{"id":82476,"date":"2018-09-10T14:23:01","date_gmt":"2018-09-10T21:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/non-diabetics-are-using-diabetes-technology-to-track-their-blood-sugar-and-improve-their-health"},"modified":"2018-09-10T14:23:01","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T21:23:01","slug":"non-diabetics-are-using-diabetes-technology-to-track-their-blood-sugar-and-improve-their-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/non-diabetics-are-using-diabetes-technology-to-track-their-blood-sugar-and-improve-their-health","title":{"rendered":"Non-diabetics are using diabetes technology to track their blood sugar and improve their health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/non-diabetics-are-using-diabetes-technology-to-track-their-blood-sugar-and-improve-their-health.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers don\u2019t know much about whether people who aren\u2019t diabetic should avoid having glucose spikes after meals, or whether, by contrast, average glucose levels are more important \u2014 things that need to be studied, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re right to be asking it. I don\u2019t have data to give guidance on how to interpret it,\u201d Bergenstal said. \u201cI think they\u2019re right to say it can\u2019t be bad if I keep my blood sugars more stable. It\u2019s a reasonable assumption, but we don\u2019t have the data for it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s generally accepted that non-diabetics are better able to regulate their glucose levels. A higher than normal level, meanwhile, indicates prediabetes. But a new study out of Stanford University in late July that used CGMs on 57 participants, including diabetics and non-diabetics, had a surprising finding.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/people-are-using-diabetes-technology-to-track-their-blood-sugar-and-improve-their-health-2018-09-10\">https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/people-are-using-diabetes-...;09&#45;10<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers don\u2019t know much about whether people who aren\u2019t diabetic should avoid having glucose spikes after meals, or whether, by contrast, average glucose levels are more important \u2014 things that need to be studied, he said. \u201cThey\u2019re right to be asking it. I don\u2019t have data to give guidance on how to interpret it,\u201d Bergenstal [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}