Victoria Song
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And I don't think CGMs are bad.
I don't think non-diabetics necessarily using CGMs is inherently bad.
Like people in my situation where you have a predisposition and something starts feeling not right with you, you want to learn early about what's happening.
I don't think that's necessarily wrong.
I just want us all to be hyper aware of what the cost is.
I paid a pretty high cost throughout this experiment.
I got to live and see firsthand how type one diabetics live because this is life or death for them.
It's not life or death for me, at least not in the short term.
It is very much in the short term for them, a life or death technology.
And, you know, I've gotten a lot of feedback from type one diabetics who are just like,
I hate that they're, you know, marketing this widespread just because in the same way that GLPs have been marketed widespread, it makes life harder for us.
And I think that's a valuable conversation to have, even as other people are saying, well, you know what, GLPs for addicts, for people who have PCOS like me, for people who have metabolic dysfunction like me, for people who have high cholesterol and all of these things, it also dramatically improves their lives.
So there is so many conversations right now that are happening.
And in my ideal world, I would say that there would be medical consensus.
Maybe people, depending on the blood work that their doctor sees, says, hey, we're up for your physical this year.
I can get a really good sense about your A1C from this, but how about once a quarter we have you wear it for two weeks and just see where you're at with certain things, if things are changing.
think that there's inherently anything wrong with that.
It's the idea of using this every day for everyone, always reviewing the data that I find like maybe is a bit