[necovek]

I personally wouldn't mind having the data if a need comes up, but this is simply overtracking for no particular purpose.

Basically, our bodies go through much "turmoil" over the course of any day, and watching over one too many parameters is like getting hooked to TV or a video game.

Generally, medical science can mostly tell you what averages or most common patterns are, so if you do not line up with them and don't understand this, you can get overstressed.

So unless you are really someone who can objectively consider your readings combined with effects you might be seeing, I'd say don't do it.

[necovek]

And reading further, there is evidence of people getting worked up about what are not problematic readings in this very thread.

[lynx23]

Watching a heartrate monitor sometimes has the reserve-progress-bar effect. You know the deal. You realize the pump is on a hightened frequency, so you see what your smart watch says. And the more you watch it, the more anxious you get, so the rate stays more or less high.

[bookofjoe]

aka "white coat hypertension": https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/high-blood-pr....

[whatshisface]

Getting hooked on smooth blood sugar changes sounds like a possible counterweight to what our brains are designed to get hooked on... Oreos.

[ecoquant]

You also can't underestimate the possible behavior changes of seeing a massive blood sugar spike from oreos, causing less oreos to be consumed.

To believe measuring something doesn't change behavior is just wrong. We know this.

[TylerE]

More importantly for life style monitoring A1C is the more important number anyway, and doesn’t require wearing anything, just a simple blood test. It’s basically a 3 month moving average.

[RHSeeger]

At least for a diabetic, A1C is less looked at nowadays. With CGMs, we can lookt to see our time-in-range, highs, lows, and patterns. It's... amazing.

Plus, you can see just how much different types of foods directly impact your blood sugar. For example, white rice and pizza are crazy for raising glucose levels. I knew about pizza, but I had no idea that white rice what quite _that_ bad.

[salad-tycoon]

Doesn’t have to be white. Rice is how I helped screen my wife for gestational diabetes instead of that awful nukacola sugar slam they make pregnant women do and then check sugars at predetermined times when challenged with 50g rice or 50g sugar.

Anyways, yeah rice is basically the insulin dietary equivalent of sugar.