WEBVTT - EP 47 - World Diabetes Day 0:00:00.440 --> 0:00:06.120 The Flavor Podcast Network Island Roots Auckland Ways. This one's 0:00:06.120 --> 0:00:08.320 for the Brown brothers and sisters who want to be 0:00:08.360 --> 0:00:12.800 one with themselves, their culture, their identity, their roots. 0:00:13.240 --> 0:00:15.440 This is Island Roots Auckland Ways. 0:00:19.000 --> 0:00:22.360 What's up everyone, and welcome back to Island Roots Auckland Ways. 0:00:22.440 --> 0:00:23.599 Hey girl, Hey. 0:00:23.440 --> 0:00:24.680 Girl, how are you today? 0:00:24.880 --> 0:00:26.960 I'm feeling good. We have a pretty good cord at 0:00:27.000 --> 0:00:30.120 all today. It's a very special one because this month, November, 0:00:30.160 --> 0:00:34.080 it's Diabetes Action Month and the thing for this year 0:00:34.200 --> 0:00:37.520 is don't sugarcoat diabetes. Let's face it. We are Maudi 0:00:37.600 --> 0:00:39.920 basifica and the stats don't look good for us in 0:00:40.000 --> 0:00:44.640 the diabetes department. But we're all about breaking the the 0:00:44.720 --> 0:00:50.160 fuck ama around diabetes because it's actually not a bad thing. 0:00:50.360 --> 0:00:54.120 And if you do have diabetes, or you have some 0:00:54.160 --> 0:00:57.560 suspicions that you might be living with diabetes, we want 0:00:57.560 --> 0:00:58.920 you to know that it's all good. 0:00:59.400 --> 0:00:59.960 Absolutely. 0:01:00.360 --> 0:01:03.400 So this episode's all about educating ourselves on the truth 0:01:03.480 --> 0:01:06.679 about diabetes, to dispel myths and break stigmas. 0:01:07.360 --> 0:01:08.440 I didn't know much. 0:01:08.280 --> 0:01:10.399 About diabetes before we had this chat, I will be 0:01:10.400 --> 0:01:13.560 perfectly honest. I knew a bit from my Level two 0:01:13.600 --> 0:01:16.800 biology I don't even know if it's biology. Must be 0:01:16.800 --> 0:01:19.600 a level two NCAA Level two biology classes that I 0:01:19.600 --> 0:01:23.520 had at school, but I feel like when we talk 0:01:23.560 --> 0:01:26.440 about them without a person who has a lived experience, 0:01:26.880 --> 0:01:29.319 it's just kind of like, oh, okay, and what am 0:01:29.319 --> 0:01:32.000 I going to do with this information? But being able 0:01:32.080 --> 0:01:35.800 to understand the real life ramifications and impacts was really 0:01:35.840 --> 0:01:39.920 powerful in this cordy door. Yeah, so this week we 0:01:39.959 --> 0:01:43.200 were very lucky to be joined by Iliana Fussuur from 0:01:43.360 --> 0:01:46.800 Diabetes Auckland. Now she's a diabetes educator working on a 0:01:46.800 --> 0:01:50.440 few different programs that help prevent diabetes and educate people 0:01:50.880 --> 0:01:56.320 on lifestyle changes or the risk factors and the preventatives 0:01:57.280 --> 0:01:59.600 two diabetes type one, type two, and she gave us 0:01:59.600 --> 0:02:02.440 a little bit of a rundown gestational diabetes as well. 0:02:02.640 --> 0:02:04.400 But then we were also very blessed to be joined 0:02:04.400 --> 0:02:08.120 by Milan Mula, who is a young person living with 0:02:08.160 --> 0:02:10.960 type one diabetes. And a big fun fact that I 0:02:11.080 --> 0:02:14.520 learned was that you're not just born with type one diabetes. 0:02:14.639 --> 0:02:17.239 I feel like I grew up reading at the Girls 0:02:17.280 --> 0:02:20.240 Know the Babysitters Club and in the Babysits Club. Stacey 0:02:20.360 --> 0:02:22.720 has type one diabetes, and I believe she was born 0:02:22.760 --> 0:02:28.120 with it, so I thought that all type one diabetics 0:02:28.160 --> 0:02:34.560 were born. But no, you actually can develop it over 0:02:34.800 --> 0:02:38.040 time and it's not something that can be prevented like 0:02:38.120 --> 0:02:42.760 type two can. But Milan has this like lovely positive 0:02:42.760 --> 0:02:46.560 disposition on life. But then gave us the most incredible 0:02:47.080 --> 0:02:53.960 hearty bass, badass important slam poem about his experience with 0:02:54.120 --> 0:02:56.280 diabetes and the kinds of myths that he's had to 0:02:57.240 --> 0:02:58.800 bust down in his life. 0:02:59.040 --> 0:03:02.280 Yeah, there's no shegar Hoding. This episode of Island Roots 0:03:02.280 --> 0:03:03.640 Auckland Way is starting right now. 0:03:05.560 --> 0:03:08.200 Hi, everyone, welcome back to another episode of Island Roots, 0:03:08.240 --> 0:03:11.360 Auckland Ways. It is November. It is Diabetes Action Month 0:03:11.440 --> 0:03:13.800 and we are so so so grateful to be partnering 0:03:13.840 --> 0:03:16.760 with diabetes in New Zealand this month as a part 0:03:16.760 --> 0:03:19.239 of Diabetes Action Month and the theme for this month 0:03:19.320 --> 0:03:22.600 is don't sugarcoat Diabetes. So today on the episode, we're 0:03:22.639 --> 0:03:25.120 going to be busting myths, learning about lived experiences, but 0:03:25.200 --> 0:03:31.120 also dismissing what discussing dismissing myths, discussing what diabetes really is. 0:03:31.600 --> 0:03:35.160 And to do so, we have the amazing Ileana Fossitur 0:03:35.320 --> 0:03:39.000 from diabetes Auckland, and Milan Walla, who lives with type 0:03:39.000 --> 0:03:51.240 one diabetes, joining us in the studio Todayla. 0:03:46.360 --> 0:03:52.280 Welcome on into the studio. How are we feeling today? 0:03:53.040 --> 0:03:56.800 A little bit fine? You're a super slight and how 0:03:56.840 --> 0:04:02.400 about you, Milan? How are we feeling good and shy? 0:04:02.480 --> 0:04:07.720 This is both of your first times doing a podcast. 0:04:08.680 --> 0:04:10.080 What podcast were you on before? 0:04:11.680 --> 0:04:15.560 I don't know the name, but poetry call it all. 0:04:17.360 --> 0:04:19.680 And speaking on poetry. We'll have a little bit to 0:04:19.800 --> 0:04:22.680 share on that later on in the podcast, won't we. 0:04:23.000 --> 0:04:26.680 Yes, we absolutely will hopefully if you're feeling less shy. 0:04:27.920 --> 0:04:28.440 Later on. 0:04:29.480 --> 0:04:31.400 I don't know if you two know, but every episode 0:04:31.440 --> 0:04:34.839 we start our episodes with our guests with a little 0:04:34.880 --> 0:04:38.000 game called what we love about Home? So home can 0:04:38.000 --> 0:04:40.360 be whatever you like. It can be your physical home, 0:04:40.440 --> 0:04:42.039 the four walls you live with them. It can be 0:04:42.080 --> 0:04:44.640 your home I don't know, back in the Islands, or 0:04:44.680 --> 0:04:47.080 it could be the suburb that you're from. We just 0:04:47.160 --> 0:04:49.120 want to know what you love about home and where 0:04:49.120 --> 0:04:52.400 home is for you. For me, home is Auckland and 0:04:52.440 --> 0:04:54.640 what I'm loving about home at the moment is walks 0:04:54.640 --> 0:04:57.320 around the viaduct in the city. It's just something so 0:04:57.440 --> 0:04:59.800 nice about it, especially now that it's getting close to 0:04:59.880 --> 0:05:03.880 the summer. Yeah, it's lighter later at night, it's lovely and. 0:05:03.839 --> 0:05:05.760 It's a little bit hot at the time of recording. 0:05:05.760 --> 0:05:06.360 Do you feel warm? 0:05:06.560 --> 0:05:09.440 I feel warm today and I like it. I'm here 0:05:09.520 --> 0:05:10.640 for I'm here for it. 0:05:10.760 --> 0:05:13.280 I'm here for putting on some sunglasses and having a 0:05:13.320 --> 0:05:17.480 cold beverage. Yeah, regino in my hands. What I love 0:05:17.480 --> 0:05:21.120 about home this week? I will say what I love 0:05:21.160 --> 0:05:25.240 about home back on the Islands is the slow pace 0:05:25.880 --> 0:05:29.680 of life. Especially on a Sunday. Everything is closed in 0:05:29.720 --> 0:05:31.680 the Islands because that's when you go to church with 0:05:31.720 --> 0:05:35.479 your families and you are supposed to rest on the 0:05:35.520 --> 0:05:37.880 Sabbath day. So yeah, that's what I love about home, 0:05:37.920 --> 0:05:40.640 the slow pace of life. I feel like sometimes when 0:05:40.640 --> 0:05:44.520 we're here in New Zealand it can be like always 0:05:44.640 --> 0:05:47.840 changing and moving. But back on the Islands, definitely, I 0:05:47.839 --> 0:05:50.520 love how we have a dedicated day to stop and 0:05:50.560 --> 0:05:56.000 take a rest. That's when I love home about this week. 0:05:57.000 --> 0:05:58.760 How about you, Milan, what do you love about home? 0:05:59.200 --> 0:06:02.000 What do I love about home? I think home is 0:06:02.080 --> 0:06:06.360 at my nance house down south. She livesten no, we 0:06:06.400 --> 0:06:08.800 went down there recently. That are bonfard during the day 0:06:08.880 --> 0:06:15.679 and at night. But it was nice fun, yes, yes, yes, yes. 0:06:15.920 --> 0:06:18.200 How often are you able to go back to your 0:06:18.279 --> 0:06:18.800 NaN's house? 0:06:19.600 --> 0:06:21.560 Not that often, but when we do go back, it's fun. 0:06:21.560 --> 0:06:24.560 It's always a good time. And Ileana, what do you 0:06:24.560 --> 0:06:25.080 love about her? 0:06:25.320 --> 0:06:30.919 What I love about home this week is home for 0:06:31.000 --> 0:06:36.360 me is I live in South Walkland and my sister, 0:06:37.320 --> 0:06:42.160 younger sister and her family came yesterday from Brisbane, Australia. 0:06:42.279 --> 0:06:46.400 So yeah, a lot of kids running around it. 0:06:48.320 --> 0:06:53.839 Yeah, sharing stories and feasting and yes, that's what I 0:06:53.880 --> 0:06:55.039 love about home this week. 0:06:55.200 --> 0:06:57.159 It's so lovely beautiful. 0:06:57.279 --> 0:06:58.160 Thank you for sharing. 0:06:58.320 --> 0:07:00.320 Yeah, thank you so much for sharing, both of you. 0:07:01.360 --> 0:07:04.680 As we know, we're here to talk about diabetes and 0:07:04.800 --> 0:07:06.560 we kind of wanted to start off with a little 0:07:06.600 --> 0:07:10.000 bit about your work, Ileana and how you got involved 0:07:10.200 --> 0:07:12.800 with Diabetes New Zealand, the kind of work you do 0:07:13.240 --> 0:07:16.800 with Diabetes New Zealand slash Diabetes Auckland, and yeah, a 0:07:16.840 --> 0:07:18.680 little bit of how you found yourself on this line 0:07:18.680 --> 0:07:19.080 of work. 0:07:19.720 --> 0:07:20.000 Yeah. 0:07:20.080 --> 0:07:26.840 So I have been with Diabetes New Zealand since twenty thirteen. Wow, 0:07:27.360 --> 0:07:29.160 over ten years. 0:07:29.200 --> 0:07:30.080 Were a good girl. 0:07:30.880 --> 0:07:36.880 I'm heavily involved with the health promotion programs and activities 0:07:36.920 --> 0:07:41.480 out in the community. In our health promotion activities, we 0:07:41.680 --> 0:07:45.960 focus on diabetes prevention, especially type two diabetes, which is 0:07:45.960 --> 0:07:46.720 a type. 0:07:46.800 --> 0:07:51.720 That can be prevented. We have a program called Hope. 0:07:52.040 --> 0:07:57.040 And it's a community based diabetes prevention program. So I 0:07:57.240 --> 0:08:02.080 coordinate and call facilitate our whole program raising awareness and 0:08:02.240 --> 0:08:06.840 educating our especially at risk community, which is our Maori 0:08:06.960 --> 0:08:11.400 Pacific in South Asian to learn about how to prevent 0:08:11.520 --> 0:08:16.160 type two diabetes through healthy eating and exercise. I also 0:08:16.480 --> 0:08:24.560 do workplace educations and just diabetes education and awareness in 0:08:25.640 --> 0:08:32.600 different community groups. And I also assist on our mobile 0:08:32.640 --> 0:08:39.000 band when we're going around different community groups, workplaces, rec centers, 0:08:39.240 --> 0:08:43.960 community events, and do our HbA one C testing just 0:08:44.000 --> 0:08:45.680 diabetes testing. 0:08:46.360 --> 0:08:48.840 So yeah, so that's pretty much what I do. 0:08:49.400 --> 0:08:52.800 My gosh, you do so. 0:08:52.240 --> 0:08:57.440 Queen of Diabetes. First of all, can you heire to 0:08:57.720 --> 0:09:01.200 educate us please on the different types of diabetes that 0:09:01.280 --> 0:09:03.559 there are, because for me, I know that there's many 0:09:03.559 --> 0:09:05.839 people in my life who live with diabetes, but I'm 0:09:05.880 --> 0:09:09.760 actually not sure of what diabetes is and that there 0:09:09.840 --> 0:09:11.040 is different types. 0:09:11.200 --> 0:09:12.800 Yeah, so yeah, I was just gonna say it is 0:09:12.880 --> 0:09:17.679 important to first know what diabetes A is. So diabetes 0:09:17.720 --> 0:09:24.160 as a chronic disease, and it's a condition that develops 0:09:24.240 --> 0:09:29.160 when blood glucose levels are too high because insulin is 0:09:29.200 --> 0:09:33.000 absent or not working correctly in your body, so in 0:09:33.080 --> 0:09:36.760 other words, too much sugar in the blood. So there 0:09:36.800 --> 0:09:39.200 are three main types to answer your question about the 0:09:39.240 --> 0:09:44.600 types of diabetes. There is gestational diabetes, which as women 0:09:44.600 --> 0:09:49.679 who have diabetes during pregnancy, so it only occurs during pregnancy, 0:09:50.080 --> 0:09:55.040 but once they are given birth it goes away, but 0:09:55.080 --> 0:09:59.880 that increases once they're diagnosed with gestational diabetes. It increases 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:04.040 the risk of developing type two diabetes later on in 0:10:04.080 --> 0:10:08.240 life if they don't look after themselves well after birth. 0:10:09.000 --> 0:10:13.360 So that's gestational diabetes. Type one diabetes, I'm sure Milan 0:10:13.440 --> 0:10:17.600 will talk more about it, but type one diabetes, it's 0:10:17.679 --> 0:10:22.480 the type that cannot be prevented, very common among young children. 0:10:23.480 --> 0:10:28.040 It can be genetic, but it's an autoimmune condition. So 0:10:28.080 --> 0:10:31.160 what I mean by autoimmune is that our body owned 0:10:31.200 --> 0:10:36.720 immune system destroys the cells that produces insulin and our body. 0:10:36.840 --> 0:10:39.719 So once you're diagnosed with type one diabetes, you are 0:10:39.880 --> 0:10:46.080 insulin dependent for life. Anything can cause type one diabetes, 0:10:47.440 --> 0:10:51.760 and as as I've said before, it cannot be prevented. 0:10:53.360 --> 0:10:57.680 And yeah, it can be trickered by like an infection 0:10:58.160 --> 0:11:02.079 or changing the enroun. But yeah, once they are diagnosed 0:11:02.160 --> 0:11:08.320 with type one, they are the insulin inculin dependent. And 0:11:08.360 --> 0:11:10.960 then we have type two diabetes, which is the type 0:11:11.440 --> 0:11:15.160 that can be prevented. And as I've mentioned before on 0:11:15.200 --> 0:11:19.280 my introduction, the way that we do through our health 0:11:19.320 --> 0:11:23.840 promotion programs and activities, we focus on type two diabetes. 0:11:24.360 --> 0:11:27.760 So type two diabetes can be genetic as well, but 0:11:27.840 --> 0:11:32.360 it's mainly due to unhealthy lifestyle. And there are other 0:11:32.400 --> 0:11:36.400 factors that contribute to the development of type two diabetes, 0:11:36.960 --> 0:11:39.240 but yeah, it's mainly due to unhealthy lifestyle. 0:11:39.320 --> 0:11:43.600 So those other, yeah, different types of diabetes. 0:11:44.520 --> 0:11:48.040 Thank you for sharing a little bit about what diabetes is, Ileana, 0:11:48.120 --> 0:11:50.280 and we'll come back to you as to the fukama 0:11:50.480 --> 0:11:54.199 around all the embarrassment around having and living with diabetes. 0:11:54.240 --> 0:11:56.240 But Milan, we want to bring you in now. Tell 0:11:56.280 --> 0:11:59.360 us about your story with diabetes. So you have type one. 0:11:59.320 --> 0:12:04.600 Yep, type one diabetes. I was diagnosed ah how long 0:12:04.640 --> 0:12:06.679 ago in year eight so that would be like three 0:12:06.760 --> 0:12:12.000 years ago. Now, okay, yeah, COVID hit then after before 0:12:12.000 --> 0:12:13.480 you know, when we're like going into live or was 0:12:13.480 --> 0:12:15.840 it there were three or level two? Back to school? 0:12:16.400 --> 0:12:19.640 I got diagnosed with diabetes, so I couldn't go back 0:12:19.679 --> 0:12:21.880 to school, so it was all good. 0:12:22.040 --> 0:12:26.959 Nah, yeah, so tell us your story. So you're diagnosed 0:12:26.960 --> 0:12:30.920 with it. Did you know anything about diabetes beforehand? Or nah? 0:12:31.080 --> 0:12:34.240 Not really but my cousin had it. Didn't really talk 0:12:34.240 --> 0:12:36.960 to her much, But yeah, I didn't know what it was, 0:12:37.160 --> 0:12:40.400 so coming into it, it's like, you know that like idea, 0:12:40.640 --> 0:12:42.400 like that falsehood of it. 0:12:42.520 --> 0:12:43.400 Yeah, it's you. 0:12:43.600 --> 0:12:45.079 You're the reason though for it. And then like other 0:12:45.120 --> 0:12:47.880 things like that was hard going into it. Besides that, 0:12:48.440 --> 0:12:48.880 I don't know. 0:12:49.240 --> 0:12:51.600 That's pretty buzzy, like what were the symptoms? Like how 0:12:51.640 --> 0:12:54.120 did you even know that there was something to diagnose? 0:12:54.240 --> 0:12:58.680 I was drinking heaps of water, peeing heaps. I kept 0:12:58.679 --> 0:13:02.479 on getting real bad headaches, always felt thirsty, like dehydrated, 0:13:03.040 --> 0:13:04.960 other things like that. 0:13:05.440 --> 0:13:07.599 And so did mom, who is sitting actually in the 0:13:07.600 --> 0:13:09.920 producer booth right now. Did Mom take notice off there 0:13:09.960 --> 0:13:12.400 and think, oh, I think we've got to thought I 0:13:12.440 --> 0:13:19.400 was over exagged and then eventually you reach a point 0:13:19.640 --> 0:13:23.000 you get to the doctors and they are telling you 0:13:23.000 --> 0:13:27.320 you you live with type one diabetes. What does life 0:13:27.320 --> 0:13:28.240 look like for you? Now? 0:13:28.320 --> 0:13:32.440 Me learn a lot different. You gotta change old food 0:13:32.440 --> 0:13:35.400 habits and stuff. Not just like we were just unehealthy 0:13:35.400 --> 0:13:38.239 in general. But I feel like diabetes was that awakening 0:13:38.400 --> 0:13:40.880 or you know, when you like realize that something you 0:13:40.920 --> 0:13:44.400 need to change the way you do things, and it's Yeah, 0:13:44.440 --> 0:13:46.720 it's really changed the way I think about food in general. 0:13:47.160 --> 0:13:50.280 Yeah, would you say that's been the biggest challenge since 0:13:50.280 --> 0:13:52.760 getting diagnosed or if there've been other things we were like, Wow, 0:13:52.800 --> 0:13:55.240 I would never had to consider this before getting diagnosed 0:13:55.240 --> 0:13:55.959 with type one. 0:13:57.360 --> 0:14:00.480 Now, But like, just assumptions around diabetes as well just hard. 0:14:00.520 --> 0:14:03.200 You just people don't know, but they don't know, but 0:14:03.240 --> 0:14:04.880 they know them as much as you knew before something. 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:07.560 Yeah, what have been some of those assumptions. 0:14:08.920 --> 0:14:11.400 That I cause it? 0:14:12.200 --> 0:14:14.880 How do you like REBUTTAL like talk back to those 0:14:14.920 --> 0:14:17.439 people who have those misconceptions. 0:14:17.960 --> 0:14:25.040 I just kind of joke about it, but I don't really. Yeah, 0:14:25.560 --> 0:14:28.480 people take it really seriously, but I just it just 0:14:28.480 --> 0:14:29.040 does what it is. 0:14:29.320 --> 0:14:31.280 Yeah, No, I love it. You're talking about it with 0:14:31.360 --> 0:14:31.680 a smell. 0:14:35.400 --> 0:14:37.400 So, what what does life look like for you now? 0:14:37.520 --> 0:14:40.960 So how do you monitor your blood sugar levels? Like, well, 0:14:41.160 --> 0:14:46.800 what goes into your life as a person living with 0:14:46.880 --> 0:14:48.160 type one diabetes? You know? 0:14:48.480 --> 0:14:51.880 So, I'm on a dix com G seven sounds cool 0:14:55.680 --> 0:15:02.280 type things, continuous glucose monitor. It continually test my blood 0:15:02.280 --> 0:15:04.720 sugar and then it talks to my pump and I 0:15:04.760 --> 0:15:07.800 have a pump. It's a tea slim and it does 0:15:07.880 --> 0:15:12.120 the calculations and stuff cool boluses for me. And then 0:15:12.200 --> 0:15:14.320 whenever I put the numbers in on how much cabs 0:15:14.320 --> 0:15:16.440 I'm eating and then yo. 0:15:17.240 --> 0:15:22.760 Wow, so much management. Yea, I am too immature to 0:15:23.280 --> 0:15:23.720 dealing with. 0:15:28.680 --> 0:15:30.880 We've heard kind of some of the misconceptions even about 0:15:30.920 --> 0:15:34.160 type one being something that you can prevent now, but 0:15:34.200 --> 0:15:36.520 we know now thanks to that you can it cannot 0:15:36.520 --> 0:15:38.680 be printed. What are some of the other myths that 0:15:38.720 --> 0:15:41.560 maybe you've come across, especially in your type two diabetes education, 0:15:42.000 --> 0:15:43.720 that you would like to bust now. 0:15:44.080 --> 0:15:44.840 So, one of the. 0:15:44.760 --> 0:15:49.440 Things that I have heard most from the people in 0:15:49.480 --> 0:15:52.680 the community when I'm up there is that it's a 0:15:52.720 --> 0:15:57.480 fit person disease. You know, you're fat and lazy, you 0:15:57.480 --> 0:16:00.360 you know you have diabetes. Yeah, and it's one of 0:16:00.400 --> 0:16:02.360 the things that I wanted to say now that it's 0:16:02.520 --> 0:16:04.080 not a fat person disease. 0:16:04.240 --> 0:16:08.320 Anyone can get type two type one diabetes. 0:16:08.400 --> 0:16:13.440 Yeah, no one chooses. No one chooses to have diabetes. 0:16:14.080 --> 0:16:17.760 And weight as just being overweight is just one of 0:16:17.800 --> 0:16:21.160 the risk factors. There's more to it than you know, 0:16:21.360 --> 0:16:24.120 just being overweight. So yeah, so that's one of the 0:16:24.120 --> 0:16:26.480 things that I wanted to say here. It's not a 0:16:26.520 --> 0:16:32.640 fat person disease. Even active in slim people, they develop 0:16:33.040 --> 0:16:36.160 diabetes too, so yeah. 0:16:35.480 --> 0:16:39.200 Yeah, absolutely. And also what type one diabetes. The most 0:16:39.240 --> 0:16:41.800 that I've heard about it is that it's not preventable, 0:16:42.200 --> 0:16:45.480 but also is there is it true that you're not 0:16:45.880 --> 0:16:47.600 you don't necessarily have to be born with it, like 0:16:47.880 --> 0:16:49.400 you could develop it later in life. 0:16:49.440 --> 0:16:54.120 Yes, it can develop at any ages. Some people they 0:16:54.160 --> 0:16:56.960 are born with it. It can develop at any ages. 0:16:57.040 --> 0:17:00.480 So yeah. And as I've said before, anything in course, 0:17:01.000 --> 0:17:03.800 think intriguer type one diabetes. 0:17:03.360 --> 0:17:05.640 And are the symptoms between type one and type two 0:17:05.840 --> 0:17:06.480 the same or. 0:17:06.440 --> 0:17:10.760 Are they very very similar? So for type two diabetes, 0:17:11.960 --> 0:17:15.240 as Milan was saying, peeing a lot is one of 0:17:15.280 --> 0:17:21.800 the common symptoms, feeling thirsty most of the time, blood vision, 0:17:22.760 --> 0:17:25.280 if you have a wound on your body or sore, 0:17:26.440 --> 0:17:30.959 it's hard to heal. So that's also one of the 0:17:31.000 --> 0:17:36.280 common symptoms. Unexplainable weight loss for type one diabetes. People 0:17:36.560 --> 0:17:38.800 just losing weight without drying. 0:17:38.920 --> 0:17:41.320 Can you relate to that, Oh no, I just got them, friend, 0:17:41.359 --> 0:17:44.000 they got super skinny and then they got diagnosed. 0:17:44.480 --> 0:17:47.880 So unexplainable weight loss as one of the common symptoms 0:17:47.880 --> 0:17:49.040 for type one diabetes. 0:17:49.080 --> 0:17:51.760 But those other symptoms, wow. 0:17:52.320 --> 0:17:55.199 So a point that we raised earlier there is that misconception, ay, 0:17:55.280 --> 0:17:58.560 that type one diabetes, you didn't cause it, that type 0:17:58.560 --> 0:18:02.880 two diabetes over eight adulge to your fault. It's are 0:18:02.960 --> 0:18:06.399 your fault not moving around enough? But when clearly in 0:18:06.480 --> 0:18:08.600 the sullen one that we're having right now, the symptoms 0:18:08.640 --> 0:18:11.760 are quite similar and it's just quite hard to tell. 0:18:12.000 --> 0:18:14.720 Like there are, as you say, Ileana, a lot of 0:18:14.800 --> 0:18:18.119 risk factors associated with all types of diabetes. 0:18:18.119 --> 0:18:25.439 That so risk factors it would be your family history. 0:18:25.440 --> 0:18:27.719 So if you have someone in your family or a 0:18:27.720 --> 0:18:32.200 plant relative with the condition, it increases your risk. Often 0:18:32.240 --> 0:18:36.080 people when I'm out in the community doing education, they're like, 0:18:36.960 --> 0:18:39.840 who guess I'm going to have it because Nana has 0:18:40.080 --> 0:18:40.520 got it. 0:18:40.720 --> 0:18:42.360 Yeah, well mom has got. 0:18:42.119 --> 0:18:43.560 It, almost like it's inevitable. 0:18:43.800 --> 0:18:47.040 Yeah yeah, But I say to them, that's just one 0:18:47.040 --> 0:18:49.399 of the risk factors. You can there are other things 0:18:49.400 --> 0:18:52.080 that you know and you can you can prevent. You 0:18:52.160 --> 0:18:54.560 can do something to prevent it or do something to 0:18:54.600 --> 0:19:02.640 delay it's development. So yeah, so family history, unhealthy as 0:19:02.640 --> 0:19:08.639 I've said four, type two diabetes, unhealthy weight, unhealthy eating, 0:19:10.040 --> 0:19:16.280 and being not being physically active. Those are the risk 0:19:16.320 --> 0:19:18.919 factors that you can change. But the ones that you 0:19:18.960 --> 0:19:22.919 can't change as your family history, the ethnic group that 0:19:22.960 --> 0:19:25.600 you belong to, So if you belong to Mali specific 0:19:26.080 --> 0:19:29.159 or South Asian especially India, it increases your risk. And 0:19:29.200 --> 0:19:31.800 I guess it's to do with the lifestyle that we 0:19:31.840 --> 0:19:36.199 are in the food that we eat to So the 0:19:36.240 --> 0:19:38.800 ethnic group that you belong to, your age, so your 0:19:38.880 --> 0:19:43.159 risk of developing diabetes, especially type two diabetes increases as 0:19:43.200 --> 0:19:47.640 you are getting older. And also if you've had diabetes 0:19:47.720 --> 0:19:52.000 during pregnancy or women who have delivered a big baby 0:19:52.040 --> 0:19:55.840 over four cages or nine pounds, wow, they also increases 0:19:55.880 --> 0:20:01.399 their risk of developing type two diabetes and high blood 0:20:01.400 --> 0:20:04.720 pressure a high cholesterol. If they have those two conditions, 0:20:04.720 --> 0:20:07.800 they're most likely to develop it. But as I've said, 0:20:08.520 --> 0:20:11.440 you know you can still you still can do something 0:20:11.480 --> 0:20:15.480 to prevent it or delay it's development. 0:20:17.040 --> 0:20:18.879 Okay, I mean I want to bring you back and 0:20:19.359 --> 0:20:22.680 now how have your final come into total care or 0:20:22.720 --> 0:20:25.760 support you now that you've had this diabetes diagnosis. 0:20:26.080 --> 0:20:28.200 Ah. So I had a lot of family. They're freaked 0:20:28.240 --> 0:20:33.679 out when I got a diagnosis Dad, mom, my aunties 0:20:33.720 --> 0:20:37.800 and uncles. It was a surprise. It was actually funny 0:20:37.800 --> 0:20:40.200 because my my younger brother got type one as well 0:20:40.440 --> 0:20:44.199 a few months later. It's not common, but yeah, we 0:20:44.280 --> 0:20:46.560 had to change a lot of food things, just having 0:20:47.040 --> 0:20:50.440 sweet things in the house, isn't you know, high sugar things, 0:20:50.440 --> 0:20:52.280 because it's hard to manage those things, especially when you 0:20:52.320 --> 0:21:05.119 got two teenagers apparently. Ye oh yeah yeah. Food's changed also, 0:21:05.200 --> 0:21:08.280 like awareness as well, especially with like whenever I go 0:21:08.320 --> 0:21:10.119 to my aunties or my cousin's houses, they were like 0:21:10.720 --> 0:21:12.960 making sure that the food is good in this low 0:21:13.000 --> 0:21:13.919 carp lower cap then. 0:21:15.520 --> 0:21:20.440 But yeah, what are the discussions like between you and 0:21:20.480 --> 0:21:21.879 your little brother? 0:21:22.520 --> 0:21:26.080 Ah nah, we talk to be honest, there's a joke 0:21:26.119 --> 0:21:28.359 between us it's like, gee, if you've done your insolent 0:21:29.560 --> 0:21:33.959 your number now, it's just it's yeah, it's it's kind 0:21:34.000 --> 0:21:34.720 of funny, it's nice. 0:21:34.840 --> 0:21:37.240 Oh, it's great that you guys have each other to 0:21:37.440 --> 0:21:38.600 support through the journey. 0:21:38.680 --> 0:21:40.240 A yeah, it helps. 0:21:41.400 --> 0:21:43.800 And I assume now that you're a few years into 0:21:43.840 --> 0:21:46.600 your diagnosis state, everything's all good. You've adjusted to this 0:21:47.280 --> 0:21:49.639 way of living. It's just small little adjustments that you 0:21:49.720 --> 0:21:50.560 make here and there. 0:21:50.440 --> 0:21:53.800 Right, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's yeah c GM, random 0:21:53.840 --> 0:21:55.760 stuff like that, but yeah, small changes. 0:21:56.080 --> 0:21:56.280 Yeah. 0:21:56.480 --> 0:21:58.240 How long did it take you to get used to 0:21:58.320 --> 0:22:00.440 your gx. 0:22:08.440 --> 0:22:08.480 ME. 0:22:10.480 --> 0:22:13.240 I don't know, a few months, because once it becomes life, 0:22:13.240 --> 0:22:14.040 it just becomes. 0:22:13.840 --> 0:22:22.000 Like absolutely worries for the rest of your days. 0:22:22.040 --> 0:22:27.240 And what about you, eleanor what are some of the 0:22:27.280 --> 0:22:30.200 ways that you have heard have been helpful to those who. 0:22:30.119 --> 0:22:33.760 Have been diagnosed with diabetes? I kids for. 0:22:36.040 --> 0:22:43.680 Uh people with diabetes, they need love, they need confession 0:22:44.560 --> 0:22:49.400 less judgment, and they need the support. It's already hard 0:22:49.520 --> 0:22:53.800 enough living with condition, let alone being blamed and shamed 0:22:53.880 --> 0:22:56.800 for something that they didn't choose to have. 0:22:57.520 --> 0:22:59.120 So yeah, to support. 0:22:59.560 --> 0:23:02.760 I think it is important that people out there, if 0:23:02.800 --> 0:23:05.920 they know someone who live with diabetes, show love and 0:23:06.240 --> 0:23:14.120 kindness and learn about diabetes, really learn about diabetes, and yeah, 0:23:14.320 --> 0:23:15.200 just show support. 0:23:15.800 --> 0:23:19.760 Yeah, those are great words of advice. Eleiana. And because 0:23:19.840 --> 0:23:23.000 you know this podcast is Maldi pacific Focus, I want 0:23:23.000 --> 0:23:25.119 to encourage you fans, if you're listening right now, go 0:23:25.240 --> 0:23:28.440 and get yourself checked. And you know the stats aren't 0:23:28.560 --> 0:23:31.119 good for Maldi and Pacifica and we know that the 0:23:32.040 --> 0:23:34.600 scene as it stands, there's a lot of judgment around 0:23:34.840 --> 0:23:38.080