User:Dan833

I am currently tracking:

• Food, supplements, symptoms, and weight with the MySymptoms iphone app (consistently)
  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 The Tagged Self.
• Hypotheses about food/supplement effects on symptoms with DynaList outlining app (every few days)
  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. This is a lot of work but mitigates three big problems:
  • giving up, because discovering one's own truth about food/supplements feels overwhelming, and relying on doctors' guesswork (ill-informed by vague symptom reports) to prescribe medications (often psychiatric) that don't work and create their own problems
  • major side effects from supposedly "healthy" foods and supplements that aren't right for an individual
  • complacency about regularly taking foods/supplements because it's not obvious whether they help
• Blood tests (every few months)
  • Complete Blood Count
  • Comprehensive Metabolic Panel
  • serum copper
  • serum zinc