Metabolic Health
Continuous glucose monitors, mitochondrial biomarkers, and the slow reframing of what "metabolic" means outside the diabetes clinic.
Metabolic health has escaped the endocrinology clinic and landed on the wrist of the worried well. This desk separates what the consumer-grade tools actually measure from what they claim, and what a serious reader should and shouldn't do about the numbers they produce.
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What a Continuous Glucose Monitor Actually Tells You
CGMs have escaped the diabetes clinic and become a wellness product. The signal-to-noise is worse than the marketing implies. We put three on healthy subjects for ninety days.
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