I am going to be honest with you. I was first introduced to the idea of using a continuous glucose monitor to improve health and longevity a number of years ago and didn’t give it much time or thought. My rationale was "I'm not a person with diabetes, so why would I want to bother tracking my blood sugar?"
Well, I asked my guest on today’s podcast episode exactly that.
I think for a person that is a non-diabetic, Veri becomes a really powerful system to build accountability, and that accountability is food accountability. So with Veri, you get this stream of feedback. You give it an input and it gives you an output, just like sleeping and monitoring with an Oura ring or getting more active with an Apple Watch. Essentially, for a non-diabetic to measure their blood sugar, the things that come through are: What is the state of their metabolic health right now? And how, with the food they eat and the lifestyle habits they lead, are they contributing to that?
What is Veri?
Veri is a company located in Finland. And the word veri means "blood" in Finnish. So that should give you a big clue right there that Veri is a system to monitor your blood. Your blood glucose levels, to be exact.
When I received my Veri package in the mail, inside was a small round disc with a tiny hair-like spike coming out of one side. Along with that, there was a plastic applicator and not much else. My partner helped me apply the disc with the hair-spike going into the skin on the back of my arm (on my tricep, to be exact). I covered it with a fancy sticker to keep it safe, downloaded the Veri app, and away I went.
A few hours after each meal or snack, Veri would assign a score to my meal photo, which would inform me whether or not that meal was appropriate for the amount of exercise and sleep I had gotten.
Over the next fourteen days, I tracked my food intake by simply snapping a picture of everything I ate. I tracked my sleep using the Apple Health app. And periodically held my iPhone up to the disc on the back of my arm (as you can see me doing in the photo above) so that Veri could read what had been happening with my blood sugar since the last time I held my phone up to it.
A few hours after each meal or snack, Veri would assign a score to my meal photo, which would inform me whether or not that meal was appropriate for the amount of exercise and sleep I had gotten. The app also gave me a chart and a score for how well I regulated my blood sugar that day and made some suggestions for how I could keep my blood sugar more consistent and stable.
During the first week I was using it, when friends asked me what I had learned so far, I would...
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