Continuous glucose monitors can deter unhealthy food choices by making negative physiological consequences visible.

“When I did this, it taught me several things. First of all, it taught me that certain foods really spike my blood glucose levels. And while spikes in blood glucose aren't always a bad thing, I was able to assess how certain foods were spiking my blood glucose too much, such that I would have post-eating dips in energy levels.”

“one of the best things we can do I I believe from my personal experience from Members experience and with some data to support this is that one of the adjuncts we can use to monitor our to manage our Cravings is actually to like lower the the the extent of our spikes so that we crash less”

“one of the adjuncts we can use to monitor our to manage our Cravings is actually to like lower the the the extent of our spikes so that we crash less and so that was a fascinating study looking at CGM data that's interesting so the cgms can reveal things not just in the immediate meal period but can relate to sort of Downstream uh consequences yeah”

“Levels provides glucose monitors that you stick them on your arm and they measure the glucose levels and I've used one of them. And what I found was that there were certain foods that spike my sugar really high and then I get the crash. And it's very clear that when I'm feeling jittery and hungry, I am in that hypoglycemic state that comes after a big meal or even a piece of toast for me or a bagel.”

“a continuous glucose monitor will change the way you eat if you see your post-cranial glucose spiking or you see postprandial patterns of glucose that are not healthy”

“and maybe if I didn't have that CGM I would have mainline that whole box of granola”

“these devices here these continuous glucose monitors they they are a remarkable tool for both insight because it you know when you first put them on you're sort of learning oh my god like i didn't realize eating that thing would have this response in my glucose but once you sort of saturate the insight part of that equation which you know can be three months six months depending on the complexity of your your life it becomes forever a behavioral tool you sort of you know you don't want to eat a certain thing if it's going to raise your glucose because you've at least bought into the thesis that you don't want to have your glucose skyrocket the way it does when you eat m m's”

“But it turns out that it's different for different people. So different foods by different people. And these continuous glucose monitors, which is one of the things we are using in our study is a great way to measure those.”

“They're also phenomenal because as I say people spiked to different foods. So you get to see what foods you will spike to and then you can actually personalize your habits.”