#1822 The Inside Track
Updates on Live events, website tools and more.
Companies that Support Juicebox
Key Takeaways
- Scott Benner announced a series of upcoming in-person appearances for 2026, including free events at Hofstra University (April 15) and Atlanta (April 18), as well as summer conferences like ADA and Friends for Life.
- The Juicebox Podcast website has been significantly overhauled with an advanced search tool that allows users to ask questions in plain English and find specific podcast episodes that address their concerns.
- New educational calculators and simulators—including A1C, Basal, Bolus, and Fat/Protein estimators—are now available to help users visualize how different variables affect insulin needs.
- The "Autoimmune Explorer" tool enables users to map symptoms to potential conditions like Graves' or Hashimoto's and generate a structured email or note to facilitate discussions with their doctors.
- For clinicians, the site now offers a "Clinician Share" tool, allowing providers to instantly text or email curated episode collections, like the Bold Beginnings series, to their patients.
Resources Mentioned
- Juicebox Podcast Website & Events: juiceboxpodcast.com/events
- Juicebox Docs (Provider Directory): juiceboxdocs.com
- Juicebox Podcast Private Facebook Group: Type One Diabetes Support Group
- Touched by Type One: touchedbytypeone.org
- SugarPixel: Secondary Display for CGM
- Beyond Type 1: Diabetes Community Resources
Introduction and Community Support
Scott BennerHello, friends, and welcome to episode 1,821 of the Juice Box podcast. I haven't said that in a while. If your loved one is newly diagnosed with type one diabetes and you're seeking a clear practical perspective, check out the bold beginnings series on the juice box podcast. It's hosted by myself and Jenny Smith, an experienced diabetes educator with over thirty five years of personal insight into type one.
Our series cuts through the medical jargon and delivers straightforward answers to your most pressing questions. You'll gain insight from real patients and caregivers and find practical advice to help you confidently navigate life with type one. You can start your journey informed and empowered with the Juice Box podcast.
The bold beginning series and all of the collections in the Juice Box podcast are available in your audio app and at juiceboxpodcast.com in the menu. If you're looking for community around type one diabetes, check out the Juice Box podcast private Facebook group. Juice Box podcast, type one diabetes. But everybody is welcome. Type one, type two, gestational, loved ones, it doesn't matter to me. If you're impacted by diabetes and you're looking for support, comfort, or community, check out Juice Box podcast, Type one Diabetes on Facebook.
Upcoming In-Person Events: New York and Atlanta
Scott BennerI am here today just for a few minutes to let you know about some in person events that I'm doing, some coming up very soon, some over the summer, and to let you know about some pretty big updates to the website, juiceboxpodcast.com. I'm gonna do the events first, then the website. If this takes me more than seven minutes, I've failed. You ready? Here we go.
Juiceboxpodcast.com. Go to the menu. The menu now is in the top right. It's three little lines on juiceboxpodcast.com. On the browser, let me see what it looks like on your phone. Same thing. Two little lines, top right. Click on that there and scroll down to events. That'll take you to juiceboxpodcast.com/events.
And there you will see that this coming Wednesday, April 15 at 04:30PM, I will be at Hofstra University giving a talk. This is the annual symposium hosted by Cohen Children's Medical Center, and tickets are absolutely free. So you can go to my link, juiceboxpodcast.com/events, click on reserve a seat, and get your free tickets right now. It's from 04:30 till 07:30. I believe there's food. Am I right about that? Yeah. Scott will share his blend of actionable insights, honest discussions. Who wrote this? Let's see. We're gonna be talking about a bunch of stuff. Let me let me get the thing. I said six minutes or seven minutes, and now I'm already lying.
But let me just look through my notes real quick. Hofstra. Interesting. Are you out on Long Island? Do you know what do you know where the Hofstra is? And I'm gonna be a few days after that, I am going to be in Atlanta, Georgia. I'll tell you about that in just a second. But I just do wanna check on yeah. It looks like 04:00, welcome and registration, 04:30 to 05:30, keynote address with me, 05:30 to six at dinner break, networking, light dinner and refreshments available, six to 06:45, breakout sessions. Guests will choose one of the following specialized sessions, nutrition with diabetes, exercising with diabetes, diabetes technology, and then from 06:50 to 07:30, diabetes research update.
It's gonna be a nice little event here, isn't it? I again, I'll be there from 04:30 to 05:30 giving a talk, then I'll be around for a little bit afterwards at dinner and everything. If you guys wanna say hi, that would be lovely. That is April, the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra, 500 Hofstra Boulevard, Hempstead, New York. And don't forget, gotta get those tickets to get in the door. But again, it's absolutely free. I think you're gonna love it.
Now if you're in Atlanta, Georgia, just some days later on the eighteenth, I will be at the Community Connections networking event for Touched by Type one. This is a caregiver chat with me, Scott. Join us for a day filled with meaningful conversations and genuine connection on and on and on. Again, go to my link, click on, event details. That's gonna take you to the Touched by Type one website where you can register right now, I believe, for a morning or afternoon. Is that right? Morning or afternoon? Let's see what happens if you click on this one. 9AM, Atlanta, Georgia. And then what if I click on this one? What does this one say? Yeah. And at 1PM, there's a meetup in Atlanta.
So okay. Alright. I see what this is. You would think I would know about it because I'm going, but I don't pay as much attention as you would hope. 330 Marietta Street Northwest, Atlanta, Georgia, 04/18/2026. Absolutely free to attend, but again, gotta go get the tickets at this Touched by Type one website. I'm gonna be speaking, it looks like at 10AM, And I think again, there's another time, not a 100% sure. And then there's the t one d meetup from 1PM to 4PM at the same location, 330 Marietta Street Northwest. This is exclusively for adults with type one diabetes. It's free to attend, but registration is required and space is limited. So go ahead. Head over to my website now, juiceboxpodcast.com/events, and jump on those tickets for next week.
Summer Tour: ADA, Friends for Life, and ADCES
Scott BennerNow I will be taking a little break there in May. And then June, I will be at the ADA Scientific Sessions with SugarPixel. Look for the SugarPixel Juice Box podcast booth at ADA eight in New Orleans if you're there. On June 21 to the twenty eighth, I will be on the Juice Cruise on the Celebrity Beyond. There is still time to get tickets for the Juice Cruise, though I think time is now short. And then Friends For Life, I will again be with Sugarpixel. Actually, I'll be at Sugarpixel Friends for Life, ADA, and ADCES. But Friends for Life is July. I'll be there July '10. We have a really great event coming up. I don't think I'm allowed to spoil it yet, but if you're gonna be at Friends four Life, definitely look for the juice box slash sugar pixel event. Those of you who are clinicians, ADCES annual event in Columbus, Ohio, August. I will be there again with Sugarpixel. And to round out the year, September 26 at Touched by Type one's huge, huge event in Florida. You can get all the details you need about any of this at my link juiceboxpodcast.com/events.
Major Website Updates and Search Features
Scott BennerThe website has also been really, significantly updated. So now when you go to juiceboxpodcast.com, on the main page, there's, some searching tools. Episode episode episode FAQ. If you type something in there just like in English, like, I don't know, my blood sugar is high in the morning. That's a thing that happens. When you do that, it takes you right to like, real right there. You just get dropdowns of episodes where that's discussed. It gives you the bowl beginning, seven fifteen, bowl beginning, seven fifty fee, the pro tip, l ten eleven, episode diabetes variables on stress, food quality. And if one of those doesn't look right to you, if you go, oh, I click around, I don't know if this is it. Like, so I clicked on the first one here, bold beginning seven fifteen. What you'll learn, fear of insulin causes people to run chronically high. This is a far more dangerous long term and and so there's one where your you know, what you typed in matches up with stuff that's been said in that episode. Maybe that's not the one you want. Right? Maybe it's a different one. Or maybe you go, like, you know, on the main page here, it showed me five of them. I don't think any of these are right. You can actually click on see all results. It takes you to the frequently asked questions page. And my goodness, like, this search tool for the podcast is really just awesome.
I clicked over after asking my blood sugar is high in the morning, so it stays populated and gives you, you know, different links there to different episodes. But you can do a lot at this website. So I'll clear out the search bar. If you just click in it, it gives you a ton of things that people, commonly ask for. Can my child eat cake at a party? Click on that. Boom. Bold beginning seven thirty one food choices. Can my child with type one diabetes still eat cupcakes? Sneaking food episode four seventy three. Bolus four comes up episode. Like, it it's it's really good. Trust me. Go take a look at it.
And then on the side, there's, like, things you can click on. I think there's at on the mobile, you have to go to the bottom of the page. But on the browser, on the side, you could say, oh, well, you know what? I really only wanna search, I don't know, the ask Scott and Jenny episodes. So you click on that, go back to search, you know, I don't know. I'll just type in glucagon. It's just a keyword. And it gives you everywhere that the word glucagon pops up in the ask Scott and Jennings. It's really pretty awesome. You you you have to take a look at it to really get a good feeling for what it is. But it's a it's a wonderful tool to help you find your way through your questions and link you back to episodes that might be able to help you. I'm clicking on just any episode here to show you that afterwards, can click on link online. You can jump right to Spotify to the episode, right to Apple Podcasts, or right to the entire series on the website. Tons of different ways to listen.
Interactive Estimators and the Autoimmune Explorer
Scott BennerBack to that menu top right, you wanna do an there's an a one c estimator, a basal estimator, a bolus estimator, a fat and protein estimator, and a settings simulator. You should go check all of them out. They're very interesting. There's also an autoimmune explorer. Now you click on that. It you gotta, you know, you gotta click on the the disclaimer and get in, but you can kind of choose, I don't know, things that you've been experiencing, different markers. You know, I have let's see. Heat intolerance, hair loss, let's see, nail pitting. And now you've clicked in three things. I mean, there's a ton of stuff here to pick from. But you click in some things, and then it shows you what those symptoms kind of code to.
Now it's not a diagnostic tool. Right? It's not gonna for sure tell you what's wrong with you, but it will help you to figure out maybe what's going on. For example, on the four things that I just clicked on, I got one match on each one. So there's no, you know, no oh, sorry. My phone. It's not like three of the things I clicked on went to Hashimoto's. One of them did. But, you know, I don't know. Let's say I keep going. Oh, you know what? I've I had some sexual dysfunction. Now all of sudden, there's two matches on Graves, two matches on Hashimoto's. Oh, I've had skin rashes. Oh, okay. It doesn't really help anything. You kinda click around a little more, and then it starts to come into that, oh, I have lost weight. Now all of sudden you realize there's three of these are popping up for Craves' disease. Two for Addison's, two for Hashimoto's. Craves' disease, antibodies the thyroid to produce too much hormone, that maybe does sound like me. You click on that. There's other shared traits in there. Maybe you'll notice, oh, I didn't see fatigue on there. That is me too. And I have eye protrusion. Okay. It'll tell you, like, there's some shared traits that you have. It also can tell you that there's other stuff that's frequently associated with it. With this one, it's like vitiligo and RA.
But more importantly, maybe you can type in a specific concern. So if you say, like, you know, I don't know, I also feel whatever and hit plus, that adds it into your notes. And then the notes app can actually make suggestions to you. You can click on suggestions, it's and it'll tell you like, oh, discuss managing heat intolerance or in the context of Graves. And you look at all those things, you go, okay. Those are things I'd like to talk with my doctor at. That one, I don't have. Like, click that off. You can save the note. You can copy the note, paste it somewhere, or you can generate an email to yourself so that you have an outline for the things you wanna talk about with your doctor. That's on the website.
Defining Diabetes, Clinician Tools, and Physician Directory
Scott BennerBack to that menu, interactive defining diabetes. This is like 78 definitions from the defining diabetes series. I said seven minutes, I lied. If you're still with me, you care. It doesn't matter. And that's in it's been translated by AI into English, Spanish, French, I think German, Hindi. I forget what else. Did maybe I do Japanese? I forget what I did. You'll see when you get there. Anyway and there's also, like, a chat like, a quiz. So you can click on the challenge and start a hormone co secreted with insulin that delays gastric emptying and expresses glucagon, like, by hypertrophy, amylin, intramuscular oh, I think it's amylin. You click on it. Yay. And there's, a little countdown. It's a little game. You know, you can score to the end to try to test yourself on what some of these things mean.
Back to the menu. Guides for you guys. Right? Advice for type one parents from type one adults. Caregiver burnout. The episode frequently asked questions that I told you about earlier. There's some articles about GLP and diabetes, how to build good habits. There's a guide for physicians. There is the takeaways from the grand round series if you wanna share them with your doctor. There's just, you know, thyroid stuff. There's an article on pre bolusing. There's also something called clinician share. So if you're a doctor or a clinician, this is a website that you can use to help support you when you're trying to share the podcast with other people. Go check that out because there, it's a nice simple setup. You select a series that you wanna share the Bold Beginning series to somebody, click on it. All you have to do is click print, text, or email. It generates a list for you. I'm just gonna hit text real quick. It opens up my texting app, and it gives you JuiceBox podcast bold beginnings. Listen online at the link. Gives you a link for Apple podcast for Spotify, and a list of all the episodes with the episode numbers in it. Boom. You can just text or text or email that or, of course, copy it and paste it anywhere that you'd like to see it.
What else should we do? Oh, the the search is also on that tool there too for for physicians. And there's some stuff there for clinicians themselves, takeaways from the grand round series, and the link to JuiceBox docs. So juiceboxdocs.com is, I don't know how many is in there at this point. Let me take a look. This is a directory of doctors and CDEs that that have been suggested to me by listeners. There's 225 of them in there right now, and it's very easy to, search through. If you live in Nashville, you type in Nashville. And let's see. We got two doctors in Tennessee that have been, suggested by listeners. Tells you if they're pediatric, if they're adult, if they have if the provider themselves has type one diabetes. Pretty, really cool. And if you have a doctor you love and you wanna, suggest them to me, you can click on submit provider and send in their information. Please fill it out as completely as you can so it's valuable for others.
Deep Dive: Using the Estimators and Simulators
Scott BennerWhat else do we have here? All the links to all the series. Bold beginnings, pro tips, bolus four, small sips, after dark, die defining diabetes, myths, GLP, everything. It's all there. You wanna go find the series, some lists, some site links, juice box docs, the private Facebook group, the blog, how to contact, disclaimers, merch, the sponsor page. All that's right there, right in that menu. So that's it. I kept it to fifteen minutes. That's not bad. There's a lot going on at the website. A lot of it I think you'll find interesting. These estimators that you're gonna find there, listen, they're not medical advice for certain, but they should be able to give you, like, some ideas about how to talk to your doctors or, you know, get a feeling for if your settings are really wonky or something like that.
Using example here of the settings simulator, you know, you have to it's educational simulator only. You have to click I understand and everything to get in. And then you just are you can just pick a weight just to see how it affects insulin. So, like, you know, say somebody weighed a hundred and thirty eight pounds. You might expect their total daily insulin to be around 34 and a half units. You might expect their basal to be around 17 quarter units a day or point seven two an hour. You might expect their insulin to carb ratio to be 14 and a half. You might expect their sensitivity to be 52. Like, just, you know, not saying this is exactly right, but it's the same math your doctor uses to figure stuff out, and it's something you don't know about. So maybe you go there and go, oh, hey. I'm high all the time, and this thing says I should maybe be using more insulin or less. Maybe you're low a lot, and you don't know why. It's a it gives you a good starting place to talk to your doctor.
Same with the fat and protein estimator. Again, you gotta understand this is a tool, not for medical device, blah blah blah. Just helps you understand, hey. If there's, I don't know, 15 grams of fat in a meal and, six grams of protein and an insulin to carb ratio of one to 10, then what you simulate the event, it tells you like, hey. You know, this is just a simulation, but you might need this much insulin to cover this meal. Right? Just helps you with k cals, fat and protein units, theoretical units, how much the, you know, the bolus might be, how long you might stretch it out if you're doing an extended bolus. And, you know, again, it could help you understand maybe a little better that how how bolus thing works.
There's also a bolus estimator that takes a lot more into account, insulin to carb ratio, your insulin sensitivity factor, target blood sugar that you're shooting for, and then how many carbs in what I'm eating? I'll say 45. How much fat? Five. How much protein? Four. My current BG is one twenty three. How much do I have on board? I have a a unit on board. And it it'll explain to you, like, well, you know, we might use about this much insulin here. Pre bolus time should be about this, but there's no, you know, extended needed for fat. But you can look then and change the fat to, like, well, what if there was 10 grams of fat in that? Would that change it? And it certainly does. All of a sudden, it starts talking about how the Worsaw method might indicate to you that you maybe should spread out some extra insulin over time to impact that digestion.
The Importance of Support and Sharing
Scott BennerAgain, they're just kind of visualizations for you to try to understand some of the stuff that we talk about in podcast. I find some people understand by listening, some people understand by clicking and doing. I thought this might help some of you with that. I hope you find it valuable. It's pretty much it, really. We're about to I guess I'll tell you about this right now since I have, like, a little quiz about the positive childhood experiences and negative childhood experiences, the aces and the paces. And it it kinda helps you understand if you've experienced these things in your life as a child, and it helps to show you how to create, a home environment for people who end up, generally speaking, having a better chance at positive outcomes as an adult. That's in the menu as well. And there is a series coming out on that very soon with myself and Erica Forsyth.
That is pretty much it, guys. I hope you're enjoying the show. Please I'm not a YouTuber, so I'm not really accustomed to saying this, but subscribing to the podcast is such a significant help that it is hard to put into words and sharing it as well. When you're listening to an episode and you're enjoying it, please do share it with somebody else. If you know somebody who might need the podcast, sharing it with them either with a link or a text or, hey. Check out Juice Box or whatever it is you you're comfortable doing. This podcast is in its twelfth year, and I'm telling you, it keeps going because of good word-of-mouth. It is really, the best way to keep content like this going. It's free to you guys. I, you know, I try very, very hard not to charge you for it, and I've had a lot of luck so far, knock on wood, because so many of you listen. And, of course, that makes me kind of an eligible place for advertisers to put their ads, which is how all this gets paid for.
So just a general example, the the episode of frequent asked questions page, like the search feature. I've been working on that for a couple of months now. And it's taken up, I mean, I would say probably thirty or forty hours of my time. And what it is, like, the back end of it is this. I took the top 250 most Googled questions about type one diabetes. I took the entire list of struggles, which is a list that was compiled, from listeners about things they say they struggle with with type one. Right? It's a really comprehensive I think we ended up doing, like, 70 or 80 pages of that. It got still down into, gosh, I wanna say, like, 75 items. But and I'll I'll just read a couple for you. Mental burnout, hypoglycemic fear, insulin timing, exercise and blood sugar, illness, sicknesses, stress, physical health, technology overload. Like, this goes on and on. It's a long list. So this struggles list plus the top 250 most Googled type one diabetes questions plus some other stuff, all mixed together in kind of a a secret little goo, digital goo. And then all of those questions are mapped back to content inside of the podcast.
So if you've we figured these are the I figured these are the questions that people ask and we, generally speaking, think that most of those, you know answers or, you know, associated conversations are in the podcast. So how do you find them most quickly? Right? And this has ended up how it ended up being. So, like, you know, ketones and DKA warning signs click. What is a rage bolus? Here, what is a rage bolus? What is insulin stacking? What is insulin resistance? What is insulin bolus? What does the word bolus actually mean? That that's just from, you know, what is prebolising and how long before you should eat? This is all just coming back from what is a rage bolus. It matches to conversational stuff. Is it perfect? It's not. It works really well. And I am working on it to make it better and better all the time.
So my point is there is if you share the podcast and people buy ads on the podcast, then I can spend forty hours on working on this tool for you. Or I can sit around imagining other things that I think will be helpful for you to hear on the podcast or take the time to meet people and set up shows like the one you might have heard recently about, you know, a potential core cure for type one diabetes. Like, that doctor who came on, really lovely man, doctor Wachowski, he's in episode eighteen seventeen for an example. Like, I've been working on setting up that interview with him since 2025, and we finally recorded in April. And then that recording is rushed out to an editor who is a grown up who gets paid, and I pay him. And I pay for the website to go up. And there's a lot of money that goes out the door to keeping the podcast going. I'm not crying poor. I make a living. I'm not arguing about that. What I'm saying is that supporting the podcast brings you this stuff. It allows me the time to have these conversations, do these things, go to ADA.
You know? I mean, I'm listen. I'm gonna go speak at that hospital on Wednesday. Nobody's paying me to do that. I'm gonna leave my house at noon to get somewhere in time. I'm gonna spend a number of hours there. My whole day is gonna be that. I'm gonna drive back and forth. I'm not charging a hospital for my time, but I can afford to do that on a Wednesday afternoon because you guys support the podcast. I am driving to Atlanta to speak at the touch by type one event. I am not charging touch by type one for me to be at that event. I'm sure they'll help me pay for my drive. Or if I want to fly, I'm sure they would have helped me with my my airfare, but I don't get paid on top of that. And that's a thing where I'm leaving on a Friday, and I don't come home till Saturday. I just think it's a great thing to do. I like supporting people like that. And, again, I'm able to support those people because you guys listen to the podcast. You share it. And no kidding. You're subscribed, and you're downloading episodes and listening to them. This is what keeps all this going.
Then the more social media changes, the more I need you guys because Facebook doesn't let creators get to their followers the way they used to, because Instagram doesn't do that because there is no good way to share a link with you. Because every time you share a link, Instagram, Facebook, any of social media platforms, really, they want you to stay in their platform. So if I make a post that says like, hey. You know, Tay on the podcast, you know, I put up an episode called orange Julius. It's pretty great. It's with Kelly. She opened up about raising two teens that's diagnosed type one diabetes at age six. She discusses international living, multiple miscarriages, alarm fatigue, and managing different sibling personalities. If I put that into a a post and put it in Facebook, the Facebook algorithm will not serve it to you. You will never see it because it'll also have a link that leads you out of Facebook into a podcast app. Or even the fact that the this is crazy, but even the fact that the verbiage in the post indicates that I'm trying to tell you about a podcast, Facebook's algorithm will see it as an attempt for me to get you to leave Facebook. And so, therefore, it's not gonna show it to you.
So, I mean, I could tell you to join my email list. That might help. But truth be told, it's it I need you. Like, I'm it's on you. You gotta open up your app and download some episodes. Make sure you're subscribed or you're following, you know, especially in the big apps, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, stuff like that, and just tell people about it. I really do appreciate your time and, I mean, twelve years of a fantastic support. Thank you so much for listening. I'll be back very soon with another episode of the Juice Box Podcast. And I guess I should have said at the beginning that nothing you hear on the Juice Box podcast should be considered advice, medical or otherwise. Always consult a physician before making any changes to your health care plan or becoming bold with insulin. And I only went over my seven minute estimation by twenty one minutes. It's not really bad. If this is your first time listening to the Juice Box podcast and you'd like to hear more, download Apple Podcasts or Spotify, really any audio app at all. Look for the Juice Box podcast, and follow or subscribe. We put out new content every day that you'll enjoy. Wanna learn more about your diabetes management? Go to juiceboxpodcast.com up in the menu and look for bold beginnings, the diabetes pro tip series, and much more. This podcast is full of collections and series of information that will help you to live better with insulin. I can't thank you enough for listening. Please make sure you're subscribed or following in your audio app. I'll be back with another episode of the juice box podcast.
