The Glucose Never Lies® Podcast
Host John Pemberton — diabetes educator, researcher, and dad living with type 1 since 2008 — explores how to think clearly about type 1 diabetes in the real world.
Each episode translates current evidence and expert practice into decisions you can use: CGM accuracy and interpretation, getting more from pumps and automated insulin delivery, movement as a glucose tool, nutrition that protects performance and enjoyment, sleep, travel, parties, and sport.
Guests include leading clinicians, researchers, and people with lived experience. Expect respectful challenge, plain language, and practical take-aways.
Note: Educational only. No therapeutic relationship or personal medical advice.
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The Glucose Never Lies® Podcast
28 — Then Glucose Never Lies 2025 in Review: Chaos → Clarity
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Host: John Pemberton, RD
Guest: Anjanee Kohli, RD MNutr
2025 was a formative year for The Glucose Never Lies Podcast. Not because everything went smoothly — but because repeated exposure to real-world problems forced clearer models, sharper questions, and fewer illusions.
In this year-in-review episode, John Pemberton is joined by Anjanee Kohli — diabetes specialist dietitian, creative lead, and co-director at Glucose Never Lies — for an honest audit of what the podcast set out to do, what it actually delivered, where their thinking evolved, and where uncertainty remains.
Together, they revisit the core themes that kept resurfacing across episodes in 2025: insulin timing and dose over tactics, the liver’s central role, exercise variability, device and algorithm trade-offs, accessibility, and the gap between theoretical optimisation and lived experience with type 1 diabetes.
This conversation is not a highlights reel. It’s a reflective pause — stripping ideas back to what survived contact with reality, and clarifying what Glucose Never Lies is deliberately carrying forward into 2026.
Read the full episode page, explore linked episodes, resources, and references:
https://theglucoseneverlies.com/episode-28-2025-in-review/
What this episode covers
- Why 2025 required a shift from tactics to principles
- What repeated real-world patterns taught us about insulin, exercise, and devices
- Where technology helps — and where trade-offs remain unavoidable
- Episodes and resources worth revisiting depending on your current challenge
- What changed our minds, and what we’re still uncertain about
- What Glucose Never Lies is committing to — and leaving behind — in 2026
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