@@arduinoversusevil2025 please watch yourself, sugar levels outsode of the normal range run a havoc throughout your whole body, eyes, blood vesles, and the imune system are a few that are highly sensitive to blood sugar levels. Type 2 diabetic here.
@@arduinoversusevil2025Might be why it wont calibrate to the level as 2.6 as for a diabetic a large number of charts say seek immediate medical attention, so maybe the dexcom is thinking its an outlier as you would have symptoms of hypoglycemia at that point. Although hard to say what effects you would have as most charts and information are based on Diabetics, stating that low blood sugar can cause seizures and brain damage and in type 2 it can cause hard damage as well. Funny thing is now a lot of charts im seeing are no longer showing low blood sugar as a danger zone.
@@jackgroove but isn't that slightly different because, if you're a type 1 then I presume you're injecting insulin? And then if you're injecting insulin and your levels are below 4 then you're not injecting/eating the correct combination to keep within your targets? Having high blood sugar isn't good for the long term but it isn't going to cause an immediate negative health event. Having low blood sugar is immediately dangerous and you could end up in hospital very quickly? (P.s. these are all questions rather than me telling you - I'm no expert)
@@arduinoversusevil2025 and do you know anything about ketoacidosis? I know that diabetics need to watch out for that. Is that a risk for non diabetics also?
Why are you using the Internet at all without adblockers....? It was weird even 15 years ago and yet people still do it, for no reason at all (other than stupidity).
As a diabetic who has used these for over two years now, you should be aware that they have a reported error up to +-15% and a delay to react to change up to 15 minutes. Still a million times better then a meter but not quite what you are trying to get from them.
Diabetic here as well, and on pump therapy. I've been using the Medtronic version of this. While calibrating, it can vary quite a bit once and a while. I've had 50-80mg/dL difference at times(2.8-4.4mmol/L). Is there a specific glucose meter they had you use? I have to use a specific one to link to the pump for calibrations. It sucks.
@@twan923 I would get a list of good ones that people seem to like/give good reviews, then talk to your doctor about them. I don't know much about diabetes but it might be one of those things where different meters/methods work better on different people, or for different needs. Could be wrong though.
Glad to see you putting work into your health. Makes a huge difference in your logevity, and we will need guys like you to help rebuild after we screw it all up!
3 days into my fast and i can literally smell all individual ingredients in the food the missus is preparing. It's like having superpowers. Absolutely crazy the amount of adaptation and tweaking of the sense the brain does. Imagine going 15-20 days without any food, and you might get a glimpse at how our ancestors used to track down game.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts, ideas and videos. Having used continuous blood monitoring for some time I find your take on it quite interesting. I have yet to pull apart a Dexcom applicator but I did take apart many of the freestyle libre applicators in the past. They have a really nice spring inside that went in the junk pile for later motivation and a rather spooky needle that inserts the wire into your arm. As nice as these systems are I’m amazed at the nonsense you toss in the garbage. Might make an interesting dissection video and cost estimate for the value in the parts you just spike in the circular file. Wishing you and your family the best.
Alright this is up my alley s as I have been doing this for a while! You are in ketosis, congrats! Note it will be easy to eat once a day … which will have a bunch of benefits. The ONE thing to keep track is that you take in enough salt and potassium. If you are not feeling very well it’s either that or the gut is readjusting the bacteria….
My T1D friend says "Congrats, you have a functioning pancreas" meaning that a glucose meter is mostly useless for you. The keto strips on the other hand are of use early on, but also become useless after a few weeks as they detect _excess_ ketones.
Sounds like your friend is a bit of a cynical curmudgeon. Majority of folks could use a GM and potentially avoid T2 diagnosis in the future. Keto strips are not useless at all. Most people getting into BS, GM, Keto, etc are still learning how it all inter-relates. Using Keto strips to know when you get into Ketosis is one thing. Checking every so often on your journey will help you find out how well you are meeting expectations and how your personal genetics handle diet/macro changes.
@@boots7859 No. The majority of folks have a thousand more important ways to spend $1000. For most people this is just a terrible game boy, with no games, and it stabs you.
@@boots7859 The strips only detect the Ketones excreted through the urine (which are excess/wasted), so you're not even getting the whole picture. Once someone is metabolically adapted to efficiently convert Ketones with enough Mitochondria to handle the job, none are wasted through urine, and are all transported and consumed in the blood... hence the need for the blood tests long term. They're not that much anymore... my Keto Mojo runs about $1 to test for both Ketones and Glucose... whereas my Glucose only monitor from about 3 years prior was also $1 a test, just for Glucose.
I get the feeling that what you are trying to use the sensor for is way more subtle than it is capable of. If you are diabetic you are much more interested in the large or sudden changes in glucose levels.
Great start ... Keep up the good work ... I know with your temperament after all these year - You can do anything you put your mind too.... Thanks for sharing ... Stay safe and well ....
Irish paramedic here, very very interesting, I just didn’t know. Thank you, more research to do now. You might have saved a life there bud, will be reconsidering the glucagon administration as well as doubting anything the patients family and monitor say. We do our own BG as per protocol anyways but that might have thrown me for a loop.
Came here to learn about tools and engineering and had to learn biochemistry instead! Well done old bean, fascinating as always. Not sure if this will help, but when I needed to lose 10kg in weight, I used a heart monitor while exercising. I seem to recall that it was holding a steady heart rate of something like 125 to 140 BPM for work outs (for a woman of my age) to burn fat rather than sugar. It shouldn't be that different for you. Good luck and stay awesome.
We used one of these to figure out how my GF responded to food (type II diabetes) back in 2022. It as the freestyle libre 2 version. Wonderful tool and seems easier to calibrate. Turns out she wasn't type II diabetic anymore, haha. Confirmed with those blood sticker things as well. She's been off meds for it for 2.5 months. The endocrinologist thinks it was from her loosing weight and exercising, but the change happened before these two things occurred.
This is really interesting. I'd wondered about these sensors. I've been using a combo glucose + ketone meter (lifesmart LS-946) for a bit over a year and it's worked well. You have to buy sets of ketone strips and the glucose strips separately but you can use the same finger prick to get a ready for each so it's no big deal to get both readings at the same time. It's been fascinating to see how my glucose and ketones vary throughout the day, especially across a 2 or 3 day fast. I can confirm that my glucose will change between 4.3 and 5.9ish during a multi day fast, even when my ketone are above 1. On a fast I'll probably do 3 or 4 pricks through out the day. It seems to depend on what activity I've been doing. FWIW, Fasting and dudicious application of keto has helped me go from 120kg with a fatty liver to ~ 82kg and routinely running 30km a week all in the space of 18 months. Watching the numbers has helped me learn how my body responds to food and activity in a really useful way so I don't feel like I'll be sliding back into the old ways.
As a diabetic, when I lived in Colorado and was able to hike 20 miles a day on average I only needed to inject like 8 units max of insulin for the whole day and my A1C was 5.8. Also, rubbing alcohol on the adhesive. As a hairy ape using a Dexcom and an insulin pump, rubbing alcohol is the best at making adhesives pliable enough to rip off one's hairy skin. I buy reagent grade by the gallon and it lasts a while.
Type 1 Diabetic here for about 30 years. I've worn these for years and years now, different iterations and manufactures. They won't be reading much for you, you're healthy and your blood glucose just doesn't swing that much one way or the tother. You probably never will as long as your pancreas can keep up. Now if you sat there and drank 3 liters of mountain dew and then looked you might see a spike, but NOTHING like the huge dangerous swings you'll see in a diabetic, even a Type-II diabetic. These sensors don't read blood per-se. They read the amount of glucose present in the underlying fluid, so there is a delay, even above the delay your bloodstream will show. Remember, glucose goes from your mouth, to your stomach, to your intestines, to your blood (to simplify things), and then to your cells once it leaves the blood stream. (again, to simplify things) That all takes time, and it doesn't all happen at once, different food sources break down at different rates.
Interesting stuff AvE!! Currently reading a book called Ultra-Processed People -> Home cooked meals are the way to go! It highlights how modern-day ultra-processed food has been engineered to make companies profits healthy, not people! Regarding the sensor not accepting the calibration - could you introduce an offset and try to trick it?
My observation is that dexcom really needs 24 hours to stabilize, and then it is rock solid, between 3 and 20 or so. Outside of those ranges seems to be nonlinear. In addition, if the sensor happens to hit a blood vessel, you may get odd readings. From what i saw, though, things didn't match up. CGMs are designed to catch your lows, since that is life or death. I'd also double check your meter. At 2.5, people can faint. I'd definitely not drive at 2.5...
I’d expect that sensor to have a data sheet showing its useful range it can detect as well as its tolerance within the range. It’s be good information to have
Type 1 diabetic here, had this for like 2 years. Absolutely amazing. My insurance use to give me supplies to test my glucose 3-4 times a day, with this I get readings every 5 minutes 24 hours a day. Even better it alerts me if it’s dropping rapidly or rising rapidly and it will notify me if it goes under/above limits I set. Not that you non diabetics care haha
switch to a carnivore keto diet, your body will thank you and the hypo's go away once you stop overdosing insulin and putting yourself in the pid oscillation problem of control.
I went through basic training, got very fit and lean. Then went to tech skool, lived in a dorm with cafe in basement and had dessert after every meal (cakes, ice cream, etc). I went to Dallas for weekend leave. I ate my meals but did not have desserts. On Saturday night I had dinner and went to see Pulp Fiction in theater. During the overdose scene I wasn’t feeling good so I got up and went for some air. Last thing I remember was pushing the door open. Next thing I’m waking up to my wife slapping my face while I’m laying on the floor . I tried to stand up and fainted again. Ambulance was called, the Paramedic said right away “I bet it’s low blood sugar.” It was 35. My wife bought some M&M’s and 10 minutes later I walked out, missed the rest of the movie for years! You can train your pancreas…
For me, going into ketosis, the best option was the keto-sticks and the blood glucose meter. When I was in ketosis my blood sugar was rock solid. The prick stopped bothering me after the first week.
I just started using the Dexcom G6 a month ago. The app on my phone drained my battery to about 50% in just 5-6 hours, and I had to keep the phone on the charger most of the time I was at home. So I ended up getting the receiver that they make for it, and the problem is solved. Phone battery life is back to normal now, and the receiver keeps tabs well enough. Overall I'm liking the Dexcom, even though I have to pay quite a bit for the sensors and transmitter with my insurance.
On my 3rd Freestyle Libre 3, and the second one i had would lag pretty bad. By the time it alarmed on low blood glucose, finger prick was normal. Same on both sides, i’d feel jittery, and it hadn’t registered low yet. But the 3rd one is pretty averaged out. Just gotta spend time with both and learn your pattern.
I'm glad I sorta accidentally started fasting way young. Never had to deal with the shakes. I just eat a little in the morning, then eat dinner and that's my daily routine. Sometimes I skip a meal if I'm not hungry or ate a lot the night before. I think the important thing is sorta resetting your body/brain so that it's getting hungry/full at the correct times to maintain weight. I used to be 300lbs and hungry all the time. Now I can fully trust that if I'm hungry, I should eat something and if I'm full, I'm good to go. Listening to that for about 2.5 years now and I'm maintaining a healthy weight, so at least it works for me.
Safe ketosis can be achieved by adopting the KETO diet,or the Mediterranean way. Olive oil and MCT oil can trigger the liver into ketosis and fuel your brain so you don't get the "brain fog". Carb restriction is paramount to successful ketosis and weight loss as the liver converts fat into energy. Protein restriction is also necessary,as the liver can convert meat into sugar. In other words,eat like a wild critter(deer or turkey) and reap the benefits of low BP,glucose,BMI,ETC. Your mileage may vary,and do so only under supervision of a Functional Nutritionist. I am not a doctor,just s Cave Man. LOL
That's good to know about that sensor! I've considered switching to it from my current medtronic.. but mine works, my tissue on the issue is the adhesive doesn't work well, in the summer it always fell off. I wonder if the calibration issue would work if the units were changed.. just for sharts n giggles.. try in mg/dl.. 🤷♂️
Do you think there would be off target effects of the ketosis messing with the glucose readings? Gf works in an endocrinology dept and said when patients are in dka standard care isn’t to use cgm but finger prick still
Would be super awesome to see a BOLTR of the new milwaukee 2967 gen 3 high torque impact! Looks like some super cool enginerding went into it versus the models of old
i started with " time restricted feeding " aka: intermittent fasting and then moved to OMAD ( one meal a day ) in the late evening with the family. besides losing 60+ lbs and getting back down to my pre-marital weight again, Ive been feeling great with no more bouts of getting " the itis " from over-eating mid-day etc. so far, the only ill-side effects of eating far less is making sure what little I do actually eat is as healthy and nutritious as it needs to be. my latest bloodwork showed my sodium levels at the bottom end of the acceptable range and I am just barely mildly anemic atm from the significant reduction in red meat consumption. luckily my lizard and I both enjoy mustard greens and I eat kale and broccoli raw like it's going out of style in the evenings, 😅 the benefits outweigh the detriments if you ask me
I'm obviously not your doctor - do not take medical advice from me. But low sodium can be a problem. Sodium isn't bad - in some people it can contribute to high blood pressure, but the dietary guidelines assume that everyone suffers from the same disease. It's not rare AT ALL in processed food, but it can be rare in home cooked meals if you don't add it in. One teaspoon of salt is ~2,000mg sodium. It's quite a lot.
I've been time restricted OMAD for about 10 years now. I work for one of that labs used in the Panda studies and the preprint on the paper was enough to convince me. I reversed my hyperglycemia, lost about 40 lbs and my liver panel looks like I'm 20 years old. I was keto prior to the TRF but now I just eat what I want and as much of it as I want (but it still leans toward keto). I just do it between the hours of 6pm and 9pm.
FWIW, I've noticed certain analog signals present during a state of ketosis as well as signs of hypoglycemia. I can even use an analog wristwatch to calculate the relative length of times spent eating and fasting. Noticing such details, I can even look into how my usual mode of breathing proceeds, or whether I am outdoors at all in the morning, etc. All this crap can be a bothersome chore, or I can remember that my time is not unlimited -- that the opportunity to try anything new will one day end.
If you're just starting, one thing a lot of people don't get warned about when losing weight through fasting and maintaining ketosis is gallstone risk. A lot of ketogenic diets of course contain high fat, which stave off gallstones by keeping it active. But if you just fast regularly to enter ketosis without periodically ensuring your diet outside of fasting has fats so the gallbladder can do it's thing, then you'll be at high risk of gallstones. Even knowing all the risks and having studied human metabolism, I managed to get it wrong when losing only ~40 lbs. Gallstones are Fing painful.
i wore the G6 for a few years and never calibrated. my Doc specifically recommended not calibrating for reasons that i don't recall. The G5 definitely required calibration after the initial insertion. i switched to the Libre 3 just this year and highly recommend it over the Dexcom for ergonomic reasons. i definitely recommend it if you keep on with this bio-hacking.
Absolutely! Urine ketone strips measure EXCESS ketones. By the time you have moderate levels of ketones in the urine you have boatloads in the bloodstream. This is the body is avoiding having too very high levels of ketones (such as in DKA) by dumping ketones.
I got into ketoacidosis a couple times now. Wouldnt wish it on my worst enemies/employers. Some times you can adjust calibration range limits. I have one of these units but have yet to try it. Gunshy after Medtronic fuggered me real good a few years back
I noticed after repeated fasting to varying degrees over the past couple years, my glucose would be rock solid, even through a 5 day fast. I guess my body just had to get good at making it, so it did.
As a diabetic who has been using one of these for over a year now I always save the little wire that goes into your skin from the sensor hoping that it might be gold, platinum or something neat?? Can’t wait to see you take it to pieces
When talking ketones, 2.6 is very good, for weight loss 3 to 3.5 is optimal if you're fat adapted ( burning fat for your bodies energy ) the liver will convert protein into glucose. The protein will be from your dietary intake but it's not uncommon to loose a little mussel mass. The brain runs very well on ketones and dose not need excess carbs. I found fasting to be very helpful and for me fasting up to 48 hours was optimal. I did however do a 72 hour fast once ( trying to achieve optimum autophagy ) and found it to be a set back as it had put me off fasting for some time, up to the 48 hours is my sweet point. Good luck AvE only good things to come.
As someone who has had all types of medical patches ripped off my body let me say it goes much better to work a sharp knife blade or razor blade under the patch and cut through the hair as you pull. It goes much smoother.
G’day from the east coast of Australia (Brisbane), A thought I had the other day was would it be possible to measure the resistance across the blood glucose test strips with a multi meter and if so what differentiating results would appear Would like to see results also might be testing for myself as I’ve just acquired a monitor kit with a cholesterol test as well food for thought experiment
Have a buddy that is diabetic, those worn units seem to be almost melted together. He gave me a new one to take apart, ended up using a vice to crack it open. Careful trying to open one!
As a T1D who once had the good graces to use one of these devices, I'm a bit jealous of your bility to access these. It won't let you calibrate low as a safety feature cause otherwise it's screaming at ya.
Did you activate it in zero cal mode or whatever they call frequent calibration mode? Either way, I've found that if your reading is a long way off from your actual BG, you can usually only make it reliably accept 20mgdl shifts in calibration at a time, I guess that's around 1 mmol change. So Try doing a calibration half way to where you wanna get, wait a few hours, and calibrate again. I'm not a person with diabetus, but i do work in the medical engineering field and deal with these things.
It might come as a shock to people that not eating carbs gives you a steady blood sugar. The liver is good at processing things in other food stuff into glucose.
I've worn a G6 for two years before switching to a Medtronic pump and sensor, and in my experience, the G6 has always read within 20 mg/dl (no idea what that is in mmol/l). Though i've also worn it on the arm, and not on the stomach.
Or multiply mg/dL by 0.0555 to get mmol/L. My daughter's has gone over the discrepancy of 20 mg/dL, usually higher, especially after a same sensor restart.
Just ordered some stickies from your Etsy. 3 bucks for standard shipping here in the land of the long arms but for a paltry sum of 20,000 bucks (American monies not the ungulate) I could have got it a day sooner. Can’t rush perfection.
The original Atkins diet, before the DR succumbed to rigor mortis and profiteers took it over, was designed to help diabetics reduce or potentially eliminate their need to take insulin. Weight loss is actually a side effect. Done correctly the diet will keep you in Ketosis for several months until you reach the amount of carbs to knock you out of it. The first week can be tough though. I was so exhausted I was a literal zombie by the 3rd day. Got home after work, passed out on the couch, woke up at 6am the next morning without the assistance of an alarm clock and with more energy than a teenage boy on prom night. I lost 50lbs over the next 2 months, all while eating steak, eggs, bacon, cheese and thanks to a bad foot, without exercise. Bio-hacking is real, it works, but as everyone is a little different you should monitor all your numbers closely. Unfortunately there are a slew of products out there that claim to make this easier, faster, more accurate that just don't live up to their hype. That's why I recommend people stick with simple tried and true equipment and to avoid anything that requires an app.
I'm in shape.. Round is a shape.... Been doing "OMAD" (One Meal A Day) for the last few months...now MOAR oblong than round.. given the state of the world...a lotta people maybe fasting involuntarily soonish..
I use a ketone meter. dietary ketosis ranges from 0.5 to 3.0 on the meter. my understanding of ketosis is that while some fasting may be good, too much and your body begins robbing protein from your muscles in order to produce the ketones. I always eat a small amount of fat, say a couple of sausage patties for breakfast and then on "fasting" days I eat shrimp to provide some protein. my carbs i strictly limit to less than 15 a day.
I'm type 2 and just switched to Ozempic from a similar (and more expensive) drug Victoza that I've been on 2-3 years. Didn't take much adjusting since they are very very similar drug mechanisms. Appetite suppression makes fasting easy and the blood sugar seems to be improved greatly. Ozempic keeps food in the stomach for about 4 hours versus the normal 15 minutes which prevents hunger and discourages overeating as well. Since I'm type 2 already I don't get any shite from the insurance company about coverage. Don't know how Cannukistan's health plan is but it works for me in Californistantinople.
Don't worry about ketosis or not. It's about cutting carbs and adding in saturated animal fats. No doubts about it. Keep it up. Don't worry about sugar staying so stable on that meter. When you eat seed oils local areas get insulin resistance. The fixing of those areas isn't going to show on that monitor in that area where it stabs in. Or just the calibration or drift.
Dexcom takes the first blood finger stick measurement and halves its sensor reading. Enter it again and you would usually be where your finger stick meter says you are. Another thing you need to keep in mind is that there is a MANUFACTURING deviation. In America, the FDA says a 20% variance is acceptable. The problem is you don't know which direction its off.
I get the best results with a single calibration when she's at 80 to 120 mg/dL, but it's still off by 5 or so. I err on the low side just a touch because she's young.
It's never off by that much though. My 90 day GMI reading was 5.9%. When I had my 90 day A1C blood work (which is the most accurate you're going to get) it was 6.1%. I only had to calibrate 1 out of the more than one dozen sensors I've installed, and that one didn't last the full 10 days. I got a replacement for it in the mail. These things don't even need calibration if you use the numbers that come on them.
3 things. 1 adhesive removes better if you put iso propyl alcohol on it. 2. In order to find out how your liver and pancreas work and how your insulin consumes glucose with what rate you need to perform a glucose tolerance test. 3. Keep it up boss.
I've been on a ketogenic diet for past 9 months through health insurance. I use a Keto-mojo meter that can test your blood glucose and blood ketone levels. Ideal nutritional ketosis is between 1.0-3.0 ketones on that type of test. Art and Science of Low Carb Living by Phinney and Volek is a really good resource on the science. If you limit carbs to
Last year I fasted for five days just to see if I could. People say it gets better but it didn't really for me. I felt 6/10 hunger from ten hours in all the way until I was done. Not excruciating but pretty annoying. Best part about it was just the time savings of not having to cook meals and clean up
Are we supposed to be subscribed or not subscribed? Anywho, my elderly mom uses the ones that glue on, the little pucks, jam them into the upper arm. Seems to work good. Proprietary bullshit though. You would have to decode their wireless stuff, I assume Bluetooth. She just uses it to stay alive another day. Doesn't care to track it over time any more than the machine already does it for her.
Ita weird that it won't accept your calibration. I'm a Type 1 diabetic with one of these cyborg devices in my arm, so I'm quite familiar. If i calibrate, the number is usually super close to what the G6 says. Usually on the graph it splits the difference between your reading and the G6 reading on its way to working within the new parameters. If the calibration number is way off, it goes into an error state and dowsnt give you a reading. Usually it can recover from the error state after awhile. I suspect a couple of different things could be at play here. All diabetic testing equipment is calibrated to work best within a certain range, which is gonna be something like 3.5-14 mmol/l. From a diabetic perspective it doesnt matter if the reading is 2.2 or 3.9, you just beed to know to consume some sugar to make it go back up. Same for high blood sugar, you need to get it back down asap. The other thing is, what is this device measuring exactly? As you surmise, it may not be the blood sugar directly, it may be some other bodily fluid that its using to calculate blood sugar, and in ketosis that relationship between fluids may be different.
I just wanted to pop off here in the doobleydook to say that I unsubscribed back when the channel wanted to undertake that experiment about the UA-cam algorithm. This was the first video back from the abyss that was recommended to me during my otherwise normal watching habits, and I have now gleefully resubscribed to the channel. I figured I ought to leave a comment for science if that experiment was still ongoing.
When I had my sensor I was told that the blood stick is always the way to go but that the sensor was "Close enough" for monitoring. I stopped using the sensor because it just gets in the way.
bumble I’ve been practicing fasting as well for a year or two now. Funny thing though the guy I get it from calls it speed. Must not be a northerner. I find it definitely helped me lose weight and I feel terrible when I’m not doin it. Better keep on I spose
My bro was diabetic so he had plenty of sugar meters kicking around for me to use. Being an old f*ck and a lifelong carboholic, I reckon that it couldn't hurt to keep track. Over the past decade or so, I have noticed that the old blood sugar spikes higher and takes longer to settle the feck down again after a bread binge, than it used to. The keto sticks produce very interesting results when doing the low carb thing. Even when I'm virtually zero carbs, there are times in the day where I drop out of keto. Maybe it's just a blood dilution thing. Maybe it's my body creating sugary gold out of base protein and fat. Dunno, but it is interesting. Also while being a carbless ne'er-do-well, my metered blood sugar rarely gets below 4. Weird. It's almost as if the human body is a very complicated and somewhat unpredictable meat machine. Stoopid body. I have tried fasting but being a natural born and bred binger, those damned cravings get me showing up at the Circle K at all hours and waking up in an alley the next day covered in Reese's wrappers, powdered sugar and shame. My best success (would that be the same as worst failures?) have come from cutting out the damnable carbules to the best of my ability. I stock up the fridge with meat and veggies, a few apples and strawberries to give my palate a break, and don't worry about calories for the first week. The point is to tone down the carbulicious cravings. After that...the appetite just seems to quit bugging me so damned much. A guy (or at least this guy) can pack away endless portions of 'taters and such, but non carbs seem to have a way of quelling the urge to endlessly distend the grub hamper. So far, it's been over 60 years of this fecking yoyo. One day it actually might work. Here's hoping.
the glucose monitors that don't measure your blood directly are essentially useless, they're always different than your actual blood glucose reading and lag behind it by several minutes. my dad tried one a few years back, switched back to his old test strip arm pokey one soon after.
2.6? Isn't that dangerously low? Isn't below 4.0 considered hypoglycemia?
Yes, it is low, but that number isn't the whole picture. To grossly oversimply; the ketones produced during fasting take up the slack.
@@arduinoversusevil2025 please watch yourself, sugar levels outsode of the normal range run a havoc throughout your whole body, eyes, blood vesles, and the imune system are a few that are highly sensitive to blood sugar levels. Type 2 diabetic here.
@@arduinoversusevil2025Might be why it wont calibrate to the level as 2.6 as for a diabetic a large number of charts say seek immediate medical attention, so maybe the dexcom is thinking its an outlier as you would have symptoms of hypoglycemia at that point. Although hard to say what effects you would have as most charts and information are based on Diabetics, stating that low blood sugar can cause seizures and brain damage and in type 2 it can cause hard damage as well.
Funny thing is now a lot of charts im seeing are no longer showing low blood sugar as a danger zone.
@@jackgroove but isn't that slightly different because, if you're a type 1 then I presume you're injecting insulin? And then if you're injecting insulin and your levels are below 4 then you're not injecting/eating the correct combination to keep within your targets? Having high blood sugar isn't good for the long term but it isn't going to cause an immediate negative health event. Having low blood sugar is immediately dangerous and you could end up in hospital very quickly? (P.s. these are all questions rather than me telling you - I'm no expert)
@@arduinoversusevil2025 and do you know anything about ketoacidosis? I know that diabetics need to watch out for that. Is that a risk for non diabetics also?
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As a diabetic who has used these for over two years now, you should be aware that they have a reported error up to +-15% and a delay to react to change up to 15 minutes.
Still a million times better then a meter but not quite what you are trying to get from them.
That seems to be the consensus; great for diabeetus not for bumblefuckery.
Also Tylenol can widely throw off things with falsely high readings!
@@mattgayda2840 in addition, if he's pregnant the numbers will be way off.
Diabetic here as well, and on pump therapy. I've been using the Medtronic version of this. While calibrating, it can vary quite a bit once and a while. I've had 50-80mg/dL difference at times(2.8-4.4mmol/L). Is there a specific glucose meter they had you use? I have to use a specific one to link to the pump for calibrations. It sucks.
@@twan923 I would get a list of good ones that people seem to like/give good reviews, then talk to your doctor about them. I don't know much about diabetes but it might be one of those things where different meters/methods work better on different people, or for different needs. Could be wrong though.
Glad to see you putting work into your health. Makes a huge difference in your logevity, and we will need guys like you to help rebuild after we screw it all up!
3 days into my fast and i can literally smell all individual ingredients in the food the missus is preparing. It's like having superpowers. Absolutely crazy the amount of adaptation and tweaking of the sense the brain does. Imagine going 15-20 days without any food, and you might get a glimpse at how our ancestors used to track down game.
And the first food you taste when breaking an extended fast has an incredible taste.
A friend of mine recently chased a deer to exhaustion and choked it because he didn't have his knife.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts, ideas and videos. Having used continuous blood monitoring for some time I find your take on it quite interesting. I have yet to pull apart a Dexcom applicator but I did take apart many of the freestyle libre applicators in the past. They have a really nice spring inside that went in the junk pile for later motivation and a rather spooky needle that inserts the wire into your arm. As nice as these systems are I’m amazed at the nonsense you toss in the garbage. Might make an interesting dissection video and cost estimate for the value in the parts you just spike in the circular file. Wishing you and your family the best.
Alright this is up my alley s as I have been doing this for a while!
You are in ketosis, congrats!
Note it will be easy to eat once a day … which will have a bunch of benefits.
The ONE thing to keep track is that you take in enough salt and potassium. If you are not feeling very well it’s either that or the gut is readjusting the bacteria….
Good luck brother! Man, I can listen to you talk about anything!
My T1D friend says "Congrats, you have a functioning pancreas" meaning that a glucose meter is mostly useless for you.
The keto strips on the other hand are of use early on, but also become useless after a few weeks as they detect _excess_ ketones.
Sounds like your friend is a bit of a cynical curmudgeon.
Majority of folks could use a GM and potentially avoid T2 diagnosis in the future.
Keto strips are not useless at all. Most people getting into BS, GM, Keto, etc are still learning how it all inter-relates.
Using Keto strips to know when you get into Ketosis is one thing.
Checking every so often on your journey will help you find out how well you are meeting expectations and how your personal genetics handle diet/macro changes.
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No. The majority of folks have a thousand more important ways to spend $1000.
For most people this is just a terrible game boy, with no games, and it stabs you.
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The strips only detect the Ketones excreted through the urine (which are excess/wasted), so you're not even getting the whole picture.
Once someone is metabolically adapted to efficiently convert Ketones with enough Mitochondria to handle the job, none are wasted through urine, and are all transported and consumed in the blood... hence the need for the blood tests long term.
They're not that much anymore... my Keto Mojo runs about $1 to test for both Ketones and Glucose... whereas my Glucose only monitor from about 3 years prior was also $1 a test, just for Glucose.
@@boots7859its almost like you didnt read the original comment at all
@@buckbuckleyson2259or assumes everyone needs a monitor which is just as insane
I get the feeling that what you are trying to use the sensor for is way more subtle than it is capable of. If you are diabetic you are much more interested in the large or sudden changes in glucose levels.
Great to hear about your life style change! Keep it up!
Great start ... Keep up the good work ... I know with your temperament after all these year - You can do anything you put your mind too.... Thanks for sharing ... Stay safe and well ....
View from the MTB climb looks pretty awesome! Wish we had stuff like that where I lived.
Irish paramedic here, very very interesting, I just didn’t know. Thank you, more research to do now. You might have saved a life there bud, will be reconsidering the glucagon administration as well as doubting anything the patients family and monitor say. We do our own BG as per protocol anyways but that might have thrown me for a loop.
Came here to learn about tools and engineering and had to learn biochemistry instead! Well done old bean, fascinating as always.
Not sure if this will help, but when I needed to lose 10kg in weight, I used a heart monitor while exercising. I seem to recall that it was holding a steady heart rate of something like 125 to 140 BPM for work outs (for a woman of my age) to burn fat rather than sugar. It shouldn't be that different for you. Good luck and stay awesome.
We used one of these to figure out how my GF responded to food (type II diabetes) back in 2022. It as the freestyle libre 2 version. Wonderful tool and seems easier to calibrate.
Turns out she wasn't type II diabetic anymore, haha. Confirmed with those blood sticker things as well.
She's been off meds for it for 2.5 months. The endocrinologist thinks it was from her loosing weight and exercising, but the change happened before these two things occurred.
Proof that a disturbing percentage of those in the medical community, are not getting the proper training regarding human nutrition!
Lifestyle Libre works better IMHO as well.
This is really interesting. I'd wondered about these sensors. I've been using a combo glucose + ketone meter (lifesmart LS-946) for a bit over a year and it's worked well. You have to buy sets of ketone strips and the glucose strips separately but you can use the same finger prick to get a ready for each so it's no big deal to get both readings at the same time. It's been fascinating to see how my glucose and ketones vary throughout the day, especially across a 2 or 3 day fast. I can confirm that my glucose will change between 4.3 and 5.9ish during a multi day fast, even when my ketone are above 1. On a fast I'll probably do 3 or 4 pricks through out the day. It seems to depend on what activity I've been doing. FWIW, Fasting and dudicious application of keto has helped me go from 120kg with a fatty liver to ~ 82kg and routinely running 30km a week all in the space of 18 months. Watching the numbers has helped me learn how my body responds to food and activity in a really useful way so I don't feel like I'll be sliding back into the old ways.
Numbers are cool. Well done!
As a diabetic, when I lived in Colorado and was able to hike 20 miles a day on average I only needed to inject like 8 units max of insulin for the whole day and my A1C was 5.8. Also, rubbing alcohol on the adhesive. As a hairy ape using a Dexcom and an insulin pump, rubbing alcohol is the best at making adhesives pliable enough to rip off one's hairy skin. I buy reagent grade by the gallon and it lasts a while.
Thanks for being you brother!
Type 1 Diabetic here for about 30 years. I've worn these for years and years now, different iterations and manufactures. They won't be reading much for you, you're healthy and your blood glucose just doesn't swing that much one way or the tother. You probably never will as long as your pancreas can keep up. Now if you sat there and drank 3 liters of mountain dew and then looked you might see a spike, but NOTHING like the huge dangerous swings you'll see in a diabetic, even a Type-II diabetic.
These sensors don't read blood per-se. They read the amount of glucose present in the underlying fluid, so there is a delay, even above the delay your bloodstream will show. Remember, glucose goes from your mouth, to your stomach, to your intestines, to your blood (to simplify things), and then to your cells once it leaves the blood stream. (again, to simplify things) That all takes time, and it doesn't all happen at once, different food sources break down at different rates.
Interesting stuff AvE!!
Currently reading a book called Ultra-Processed People -> Home cooked meals are the way to go! It highlights how modern-day ultra-processed food has been engineered to make companies profits healthy, not people! Regarding the sensor not accepting the calibration - could you introduce an offset and try to trick it?
My observation is that dexcom really needs 24 hours to stabilize, and then it is rock solid, between 3 and 20 or so.
Outside of those ranges seems to be nonlinear. In addition, if the sensor happens to hit a blood vessel, you may get odd readings. From what i saw, though, things didn't match up. CGMs are designed to catch your lows, since that is life or death.
I'd also double check your meter. At 2.5, people can faint. I'd definitely not drive at 2.5...
Good on you for taking care of yourself.
I’d expect that sensor to have a data sheet showing its useful range it can detect as well as its tolerance within the range. It’s be good information to have
The spec sheet lists 2.2-22.2mmol/L glucose range and 1.1-33.3 calibration range. Absolute error is 9.8% for adults.
Pardon my ignorance, but often I have no effin idea what you talkin aboot. I never met a dude whose chosen language was Custom.
This might be the funniest comment I've ever seen on an AvE vid. 😂 👏
Not everyone has been chased by a pack of rez dogs, it's ok!
Is there a lead-in video that explains all the to-do that this and the last few videos embody?
Type 1 diabetic here, had this for like 2 years. Absolutely amazing. My insurance use to give me supplies to test my glucose 3-4 times a day, with this I get readings every 5 minutes 24 hours a day. Even better it alerts me if it’s dropping rapidly or rising rapidly and it will notify me if it goes under/above limits I set. Not that you non diabetics care haha
switch to a carnivore keto diet, your body will thank you and the hypo's go away once you stop overdosing insulin and putting yourself in the pid oscillation problem of control.
Same here. Life changing technology.
Massively life changing.
I'll third that second. Life changing nay lifesaving
@@jackgroove I should try a pump, but the one I want to be on isn't covered by insurance yet.
I went through basic training, got very fit and lean. Then went to tech skool, lived in a dorm with cafe in basement and had dessert after every meal (cakes, ice cream, etc). I went to Dallas for weekend leave. I ate my meals but did not have desserts. On Saturday night I had dinner and went to see Pulp Fiction in theater. During the overdose scene I wasn’t feeling good so I got up and went for some air. Last thing I remember was pushing the door open. Next thing I’m waking up to my wife slapping my face while I’m laying on the floor . I tried to stand up and fainted again. Ambulance was called, the Paramedic said right away “I bet it’s low blood sugar.” It was 35. My wife bought some M&M’s and 10 minutes later I walked out, missed the rest of the movie for years! You can train your pancreas…
For me, going into ketosis, the best option was the keto-sticks and the blood glucose meter. When I was in ketosis my blood sugar was rock solid. The prick stopped bothering me after the first week.
Would love to see the G6 sensor teardown. Get some home brew version up and running maybe?
I just started using the Dexcom G6 a month ago. The app on my phone drained my battery to about 50% in just 5-6 hours, and I had to keep the phone on the charger most of the time I was at home. So I ended up getting the receiver that they make for it, and the problem is solved. Phone battery life is back to normal now, and the receiver keeps tabs well enough. Overall I'm liking the Dexcom, even though I have to pay quite a bit for the sensors and transmitter with my insurance.
On my 3rd Freestyle Libre 3, and the second one i had would lag pretty bad. By the time it alarmed on low blood glucose, finger prick was normal. Same on both sides, i’d feel jittery, and it hadn’t registered low yet. But the 3rd one is pretty averaged out. Just gotta spend time with both and learn your pattern.
I'm glad I sorta accidentally started fasting way young. Never had to deal with the shakes. I just eat a little in the morning, then eat dinner and that's my daily routine. Sometimes I skip a meal if I'm not hungry or ate a lot the night before. I think the important thing is sorta resetting your body/brain so that it's getting hungry/full at the correct times to maintain weight. I used to be 300lbs and hungry all the time. Now I can fully trust that if I'm hungry, I should eat something and if I'm full, I'm good to go. Listening to that for about 2.5 years now and I'm maintaining a healthy weight, so at least it works for me.
Safe ketosis can be achieved by adopting the KETO diet,or the Mediterranean way. Olive oil and MCT oil can trigger the liver into ketosis and fuel your brain so you don't get the "brain fog". Carb restriction is paramount to successful ketosis and weight loss as the liver converts fat into energy. Protein restriction is also necessary,as the liver can convert meat into sugar. In other words,eat like a wild critter(deer or turkey) and reap the benefits of low BP,glucose,BMI,ETC.
Your mileage may vary,and do so only under supervision of a Functional Nutritionist. I am not a doctor,just s Cave Man. LOL
Much improved! Didn’t make me as uncomfortable as the last one.
Even when he pulled the thing out of the thing?
@@chrisenstad getting stuck multiple times is worse than the belly hair to me
That's good to know about that sensor! I've considered switching to it from my current medtronic.. but mine works, my tissue on the issue is the adhesive doesn't work well, in the summer it always fell off. I wonder if the calibration issue would work if the units were changed.. just for sharts n giggles.. try in mg/dl.. 🤷♂️
Do you think there would be off target effects of the ketosis messing with the glucose readings? Gf works in an endocrinology dept and said when patients are in dka standard care isn’t to use cgm but finger prick still
Would be super awesome to see a BOLTR of the new milwaukee 2967 gen 3 high torque impact! Looks like some super cool enginerding went into it versus the models of old
i started with " time restricted feeding " aka: intermittent fasting and then moved to OMAD ( one meal a day ) in the late evening with the family. besides losing 60+ lbs and getting back down to my pre-marital weight again, Ive been feeling great with no more bouts of getting " the itis " from over-eating mid-day etc. so far, the only ill-side effects of eating far less is making sure what little I do actually eat is as healthy and nutritious as it needs to be. my latest bloodwork showed my sodium levels at the bottom end of the acceptable range and I am just barely mildly anemic atm from the significant reduction in red meat consumption. luckily my lizard and I both enjoy mustard greens and I eat kale and broccoli raw like it's going out of style in the evenings, 😅 the benefits outweigh the detriments if you ask me
I'm obviously not your doctor - do not take medical advice from me.
But low sodium can be a problem. Sodium isn't bad - in some people it can contribute to high blood pressure, but the dietary guidelines assume that everyone suffers from the same disease. It's not rare AT ALL in processed food, but it can be rare in home cooked meals if you don't add it in. One teaspoon of salt is ~2,000mg sodium. It's quite a lot.
You must love oxalic acid man
@@buckbuckleyson2259 hopefully that's a good thing, lol
I've been time restricted OMAD for about 10 years now. I work for one of that labs used in the Panda studies and the preprint on the paper was enough to convince me. I reversed my hyperglycemia, lost about 40 lbs and my liver panel looks like I'm 20 years old. I was keto prior to the TRF but now I just eat what I want and as much of it as I want (but it still leans toward keto). I just do it between the hours of 6pm and 9pm.
@@SyBernot 6pm and 9pm?😬 I can only assume due to lifestyle/career choices. Best to eat while sun is up
Im right with with buddy! My A¹c was at 11.4 2 months ago so Im doing Keto and intermittent fasting.
Trying to stay at it!
Hey AvE, were you refering to the Dutch Winterhonger with your line about your pappy in utero?
FWIW, I've noticed certain analog signals present during a state of ketosis as well as signs of hypoglycemia. I can even use an analog wristwatch to calculate the relative length of times spent eating and fasting. Noticing such details, I can even look into how my usual mode of breathing proceeds, or whether I am outdoors at all in the morning, etc.
All this crap can be a bothersome chore, or I can remember that my time is not unlimited -- that the opportunity to try anything new will one day end.
Super-good information here. I've been wanting to do this for myself (keto/Carnivore diet here with IF).
If you're just starting, one thing a lot of people don't get warned about when losing weight through fasting and maintaining ketosis is gallstone risk. A lot of ketogenic diets of course contain high fat, which stave off gallstones by keeping it active. But if you just fast regularly to enter ketosis without periodically ensuring your diet outside of fasting has fats so the gallbladder can do it's thing, then you'll be at high risk of gallstones.
Even knowing all the risks and having studied human metabolism, I managed to get it wrong when losing only ~40 lbs. Gallstones are Fing painful.
Talk about programming the Haas. I understand that just as little, but I feel better about it.
i wore the G6 for a few years and never calibrated. my Doc specifically recommended not calibrating for reasons that i don't recall. The G5 definitely required calibration after the initial insertion. i switched to the Libre 3 just this year and highly recommend it over the Dexcom for ergonomic reasons. i definitely recommend it if you keep on with this bio-hacking.
Keep in mind that since the keto sticks measure the ketones in your urine, they aren't measuring what is circulating in your bloodstream.
Absolutely! Urine ketone strips measure EXCESS ketones. By the time you have moderate levels of ketones in the urine you have boatloads in the bloodstream. This is the body is avoiding having too very high levels of ketones (such as in DKA) by dumping ketones.
I got into ketoacidosis a couple times now. Wouldnt wish it on my worst enemies/employers.
Some times you can adjust calibration range limits. I have one of these units but have yet to try it. Gunshy after Medtronic fuggered me real good a few years back
Please do a tear-down of it when you replace it with another.
I noticed after repeated fasting to varying degrees over the past couple years, my glucose would be rock solid, even through a 5 day fast. I guess my body just had to get good at making it, so it did.
As a diabetic who has been using one of these for over a year now I always save the little wire that goes into your skin from the sensor hoping that it might be gold, platinum or something neat?? Can’t wait to see you take it to pieces
When talking ketones, 2.6 is very good, for weight loss 3 to 3.5 is optimal if you're fat adapted ( burning fat for your bodies energy ) the liver will convert protein into glucose. The protein will be from your dietary intake but it's not uncommon to loose a little mussel mass. The brain runs very well on ketones and dose not need excess carbs. I found fasting to be very helpful and for me fasting up to 48 hours was optimal. I did however do a 72 hour fast once ( trying to achieve optimum autophagy ) and found it to be a set back as it had put me off fasting for some time, up to the 48 hours is my sweet point. Good luck AvE only good things to come.
Also, cancer cells love ketones. That's why keto is not recommended for healthy individuals
As someone who has had all types of medical patches ripped off my body let me say it goes much better to work a sharp knife blade or razor blade under the patch and cut through the hair as you pull. It goes much smoother.
Single point cal? If it won't accept the low value, can you cal it to the lowest value it will accept and then apply the offset "manually".
When is the monitor going to be disassembled? I'm waiting two videos already.
G’day from the east coast of Australia (Brisbane), A thought I had the other day was would it be possible to measure the resistance across the blood glucose test strips with a multi meter and if so what differentiating results would appear
Would like to see results also might be testing for myself as I’ve just acquired a monitor kit with a cholesterol test as well food for thought experiment
Have a buddy that is diabetic, those worn units seem to be almost melted together. He gave me a new one to take apart, ended up using a vice to crack it open. Careful trying to open one!
also, KETO-MOJO GK+ Bluetooth Glucose & Ketone Testing Kit, comes with control solutions
Institute of human anatomy had some excellent video on how the body system Burns sugar when exercising and the rates at which fat is consumed etc
Dont know About mcdonald's but I live near a burger king and the smell coming from that place at noon is the most divine stench ever
Understanding "dietary water" is helpful too. MRE Steve dropped a k bomb about it on one of his most recent videos. :)
Wow I haven't watched your channel in 6 years and nothing has changed...well...we got old.
Forgot i wasnt subscribed yet have still been getting the vidjeos on the regulars. Are we resubscribing or waiting it out?
As a T1D who once had the good graces to use one of these devices, I'm a bit jealous of your bility to access these. It won't let you calibrate low as a safety feature cause otherwise it's screaming at ya.
Did you activate it in zero cal mode or whatever they call frequent calibration mode? Either way, I've found that if your reading is a long way off from your actual BG, you can usually only make it reliably accept 20mgdl shifts in calibration at a time, I guess that's around 1 mmol change. So Try doing a calibration half way to where you wanna get, wait a few hours, and calibrate again.
I'm not a person with diabetus, but i do work in the medical engineering field and deal with these things.
It might come as a shock to people that not eating carbs gives you a steady blood sugar. The liver is good at processing things in other food stuff into glucose.
I've worn a G6 for two years before switching to a Medtronic pump and sensor, and in my experience, the G6 has always read within 20 mg/dl (no idea what that is in mmol/l).
Though i've also worn it on the arm, and not on the stomach.
Or multiply mg/dL by 0.0555 to get mmol/L. My daughter's has gone over the discrepancy of 20 mg/dL, usually higher, especially after a same sensor restart.
@@PBVader I live in Germany, and I don't have any copay for the sensors, so I didn't ever bother with Sensor restarts.
Where do i get one of them there, nifty thumb smackers!?
"I'm not an easy man on equipment"
The understatement of the millennium 🤣
Just ordered some stickies from your Etsy. 3 bucks for standard shipping here in the land of the long arms but for a paltry sum of 20,000 bucks (American monies not the ungulate) I could have got it a day sooner. Can’t rush perfection.
The original Atkins diet, before the DR succumbed to rigor mortis and profiteers took it over, was designed to help diabetics reduce or potentially eliminate their need to take insulin. Weight loss is actually a side effect. Done correctly the diet will keep you in Ketosis for several months until you reach the amount of carbs to knock you out of it. The first week can be tough though. I was so exhausted I was a literal zombie by the 3rd day. Got home after work, passed out on the couch, woke up at 6am the next morning without the assistance of an alarm clock and with more energy than a teenage boy on prom night. I lost 50lbs over the next 2 months, all while eating steak, eggs, bacon, cheese and thanks to a bad foot, without exercise. Bio-hacking is real, it works, but as everyone is a little different you should monitor all your numbers closely. Unfortunately there are a slew of products out there that claim to make this easier, faster, more accurate that just don't live up to their hype. That's why I recommend people stick with simple tried and true equipment and to avoid anything that requires an app.
I'm in shape.. Round is a shape....
Been doing "OMAD" (One Meal A Day) for the last few months...now MOAR oblong than round..
given the state of the world...a lotta people maybe fasting involuntarily soonish..
I use a ketone meter. dietary ketosis ranges from 0.5 to 3.0 on the meter. my understanding of ketosis is that while some fasting may be good, too much and your body begins robbing protein from your muscles in order to produce the ketones. I always eat a small amount of fat, say a couple of sausage patties for breakfast and then on "fasting" days I eat shrimp to provide some protein. my carbs i strictly limit to less than 15 a day.
Brings a whole new dimension to the healing bench. MERCH SUGGESTION/Episode title: shirt, sticker "Thank you for not sharing your bodily fluids!"
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Isn't the implanted glucose meter supposed to calibrate the baseline out from fasting?
When you said you "wanted to bonk", I didn't expect "your bloodsugar".
ur in my realm now. looks like Phophokinase is back on the menue boys
I'm type 2 and just switched to Ozempic from a similar (and more expensive) drug Victoza that I've been on 2-3 years. Didn't take much adjusting since they are very very similar drug mechanisms. Appetite suppression makes fasting easy and the blood sugar seems to be improved greatly. Ozempic keeps food in the stomach for about 4 hours versus the normal 15 minutes which prevents hunger and discourages overeating as well. Since I'm type 2 already I don't get any shite from the insurance company about coverage. Don't know how Cannukistan's health plan is but it works for me in Californistantinople.
Don't worry about ketosis or not. It's about cutting carbs and adding in saturated animal fats. No doubts about it. Keep it up. Don't worry about sugar staying so stable on that meter. When you eat seed oils local areas get insulin resistance. The fixing of those areas isn't going to show on that monitor in that area where it stabs in. Or just the calibration or drift.
Dexcom takes the first blood finger stick measurement and halves its sensor reading. Enter it again and you would usually be where your finger stick meter says you are. Another thing you need to keep in mind is that there is a MANUFACTURING deviation. In America, the FDA says a 20% variance is acceptable. The problem is you don't know which direction its off.
Also, there is a LAG time between BLOOD readings and INTERSTITIAL fluid. So for them to be identical is kind of a UNICORN.
I get the best results with a single calibration when she's at 80 to 120 mg/dL, but it's still off by 5 or so. I err on the low side just a touch because she's young.
It's never off by that much though. My 90 day GMI reading was 5.9%. When I had my 90 day A1C blood work (which is the most accurate you're going to get) it was 6.1%. I only had to calibrate 1 out of the more than one dozen sensors I've installed, and that one didn't last the full 10 days. I got a replacement for it in the mail. These things don't even need calibration if you use the numbers that come on them.
3 things.
1 adhesive removes better if you put iso propyl alcohol on it.
2. In order to find out how your liver and pancreas work and how your insulin consumes glucose with what rate you need to perform a glucose tolerance test.
3. Keep it up boss.
Olive or Canola oil removes that adhesive almost instantaneously.
I’m just surprised the whole works wasn’t taking to bits laid on the healing bench first to make it proper calibrated.
It's great that you're working on your health-fasting is one of the best things you can do! Keep up the great work!!
I've been on a ketogenic diet for past 9 months through health insurance. I use a Keto-mojo meter that can test your blood glucose and blood ketone levels. Ideal nutritional ketosis is between 1.0-3.0 ketones on that type of test. Art and Science of Low Carb Living by Phinney and Volek is a really good resource on the science. If you limit carbs to
Last year I fasted for five days just to see if I could. People say it gets better but it didn't really for me. I felt 6/10 hunger from ten hours in all the way until I was done. Not excruciating but pretty annoying. Best part about it was just the time savings of not having to cook meals and clean up
Are we supposed to be subscribed or not subscribed? Anywho, my elderly mom uses the ones that glue on, the little pucks, jam them into the upper arm. Seems to work good. Proprietary bullshit though. You would have to decode their wireless stuff, I assume Bluetooth. She just uses it to stay alive another day. Doesn't care to track it over time any more than the machine already does it for her.
Ita weird that it won't accept your calibration. I'm a Type 1 diabetic with one of these cyborg devices in my arm, so I'm quite familiar.
If i calibrate, the number is usually super close to what the G6 says. Usually on the graph it splits the difference between your reading and the G6 reading on its way to working within the new parameters.
If the calibration number is way off, it goes into an error state and dowsnt give you a reading. Usually it can recover from the error state after awhile.
I suspect a couple of different things could be at play here. All diabetic testing equipment is calibrated to work best within a certain range, which is gonna be something like 3.5-14 mmol/l. From a diabetic perspective it doesnt matter if the reading is 2.2 or 3.9, you just beed to know to consume some sugar to make it go back up. Same for high blood sugar, you need to get it back down asap.
The other thing is, what is this device measuring exactly? As you surmise, it may not be the blood sugar directly, it may be some other bodily fluid that its using to calculate blood sugar, and in ketosis that relationship between fluids may be different.
The first 100 years of Life are the most difficult
Your measuring A1C I take it? What's your glucose reading?
I just wanted to pop off here in the doobleydook to say that I unsubscribed back when the channel wanted to undertake that experiment about the UA-cam algorithm. This was the first video back from the abyss that was recommended to me during my otherwise normal watching habits, and I have now gleefully resubscribed to the channel. I figured I ought to leave a comment for science if that experiment was still ongoing.
Just bought a box of the G6 sensors today. Ain't cheap.
When I had my sensor I was told that the blood stick is always the way to go but that the sensor was "Close enough" for monitoring. I stopped using the sensor because it just gets in the way.
Double the calibration number then divide the result?
AvE, if you give it 2 calibrations directly back to back it forces it to report the number of your input
How long you going for? Did 34 days .
bumble I’ve been practicing fasting as well for a year or two now. Funny thing though the guy I get it from calls it speed. Must not be a northerner. I find it definitely helped me lose weight and I feel terrible when I’m not doin it. Better keep on I spose
My bro was diabetic so he had plenty of sugar meters kicking around for me to use. Being an old f*ck and a lifelong carboholic, I reckon that it couldn't hurt to keep track. Over the past decade or so, I have noticed that the old blood sugar spikes higher and takes longer to settle the feck down again after a bread binge, than it used to.
The keto sticks produce very interesting results when doing the low carb thing. Even when I'm virtually zero carbs, there are times in the day where I drop out of keto. Maybe it's just a blood dilution thing. Maybe it's my body creating sugary gold out of base protein and fat. Dunno, but it is interesting. Also while being a carbless ne'er-do-well, my metered blood sugar rarely gets below 4. Weird. It's almost as if the human body is a very complicated and somewhat unpredictable meat machine. Stoopid body.
I have tried fasting but being a natural born and bred binger, those damned cravings get me showing up at the Circle K at all hours and waking up in an alley the next day covered in Reese's wrappers, powdered sugar and shame.
My best success (would that be the same as worst failures?) have come from cutting out the damnable carbules to the best of my ability. I stock up the fridge with meat and veggies, a few apples and strawberries to give my palate a break, and don't worry about calories for the first week. The point is to tone down the carbulicious cravings. After that...the appetite just seems to quit bugging me so damned much. A guy (or at least this guy) can pack away endless portions of 'taters and such, but non carbs seem to have a way of quelling the urge to endlessly distend the grub hamper.
So far, it's been over 60 years of this fecking yoyo. One day it actually might work. Here's hoping.
Why does it look like you should check your glucose via a rear entry with this device?
Youll have to valter longo on the fasting mimicking diet
I eat most, not all days. Sometimes two days no food. Human bodies are incredibly adaptable
the glucose monitors that don't measure your blood directly are essentially useless, they're always different than your actual blood glucose reading and lag behind it by several minutes. my dad tried one a few years back, switched back to his old test strip arm pokey one soon after.