#1651 CGM Graph Reading
Juicebox Podcast: Type 1 Diabetes
Scott Benner
4.7 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 13 October 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Scott and Jenny name and define the blood sugar “shapes” seen on CGM graphs—bell curves, spikes, plateaus, roller coasters—to create a shared language for understanding glucose patterns.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends, and welcome back to another episode of the Juicebox podcast. |
| 0:15.5 | On today's episode, Jenny and I are going to try to give names to the shapes that you see on your graph. |
| 0:21.4 | So when you're looking at your CGM and you start low and it goes up high really quickly and |
| 0:26.0 | comes back down, what do we call that? Is it a spike? Is it a peak? And what about the graphs that |
| 0:30.5 | look like roller coaster tracks? Or how about those quick drops that come back up again? |
| 0:35.3 | We're going to try to define them to give them names so that we can talk about them on the podcast so that we can take your graphs and try to figure them out on an audio show in a way that will allow you to follow along. Let's see if we can do it. |
| 0:49.3 | Please don't forget that nothing you hear on the Juice Box podcast should be considered advice, |
| 0:54.7 | medical or otherwise. Always consult a physician before making any changes to your health care |
| 0:59.5 | plan or becoming bold with insulin. |
| 1:06.1 | This episode of the Juice Box podcast is sponsored by Medtronic Diabetes and their mini-med 780G system, |
| 1:13.1 | designed to help ease the burden of diabetes management. |
| 1:15.9 | Imagine fewer worries about misbolicoluses or miscalculated carbs, thanks to meal detection technology |
| 1:21.8 | and automatic correction doses. |
| 1:24.6 | Learn more and get started today at Medtronicdiabetes.com slash juicebox. |
| 1:30.4 | This episode of the Juicebox podcast is sponsored by the Contour Next Genenteenth |
| 1:35.6 | Blood Glucose Meter. Learn more and get started today at contournext.com slash juicebox. |
| 1:43.2 | Jenny, we're going to try something today. |
| 1:45.7 | Yay. |
| 1:46.1 | I do not know if we're going to be successful. |
| 1:48.4 | Okay. |
| 1:48.9 | This is a new idea? |
| 1:50.9 | It's a completely new idea. |
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