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Lesson #22: "The Human Gap"
Stephen W. Ponder MD, FAAP, CDCES In the era of continuous glucose monitoring (CGM), staying “in range” competes with the hemoglobin A1c...


Lesson #21: Microdosing. It's just a "day in the life" of the Sugar Surfer.
Stephen W. Ponder MD, FAAP, CDCES 2018 ADCES Diabetes Educator of the Year Over treating a low blood sugar can be frustrating. It starts...


Sugar Surfing™ Lesson #20 Covering the bases
Imagine you are an experienced and confident baseball shortstop. Your position on the field allows for lots of “in the moment” choices to...


Sugar Surfing Lesson #18: It transcends
Sugar Surfing™ is a method for reaching and attaining personal empowerment to live well with diabetes: yours or your loved ones. It...

Sugar Surfing Lesson #17: Shift happens
As I write in the book “Sugar Surfing™”, blood glucose levels in healthy people are never truly static (at least not for very long). The...


Sugar Surfing Lesson #15: "Maxim"-izing your control
Sugar Surfing™ is a method of diabetes self-management based on categorizing groups of blood glucose (BG) information into sets of...


Sugar Surfing Lesson 14: Dosing on the Deltas
Perhaps the most counterintuitive aspect of Sugar Surfing™ is the act of dosing rapid insulin when blood sugars are still in range....