[znpy]

I'd really love to be able to do that (experimenting) but i'm in the EU and haven't looked at the possibilities yet (i'm not diabetic).

However i recently saw a video of a woman that carried a glucose monitor (even if she didn't need one) as part of a study (she volunteered) and was able to correlate her mood and her weight take/loss with sugar intake.

I'm very curious about this. I've started a diet recently and after quitting many sources of sugar completely I'm very surprised how long i can go without eating and how little calories per day i can consume (well, as long as i have fat to burn at least).

If anybody wants to chime in and suggest a glucose monitor that i can get without prescription in EU (Italy) and from which i can pull off data, please do.

[dhoe]

I'm in the Netherlands and just bought a Freestyle Libre 3 from https://www.dia-centrum.nl/. It didn't require a prescription and was easy to set up and you can get the data out of Freestyle's website, as a CSV download if I remember correctly.

I had a doctor comment that he'd never seen anybody wearing one just out of interest, and he was slightly condescending about it.

[ps2fats]

Perfect, I'm also in the NL and was hoping someone would have more information. I totally believe the GP being condescending about it, they are trained as gatekeepers to medical care to reduce costs to the system (wife is a doctor). It is also unimaginable to them, for whatever reason, that people would pay for things out of pocket.

[dhoe]

Haha, yeah, don't get me started. My other recommendations along these lines for people who don't want to argue with their GP about which blood tests "make sense" is https://onedayclinic.nl/. Their pricing is somewhat confusing but you can just email them everything you'd like to measure and they'll make you a (reasonable) offer.