Doctors have warned that people shouldn’t use glucose monitors without expert help.
We think they’re right.
A continuous glucose monitor (CGM) is a small sensor that sits on your arm and tracks blood sugar in real time. Diabetics rely on them to stay safe. But in the last few years, there’s been a growing trend in people wearing them to “optimise” their health, flatten spikes and lose weight.
These gadgets can be helpful because they use the same metric to measure energy as the human body. The body regulates glucose within a tight band and works to keep it at around 5g of glucose at any time. CGMs provide a real time graph of glucose which can show any spikes that happen. The problem is, most people have no idea what they’re looking at. It’s quite normal for blood glucose to go up and down all day, not just because of what you’ve eaten.
For example, every night, your glucose naturally drops as your body winds down for sleep. But I’ve seen people notice that dip, panic, and grab a chocolate bar at 10pm to “stabilise” their levels. Then they get a glucose spike, don’t sleep as well and wonder what’s wrong. But an expert would have advised you that you don’t need to correct that drop.
Without context, data just fuels anxiety, and anxious people make won’t always make the best choices.
A CGM shows you the numbers but won’t explain the story behind them. Glucose spikes aren’t automatically bad. What matters is what caused them, and the overall pattern: how fast you recover, how steady you are between meals, and how your body responds to insulin over time.
And what matters even more is what you do with that information.
Nico acts as your expert, 24/7
That’s why Nico doesn’t just hand you the data but interprets it. The system uses CGM data to create evidence-backed strategies to change your habits. It uses context and history, not just your latest sensor readings. That’s because your glucose today can be affected by what you ate yesterday and how you slept the night before, alongside many other random variables from hydration to temperature.
The goal isn’t to make you dependent on tracking. It’s to help you understand your body so well that one day, you won’t need to track at all.
Because measurement without understanding is noise. And knowledge without action changes nothing. Nico guides you to doing the things that work for you.
