Fast Company April 20, 2022
Levels, founded by a former SpaceX engineer, is trying to unlock the data and insights that can save the one in three Americans who are prediabetic.
Josh Clemente was only 28 years old, but he was extraordinarily tired. He was, by all metrics, healthy. Yet he was convinced he had a terminal illness. Unfortunately, his doctor told him that his blood work revealed only a niggling vitamin D deficiency.
He decided that he wanted to better understand his relationship to sugar. After making his fingers black and blue with finger prick blood tests, a book titled, Wired to Eat, led him to something called a continuous glucose monitor that could give him a real-time feed of his blood-sugar levels. This...