If you don’t just want to have your blood sugar tested every three years, you can wear a CGM sensor for continuous blood sugar measurement for 14 days. This brings exciting insights.
If you want to know how your body really reacts to food, you can read numerous books – or put a small sensor on your arm that records what food does to your metabolism in a mercilessly honest manner. That’s exactly what I did: 14 days with a CGM tracker (CGM is short for “continuous glucose monitoring“), a tiny diabetes sensor that continuously measures glucose levels. When I ate a certain food, my blood sugar went crazy – as you can read in my detailed experience report on the health portal 24vita.de.
I tested the CGM sensor, not because I have diabetes, but because my noticeably high HbA1c (the long-term sugar level) at the check-up 35 irritated me. Everything else in my blood work was great – only this limit value made me wonder: Why is my blood sugar going on a roller coaster even though I eat “actually quite well”?
When I read up on the study, I quickly realized how much more there is to it. Frequent blood sugar spikes are now considered a silent risk factor – even without a manifest diagnosis of diabetes. They can promote inflammation, put stress on the pancreas and lead to insulin resistance in the long term. This is exactly what has been associated with cardiovascular diseases, various types of cancer and dementia for years. Reason enough to observe my own metabolism “live”.
Read the full review of the CGM self-test here.