John Chitta

Why this site exists

When I was diagnosed in 1983, the only “resources” were a brochure from the hospital and a library book. My endocrinologist had me on one NPH injection a day. I tested with urine strips. The idea of a continuous glucose monitor was science fiction.

Today there’s a flood of information online — but most of it is either written by people who’ve never lived T1D, watered down into useless “eat healthy, stay active” advice, or optimized for ad revenue over accuracy.

T1D Global is different. Everything here is filtered through a lifetime of actually living with this disease. Every claim I make, I check against primary sources — American Diabetes Association, JDRF, FDA, peer-reviewed literature — before I publish.

What four decades teaches you

A lifetime in, you see things the average diabetes content farm can’t:

• Every major device transition: syringes → pens → MDI → tubed pumps → patch pumps → AID
• Every monitoring era: urine strips → fingersticks → CGM → continuous data streams
• What “eat healthy” actually means when you’re measuring every carb for a lifetime
• Burnout, remission of self-care, and the slow climb back
• How T1D intersects with work, relationships, parenting, and aging
• Which device features are breakthroughs and which are marketing

What I am and am not

I am a patient with decades of lived T1D experience who reads primary research carefully and writes about it clearly.

I am not a doctor, endocrinologist, registered dietitian, or certified diabetes educator. Nothing I write replaces your medical team.

If you want a voice that’s walked this road since 1983 — and who checks every claim against the science before publishing — you’ve found it.

— John Chitta