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Are you at a health crossroads, wondering about prediabetes and what it means for your future?

This isn't just about blood sugar; it's about a hidden factor called inflammation that can silently steer you towards chronic health issues.

In this talk, Pre-diabetes: Where Inflammation Meets the Tipping Point we'll explore this crucial connection.

You'll gain a clear, practical roadmap to understand how inflammation contributes to prediabetes and, more importantly, discover actionable steps you can take today.

By the end of this talk, you'll understand not just what prediabetes is, but why it happens, and most importantly what you can actually do about it.

During our time together, I will have the absolute pleasure of teaching you three quick and easy recipes to kick-start your healthier You!

Plus, you will receive my exclusive e-cookbook featuring 18 delicious recipes alongside step-by-step video tutorials. Each meal is carefully crafted with the perfect balance of complex carbs, fiber, healthy fats, and lean protein—everything your body needs to help you manage, and even reverse, your diabetes!

Dr. Eghbali will begin by acknowledging the challenges individuals face in the modern world that make fat loss difficult for the average person taking the traditional approaches. He discusses the role stress, sleep, nutrition, movement, community, and nature play and provides tangible immediate strategies listeneres can take away and apply to their lives to see desired change within 30 days. His style is dynamic, energetic, fun, and empowering. Listeners walk away from his talks with the knowledge and power to create the changes they wish to see in themselves. His 30 years in private practice as a holistic doctor as well as a board certified coash shed light onto the most struggles and effective solutions for success!

Discover two practical tools designed to make everyday diabetes management simpler and more convenient.

GotCGM helps make continuous glucose monitor (CGM) data easier to access and view throughout the day, giving users more convenient ways to stay connected to their glucose information.

FlashSnack focuses on making food tracking easier by using AI-powered technology to help capture and understand meal information without the usual hassle of manually entering every detail.

Together, GotCGM and FlashSnack demonstrate how thoughtfully designed technology can reduce some of the everyday friction around monitoring glucose and tracking food—helping people spend less time managing data and more time using that information in their daily lives.

Managing Type 2 diabetes is not a solo journey—it takes the right team. In this presentation, Irina Strunina shares why lasting success depends on building a network of support that extends far beyond the doctor's office. Drawing from more than two decades of experience, her work with one of the world's largest diabetes communities, and her family's personal journey with the disease, Irina explores the critical roles of healthcare providers, family members, friends, coaches, and peer communities in achieving better outcomes.

Attendees will discover why knowledge alone is rarely enough, how accountability and encouragement can make healthy habits stick, and practical ways to create a personalized support system. Whether you are living with Type 2 diabetes, caring for a loved one, or supporting patients, you'll leave with actionable strategies to transform diabetes management from an individual struggle into a team effort that leads to healthier, more confident living.

Managing Type 2 diabetes is not a solo journey—it takes the right team. In this presentation, Irina Strunina shares why lasting success depends on building a network of support that extends far beyond the doctor's office. Drawing from more than two decades of experience, her work with one of the world's largest diabetes communities, and her family's personal journey with the disease, Irina explores the critical roles of healthcare providers, family members, friends, coaches, and peer communities in achieving better outcomes.

Attendees will discover why knowledge alone is rarely enough, how accountability and encouragement can make healthy habits stick, and practical ways to create a personalized support system. Whether you are living with Type 2 diabetes, caring for a loved one, or supporting patients, you'll leave with actionable strategies to transform diabetes management from an individual struggle into a team effort that leads to healthier, more confident living.

Managing Type 2 diabetes is not a solo journey—it takes the right team. In this presentation, Irina Strunina shares why lasting success depends on building a network of support that extends far beyond the doctor's office. Drawing from more than two decades of experience, her work with one of the world's largest diabetes communities, and her family's personal journey with the disease, Irina explores the critical roles of healthcare providers, family members, friends, coaches, and peer communities in achieving better outcomes.

Attendees will discover why knowledge alone is rarely enough, how accountability and encouragement can make healthy habits stick, and practical ways to create a personalized support system. Whether you are living with Type 2 diabetes, caring for a loved one, or supporting patients, you'll leave with actionable strategies to transform diabetes management from an individual struggle into a team effort that leads to healthier, more confident living.

Managing Type 2 diabetes is not a solo journey—it takes the right team. In this presentation, Irina Strunina shares why lasting success depends on building a network of support that extends far beyond the doctor's office. Drawing from more than two decades of experience, her work with one of the world's largest diabetes communities, and her family's personal journey with the disease, Irina explores the critical roles of healthcare providers, family members, friends, coaches, and peer communities in achieving better outcomes.

Attendees will discover why knowledge alone is rarely enough, how accountability and encouragement can make healthy habits stick, and practical ways to create a personalized support system. Whether you are living with Type 2 diabetes, caring for a loved one, or supporting patients, you'll leave with actionable strategies to transform diabetes management from an individual struggle into a team effort that leads to healthier, more confident living.

Living with diabetes can be challenging, and stress can make managing blood glucose levels and daily self-care more difficult. This presentation explores the connection between stress and diabetes, highlighting how physical, emotional, psychological, and even food-related stressors can increase stress on the body and affect overall health. Participants will learn how stress influences blood glucose levels and discover practical, evidence-based strategies to reduce stress, including simple relaxation techniques, healthy coping skills, and lifestyle approaches. The session is designed to provide realistic tools that can be incorporated into everyday life, helping individuals feel more confident, resilient, and empowered in managing their diabetes and overall well-being.

The KYLE Framework offers a simple, practical approach to living well with diabetes. This presentation introduces four key areas—Know Your Numbers, Your Movement Matters, Lifestyle Habits That Stick, and Evolve and Sustain Long Term—and shows how small, realistic changes can improve diabetes management, reduce health risks, and support lasting success.

Photograph your meal and cAIrbo estimates the carbohydrates, calories and glycemic load, and keeps your daily total. It works before you eat as well, so you can see the numbers first and then decide. cAIrbo is a general food tracker. It is not medical advice and it does not calculate insulin doses.

Diabetes diagnosis doesn't just change what's on your plate — it can bring on a wave of anger, fear, worry, and frustration that no meal plan, medication, or traditional medical doctor addresses. In this talk, you'll discover why these emotions show up, why willpower alone rarely makes them go away, and a simple, practical way to find and remove their hidden causes — so you can move through your diabetes journey with more calm, clarity, and control.

What You'll Learn:

• Why diabetes stirs up such strong emotions — and why anger, fear, worry, and frustration aren't a sign of weakness, but a predictable response to diagnosis and daily management
• The hidden internal cause behind each of these emotions — and how uncovering it puts you back in the driver's seat instead of your feelings
• A simple method you can use immediately to reduce or eliminate unwanted emotional reactions, on command, anytime they show up

What if you could better understand how your meals, activity, and everyday habits may influence your glucose patterns?

Discover GluTrend, an AI-powered metabolic health platform designed to turn glucose and lifestyle data into easier-to-understand patterns and insights. GluTrend combines meal logging, activity and sleep information, and AI-assisted glucose insights to help users become more aware of how their everyday choices may affect their metabolic health.

People living with Type 2 diabetes do not need another lecture about what they should be doing. They know. The greater challenge lies in the space between knowing and becoming willing to live differently: disrupting familiar habits, the social discomfort of making different choices, the resentment of monitoring, and the difficulty of investing in benefits that cannot yet be seen or felt.

Drawing on more than 25 years in mindset, stress management and transformational coaching, and on her personal experience of losing her father following years of poorly managed diabetes alongside complex health conditions, Rachael Hudson explores why the immediate discomfort of change can feel more persuasive than the accumulating consequences of staying the same.

This compassionate and empowering talk helps participants identify the hidden rewards sustaining unwanted patterns, separate genuine comfort from quietly costly choices, and begin creating changes rooted in agency and self-respect over fear, shame or deprivation.

If your glucose seems to swing for no reason some weeks, you're not imagining it, and it's not a failure of willpower. For women living with diabetes, hormones shift across the menstrual cycle, and those shifts quietly move glucose and insulin needs, yet the pattern is rarely explained and almost never tracked.

In this session, Riley Gerszewski, founder of HerDiabetes, shares what he learned from 100+ conversations with women and a team of diabetes care experts: why your numbers change across your cycle, how to recognize your own phase-by-phase pattern, and three simple things you can start doing tomorrow with nothing more than a notebook. You'll leave understanding your body a little better, feeling validated instead of alone, and knowing that support built for women is finally arriving. Practical, compassionate, and grounded in real stories.

Living with diabetes requires more than managing numbers—it also means navigating stress, fear, guilt, burnout, and the pressure of getting everything "right." In this engaging and compassionate presentation, licensed marriage and family therapist Sharyn Nichols explores the often-overlooked emotional impact of living with diabetes. Attendees will learn how chronic stress affects both emotional and physical well-being, why self-criticism can become a barrier to healing, and practical strategies to calm the nervous system and build greater resilience. This session offers a fresh perspective on diabetes care by reminding participants that emotional wellness is not separate from physical health—it is an essential part of living well.

Many women are told that fatigue, brain fog, weight gain, and rising blood sugar are simply part of aging. They are not.

In this presentation, Stacy Naugle explains how changes in hormones, stress, sleep, muscle mass, and metabolism influence insulin sensitivity and blood sugar regulation during midlife.

You'll discover why many women develop prediabetes and type 2 diabetes despite doing everything they have been told to do, the early warning signs that often go unnoticed, and practical strategies to support metabolic health.

Stacy introduces the concept of metabolic drift, the gradual physiological changes that affect energy, cognition, recovery, and blood sugar control long before diabetes develops.

Whether you are concerned about prevention, reversal, or protecting your long-term health, this session will help you better understand your body's changing needs.

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