Dr Norman Swan

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What's That Rash? · Why wear a continuous glucose monitor? · 1 Sep 2026 podcast

The sort of things that you can measure in the body and collect about yourself beyond the level of knowledge that medical research has been able to deliver.

And therefore it's open to interpretation.

and w interpretation that might not lead you in a direction which improves your health and well being.

So this one study from King's College London finds that if you stay within that range, the long term outcomes are good.

Their point would be you just eat this diet that we've designed and you're gonna stay within that range.

You'll be fine.

You don't need to have a continuous glucose monitor.

Adding a glucose monitor may actually make things worse for you if you become obsessed, you spend more time on your phone.

And you change your diet in an unhealthy way.

Well, or or you so one of the popular continuous glucose monitors, which is probably one of the more reliable ones, it's also one of the more expensive ones, uh, lasts for about fifteen days.

So maybe if you're on this diet and you're on your exercise program and so on, you wear it for fifteen days just to check in.

I'm not recommending that, but you y that might be a sensible way to go that you've got a fifteen day period just to check in that

It's behaving the way you would expect for the diet that you have been recommended, but not wear it every day of the week, every day of the year.

That's true.

And there are endocrinologists and other experts who say they know how to look at it if you've got type one diabetes.

They kind of know how to look at it if you've got type two diabetes.

The story's a bit more complicated with blood sugar monitoring and type two diabetes.

But they've got really no idea how to properly interpret this if people don't have diabetes at all.

And the chance of over interpretation and overreaction

will be large and therefore you medicalize somebody or you change things which may not be for the better because you just don't know, you know, what to do.

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