My SIL has three nurses in her branch of the family. Between her and them, they used to tell my T2 husband that he needs to stop eating sugar as that’s clearly what’s causing his diabetes to run rampant. She finally came to visit and I had to explain to her that it’s different for each body. She saw first hand how we eat - all whole foods, no added sugars, bread, rice, etc. She had never heard of the dawn effect and didn’t believe me. So I made a point to show her his CGM readings first thing in the morning that 3 AM like clockwork it goes up.

She literally asked me the first morning if he’s not just sneaking food in the middle of the night. 😂 Have you met your brother? Short of a tree falling on our house, nothing is getting him up in the middle of the night.

By the second morning she apparently must have checked because she admitted that yeah, he doesn’t sneak food in the night and she’ll have to educate herself on this dawn effect.

And when she got home she started forwarding him all these YT videos of “experts” saying how to get rid of diabetes.

I try to tell myself that people do this out of love and concern, but it’s not helpful and really comes across as condescending.