Moneyball Medicine

There are many causes for diabetes—chronicallly high blood sugar—but there’s also a growing list of ways to prevent it, or manage it once it starts. Wearable technologies like continuous glucose monitors or CGMs are high on that list. These devices have tiny needles that penetrate the skin and measure glucose levels in the interstitial fluid between cells. They can send that data to a smartphone, where apps made by a variety of companies can record it and analyze it.January.ai is one such company, and co-founder and CEO Noosheen Hashemi joined Harry on the show back in July of 2021. It turns out that the same foods can have different effects on the blood glucose levels of different individuals, and January’s app starts off using live CGM data to study those patterns using machine learning algorithms. Then it can start making predictions about a user's future blood glucose levels, even after they stop wearing a CGM. That can help them make smarter decisions about what, when, or how much to eat, or how much the