The evidence is convergent. Multiple independent sources reach the same conclusion, the underlying mechanism is well-characterized, and even the field's most cautious voices treat it as worth doing.
I've been measuring mine for the past, you know, three or something years, about three years, and learned a lot from it as well in terms of foods that, you know, have a bigger spike to, postprandial spike to. And other lifestyle factors that affect my fasting blood glucose, particularly sleep and lack of sleep, that was a big one was very, like, eye-opening for me.
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I've worn one for the past...oh, almost three years, and I have learned an immense amount of very interesting information from wearing one, probably one of the most surprising ones early on. I started wearing it when I was a new mother and was the effect of lack of sleep on how the way my body responded to the same foods that I've always eaten in terms of my postprandial glucose response, and it was completely out of control when I was...when my sleep was disrupted, you know.
Just wearing the CGM without even having to do all the app stuff really helped me figure out what foods that I should be eating and portion sizes and all that stuff because it was like...
I had my my CGM and when I was a new mother it was you know clearly my sleep was being disrupted I was getting up and breastfeeding and you know I mean it was it was like night and day difference in My My My fasting blood glucose my glucose disposal my postprandial levels I mean it was like clear
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.