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Speaker 1: Welcome to brain Stuff production of iHeart Radio. Hey brain

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Speaker 1: Stuff Lauren bogel Bomb here with another classic episode from

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Speaker 1: our archives. This one deals with the dangers of disordered eating,

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Speaker 1: especially when it co occurs with seasons like diabetes, which

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Speaker 1: unfortunately can happen often. I'll let former Lauren explain. Hey

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Speaker 1: brain Stuff, Lauren boge O bomb here. Today's episode discusses

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Speaker 1: eating disorders. So if that's not a topic you're up

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Speaker 1: for today, maybe skip it and Hey, take care of yourself, okay.

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Speaker 1: Having Type one diabetes, which used to be called juvenile diabetes,

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Speaker 1: is a series health problem that's treated mostly by taking

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Speaker 1: regular injections of insulin, but the disease can also trigger

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Speaker 1: an eating disorder called diabetic bulimia or diabolimia. This involves

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Speaker 1: skipping or altering insulin doses for the express purpose of

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Speaker 1: losing weight. While patients often drop unwanted pounds, it's extremely

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Speaker 1: dangerous for people with diabetes to skip in salon, leaving

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Speaker 1: them vulnerable to dangerous complications. Diabellemia potentially affects as many

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Speaker 1: as one third of young women diagnosed with type one diabetes,

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Speaker 1: although men do experience it too. People who have type

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Speaker 1: one diabetes are at double the risk of developing an

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Speaker 1: eating disorder than those without diabetes, compared with better known

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Speaker 1: eating disorders like anorexia and bulimia. Diabelimia has been more

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Speaker 1: recently realized as a threat to people with diabetes, with

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Speaker 1: its earliest appearances in medical journals in the nineteen eighties.

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Speaker 1: It still hasn't earned an official medical diagnosis all its own,

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Speaker 1: but it is recognized by most medical professionals and is

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Speaker 1: referred to as e d d MT one, although this

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Speaker 1: is more of a blanket diagnosis for people with type

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Speaker 1: one diabetes dealing with any type of eating disorder. People

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Speaker 1: with type one diabetes are required to maintain a fastidious

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Speaker 1: diet and must also check their blood sugar levels multiple

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Speaker 1: times a day. Eating disorders like diabelimia often emerge thanks

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Speaker 1: to this hyper focus on food and numbers. Diabolimia can

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Speaker 1: develop on its own, but sometimes a phenomenon called diabetes

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Speaker 1: rebellion occurs, in which a patient will be so sick

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Speaker 1: and tired of managing their sickness and tiredness that they'll

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Speaker 1: actively ignore treatment rules. Then the behavior snowballs into a

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Speaker 1: full blown case of diabelnia. For people with diabetes, the

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Speaker 1: pancreas isn't able to make insulin. The human body relies

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Speaker 1: on insulin, which is a hormone to transport glucose from

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Speaker 1: the blood stream directly into cells. Without insulin, your cells

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Speaker 1: can't absorb glucose, thus it isn't stored as fat or

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Speaker 1: used for energy like it's supposed to be. Instead, glucose

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Speaker 1: collects in the blood and is eventually expelled from the

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Speaker 1: body through urine, causing significant weight loss. Theoretically, by manipulating

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Speaker 1: your insulin levels or skipping your insulin shots, you can

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Speaker 1: eat anything you want and still lose weight, but this

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Speaker 1: comes at a serious price. In the short term. Poor

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Speaker 1: blood glucose management can actually stunt or slow growth in

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Speaker 1: adolescent patients, keeping them from reaching their full physical potential. Further,

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Speaker 1: assets called key tones and build up in the blood,

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Speaker 1: causing a chemical imbalance that is potentially life threatening. Down

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Speaker 1: the road, you could experience eye problems ranging from blurred

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Speaker 1: vision to total blindness. The kidneys are always at risk

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Speaker 1: for people with diabetes, and those who mismanaged their insulin

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Speaker 1: are far more likely to wind up on dialysis in

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Speaker 1: order to stay alive. Even more sobering is the fact

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Speaker 1: that the mortality rate is tripled for those with type

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Speaker 1: one diabetes who experience eating disorders as opposed to those

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Speaker 1: who do not. Signs of diabelimia can be settled if

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Speaker 1: you know someone with type one diabetes and suspect an

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Speaker 1: eating disorder, keep a close eye out for weight fluctuations,

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Speaker 1: avoidance of doctor appointments, dodged questions about insulin or general

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Speaker 1: disease management, as well as high HB A one C

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Speaker 1: blood levels. People with diabelimia will often exhibit signs of hyperglycemia,

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Speaker 1: like being very thirsty, unusually tired, having blurred vision, and

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Speaker 1: needing to urinate more than is normal. In the U

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Speaker 1: s Alone, thirty million people experience eating disorders, with one

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Speaker 1: person dyeing every sixty two minutes from related complications. In

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Speaker 1: fact of any mental illness, eating disorders have the highest

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Speaker 1: mortality rate. If you or someone you know is struggling,

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Speaker 1: go to National Eating Disorders dot Org for ideas, contact

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Speaker 1: a service like the Crisis text Line to get help

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Speaker 1: without having to talk on the phone, or Google for

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Speaker 1: other services available in your area. Today's episode is based

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Speaker 1: on the article why diabelimia is so Dangerous on how

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