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How the Episode FAQ and site search turn more than a decade of conversations about Type 1 diabetes into answers you can find in seconds.
More than a decade of making this podcast has produced a strange problem: the answer to almost any Type 1 diabetes question you have is probably already in an episode. The trouble is finding it. There are more than 1,800 episodes. Nobody is going to scrub through them looking for the four minutes where Jenny explains why your blood sugar spikes at 3 a.m.
So we built a way to ask.
The Episode FAQ
Go to juiceboxpodcast.com/jbfaq and type your question the way you'd actually say it. Not keywords. Not "hypoglycemia nocturnal management." Type "I'm afraid of going low at night." Type "how do you bolus for pizza." Type "my teenager won't manage their diabetes." The search is built to understand real language — the way you'd describe your problem to a friend, not the way a textbook would file it.
Behind that search box are 834 real questions and struggles pulled from 296 episodes, each one written from what was actually said on the show. Every answer tells you what you'll learn, gives you a quote from the episode, and links you straight to it — listen on the website, Spotify, or Apple Podcasts, or jump to the whole series it came from.
A few things worth knowing about how it thinks:
It understands struggles, not just questions
A lot of what people bring to diabetes isn't a tidy question — it's "I feel like a bad diabetic" or "I'm exhausted and nothing is working." The search recognizes over ninety of the most common struggles people describe, in more than a thousand different phrasings, and routes you to the episodes that speak to them. You don't have to translate your problem into search language. That's the search's job, not yours.
It forgives typos
Spell "exercize" however you want. It'll figure it out.
It meets you where you are
Filter by experience — newly diagnosed, experienced, or parent of a child with T1D — and the results reorder themselves. Someone three weeks into this doesn't need the same episode as someone three years in trying to fine-tune settings. You can also browse by series (Bold Beginnings, Pro Tip, Defining Diabetes, Small Sips, and the rest) or by category, from insulin and dosing to burnout to thyroid.
Every question has its own link
Open any answer and tap "Copy link." Send it to a spouse, a newly diagnosed friend, a grandparent who watches your kid on weekends. The link opens directly to that question. When you follow a related question and want to return, there's a back button that takes you right to where you were — your search, your filters, your place on the page.
If the curated set doesn't have it, the archive does
When your search comes up thin, the page automatically checks the full 1,800+ episode archive and surfaces episodes the FAQ hasn't cataloged yet. The curated answers come first; the deep archive is the safety net.
And because plenty of you are searching from bed at 2 a.m. with a CGM alarm still ringing in your ears — there's a dark mode, and the whole thing is built to work one-handed on a phone.
The search on the main page
The search bar on the homepage is connected to the same brain. Type a question there and it pulls live answers from the FAQ, along with matching series, guides, and tools — all in one place. You don't have to know where something lives on the site. Ask, and it routes you.
The estimators
Some questions aren't really questions — they're math. For those, the FAQ sits alongside our interactive tools. Timing and amount — that's the whole game, and the tools exist to help you think about both.
Bolus Estimator
Think through meal insulin — carbs, timing, and strategy.
Settings Simulator
Understand basal, ICR, and ISF — and how they depend on each other.
Fat & Protein Estimator
For the meals that carb counts alone can't explain.
A1c Estimator
Translate between A1c and average glucose in either direction.
Why this exists
Most people leave their diagnosis appointment with a prescription and almost no working model of the disease. That's not their fault, and it's usually not even their doctor's fault — there's no time. The podcast has been filling that gap every week since January 2015, and the FAQ is the fastest door into it. You bring the question you're actually living with; it brings you to the conversation where we worked through it.
Nothing here is medical advice — I'm not a doctor, and the FAQ will remind you of that too. It's the lived experience of this community, organized so you can find it the moment you need it.
Talk to your doctor about your care. But walk in there knowing what to ask.
Bring the question you're living with
834 answers, searchable the way you actually talk.
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