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We're going to look at one of the most trendy pieces of wearable biometric technology.

And I'm not talking about sleep rings. We're talking about the continuous glucose monitor or CGMs. Now, before we get started,

please don't forget to like, subscribe, and share this episode. Okay, so the emergence of CGMs or

continuous glucose monitors has really been life-changing for many people with diabetes.

With these CGMs, people with diabetes can constantly monitor their blood sugar levels

and don't have to prick their fingers multiple times a day.

Now, this means the pain of poking is gone, but it means that most of my diabetic patients had to check their blood sugars multiple times a day. Most of them didn't.

And really relied on really how they felt or whether they were crashing to really know where their blood sugars

were. A lot of the times they recognize their crashes, but they didn't recognize when their

blood sugar levels were extremely high. And that was really part of the problem with managing

these folks.

Now, with a CGM, most people now recognize them.

They've seen them.

You might be wearing one even now.

This inserts a small needle under the skin that comes with a patch.

And you wear this, and it literally measures the amount of glucose

in the interstitial space between your cells and it then sends this information to either a

smartphone or sometimes it's a device that you carry with you that updates the trends.

Okay, now there are a lot of possible and real benefits for this.

First of all, metabolic health.

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