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Blood sugar monitoring with CGM is extremly expensive and potentially flaky. When you use it to monitor your blood sugar for medical reasons you still need to d

Blood sugar monitoring with CGM is extremly expensive and potentially flaky. When you use it to monitor your blood sugar for medical reasons you still need to do professional controls. Diabetes Type-1 is an autoimmune disease it kills beta cells in the pancreas. They are slowly or quickly killed in the span of weeks or sometimes a couple of years. AFAIK once it has started it is impossible to stop at the moment. With type-2 I have no knowledge of a way to do a diagnosis decades before you get it, considering how different diabetes is between people I am sure you can catch some people. I have a hard time believing that CGM data will be usefull without deep context. I think the suppliers of these peripherals are way to good at sales pitch to be trusted.

esperent 2y ago
> Blood sugar monitoring with CGM is extremly expensive I did check the prices before, it's about $100 a month (although I'm not in the US, maybe it's more there?). But you don't need to do it forever. A couple of weeks is probably enough to learn which foods to avoid. $100 on preventing yourself from getting diabetes later in life is a steal, and for many people seeing the proof that yes, chocolate cake really does spike your blood sugar to dangerous levels, might be the final push to make real lifestyle changes. > potentially flaky Why do you think that? All the ones I've seen are advertised as FDA approved devices. I expect that in another few years smartwatches will be able to mention it and suddenly it won't seem weird at all, everyone with a watch will be doing it.