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Glucose Republic<\/a>\u00a0is combining biology and software to help people eat and live better through the means of\u00a0tracking and monitoring how blood glucose responds to different nutrition in real-time\u00a0circumstances.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each of us has a unique food fingerprint which we can access via our own glucose response to food and exercise and this helps us understand the impact of food upon us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Glucose spikes are extremely influential in determining the risk factor for diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular disease and other metabolic disorders, with excessive dietary glucose leading to both increased weight gain and increased cholesterol in specific cohorts.\u200b<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A need was identified to develop a product that will enable healthy people to track and monitor how their blood glucose responds to different nutrition in real-time. Using existing products designed for people with diabetes, the Glucose Republic team wanted to conduct a trial on healthy volunteers to track how blood glucose levels respond to different prescribed and non-prescribed meals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over a period of six months, the\u00a0Healthcare Technology Centre<\/a>\u00a0has helped to establish a comprehensive literature review on current non-invasive technology for glucose monitoring, available techniques, sensor data collection frequency, wearable data transmission protocol and power management.\u200b\u00a0This information can then be used to\u00a0determine the requirements for the hardware\u00a0specifications of developing such technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following this collaboration, Glucose Republic has benefited from financial support from the Welsh Government\u2019s SMARTCymru programme, which is funded by the European Regional Development Fund. In 2022, the company raised \u00a3500,000 investment to build the first mobile app focused on the impact of food.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Glucose Republic\u00a0is combining biology and software to help people eat and live better through the means of\u00a0tracking and monitoring how blood glucose responds to different nutrition in real-time\u00a0circumstances. 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