Over the last few years, we have heard many rumors about new techniques to control sugar, hypertension, and other possible health problems, directly from our Apple Watch, without the need for external devices.
This is something very interesting, since it not only works for people with diabetes, or with problems already detected, but any of us, without knowing it, could foresee an illness before it was detected naturally and routinely, all from the wrist, thanks to the Apple watch.
An Apple Watch that measures sugar?
What of measure blood sugar with Apple Watch It's one of those things that's been talked about for years. It always appears as “the next big leap”, but it never ends up arriving. Still, from time to time little signs emerge that the idea is not as far away as it seemed, and that is just what has happened now.
The news is not that Apple has announced anything, because it has not. The interesting thing comes from a new technology that has just begun to be tested and that aims exactly at the same objective: measure glucose levels without having to prick yourself nor wear sensors under the skin. In this case, the system works by analyzing the breath, looking for certain compounds that are related to how blood sugar varies.
Right now it's not something you can wear on your wrist. It is a larger device that hangs around the neck and is still in the clinical testing phase. But the key is that works without needles and without invasive contactwhich is just the big problem that no one has completely managed to solve. If that can one day be made small and reliable, it's easy to imagine it integrated into something like a watch.
That is why these types of advances attract so much attention in relation to Apple. It has long been known that the company has been researching non-invasive glucose measurement, but doing it well, consistently and accurately, is extremely complicated. It's not enough for it to work once: it has to work every time and for all types of people.
In the meantime, the closest thing to this is still using external sensors that communicate with the Apple Watch. They work well for many people, but it's not the same as having everything integrated into the watch itself. What you are looking for is something simpler, more comfortable and that does not depend on carrying anything extraespecially for those who do not have this health problem, and simply want to check it regularly, as a precaution.
So no, the Apple Watch is not going to measure sugar tomorrow or the next day. But these types of new technologies suggest that it is likely that, in the future, Apple will get to work and achieve what we all dream of, and that is to have the maximum tools, in a simple watch, without the need for a large external device, for each measurement. You have already achieved it with the simplest ones, but there is a long way to go.
