I'm a type 1 insulin dependent. The three low tech "hacks" I've been happy with are the following. First I take a sublingual Melatonin most nights, Melatonin up

I'm a type 1 insulin dependent. The three low tech "hacks" I've been happy with are the following. First I take a sublingual Melatonin most nights, Melatonin upregulates the insulin receptors and lowers my insulin requirements about 40% by my guess. The second one is dietary I add olive oil to my lunch and dinner, I feel this provides my body a reserve of non glucose energy. Finally I use a very small dose of cannabis most days, I like to get a puff or two and night, THC protects nerve cells from Hypoxia so I feel this keeps my brain cells going when my blood sugar gets low. I feel these three things, give me a leg up on my long term blood sugar control. I am thankful there are hackers and diy opensource initiatives. The CGM readers here in America Dexcom, and Libre both have crazy bad user interfaces. Libre will only let you pair to a single device, I had their device fail leaving a functional sensor in my arm, a quick idea I searched for opensource libre reader app and found two. One worked and started reading the sensor. Dexcom has the issue of being a 10 day use cycle so you run out on varying days of the week. Both take the FDA mandate to have low blood sugar alarms as a blank check to overide any controls about sound or do not disturb to bother about countdown to a new sensor. I liked that external libre2 reader as it was the only device or official app that can be silenced, but their rigid only pair with one device still angers me, what if my loved one want's to be able to scan my sensor? Low blood sugars are challenging as they affect my brain and I can answer an amazing amount of questions about my blood sugar wrong if I get too low, my brain trying to preserve energy can be dangerous at times. This was an issue more before CGM. Dexcom decides that it is OK to have a completely automatic warning at any hour of the night "your sensor will expire in six hours!!!", that warning has little to do with my care as it is too late to influence refill compliance and seems to have been ordered by the executives to some how improve their pRofItiBiLiTY. I am so much happier on a third party app with the silent reader as an extra. Sorry if this was long winded, being insulin dependent has bee a challenge over 40 years. The first 10 years they hadn't figured out that insulin reactions are much more subtle on human insulin than the older pig and cow derived ones were.