This week, I posted interim results from blood glucose testing of whole foods. So far, all were relatively consistent with the available nutrition info, indicating no surprise digestible fibers. I’ll be continuing testing of whole foods for the next few weeks, so if you have any you’d like to try, let me know in the comments.
I’ve just about finished up the first blood pressure experiments: meter repeatability & reproducibility testing, deep breathing effect, and data-mining of my daily testing. I’m part way through the data analysis and will be posting the results of these over the next few weeks.
Experiments this week:
- Whole foods: lupini beans, white mushrooms, fennel
- Blood pressure:
- 19/20 runs of the deep breathing study
- Repeatability testing
Next week:
- Food effect:
- continued testing of whole foods
- Blood pressure:
- Continuing the deep breathing study; 2 more weeks to finish and analyze.
– QD
Active & Planned Experiments
- Blood Glucose Impact of Low-Carb Foods & Ingredients
- Goal: Determine blood glucose impact of low-carb foods and ingredients
- Approach: Protocol
- Status:
- Reported:
- Up next:
- Whole foods (vegetables, meats, low-carb fruits)
- Dietary fibers
- Miscellaneous low-carb prepared foods
- Blood Glucose Impact of Supplements
- Goal: Determine blood glucose impact and mechanism of promising supplements
- Approach: Protocol
- Status:
- This week: Initial replication
- Reported:
- Up next:
- Full meal test
- Alternate macronutrients
- Alternate acid sources
- Blood Pressure
- Goal: Identify causes & interventions to improve my elevated blood pressure
- Approach: under development
- Status:
- Reported:
- Up next:
- Repeatability & reproducibility
- Analysis of historical data
- Effect of deep breathing protocols
- Improving Sleep
- Improving Cognition
- Goal: Identify environmental factors & interventions to improve my cognition
- Status:
- Reported:
- Up next:
- Larger chess puzzle dataset
Let me know in the comments if there’s any other experiments you’d like to see.
– QD
Observations & Data
- Sleep
- Sleep was ok, but not great. I’m consistently waking up ~1 hours earlier than I’d like. Need to figure out how to get this back under control.
- Pulse continues to look stable, but need more data.
- HRV back down, still don’t understand how to interpret this…
- Blood Glucose
- Blood glucose still looking ok, but it’s hard to tell with my current metrics. When I get some time, I’m going to switch to using time low & high, rather than just time-in-range.
- Other Blood
- Hemoglobin normal as usual. I’ll stop this when I run out of strips.
- Cholesterol was much higher than previous two tests. I did a blood test that included cholesterol the day before, so I’ll be able to tell if this was accurate or not in about a week.
- Blood pressure continues to be “elevated.” Hopefully my new study will uncover something useful here.
- Body
- Weight and waist are back down after Thanksgiving. Pretty happy with where this is at, so working to keep stable.
Sleep
Blood Glucose
Other Blood
Body
Methods
- Sleep
- Metrics: total time, heart rate variability, pulse (sleeping vs. waking)
- Methods: 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
- Methods: Dexcom G6 CGM
- Frequency: continuous
- Other Blood
- Metrics: weight, waist circumference, BMI, waist/height
- Methods: scale + Renpho tape measure
- Frequency: daily
- Body
- Metrics: hemoglobin, cholesterol, blood pressure, pulse
- Methods: Hemocue 801, Cardiocheck PA, Omron Evolve
- Frequency: daily for blood pressure & pulse, every 2 weeks for hemoglobin & cholesterol
