Diabic courses
Learn diabetes in five minute lessons
Short lessons with animated explainers you can play with. Every lesson is reviewed by a doctor.
32 courses
First 30 Days After Diagnosis
Your first month with diabetes, one small step at a time, from first appointments to first meals at home.
- Chapters
- 9
- Lessons
- 36
- Minutes
- 144
Understanding Diabetes Types and Causes
What diabetes is, why it happens and how the different types compare, explained in plain, simple words.
- Chapters
- 8
- Lessons
- 32
- Minutes
- 128
Diabetes Emergencies: Hypoglycemia and Hyperglycemia Care
Spot a low or a high early, know what to do in the moment and make a plan the people around you can follow.
- Chapters
- 10
- Lessons
- 40
- Minutes
- 162
Understanding Prediabetes: An Action Plan to Lower Your Risk
What a prediabetes result means, and food, movement and sleep changes that may help lower your risk.
- Chapters
- 7
- Lessons
- 28
- Minutes
- 115
Diabetes Caregiving: Helping a Loved One
Practical ways to help someone you love with diabetes, from meals and lows to looking after yourself as well.
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- 7
- Lessons
- 28
- Minutes
- 116
Reading Blood Sugar Levels and A1C
Make sense of your meter, your A1C and your CGM report, so every checkup feels clearer and less rushed.
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- 8
- Lessons
- 32
- Minutes
- 130
Your first 30 days, one small step at a time.
Plain answers for your first month with diabetes: your test results, home checks, food and the feelings that come with a diagnosis.
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Diabetes Routine: Building Daily Habits
Small daily routines for food, checks, movement and rest that fit real life and are easy to restart.
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- 8
- Lessons
- 32
- Minutes
- 134
Using Glucometers and CGMs
How glucometers and CGMs work, how to get a reading you can trust and how to share data with your doctor.
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- 8
- Lessons
- 32
- Minutes
- 128
Eating Well with Diabetes
How food affects your blood sugar, with simple tools like the plate method to build meals you enjoy.
- Chapters
- 9
- Lessons
- 36
- Minutes
- 145
Diabetes-Friendly Cooking: Meal Prep Made Simple
Stock your kitchen, plan the week and cook tasty meals that suit diabetes, even on a busy day.
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- 8
- Lessons
- 32
- Minutes
- 131
Diabetes Diet: Low Carb, Keto and Mediterranean
Low carb, keto, Mediterranean and plant-based eating side by side, so you can weigh options with your doctor.
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- 8
- Lessons
- 32
- Minutes
- 133
Fasting with Diabetes: Intermittent and Religious Fasts
What to know before an intermittent or religious fast, how it affects blood sugar and how to plan with care.
- Chapters
- 7
- Lessons
- 28
- Minutes
- 113
Eating Out, Parties and Holidays with Diabetes
Menus, festivals and dinners at a friend's home, with kind, simple ways to ask for food that works for you.
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- 8
- Lessons
- 32
- Minutes
- 128
Common Supplements and Vitamins in Diabetes
A clear look at common vitamins and supplements, what research says and how they can mix with medicines.
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- 8
- Lessons
- 32
- Minutes
- 128
Taking Insulin: Types, Storage, Pens and Pumps
What insulin does, the main types, how to store it and how to use pens, syringes and pumps with confidence.
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- 10
- Lessons
- 40
- Minutes
- 161
Understanding GLP-1 and Diabetes
What GLP-1 medicines are, how they work in the body, common side effects and questions to ask your doctor.
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- 9
- Lessons
- 36
- Minutes
- 147
Daily Exercise for Diabetes
Walking, strength, yoga and morning movement, with easy ways to stay active and watch for lows as you go.
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- 9
- Lessons
- 36
- Minutes
- 146
Better Sleep with Diabetes
How sleep and blood sugar affect each other, from night lows to sleep apnea, and how to sleep a little better.
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- 7
- Lessons
- 28
- Minutes
- 113
Stress Management, Burnout and Emotional Health with Diabetes
Diabetes can feel heavy some days. Learn about stress, distress and burnout, and where to find support.
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- 9
- Lessons
- 36
- Minutes
- 144
Managing Diabetes at Work
Telling your employer, knowing your rights and handling checks, meals, lows and shifts during the working day.
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- 8
- Lessons
- 32
- Minutes
- 130
Traveling with Diabetes: A Guide for Every Trip
Plan, pack and fly with diabetes, from airport security and time zones to keeping insulin cool on the road.
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- 9
- Lessons
- 36
- Minutes
- 145
Alcohol, Smoking and Diabetes
How alcohol, smoking, vaping and cannabis affect blood sugar, and honest help if you want to cut back or stop.
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- 7
- Lessons
- 28
- Minutes
- 114
Love, Sex and Diabetes: Relationships and Intimacy
Talking to a partner, dating, sex and hormones, with honest answers to questions that can feel hard to ask.
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- 8
- Lessons
- 32
- Minutes
- 129
Heart Health and Diabetes
Why diabetes affects the heart, what blood pressure and cholesterol mean and the warning signs to know.
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- 6
- Lessons
- 24
- Minutes
- 98
Protecting Your Kidneys with Diabetes
How diabetes affects your kidneys, the tests to ask about, kidney-friendly food and life with kidney disease.
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- 7
- Lessons
- 28
- Minutes
- 112
Foot and Skin Care for Diabetes
Daily foot checks, the right shoes and socks and how to care for skin and small wounds before they get worse.
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- 7
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- 28
- Minutes
- 115
Eye Care and Diabetic Retinopathy
How diabetes can affect your eyes, why yearly eye exams matter and which vision changes to report early.
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- 7
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- 28
- Minutes
- 115
Teeth and Gum Care with Diabetes
How blood sugar affects your teeth and gums, simple daily care and what to tell your dentist at checkups.
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- 7
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- 28
- Minutes
- 113
Aging with Diabetes: Health, Safety and Independence
Diabetes care as you get older, from simpler medicines and spotting lows to memory and living on your own.
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- 7
- Lessons
- 28
- Minutes
- 118
Type 1 Diabetes Essentials
Carb counting, insulin through the day, exercise, sick days, pumps and CGMs for everyday life with type 1.
- Chapters
- 8
- Lessons
- 32
- Minutes
- 128
Pregnancy and Gestational Diabetes
Planning a pregnancy, gestational diabetes, the glucose test and care before and after birth, step by step.
- Chapters
- 9
- Lessons
- 36
- Minutes
- 143
Raising a Child with Diabetes
Help your child live well with diabetes, from daily care at home to school plans, sports, teens and feelings.
- Chapters
- 7
- Lessons
- 28
- Minutes
- 114