Dr. Casey Means

So I think we'll have to like polka dot ourselves if we're tracking all those things.

Um, and then.

Dexcom, which is the other main company that makes CGMs, has just announced they're coming out with an over-the-counter, non-prescription version of a CGM called the Stello later this year.

So there's exciting things happening in the industry.

And I really do think continuous monitoring, it's going to expand to a lot of these other things that you're talking about, hormones, et cetera.

And I mean, it really needs to.

I think that...

And snapshots of dynamic system are just never going to really be able to give us a full picture on what's going on.

And what we really want to be able to do to dig our way out of this health care crisis, I think, is empowerment individually and understanding how this rapidly changing environment is affecting our own biology so we can make the targeted choices to hopefully change the environment to be more conducive to cellular health.

And continuous monitoring is a closed loop biofeedback that can help us with that.

decision making and essentially predict failure of the system rather than wait for failure of the system before we do something about it.

So yeah, I think lots coming down the pipeline.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So I think that mindset and more broadly than mindset, I think psychology and our relationship specifically with fear and control, I think they're probably the most under-recognized thing

that is impacting the metabolic health crisis the chronic disease epidemic there has been data that's looked into this we know that there's studies showing that loneliness impacts mitochondrial function and that loneliness is a risk factor and stress is a risk factor in these things and something really fascinating actually with the cgm data is that many people who wear a cgm i don't know if you saw this but when you feel stressed

it actually has a diabetogenic effect.

It literally causes our blood sugar to go up when we feel stress.

And that can be a fascinating unlock for people to realize, I kind of feel like I'm okay right now, but my body is telling me something.

different.