📊 Watching Your Blood Sugar in Real Time
A continuous glucose monitor is a small device that sticks to your arm and tracks your blood sugar every 5 minutes through an app on your phone.
What the data shows:
- Fiber-rich meals with fermented foods keep glucose levels flat
- Ramen at midnight can spike blood sugar to nearly 200
- Pancakes alone cause extreme spikes
The pancake experiment: Eating a small cucumber and Greek yogurt before pancakes reduced the blood sugar spike dramatically.
About the device:
- Available on Amazon for around $99
- Easy to self-install with a tiny, painless needle
- Waterproof and lasts 15 days
- Covered by FSA and HSA health accounts in the US
Blood sugar is a great mirror for understanding how your eating habits are really working.
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