Continuous Glucose Monitoring
Understand how nutrition, physical activity and everyday life influence your glucose metabolism.
At a glance
What happens to your blood sugar after eating?
A single blood sugar value always shows only a snapshot. In everyday life, however, the glucose level changes continuously — depending on what we eat, how much we move, when we sleep and how our metabolism responds individually.
With continuous glucose monitoring, these changes can be made visible over several days.
Personal patterns can thereby be identified and nutritional recommendations can be aligned more closely with your body's actual responses.
Observing metabolism in everyday life
In continuous glucose monitoring, a small sensor is worn on the upper arm. It measures the glucose concentration in the tissue at short intervals and creates a continuous curve from these readings.
This makes it possible to trace how your values change over the course of the day and how your body responds, for example, to different meals, physical activity or longer breaks between meals.
The measurement therefore provides considerably more information than a single laboratory value and can be a valuable basis for individual nutritional and metabolic recommendations.
What can the measurement show?
Response to meals
The measurement shows how different foods and meals affect your personal glucose curve.
Individual differences
Not everyone responds to the same meal in the same way. Continuous measurement makes these personal differences visible.
The course of the day
The glucose curve can be considered across the whole day and night — not only at a single point of measurement.
The influence of physical activity
Physical activity can also influence the glucose curve. Nutrition and physical activity can therefore be considered together.
Measure, observe, understand
Applying the sensor
A small sensor is applied to the upper arm and remains there for the intended measurement period.
Continuing your everyday life as normal
During the measurement you can largely maintain your normal daily routine. Meals, physical activity and further influencing factors can therefore be observed under realistic conditions.
Evaluating the data together
Typical glucose curves and responses are then considered together. Individual recommendations for nutrition, physical activity and metabolic health can be derived from them.
Getting to know your own metabolism better
Continuous glucose monitoring may be of interest, for example:
- if you would like to understand how your body responds to different meals
- where you wish for a more individual nutritional strategy
- if metabolism and energy are to be considered specifically
- as part of weight or nutritional optimisation
- where metabolic values are irregular, once these have been assessed medically
- for physically active people who would like to match nutrition and physical activity better to each other
- as part of a comprehensive prevention or health programme
The measured values should always be assessed in the context of your health situation and further medical findings.
Related topics.
Energy & Metabolism
Making metabolism visible
How stably our glucose metabolism works influences energy supply and long-term metabolic health. With modern diagnostics we consider individual metabolic patterns rather than only single measured values.
More on Energy & Metabolism
Nutrition
Understanding nutrition individually
People respond differently to foods and meals. Continuous glucose monitoring can help to make these individual responses visible and to align nutritional recommendations more specifically.
More on Nutrition
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