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Chronic health, sub-clinical problems, and effects of lifestyle choices like veganism, may be monitored using personal health tracking. Remedies such as weight loss diets and melatonin can be tested for effectiveness with self health tracking. Unfortunately, sub-clinical issues are often esoteric and so require elusive or underdeveloped tools.
 
Chronic health, sub-clinical problems, and effects of lifestyle choices like veganism, may be monitored using personal health tracking. Remedies such as weight loss diets and melatonin can be tested for effectiveness with self health tracking. Unfortunately, sub-clinical issues are often esoteric and so require elusive or underdeveloped tools.
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==== Motivate lifestyle change ====
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==== Motivate behavior change ====
Gamification seems pretty popular among apps and devices, and it requires tracking. Most consumer wearables include lots of motivating information. Just watching the numbers improve or be recorded can be quite motivating and build healthy habits At least according to personal experience [[User:DG|DG]] ([[User talk:DG|talk]]) and Atomic Habits.
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Gamification seems pretty popular and it requires tracking. Most consumer wearables include lots of motivating information. Just watching the numbers improve or be recorded can be quite motivating and build healthy habitsaccording to personal experience [[User:DG|DG]] ([[User talk:DG|talk]]) and Atomic Habits book. Problems usually have easier solutions than just relying on willpower such as a way to make a necessary habit much more fun or that underneath the problem is a health issue.
    
==== Optimize health, productivity, education, sports training, and cognitive functioning. ====
 
==== Optimize health, productivity, education, sports training, and cognitive functioning. ====
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