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 morning, good afternoon, good evening. I just wanted to jump on and give you an October 2025 update on diabetes. I will be including a lot more messaging on diabetes and the positivity that I'm feeling from having been off my blood glucose monitor for quite a long time now and managing my diabetes through nutrition. The new book which is available on Amazon, I'll put a link down below in the show notes, habit stacking, synaptic pruning and diabetes. So let's look at that, that's quite an interesting title. Synaptic pruning. Oxford University researchers did some studies on newborn babies brains and their synapses and found that they have a lot more, many more than adults and the brain has this habit of trimming back synapses that are not used and devoting the energy and resources that did go to those unused synapses to ones that are being used and that means that over time as we age and we don't use certain

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 abilities or capabilities that those synapses would have provided, they're trimmed off. But for the diabetic there are a lot of new habits that need to be formed and that's where the habits part of the title comes in. Think about every morning when you get up, the long clock goes off, you get out of bed, you go to the bathroom, you go to the kitchen, you brew coffee, you make breakfast, you get dressed, you leave the house, you lock the house, you leave the house.

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 Now as a diabetic you have new habits that need to be incorporated into that simple morning routine. When I was wearing a CGM I would always be looking at my CGM readings and looking at the readings overnight and then I would also consider whether or not

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 the readings that I was seeing influenced what I had for breakfast or if I had breakfast at all.

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 If you were type 1 diabetic or a diabetic that takes insulin you would need to, well take that CGM reading or you take a blood test and see if you need to administer insulin and if you do have to have insulin, calculate what insulin it is, what level of insulin you need or sometimes when you have different types of insulin availability you take one insulin versus the other, a quick acting one versus a slow acting long term one that will take you through much of the day. You also need to check your supplies, do I even have enough CGM's, do I need to buy more, do I have the money to buy more, do I have to order some insulin and pick it up at the pharmacy or have it delivered, do I have an insulin pump, do I need more insulin pumps, all these things become habits that you have to incorporate into your day and you need to think about where in the day they're incorporated because what you can do is you have that habit of making coffee and then making breakfast but when you're diabetic that needs CGM's or insulin you have to incorporate

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 the habits of checking those values and taking that medication into

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 before you have breakfast and before you get dressed. So think of your life as being as serious as little habits that are stacked together in a certain order because they work together in a certain order and they make sense in a certain order. So now what you need to do is think about these new habits that diabetes has imposed on you and where they fit into your day so that you don't forget them and that's what the book is about. It's about diabetes and it's about how these habits get formed, how they're created and how you can build them into existing habits that are already present in your life and maybe they nudge some habits backwards like checking your CGM or your blood glucose with a Prinker Prick and then having breakfast or having breakfast and then doing them. Whatever makes sense, whatever is practical, these habits the diabetes is imposing on you have to fit into your life somehow and they have to fit in so that it's safe for you to do them in that order. Having a very poor breakfast or some other very poor habits and then tagging the diabetes on before those bad habits were executed is not the way to go. Anyway enough on that. Check your habits, check your life, check the flow of your life and check how these things are built and come to the fore and think about that new baby that actually had more synapses in his brain than you do today as an adult. But you've got to create new synapses and you can do this by rewiring your brain. It's talked about a lot in terms of very serious medical issues and physiological issues. You can do it. Be positive. Have a good day, good evening, good afternoon. Wherever you are in the world, be a mindful diabetic.

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