Dynamic glucose responses to simple carbohydrate intake observed with CGMs are more informative than fasting glucose levels for identifying metabolic issues.

“there's really clear visual patterns of metabolic dysfunction on a continuous glucose monitor it's a much broader peak it looks like a tombstone or has multiple peaks and the area under the curve is much broader right so the area from the base like an in an integral”

“imagine kind of a flat line and then a little spike and the spike comes back down to normal within an hour so when you're looking at a continuous glucose monitor what you want to look at is the area under the curve because it's a reflection of how much insulin load there is needed to move that sugar out of your blood”

“i generally do now i have a long history of ketogenic diet and a long history of intermittent fasting and prolonged fasting where i probably have a degree of peripheral insulin resistance that i'm not tripping out about right and i i just don't get the concern my fasting glucose is around 100”

“Crucially, one's unique metabolic health (especially insulin sensitivity) predicted their blood sugar response.”

“So, with the use of the CGM, fasting glucose isn't going to be the best indicator. It's going to be the dynamic glucose. So, if you've eaten a carbohydrate heavy meal or or a simple carbohydrate, I shouldn't call it a big meal, but a simple”