Dr. Casey Means

And like you said, some of this data, it's like small studies, small groups of people.

But for instance, adding fat and fiber to meals has a significant and repeatable effect.

impact in populations on lowering glucose response, uh, fat probably in some part due to slowing, uh, gastric emptying and actually slowing the digestion process.

So the rise in the bloodstream is going to slow down and then fiber both for that reason, but also because.

Fiber can in a sense, create like a mesh sort of blocking the absorption of some of the glucose that's in the meal.

So literally kind of actually preventing you from absorbing

all of the carbs.

And we've actually seen that in the levels data set that the more fiber people include with their meals, we see essentially a direct relationship with lowering of their glucose excursions, which is really exciting because fiber is something that you can add to meals very easily.

I put basil seeds, chia seeds, hemp seeds, flax seeds on a lot of my food at this point because it's essentially a little bit of fat, a lot of fiber, and

It kind of just helps you kind of get more from your meal.

So what you can learn.

So I think step one, the way I think about a glucose monitor, first of all, I'll say the purpose of the glucose monitor is not to game the system and get flat glucose.

The purpose of the glucose monitor is curiosity.

It's to start to understand how...

essentially an mri for how all of our different dietary and lifestyle strategies are creating this readout of glucose in our body which i think can be really interesting and in a world where so many cards are stacked against us with diet and lifestyle and where there's a lot of confusion about what's right for us that can be like very helpful in actually reducing the confusion and the cognitive load of our choices we know that

keeping your blood sugar through the course of a lifetime in a low and healthy range.

So I don't mean up and down spikes during the day, but keeping your blood sugar healthy throughout the course of your lifetime is probably the best thing we can do for longevity, staying insulin sensitive, staying out of the diabetic range.

And so one thing that the glucose monitor does for us is just give us more awareness and agency into like what the trends of our glucose are

over time, as opposed to a literally one data point snapshot once a year in the doctor's office, which is what the majority of us are used to.

I really love the idea that people who are able to wear glucose monitors every now and again, maybe once a year, maybe more than once a year,