The Levels monitor allowed me to see how different foods change my blood sugar level or my blood glucose level.
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The Levels monitor allowed me to see how different foods change my blood sugar level or my blood glucose level.
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Levels is a program that lets you see how different foods and behaviors affect your health by giving you real-time feedback using a continuous glucose monitor.
using a continuous glucose monitor one of the most important factors impacting your immediate and long-term health is the way that your body manages its blood glucose or sometimes referred to as blood sugar levels
what ended up changing things for them was they got a continuous glucose monitor and it was just immediate feedback of any time they ate this is what it's doing to my blood sugar and now they're low carb because of that because they saw the results and they are getting better
So you can get that encouragement in real time that actually makes behavior change stick.
I've got my CGM on. I can just take my phone and put it on the um on the arm and get my blood sugar readings for breakfast.
i am so excited about cgms these days you guys know that i wore a continuous glucose monitor i did a whole podcast about this i think it is the single best tool for changing behavior
when you have real-time data and you see when your blood glucose is doing in response to a meal they will be much more likely to change behavior which is such a powerful tool
this is how we change behavior real-time data as you guys know I did a podcast with the folks from nutria since I wore a CGM for a month I shared all my data
So, the more tools we have to help increase that behavior change and that sustainability, I think is the ultimate win. Because we're talking about long-term lifestyle. We're not talking about fad diets, we're not talking about quick fixes. We're not talking about something you just do for a week and then it's a detox. We're talking about something you can stick to. And that's what we're seeing with the CGM.
So it's helpful for people to have that peace of mind see the data and figure out where it can fit back in.
so you can put this glucose monitor on your arm it has this little plastic stylet that goes into the interstitial space and you can check with your phone it'll take a blood sugar measurement every five minutes so you can see your blood sugar in real time throughout the day so i could see what was happening with my blood sugar when i introduced carbohydrates
I think see GM has the potential to change the way people eat more than any other technology I have ever laid eyes on
I think patients find it valuable on two fronts the first is the insights are really impressive you just can't believe how much certain things can affect your glucose levels even the most benign thing like a handful of raisins or a particularly large Fuji apple or something like that and then conversely how eating the exact same amount of glucose with something else can delay that transit and slow it down and then of course how what you eat and proximity to exercise versus time of day versus how well you slept the night before
Dr. Snyder discusses how tracking blood sugar levels with continuous glucose monitors may help people make crucial dietary modifications.
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.