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Imagine all the data points a body generates at any moment. This maybe the first step toward a cyborg future. When you have that much information about yourself the chances for experimentation are endless. I get excited just tracking my sleep, I have no idea what I'll be able to achieve with technology like this...

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When you have that much information, the chances for spurious conclusions are also endless.

Yep. Too much information in the absence of symptoms can actually a bad thing.

https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/a-skeptical-look-at-scr...

"When pharmacies in the UK started offering glucose and cholesterol tests, the number of visits to doctors increased, but only 10% of people with positive tests needed treatment"

I get a warning when I click on that link. Is this the same article http://www.delfini.org/Publications/SKEPDOC.15-3_Screening.p...?

Strange, i don't get a warning, but the certificate has only been valid since yesterday.

If there were a way to easily coordinate blood sugar, ketones, insulin, etc against food intake, you could really optimize your diet, and be able to shake out food sensitivities with objective data.

What are you tracking about it, exactly?

Well, there's an android app I used called SleepBot that graphs movements made in bed, can record sounds made at night (to learn about snoring, or sleep talking, etc) and then graphs all this stuff out over several days. It shows you amount of sleep, time of sleep, etc. Anyways, I ditched this particular tracking app because I found a better alarm somewhere else. While I used it though, it was interesting to see how terrible and uneven my sleep graphs were. It motivated me to tackle my sleep hygiene with more effective methods.

The real benefits I've seen from tracking thus far are time tracking g. An app called Goalist forces me to account t for every 5 minute block of time. Upon seeing the pie chart after a few eeks of diligent tracking, the amount of that pie that was taken up by "relaxing/idling" and "video games" totally disgusted me. I have now moved into a more effective use of time, I'm making sure those big slices of free time are taken up by educational stuff and coding practice. Visualizing these hidden factors in my life make them so much more palpable and easier to change!

I agree. A lot of the members of the biohacking/grinder group at HacDC felt the same way. We kind of viewed this stuff as an interesting hacker intersection that was similar to being in the garage and basement stage of personal computing.

This article made me really miss that group.

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