NBC News Medical correspondent Dr. Akshay Syal explores the growing wellness trend of blood sugar monitors used among non-diabetic people.
Is there a benefit for healthy people to track their blood sugar? Measuring blood sugar has joined sleep and exercise tracking as wellness trends, with some longevity experts claiming that reducing fluctuations throughout the day can help protect against heart disease, even for people who don’t have diabetes. Continuous glucose monitors, or CGMs, are small devices that track blood sugar in real time and can tell wearers how their bodies are reacting to stress, food, sleep or exercise.
He noted that the devices weren’t designed or calibrated for a nondiabetic population, so it’s hard to know what the readings should be for a healthy person. “I don’t think we know enough about how minute variations of glucose really factor into optimal performance,” he said. It’s normal for a healthy person’s sugar levels to change throughout the day. Being too aware of spikes in blood sugar could be a source of anxiety. “Blood sugar is a dynamic value that we look at,” Natter said.
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