What’s My Glucose
Last year I wore a continous glucose monitor for the first time… Just for interests sake. It was so eye opening for me! Here’s the post I wrote last year about it.
Since then I have researched and read a lot about glucose, insulin, foods and hormones. It also changed the way I approach diagnosing and treating my type 2 diabetic patients at the clinic. It also gave me a better understanding of metabolic health… Glucose, weight, insulin, blood pressure and cholesterol.
As a primary care doctor I try to promote the basics when it comes to health care. Also, I think it’s better to prevent a disease than to try to suddenly make big lifestyle changes when it occurs.
Everyone knows that managing weight, cholesterol, glucose and blood pressure helps to prevent a whole array of health conditions. A continuous glucose monitor is a very useful tool to show someone what certain foods, stress, alcohol and exercise do to their glucose levels.
I have recently had 2 groups of people join a 4 week “What’s My Glucose” program where they each wear their own continous glucose monitor. During the first week I sent slides via WhatsApp with information about glucose, the monitor and insulin. If you understand the connection between stable glucose levels and other hormones, it gives you a much clearer picture about what your glucose chart is actually showing.
During the next 2 weeks they wore their CGMs and shared their glucose levels with me. I also shared more info during these 2 weeks about what food combinations they could try and how to see if something takes them out of a fasted state. During the 4th week, I wrote a Metabolic Report for each individual and shared some more info on what they can do with the information they now have about their own glucose levels.
It was so interesting for me to see what increased people’s glucose levels. Some things were obvious, but others not so obvious.
The continous glucose monitor only lasts for two weeks but there’s a lot of information that you can gather from it during those two weeks. I also had a few people together in a whatsapp group and people could share what raised their glucose, so you could also learn and observe what happens to others glucose. Some people do react differently to certain foods but there were also trends as to what typically raises glucose.
It’s possibly to read about how to stabilize glucose levels but actually having a monitor showing you what your glucose does is a real game changer.
The glucose levels are shared with me via apps so I had a participants living far away from me and each other in the What My Glucose group.
My next dates for the Whats My Glucose Program is 31 July 2023 and 28 August 2023. Spaces are limited. If you are interested or want more info you can send me an email: jannymyburg@gmail.com
