Using a CGM when you are not diabetic (or pre-diabetic, if advised by a doctor) will do nothing to benefit your health. It is a complete scam.
Diabetics use CGMs because we have to regulate our blood sugar/glucose (BG) with insulin, if our BG goes up, we need to know so we can bring it down with medication. If an able-bodied personâs BG goes up, it will go right back down because their bodies can self-regulate. If youâre really worried about your blood glucose levels, talk to a doctor. Getting a CGM will not help you, especially if youâre taking advice from Levels.
Additionally, like many fads that come out of âfitnessâ and âhealthâ communities, this can be really fucking bad for people with eating disorders. Carb counting is already bad enough, if someone is constantly seeing a little line go up every time they eat a bagel, they might stop eating that bagel, and then any other foods that make that line go up because they have been mislead into thinking that their blood sugar being 120 mg/dL for a few hours is going to give them diabetes (it wonât). If youâre familiar with EDs you probably know how quickly those kinds of ideas and habits can turn into something extremely unhealthy.
Able-bodied people: your blood sugar going up is Not A Bad Thing. Itâs completely normal, and it will go back down once your body processes the glucose (and, reminder: you need glucose to live).
Please donât support Levels or any other scammers that use medical equipment made for disabled people to make you feel bad about your health.
tl;dr: CGMs are not only useless for able-bodied people, they may actually do more harm than good (for example, encouraging disordered eating). You will not get diabetes from your blood sugar rising and falling a bit throughout the day. If youâre concerned about diabetes risk, see a doctor, donât buy from Levels.
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