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Dan833
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explain reason for supplement testing
* Food, supplements, symptoms, and weight with the [https://www.mysymptoms.net/ MySymptoms iphone app] (consistently)<br/>For symptoms, I recommend writing free text notes, so that searchable keywords emerge naturally, instead of only estimating them on a numerical scale at a regular time, which is hard to keep up. See my reasoning at my presentation [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1LgLBUQFzioJMjr_o4B_YkOECGQ4p477XfaV1rLILOLg/edit The Tagged Self].
* Food, supplements, symptoms, and weight with the [https://www.mysymptoms.net/ MySymptoms iphone app] (consistently)<br/>For symptoms, I recommend writing free text notes, so that searchable keywords emerge naturally, instead of only estimating them on a numerical scale at a regular time, which is hard to keep up. See my reasoning at my presentation [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1LgLBUQFzioJMjr_o4B_YkOECGQ4p477XfaV1rLILOLg/edit The Tagged Self].
* Hypotheses about food/supplement effects on symptoms with [https://dynalist.io DynaList] outlining app (every few days)<br/>Since nutrition experiments can take weeks or months to run, I run them concurrently. As symptoms emerge and worsen, it's urgent to solve them, and unclear which are caused by nutritional deficiencies and which are side effects from supplement overdosing. So I make several interventions until symptoms significantly improve, write down all possibilities, then reverse the interventions, wait for symptoms to recur, and reapply them later to hone in on exact supplements and doses.
* Hypotheses about food/supplement effects on symptoms with [https://dynalist.io DynaList] outlining app (every few days)<br/>Since nutrition experiments can take weeks or months to run, I run them concurrently. As symptoms emerge and worsen, it's urgent to solve them, and unclear which are caused by nutritional deficiencies and which are side effects from supplement overdosing. So I make several interventions until symptoms significantly improve, write down all possibilities, then reverse the interventions, wait for symptoms to recur, and reapply them later to hone in on exact supplements and doses. It's a giant pain but mitigates two huge problems:
** side effects from overdosed supplements (especially Vitamin A, B6, C, and D, which can effectively create chronic illness)
** complacency about regularly taking foods/supplements because they seem ineffectual
* [[Lab Tests|Blood tests]] (every few months)
* [[Lab Tests|Blood tests]] (every few months)
** Complete Blood Count
** Complete Blood Count