The Healthy Diabetic
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#325: Is AI the Missing Link in Diabetes Nutrition Management? - Aurelian Briner
In this today's episode, I sit down with Aurelian, CEO and co-founder of SNAQ, a mobile app designed to make meals less guesswork for people living with Type 1 diabetes.
SNAQ was born out of lived experience. Aurelian’s wife was diagnosed with T1D over a decade ago, and like many people with diabetes, she constantly faced the same daily questions:
- How many carbs are in this meal?
- How heavy is this portion?
- How will this food affect my blood sugar later?
From that frustration came the idea behind SNAQ — an app that allows users to take a photo of their food, estimate carbs and macronutrients, and connect meals directly to CGM, insulin, and activity data to uncover real-world patterns.
🔑 Key Takeaways
- Carb counting and portion estimation are major pain points for people with T1D.
- Taking photos of food can provide a practical starting point — not perfection.
- AI works best when paired with human awareness and lived experience.
- Logging some meals can still provide valuable insights — it doesn’t have to be every meal.
- Connecting meals with CGM and insulin data reveals patterns that numbers alone miss.
- Technology should reduce overwhelm, not create it.
- Expectation management is essential with any AI-based health tool.
- The future of diabetes care likely blends AI support with human connection.
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I’m Coach Ken Kniss, founder of Simplifying Life With Diabetes and host of The Healthy Diabetic Podcast. I help people living with T1D cut through the overwhelm, confusion, fear, and distrust in their daily decisions, so they can feel confident and live without consistently worrying about lows, their body image, or long term complications.
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