january.aiReviews of january.ai

I received the CGM and glucose but the instructions about what to do lagged. Not initially a problem, it became indicative of my experience. The food database was not as extensive or as flexible as myFitnessPal. The more problematic issue was the CGM itself. I used it for 5 days and it was between 10-50 points different from my blood glucose measurements using my ketomojo. There did not seem to be a recalibration. Often times it would tell me that I had to wait 10 min to test. So measurement validity and reliability was a problem. Then my biggest concern was looking at their idea of experiments. I know from my experience with measuring my blood glucose with my ketomojo, it takes me 3 days after having a dessert for my glucose fluxuations to return to a lower variability where I do not feel hangry. January AI was suggesting a different glucose spiking experiment per day. Good experimental design would dictate that they calibrate how long it takes glucose to level out and then schedule the glucose/food challenges that allow sufficient washout. The entire process was not well documented and the experiments were presented as if the goal was simply be educational for the user to see how different foods mess with your system (e.g. favorite dessert for breakfast). People like me know that desserts in general have long lasting as well as drastic consequences for our blood glucose, so it seemed irresponsible to have these "experiments" that were fairly extreme and closely spaced so as to be useless in terms of real data gathering. Given that the CGM could not give valid measurements, it seemed pointless. I felt that give the poor measurement tools and poor "experiment" design that did not take into account either my goals or my current knowledge of the harms of such experiments, this was a waste of money.