Weekly Health Statistics: 7/11 – 7/17/21

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For those checking the dates, I post these with a 1-week lag. 

Summary:

What I’m tracking

  • Sleep: 
    • Metrics: total time, heart rate variability, pulse (sleeping vs. waking)
    • Method: Apple watch + Autosleep app
    • Frequency: daily
  • Blood glucose:
    • Metrics: fasting BG, Avg. BG, coefficient of variation, time 70-140 mg/dL, time <60 mg/dL
    • Method: Dexcom G6 CGM
    • Frequency: continuous
  • Body:
    • Metrics: weight, waist circumference, BMI, waist/height
    • Method: scale + Renpho tape measure
    • Frequency: weekly
  • Other blood:
    • Metrics: hemoglobin, cholesterol, blood pressure, pulse
    • Method: Hemocue 801Cardiocheck PAOmron 10
    • Frequency: weekly for blood pressure & pulse, every 2 weeks for hemoglobin & cholesterol

Observations

  • Sleep:
    • This was the first week of my sleep experiment, so in addition to the metrics automatically tracked by my watch, I’m noting down any time I wake up in the middle of the night.
    • Despite the fact that all the auto-tracked metrics looked good, I was waking up much more frequently in the middle of the night and feeling more tired. This suggests the auto-tracked metrics are not a great measure of overall sleep quality.
    • I need to do a more detailed analysis to figure out what’s going on here…
  • Blood glucose:
    • All stats back to normal after last week’s travel. 
    • Time 70-140 mg/dL still could be a bit better. Will continue to cut back on insulin at meals.
  • Body:
    • Still seeing steady drop in weight and waistline. I’m very happy with my progress here. 
  • Blood:
    • Switching to every other week measurement for cholesterol and hemoglobin to reduce tracking burden. Will increase frequency if I’m doing any experiments that might cause them to change.
    • Blood pressure was much higher than normal this week. I ate an unusual dinner last night and had higher than normal BG, so might just be an outlier. Will keep an eye on this and see if it persists.

Active & Planned Experiments

  • Comprehensive bloodwork:
    • Goal: Establish baseline for a broad range of biomarkers and check overall health
    • Approach: WellnessFX Premium panel
    • Status: Got the results, need to analyze and write up.
  • Testing methods of sleeping longer:
    • Goals:
      • To determine if taking melatonin supplements in the evening extends the duration of my time asleep and subjective fatigue given a consistent bedtime.
      • To determine if taking melatonin supplement and/or sleeping longer affects subjective fatigue, blood glucose, heart rate variability, or pulse
    • Approach: here
    • Status: Week 1 complete

Data:

Blood

Body

Sleep

Methods:

Measurements: See summary section above

Data Processing & Visualization. Data was visualized using Tableau.

Data: here


– QD


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