• Guest - w'd love to know what you think about the forum! Take the 2025 Survey »

Future of wearables: fitbits, apple watch etc. & glucose readings

Ronancastled

Well-Known Member
Messages
1,234
Type of diabetes
Type 2
Treatment type
Diet only
It's a little drum I bang every now & then but we can't be far away from the general public having access to their glucose readings through their fitness watch.
Was listening to a radio show earlier in the week & they spoke about how the next generation of these devices can track BP, heart rate & perform 6 point ECGs.
How they are working on the tech to upload this data to your doctors surgery in real time so your medication & lifestyle direction can be tailored to each patient.

I know google recently abandoned the development of an eye lens for measuring glucose levels but you must think that there are boffins beavering away somewhere coming up with alternatives.
I believe the Libre type devices are too instrustive for the general public but look at where that tech has come in the past 10 years.

What I can't guage will be the reaction of the general public when they see what certain so called healthy foods do to their blood sugar.
Once someone posts online about spiking to 9 after a bowl of porridge & others weigh in with similar experiences.
Might be a challanging time ahead for the Nestles & Kellogs of this world.

Interesting times ahead.
 

Hi,

Well, I wear a libre & Bluetooth bridge to a watch passed on to my device whilst in range.
But, I aquired a Galaxy Note 4 a while back when my old phone wint on the fritz.
That thing can measure heart rate, oxygen level & wot not.? By placing a didgit over a scanner near the camera lense on the back. How accurate it is, is anyone's guess?
(Though I did see some "geek" stuff on YouTube testing it out against medical equipment that suggested it wasn't far out..)

Now, don't get me wrong, I believe there has been a lot of cleverly marketed junk food over the years.
Lol, there has even been adulterated bread in "workhouses" going way back..
There's no way I can post the video on here. (It would breach forum rules.)
But if you have ever seen the "Bawdy" 2005 channel 4 comedy "Nathan Barley."
There was one scene where the protagonist goes on a date to an expensive flashy restaurant, where menu for the customer is dictated by a finger reader bolted to the table, giving a bespoke nutritional plate..?

Art imitating life? Well they are working on a non invasive finger scanner which they hope can read BG.
Sounds promising, but about the size of a shoe box..
 
Here we go.. I was looking at this a good while back. Dreams & prototypes.

 
A neighbour of mine is a shift manager in a local cereal factory. The demand for cereal food has declined rapidly over the past five years.
The other thing of note is how the advertising has changed, which coincided with the reduction of sugar in its recipe. There is still too many additives and production sugars to make the cereal a lower form of carbohydrate.
Thanks to porridge, I had a hypoglycaemic episode in front of my doctor first, then my specialist endocrinologist, twice.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Menu
Log in
Register
Cookies are required to use this site. You must accept them to continue using the site. Learn More.…