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FDA authorizes first wearable device that monitors ketone and blood sugar levels

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Re: FDA authorizes first wearable device that monitors ketone and blood sugar levels

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Post by sirsinsalot »

maddie0 wrote: post #119
agumonkey wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

sample of 1, but yeah changing my diet (very low sugar, more veggies) did alter my health visibly and rapidly. to the point that if I eat something too sweet too fast i have a very mild headache soon after, my system readjusted to not seek levels i grew up with

fwiw... if sugar gives you a headache, this may be related to a gastrointestinal issue (e.g. gluten sensitivity, dietary histamine sensitivity, small intestinal bacterial overgrowth possibly causing its own sensitivities...) The specifics of the cause in your case are between you and your doctor, but i'd like more people to know, especially since these sorts of problems disproportionately affect people with autism an…

This is all true. My ADHD is hugely related to and impacted by diet. I also get headaches, brain fog, and all of the above if I eat gluten.

Bodies are fun.

Re: FDA authorizes first wearable device that monitors ketone and blood sugar levels

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Post by malfist »

andy_ppp wrote: post #144
malfist wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This has been tested actually. A clinical trial looking at tight blood sugar regulation was aborted after it resulted in multiple cardiac events.

Nonsense, you can fast or live in ketosis for years without any adverse consequences.

I said absolutely nothing about fasting or ketosis

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Post by NotGMan »

hacknews20 wrote: post #132

Understanding why children's pancreases stop delivering insulin in the first place, which remains one of the big medical mysteries, would be a huge breakthrough for preventative medicine.

It's sad that this comment is downvoted.

If root cause could be identified people wouldn't need insulin pumps and other complications anymore at all...

But this is what you get with modern midwits running around everywhere....

Re: FDA authorizes first wearable device that monitors ketone and blood sugar levels

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Post by andy_ppp »

malfist wrote: post #222
andy_ppp wrote: post #144

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nonsense, you can fast or live in ketosis for years without any adverse consequences.

I said absolutely nothing about fasting or ketosis

No, you were deliberately disingenuous (I understood that) but I decided to answer the best possible interpretation of what you meant. I'd seriously reconsider this argument style, just because it's common doesn't mean any of us should think it's acceptable to pass of half truths as pithy commentary. You won't listen of course, nobody does anymore, they just want some ego points of being technically right in the narrowest of ways. Pointless point scoring.

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Post by Beijinger »

momojo wrote: post #194
ijustlovemath wrote: post #3

Automated glucose control will be the next frontier in so many areas of healthcare. I'm still skeptical that anyone will be able to noninvasively and accurately sense blood sugar, but I'm glad people (especially kids with T1) will have one more tool to help them. I hope they can figure out the reimbursement side to get it into the most hands possible!

I'm in biotech and if I had a dollar for every engineer I've met who dreamed of or worked-at-a-place-that-tried or even tried-in-their-freetime to make a non-invasive glucometer, I'd have at least enough to buy a coffee, which is a lot. There is an ever-growing bodycount in the NIO-GM graveyard [0], but I too hope that one day, it'll get figured out. My old roommate and good friend was T1 and monitoring one's glucose…

That is a very bad article. Most, if not all non-invasive blood glucose projects had no peer reviewed publications.

Anyway, this problem, to measure blood glucose non-invasive, is solved now. A product should be on the market very soon. And while I am not involved anymore, I once submitted an SBIR grant application to the NIH with this technology. A specific item that this technology used would be a few hundreds bucks if produced in quantities. I also wrote this in the grant application. The examiner googled this thing, and a top-notch single item for lab measurements was 50 grand. Obviously, too expensive. So the thing I learned:

An idiot and Google are a very dangerous combination. Even at the NIH.

PS: Neither the start-up, nor their technology is mentioned in the paper. All the mentioned technologies have been tried and are bound to fail in my opinion. At least the examiner gave me a very high score on "innovative".

Re: FDA authorizes first wearable device that monitors ketone and blood sugar levels

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Post by sirsinsalot »

smj-edison wrote: post #173
maddie0 wrote: post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

fwiw... if sugar gives you a headache, this may be related to a gastrointestinal issue (e.g. gluten sensitivity, dietary histamine sensitivity, small intestinal bacterial overgrowth possibly causing its own sensitivities...) The specifics of the cause in your case are between you and your doctor, but i'd like more people to know, especially since these sorts of problems disproportionately affect people with autism an…

Tbh those sound more like Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS) symptoms...

Not really. I have the above and my partner has pots/mcas. They're nothing alike.

Re: FDA authorizes first wearable device that monitors ketone and blood sugar levels

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Post by francisofascii »

ifwinterco wrote: post #56
flinner wrote: post #42

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Monitoring glucose and ketones can help you develop metabolic flexibility and let you grok how easily your body cuts over to ketones. Knowing your personal realtime glucose and ketone levels helps you understand just how much carbs will kick you out of ketosis or keep you in it. Glucose monitoring will help you avoid large crashes that can lead to low energy. Among other things! More on metabolic flexibility: https:/…

All high level endurance athletes are on high carb diets all the time and are never anywhere near ketosis (unless something has gone very wrong)

Not all. Some runners play around with doing fasted long runs to enhance fat burning adaptations. The jury is still out on if it is advisable to add to a training plan. Some utlra runners have taken to extremes.

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Post by tantalor »

FrustratedMonky wrote: post #218
BrtByte wrote: post #182

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Yes, it's minimally invasive rather than noninvasive

Well. this seems like a big detail to leave out for something advertised as 'wearable'.

People who know about and use continuous glucose monitors already understand what "wearable" means in this context. The devices are designed to be installed by the user at home, not by a specialist.

You're more likely to get a reaction to the adhesive that holds the device on your skin than the sensor filament itself.

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Post by tim333 »

momojo wrote: post #194
ijustlovemath wrote: post #3

Automated glucose control will be the next frontier in so many areas of healthcare. I'm still skeptical that anyone will be able to noninvasively and accurately sense blood sugar, but I'm glad people (especially kids with T1) will have one more tool to help them. I hope they can figure out the reimbursement side to get it into the most hands possible!

I'm in biotech and if I had a dollar for every engineer I've met who dreamed of or worked-at-a-place-that-tried or even tried-in-their-freetime to make a non-invasive glucometer, I'd have at least enough to buy a coffee, which is a lot. There is an ever-growing bodycount in the NIO-GM graveyard [0], but I too hope that one day, it'll get figured out. My old roommate and good friend was T1 and monitoring one's glucose…

This one isn't non invasive. It requires a small, flexible filament to be inserted just under the skin.

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Post by ButlerianJihad »

ijustlovemath wrote: post #129
lokar wrote: post #127

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Why is hospital use so important?

If the large studies are to be believed, you could save hundreds of thousands of lives and many billions in excess expenditure, because stable blood glucose shortens length of stay. People with diabetes alone account for 60% of hospital expenditure, so improving their care improves the system in a big way.

Why should hospitals be motivated to shorten stays and reduce expenditures when those stays and expenditures mean that their profits will increase? Why don't they want to maximize profits from the suffering of sick people?
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