The Spanish Paralympic Athlete David Casinos, who has lived for more than forty years with diabetes that caused him blindness, but that he did not prevented him from winning five medals in the Paralympic Games, he said that this disease is his "sweet companion."
This was pointed out in an interview with EFE to World Diabetes Day, a disease that, as he recognizes, has given him many more opportunities than he has removed.
"The best message I could give is to highlight the importance of knowing how diabetes affects you and how it works," said Casinos.
"For this, previously, I have had to have a lotWhen you control it, the opportunities are endless, "he continued.
"Sport is a super important tool to burn glucose, to maintain an optimal state, but if all that information does not know how to handle it, it becomes the opposite: it cuts your wings and can even be problematic," he said.
"I have been in this world for many years and the message that I throw people is that you can enhance diabetes to a limit that they would never have imagined," added Casinos, who considers it necessary to break many taboos.
"For example, many diabetics are surprised and ask me if I take sugar. Of course, sugar is a carbohydrate, which is energy and are life options. I need carbohydrates for my sport, although I must have controlVery scrupulous, "he said.
"Many times it is believed that a banana sugar will hurt you and I know diabetics that in twenty years have not eaten a banana. I think you can eat everyone you want as long as you know the nutritional value it has, how it goesTo upload that sugar in your body and is a process that is not learned overnight, "he continued.
Casinos insisted that diabetes should not be a brake."You have to live with our sweet companion. That's right I have to love her and somehow pampering her because she will be with me a long time. We do not hate her because we know it can be a long trip and if we make a great friendship, it will be better for everyone", said.
A retinopathy made him lose his eyes in just a month when he was 23 years old, but it is something that the Valencian athlete has "more than assumed."
Remember that he was a baby "who debuted with diabetes" and then his parents, his diabetes educators and if doctor taught him to count carbohydrates, to see in the food his nutritional value, his energy and that there are things beyondflavor.
After four decades of coexistence with a diabetes of grade 1, Casinos commented that it has been greatly improved in recent years in absorptions or how the insulins that are injected.
"That absorption has allowed us that today we can eat dishes that we could not before, eat sweeter and control how sugar goes up in your body. Also being able to perform professions that were previously prohibitive such as having a taxi license or being a professional athlete.These insulins also allow us to alleviate complications in diabetes, "he said.
Looking ahead, he believes that research and technological achievements should allow the use of an intelligent insulin bomb."That you eat and do not have to calculate an insulin blow," he said.
"We have smartphones and technology and the lines that have to be followed is that of those intelligent insulin bombs, where you no longer have to think about how much insulin you have to put, but it is something mechanical and technological. I hope it reaches that"He said.
Cases such as yours or other athletes should be, according to Casinos, an example where many other diabetics can be seenTo achieve their challenges and dreams.
"Those parents who have diabetic children who have debuted little and see a series of difficult conditions where everything is very complicated, must take an example of us," he explained.
Finally, he pointed out that the council that would give to those people who discover that they suffer from diabetes or suffer from a relative of his is tranquility.
"This now is not like.
