Living with diabetes: How technology is changing the way we treat this disease

Vanessa Oliver, who has been living with Type 1 diabetes for 38 years, joins 'The Morning Show' hosts Jeff McArthur and Carolyn Mackenzie to discuss the profound changes to diabetes treatment brought on by technological innovations.

Oliver was diagnosed in 1985 when she was six years old. She calls it a 24-7 disease because of the constant need to monitor glucose levels.

“This is a 24-7 disease and we’re constantly needing to monitor our glucose levels, and those can be impacted from lack of sleep, from everything that you eat, from exercise, from emotions,” she says.

On the other hand, Oliver says technological innovations have made it easier to both administer insulin and monitor glucose levels — making diabetes a much less daunting diagnosis.

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