I've known @elonmusk for 26 years, and there's lots of noise about him becoming a trillionaire. If one thing defines him, it's that he's NOT driven by money, but instead by solving our world's toughest problems.
Travel definitely changes glucose as you said.
One more surprising thing is actually going to the blood lab can change your glucose.
(for a short time thankfully, but it can make you think you're less metabolic healthy than you actually are)
Check this out:
https://t.co/KdGxkfqSVy
Fear of Blood Tests? White Coat Syndrome?
One of our team members hates getting blood drawn, which is ironic given our line of work.
They also kept seeing higher fasting glucose than expected, even though the rest of their bloodwork didn’t really fit with a glucose problem.
So we tested a simple idea:
What if the lab visit itself was pushing glucose up?
They wore a continuous glucose monitor while driving to the lab and getting blood drawn. They were fully fasted. No food. Just the drive, the lab, and the blood draw.
Glucose still climbed.
This looks a lot like a stress response: cortisol, nerves, and a little white coat effect.
It’s a good reminder that a single fasting glucose number does not always tell the full story.
We’ll post the actual bloodwork result for glucose in a few days so we can compare.
Note: The image got flagged as "Made with AI", but this is actually a real screenshot from the CRM, we only used AI to add the text labels.
Fear of Blood Tests? White Coat Syndrome?
One of our team members hates getting blood drawn, which is ironic given our line of work.
They also kept seeing higher fasting glucose than expected, even though the rest of their bloodwork didn’t really fit with a glucose problem.
So we tested a simple idea:
What if the lab visit itself was pushing glucose up?
They wore a continuous glucose monitor while driving to the lab and getting blood drawn. They were fully fasted. No food. Just the drive, the lab, and the blood draw.
Glucose still climbed.
This looks a lot like a stress response: cortisol, nerves, and a little white coat effect.
It’s a good reminder that a single fasting glucose number does not always tell the full story.
We’ll post the actual bloodwork result for glucose in a few days so we can compare.
Note: The image got flagged as "Made with AI", but this is actually a real screenshot from the CRM, we only used AI to add the text labels.
New https://t.co/eMIeU7s3S5 survey: 27.2% of U.S. adults said they delayed or avoided bloodwork because they feared what the results might show.
The needle gets attention, but the waiting may be where much of the anxiety lives.
Read the release: https://t.co/aLuZZ61CNi
Well said @bryan_johnson, our patron saint Benjamin Franklin 90%+ overlaps with your findings:
"Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise."
"Cheese and salt meat, should be sparingly eat."
"Many dishes many diseases, Many medicines few cures."
"Hot things, sharp things, sweet things, cold things All rot the teeth, and make them look like old things."
"Use now and then a little Exercise a quarter of an Hour before Meals, as to swing a Weight, or swing your Arms about with a small Weight in each Hand; to leap, or the like, for that stirs the Muscles of the Breast."
"Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, & sloth; Or the Gout will seize you and plague you both.”
"Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy.”
"Wouldst thou enjoy a long Life, a healthy Body, and a vigorous Mind, and be acquainted also with the wonderful Works of God? labour in the first place to bring thy Appetite into Subjection to Reason."
"He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of most medicines."
"Nothing is more fatal to health than an over care of it."
"God heals, and the doctor takes the fees."
"Be not sick too late, nor well too soon"
Fight Chat Control.
You cannot make society secure by making people insecure.
We all deserve privacy and security, without inevitably hackable backdoors, for our private communications.
The fact that the government officials want to exempt themselves from their own law is telling: https://t.co/s2AF6wMPL3
@BabiryeGlori So nice to see what you are up to! Was wonderful to meet you and your family at Christmas. Hoping that all are well. Todd, Deborah and Paige
@markmd4@NASA@SpaceX@Space_Station Personally, I prefer measuring spacebound payloads in weight-of-a-dehydrated-kings-toe units, but pounds is probably more accessible to the masses.