Have a family member who has type 1 diabetes, and the continuous glucose monitor/insulin pump technology of the past decade have been literally life-changing. His markers are now down to a normal healthy person’s, let alone a normal diabetic’s. It’s crazy.
Also have a dear friend who had their pituitary removed this week, and was wondering why we don’t have similar technology for other hormones the body needs. If we don’t, how far off are we?
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Most of those deficiencies don’t kill you within days without the hormone, though, so that plays a lot into it. The second part to the answer is that there’s more money in diabetes, cause America.
The good news is a lot of the newer platforms in development can be modified slightly for monitoring other markers, so we may see some collateral movement because market capture will become “cheaper” for smaller markets.
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