Dr Norman Swan
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first heard Apr 2006
last heard 15 Sep
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It wasn't the glucose monitor that was doing that, but what the glucose monitor showed was that if the diet that they were on kept them in range, then their long term prospects of developing athroscleric heart disease were lower, their risks were lower.
The participants were blind to the results of the continuous glucose monitoring.
So it was only the researchers that saw it.
So the glucose monitoring did not change their behavior.
But the implication there was if you could keep within that range on your daily life, then the outcomes were good.
So that was the benefit of continuous glucose monitoring is the quality of the data in that study.
It's a separate question.
Which is if you were to wear a continuous glucose monitor and then try to keep within that range, then you would assume that that's a technique for keeping you in a healthy range as you go through life.
But I think what the researchers in this study would suggest is that the diet that they designed for health and blood sugar control would do this without you having to wear a gluc continuous glucose monitor.
It won't surprise you what that diet looked like.
Well, it yes, it's it's another wearable.
It's just a wearable that pierces your skin.
The problem with the behavior that could be induced and this is what makes people worried about continuous glucose monitors.
Is that it's another reason to keep on checking your phone and micromanaging the results to probably little benefit.
And the real worry is that it changes your eating behavior.
Yeah.
So if you are prone to say an eating disorder or maybe even compulsive behavior, and you start to become obsessed with this.
It could change the way you eat and your approach to food in an unhealthy way.
We do, and you're right to identify a moment ago this notion of the measurable body, the fact that we can measure all sorts of things and that people want to know this about themselves and be able to in in a sense self-help, be able to interrogate their GP about where things are going and adjust their lifestyle and behavior accordingly.
And so this is behind the longevity wellness industry and it's only going to grow.
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