David Pearce

The Verge's senior reviewer, V-Song, is here.

Hi, Vee.

Hi.

We have some science to do today.

So much science.

Some gadgets and some feelings, as we all want to do here on the Vertcast.

But let's start from the very beginning here.

What is a CGM?

Okay.

And my sense is until very recently, the answer to the question, what is a CGM was something you either knew for medical reasons or had no idea about and had never thought about and was not relevant to your life at all.

And it seems like this product, this category has taken on a much broader relevance, like really, really recently.

What is happening here?

Why have CGM suddenly sort of mainstreamed in a new way?

So it seems to me that there are sort of two twin things happening here, right?

And if I'm doing the timeline correctly, we have 2024, the Biden administration, the FDA clears this thing, like you said, for over-the-counter use.

My assumption is not assuming this would become a wellness influencer phenomenon.

But here we are.

And then on the flip side, you have the Trump administration, which appears to have embraced these things and sort of tried to even further extend the things that they can be for.

Right.

What what is the government doing here?