Minimizing glucose variability is beneficial, and a continuous glucose monitor (CGM) is the standard tool for measuring it, with lower standard deviation being better.

“you can actually see what your glycemic variability is and if you don't know how insulin sensitive you are a cgm will tell you if you wonder how you respond to foods a cgm will tell you it is such a valuable intervention”

“so absent that a good proxy for having a low level of insulin is going to be a low level of glucose and a low level of glucose variability and the CGM spits out those reports”

“so why is that relevant well the you could have an average glucose of 85 95 whatever with the standard deviation of 10 which is very low variability or you could have the same glucose level with a standard deviation of 30 and those are very different insulin profiles so you want to keep you want you want to keep that balance closer”

“you can see that I can spit out at any point in time a 90 day 30 day 14 day or seven day report and that report gives me average glucose and glucose standard deviation that's the variability”

“so absent that a good proxy for having a low level of insulin is going to be a low level of glucose and a low level of glucose variability and the CGM spits out those reports”

“you want to keep you want you want to keep that balance closer”

“So you can see that I can spit out at any point in time, a 90 day, 30 day, 14 day, or seven day report. And that report gives me average glucose and glucose standard deviation. That's the variability.”

“And that report gives me average glucose and glucose standard deviation. That's the variability.”

“the more you can minimize glucose variability the better and of course glucose variability is very difficult to measure without a cgm using a cgm the standard deviation is the obvious mathematical tool to do that and lower is better”

“the other metrics we look at of course are what's the standard deviation so you know all things equal do you have less variability in your glucose then more”