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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 #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...
The Power of Patience
Dynamic Diabetes Management (aka Sugar Surfing™) is a process, not a recipe. Certain virtues or qualities are essential to obtaining the...
The path to the dark side
My day job is as a pediatric endocrinologist ("peds endo" in the diabetes on line community vernacular). In our current health care...
Does diabetes technology absolve us from personal responsibility?
As a person with type 1 diabetes for over half a century, I've lived through many technological breakthroughs in how my condition has...
Shift Your Paradigm
To be successful at Sugar Surfing requires us to make a fundamental change in how we visualize or conceptualize blood sugar levels. Since...
