Reclaim Your Rise: Type 1 Diabetes with Lauren Bongiorno
Lauren Bongiorno is a Nationally Board Certified Health Coach and the founder and CEO of Risely Health. Featured on the TODAY show and other media outlets, Risely helps people and families impacted by Type 1 Diabetes take ownership over their health so they can transform their life with more freedom and confidence. Lauren has lived with type 1 diabetes since she was 7 years old and has experienced firsthand that when health transforms, so does everything else - our relationships, our time, our career, our families, and, most importantly, ourselves. Each week she will bring you lessons from her own personal diabetes experience, strategies that are key to understanding your body’s patterns, and guests who will speak to everything from advances in technology to all things hormones, exercise, relationships, and mindset. All of this so that over time, you TOO can reclaim your rise.
Reclaim Your Rise: Type 1 Diabetes with Lauren Bongiorno
238. What’s Actually Next for Diabetes Tech? A Gen Z Founder on AI, Ketone Monitors + Smarter Pumps
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Drew Mendelow was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes at 13 and left the hospital overwhelmed by how much he was suddenly expected to learn and calculate on his own. So he built the tool he wished he’d had: T1D1, a free app that takes the mental math out of insulin dosing for people who are newly diagnosed or managing with injections.
Now a student at Georgia Tech, Drew joins Lauren to talk about what’s actually next in diabetes tech, from AI and continuous ketone monitoring to smarter pump algorithms and the apps making daily life with T1D easier, while asking an important question: as diabetes technology gets smarter, how do we make sure people with T1D still feel informed and in control of their own management?
WHAT WE COVER:
- Why Drew built T1D1 after being diagnosed at 13
- The diabetes tech Drew thinks could change T1D next
- Why continuous ketone monitoring matters, even when blood sugar is in range
- Lauren’s scariest low in 25 years with T1D and what caused it
- The diabetes app Drew recommended that Lauren immediately wanted to download
- Where AI and smarter pump algorithms could help, and where they could take away too much control
WHAT’S NEXT:
🛒Use code RiselyHealth15 for 15% off discount at Lakanto!
💻Apply for coaching and talk to our team so you can reclaim the life you deserve with T1D.
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Stay connected with us:
Email us at: hello@riseyhealth.com
IG: @lauren_bongiorno | @riselyhealth
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