Calley Means
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first heard Oct 2024
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People are very smart, very informed. They know they're going to work to keep their blood sugar down because they know that in the research that shows that it will help. Right. So they go to the grocery store now with this app, with something that they can actually look up every food they're buying and see exactly across tens of thousands of people what it's doing to people's blood sugar.
So you go into the non-dairy milk aisle and you've got 15 different options. You've got oat milk. You've got almond milk. You've got cashew milk, blah, blah, blah. And it's like... what the heck are you supposed to get? And you think you're making a good choice because you're buying an unsweetened non-dairy milk.
But the reality is from our data set that there are some of those that give you a monumental spike, even if they're unsweetened. oat milk, you know, and then there's others that actually have virtually no glucose response. So that person now can take their health into their own hand, make a consumer decision, not based on marketing that's going to serve their goals.
And I am so excited for that world because people are going to start, I think, demanding from food companies to actually create products that are not creating a huge amount of glycemic variability or these ups and down spikes. And you can't hide from that data. And so I'm really thrilled of what that's going to do.
So circling back to your main question of kind of like some of the themes that we've seen. Yeah, what do we see? I think one of the first things that's really interesting is our demographics, actually. So aside from glucose data, actually 52% of our beta members are women. And this is so different than what you hear in the mainstream media.
There's a New York Times article about levels that talks about how this is for the worried well and the biohacker guys and the longevity crazy. And it's like, that is not the reality. The reality is this is mostly women in their ages of 30 to 40. So very similar to the demographic I was talking about with people who are at high risk for things like PCOS.
And their primary reason for wanting to use a CGM, what they report to us is weight loss, followed by finding their optimal diet. Of men, in the 48% who are men, their number one goal is optimal diet as well. So people are clearly interested in finding what actually works for them. Okay.
If you go back to what you're talking about with COVID, the CDC just announced yesterday, finally admitted that 75% of the people dying of COVID have four or more of these largely preventable cardiometabolic comorbidities. People know, they know now, and now it's finally coming out in the mainstream media that we've got to get the blood sugar under control.
So that's one thing we're seeing is really interesting demographics. This is not the worried well, this is not the, you know, Like for the celebrity rich and famous, this is for people who want to just figure out their diet and lose weight, which is great.
The second thing we've seen a lot of is that foods that are commonly touted as healthy or that we perceive to be healthy may actually be generating shockingly high glucose spikes. And I think we particularly see this around breakfast.
Like what?
Like breakfast foods, we certainly see snacks, common snacks, drinks, common takeout foods. And we can certainly dive into like the details on those. But it's amazing how some of these things that we just think are totally normal to just eat on a Friday night or whatever, they're actually or grab for breakfast or serve in school lunches at schools are actually causing these
huge, huge, uh, glucose spikes. Um, and then I think another thing that's been really interesting is, is showing people, um, combinations and alternatives of, of, of, of foods that they can do that will do better.
So for instance, combinations, we see a lot of people log something like an apple and then they'll log an apple with like peanut butter and yogurt and that peanut butter and yogurt is adding of course, fat and protein. Sometimes they'll put some chia seeds on that. That's some fiber.
And we've definitely seen that when carbohydrates, sort of naked carbohydrates like a fruit, are paired with fat, protein, and fiber, people do better. In terms of alternatives, we've seen some really interesting things. We just published an article on Chipotle. We see people logging all sorts of things at Chipotle. Some of them... disaster for glucose.
Some of them virtually no glucose response, like an average of seven milligrams per deciliter, very low. So that the really, you know, minimal glucose spiking things is the keto bowl. This is a salad that has protein, you know, fajita veggies, guacamole, salsa, virtually no glucose spike, tons of nutrients.
Burritos, on the other hand, with that gigantic tortilla, send people on average through the roof. So people start learning, if I'm going to go to McDonald's, if I'm going to go to Chipotle, if I'm going to go to Sweetgreen, what should I order that's going to give me the best, you know, bang for my buck in terms of blood sugar?
And then I think the last thing I would- And everybody's different, right?
That's definitely true. So these are more the population-based sort of things that we're seeing that can kind of give you, I think, a general gestalt of where you should start. And then, of course, it's about actually trying it for yourself and seeing what actually works. um, works for you.
There may be that person out there that doesn't spike to a huge flour tortilla, but for most people, um, you know, knowing that getting the keto bowl is going to have totally stable blood sugar on average for the population, they can at least go in there and get that and see what it does, uh, to them. So it kind of, I think nudges people, uh, in the right direction.
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