I Tried a Glucose Monitor (CGM) for 1 Year. This Happened
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- čas přidán 13. 07. 2024
- I wore a Continuous Glucose Monitor (CGM) for over a year on & off. In this Levels Health CGM Review, I share my experience of how tracking my glucose with a CGM changed my lifestyle, diet, and nutrition.
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00:00 - 365 Days with CGM
00:17 - What is a Continous Glucose Monitor (CGM)?
00:47 - Unboxing & Setup - Levels CGM
01:41 - Why get a CGM?
03:14 - App Walkthrough - Levels CGM
07:40 - 5 Things I’ve Learned using a CGM
10:13 - Issues with CGMs
5 Things I’ve Learned using a CGM
07:43 - 1. Sleep
08:05 - 2. Stress
08:30 - 3. Order of Eating Macros
09:00 - 4. Meal Composition
09:14 - 6. Walking after Meals
09:38 - 7. Time of Day
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Have you tried lumen the breath thingy ? Would be curious to know how it compares in “actionable” information
My dad is a diabetic and his CGM has helped him really understand his diabetes even after years of having diabetes and being to every nutrition class, he can now see real time how what he eats affects his sugars and body. He has had so many strokes and his doctors have said his sugars are the reason why, if he controls his A1C levels he can control future stroke likelihood.
7:40 Your insights into what affects the glucose spike are spot on. Great job I had the same experience thanks!
Wow. Super entertaining and useful video. Really like the format, and I really appreciate the info.
i'm about to try a CGM and your vids have been super-helpful. thank you!
Quite funny how your videos affect my "things to buy" list. Keep em' comin'!
Quality info🔥 awesome video
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Truuuu
Exactly what I was looking for!
I love your video!! I liked how you demonstrated how to put the patch !! Nice demo!!
Thank you Karla! What do you want to see next?
I think your right sleep is a huge factor for sugar readings for anyone.
Stress is also a huge one too. I appreciated this review.
Really interesting - thank you 😊
Imagine if the Whoop arm band included an integrated CGM. I can't wait to see how the future of wearable health trackers evolves
I would have so loved if the new iwatch had a GCM (as rumored), this would have been such a revolution. I keep my glucose in check by being pretty much a carnivore
i wear this now and just found out my sugar spike up to 389 after eating RICE esprecially during dinner. I love this thing! now I watch what I eat. I am btw pre-diabetic 5-6 years ago but I think I'm now full blown diabetic.
I would say you are. Way, way to high for a non-diabetic. See your medical professional.
i using it for on my child it is good for some reason but sometimes reading not accurate
Will you talk about how certain products made of wheat that are "keto" such as a pancake mix or the better bagel affect your blood glucose?
If you don’t mind me asking, how much do you weigh? I’ve lost a bunch of weight and have a physique I like.
Morning exercise and fiber. Thanks!
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With the dexcom g6! It is continuous. You dont need to scan the cgm. As long as i stay within 45-50 feet kf my phone it scans. I can sit and watch it by the minute.
Dexcom G6 updates every 5 minutes.
Thanks for sharing that my CGM won't get destroyed in a Sauna!
does it hurt to put into your arm
filament or sensor they say... ie needle
Can you go through metal detector with cgm on?
I dont think I've ever seen a non diabetic monitor glucose 247
Hey, did you read this book "How not to die" by Dr Michael Greger?
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Got one based on your video. That said the only problem that I have is the amount of waste this one little tracker contributes.
i know it's not ideal
Waste? What do you mean?
@@mixaleenalovesglitter2543 the packaging and application tool
Just a heads up, your audio cut at 00:49
Shervin is like a real life David Martinez. Except instead of using his implants to kill people he uses it to acheive maximum recovery.
I think its pretty cool but this is quite much waste i mean you can´t recharge those things. Would be cool i you could like wireless charge it or charge it via a supercapacitor
It is not the battery that gets weak but the sensor filament that loses its accuracy. That is why the change.
bro i realy needed to coment again, 1 think your not taking into acount is, fats dont make a smaller spike on blood glucose, actually it makes you process carbs slower cause your body is eating the fats first, and you will probably use more insulin to digest that meal, so insted of looking for sugar spicks you should be worried about insuline amount needed to digest a meal, lots of times high fat meals with some carbs will make your body use more insuline then just carbs. thers a lot of the endocrine system your not considering, body does not process food the way most people think.
Can you explain more about that? Thanks
@@holcos hello, yes i can, cgm are made for type 1 diabetics that need them to control their blood sugar, y
we dont have functional pancreas cause of autohimune desease, so we need a cgm to help us decide wen to inject insuline in our bodies, and that tecnologie is expensive cause our blood sugar goes up and down a lot to dangerous lvls, the cgm he his using its ment for type 1 diabetics cause it can detect sugar lvls on the blood from 40 to 500, i do understand the utility of having access to cgm for sports, and Aboot umderstands that to, so theirs actualy a cgm for people that are not diabetic, and thoes ones can check blood sugar from 60 to 250 in the blood thoes ones are way easyer to build and less expensive cause of its range, what i tried to explain was if you are not a type 1 diabetic you should use the sensor made for sports (range from 60 to 250) and never the type1 diabetic sensor ( range from 40 to 500) the type 1 diabetic sensors are for type 1 diabetics, and thers often a shortage in the market of type 1 diabetic sensors, so people that dont have diabetes should never use the diabetic sensor, they should use the sports sensor so that our sensors that save our lives daily are availiable for us at market.
@@ruicosta8105 thank you !! Very clear.
sorry i answear to the wrong coment, try to think like this, you shouldnt only tink abount blood sugar spike, for instance you can spike as high as 200 just eating rice, but it will go down fast, cause insuline will be able to get that suvar inside your cell fast cause you only eat rice, if you eat rice and some fat, that will be completly diferent, your blood sugar will spike to 130 and you think its healthier, but it might not be the case, if your blood sugar lvls mantain at 125 for hours, because your body is processing fat first then sugar, it means that the amount of hours you spent using insuline is much superior then just rice that got your spike way higher to the 200, but it only stayed there for 15 minites and then came back to 100 for 2h and then finaly to 80, thats healthy, so high spike for short period its ok 130 for 4h its not ok, cause you will be using a lot more insuline for that meal and your digeston will be a lot slower cause of the fat, sugar ia not your enemie you just need to learn how to eat it. lets think like this, you cant mix carbs and fats, if your gona eat fat dont eat carbs and if you gonna eat carbs dont eat fat. i hope it helped. and sorry for the previouse unswear
@@ruicosta8105 but if you saw all food review video around the globe, all best food always combine fat and carbs,
Go.carnivore and forget about spikes of glucose
Ranveer singh ? 0:32
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hello, pls dont buy that verssion of freestyle, thats for type1 diabetics, you dont need that, that as a range from 40 to 500, thoes sensors are actualy not enouf for all type1 diabetics, so pls insted of buying that, consider the version thats made for sports, they have a smaller range like from 40 to 250, thats more then enouf for you and that way you wont actually be using a diabetic life saver. i do enjoy your video, and think that everyone should actualy use 1 but not that version.
Great video - but idk why you're acting like it's painful to apply haha you literally feel nothing when you put it on.
Because I’m a drama queen
@@ShervinShares fair! don't scare folks off though! I was nervous it would hurt too but it's a 0/10 on the pain scale.
I expected to see how different food affected your glucose level, not about sleep and stress😒...
Freestyle Libre shown in this video IS NOT A CGM. This is misinformation. This device is 100% manual and not automatic. Dexcom makes CGMs. The difference between these two devices is significant. With the Freesty;e Libre, you must take action to know your blood glucose level. If you do not take action, neither you or the device will know what your glucose is. If you do not take action manually, you will have no idea what your glucose levels are. This is not a CGM. Dexcom, on the other hand, knows what your glucose levels are at all times without you taking any action. It is continuously reading your glucose levels automatically. This is a huge difference and what makes Dexcom a CGM and Freestyle Libre not one. Please correct the misinformation in this video.
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@@ShervinShares Ignoring Abbott's own incorrect marketing for a moment, will your device automatically alert you if your blood glucose is outside of a range you set without you having to perform any actions whatsoever? Dexcom can and does this. It automatically detects glucose for as long as the sensor is in range and not expired. I have owned both devices, and I know for a fact that the Libre is not a CGM. It's no better than a glucose meter, because it relies on manual intervention for every reading. A CGM is just that -- a device that continuously reads glucose by itself and has the ability to alert you when readings are outside of range. Your own video showed you performing an action to read your glucose reading. That's not automatic.
@@jujubee672 continuous glucose monitor means it’s continuously reading your glucose. How that data gets into your phone is different. Yes one device might have a more convenient process - but both devices are continuously reading your interstitial glucose values and saving it onboard their chip
@@ShervinShares the device is not continuously reading your glucose by any means. Dexcom does this and Libre does not. The device has never supported this technology ever. This device is the equivalent of an old fashioned blood glucose meter without the finger pricks and is less accurate.
If you wiish to prove what I have written is wrong and your video is correct, simply set your Libre app to alert you when glucose is out of range AND have that alert go off without you performing any action whatsoever. That will prove it to me. Low blood sugar is an emergency life or death situation. Any CGM would be able to do this.
Please don't promote CGM usage to non diabetics. It is extremely crummy to make this kind of video especially when many diabetics can't afford these devices to survive, and the fact many many MANY diabetic based supplies that are sometimes shifted to weight loss almost always face supply shortages. It's also not recommended by any medical organization. Please google as to why this is harmful to diabetics.
One can always make the argument for preventative healthcare. Unless you are type one, certain people can still be predisposed to develop diabetes with sudden health changes which impacts blood sugar e.g. cancer, spinal cord injury...etc
I understand your intentions but the issues with production and scaling exists with all early adopters. Test strips, pumps, and Medicaid are still effective alternatives.
It's great to raise awareness of a supply shortage however it's the manufacturer (corporate sponsorships) and government (tax subsides) that you should apply pressure to, not the customers who are naturally part of the technology adoption lifecycle. Fix the supply side issues first.
If normal people were interested in using it wouldn't the demand increase hence the supply and with time the devices would be more affordable to everyone?
@hUgO6191 yes, economies of scale. However in the short term there will be supply shocks. Some people don't understand adoption cycles or can see the long term outcomes because of fear. Then there are those who see themselves as gate keepers of a community that others randomly join but the information/ product must be held in secret to protect the needs and integrity of the group.
I'd be more interested in preventing the increase of type 2 diabetes by raising awareness rather than discouraging the adoption of innovation which will push down costs and lead to better outcomes. It's a win, win, win.
@@charlesnl7 perfectly said
Selfish.