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Levels Health is designed to monitor your body’s glucose response to different stimuli.
High spikes in your glucose levels are bad, but every body is different.
Costs a hefty $400 for the one-month program. Currently in late-stage beta trials.
“... a general health and wellness program not intended to diagnose, manage, or treat any health conditions,” - Dr. Casey Means, co-founder and CMO.
Uses a continuous glucose monitor (CGM) called the Freestyle Libre, made by Abbott.
Each one lasts for 14 days.
The disk-shaped sensor comes embedded in a larger, round plastic stamp.
the device actually sticks you with a little pin, which is instantly withdrawn and replaced with a little, flexible, quarter-inch thread, which is about the thickness of a single bristle on a hairbrush. Levels promises that it’s completely painless, and indeed it was. I literally could not feel it at all, either during or after.
The sensor logs a sample every minute and transfers all of the data over to your phone.
You log all of your food and exercise in the app.
Levels recommends you keep your glucose levels between 70 and 110 mg/dL.
The name of the game is avoiding glucose spikes and dips.
After eating a particular one protein bar - glucose spike aggressively.
My body doesn’t mind some sugar alcohols, but other types of sugar alcohols cause a strong reaction.
I could mitigate the negative impact of one thing by adding something else.
Levels emails you daily and weekly reports.
Sensor itself can only store eight hours’ worth of data points.
Levels works with Apple Health and Google Fit to automatically import activities.
Levels is targeting a full launch sometime in 2022.
