The Diabetes Collective

01/14/2026

Southern girls don’t play

All I need is two. (Positivity for 2 or more) autoantibodies qualifies as a diagnosis of Type 1 Diabetes, then we look at metrics like fasting glucose, Hgba1c, oral glucose or mixed meal glucose tolerance testing in order to determine is this stage 1, 2 or 3?

Stage 2 (and soon to be stage 3 - in clinical trials) qualifies for immunotherapy, indicated to delay Type 1 Diabetes. Facts: over half of people that have received this infusion remain insulin free. Let that sink in ✌🏼

Comment “Screen Me” for free info on diagnosing early, T1D staging, immunotherapy treatments, and metabolic monitoring

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The Diabetes Collective ®️ by Rachael Sood, NP, CDCES
📍2315 Florida Street, Suite230, Mandeville, La | USA
📱 (985) 373-1148
✉️ contact@thediabetescollective.net
🌎 https://www.thediabetescollective.net

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01/13/2026

Why people are living under rocks is beyond me.

If you have Stage 2 of Type 1 diabetes (or even early stage 3) there are opportunities for you to delay onset of insulin dependence or prevent it with immunomodulating therapy. This has been approved since 2022, so it’s nothing new!

The medication Teplizumab is a monoclonal antibody IV infusion which inhibits your immune system from attacking itself. The iPod need is if you are not a candidate, there are other options such as referrals to clinical trials.

Thankfully I’ve got big plans for the diabetes community and plan to continue saving lives in 2026! Comment “SCREEN ME” if you’d like more info 📧

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The Diabetes Collective ®️ by Rachael Sood, NP, CDCES
📍2315 Florida Street, Suite230, Mandeville, La | USA
📱 (985) 373-1148
✉️ contact@thediabetescollective.net
🌎 https://www.thediabetescollective.net

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01/13/2026

HCP and diabetes clinical education specialists interested in immunotherapy and Type 1 Diabetes screening practices are invited to a Scientific Education program

Tuesday, January 27th, 2026, at 6pm
at Desi Vega's Steakhouse - Northshore in Covington, Louisiana.

Please register at https://webapp.spotme.com/login/sanofi17/autoimmune-type-1-diabetes-screening-staging-and-monitoring-covington-la

01/13/2026

Consensus statement on Diabetes in pregnancy - international! The Lancet - amazing! 🫶

01/12/2026

Same $% #& different day. New year resolution? continuing to find people with Type 1 Diabetes before they need insulin, so I might have the opportunity to change the trajectory of their lives.

Here’s the 5 autoantibody markers I order to detect autoimmune Type 1 diabetes:

SAVE this list so you know what labs to ask for at your next appointment:

• GAD65
• IA-2
• IAA
• ZnT8
• ICA

Comment “SCREEN ME” for more info on T1D staging, and immunotherapy treatments

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The Diabetes Collective ®️ by Rachael Sood, NP, CDCES
📍2315 Florida Street, Suite230, Mandeville, La | USA
📱 (985) 373-1148
✉️ contact@thediabetescollective.net
🌎 https://www.thediabetescollective.net

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01/12/2026

No one has business prescribing you GLP1 peptides for diabetes for metabolic disorders unless you’ve been screened. Here’s Why 👇🏼

Stage 1 of T1D has no symptoms at all. The A1C nor blood sugar will be elevated. Unfortunately I’ve had clients for years whose diagnosis got missed, and they ended up dependent on insulin. Either bc their story or symptoms were ignored, or they weren’t recommended screening.

You should ask for testing prior to starting glucose regulating or suppressive agents, because as stages of diabetes progress, the elevated blood sugar levels (which would have otherwise been a tell-tale sign, gets masked by medications). People will progress unknowingly to stage 3 or have irreversible loss of beta cell function forcing them to take insulin for the rest of their life.

There’s absolutely no reason for this to happen with the readily available option of autoantibody screening and genetic testing.

DM me for info on screening or comment “SCREEN ME” to connect

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The Diabetes Collective ®️ by Rachael Sood, NP, CDCES
📍2315 Florida Street, Suite230, Mandeville, La | USA
📱 (985) 373-1148
✉️ contact@thediabetescollective.net
🌎 https://www.thediabetescollective.net

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01/10/2026

you can’t learn how to drive without the headlights on.
Unless you like being blind…

The biggest red flag to misdiagnose or misclassify diabetes is when they are sooo obsessed with that precious A1C.

So here’s the thing:

A1C doesn’t tell a story, bc it’s just an average. but glucose does! That’s why metabolic monitoring which includes checking the blood sugar or using CGM to look at interstitial glucose trends, will tell a story he’s not willing to even read. I use it in the diagnosis and management of both Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes.

Continuous glucose monitors show trends, provide direction and give real time insights - not just “data every 3 months”. When it comes to your health, time is of the essence so you shouldn’t settle for “average”.

Are you using or been offered cgm?
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The Diabetes Collective ®️ by Rachael Sood, NP, CDCES
📍2315 Florida Street, Suite230, Mandeville, La | USA
📱 (985) 373-1148
✉️ contact@thediabetescollective.net
🌎 https://www.thediabetescollective.net

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01/10/2026

Teaching automated insulin delivery and how to make diabetes technology work easier for you is my fave!

Quick demo on how to use the extended bolus feature on the Tandem app:

In the bolus calculator, you’ll enter in your carbs and pull the glucose in from your cgm reading. The total insulin will be calculated at the top but you can totally split it up.

The control IQ plus algorithm allows us to customize insulin delivery in this way which affects TIMING of insulin delivery- and that’s part of how you win this game!

I think this is a great feature as an alternative to looping as you can customize the duration and ramping of the insulin boluses, with an automatic basal adjustment still happening in the background. Pretty cool right?!!!

SAVE this post for when you’re ready to try it. Let me know how it goes and if you like it?

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The Diabetes Collective ®️ by Rachael Sood, NP, CDCES
📍2315 Florida Street, Suite230, Mandeville, La | USA
📱 (985) 373-1148
✉️ contact@thediabetescollective.net
🌎 https://www.thediabetescollective.net!

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01/10/2026

Louder for the people stuck in 1999

In men with type 1 diabetes (T1D), an intravenous infusion of glucose‑dependent insulinotropic polypeptide (GIP) did not prevent hypoglycaemia when prandial insulin was given in excess and participants performed postmeal physical activity, but it modestly reduced the peak glucose levels observed after meals compared with the GIP receptor antagonist GIP(3-30)NH2. https://wb.md/3LqhKp5

01/09/2026

People make mistakes
(No one cares about your Hgba1C )

No one ✌🏼😎





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The Diabetes Collective ®️ by Rachael Sood, NP, CDCES
📍2315 Florida Street, Suite230, Mandeville, La | USA
📱 (985) 373-1148
✉️ contact@thediabetescollective.net
🌎 https://www.thediabetescollective.net!

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01/09/2026

Which team are u:
Blood sugar, interstitial glucose or both?
Honestly I like it all.

Bottom line is no one cares about your A1C. Time to jump in; sink or swim 💦

Comment REALITY CHECK to get free Diabetes insights into metabolic monitoring, T1D screening, treatments, and automated insulin delivery systems

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The Diabetes Collective ®️ by Rachael Sood, NP, CDCES
📍2315 Florida Street, Suite230, Mandeville, La | USA
📱 (985) 373-1148
✉️ contact@thediabetescollective.net
🌎 https://www.thediabetescollective.net!

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01/08/2026

Bc I believe in 2nd chances 🔥

Most people don’t screen for Diabetes bc there’s a misconception that it looks a certain way, which is totally not the case! Diabetes has changed. We know that Type 1 is autoimmune and Type 2 can have genetic components. (Not to forget variants of MODY and LADA which can disguise themselves as T2… )

The most basic Screening consists of Hgba1c, checking the glucose and autoantibodies. It might also mean further metabolic monitoring depending on history, presentation or trends or additional genetic testing 🧬

Have you been properly screened? Comment “Screen Me” for Free info on Diabetes, how to detect it early, and treatment options



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The Diabetes Collective ®️ by Rachael Sood, NP, CDCES
📍2315 Florida Street, Suite230, Mandeville, La | USA
📱 (985) 373-1148
✉️ contact@thediabetescollective.net
🌎 https://www.thediabetescollective.net

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