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Please do not apply any of this information without first speaking with your doctor. Now, let's head to the show. Hey everyone, today I speak with

Kara Collier, who is the co-founder of Nutri Sense, which is a continuous glucose monitoring company.

And this is something I've experimented with myself. And I've experienced some insights and some points of confusion, which seem to be

fairly common points of confusion. So I was happy today to be able to connect with her and

kind of unpack. What is this new device, the CGM continuous glucose monitor?

How can it help people? And also perhaps equally as importantly, what are some of the pitfalls

to be wary of? And just as two quick examples, exercise and sauna can spike your blood sugar. Is that a problem? Is that good? Is it bad?

And also a few other questions that we take on during this episode is what should we be looking at

in terms of you have all this data. You have continuous 24-7 glucose monitoring.

That's a lot of information.

So what should you be looking at?

What are the guidelines for interpretation of all that data, which is extremely important?

And I can say that I myself using this kind of as a consumer was quite confused by some of the information.

And thankfully, obviously, I have quite a bit of background in health and data management.

So I was able to navigate this fairly effectively.

But for someone who doesn't, but who is enthusiastic, this is where that enthusiasm, if not properly channeled, can be deleterious.

So I was really appreciative of the conversation and also of her approach, which seemed to be very level-headed in terms of using data, but also very importantly, using context in addition to just data to interpret.

And so with that, we'll go to the conversation here with Kara.

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