Blood Sugar Rising
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Description
Blood Sugar Rising by David Alvarado looks at diabetes not as a single disease story but as a layered public-health crisis shaped by medicine, race, access, cost, food environments, and daily survival. Moving between personal portraits and the larger history of the illness in the United States, it keeps returning to the gap between scientific progress and what many patients can actually reach. The documentary accords equal weight to type 1 and type 2 realities, which makes its scope wider than a standard prevention-focused health film.
Director / Filmmaker
David Alvarado
About the Director / Filmmaker
David Alvarado, director, screenwriter, and producer, is a Chicano documentary filmmaker whose work moves through science, technology, health, and human rights. A Stanford University MFA graduate, he co-founded Structure Films with Jason Sussberg and has built a nonfiction body of work that includes The Immortalists, Bill Nye: Science Guy, Blood Sugar Rising, and We Are As Gods, combining rigorous subjects with accessible storytelling for broad audiences.
David Alvarado, director, screenwriter, and producer, is a Chicano documentary filmmaker whose work moves through science, technology, health, and human rights. A Stanford University MFA graduate, he co-founded Structure Films with Jason Sussberg and has built a nonfiction body of work that includes The Immortalists, Bill Nye: Science Guy, Blood Sugar Rising, and We Are As Gods, combining rigorous subjects with accessible storytelling for broad audiences.
Topic
Chronic Illnesses, Metabolic Health, Nutrition
Who It’s Best For
Ideal for viewers trying to connect diabetes and prediabetes to the larger structures around food, care, cost, and unequal outcomes. It also suits those who want the blood sugar conversation widened beyond individual habits and glucose numbers.
Production Company / Studio
Structure Films, WGBH Studio Six
Approach
Portrait-driven storytelling links individual diabetes experiences to a broader account of the disease’s history, biology, and inequities. Its stance is institutionally framed rather than polemical, yet it still pushes the issue beyond personal responsibility alone.
Duration
114 Minutes
Year
2020
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