Continuous glucose monitors are amazing. They should no normalized for all, regardless of diabetes or diabetes risk. Like a cheap superpower sixth sense.

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Unlike chemical interventions (the mounjaro/ozempic era) I kinda trust the wysiwyg nature here… it’s just a sensor+psychology. A mindfulness prosthetic for health.

Thinking I’m going to do 14 days every month on it. 

Thing is, it gives you an outer feedback loop for conscious discipline while your unconscious inner loop entrains on new eating/activity patterns.

In 50y 2023 may be remembered as more consequential for mainstreaming of smart health protocols than AI.

I’ve abandoned the midwit excel spreadsheet of food/activity tracking I was going to do and simply deep-learn the classifier here.

I’m using the freestyle libre 3 (insurance doesn’t cover for prediabetes but doctor gave me an Rx so I could just buy out of pocket at pharmacy instead of sketchy online place). Unlike the older one you had to scan, which I tried 2y ago, this is Bluetooth continuous logging.

I'd like to try a CGM, too. I generally avoid pharmaceuticals, but I've been on Metformin for about a month and I think it's been good for me. It's recommended by Dr Bikman to increase insulin sensitivity. Preliminary studies are saying it's an anti-aging drug that also lowers the risk of cancer, dementia, and stroke.