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  • Ketones are only going to be present if you are exceptionally bad (very high carb diet) or exceptionally good (very low carb diet) at managing your blood sugar. It's not going to be terribly useful for your average diabetic who has fairly good control over their blood sugars.
    by umvi
  • In Europe there is ketone-only continuous meter SiBio that goes for 86 EUR for 2 weeks.

    A healthmaxxer goes with CGM to the left arm; CKM to the right arm and gets his glucose and ketones data for roughly 200-300 EUR per month. I did consider running this out of curiosity.

    Having 2-in-1 is much nicer. Esp if you are diabetic.

    [1] https://www.sibiosensor.com/products/sibio-ks3-ckm-continuou...

    by vilius
  • “Wearable” seems misleading. It looks like this is inserted into the arm like a cgm? Or am I looking at the wrong product?
    by bilsbie
  • bet marathoners and ultra runners will start using this to improve performance

    (don't have a problem with that, but it's predictable)

    too bad it's not "wearable" like a watch but that might be coming eventually too since Garmin has a patent on it

    * https://the5krunner.com/2026/02/06/garmin-non-invasive-blood...

    (btw Fenix 9 launched today but it's same hardware as Fenix 8 and no glucose feature)

    by ck2
  • I am a founder and researcher at https://replica.health and co-creator of https://metabo-net.org. This is super exciting and cant wait to see what we can learn once large datasets of overlapping ketones + glucose + insulin data become available.

    One point I discussed with other researchers at ADA this year: in theory automated insulin delivery does not stand to benefit much from ketone sensors, since diabetic ketoacidosis will almost always be preceded by high blood glucose, which we already measure using the cgm. It will be interesting to see what this ketone data is actually used for.

    by jablongo
  • My younger brother has been using the open-source system Loop for his diabetes T1 since he was six years old. It automates the bloodsugar monitoring and insulin delivery. All running on his iPhone. This technology has permitted him to live almost as if he did not have the condition. Truly revolutionary, and the project is being developed by an amazing community of volunteers (total heroes!).
    by civvv
  • Automated glucose control will be the next frontier in so many areas of healthcare. I'm still skeptical that anyone will be able to noninvasively and accurately sense blood sugar, but I'm glad people (especially kids with T1) will have one more tool to help them. I hope they can figure out the reimbursement side to get it into the most hands possible!
    by ijustlovemath
  • A friend died of diabetic ketoacidosis. He loved technology and seeing people succeed. Thinking of him with this news. Miss you Dan.

    Grateful we're moving forward on so many fronts in the world.

    by madrox

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