Navigating Wellness Primary Care

12/03/2025

Abbott has issued a recall for over 3 million Libre 3 CGMs in the US. See if you're affected: https://www.diabetech.info/p/abbott-recalls-millions-of-libre-3-cgms-are-yours-affected

12/02/2025

Courtney did an amazing job setting us up for the Sebasticook Valley Chamber of Commerce festival of trees! She even painted those two quilt square art pieces!! Come support the community!

12/02/2025

Thanks for being a top engager and making it on to my weekly engagement list! 🎉

Céline Ferland, Helen L Leavitt, Georena Fellows, Melissa Gurney, Donna M. Rollins, Courtney Marie Erickson, Kro Mac

12/02/2025

Eli Lilly cuts Zepbound price to widen access for obesity drug

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12/01/2025

🌍 WORLD AIDS DAY — December 1st

Are you a wife, husband, girlfriend, boyfriend, significant other?
Are you a mother, father, sister, brother, son, daughter, aunt, uncle, or friend?
Are you heterosexual, bisexual, homosexual?

If you answered yes to any of the above…
You could be a person living with HIV/AIDS.

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In January 2013, I began working as an NP in an HIV/Infectious Disease clinic. The very first — and most important — lesson I learned was this:

👉 There is no “face” of AIDS.
Any preconceived idea I had about who is affected was erased the moment I began seeing patients.

Our clinic cared for patients age 18 and up.
Some of the people living with HIV/AIDS I met included:

❤️ Young adults who were born with HIV after contracting it in utero.
❤️ Wives, husbands, girlfriends, boyfriends, significant others who contracted HIV unknowingly from a partner.
❤️ Businessmen and businesswomen who acquired HIV through various means and live full, healthy, successful lives while managing HIV every day.

From the 18-year-old who contracted HIV from unprotected sex…
To the 60-, 70-, and even 80-year-old who contracted HIV the same way…

➡️ HIV does not have a face, an age, a color, or a gender.

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Let us not forget:
People living with HIV/AIDS are mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, sons, daughters, husbands, wives, and partners.

They are business leaders, homemakers, employers, employees, teachers, students.
They may be homeowners or they may be homeless.
They are service providers and consumers, helpers and those who need help.

They live, love, work, rest, hurt, care, struggle, and succeed — just like you and me.

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❤️ There is no face of HIV/AIDS.
💉 Get tested.
📍 Know your status.
🛡️ Use protection.
✨ Stay safe.

11/30/2025

Just a reminder! Rachel is a….“snow chicken”, “Florida girl”, “If there’s snow, she won’t go”…..driver. So, if the weather is bad this week, her appointments will move to zoom for everyone’s (expecially other drivers) safety. We are watching closely and will adjust accordingly.

11/28/2025

Today we're diving into every Omnipod 6 announcement and what we should and shouldn't expect from the next-gen Omnipod coming in 2027. Watch it here: https://www.diabetech.info/p/omnipod-6-is-coming-in-2027-here-s-everything-we-know

11/28/2025

Interesting….

Hungary's diabetes prevention probiotic stopped disease before onset in trials, though insulin manufacturers lobby against approval actively

Hungarian microbiologists discovered specific probiotic bacteria strains that, when taken daily by pre-diabetic individuals, prevent progression to Type 2 diabetes in 91% of cases. The probiotics modify gut bacteria to improve insulin sensitivity and regulate blood sugar naturally. People at high diabetes risk avoid the disease entirely with a simple daily supplement costing under $20 monthly. It's disease prevention through microbiome optimization.

The probiotic strains work by colonizing the gut and producing compounds that reduce inflammation and improve the body's insulin response. They also modify how the intestines absorb sugars and fats, preventing the metabolic dysfunction that leads to diabetes. Clinical trials showed that pre-diabetic participants taking the probiotic maintained normal blood sugar and insulin levels, while control groups progressed to diabetes at expected rates. The intervention is completely natural, has zero side effects, and addresses root causes rather than managing symptoms.

But insulin manufacturers recognize that preventing diabetes eliminates future customers from a disease affecting 37 million Americans and generating tens of billions in annual insulin sales. Lobbying efforts frame the probiotic as "unproven" despite extensive Hungarian trials, and push for decade-long studies before FDA approval. Meanwhile, the supplement exists and works, but Americans don't know about it because pharmaceutical funding influences medical education and publication of prevention research.

For the 96 million Americans with pre-diabetes—most of whom will develop full diabetes—this represents prevention being suppressed to protect future drug sales. Hungarian citizens at diabetes risk are taking simple probiotics and avoiding the disease entirely while Americans progress to requiring expensive lifelong insulin. The science exists, the intervention works, but financial incentives favor sickness over prevention.

Should insulin manufacturers profit from future diabetes patients when prevention exists but is deliberately kept obscure? 💊

Source: University of Debrecen, Hungarian Diabetes Association, Semmelweis University, 2024

11/27/2025

When you’re ready to begin you journey! Visits from $75 for the consultation.

11/27/2025

Which one can go? For Rachel it’s the ham! Jay says green bean casserole. Memaw says Ham and Turkey! JJ says green bean casserole! Our house is divided between veggie heads and carnivores lol

11/27/2025

If the turkey is shooting back, please take video.

11/27/2025

Happy Thanksgiving from our Navigating Family to yours!

May you gobble til you wobble! 🦃