Will the new APPLE WATCH have a BLOOD GLUCOSE MONITOR? - T1D NEWS UPDATE By Jamie Lowe

Will next gen smartwatches, read your blood sugar delaying diabetes through immunotherapy and swapping daily injections for a bag of beta cells. All that and more coming up in your t1d news update hello, everyone. My name is Jamie Lowe and welcome back to my channel and your t1d news update. It's been a good start to 2021 with loads of exciting research and technology developments and speaking of which I'm actually going to be trying out a brand-new CGM system. A low waist CGM right here on my channel, so drop a like and subscribe to make sure you don't miss anything, but without wasting any more time. Let's get into the news, those Apple Watch rumors are on the way, so do stay tuned to the end of the video.

But first today we are a step closer to giving up those daily injections, Nova nor disk, the danish pharma company working with an U. S. startup Procyon technologies are planning to produce an implantable device containing insulin, producing cells grown from stem cells. This new partnership should speed up the development process and help get the project into clinical trials sooner. The pioneering treatment is being worked on by research teams across the world, with JDSF funded research happening at the university of Arizona, essentially by implanting the cells in a protective container.

The treatment would keep them safe from the immune attack that causes type 1 diabetes. So we all know, I assume that our bodies kill off beta cells. That's why we become diabetic, so this um in capsule this little bag that they're going to put in will protect these beta cells from our bodies. However, the science is challenging. It requires expertise in growing insulin, producing cells and in creating the special containers that protect the cells from the immune system.

Nova nor disk has invested in stem cell technology since 2008, while pro scion technologies co-founder Dr clerks papas, who has led research funded by JDSF into encapsulation for almost a decade now. So these two teams, pooling their knowledge, means we'll know quicker whether this is a viable treatment method. However, after speaking to professor Colin Dan, who recently I spoke to for a diabetes UK event, regrowing lost beta cells is another exciting avenue, but more on that in just a moment. So the big question: how has the covert 19 pandemic affected you? For me, my insulin sensitivity is a nightmare. The dawn effect regularly ruins my day and honestly, I feel, like I've fallen out of touch with my healthcare team, but those experiences are going to help our advocates to make things better.

JDSF is asking you to share your experiences of life affected by type 1 diabetes during the covert 19 pandemic, which will help them to improve the support and information that they provide for many people living with type 1 diabetes. The pandemic has added another layer of complexity. It's brought extra challenges when it comes to managing health and well-being, but has also brought welcome opportunities for some other areas, such as greater use of digital appointments. So JDSF are looking for around 300 people who want to share their experiences and fill out a short 20-minute questionnaire and possibly even take part in a 45-minute telephone interview or video call. The survey closes on the 8th of march, so my patrons who are seeing this video on Wednesday you've got a few days to get it to get involved, but everyone's seeing this on Friday, you've got until Monday.

The 8th so get a wriggle on I'll put a card on the screen, and you'll be able to find the link in the description below. If you want to take part next up today, the type 1 diabetes UK immunotherapy consortium was set up in 2015, with major funding from both diabetes, UK and JDSF, to promote, develop and support immunotherapy research in type 1 diabetes. Since then, they have established a network of 24 research sites strategically distributed across the UK to recruit children and adults into clinical trials of new immunotherapy treatments, and I recently hosted an event all about immunotherapy for diabetes UK, a virtual one, obviously with it being still in the midst of a pandemic. So I spoke to professor Colin Dan, who leads the consortium, and he described what's going on in terms of research into immunotherapy treatments and, most importantly, how people can get involved in that research. So I've dropped a few links to current trials that are currently recruiting, that that will all be in the description box below, but essentially what they're doing is using different drugs to attempt to delay a diabetes diagnosis.

Now this could be the difference between a diagnosis at the age of 10. Instead of the age of five and the thinking there is a later, diagnosis would mean that the family and the child is more prepared and will manage the condition better. Plus, the research going on is revealing more and more information to scientists all the time about type 1 diabetes itself, which will help them on the way to finding a cure. It really is an interesting conversation. We talked about why people become diabetics and other treatments, including regrowing lost beta cells.

So if you want to hear the full conversation, it'll be on the diabetes UK YouTube channel next week and a segment will be coming out in my podcast, which I'm set to release in a few weeks time. Okay. Finally, then I'm really excited about this story. If it turns out to be true, I am absolutely going to be buying one on the day of release and I don't care how much it costs. If you listen to the rumors online, then we should be able to expect the next Apple Watch.

The series 7 to include a blood glucose monitor it's what all the mac rumor blogs are saying right now, and I guess it is the logical step. After the Apple Watch Series, six brought a blood oxygen sensor. The last few watches were announced in September of their respective years. So it's a bit of a wait, but we can expect the same in this case, so these rumors, then they center around reports that have surfaced this year. Suggesting an Apple Watch can track blood glucose and that could be on the way to the market very, very soon.

According to Chinese news site et news apple is testing, reliability and stability of the functionality before launch. I think that was an accidental poem there. The ability to offer non-invasive blood glucose monitoring from the wrist would mark a major breakthrough for wearables. It's something that apple has been apparently exploring for some time now and having brought on a team of scientists to look at the potential for such a device. It was also a passion point for the late Steve Jobs during his time at apple, and I think back in 2017 Tim Cook was spotted testing out a form of not a non-invasive, but he was definitely wearing a sensor.

Maybe it's a deacon. I don't really know, but I have previously been approached by companies testing out apps that use light and a smartphone camera to take a blood glucose reading. I'm not really sure what happened to them. So maybe that's going to be how it will work, but we don't really know right now. Do we who knows, but if it happens it will be revolutionary and if Apple is working on it, you can bet Samsung 2 is going to be having a similar feature? The galaxy watch 4 is also rumored to be having the same sort of thing, but no word yet on its next launch and the Samsung watches are typically a little pricier than apple's, but as soon as any new developments happen, you can be sure that I'll be talking about it.

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