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| Personal Science and Quantified Self track to maintain mental and physical health and improve productivity and performance. | | Personal Science and Quantified Self track to maintain mental and physical health and improve productivity and performance. |
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− | [[Lifelogging]] tracks many things about a person to reminisce and evaluate decisions made in the past. Shares tools with QS. | + | [[Lifelogging]] tracks many things about a person to reminisce and evaluate decisions made in the past. Shares tools with QS. [[Visualizing your Data]] |
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| [[Life extension]] goal also shares some tools and methods with QS though mostly focuses on formal medical studies. | | [[Life extension]] goal also shares some tools and methods with QS though mostly focuses on formal medical studies. |
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| Athletes and coaches often use often use a specialized tool set from QS to increase [[Sports]] performance. | | Athletes and coaches often use often use a specialized tool set from QS to increase [[Sports]] performance. |
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− | Self improvers do not aim to optimize health but do try to change their own [[Habits]] using techniques like gamification. Many authors recommend self tracking.<ref>https://jamesclear.com/habit-tracker</ref> Self improvement techniques require self tracking tools. | + | Self improvers do not aim to optimize health but do try to change cultivate their own [[Habits]] using techniques like gamification. Many authors recommend self tracking.<ref>https://jamesclear.com/habit-tracker</ref> Self improvement techniques require self tracking tools. |
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| Personalized<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precision_medicine</ref> & Precision<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personalized_medicine</ref> medicine<ref>https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/TKk7rShf9d5ePN7vR/personalized-medicine-for-real</ref>. Idea that medical treatments should be tailored to individual based on the individual's characteristics, like genome. Like personalized science but doctors do the decision making. | | Personalized<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precision_medicine</ref> & Precision<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personalized_medicine</ref> medicine<ref>https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/TKk7rShf9d5ePN7vR/personalized-medicine-for-real</ref>. Idea that medical treatments should be tailored to individual based on the individual's characteristics, like genome. Like personalized science but doctors do the decision making. |
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| ==== How will you visualize and analyze the data? ==== | | ==== How will you visualize and analyze the data? ==== |
| [[Visualizing your Data|Visualize]] Start learning to analyze by reading [[Experiment VS Observational study]]. | | [[Visualizing your Data|Visualize]] Start learning to analyze by reading [[Experiment VS Observational study]]. |
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| + | == Categories of health tracking<ref>https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/self-tracking</ref> == |
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| + | ==== monitor and evaluate ==== |
| + | For example "have I gotten enough exercise?". Compare achievement to goals. Most devices and apps are for this. Could train sense to degree that device is not needed. Like [[Mindfulness]]. For example, sensitize to physical signals to let body regulate weight and prevent overeating. Can lead to hypothesis. |
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| + | ==== debug a problem ==== |
| + | Look for triggers of [[Symptom tracking|Symptoms]] like headaches. Needs to be done via self tracking because, vague, sublinical, problem is rare or user is well outside bell curve. Find [[Communities|Community]] to get support and even push an idea like CFS into medical community. [[Experiment VS Observational study]] for experiment design. |
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| == References == | | == References == |
| [[Category:Topics]] | | [[Category:Topics]] |