Victoria Song

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.

And so I'm waking up and I'm seeing that overnight on a night where I had not snacked, where I had not done anything that was bad, like eating ice cream in the middle of the night, done none of that.

I was waking up with like lingo scores of 60 because I was spiking so hard in the middle of the night.

And I was just like, what's happening here?

I don't know what this is because I had had a baseline of

of data from 2023 that showed no such behavior like that.

And the way that I was responding to food compared to the year previous was not the same at all.

So I actually have these screenshots of how, you know,

you know, one year eating, taking a walk and then eating a meal differed in terms of what my glucose response to it was.

And you could go insane over that.

Like, why is this data behaving differently?

And there's many reasons why.

As I did research, I was finding out that like, if you sleep on your side, that could impact these readings because it compresses the interstitial fluid.

And most of the time that leads to lower blood pressure

than real readings, sometimes it could be higher.