Why is everyone wearing glucose monitors?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Geez, the last thing I would do is broadcast my Type 2 diabetes to the general public.

These are very helpful medically. If you're diabetic it's not about broadcasting it, it's about better control.

If you aren't diabetic then I do wonder why someone would wear one. It's unnecessary and just another fad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Geez, the last thing I would do is broadcast my Type 2 diabetes to the general public.

+1. I don't get this thing. I wear one (T1) but the last thing I want is to show it in public. Crazy sh*t people do I suppose.

My child proudly wears his even as a teenager. There is nothing wrong with having medical devices. It's ok to be different.

No it’s not it’s weird

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Geez, the last thing I would do is broadcast my Type 2 diabetes to the general public.

+1. I don't get this thing. I wear one (T1) but the last thing I want is to show it in public. Crazy sh*t people do I suppose.

My child proudly wears his even as a teenager. There is nothing wrong with having medical devices. It's ok to be different.

No it’s not it’s weird

Oh... is me wearing my leg braces also weird? I wear shorts in the summer, my braces are obvious.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Geez, the last thing I would do is broadcast my Type 2 diabetes to the general public.

+1. I don't get this thing. I wear one (T1) but the last thing I want is to show it in public. Crazy sh*t people do I suppose.

My child proudly wears his even as a teenager. There is nothing wrong with having medical devices. It's ok to be different.

No it’s not it’s weird

Too bad there isn’t any medical technology for jerks and bullies.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Geez, the last thing I would do is broadcast my Type 2 diabetes to the general public.

+1. I don't get this thing. I wear one (T1) but the last thing I want is to show it in public. Crazy sh*t people do I suppose.

My child proudly wears his even as a teenager. There is nothing wrong with having medical devices. It's ok to be different.

No it’s not it’s weird

Too bad there isn’t any medical technology for jerks and bullies.

I know. You would definitely need one.

[Anonymous]

The kids with T1 I know who wear them wear them in areas where they can easily cover them. It’s only adults that I see visibly wearing them.

[Anonymous]

Genuinely curious, why would someone feel the need to hide this? And why do you guys feel like they should? Like who cares? The poster that said it was weird, why is it weird?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's the latest fad in body hacking. When people see a spike, they don't realize that the body easily handles it and instead change their diet to avoid spikes.

People who have more money than sense and not enough real problems.

You are the one without sense, poster.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Genuinely curious, why would someone feel the need to hide this? And why do you guys feel like they should? Like who cares? The poster that said it was weird, why is it weird?

+1

I'm going to wear it where it's most comfortable and convenient for me to use. I don't feel obliged to hide it and I am not showing off.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Geez, the last thing I would do is broadcast my Type 2 diabetes to the general public.

These are very helpful medically. If you're diabetic it's not about broadcasting it, it's about better control.

If you aren't diabetic then I do wonder why someone would wear one. It's unnecessary and just another fad.

No, it isn’t an unnecessary fad.

Most Americans never get a decent education on nutrition and metabolism and how the one affects the other. Wearing a glucose monitor for a few weeks or a month or longer can help people really make the connection between diet and metabolism and mood. People talk about having low blood sugar and being hangry but the monitor helps there really make the connection which can give them the tools they need to optimize their health through diet/nutrition and exercise.

As a healthcare worker who has worked at length with diabetic patients in the age before continuous monitoring I can attest how hard it is to educate some of those folks about the connection between what goes in the mouth and what shows up on the finger stick test strip and what energy levels and feelings are a consequence. The more we can educate people about these things the more we can see a real shift toward health, hopefully.

Before industrialized food most humans still were able to eat according to their body’s nutritional needs by following their instinctive cravings which is an approach to eating that we share with other mammals and insects and even bacteria. But the advent of industrialized ultra processed food products which make up a majority of most Americans’ diets has disrupted our natural ability to eat for health because we are living in a toxic food environment. Anything that can help us to educate ourselves in that context is useful.

I recommend the book Eat Like the Animals for anyone interested in learning at a scientific level how humans have entirely disrupted their own biology by filling their food environment with poisons.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's the latest fad in body hacking. When people see a spike, they don't realize that the body easily handles it and instead change their diet to avoid spikes.

People who have more money than sense and not enough real problems.

I… I don’t have enough energy to try to combat this level of goof. Now it’s bad to take care of your health? Over on one of the Ozempic threads fat shamers are shaming people for taking “the easy” way out by taking meds and you’re mad people are putting in too much work?

[Anonymous]

It’s a fad. Just like cottage cheese and intermittent fasting and all the others. There are truths underneath but people mostly go off into uselessness land.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's the latest fad in body hacking. When people see a spike, they don't realize that the body easily handles it and instead change their diet to avoid spikes.

People who have more money than sense and not enough real problems.

I think the point is that a lot of people have metabolic challenges and their bodies don't "easily handle it" they are pre-diabetic

[Anonymous]

It's no one's business what people do.

[Anonymous]

They are more affordable now so it’s pretty easy to get one without being diabetic. For non diabetics it can be informative data but it’s not necessary to know your BG at all times to be mindful of how food and movement affect energy levels and wellness. It’s definitely a fad among the bio hacking tech bro set.