The Continuous Glucose Monitor Revolution: Lose Weight, Look Great, and Live Longer with Continuous Glucose Monitoring

by Paul Kolodzik

Data-Driven Diet Guidance to Be Healthy and Feel Your Best

Have you ever heard the saying “What gets measured gets managed”? You probably have, but maybe counting calories and checking your weight every day haven’t gotten you where you want to be.

It’s not your fault. Typical diets and even doctors’ advice don’t provide a sustainable action plan for successful weight loss. As a result, we measure the wrong things—calories in and the number on the scale. To get healthy and feel our best every day, we need to look upstream. An exciting technology allows us to do just that.

You may have seen continuous glucose monitors on diabetics, but have you ever thought about how they could help you? A continuous glucose monitoring device, or CGM, shows how different foods affect your metabolism in real time. Specifically, a CGM tracks your blood glucose 24/7 so you can adjust what you eat, how much, and when.

Thousands of people are losing stubborn weight they never thought they could—and keeping it off—thanks to this revolutionary device that painlessly rests on the upper arm.

In The Continuous Glucose Monitoring Revolution, weight-loss and metabolic-health specialist Paul Kolodzik, MD, reveals how CGM devices can help reverse chronic disease, prevent future sickness, and lengthen lifespan . . . all by measuring and managing the right data.

Whether you’re just now learning about CGM for the first time or you’re ready to try one, The Continuous Glucose Monitoring Revolution will help you make an informed decision, take control of your future, and easily turn healthy choices into habits.

Genres: Health

215 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 25, 2023

Reviews

[John Martindale]

The book was okay until he goes on about the necessity of an extremely low-carb and high-fat diet.
Kolodzik considers most vegetables, all fruit, beans, grains, and some nuts as NOT okay or less okay to eat. Instead, he wants you to primarily eat meat and butter, and whole-fat cheese and cream. Earlier, he talks about eating enough fiber, but later considers almost all fiber-containing foods to be avoided like the plague. His patients must have terrible constipation. After saying counting calories is not sustainable, he later encourages people to count all their carbs and to only eat a few foods to make this easier (so hardly any food variety), which I hear is not good at all for the gut biome. He seems to think a diet consisting of almost nothing but fat on top of fat, with a lot of meat and cheese, is realistic and sustainable. He even supports people who eat nothing but meat, thinking a vitamin pill is fine, supplying them with all the nutritional needs.

While using a CGM, I have seen that high-carb foods do have a tendency to lead to glucose spikes. A cup of brown rice led to a monstrous rise, but the "less-okay" and "not-okay" vegetables and fruits, which he condemns, have not led to greatly elevated glucose levels. If they raise my levels to 120 and then my levels quickly return to the 80s, I would consider healthy food to be worth that elevation. And no, I cannot be okay with putting butter on top of my butter, and cream on top of my cream. Gross... and I cannot afford to eat almost nothing but meat. I also cannot just dismiss the mountains of scientific studies that show how unwise his approach is.

There are countless scientific studies that point to health issues with high intake of animal products, and so much evidence that whole food and plant-based diets are generally good for our health. I think he, therefore, has a little bit of tunnel vision. He is so focused on flattening the glucose curve, as if this is the whole of it. He makes no reference to the scientific studies that point to certain high-fat and low-carb diets leading to insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes. If you can eat nothing but fat and meat and get type 2 diabetes, that seems to show it is not as simple as merely eliminating carbs.

Google "does saturated fat cause diabetes," and look at all the journal articles on this. There is a lot of evidence suggesting that diets high in saturated fat result in insulin resistance. Even an hour after a fatty meal, eating some carbs will lead to a far higher glucose spike than if the saturated fat had not eaten. So it looks like Kolodzik is pushing patients to eat so much animal fat that they become extremely sensitive and unable to process carbs, thus necessitating the avoidance of carbs, since they have destroyed the body's ability to deal with them.

[JERI B GROVES]

CGM Changed My Life!

I thought I would NEVER lose weight after trying and failing at semaglutide, Exercise Coach training, multiple restrictive diets and consistent exercise. Once I saw my A1c jump to 5.8, I knew calories in/calories out was worthless. I HAD to know and control my blood glucose. Great book to go along with use of a CGM. My weight is consistently dropping and I'm excited to eat more of the right foods: fewer carbs, more fat and moderate protien. What a revelation!

[Darryl L. Rowe]

Awesome

Answered questions I didn't know to ask as well as some my MD didn't go into. Heartily recommend for all...diabetics and non diabetics alike.