Continuous glucose monitors (CGMs) are similar everywhere, and their popularity has transcended the diabetic community. As the name suggests, these wearable tools continuously monitor blood glucose levels.
But is the hype justified? Should they be accessible to everyone? And, the question most people actually want answered: if you stick one on for two weeks, what do you do with the numbers?
As Continuous Glucose Monitoring becomes more and more commonplace, it’s time to look at how effective they are as a health tool, and how to turn two weeks of squiggly lines into changes that actually move your blood sugar and insulin resistance in the right direction.
As a Registered Nutritional Therapist, I sit with people every week who arrive with a CGM app full of data and no idea what to do with it. If that’s you, you can book a free 20-minute call and we’ll talk through whether a CGM is the right next step, or whether a simpler test would tell you more.
How might real-time insights into our blood sugars help us optimise overall health?
Research suggests real-time data can profoundly drive behavioural change. We see this in clinic every week: people who’ve read about glucose spikes for years finally feel the difference between a slice of toast and a proper breakfast when their own phone tells them. The CGM doesn’t change the biology, it changes the conversation you have with yourself at the breakfast table.
But a CGM isn’t the right tool for everyone, and it isn’t the only tool.
For many people, a fasting insulin test or an HbA1c will tell you more about your underlying metabolic flexibility than a fortnight of glucose squiggles. You’ll also learn who might benefit from using a Continuous Glucose Monitor and whether there’s an argument for CGM use within the general population.
To help you make informed healthcare choices, we’ve explored the different types of data CGMs can provide and offered expert recommendations about how to use that data.
The honest truth is most people don’t need more data; they need someone to read the data they already have.
If you’ve already worn a CGM and the squiggles felt like a foreign language, That Blood Sugar Fix is the structured service we built for exactly that moment: real food, real plan, no guesswork.
And if you’re earlier in the journey and just want to know whether you’re on the road to pre-diabetes, that’s a different (and quicker) conversation.
This article for Healf dives deeper into the science and answers some frequently asked questions, including the ones we get most often in clinic about pre-meal spikes, exercise responses and overnight drift.
And if you want proof this approach moves the dial: Lou came off his medication after dropping 44 kg by working on the blood sugar engine underneath, not by chasing CGM peaks.
The CGM was useful; the framework around it was what made the change stick.
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