Episode 351 - What Your Doctor Was Never Taught About Diabetes with Dr. Hannah Parr, D.O.
About this episode
Dr. Hannah Parr discusses the complexities of living well with diabetes beyond just managing blood sugar levels.
Ten years ago, Hannah Hamlin came on the pod (Episode 8!) as a medical school student with type 1 diabetes trying to figure out how to manage blood sugar while surviving boards. She's back now as Dr. Hannah Parr, D.O., a physician with additional training in integrative medicine and diabetes education, and the conversation is a completely different one. This episode is about what happens after you get the diagnosis under control, the emotional, philosophical, and practical work of actually living well with a chronic illness. Hannah walks through why she felt angry at her doctors in her early 20s (and why that anger wasn't entirely fair), what medical school actually teaches versus what it leaves out, and how she eventually built education specifically designed to fill the gap between a 15-minute endocrinology appointment and real, whole-person health. One of the most honest moments in the episode comes when Hannah describes a phase of her life where she had nearly perfect blood sugars on a low-carb diet and her cholesterol was climbing, her hormones were off, and she was gaining weight. Her A1C looked great. The rest of her health didn't. It's a good reminder that optimizing one…
People in this episode
Host: Diabetics Doing Things
Guest: Dr. Hannah Parr
Topics covered
- diabetes management
- integrative medicine
- chronic illness
- emotional health
- patient education
Keywords
- type 1 diabetes
- blood sugar
- A1C
- health
- support group
- low-carb diet
- hormones
- cholesterol
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