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Continuous Glucose Monitoring

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ViscountPenguin ◴[] No.44419923[source]
Is there any actual data on the long term use of these devices in non-diabetics?

This feels like geek bait, imo. A nice simple metric to obsess over, and to optimise. With a super simple (therefore presumably wrong) biological model to back up it's worth.

It seems to be, that nothing particularly good has come of prior trends in quantified self-health (for regular consumers, pun intended, at least); and this seems to come packaged with a very real risk of orthorexia.

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1. randomcarbloke ◴[] No.44420816[source]
I think it's definitely geek-bait, I wore one for a few months and would say that unless you have diabetes/pre-diabetes it's a waste of time.