Peter Attia· MD
but we're trying to figure out if you can actually you know make them live longer through better glycemic control
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The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
but we're trying to figure out if you can actually you know make them live longer through better glycemic control
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Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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and therefore by proxy the lower your average blood glucose on CGM the lower your all-cause mortality because it is abundantly clear that the lower your hemoglobin A1c even outside of the diabetic range the lower your all-cause mortality
Post-meal glucose spikes in non-diabetics drive long-term cardiometabolic disease independently of HbA1c.
Wearing a continuous glucose monitor leads to personalized dietary improvements that hold up beyond 12 weeks.
Continuous glucose monitors meaningfully change behavior in non-diabetic adults beyond the first month.
CGM use in metabolically healthy adults induces orthorexic-style dietary anxiety without health benefit.