The Long Game: Lessons From 58 Years With Type 1 Diabetes

In this episode, we sit down with Dennis Goldensohn who has lived with Type 1 Diabetes for 58 years. From the era of boiling glass syringes and urine tests to today's connected insulin pumps and continuous glucose monitors, Dennis shares how diabetes management evolved from guesswork into a science. We also discuss the importance of mindset, surviving the day to day and how to build habits that became second nature. We talk about the discipline it took to keep showing up, and the advice he'd give anyone newly diagnosed today. Along the way, he reflects on refusing to let the diagnosis define his identity, choosing instead to see it as a circumstance he manages rather than a label he wears. This conversation is packed with practical wisdom on longevity, mindset, and what it really means to thrive — not just survive — with Type 1 Diabetes for nearly six decades.

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