#1966 Juicebox Rewind — Week 609

[instrumental music plays] You guys remember when I used to pop in at the end of episodes just for the people who hang to the end and chat for a bit? Well, if you don't remember that, that does happen sometimes, and it's gonna happen probably more now than recently.

Today, I'm gonna tell you about something that's making me really sad.

Very simply, I think that more and more diabetes influencers, and I hope I'm making enough quotes around it in the air that you can hear me, have decided that views and clicks and follows are the most important thing that they can do.

And now, almost, well, definitely weekly, but it, sometimes it feels daily, someone is out there letting you know that Type 1 diabetes, boy, the cure, it's here.

And I'm gonna tell you, this week you heard from a woman who's, you know, functionally been cured from Type 1.

If you listened to episode, uh, I forget which one it was.

It was Katie Beth's episode.

I can look for you, 1964.

It's called Undiabetic.

If you listen to that, there's no doubt you will be excited.

I was, too.

But in short clips on Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, where people are like, "You know, the EliDon trial's going on, and boy, people are being, they've cured 10, 9, 11 people.

It's, you know, it's, it's, it's here.

It's, it's here for those people." All right? I've done a really thoughtful interview with the doctor running that whole thing, and he will tell you immediately, this is not happening soon for everyone.

It happened for these people in the trial.

Is it amazing news? It's a million percent amazing news.

It does not mean that you're gonna walk into a 7-Eleven next week and get your diabetes cure pill.

It doesn't mean that you're gonna wander into your doctor and be like, "Hey, I need that cure." And they're gonna be like, "Oh, yeah, let me get it for you." It's not there.

We're not close to that.

Okay? That's gonna take a lot of time and a lot of other things that have to come together before everyone's just gonna go get in line at the diabetes cure unit.

We're nowhere near that.

Is it exciting? It is.

Is it maybe one of the more, like, uh, I don't know, hopeful things that I've seen since my daughter's had diabetes? Absolutely.

It's all of those things.

But when it gets broken down into a one-minute YouTube Short or a 30-second TikTok or a post that happens over and over and over again, my concern is that you and everybody else looking will just start to think, like, "Well, it's coming.