How to use your Freestyle libre during exercise

Exercising with type 1 diabetes can be challenging and using devices that give continuous readings of glucose levels can provide valuable information. Knowing how to use your Freestyle Libre during exercise makes takes this device to the next level and expert advice from Dr Parth Narendran and Dr Rob Andrews is a great place to start.

This video was produce by the Association of British Clinical Diabetologists (ABCD) as part of a much wider range of education programmes about getting the most out of your Freestyle Libre. The video is in the public domain on YouTube but sadly does not rank high in the YouTube search engines so I wanted to give this amazing piece of work a boost by sharing it with you and helping it to gain higher audience rankings.

I am sure you will agree with me that the knowledge and insights that Dr Narendran and Dr Andrews gives us are amazing. I don’t mind telling you that when I have questions about type 1 diabetes and exercise that I can not figure out these gents are my go to point of contact. We have been working together for a few years now and we are on the verge of releasing some amazing and ground-breaking clinical research about exercise and type 1 in a real world setting using the Freestyle Libre, I will keep you posted of the updates when this research has completed it’s peer review and makes it way into the world of published data.

In the mean time please make yourself a drink and settle down for 25 minutes of amazing education about type 1 diabetes and exercise and how to use your Freestyle Libre during exercise.

For more amazing information on how to manage blood glucose levels with type 1 diabetes go to the home page of this website.