Welcome to the Get Fit Guys quick and dirty tips to get moving and shape up.

My name is Brock Armstrong and I'm the Get Fit Guy.

I'm going to be honest with you.

I was first introduced to the idea of using a continuous glucose monitor to improve your health and longevity a number of years ago and didn't give it much time or thought,

really. My rationale was that, well, I'm not diabetic, so why would I want to bother tracking my

blood sugar? Well, I asked my guest on today's podcast episode exactly that. This is what he said.

I think for a person that is a non-diabetic, very like

becomes a really powerful system to build accountability. And that accountability is food

accountability. So with very, you know, it's you get like the stream of feedback. It's kind of like a feedback system,

so to say. So it, you give an input and it gives you an output, just like sleeping and monitoring

that with, um, with an order ring or getting like more active and moving, moving like with an

Apple watch. Essentially, like,

for a non-diabetic to measure their blood sugar, most of the things come through, like, tracking

how well is their metabolic health? Like, what is the state of their metabolic health right now?

And how with the food that they eat, they're contributing to that and the lifestyle habits that they lead.

So very is a company that's located in Finland, and the word very itself means blood in the Finnish language.

So that should give you a big clue right there that very is a system to monitor your blood, your blood glucose levels to be exact.

Now, when I received my very package in the mail, inside of it was a small round disc,

with a tiny hair-like spike coming out from one side.

Along with that, there was a plastic applicator and, well, not much else.

After I got my partner

to help me apply the disc with the hair spike coming out of it into the skin on the back

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