Continuous Glucose Monitoring #

Continuous glucose monitoring is really cool because it gives a continuous look inside your body. This kind of biomarker is rare, and it feels like there is a lot of info that can be gleaned from this kind of data.

A great article about what CGM might be able to tell us can be found at https://thedietwars.com/peter-attia-cgm/.

An interesting anecdote about GCM learnings can be found at https://medium.com/lifetizr/what-i-learned-from-wearing-a-continuous-glucose-monitor-as-a-non-diabetic-bca4c3a9ce28.

My Usage #

I tried out a Freestyle Libre CGM that I was prescribed by my doctor (surprisingly, it was fully covered by my high-deductible insurance too!).

I was hoping to see clear correlation between my energy/focus levels and my blood glucose, but didn’t really.

I used cronometer to track my food intake, Google Fit to track my activity, and Sleep as Android to track my sleep (shown as a blue shaded background in the plot).

I ingested and visualized my data with my “autojournal” code using this command line: poetry run report_generator --start_date=2021-04-09 --end_date=2021-04-22. This code uses plotly to do its visualization.

The data visualization can be found here!

Categories: Health And Longevity

Backlinks: Tracking Health, What And Why,