Dan833

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|Eat a diversity of foods

|Eat a diversity of foods

|Eat a minimalist diet, adding only foods and supplements that I can prove resolve a symptom or improve a blood test

|Regularly eat foods and supplements that I can prove resolve a symptom or improve a metric

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|Follow a diet from a book with a theory

|Follow a diet from a book with a theory

|Change one food at a time, since each food can have unexpected idiosyncratic effects

|Treat each added or removed food separately, recognizing it can have unexpected idiosyncratic effects

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|Get a doctor's check-up with routine lab tests

|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 known correction

|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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|Eat healthy foods on occasion

|Try to eat healthy foods

|Don't assume any food is healthy, especially so-called superfoods like liver and kale

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

See health success or failure as depending on the weakest link: it's multiplicative not additive

Identify and remove problem foods

 

Interpret any urge to eat "unhealthy" as a sign my body needs something I'm overlooking

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|Take supplement blends such as Vitamin B Complex

|Take supplement blends such as Vitamin B Complex

|Learn the hard way that doses in blends are often too low (eventually creating deficiency symptoms that aren't bad enough to figure out) or too high (eventually creating major side effects)

|Take individual vitamins and minerals so I learn what each one does at which dose, since doses in blends are often 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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|Just hope that a healthy food or supplement helps

|Trust the healthy foods and supplements

|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

|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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|Take medication to fix symptoms

|Take medication to fix symptoms

|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.

|Assume 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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|Get regular exercise

|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.

|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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