{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Under Load","title":"Glucose Monitors Without Diabetes: A Doctor Reads the Evidence","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1020,"description":"I walked up to the booth at CES ready to buy a glucose monitor.\n\nBright lights, shiny counters, staff handing out little treats and packets of electrolyte powder. Six figures of trade-show budget, probably more, and it showed.\n\nI had just come from the panel. Two people I respect had talked about wearing one of these, and after three years of doubt I was ready to try it and later speak from experience.\n\nSo I asked the person selling it one question. What does this do for a healthy person with no blood sugar problem?\n\nI never got an answer I could use. I left with the electrolyte powder and no monitor.\n\nThen I went and read the evidence.\n\nIn this episode:\n\nThe study that changed how I think about this whole category. Eighteen experts in continuous glucose monitoring were handed twenty reports from adults without diabetes and asked a simple question: would you call this person back? All eighteen agreed on three of the twenty.\n\nWhat the same authors said about interpreting these reports in people who do not have diabetes, which is the sentence that should give any healthy buyer pause.\n\nHow much time a genuinely healthy adult spends above the line your app calls a spike. The number surprised me, and it reframes what the alert on your phone is actually telling you.\n\nWhy the device may be reading high in the first place, what a smoothie company has to do with that finding, and why I still find that sentence funny.\n\nWhere this technology genuinely earns its place, because it does. A review published in JAMA Internal Medicine three weeks before this episode is clear about the patients who benefit, and I am not interested in pretending otherwise.\n\nPrediabetes, which is a real exception rather than a hedge, and where the evidence points differently.\n\nThe strongest argument for wearing one, taken seriously, and what twenty-five randomized trials found when they tested it.\n\nMy own numbers, the tablet I take every morning, and why I am comfortable measuring one thing and not...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/D6GUGKGhv_DEKkMXOUaw9zVKHR_WqCVlo9ECODchftY/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8wODc1/MzQxYzZmMTk4MDBl/ODhhM2E4NWIwYTFj/OWExOC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}