Are continuous glucose monitors a waste of time for people without diabetes? - Peter Attia
Some experts suggest CGMs are useless for nondiabetics. I disagree.
I like to see my patients with a mean glucose below 100 mg/dL, a glucose variability below 15 mg/dL, and, as noted above, no excursions of glucose above 140 mg/dL. After about a four-week intervention that included exercise changes and nutritional modifications his average glucose fell to 84 mg/dL, his glucose variability to 13 mg/dL, and he had zero events exceeding 140 mg/dL. If he can maintain this way of living in the long-run, it’s likely to translate into an improvement in healthspan and reduce his risk of glucose impairment.
I am a paid advisor to Dexcom; a company that develops, manufactures, and distributes CGMs.
January 12, 2022 at 10:28:09 AM EST
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