Using a continuous glucose monitor (CGM) can help individuals understand how food affects their blood glucose levels and inform dietary choices and meal timing.

“I learned what kind of foods work for me which don't”

“More of the fun stuff is like actually just figuring out like how is food affecting your body and this is where people really enjoy it and like figure out like oh my God this food that I thought was healthy is actually not you know serving me and actually a lot of people I think who are trying to make healthy choices my boyfriend like he when we started dating he started using levels his healthy snack he worked in Venice would be to go to Moon Juice and get oh gosh i”

“Levels has proven to be incredibly informative for helping me determine what food choices I should make and when best to eat relative to things like exercise, sleep, and work.”

“Nowadays, there are a number of commercially available continuous glucose monitors. I've tried one of these. It involves putting uh what's essentially a patch with a little needle that goes into your skin which is continuing continually, excuse me, monitoring your blood glucose and you can look at it at an app on your phone and you can learn a lot that way about how different foods impact the increases and decrease in blood glucose.”

“Monitoring your blood glucose allows you to see how different foods impact you.”

“by the end of that 90 days that's going to flip again... you're gonna be like you know what i sort of figured out the effect of grapes um and the difference between like you know a grapefruit and a banana like i've i've kind of got that dialed and i've also figured out that you know i can eat a ton of carbs after i work out but if i eat a ton of carbs before bed totally different effect on my blood glucose and then over the overnight and in the morning”

“but the shift is you start to gamify it a little bit um so yeah again i i guess that's sort of what i would say on on my framework for how to think about these things”