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Continuous Glucose Monitoring

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yegle ◴[] No.44420335[source]
For me the best insight learned from wearing a GCM is that a cardio exercise with 150bpm heart rate for 40min+ is probably not healthy. I would easily see my glucose level drop to below 80 mg/dL (5 mmol/L) 30min into the exercise. I always thought the exhaustion towards the end of my exercise was due to normal fatigue, and never thought it was caused by hypoglycemia.

Now I would exercise and closely monitor my glucose level, then adjust my intensity when it dip lower than 100 mg/dL (5.5 mmol/L). It made the cardio exercise much more bearable, and easier to stick to it as a daily routine.

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1. Youden ◴[] No.44420512[source]
Rather than show that such exercise is unhealthy, I think it simply shows you need to consume some glucose during.

There's a reason aside from taste that sports drinks all contain a helping of glucose. I can't recall if I saw them in the US but in Europe many supermarkets offer products like "Dextro Energy", which is essentially just a sugar tablet advertised to people who need glucose during sports.