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Does glucose monitoring really aid performance?

hanks to Supersapiens, continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) for athletes has been a much-discussed topic over recent months – with much excitement around the potential), physiologist Dr Thomas Solomon explains that his research on CGM has led him to conclude that, “at present, no evidence supports the notion that knowing your [real-time] glucose levels during exercise will increase your performance”. He goes as far as stating that, “CGM for [non-diabetic] athletes is all hype.”

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