💬 Friday discussion: wantable wearables

I have a new favourite wearable: the CGM, or continuous glucose monitor.

The chart above shows my body fat percentage from May last year to yesterday morning. The precipitous decline that starts at the end of April was when I started to wear a continuous glucose monitor (CGM) provided to me by EV reader Dan Zavorotny, one of the founders of Nutrisense. (The CGM was the Abbott Libre Freestyle 2, also available from Amazon and used by several other EV members. I’ve picked up several since.)

A CGM gives a reading of a crucial biomarker, the amount of glucose in our bloodstream. (CGM's actually measure interstitial fluid rather than blood glucose directly, so some maths translates one to another.) Glucose levels are super important because glucose is regulated by insulin, amongst other things, and our insulin response has enormous implications on our health. (#notadoctor).

The CGM is helping me understand my insulin response and improve both my training and eating. The result has been traini…