LEVELS – A Whole New Level #31 – The future of hardware for continuous glucose monitoring (Josh Clemente & Ben Grynol)
As a company focused on metabolic health and continuous glucose monitoring, it's important for Levels to be on the forefront of technology. For our team, it means that we must understand what's possible – today and in the future. And, there's no one better to talk to about the subject than Josh Clemente – Co-founder of Levels.
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Josh is a Mechanical Engineer by training, and spent many years at SpaceX putting rockets into the air. He has an innate connection to engineering, manufacturing and technology, so diving deep into conversations about hardware comes naturally.
Levels helps you see how food affects your health, empowering you with the tools needed to achieve health goals and improve healthspan. Levels Members gain access to the Levels app and continuous glucose monitors (CGMs), providing real-time feedback on how diet and lifestyle choices impact your metabolic health.
Look for new shows every month on A Whole New Level, where we have in-depth conversations with thought leaders about metabolic health.
(13:37) - Adding value by layering technology
(16:24) - Adapting a therapeutic device to measure glucose in everyday life
(18:57) - The importance of a device that can handle movement
(20:43) - The potential for measuring multiple factors of metabolic health
(23:43) - Should you measure interstitial or arterial glucose
(27:20) - The rise of Aptamers
(28:36) - The benefits of Aptamers over existing monitoring technology
(32:16) - The downsides of any invasive monitoring device
(49:22) - Building a platform on a noninvasive sensor is kind of like unlimited nuclear fusion