For the past week and a half, I tried out Nutrisense and wore a CGM to monitor my glucoses levels. Sharing a recap of my wits here! I was gifted the Nutrisense membership for 1 month to try, and this post is not sponsored. Use my link and lawmaking GINA50 for $50 off .

Hi friends! How’s the week going? Thank you so much for all of the trappy birthday wishes for P! We had a unconfined day triumphal and capped it off with the requested hibachi dinner. I hope you’re having a wonderful week, too!

For today’s post, I wanted to share a recap of my wits using Nutrisense. I’ve been curious well-nigh this visitor for a while, expressly without doing my Inside Tracker bloodwork older this year. My fasting glucose levels were a little on the upper side, and I was concerned that it may be a deeper problem. I waited it out, and without my good friend Mia posted well-nigh using Nutrisense to monitor her thoroughbred glucose levels, I knew I wanted to requite it a try. Then I reached out to the visitor and was excited when they offered me a month to try it out and see how I liked it.

I received the product and was SO nervous to put it on (hi, I’m a giant needle phobe) and waited and waited until Mia said that she’d walk me through the whole process and nail hers at the same time. You can watch the video here and witness the moment I scrutinizingly started having a panic wade on live video. (She was like, “See, you can see the needle right there” and I turned white.) I really wanted the data, so I took a deep vapor and went for it. I’m really glad I did, considering having the worthiness to see my body’s response to variegated foods was extremely valuable.

(I’m smiling but panicking. Turns out, attaching the CGM was NOTHING like I imagined it would be. It was painless and super easy.)

Why I Tried Nutrisense (and What I Learned)

What is Nutrisense and how does it work?

Nutrisense is a program that offers expert guidance in structuring with a Continuous Glucose Monitor (CGM). The CGM tracks your thoroughbred glucose at 15-minute intervals throughout the day, so you’re worldly-wise to see how sleep patterns, diet, exercise, stress, and nutrition impact your thoroughbred glucose levels. Continuously elevated glucose can rationalization inflammation and forfeiture in the body, so it can be helpful to see how your soul responds to the factors above, particularly how it recovers. For example, if your thoroughbred glucose spikes without a carb-heavy or sugary meal, does it stay elevated? Or does it recover within 2 hours? How upper is the spike??

When you sign up for Nutrisense, your Continuous Glucose Monitors are delivered to you, withal with details on how to nail it. (You can watch me do this here!) You’ll nail the CGM and protective patch on the when of your arm, download the app, and scan your CGM to start tracking the data. It usually takes well-nigh an hour without subtracting it for your phone to recognize it and start scanning. (You just click “scan” on the app and hold your phone up the the CGM where the camera is located.)

Within the Nutrisense app, you’re initially paired with a Registered Dietitian who can help you interpret the data in real-time, make recommendations, provide feedback, and run experiments.

How much does Nutrisense cost?

The service starts at $350 per month, and the forfeit goes lanugo depending on the time commitment. (With a 12-month commitment, it’s $199/month.)

The CGM that Nutrisense uses is the Freestyle Libre and they elapse in 14 days. (You app will let you know when your sensor is expiring.) You do not need a prescription to use Nutrisense.

What type of data do you receive and how do you interpret the data?

Your thoroughbred glucose is charted 24/7 and you can see how upper gets and how long it takes to stabilize. It can be interesting to see spikes throughout the night and how variegated patterns and lifestyle changes stupefy your thoroughbred glucose.

I got this from my Registered Dietitian, who messaged me commonly and was unchangingly misogynist to wordplay questions: (this was without a smoothie that caused a higher spike than I expected)

To help provide increasingly context, I want to walk you through what I’m looking at as I assess a glucose response so let’s trammels out your breakfast on 10/11 as an example (chocolate, smoothie, almond milk):

Peak (^ on your meal card). First, we want to squint at the peak glucose value and aim to stave repeated exposure whilom 140. Your peak glucose value was 114, which is well unelevated the threshold and a normal peak!

Exposure (squiggly line on meal card). Second, we moreover want a small zone under the lines (AUC). So a quick glucose spike to 150 but a return to pre-meal glucose values within 1 hour of eating is a small zone under the curve, but a slow glucose climb to 130 and staying elevated for 4 hours would be a much larger zone under the curve. We want glucose to return to pre-meal values within 2-3 hours without eating. You can help monitor your AUC by assessing your meal vellum AUC values and by checking your standard deviation in the analytics. Your AUC was 42.9- I would say optimally I’m looking for <30, but <50 is still okay!

Stability (triangle on meal card). We moreover want to stave major “shifts” in glucose. So it may be possible that without a meal you only went to 130 (which is good!), but your pre-meal value was 70, so that would be quite a big swing. You can monitor this by assessing your delta values, as we unchangingly want to strive for a delta <30. Your delta was 33, which is great!!

Recovery (2h score on meal card). Finally, we want glucose to return to pre-meal values within 2-3 hours without eating. Your response was 23, which tells me you were 23 points from baseline value at the 2 hour mark.

What I learned using a Nutrisense CGM

Some buffers to prevent a thoroughbred sugar spike

Especially when you’re having higher-carb meals: take a walk surpassing or without your meal, have some type of protein first, moderate carb intake, and meal timing. Since your insulin sensitivity is largest during the day and wanes towards the evening, you may tolerate foods largest if consumed in the afternoon instead of late at night. This is veritably the specimen for wine with me – if I have it late-afternoon, it doesn’t stupefy my sleep.

Whole foods-based carbs do not have a significant effect on me

Especially when they’re paired with protein. (Berries, apples, bananas, and oranges didn’t rationalization a spike, plane when I ate them by themselves.) Oatmeal, paleo pancakes, Siete tortillas, and starchy veggies were the same. Refined carbs, on the other hand, did rationalization a spike. We went to a party at a friend’s house and I had increasingly sweets and refined carbs than usual (plus champagne) and my thoroughbred glucose was elevated all night and the pursuit day. It was interesting to see how one meal can stupefy your insulin sensitivity for the pursuit day.

Stress levels have a huge impact on insulin response

I noticed that I peaked during days I felt increasingly stressed.

Workouts will spike your levels

But they will immediately waif and lead to an improved insulin response throughout the day.

Wine spikes my thoroughbred sugar, tequila does not.

An important lesson haha.) Both recover fine if I have one glass, but two glasses led to increased levels the pursuit day. This experiment verified the fact that I don’t do well with a ton of alcohol, and it’s been a good reminder to minimize it. (Right now I’m at one or maybe two drinks per week.

Also, my soul loves tacos, beans, and rice.

I had my usual Wednesday night Mexican meal with the family and no huge spike.

Peace of mind

A large percentage of our population is not metabolically flexible, which can impact how we handle stress, and injuries, and recover from illness. I was concerned that my last thoroughbred test showed higher fasting glucose, but this was worldly-wise to verify that it isn’t the specimen for me normally (my thoroughbred test was an outlier) and a good indicator of my metabolic health and how habits stupefy my thoroughbred sugar levels. That was my main snooping going into this and it was a welcomed sigh of relief.

Pros:

The RD support was invaluable.

I loved having the worthiness to ask questions, and she did an spanking-new job of teaching me how to see my patterns, assess my response, and platonic target ranges. This became one of my favorite health devices!

The app is very well-designed, easy to navigate and use.

I liked using the app and found that plane as a newbie, I figured it out fairly easily.

Cons:

I ate a little strangely when I first put it on.

It’s like I was wrung to eat anything that would spike it, and eventually, I had to tell myself to get over it and eat normally without a couple of days. The data wasn’t going to help me if I only ate protein and vegetables for 14 days. So I had margaritas, tacos, desserts, all of the things I normally eat, so it would provide a true picture. If you have a history of matted eating, I wouldn’t recommend using this.

It was uncomfortable and I ended up taking it off a few days early.

(I think it was increasingly the wrapper than the very sensor.) I recognize the privilege I have to be worldly-wise to say, “I don’t want to wear this anymore” and remove it, when I have friends out there with diabetes who depend upon a CGM for survival. Just wanted to put a little note here that I see you. <3 I didn’t sleep well at all for the 11 days I had it tying – it was super light sleep considering I was subconsciously worried well-nigh rolling onto it and sleeping on it during the night. Also, I was a little shocked by the catheter when the Pilot removed it for me – it’s a teeny plastic tube, but it was longer than I expected lol.

All in all, it was a really valuable wits and I enjoyed having wangle to all of the data learning from my Nutrisense RD.

How To Remove Nutrisense

Removing Nutrisense from your life is as easy as pie. Here’s how you can do it: Simply unloosen from the Nutrisense CGM programs – oops, something went wrong while submitting the form? No worries. Just unsubscribe from their newsletter, and you’ll be good as gold. But surpassing you go, remember that Nutrisense allows you to engage with your thoroughbred glucose levels and gives you the worthiness to track your health goals.

It’s an spanking-new way to start your journey toward a healthier and happier lifestyle. And speaking of lifestyle, Nutrisense can requite you guidance on how to retread your nutrition and lifestyle based on your thoroughbred glucose levels. However, alimony in mind that Nutrisense is not a quiz that provides a diagnosis, cure, mitigation, prevention, or treatment of any disease or medical condition of the body. Nonetheless, you can still start with your thoroughbred glucose levels with Nutrisense, lose weight, and unzip your health goals. Alimony it up, mate!

Am I going to nail the second sensor?

I think I’ll definitely do it sooner but am taking a unravel for a couple of weeks. I want to run some increasingly experiments with meal timing and eating unrepealable foods by themselves in conjunction with other foods.

Any questions well-nigh Nutrisense? Is this something you think you would do? If you decide to try it out, you can use my link for and lawmaking GINA50 for $50 off. Or you can learn increasingly by signing up to our newsletter for any future Nutrisense content! 🙂

xo

Gina

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