Tag: Technology

Finding Freedom with the Medtronic 670G

After dealing with the highs and lows of T1D for 33 years, the Medtronic 670g is changing how my mind and my body approach my diabetes.

Are CGMs Really Safe for Dosing?

If you’ve been looking to safely ditch pricking your finger 10 times a day in order to confirm your glucose levels, well, your time may have come.

Omnipod Horizon Hybrid Closed-loop System

Insulet Corporation – the company that brought us the tubeless insulin pump, the OmniPod, released some exciting news a couple weeks ago which could drastically shift the future of Type 1 diabetes m...

Test Strip Subscription Guide

We compiled a rundown of popular companies that offer test strip subscription services and researched each of them to give you some important info.

Clinical Trials and the Type 1 Diabetes Cure

I think the ultimate cure for T1D will be prevention. Why can’t we screen and predict who is at risk, and then prevent someone from getting Type 1 diabetes in the first place? How do clinical trials...

A Brief History of Insulin

It’s difficult to overstate the direness of diabetes pre-insulin. Though it’s been a known disease since the 16th century BCE, when Egyptian physicians noted that ants were attracted to the urine ...

The Vision of Bigfoot Biomedical

At Bigfoot, we reject the way it has been. We believe there is a better way of living ahead of us, and that, until there’s a cure, technology can serve us as well. We believe you deserve relief from...

The Inside Scoop on the Artificial Pancreas

The first artificial pancreas, Medtronic’s MiniMed 670G hybrid closed-loop system, has been FDA approved — a huge technological advancement in care of Type 1 diabetes (an auto-immune disease). Bey...

True Confessions of a Serial Case Changer

The first peel I ever put on my Pod was a ladybug, probably a design meant more for a child than for a young adult, but I could not have been more excited to stick that little vinyl sticker on the mac...

Get your questions answered on the Beyond Type 1 app

Ever wish you had a Type 1 community that you could go to for all of your T1D questions? Like Does Type 1 affect anyone else's hair growth? Where's the best place for sites? Is it okay to ge...

The BlueLoop System for Better T1D Management in Schools

We were shown, first hand, how and why the latest cloud-based technology like continuous glucose monitors and insulin pumps never make it into the hands of low-income families. The answer: because the...

#MeFirst

When I said "yes" to the highly regarded Continuous Glucose Monitor, I was stoked to finally commit to something that would help me grab my blood sugar by the balls, and lower my A1c for goo...

Tidepool — A Comprehensive Platform for Diabetes Management

Tidepool, a grant recipient of Beyond Type 1, offers comprehensive feedback on blood sugar levels for better diabetes management by streaming data from all these different diabetes devices (such a s a...

Switching to a Pump and CGM — A T1D’s Feedback

After three years of balancing my glucose levels through the pre-filled Novolog and Lantis pens & numerous finger stick checks throughout the day, I was ready for change