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petesergeantyesterday at 7:38 PM2 repliesview on HN

I thought this was going to be a non-invasive sugar-level device, but it looks like in fact the innovation here is that a popular CGM line can now do ketones?


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ijustlovemathyesterday at 7:52 PM

non-invasive continuous blood sugar measurement is mired in patents and technical challenges. Turns out it's really difficult to disambiguate the absorption lines of glucose from other similarly shaped molecules when you're also dealing with untangling skin conductivity, transmissivity, sweat, inflammation etc.

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jakefromstatecsyesterday at 7:54 PM

Seems to be the case, yeah