Victoria Song

Fine.

I have all these wearable devices.

Let's try this.

And, you know, part of me was just like, I'm going to do everything right.

And when the data proves that there's still something wrong with me, we'll have a discussion.

Like, you know, I got a little crazed there because I felt so invalidated by that.

So it was a lot of time reviewing data, but it's like you wake up, you pull out the apps.

There were times where I would only test one CGM at a time and times where I would have two, one in each arm.

And so when I had two, one in each arm, it's pulling out an app and then looking at two different apps and trying to understand why the numbers were different.

And then also, you know, going, okay, I can have a controlled experiment where I'm going to go on a run and see how that spikes it in one glucose monitor versus the other.

So I'm pulling up three to four different apps, looking at my heart rate data, looking at my blood glucose data.

And then also because nutrition is such a huge part of it, it involves creating a bunch of mini experiments with what you're eating, what time of day you're eating.

So if I eat the same carb heavy meal in the morning, in the middle of the day and at night, how does that impact my glucose?

If I cut off eating at a certain period of time, how does that impact my glucose?

If I go for a walk after I eat a protein heavy meal versus a carb heavy meal, how does that impact the difference?

Without even trying hard at all.

And then some of these apps themselves, like I will say that, you know, Dexcom, Stello and Abbot Lingo, I talked with all the teams behind these and, you know, wanted insight into how they developed certain features like the Stello will alert you to spikes.

not in the moment after a certain period of time as to not spike your anxiety too much, whereas the lingo will create a score.

So if there is a spike that's activity related, you won't get a score.

But if you spike it and it's food related, you're going to get a number of some sort.