Nupur Lalwani,India-Typ1 Diabetes & Low Carb

Guest Speaker Nupur Lalwani Kumar at MHC - II

Session started with a brief introduction of Dr. Nupur and shared her thoughts of common goal of Dlife.in community and Dr Nupur. Host Jasmeet raised query for Dr. Nupir to define or elaborate on Type 1 Diabetes as" what are the characteristic feature of type 1 diabetes" and relates her personal experience with Type 1 diabetes. She responded to the host by explaining about type 1 diabetes and is different with type 2 diabetes. Type 2 diabetes is more of a metabolic condition and is observed in an individual with growing age, while type 1 being auto immune can strike at any age, even childhood, stating her personal experience where she was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in childhood days, age of 8 years. Dr. Nupur also talked about various symptoms and importance of "how to manage type 1 diabetes" while majority are unaware about it. Dr Nupur's conclusive statement for this was, it's always better to get diagnosed at inception stage. She went on to share her personal photograph of childhood when she was diagnosed as diabetic. referring her personal experience, while talking, she did state that She on the same frequency as of Dlife that also says Diabetes is manageable and reversable with Low Carb diets, Debates is witnessed on social media regarding Low Carb and reversing diabetes but awareness in people should be created about Low Carb had impact on Diabetes. As asked by the host, she responded to how "nutrition and diets" can play important role in managing and reversing type 1 diabetes, to endorse this She shared her personal diabetic diagnosis reports and reports after she shifted to Low carb diet to manage Type 1 Diabetes. Very informatic discussion through the session, preview recorded video to hear Dr. Nupur talk about Low Carb Impacts on Managing and Reversing Type 1 Diabetes

▶️ Click to preview Interactive Video Session 46 minutes of Day 2, MHC-2 on 27-APR-2024, Host Dr Jasmeet Kaur

About Nupur Lalwani

Nupur Lalwani is a Global Health Advocate and the Founder Director of Blue Circle Diabetes Foundation, a registered nonprofit organization that works in diabetes awareness and advocacy. Blue Circle Diabetes Foundation is India’s largest community-led support group for people living with all types of diabetes. Nupur has lived experience of having type 1 diabetes since 1996 and is a Certified Diabetes Educator. Nupur i
s associated with the WHO’s Global Diabetes Compact, the Healthy India Alliance (the India arm of the NCD Alliance) and the International Diabetes Federation. She also sits on the Key Stakeholder Advisory Group of the Action for Global Health (AFGH), a membership network convening more than 50 organizations working in global health. She is a speaker, runner, management professional, and a seasoned advocate for women’s health and empowerment.

Dr. Nupur Lalwani educates and creates awareness on health based on her protocol build around four pillars of the Advocacy Agenda of People Living with NCDs, i.e.: Human rights and social justice; Prevention; Treatment, care and support; and Meaningful involvement.