[Glucose & Data] sleeping glucose vs awake glucose
Michael Pomada
most of these data are already available, but just not quite in a format that is illustrative of the issue. each day the average sleep glucose is available (though it is not in the my data section so you have to input into excel to study it) as well as the average for the whole day (in the my data section). with some math you can get a feel (its not quite right because of what hours are being used for calculation) for what your daytime glucose was. with these two data points (sleep & awake glucose) available one question you can answer is how is my avg sleep glucose effected by how close to bedtime i eat (here you have to use the logs in excel). as an example with my data (albeit limited since i just joined on 7/30/2024), on the days where my last meal was more than 3 hours before bedtime my sleep glucose average is 85 with a standard deviation of 9. on the days where i eat close to bedtime, my sleep glucose average is 110 with a standard deviation of 16. this is n of 13, so we can take it with a grain of salt but that is a massive difference (though not statistically significant yet). if you're trying to get your daily average glucose between 70-80, targeting a nighttime glucose level is very important given it is 25% of your day. further, we know eating close to bedtime is not good for losing or maintaining weight (all the functional health doctors talk about it). this seems like something that could be highly indicative for weight loss and/or weight maintenance. seems like something the users of levels would be very interested in understanding better.
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Hunter Allen
Yes, I would like this as well. Give us the option to create an "event" called sleep. Right now, I am doing a "work-around". I name all my "sleeping" time, an exercise and then tag it "sleep". I want to be able to see my nightly average glucose number as well. This is really important! Below 100 is a good night and something I am striving for!