Jordan Syatt's Blood Sugar Experiment. Are Continuous Glucose Monitors Worthless?

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Have you ever eaten a bag of Skittles for breakfast? Or eaten straight sugar with a spoon?
My friend ‪@jordansyatt‬ did an extreme experiment just to prove a point.
He monitored his blood sugar every day using a continuous glucose monitor whilst intentionally eating foods that would spike it as much as possible.
Although many of the foods he consumed were not nutritious, by the end of the 30-day experiment, he’d lost 12lbs and improved some of his health markers.
This is not a scientific study, but it is an incredible demonstration of why monitoring your blood glucose can be misleading (for healthy individuals without diabetes).
Many people hyperfocus on their blood glucose in isolation thinking that any foods that raise it are bad or that they need to keep it as low as possible at all times if they want to lose body fat and improve their health, which simply isn’t true.
Berries, chicken, rice and oatmeal are all nutritious, but will raise your blood glucose.
Drinking oil and deep frying everything to make sure it is extra fatty will lower your blood glucose responses, despite not being signs of a healthy dietary pattern.
While continuous glucose monitors obviously have validity for diabetics, the trend of non-diabetics wearing them is getting out of hand. This demonstration helps explain why.
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References:
- Utilising a Real-Time Continuous Glucose Monitor as Part of a Low Glycaemic Index and Load Diet and Determining Its Effect on Improving Dietary Intake, Body Composition and Metabolic Parameters of Overweight and Obese Young Adults: A Randomised Controlled Trial
- Assessment of a Personalized Approach to Predicting Postprandial Glycemic Responses to Food Among Individuals Without Diabetes
- Personalized Nutrition by Prediction of Glycemic Responses
- Imprecision nutrition? Duplicate meals result in unreliable individual glycemic responses measured by continuous glucose monitors across three dietary patterns in adults without diabetes
- Imprecision nutrition? Different simultaneous continuous glucose monitors provide discordant meal rankings for incremental postprandial glucose in subjects without diabetes

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@fakenorwegian4743 8 месяцев назад

I am almost 55 years old and I train with a trainer 3 times a week, walk every day, and do the stairs at UCLA every Sunday. I weigh 148 lbs at 5'11." I love oatmeal and raisins for breakfast, sometimes lunch and sometimes dinner. I love to eat oatmeal. I just watch the portion size, add some butter and salt and enjoy the meal. The demonization of oatmeal right now is CRAZY. It seems like the health & fitness RU-vidrs have run out of foods to criticize and all eyes have turned to oatmeal.

@jas1265 7 месяцев назад

Thank you so much for posting this. I have found myself getting very obsessed with glucose tracking (I’m not diabetic) and ended up ripping the monitor off me because it had such a detrimental effect on my mental health.

@kasialebek6256 8 месяцев назад

Thank you thank you for introducing him to me - great guy, amazing content :)

@esencialnizdravi8608 3 месяца назад

Thank you!!!

@UnCoolDad 8 месяцев назад

Is there perhaps the argument that blood sugar spikes make you consume more calories? I have a CGM, but am T2. It has been a game changer for me to see what foods spike my blood glucose, and which do not. I have found that if I keep to about 20g or less of complex carbs per meal, I get no blood sugar surge (as T2 I get surges and a plateau rather than spikes). If I keep my carbs low like this, my appetite is also low/normal. I wonder if this info would help people with weight loss. I keep seeing ads on my feed for Zoe which is a CGM but with a difference app. Sounds like snake oil, but maybe it helps non diabetics.

@stargazerbird 8 месяцев назад

Two points. Jordan is very insulin sensitive unlike a lot of people trying to improve their health. He may not have the same cravings etc. He said little about whether he got hungry. Eating most of your calories from protein and fibre is the way to stave off hunger. I once tried the cheesecake diet. I figured it was the food I enjoyed the most so just eat that on a calorie deficit. Boy was I hungry.

@jackwalter5970 8 месяцев назад

I'm a Type 2 diabetic, and have found CGMs to be very inaccurate and defective.

@Ongaliman 7 месяцев назад

It is like using a heart monitor when you don't need one. It overwhelms you with information that you don't need. If you don't have diabetes and not even in a pre-diabetic stage, you don't really need to monitor your glucose levels more often than once-twice per year. If you're worried about diabetes do the glucose test once a year in a lab and that would be enough. Checking glucose level when you're healthy just creates unnecessary anxiety and promotes obsessive behaviour.

@milkweedsage 7 месяцев назад

I would honestly do it just to guinea pig myself and find out how my body responds to foods.

@squirrel_choker1623 8 месяцев назад

Wish I didn't need mine. Just waking up in the morning makes my blood sugar skyrocket. Mine keeps me from blacking out constantly.

@krky86 8 месяцев назад

another example to prove the point is that guy who did 100 days of ice cream few years ago and lost weight with his blood markers improving in the short term (obviously no one should conclude from this that the type of diet in that n=1 experiment is heathy long term).