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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. aw1621107 ◴[] No.44427220[source]
As sibling comments stated, that's why you see recommendations to eat during longer exercise sessions. A common recommendation I've seen is that for an hour or less of activity your internal stores should suffice, but for more than an hour 30-90 grams of (probably easy-to-digest) carbs per hour of exercise is recommended.