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*[https://www.mysymptoms.net/ MySymptoms iphone app] | *[https://www.mysymptoms.net/ MySymptoms iphone app] | ||
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* [https://nebula.org/whole-genome-sequencing-dna-test/ Nebula Genomics whole genome sequence] | * [https://nebula.org/whole-genome-sequencing-dna-test/ Nebula Genomics whole genome sequence] | ||
− | + | == My approach to health/nutrition == | |
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!Mainstream advice | !Mainstream advice | ||
− | !My personal science approach | + | !My "personal science" approach |
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|Eat a diversity of foods | |Eat a diversity of foods | ||
− | | | + | |Eat a minimalist diet, adding only foods and supplements that I can prove resolve a symptom or improve a blood test |
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|Follow a diet from a book with a theory | |Follow a diet from a book with a theory | ||
− | | | + | |Change one food at a time, since each food can have unexpected idiosyncratic effects |
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|Get a doctor's check-up with routine lab tests | |Get a doctor's check-up with routine lab tests | ||
− | |Order my own lab tests, especially tests where I'm still out of range, whether or not a doctor has dismissed them since there's no | + | |Order my own lab tests, especially tests where I'm still out of range, whether or not a doctor has dismissed them since there's no known correction |
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− | | | + | |Eat healthy foods on occasion |
− | | | + | |Don't assume any food is healthy, especially so-called superfoods like liver and kale |
− | Don't assume any food is healthy, especially so-called superfoods | + | See health success or failure as depending on the weakest link: it's multiplicative not additive |
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|Take supplement blends such as Vitamin B Complex | |Take supplement blends such as Vitamin B Complex | ||
− | | | + | |Learn the hard way that doses in blends are often too low (eventually creating deficiency symptoms that aren't bad enough to figure out) or too high (eventually creating major side effects) |
+ | Take individual vitamins and minerals so I learn what each one does at which dose | ||
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− | | | + | |Just hope that a healthy food or supplement helps |
− | |Write hypotheses of how I hope the intervention | + | |Write hypotheses of how I hope the intervention help; update this with possible side effects; add and remove intervention over time to confirm or disconfirm hypotheses |
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|Take medication to fix symptoms | |Take medication to fix symptoms | ||
− | |Assume | + | |Assume almost all symptoms are indirectly caused by diet and supplements, via nutritional deficiencies or side effects, and may require months or years of patient experimentation. |
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− | == | + | == My approach to quantified self == |
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− | ! | + | !Usual QS approach |
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− | | | + | |Don't track food |
− | | | + | |See food and supplements as 75% of health. |
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− | | | + | |Don't track minor symptoms |
− | | | + | |Respect my body's communications as smarter than technology. |
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− | | | + | |Use sleep tracking gadgets |
− | | | + | |Track sleep and wake times manually, since automatic detection is unreliable. |
+ | Don't use automatic estimations of sleep quality, which are unreliable and unactionable. | ||
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− | | | + | |Run one experiment at a time |
− | | | + | |Recognize that deficiency symptoms can take months to emerge. Respond to one symptom at time, trying several interventions until it resolves, then circle back and retry interventions to narrow down what works. |
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− | | | + | |Rate symptom of concern on a scale of 1-10 |
− | | | + | |Track all symptoms, even those that aren't bothersome as free text notes, timestamped to when they start, since they're often related to timing of food or supplement. Timestamps and consistency are far more helpful than regular quantities -- see my presentation [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1LgLBUQFzioJMjr_o4B_YkOECGQ4p477XfaV1rLILOLg/edit The Tagged Self]. |
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