This content was created by GHION.AI . This content was uploaded by GHION.AI . This is a Portuguese-language YouTube episode titled "Diabetes gestacional: o que muda na gravidez?" (published 2025-08-25). The recording is an interview/talk about gestational diabetes and its implications during pregnancy. Participants include Isabella Vindlin (host and neuropsychology specialist who describes her own experience with gestational diabetes), Dr. Alexander Borg (physician in occupational medicine who explains diagnosis and management, and mentions glucose monitoring devices), and a co-host referred to as Speaker B/Issa who shares personal perspective. They discuss diagnosing gestational diabetes (glucose tolerance testing around 24–28 weeks), how it differs from preexisting type 1/2 diabetes, the importance of rapid adoption of self-care and blood glucose monitoring, dietary management, and practical concerns for active pregnant women. The episode also contains a sponsor mention (Clear Blue).
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You know, this season of interiorization started out of necessity. As soon as I discovered my second pregnancy, I also discovered that my glucose levels were a little higher than normal for a woman who wasn't pregnant. Okay, but for a pregnant woman, it wasn't great. And then I came across the term gestational diabetes. At that moment, where did I turn to Google. Of course, I started looking for information, but I couldn't find any reliable sources. And from that moment on, I. Hmm. So let's do a special internalized season about everything that involves motherhood and the unexpected events that can happen with the arrival, right? With the news of a pregnancy. So today I have the privilege of bringing here to our studio Isabella Vindlin, a specialist in neuropsychology with a master's degree in neurology. Psychologist. Welcome. Thank you so much for being here. Thank you so much for the invitation.
Issa, right? My girlfriend. She is the mother of Nicholas, two years and seven months old, and she lived with gestational diabetes. You'll soon explain to us, right, how this news came about and how you dealt with diabetes during pregnancy.
And who's here with us? Dr. Alexander Borg. Thank you, doctor. Thank you for the invitation. You and I have been at other carnivals talking about mental health in the workplace. Dr. Alex, you have always taught me so much. Thank you.
Especially about ergonomics in the workplace, how important it is, right, for the maintenance of our health. But more than that, today Dr. Alex is the supervisor of the practical internships in the Occupational Medicine specialization course at the University of so Paulo School of Medicine. He is the director and will soon be president of the Sao Paulo association of Occupational Medicine and a member of the International Commission on Occupational Health. Did I say that right?
Absolutely right. Perfect. Very well. He's married to Aya Alves, Nicholas father too. It's a lie that you have the same name as your children. Look, how incredible, right?
He's Nicholas father. And also Isabella, 7. And Luca.
Exactly. There's college pressure there.
Let's see if he'll pursue a career in medicine.
Hey, and why is Dr. Alex here? Dr. Alex also works in a laboratory that currently supplies glucose meters. Right? And then at that moment, when I was thinking of a piece of news. You're 43 years old, pregnant with seasonal diabetes. What can you do, right? First thing. And then the first thing was to talk to the doctor. I said, like this, doctor, can I really use this meter? I can't. And then I remember you gave me a class on seasonal diabetes, especially for very active women. You know, who are working. I would really like us to start with you explaining then how we can define the condition of a pregnant woman who has seasonal diabetes.
Very cool. Thanks for the invitation again, Isabella. Let's understand what differentiates this gestational diabetes from type 1 or type 2 diabetes, which was diagnosed before pregnancy. Yes. So gestational diabetes, it won't meet the criteria for diabetes and it will be diagnosed during pregnancy, usually in the 24th or 28th week after the June blood glucose test is done. Then it's done in the first trimester, then in the second trimester, the glucose tolerance test is done. It's a test where you administer a sugar syrup. A sugar. And the pregnant woman then has a measurement, both fasting, one hour and two hours, depending on this curve. This pregnant women may discover they have diabetes and because they had diabetes, they didn't know it, or they'll have diabetes that doesn't meet these parameters, which we'll call gestational diabetes, which is a more intermediate parameter. And that's what's important. And then when we talked at that time, it has a lot to do with the fact that the pregnant woman who discovers she has gestational diabetes doesn't have a habit developed throughout her life, like for example, with type 1 diabetes, of nutrition, of care, of measuring blood glucose. And she needs to learn this very quickly from one day to the next. And that's where we talked a lot about this issue of blood glucose monitoring, how important it was to help develop this self care, right? No, not excluding the other important points regarding gestational diabetes, but this was a point we talked a lot about while you were going to help me, right, to learn what's good for me to eat, what this diet was like, which is the point, the main issue, right, of the treatment of gestational diabetes. The issue of nutrition.
Exactly. I remember the obstetrician saying, you can't eat this, you can't eat that, you can't eat that. Then I looked at him and said, so what am I going to eat? What am I going to eat? Exactly. So it's a moment of anxiety, of doubt, of fear, in which you're deprived of doing what you've always done. This cut is interesting, right? I'm sure you'll really enjoy the entire episode. So go to the description of this video, get the link, share it with those you care about, subscribe to our channel and look, your heart is very important to us.
This episode is sponsored by Clear Blue, a pig brand.
