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I personally wouldn't mind having the data if a need comes up, but this is simply overtracking for no particular purpose. Basically, our bodies go through much
by necovek 3y ago
I personally wouldn't mind having the data if a need comes up, but this is simply overtracking for no particular purpose.
Basically, our bodies go through much "turmoil" over the course of any day, and watching over one too many parameters is like getting hooked to TV or a video game.
Generally, medical science can mostly tell you what averages or most common patterns are, so if you do not line up with them and don't understand this, you can get overstressed.
So unless you are really someone who can objectively consider your readings combined with effects you might be seeing, I'd say don't do it.
- necovek 3y agoAnd reading further, there is evidence of people getting worked up about what are not problematic readings in this very thread.
- lynx23 3y agoWatching a heartrate monitor sometimes has the reserve-progress-bar effect. You know the deal. You realize the pump is on a hightened frequency, so you see what your smart watch says. And the more you watch it, the more anxious you get, so the rate stays more or less high.
- bookofjoe 3y agoaka "white coat hypertension": https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/high-blood-pressure/expert-answers/white-coat-hypertension/faq-20057792#:~:text=You%20could%20have%20white%20coat,pressure%20sometimes%20wear%20white%20coats https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/high-blood-pr....
- TylerE 3y agoMore importantly for life style monitoring A1C is the more important number anyway, and doesn’t require wearing anything, just a simple blood test. It’s basically a 3 month moving average.
- RHSeeger 3y agoAt least for a diabetic, A1C is less looked at nowadays. With CGMs, we can lookt to see our time-in-range, highs, lows, and patterns. It's... amazing. Plus, you can see just how much different types of foods directly impact your blood sugar. For example, white rice and pizza are crazy for raising glucose levels. I knew about pizza, but I had no idea that white rice what quite _that_ bad.
- idontpost 3y ago[dead]
- salad-tycoon 3y agoDoesn’t have to be white. Rice is how I helped screen my wife for gestational diabetes instead of that awful nukacola sugar slam they make pregnant women do and then check sugars at predetermined times when challenged with 50g rice or 50g sugar. Anyways, yeah rice is basically the insulin dietary equivalent of sugar.
- whatshisface 3y agoGetting hooked on smooth blood sugar changes sounds like a possible counterweight to what our brains are designed to get hooked on... Oreos.
- ecoquant 3y agoYou also can't underestimate the possible behavior changes of seeing a massive blood sugar spike from oreos, causing less oreos to be consumed. To believe measuring something doesn't change behavior is just wrong. We know this.