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 801, Cardiocheck PA, Omron 10
- Frequency: weekly for blood pressure & pulse, every 2 weeks for hemoglobin & cholesterol
Observations
- Sleep:
- I’m two weeks into my sleep experiment and still seeing significant discrepancies between the auto and manually tracked metrics. I’m going to hold off on analyzing the data until the experiment is complete so as to minimize any impact on data collection.
- Blood glucose:
- All stats looking good.
- Body:
- Still seeing steady drop in weight and waistline; still happy with my progress.
- Blood:
- Total cholesterol and triglycerides were way higher than normal this week (90 & 276 vs. ~160 & ~70). Very likely an outlier, but will keep an eye on it.
- Blood pressure back down to typical, so last week was probably an outlier.
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 blood glucose impact of low-carb foods
- Goal: Check blood glucose impact of new low-carb foods I’d like to incorporate into my diet
- Approach: Follow the same protocol from my previous study
- Status:
- La Tortilla Factory Low-Carb Flour Tortilla: Testing complete
- La Tortilla Factory Low-Carb Whole Wheat Tortilla: In queue
- Other low carb tortilla: In queue
- Costco low-carb bread: In queue
- 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 2 complete
Data:
Blood
Body
Sleep
Methods:
Measurements: See summary section above
Data Processing & Visualization. Data was visualized using Tableau.
Data: here
– QD
