Master Your Health Routine With Stelo

Keeping your glucose steady is essential for maintaining your overall health and well-being. Food, sleep, stress, and activity are all factors that can cause glucose to fluctuate. Let’s take a look at how the Stelo Glucose Biosensor can help you see how your daily routines impact your glucose and build healthier habits.

The Value of Glucose Tracking

Tracking your glucose enables you to better understand your body so you can make healthy choices that work for you. When you wear a glucose biosensor like Stelo, you can directly see how exercise, stress, and more impact your levels throughout the day. Having that information at your fingertips gives you the power to personalize your daily activities to optimize your metabolic health.

How Exercise Affects Glucose

Physical activity is important for glucose metabolism as it improves insulin sensitivity and enables muscles to use glucose more efficiently. Engaging in moderate exercise after eating has been shown to significantly lower post-meal glucose levels.¹

Whether you’re into high-intensity workouts, experimenting with fasted cardio, or enjoying a calming yoga session, each type of activity can have a distinct impact. By gaining insight into how different exercises affect your glucose levels, you can tailor your exercise regimen to keep them steady and enhance your overall well-being.

Finding the Right Movement Mix

It may take some trial and error to find the right balance in your workouts. The first step is understanding how different types of exercise impact your body individually.

High-intensity exercise can trigger your body to release adrenaline, sending your glucose levels on a rollercoaster ride. While these activities may cause a temporary spike, they also come with long-term benefits for your overall health and fitness.

Activities like yoga, stretching, or walking can help to counteract the glucose spikes induced by adrenaline. By promoting a sense of calm and relaxation, this type of movement can encourage your body to find its equilibrium.

The Power of a Simple Walk

Life gets busy, and you may not always have time for fitness routines or going to the gym. Finding a way to squeeze in a walk — between meetings (or maybe even taking a walking meeting off camera, on your lunch break — can bring major benefits.

When you engage in any physical activity, even a simple walk, your muscles break down glycogen (a form of glucose storage) to keep your body moving. This is why walking after eating is helpful in keeping your glucose levels in check. And walking doesn’t just help reduce your glucose in the moment — it can help to regulate it for up to 24 hours after.

The Glucose-Stress Connection

We all get stressed. Whether it stems from a sudden work deadline, financial worries, a chronic health concern, or even something seemingly minor that leaves us frazzled — stress is simply a part of life. But did you know stress can affect your glucose?

Stress triggers the release of cortisol, a hormone that raises glucose levels to prepare your body for a “fight or flight” response. In one study, people experiencing chronic stress exhibited greater variability in glucose levels.² Over time, chronic stress and frequent glucose spikes can increase the risk of metabolic conditions. Stress management techniques may improve glucose regulation by reducing cortisol-induced spikes.

Healthy Ways to Reduce Stress

Taking small steps in your daily life to manage stress can have a big impact. Everyone is different, so it’s important to find the right combination of healthy techniques that work for you. Here are some steps you can take to reduce stress³:

• Take care of your mind: Take breaks from news and social media. It’s good to be informed, but constant information about negative events can be upsetting.⁴
• Take care of your body: Get enough sleep (the average adult needs seven or more hours per night⁵). Go to bed and wake up at the same time each day to help you sleep better.
• Make time to unwind: Take deep breaths, stretch, or meditate. Spend time outdoors either being active or relaxing. Try to do some other relaxing activities you enjoy.
• Move more: Staying physically healthy can improve your emotional well-being. Every little bit of physical activity helps.
• Eat healthy: Incorporate fruits and vegetables, lean protein, whole grains, and low-fat or no-fat dairy into your daily meals. Limit foods with unhealthy fats, salt, and added sugars.
• Connect with others: Grow your social network by trying new group activities like hiking, dancing, or playing a sport. Whatever your interests are, explore what’s out there. Reach out to friends and family, whether for support or just to check in.

^*For Stelo app compatibility information, visit stelo.com/compatibility.

STELO IMPORTANT INFORMATION: Consult your healthcare provider before making any medication adjustments based on your sensor readings and do not take any other medical action based on your sensor readings without consulting your healthcare provider. Do not use if you have problematic hypoglycemia. Failure to use Stelo and its components according to the instructions for use provided and to properly consider all indications, contraindications, warnings, and cautions in those instructions for use may result in you missing a severe hypoglycemia (low blood glucose) or hyperglycemia (high blood glucose) occurrence. If your sensor readings are not consistent with your symptoms, a blood glucose meter may be an option as needed and consult your healthcare provider. Seek medical advice and attention when appropriate, including before making any medication adjustments and/or for any medical emergency.

INDICATIONS FOR USE: The Stelo Glucose Biosensor System is an over-the-counter (OTC) integrated Continuous Glucose Monitor (iCGM) intended to continuously measure, record, analyze, and display glucose values in people 18 years and older not on insulin. The Stelo Glucose Biosensor System helps to detect normal (euglycemic) and low or high (dysglycemic) glucose levels. The Stelo Glucose Biosensor System may also help the user better understand how lifestyle and behavior modification, including diet and exercise, impact glucose excursion. The user is not intended to take medical action based on the device output without consultation with a qualified healthcare professional.

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