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Iris’ particular type of high-maintenance, dog-owning white woman is a familiar sight, and not just because I meet them and their pets on the grocery store frontlines every week.

Everyone knows California is disaster-prone, but there’s a familiar logic to the calamitous geography in this high-maintenance beauty of a state.

Without a reliable way to self-regulate blood glucose levels, patients are forced to live with a high-maintenance regimen of glucose monitoring and insulin management to maintain health and avoid dangerous complications like neuropathy, amputation and blindness.

Answering these questions and confirming the validity of the approach in humans may soon transform T1D from a chronic, high-maintenance disease with many complications to one that can be managed much more easily.

"People see me in photographs surrounded by pretty models and think that I am a snobbish, high-maintenance designer who is about beauty and hedonism. When they meet me, they realise how fake that perception is," he told Vasudev.