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== Data sources ==
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== Current data sources ==
 
*[https://www.mysymptoms.net/ MySymptoms iphone app]
 
*[https://www.mysymptoms.net/ MySymptoms iphone app]
 
** food
 
** food
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** exercise
 
** exercise
 
** body weight
 
** body weight
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* [[Lab Tests|'''Blood tests''']] (every few months)
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* [[Lab Tests|'''Blood tests''']]
 
** Complete Blood Count
 
** Complete Blood Count
 
** Comprehensive Metabolic Panel
 
** Comprehensive Metabolic Panel
 
** serum copper
 
** serum copper
 
** serum zinc
 
** serum zinc
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** iron
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** vitamin D
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** homocysteine
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* [https://www.doctorsdata.com/hair-elements/ Doctor's Data Hair Elements] test
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* [https://nebula.org/whole-genome-sequencing-dna-test/ Nebula Genomics whole genome sequence]
  
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== My approach to health/nutrition ==
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== Past data sources ==
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* [[iButton_temperature_logger]]
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* estimated fat, water, and muscle from [https://www.amazon.com/Etekcity-Smart-Bluetooth-Body-Scale/dp/B07D7R25JV Etekcity smart Bluetooth scale]
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* [https://www.amazon.com/X16-1D-USB-Accelerometer-Data-Logger/dp/B075VB1Q79 Gulf Coast Data Concepts logging accelerometer]
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== My approach to quantified self ==
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{| class="wikitable"
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!Usual QS approach
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!My approach
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|-
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|Don't track food
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|Assume that anything I eat or fail to eat could be causing symptoms until I've proven otherwise.
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|-
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|Don't track minor symptoms
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|Assume my body's self-communications are relevant and understandable.
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|-
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|Use sleep tracking gadgets
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|Track sleep and wake times manually, since automatic detection is unreliable.
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Don't use automatic estimations of sleep quality, which are unreliable and unactionable.
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|-
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|Run one experiment at a time
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|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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|-
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|Rate symptom of concern on a scale of 1-10
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|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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|}
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== My personal science approach to health ==
 
{| class="wikitable"
 
{| class="wikitable"
 
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!Mainstream advice
 
!Mainstream advice
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!My approach
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!My personal science approach
 
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|-
 
|Eat a diversity of foods
 
|Eat a diversity of foods
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|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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|Regularly eat foods and supplements that I can prove resolve a symptom or improve a metric.
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Intentionally eat a deficient diet consistently until symptoms emerge that clearly show the deficiency.
 
|-
 
|-
 
|Follow a diet from a book with a theory
 
|Follow a diet from a book with a theory
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|Change one food at a time, since each food can have unexpected idiosyncratic effects
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|Treat each added or removed food separately, recognizing it can have unexpected idiosyncratic effects
 
|-
 
|-
 
|Get a doctor's check-up with routine lab tests
 
|Get a doctor's check-up with routine lab tests
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|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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|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 established diagnosis and treatment
 
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|Eat healthy foods on occasion
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|Try to eat healthy foods
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|Don't assume any food is healthy, especially so-called superfoods like liver and kale
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|Identifying and removing problem foods as a first step.
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See health success or failure as depending on the weakest link: it's multiplicative not additive
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Don't assume any food is healthy, especially so-called superfoods.
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Interpret any food urge that seems "unhealthy" to me as a sign my body needs something I'm overlooking
 
|-
 
|-
 
|Take supplement blends such as Vitamin B Complex
 
|Take supplement blends such as Vitamin B Complex
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|Learn the hard way that blends often contain ineffectively low or harmfully high doses
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|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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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
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|Trust the healthy foods and supplements
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|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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|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
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|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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|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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|-
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|Get regular exercise
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|Exercise when it feels right.  Exercising at the wrong time will set me back.  Track exercise to learn when I was feeling good.
 
|}
 
|}
  
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== My approach to quantified self ==
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== Who would I recommend food/supplement personal science for? ==
 
{| class="wikitable"
 
{| class="wikitable"
 
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!Usual QS approach
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!If this describes you, maybe don't track foods/supplements
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!My approach
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!If this describes you, maybe do track food/supplements
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|-
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|Believe food doesn't affect your symptoms or is simple
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|Believe food affects symptoms but unclear about how
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|-
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|Unpredictable restaurants or diet, especially when traveling
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|Predictable restaurants and diet, even when traveling
 
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|-
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|Don't track food
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|Responsible to cook for others or eat with others
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|See food and supplements as 75% of health.
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|Live alone
 
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|Don't track minor symptoms
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|Have little free time
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|Respect my body's communications as smarter than technology.
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|Have too much free time
 
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|Regular exercise wearing tracking gadgets
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|Symptoms are either ignorable or require urgent care
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|Realize that exercise is a stressor with a cost.  More does not equal better.
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|Symptoms are disruptive enough to be high priority,
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but can be safely tolerated for days to weeks
 
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|Use sleep tracking gadgets
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|Don't like to restrict food to fit an experiment
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|Track sleep vs. non-sleep manually, since automatic detection is unreliable.
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|Find it easy to restrict food
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Don't use automatic estimations of sleep quality, which are unreliable and unactionable.
 
 
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|Run one experiment at a time
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|Agreeable personality, welcome peer influence
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|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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|Disagreeable personality, prefer to find individual truth
 
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|Rate symptom of concern on a scale of 1-10
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|Hard to obtain specific foods or supplements quickly
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|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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|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...)

Latest revision as of 22:50, 29 October 2021

Current data sources[edit | edit source]

Past data sources[edit | edit source]

My approach to quantified self[edit | edit source]

Usual QS approach My approach
Don't track food Assume that anything I eat or fail to eat could be causing symptoms until I've proven otherwise.
Don't track minor symptoms Assume my body's self-communications are relevant and understandable.
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.

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.
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 The Tagged Self.

My personal science approach to health[edit | edit source]

Mainstream advice My personal science approach
Eat a diversity of foods Regularly eat foods and supplements that I can prove resolve a symptom or improve a metric.

Intentionally eat a deficient diet consistently until symptoms emerge that clearly show the deficiency.

Follow a diet from a book with a theory Treat each added or removed food separately, recognizing it can have unexpected idiosyncratic effects
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 established diagnosis and treatment
Try to eat healthy foods Identifying and removing problem foods as a first step.

Don't assume any food is healthy, especially so-called superfoods.

Interpret any food urge that seems "unhealthy" to me as a sign my body needs something I'm overlooking

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 sometimes too low (eventually creating deficiency symptoms that aren't bad enough to figure out) or too high (eventually creating major side effects)
Trust the healthy foods and supplements 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
Take medication to fix symptoms Assume any symptom can be helped or hurt by diet and supplements, and may require months or years of patient experimentation.
Get regular exercise Exercise when it feels right. Exercising at the wrong time will set me back. Track exercise to learn when I was feeling good.

Who would I recommend food/supplement personal science for?[edit | edit source]

If this describes you, maybe don't track foods/supplements If this describes you, maybe do track food/supplements
Believe food doesn't affect your symptoms or is simple Believe food affects symptoms but unclear about how
Unpredictable restaurants or diet, especially when traveling Predictable restaurants and diet, even when traveling
Responsible to cook for others or eat with others Live alone
Have little free time Have too much free time
Symptoms are either ignorable or require urgent care Symptoms are disruptive enough to be high priority,

but can be safely tolerated for days to weeks

Don't like to restrict food to fit an experiment Find it easy to restrict food
Agreeable personality, welcome peer influence Disagreeable personality, prefer to find individual truth
Hard to obtain specific foods or supplements quickly Live close to well-stocked health food store

(Note that becoming chronically ill can change a person from left to right...)

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