[Logging] Fasting tracking and glucose data for fasting period
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Cosima Travis
Feedback:
- A lot of people do intermittent fasting and be like, ‘what’s the time of your last meal to the time of your first meal?’ Ideally, you could maybe tag it yourself. Because, as an example, I drink bulletproof coffee in the morning, which extends your fast, but I’m logging it as something so Levels wouldn’t know that it’s a fast-extending thing
- Member is bloated with several apps and would like to be able to track fasting in our Levels app
- Provide personalized fasting window recommendations based on an individual's data
- Provide way to indicate fasting periods and even a timer to help track them
- Report and track glucose over the fasting period
Levels Health
Merged in a post:
[Logging] Ability to track fasting glucose
Levels Health
Ability to track an 8 hour/12 hour fasting glucose
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John Scheuerman
I'm looking for a way to log fasting for periods between 16 and 48 hours and to show the fasting period on the graph.
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David Rackliffe
My thinking on this was to be able to graph fasting/waking glucose over time to see if this is rising or falling or consistent.
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Lynette Diaz
Hi Lynette here from the Levels team - can you please share more thoughts about how you're envisioning this feature working? Is the idea to see your average glucose for a duration of a fast?
Or is it to see your morning glucose as a proxy for fasting glucose?
We currently do have the ability to view waking glucose which is a proxy for fasting glucose.
Please share more of your thoughts on this feature request.
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Michael Reach
Waking Glucose and Fasting Glucose are different concepts. Fasting Glucose should be a set of numbers that can be compared over time.
The first number would be average glucose during the hour after the end of a meal period, the second number would be the average glucose during the hour before the start of the next meal period. The third number would be the number of hours between the meal periods. There could be a setting to specify the minimum length of time that would even be considered as a fast. Those pre and post-fast glucose averages could then be compared screens different fasting lengths and across time.
To take it a step further you could graph a cumulative "average glucose response by hour" for all fasting periods. In other words, how quickly does glucose fall from non-fasting baseline to a lower fasting baseline and where is that fasting minimum at which the body is using gluconeogenesis to support glucose levels.
All that data would them be even more powerful with a proper integration with Guava so that fasting length and fasting glucose could be corrected with other business and biomarkers.
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Rae Hofkin
Ability to track up to 72hrs of fasting glucose
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Cosima Travis
Merged in a post:
Log Fasts Through the App
Jim White
It would be nice to log intermittent fasts and figure a way to integrate into the daily score. Right now, when I fast, there is never a score for any period with no food. How IF impacts blood glucose would be good to know as well. Thanks.
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Leah Good
I would so love this feature, too. At about the 2-year mark in my fasting journey with no plans to change anything about that timing, it would be terrific to mark fasting versus eating (and postprandial) without exporting my data into a spreadsheet. Amy's idea of start/stop seems like a simple, elegant solution for planned fasting times.
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Cosima Travis
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Your feedback matters! We're planning this new feature based on your suggestions.
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Amy Strain
I would 100% use this feature. I can then pinpoint in time in my fasting where my glucose is. For instance at 15 hours of fasting, what is going on with my glucose? I really don't want to write a note because then I can't track this. But if there was a start/stop function---that would be so helpful. Please move this to planned.