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Speaker 1: Stuff Lauren bogel Bomb here with another classic episode from
Speaker 1: our archives. This one deals with the dangers of disordered eating,
Speaker 1: especially when it co occurs with seasons like diabetes, which
Speaker 1: unfortunately can happen often. I'll let former Lauren explain. Hey
Speaker 1: brain Stuff, Lauren boge O bomb here. Today's episode discusses
Speaker 1: eating disorders. So if that's not a topic you're up
Speaker 1: for today, maybe skip it and Hey, take care of yourself, okay.
Speaker 1: Having Type one diabetes, which used to be called juvenile diabetes,
Speaker 1: is a series health problem that's treated mostly by taking
Speaker 1: regular injections of insulin, but the disease can also trigger
Speaker 1: an eating disorder called diabetic bulimia or diabolimia. This involves
Speaker 1: skipping or altering insulin doses for the express purpose of
Speaker 1: losing weight. While patients often drop unwanted pounds, it's extremely
Speaker 1: dangerous for people with diabetes to skip in salon, leaving
Speaker 1: them vulnerable to dangerous complications. Diabellemia potentially affects as many
Speaker 1: as one third of young women diagnosed with type one diabetes,
Speaker 1: although men do experience it too. People who have type
Speaker 1: one diabetes are at double the risk of developing an
Speaker 1: eating disorder than those without diabetes, compared with better known
Speaker 1: eating disorders like anorexia and bulimia. Diabelimia has been more
Speaker 1: recently realized as a threat to people with diabetes, with
Speaker 1: its earliest appearances in medical journals in the nineteen eighties.
Speaker 1: It still hasn't earned an official medical diagnosis all its own,
Speaker 1: but it is recognized by most medical professionals and is
Speaker 1: referred to as e d d MT one, although this
Speaker 1: is more of a blanket diagnosis for people with type
Speaker 1: one diabetes dealing with any type of eating disorder. People
Speaker 1: with type one diabetes are required to maintain a fastidious
Speaker 1: diet and must also check their blood sugar levels multiple
Speaker 1: times a day. Eating disorders like diabelimia often emerge thanks
Speaker 1: to this hyper focus on food and numbers. Diabolimia can
Speaker 1: develop on its own, but sometimes a phenomenon called diabetes
Speaker 1: rebellion occurs, in which a patient will be so sick
Speaker 1: and tired of managing their sickness and tiredness that they'll
Speaker 1: actively ignore treatment rules. Then the behavior snowballs into a
Speaker 1: full blown case of diabelnia. For people with diabetes, the
Speaker 1: pancreas isn't able to make insulin. The human body relies
Speaker 1: on insulin, which is a hormone to transport glucose from
Speaker 1: the blood stream directly into cells. Without insulin, your cells
Speaker 1: can't absorb glucose, thus it isn't stored as fat or
Speaker 1: used for energy like it's supposed to be. Instead, glucose
Speaker 1: collects in the blood and is eventually expelled from the
Speaker 1: body through urine, causing significant weight loss. Theoretically, by manipulating
Speaker 1: your insulin levels or skipping your insulin shots, you can
Speaker 1: eat anything you want and still lose weight, but this
Speaker 1: comes at a serious price. In the short term. Poor
Speaker 1: blood glucose management can actually stunt or slow growth in
Speaker 1: adolescent patients, keeping them from reaching their full physical potential. Further,
Speaker 1: assets called key tones and build up in the blood,
Speaker 1: causing a chemical imbalance that is potentially life threatening. Down
Speaker 1: the road, you could experience eye problems ranging from blurred
Speaker 1: vision to total blindness. The kidneys are always at risk
Speaker 1: for people with diabetes, and those who mismanaged their insulin
Speaker 1: are far more likely to wind up on dialysis in
Speaker 1: order to stay alive. Even more sobering is the fact
Speaker 1: that the mortality rate is tripled for those with type
Speaker 1: one diabetes who experience eating disorders as opposed to those
Speaker 1: who do not. Signs of diabelimia can be settled if
Speaker 1: you know someone with type one diabetes and suspect an
Speaker 1: eating disorder, keep a close eye out for weight fluctuations,
Speaker 1: avoidance of doctor appointments, dodged questions about insulin or general
Speaker 1: disease management, as well as high HB A one C
Speaker 1: blood levels. People with diabelimia will often exhibit signs of hyperglycemia,
Speaker 1: like being very thirsty, unusually tired, having blurred vision, and
Speaker 1: needing to urinate more than is normal. In the U
Speaker 1: s Alone, thirty million people experience eating disorders, with one
Speaker 1: person dyeing every sixty two minutes from related complications. In
Speaker 1: fact of any mental illness, eating disorders have the highest
Speaker 1: mortality rate. If you or someone you know is struggling,
Speaker 1: go to National Eating Disorders dot Org for ideas, contact
Speaker 1: a service like the Crisis text Line to get help
Speaker 1: without having to talk on the phone, or Google for
Speaker 1: other services available in your area. Today's episode is based
Speaker 1: on the article why diabelimia is so Dangerous on how
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