What Is MyGlucose Coach — and Why Recommend It to Your Patients?

A clinically aligned digital adjunct for rapid metabolic insight

MyGlucose Coach is a web-based clinical support tool that helps patients understand their own metabolic patterns using a 10-day CGM experiment. For general practitioners, it functions as a low-effort, high-value adjunct that prepares patients for more meaningful metabolic care.

MyGlucose Coach interprets patterns, behaviours, and physiological responses in real time—so the patient returns to you with a level of understanding about how nutrition and lifestyle behaviours affect health and wellbeing.

Complimentary 10 Day Metabolic Health Experiment Kit for Healthcare Professionals

Healthcare professionals are invited to experience the MyGlucose Coach system firsthand through a complimentary 10-Day Metabolic Health Experiment Kit. This allows you to see exactly what your patients will experience—combining real-time CGM data, AI-driven insights, and tight feedback loops that translate behaviour into measurable outcomes. By completing the experiment yourself, you’ll gain a clear understanding of how effectively MyGlucose Coach supports patient education, engagement, and behaviour change—placing you in a strong position to confidently recommend it within your clinical practice. To register your complimentary kit, visit: https://forms.office.com/r/F8NGAmLJQ0

Why GPs Recommend It

1. It reduces your education burden

Most patients leave with CGM data they can’t interpret. You must then spend time explaining glycaemic variability and load, how protein/fat/carbohydrate affects blood glucose levels, glucose/insulin dynamics, and lifestyle triggers.

MyGlucose Coach does this before they return.

What Your Patient Comes Back With After Using a CGM

  • A crystal-clear understanding of their personal “glucose triggers.”
    They finally see which foods and drinks send their blood sugar soaring — not theoretical advice, but their own real physiology.
  • True metabolic literacy — often for the first time in their life.
    Patients don’t just hear that food affects their health; they watch it happen in real time. This creates a powerful “aha moment” that transforms how they think about nutrition.
  • Insight into their behaviour patterns and how each one shapes their glucose curve.
    They learn exactly how stress, sleep, daily movement, and meal timing influence metabolic control — giving them a deeper understanding of their body’s responses.
  • A dramatic surge in motivation to change.
    When patients can see the immediate impact of their choices, behaviour change stops feeling abstract. It becomes personal, empowering, and far more sustainable.

This lets you skip the basics and move straight into clinical decision-making.

2. It transforms CGM from a passive tool into a behaviour-change engine

CGMs alone do not modify behaviour. But real-time AI coaching does.

How the App’s Screenshot Analysis Translates CGM Data Into Action

The app instantly reviews each CGM screenshot and turns it into personalised, real-time guidance. It helps patients understand exactly why their glucose is behaving a certain way by identifying when:

  • A meal drives a sharp glucose spike
    Revealing which foods or combinations push them outside the optimal range.
  • Stress elevates glucose even without eating
    Highlighting hidden hormonal drivers that patients rarely recognise.
  • Poor sleep leads to higher fasting glucose the next morning
    Demonstrating the powerful link between circadian disruption and metabolic control.
  • Low movement slows glucose clearance
    Showing patients when their body isn’t efficiently processing glucose due to sedentary time.
  • Light activity effectively flattens a spike
    Proving how even a short walk or brief movement window can dramatically improve glucose stability.

This operant conditioning loop is far more effective than delayed feedback from HbA1c or periodic reviews.

3. It generates patient compliance through personal biological insight

Patients change their behaviour when they see their own data—not population averages.

MyGlucose Coach provides:

  • Simple, understandable explanations
  • Tailored recommendations based on the individual’s unique PPGR
  • Positive and supportive reinforcement during the exact moment a behaviour occurs

Patients return more engaged and more likely to adhere to your professional advice.

4. Zero administrative burden for your practice

Referral is effortless:

  1. You provide the patient with a QR code or link in your Office or Telehealth appointment.
  2. The Patient self-onboard and self-fund: $95 (Cost is $29.99 for lifetime access to the MyGlucose Coach App and $65 for the Dexcom ONE+ 10 Day sensor – any CGM will work, we recommend The Dexcom ONE+ as it provides better data for analysis by the MyGlucose Coach App).
  3. They follow the guided 10-day protocol. The 10 Day Metabolic Insight Protocol is a very simple strategy aimed to achieve sustained behaviour change.
  4. They return to you with an interpreted metabolic profile and 10 days of daily CGM graphs so you can easily see the shape of their blood glucose graphs and provide your expert advice.

No accounts, no training, no monitoring required by your clinic.

5. It fits seamlessly into evidence-based clinical practice and offers the highest standard of patient care.

The system supports common GP goals:

  • Weight management
  • Prediabetes management
  • Metabolic Syndrome mitigation
  • Insulin resistance
  • Dyslipidaemia
  • Fatigue, brain fog, mood fluctuations
  • Hypertension
  • NAFLD
  • Perimenopause metabolic changes

The 10-day insight protocol does not diagnose—it prepares the patient for more targeted medical intervention.

The 10-Day Metabolic Insight Plan: How the Method Works

The 10-Day Metabolic Insight Plan is a short, powerful self-experiment designed to help you understand how your body responds to food, sleep, stress, and movement in real time using a Continuous Glucose Monitor (CGM).

Rather than giving you a diet to follow, this plan helps you see your own data, so you can discover what truly supports stable energy, reduced cravings, fat-burning metabolism, and better health.

The plan is divided into three phases, each building on the last.

🔵 Days 1–2 — Baseline Diet Discovery

Eat normally. Include your favourite foods. Observe your patterns.

For the first two days, you simply live your life as you normally would. Eat the foods you usually eat — including those you enjoy most. No restrictions.

Why this matters

These two days create your personal metabolic baseline. Your CGM shows you:

  • which foods and drinks cause sharp glucose spikes
  • how quickly your glucose rises and falls
  • how snacking, coffee, and timing influence your readings
  • how stable or unstable your energy is throughout the day

Every person responds differently to the same foods. These early days help you identify your personal glycaemic triggers and highlight which habits keep you steady — and which ones push your body into “fat-storage mode.”

🔵 Days 3–5 — Phase 1: Remove the White Carbs

Take out these foods for three days:

  • rice
  • pasta
  • bread
  • Cereals

That’s it. No other major changes required.

Why this matters

These foods are some of the most common causes of rapid glucose spikes. By removing them for only three days, you get to see:

  • how quickly your glucose stabilises
  • how energy levels improve when spikes disappear
  • reductions in cravings and mid-afternoon crashes
  • clearer thinking and more consistent mood
  • improved hunger regulation

This phase shows you how dramatically your metabolism can shift simply by removing high-glycaemic starches — often in just 24–48 hours.

🔵 Days 6–10 — Phase 2: Smooth the Glucose Curve

Now that your baseline has improved, this phase teaches you how to create low-variation, smooth glucose patterns — the key to metabolic health and sustainable fat-loss.

During these five days, focus on:

  1. Sleep (7+ hours)
    Poor sleep increases insulin resistance and raises fasting glucose the next morning. Good sleep flattens your glucose curve.
  2. Stress-reducing behaviours
    Stress hormones can raise glucose even without food. Use deep breathing, reframing, and small breaks to calm your nervous system.
  3. A 10–15 minute walk after meals
    This is one of the most powerful glucose-lowering behaviours available. Even a slow walk helps muscles absorb glucose.
  4. Regular movement during the day
    Sitting for long periods allows glucose to stay elevated. Movement — even light — improves glucose clearance.
  5. Protein-first meals
    Protein lowers the overall glycaemic impact of meals, keeps you full longer, and blunts glucose spikes.
  6. Identify your personal “glucose smoothers”
    Your CGM will show patterns such as certain foods that keep you stable, meal timings that reduce spikes, and activities or habits that flatten your curve. This is where the magic happens — you learn what works for you, not for a generic population.

🔵 What This Experiment Ultimately Teaches You

Over ten days, you gain a deep, personalised understanding of your metabolism:

  • which foods your body handles well
  • which foods trigger spikes
  • how sleep, stress, and movement shape your glucose curve
  • how simple behaviours create metabolic stability
  • how to shift your body toward fat-burning mode

By the end, you’ll have a clear map of how your choices impact your energy, cravings, mood, weight regulation, and long-term metabolic health — all backed by your own real-time data.

Your Body's Secret Switch: Understanding Blood Sugar and Unleashing Your Inner Fat-Burner

Have you ever wondered how your body really handles energy? The secret isn't just about calories; it's about hormones. And the master hormone in this story is triggered by something you might not think about twice: the sugar in your blood.

The Bucket and the Teaspoon: A Surprising Truth

Let's try a simple thought experiment. Imagine your entire blood supply—all 4 to 5 litres of it—fits perfectly into a standard bucket.

Now, for a person in peak metabolic health, guess how much sugar is circulating in that entire bucket at any given moment?

The answer is shockingly small: about one single teaspoon.

That’s it. Your body is a finely tuned machine, designed to run with incredible efficiency on just that tiny amount of glucose. It's the perfect amount to fuel your brain and power your muscles without causing any trouble.

The Sugar Tsunami and the Emergency Alarm

So, what happens when you drink a can of soft drink or eat a bowl of sugary cereal? You're not just adding a little extra fuel; you're dumping between 10 to 20 teaspoons of sugar directly into your bucket.

Your body instantly detects this massive overdose and sounds an emergency alarm. It’s a toxic flood, and it needs to be cleaned up—fast.

To handle this crisis, your pancreas releases a powerful hormone called insulin. Think of insulin as the emergency cleanup crew. Its first job is to grab all that excess sugar from the blood and shuttle it away into your cells for storage.

But insulin has a second, equally important job. While it's in emergency cleanup mode, it sends a loud and clear signal to the rest of your body: "STOP BURNING FAT!"

Simultaneously, it shouts another order: "STORE THIS EXCESS ENERGY AS BODY FAT!"

Suddenly, your body has flipped a switch. You've gone from being an energy-burning machine to a fat-storing one.

Listening to Your Inner Caveman

From an evolutionary perspective, this fat-storing ability was a brilliant survival tool. For our hunter-gatherer ancestors, food was often scarce. Finding a rare beehive or a bounty of seasonal fruit was a massive win. The ability to eat that sugary haul and have insulin efficiently store the excess energy as body fat meant they could survive the next lean period. It was a superpower.

The problem is that our ancient bodies are now living in a modern world. Our modern diet, filled with highly processed carbohydrates like bread, pasta, cereals, and sugary snacks, is like finding that rare beehive at every single meal, every single day. We are constantly triggering that emergency alarm, putting our bodies in "fat storage mode" far more often than not.

The Goal: Achieving Metabolic Flexibility

This is where you can take back control. When you consciously reduce the amount of sugar and refined carbohydrates in your diet, you stop dumping excess sugar into your bucket. Your blood sugar stops looking like a spiky, frantic rollercoaster and starts resembling gentle, rolling hills.

With stable blood sugar, insulin stays quiet. The emergency alarms are off. This teaches your body to become metabolically flexible.

Metabolic flexibility is the ultimate goal. It's the ability to seamlessly switch between fuel sources—using the small amount of glucose in your blood for quick energy when needed, and then effortlessly tapping into your own stored body fat for fuel the rest of the time.

You become an efficient, dual-fuel, energy-burning machine, just as nature intended.

Further Reading

  • The Art and Science of Low Carbohydrate Living by Stephen D. Phinney, PhD, and Jeff S. Volek, PhD, RD
  • The Fat Caveman by Don McKay and Dr Susan Swanston

The Ideal Blood Glucose Range for Optimal Health: A Validation

The optimal metabolic health range for blood glucose of 3.9-6.7 mmol/L (70-120 mg/dL) is a sound and health-conscious target. This range effectively combines the concepts of ideal fasting and post-meal glucose levels for a non-diabetic individual, aiming to minimize the risk of chronic disease and promote overall well-being.

While it is challenging to pinpoint a single, "most-cited" research paper that establishes this exact range, it is strongly supported by a convergence of evidence from numerous studies and the clinical guidelines of major health organisations. These guidelines are themselves based on extensive, evidence-based research.

Deconstructing the Optimal Range

Fasting Blood Glucose: This is your blood sugar level after not eating or drinking for at least eight hours. For optimal health, a fasting blood glucose level should be at the lower end of this spectrum. According to the American Diabetes Association (ADA), a fasting blood glucose level of less than 5.6 mmol/L (100 mg/dL) is considered normal. The lower end of the proposed optimal range, 3.9 mmol/L (70 mg/dL), aligns with the accepted lower limit of a healthy fasting state.

Postprandial Blood Glucose: This refers to your blood sugar level after a meal. It is normal for blood glucose to rise after eating. In a healthy individual, this increase is temporary. Guidelines suggest that for a non-diabetic person, blood glucose should ideally remain below 7.8 mmol/L (140 mg/dL) two hours after a meal. The upper limit of the proposed optimal range, 6.7 mmol/L (120 mg/dL), represents a tighter and more ambitious target for post-meal glucose, aiming to avoid larger spikes that can contribute to inflammation and cellular stress over time.

The Evidence-Based Support

The evidence for maintaining blood glucose within this tighter range comes from a vast body of research that links elevated glucose levels, even those below the threshold for a diabetes diagnosis, to an increased risk of cardiovascular disease, nerve damage, and other chronic health issues.

Clinical Reference for General Practitioners

The transition from a purely diagnostic framework to one of metabolic optimization focuses on maintaining a physiological "green zone" of 3.9–6.7 mmol/L (70–120 mg/dL) to mitigate long-term chronic disease risk. This tighter range is anchored by the ADA (2024) biochemical definition of hypoglycemia (3.9 mmol/L) and WHO (2006) fasting glucose norms. While traditional diagnostics (fasting glucose or HbA1c) often identify pathology late in the disease progression, epidemiological evidence from the Emerging Risk Factors Collaboration (NEJM, 2010) demonstrates that cardiovascular risk and all-cause mortality begin to scale linearly even within the "normal" range. Continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) studies in healthy populations (Shah et al., 2019) confirm that normoglycemic individuals naturally spend the majority of their time within this 3.9–6.7 mmol/L window. In a clinical setting, using this range as a target for behavioral feedback helps patients minimize glycemic variability and glucotoxic exposure, effectively slowing the progression of subclinical insulin resistance.

References:

  • American Diabetes Association (2024) Standards of Care in Diabetes—2024.
  • World Health Organization (2006) Definition and diagnosis of diabetes mellitus and intermediate hyperglycaemia.
  • Emerging Risk Factors Collaboration (2010) ‘Diabetes mellitus, fasting glucose, and risk of cause-specific death’, NEJM, 364: 829–841.
  • Shah, V.N. et al. (2019) ‘Performance of a factory-calibrated real-time CGM system in healthy individuals’, Diabetes Technology & Therapeutics, 21(3): 155–158. link page

How the Technology Works

1. AI Screenshot Interpretation

Patients upload screenshots of their CGM graph.

2. The system analyses:

  • How rapid the blood glucose rise
  • Peak height
  • Duration of elevation
  • Clearance rate
  • Time-of-day patterns
  • Circadian disruptions
  • Stress-related hepatic glucose output
  • Time in optimal range: 3.9mmol to 6.7mmol

The AI then maps each reading to four clinical pillars:

  1. Nutrition
  2. Sleep & Recovery
  3. Exercise & Movement
  4. Stress & Autonomic Load

This provides the patient with clear context, not just numbers.

Clinical Value at the Follow-Up Appointment

After 10 days, your patient returns with:

  • A clearer metabolic picture
  • Self-discovered triggers – food/sleep/stress
  • Increased intrinsic motivation
  • Data that accelerates your clinical reasoning
  • Fewer misconceptions (e.g., “calories are all that matters”)
  • Improved readiness for lifestyle or pharmacological interventions

This dramatically improves the efficiency and depth of your consultations.

In Summary — Why GPs Use It

  • Saves time by pre-educating the patient
  • Improves compliance through personalised insight
  • Supports your clinical outcomes in weight loss and metabolic care
  • Requires no admin or integration
  • Provides a structured, guided protocol you can trust
  • Uses the patient’s own CGM data, not generalised advice