Dan833

* 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.  This is a lot of work but mitigates three big problems:

* 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.  This is a lot of work but mitigates three big problems:

** giving up and relying on doctors and medications that don't even work, because discovering one's own truth feels overwhelming

** giving up, because discovering one's own truth about food/supplements feels overwhelming, and relying on doctor's guesswork to prescribe medications that don't work well

** major side effects from supposedly "healthy" foods and supplements that aren't right for an individual

** 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

** complacency about regularly taking foods/supplements because it's not obvious whether they help