Oh yes, continuous glucose monitoring is totally overkill for most people. I just wanted to try it out because it’s a hobby. But yearly blood work or similar should be fine for anyone who wants it IMO. Well, anything that is measuring-only I think should be available to anyone who wants it TBH.
I think you need to go in with the right perspective, and I think the setting of doctors only offering tests when there is something wrong sets the tone that they catch dangerous things. Imagine if blood testing were available at gyms (not a suggestion, just an example) - the data would be viewed very differently. Imagine if doctors’ offices had treadmills, you’d view exercise very differently too.
If your X metric is a bit outside of a normal range, it doesn’t mean you’re going to die or you can’t handle some biological function (generally). It means it may be more strenuous for your body, or you’re predisposed to issues when something else goes wrong, or your body is simply a bit outside “normal”. It’s like someone who is really tall - being tall is “not normal” but it’s generally recognized as not deadly, despite the reality that certain health issues are correlated with abnormal height.
I think you need to go in with the right perspective, and I think the setting of doctors only offering tests when there is something wrong sets the tone that they catch dangerous things. Imagine if blood testing were available at gyms (not a suggestion, just an example) - the data would be viewed very differently. Imagine if doctors’ offices had treadmills, you’d view exercise very differently too.
If your X metric is a bit outside of a normal range, it doesn’t mean you’re going to die or you can’t handle some biological function (generally). It means it may be more strenuous for your body, or you’re predisposed to issues when something else goes wrong, or your body is simply a bit outside “normal”. It’s like someone who is really tall - being tall is “not normal” but it’s generally recognized as not deadly, despite the reality that certain health issues are correlated with abnormal height.