Sweet As! The Diabetes Podcast
Sep 8, 2026 · 22 min · 16 segments
This week on Sweet As! we’re back with Dr Tamatea for Part 2 of our conversation about diabetes. Dr Tamatea is a diabetes specialist (diabetologist & endocrinologist), researcher, and leader in Māori…
Jade TamateaGuest
Anika MoaHost
Solita DonnellyHostClaireHost
We're really excited for this one because we think that hopefully we can change the game and how frightened about diabetes people feel.
I actually wanted to ask you a question because I'm really interested in diabetes specialists.
oh wow so many different things um but so whanau experience with diabetes has got to be right up front um so i've spent you know most of my life um around whanau living with diabetes um so that meant it was yeah it was in my lived experience it was something i knew um so that helped to drive me that way one of the biggest things for me and we've kind of talked about it in the other session is that I really like spending time with whānau on their journey and so I was always going to go into a specialty that meant that I look after people a long period of time so what we call chronic care and that's really important to me being part of the team that helps to keep an individual well so both in diabetes but also the other hormone stuff that I look after.
We're really excited for this one because we think that hopefully we can change the game and how frightened about diabetes people feel.
I actually wanted to ask you a question because I'm really interested in diabetes specialists.
oh wow so many different things um but so whanau experience with diabetes has got to be right up front um so i've spent you know most of my life um around whanau living with diabetes um so that meant it was yeah it was in my lived experience it was something i knew um so that helped to drive me that way one of the biggest things for me and we've kind of talked about it in the other session is that I really like spending time with whānau on their journey and so I was always going to go into a specialty that meant that I look after people a long period of time so what we call chronic care and that's really important to me being part of the team that helps to keep an individual well so both in diabetes but also the other hormone stuff that I look after.
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