Continuous Blood Glucose Monitors for Non-Diabetics

Fork U with Dr. Terry Simpson · Jul 21, 2022 · 5m

If you don’t have diabetes, should you even consider a blood glucose monitor? Well, here is the science behind this new tiktok trend and why these Continuous Blood Glucose Monitors (CGM) are here to stay and what we know about them.

The device

First, the device – a continuous blood glucose monitor is a device that you place on your body and it measures the blood glucose level and reports that data typically to an application on your phone. The first blood glucose monitors were used to help patients with type 1 diabetes regulate their blood sugar. They were revolutionary, but expensive, not…