --> 00:01:26,440 Speaker 2: quite different from a Hollywood situation. 31 00:01:26,680 --> 00:01:28,640 Speaker 1: No, no, no, no't get me right, it's not a Hollywood. 32 00:01:29,080 --> 00:01:31,440 Speaker 1: What I'm telling you is you can buy these things 33 00:01:31,480 --> 00:01:34,440 Speaker 1: for yourself to monitor your own glucose, whether you've got 34 00:01:34,440 --> 00:01:36,720 Speaker 1: diabetes or not. I'm saying it. It's like a it's 35 00:01:36,760 --> 00:01:38,480 Speaker 1: like a it's a warp, it's an app, it's a 36 00:01:38,560 --> 00:01:40,600 Speaker 1: it's an aura ring, it's that sort of thing. 37 00:01:41,400 --> 00:01:44,319 Speaker 2: It is absolutely that, Yes, it is, yes, yes, But 38 00:01:44,959 --> 00:01:47,160 Speaker 2: the good thing is we're now funder we never used 39 00:01:47,160 --> 00:01:50,000 Speaker 2: to be. So it's fantastic on the calculation. 40 00:01:50,120 --> 00:01:52,520 Speaker 1: Though, if you're saving fifty three thousand dollars a day, 41 00:01:52,680 --> 00:01:56,160 Speaker 1: the David Seymour line, I e. You save here to 42 00:01:56,400 --> 00:02:00,000 Speaker 1: save later, then why don't we just fund everybody? I mean, 43 00:02:00,040 --> 00:02:02,160 Speaker 1: obviously I know the answer, but I mean, in theory, 44 00:02:02,160 --> 00:02:04,840 Speaker 1: it would work, wouldn't it. 45 00:02:06,320 --> 00:02:09,320 Speaker 2: Well, yes, I mean, look, good luck on that, Mike. 46 00:02:09,360 --> 00:02:13,920 Speaker 2: I've been seven years campaigning into submissions and select committee 47 00:02:14,160 --> 00:02:19,119 Speaker 2: just to get the type ones funded. So, but you're right, 48 00:02:19,400 --> 00:02:21,840 Speaker 2: I mean, I mean, look, it does say that. I mean, 49 00:02:21,880 --> 00:02:26,160 Speaker 2: the thing the difference is is that what they are saving, 50 00:02:26,360 --> 00:02:29,840 Speaker 2: which is the complications, and the complications are the you know, 51 00:02:29,880 --> 00:02:32,160 Speaker 2: the renal units. Gosh, you know fifty percent of people 52 00:02:32,200 --> 00:02:36,120 Speaker 2: in the renal unit are due to diabetes, blindness, stroke, 53 00:02:36,360 --> 00:02:41,000 Speaker 2: cardiovascular diabetes sort of sits at the bottom of the 54 00:02:42,360 --> 00:02:45,360 Speaker 2: It is a shame, yes, it is. So I think, 55 00:02:45,480 --> 00:02:47,799 Speaker 2: you know, if we can get more funding and a 56 00:02:47,800 --> 00:02:52,240 Speaker 2: little bit more intervention into things for diabetes, and our 57 00:02:52,280 --> 00:02:53,760 Speaker 2: goal now is to get type twos. 58 00:02:53,960 --> 00:02:55,919 Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. All right, Well, I wish you were best 59 00:02:55,919 --> 00:02:58,840 Speaker 1: with it, Heather, Heather very I'm sorry for being so 60 00:02:58,919 --> 00:03:00,560 Speaker 1: practical about it. I just thought, you know, if you 61 00:03:00,639 --> 00:03:02,640 Speaker 1: spend now to save later, that's not a bad idea. 62 00:03:02,800 --> 00:03:04,880 Speaker 1: Must talk to David seymore about that at some time. 63 00:03:05,480 --> 00:03:08,400 Speaker 1: For more from The Mic Asking Breakfast, listen live to 64 00:03:08,520 --> 00:03:11,560 Speaker 1: News Talks at b from six am weekdays, or follow 65 00:03:11,600 --> 00:03:13,200 Speaker 1: the podcast on iHeartRadio.