Global Health Insights

  Continuous Glucose Monitors (CGM)  Continuous glucose monitors were invented to help people with diabetes avoid dangerous blood sugar spikes and crashes. In 2026 , they have become something far broader: a mainstream biohacking and metabolic health tool used by athletes, executives, people trying to lose weight, and anyone curious about how their body actually responds to the food they eat. The appeal is straightforward. A CGM tells you — in real time, every few minutes — what your blood glucose is doing. Not once a year when your GP orders a fasting glucose test. Not once a day with a finger-prick. Continuously, throughout the day and night, across meals, workouts, sleep, and stress. The data stream a CGM produces in two weeks contains more metabolic information than most people accumulate in a lifetime of standard blood tests. But CGMs are not magic. The data they produce requires interpretation. The devices themselves vary significantly in accuracy, comfort, and featur...