The 4-Hour Body - An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman - Timothy Ferriss
Charlie Kimball is a type 1 diabetic. Unlike type 2 diabetics, he needs to inject insulin
multiple times per day. He also happens to be a professional race car driver.
In 2006, Charlie became the rst American to ever win an F3 Euroseries race. Then, in 2007,
at age 22, he went to the doctor for a small skin irritation and left the o ce with a diagnosis of
type 1 diabetes. Tragically, this meant he was forced to abandon racing altogether. Pricking your
ngers to take blood sugar readings just isn't possible when ying around curves at 150 miles
per hour.
In 2008, Charlie returned to the wheel and claimed a podium finish in his first race. How?
He was the rst race car driver in the world to have a strange device strapped to his steering
wheel: the DexCom SEVEN continuous glucose monitor (CGM).
I check it like it's one of my race car gauges as I'm driving around the track. It's my body's
data. And it's not information overload. It's perfect