Mentions personal use of Wired to Eat.

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…It'll be even more obnoxious about the metaphor. It's as if Fitbit hadn't been invented yet and you're just like, hey, are you walking right now once a day? Yeah, it was like, what is glucose was step one, and then how do I gather this information into insight? Basically, I'm having these energy issues. The energy is coming from these macronutrients. I’m not in the ketogenic state, which means my energies are either coming from glucose or it's coming from fat—those are the two sources that it can be coming from. I can measure glucose by buying this little device at CVS and pricking my finger. I'm going to try to learn something here. I started pricking my finger, got very obsessed with it, started doing it 60 times a day at one crazy point. And then I was plotting the numbers in Excel to emulate a continuous data source. At this point, I had started sleeping more as I was tapering down my SpaceX work, and moving into Hyperloop, which we can touch on a minute. I'm sleeping more, I am in meetings, I'm doing work, I'm working out—during those time periods, I can't prick my finger. I've basically got point cloud in the morning, point cloud in the evening, nothing in between, and it's not making any sense. It's stuff, but it's not helpful. Then I read a book called Wired to Eat, which talks about continuous glucose monitoring. I was completely unsophisticated about biosensors. Yeah. Weren’t they in the market yet, or was this still before the Libre and the Index?…

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