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Blood glucose monitoring?
Leaked Apple Watch prototype shows mysterious new sensor.
Leander Kahney
April 01, 2025
Of all the health sensors I’d like to see in an Apple Watch, top of my list is blood glucose monitoring.
Actually, perhaps a cancer detector would be better, but that’s not realistic.
Blood glucose monitoring is ostensibly for diabetics, but I think it has obvious universal appeal. It would allow me to see the effects of my terrible diet, practically in real time.
Why am I getting a sugar spike after eating some “healthy” yogurt? Oh, because it’s full of added sugar.
What about those mashed potatoes? Potatoes are healthy, right? Not according to my Apple Watch, which shows my blood sugar going through the roof.
I suspect that the ability to track my blood chemistry would have a dramatic effect on my nonexistent willpower. If I could see how I was poisoning myself, perhaps I wouldn’t eat half a pound of Belgian chocolate in a sitting.
Apple has been working on adding blood sugar monitoring to Apple Watch for many years, and Tim Cook even admitted publicly he was (or even still is) wearing a prototype.
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