Career Pivots and Reducing Your Risk of Diabetes with Registered Dietitian and Diabetes Digital Co-founder, Wendy Lopez
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4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2024
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, I sit down with Wendy Lopez, Registered Dietician/Nutritionist and Certified Diabetes Educator, to discuss all things blood glucose health and diabetes. She talks about starting Food Heaven, an inclusive nutrition platform, with her best friend and fellow R.D. Jess and why they decided to pivot once it started to feel like too much. She also explains why diabetes is so prevalent in black and brown communities, why she and Jess founded their nutrition tech platform Diabetes Digital, and how you can influence blood sugar and insulin with lifestyle and nutrition choices. Finally, Wendy answers listener questions on reducing your risk of diabetes if you have a family history, how you can manage gestational diabetes during pregnancy, how LADA (diabetes 1.5) works, and more.
Key Takeaway / Points:
- On starting Food Heaven with her best friend and fellow RD, Jess
- On transparency around burnout and how it felt to pivot away from the Food Heaven platform
- How and why Wendy and Jess founded Diabetes Digital, a nutrition tech platform
- Why diabetes is so prevalent in black and brown communities
- The differences between Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes
- On lifestyle factors that influence blood sugar and insulin
- On meal balancing with fat, carbs, and protein to curb a blood sugar spike
- On the mechanisms behind Ozempic and how it influences diabetes
- Listener questions on:
- Prediabetes and lifestyle factors that can lower blood sugar
- Reducing your risk of diabetes if you have a family history
- Gestational diabetes and how to manage it while pregnant
- On LADA (Diabetes 1.5)
- How CGMs (blood glucose monitors) work
- How Diabetes Digital works to help patients manage their diabetes
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a dear media production. |
| 0:04.0 | I am so excited about today's episode because we are diving into a topic that I honestly do not know much about whatsoever and we have never discussed on the podcast but I think so many people are impacted and affected by it |
| 0:18.0 | whether it be type 1 diabetes type 2 diabetes gest Justational Diabetes. |
| 0:22.5 | It's impacting a lot of people. |
| 0:24.0 | And quite honestly, I don't know how I got on the side of Tik-Tock, |
| 0:26.3 | but I'm getting so many videos about lowering your blood sugar |
| 0:29.5 | and all of these things. |
| 0:30.4 | So I am so pumped to have Wendy Lopez on the show today. I have |
| 0:34.4 | actually been following her for a very long time. She originally founded Food Heaven |
| 0:39.9 | with Jess and you may have followed their podcast the Food Heaven |
| 0:44.8 | podcast it was a show I listened to and I loved that they did this whole |
| 0:49.4 | segment about like a career pivot they They were super, super honest and open about what they were experiencing, |
| 0:57.1 | what they were feeling, the business side of things. I just find it fascinating because I love a good |
| 1:01.5 | pivot and I love honesty and vulnerability and like transparency on those topics. |
| 1:07.0 | So that was when I really like sparked a huge interest in them and then I was even more interested in figuring out what that said |
| 1:14.4 | pivot was and what they did was create diabetes digital which is a one-on-one |
| 1:19.1 | virtual nutrition counseling for diabetes and pre-diabees and it's covered by |
| 1:23.7 | insurance and founded by both the co-founders of Food Heaven, Wendy, and Jess. |
| 1:28.8 | We dive into a lot of their pivot within their career and what led them to start this, why they're |
| 1:35.2 | interested in diabetes, why they wanted to change like the burnout they were feeling, and |
| 1:39.7 | then we answer, well not we, she answers a lot of your questions about specific |
| 1:44.9 | diabetes topic so a super super informative listen while I have you I also |
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