Baselining Week — #biotracking
Continue my weekly posts about my health and so called biohacking routines and insights i’m getting from mindful approach to my health
Disclaimer #1: purpose of this post series is fist of all to create a weekly routine of self-reflection for myself. Secondly it also might be seen as a way of sharing insights i’m getting from following longevity and biohacking routines with my friends. I’m practicing mindful approach to my health for a while already and recently realised a need in tracking and capturing insights as well as some mean of sharing it
Disclaimer #2: I’m not an medical doctor and all my practices, insights and recommendations should be taken with a bit of scepticism and even suspicion ;)
Disclaimer #3: Each post in this serious consists of 2 parts: (i) 3 insights from the last week (ii) 3 actions for the coming week
(i) Weekly insights:
- (a) Overall measurement. Every scientist and businessmen knows that to measure the progress you need to have solid starting point or a baseline you measure against. And it’s better to reconsider your baseline over time. As fo me I decided that past week will be a baselining for me for the coming months. I carefully selected 10 key input and 10 key output metrics in areas of physical activities, nutrition, glucose, sleep, body composition mindfulness and stress and measured base line on this week. I must I’m particularly happy with this base line, let’d see how i may improve ;)
- (b) Sleep: Despite all my attempts to improve my sleep quality this is a biggest challenge for me. I have constant and very low HVR the whole week. To get more information i went to MD for consultation. All my sleep data were very helpful and together with doctor we have some ideas. One of the suspect is allergy reaction and breathing difficulties because of that. Next week will try prescribed drugs.
- (c ) Home vitamins check: To make may baselining full i’ve order and tested device called Vitastiq this week. It claim to test deficiency of 26 key vitamins and minerals based on electromagnetic measurements. To be very honest science behind it is quite fluffy and results of measurements with 1 hour may vary big time. In the same time after several exercises and watching several youtube videos on how to use it properly it gave me quite consistent results more or less similar with my latest blood panel. Will continue using it and happy to provide my view on it in personal conversation
- (d) DNA: finally my DNA sample was sent to USA. That turned out to be a true quest — sending overseas medical samples in the world of COVID requires tones of bureaucracy and a lot of patience.
- (e) Food: modified limited coffee and keto protocol worked very nicely for me this week combined with 16–18 hours of fasting daily. Good energy level together with stable blood sugar and metabolism metrics.
(iii) Next week commitments
- (a) Supplements: finally received my supplements ordered from various sources. Next week will start again taking some basic supplements: pro/prebiotics, D3-K2, Krill oil, C, magnesium, zinc (will give full list next time)
- (b) Sleep: Will experiment with prescribed drugs for allergy to test sleep quality improvements
- (c ) Food: Continue limited coffee and keto protocol with 18–20 fasting hours. Obviously no alcohol
