My Pre-diabetic Life
Some AI, some planning, some advice and some luck. POWERED BY AROGYA WORLD + One of the Best Things I've Ever Read/Watched
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WE’RE LAUNCHING A NEW PROJECT that could help you or someone you love navigate the world of diabetes. Over the coming months, “My Pre-diabetic Life” will dive into my experience with pre-diabetes and how I am learning to live with it.
I am working on this in partnership with Arogya World, a global health nonprofit working to prevent non-communicable diseases (NCDs)—diabetes, heart disease, cancer and chronic lung diseases—through health education and lifestyle change. They have reached 30 million people and are just getting started. I will be emceeing this year’s Arogya World gala in Silicon Valley, with celebrity chefs and more on Saturday, May 30 (seats still available) Earlier that day, I will be attending and learning at Arogya World’s Scientific Symposium: The Next Frontier in Diabetes Care. In the course of the weeks and months ahead, you will hear from experts, including Arogya World’s dynamic founder, Nalini Saligram. “Arogya” in Sanskrit means to live a life without disease.
The idea is to use this space as a sort of living journal. I will detail how I use a combination of AI, planning, advice, and a little bit of luck to try to reverse one of the only reversible diagnoses a middle-aged man can get.
My pre-pre-diabetes journey began two years ago. I was visiting my dad in Thiruvananthapuram, the capital of Kerala state, and we were going to sit down to a breakfast common to any upper middle-class Kerala home: dosa, sambar, coconut chutney, fruits and more.
That's when I saw my then-80-year-old dad jab himself in the stomach with his pre-meal treatment. A man who skipped dessert for 75 years was diabetic. That means watching everything you eat, testing yourself regularly, and, yes, those jabs three times a day (and finding ways to keep the insulin refrigerated during travels).
I realized then that diabetes was in my future, and not just because I have a mighty sweet tooth and haven’t skipped dessert my entire life. It’s also because we are Keralites, and a combination of genetics, bad eating, and lack of exercise has resulted in the state having rates of diabetes that are among the highest in India—the national average in India is 11.4%. In Kerala, it’s 23.9%.
I’m trying to use data to track everything, so here’s where things stand now:
In the next issue, I will show you how AI changed my life. My pre-diabetic life.
Thank you for being on this journey with me. I want to hear your tips, ideas and stories. Let’s do this together!
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One of the Best Things I’ve Ever Read/Watched #4
We’re aiming to create the best reading/viewing/listening list possible. It’s quite simple—we are crowdsourcing the writing that has stuck with you, that one piece you read last month, last year, or 20 years ago, that has stuck in your brain. This week, it’s an excellent addition from Cristina DiGiacomo.
Title: “Companion” (2025)
Starring: Sophie Thatcher and Jack Quaid
Directed by: Drew Hancock
From Cristina:
It has been long understood among horror fans that the genre is a stand-in for our real-life fears. Horror has explored our fears of losing supremacy to AI technology since the 70’s. But none of them are more fun, more colorful, more insightful than the film “Companion”.
A horror comedy that explores issues of feminism in robotics, AI companion relationships, and what happens when our greedy natures bump up against unforeseen circumstances. It’s stellar cast treats the issues with a wink and never let the film become.
Cristina DiGiacomo is an AI Philosopher, Founder & CEO of 10P1, and creator of the 10+1 Code™. Watch our discussion on AI here.
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This is awesome! Having done a pre-diabetic 👉🏽 gestational diabetes (twice) 👉🏽 full on Type 2 👉🏽 reaching a normal A1C journey myself, I love that you are getting ahead of it.