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Dan833
Joined 28 October 2021
→Past data sources
== Data sources ==
== Current data sources ==
*[https://www.mysymptoms.net/ MySymptoms iphone app]
*[https://www.mysymptoms.net/ MySymptoms iphone app]
** food
** food
* [https://www.doctorsdata.com/hair-elements/ Doctor's Data Hair Elements] test
* [https://www.doctorsdata.com/hair-elements/ Doctor's Data Hair Elements] test
* [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]
== Past data sources ==
* [[iButton_temperature_logger]]
* estimated fat, water, and muscle from [https://www.amazon.com/Etekcity-Smart-Bluetooth-Body-Scale/dp/B07D7R25JV Etekcity smart Bluetooth scale]
* [https://www.amazon.com/X16-1D-USB-Accelerometer-Data-Logger/dp/B075VB1Q79 Gulf Coast Data Concepts logging accelerometer]
== My approach to quantified self ==
== My approach to quantified self ==
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|Don't track food
|Don't track food
|See food and supplements as 75% of health.
|Assume that anything I eat or fail to eat could be causing symptoms until I've proven otherwise.
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|Don't track minor symptoms
|Don't track minor symptoms
|Respect my body's communications as smarter than technology.
|Assume my body's self-communications are relevant and understandable.
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|Use sleep tracking gadgets
|Use sleep tracking gadgets
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|Take supplement blends such as Vitamin B Complex
|Take supplement blends such as Vitamin B Complex
|Take individual vitamins and minerals so I learn what each one does at which dose, since 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, since doses in blends are sometimes too low (eventually creating deficiency symptoms that aren't bad enough to figure out) or too high (eventually creating major side effects)
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|Trust the healthy foods and supplements
|Trust the healthy foods and supplements
|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
|Write hypotheses of how I hope the intervention will 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 symptoms are indirectly caused by diet and supplements, via nutritional deficiencies or side effects, and may require months or years of patient experimentation.
|Assume any symptom can be helped or hurt by diet and supplements, and may require months or years of patient experimentation.
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|Get regular exercise
|Get regular exercise
|Believe food affects symptoms but unclear about how
|Believe food affects symptoms but unclear about how
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|Eat out when traveling
|Unpredictable restaurants or diet, especially when traveling
|Pack food when traveling
|Predictable restaurants and diet, even when traveling
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|Responsible to cook for others or eat with others
|Responsible to cook for others or eat with others
|Have too much free time
|Have too much free time
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|Symptoms are ignorable
|Symptoms are either ignorable or require urgent care
|Symptoms greatly disrupt life
|Symptoms are disruptive enough to be high priority,
but can be safely tolerated for days to weeks
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|Don't like to restrict food to fit an experiment
|Don't like to restrict food to fit an experiment
|Find it all too easy to restrict food
|Find it easy to restrict food
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|Agreeable personality, welcome peer influence
|Agreeable personality, welcome peer influence
|Live close to well-stocked health food store
|Live close to well-stocked health food store
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(Note that becoming chronically ill can change a person from left to right...)