What is it? CGM stands for Continuous Glucose Monitor. It is a device worn on the arm that provides the wearer with detailed information about how food, stress level, sleep quality, and activities impact blood sugar.
Stabilizing blood sugar is a foundational key to overall good health for everyone.
Who benefits from wearing a CGM?
Anyone and everyone who wants to:
- Optimize health and feel better.
- Lose weight but finds it difficult to do so.
- Understand how your unique body functions in relation to the foods you eat, your stress level, sleep quality, and activities.
- Better manage diabetes.
- Prevent low blood sugar.
- Alleviate brain fog, fatigue, and mood swings.
- Stop sugar cravings.
- Reduce chances of getting a lifestyle disease [i.e., heart, autoimmune, cancer, diabetes, etc.]
WHY MEASURE BLOOD GLUCOSE?
- Ongoing spiking of blood glucose leads to lifestyle diseases such as obesity, diabetes, and heart disease.
- Blood sugar spikes also affect metabolic function, leading to permanent damage.
- The chronic spiking of blood glucose causes weight gain, non-alcoholic fatty liver, and the inability to utilize your fat stores as fuel.
- Spiking your blood glucose also leads to a multitude of symptoms such as sugar cravings, extreme hunger pangs, energy crashes, brain fog, moodiness, digestive issues, trouble sleeping, waking up with heart palpitations, acne, inflammation, anxiety, and frequent colds.
- To help you develop a healthy nutritional lifestyle by determining what triggers your blood sugar spikes so that you can balance your blood sugar.
The CGM Program includes:
- One Metacheck metabolism test that provide basal metabolic rate, caloric needs, and rate of metabolism.
- Our CGM booklet that contains information about why it’s important to know what your blood usgar is doing, effects of glucose on health, FAQs about using a CGM, and steps you can take to stabilize your blood sugar.
- One appointment with the nutritionist to examine, understand, and process the results captured by the CGM sensor—assistance with lifestyle and dietary adjustments to achieve your goals.
- Two CGMs -one to wear initially and then again after you’ve made some lifestyle changes. You can also purchase more CGMs any time you like.
For more explanation regarding our need for glucose, click here.
