This document discusses whether fish oil can make a person smarter. It mentions that while fish oil may provide cognitive benefits initially, the effects tend to fade over time. It also notes that statins, a type of drug used to lower cholesterol, may also enhance cognitive abilities. The document encourages joining the author to track changes in brain performance and function over time.
This document discusses 3 different fat burner supplements. Each supplement claims to help burn fat through different mechanisms such as boosting metabolism, reducing appetite, or targeting stubborn fat stores. However, there is no scientific evidence provided that any of these supplements are effective for significant fat loss.
This document promotes three videos related to the popular Netflix show Squid Game. Links are provided to videos that can be watched at https://uii.io/Famousvid_daily1, https://uii.io/Famousvid_daily2, and https://uii.io/Famousvid_daily23 which may contain content inspired by or related to the plot and games featured in Squid Game.
This document provides 3 links to motivational videos intended to encourage and bless viewers with inspiring messages. The first video can be found at https://uii.io/BtXTTI, the second at https://uii.io/vkSA, and the third at https://uii.io/1qSIDb.
This document discusses the author's microbiome and how it changed over a one week period after tracking macronutrients and microbiome data. Key findings include an increase in certain bacteria like Roseburia, Faecalibacterium, and Bacteroides after one week. The author's diversity of phyla, classes, orders, families and genera decreased over this period, while the ratio of Bifido/Firmicutes increased. The document encourages readers to also track their microbiome over time to better understand changes.
Nan discusses what she learned from her weight loss tracking over the course of a whoping 26 years, with an emphasis on how health issues, major life events, and physical challenges impacted weight gain.
Presented at the Washington DC meetup group on November 19, 2014
1) The document analyzes the author's resting heart rate data over multiple years from the OpenHumans platform and compares it to different diets.
2) A study is cited that found higher resting heart rates are correlated with increased risk of all-cause and cardiovascular mortality.
3) The author concludes that their resting heart rate was higher in 2020, and that low-carb diets and fasting increased their resting heart rate.
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Overview of my self-experiments in microbiome diagnostics, continuous glucose monitoring and more. Presentation for Me Convention, Frankfurt Germany, Sept 12, 2019
This document discusses 3 different fat burner supplements. Each supplement claims to help burn fat through different mechanisms such as boosting metabolism, reducing appetite, or targeting stubborn fat stores. However, there is no scientific evidence provided that any of these supplements are effective for significant fat loss.
This document promotes three videos related to the popular Netflix show Squid Game. Links are provided to videos that can be watched at https://uii.io/Famousvid_daily1, https://uii.io/Famousvid_daily2, and https://uii.io/Famousvid_daily23 which may contain content inspired by or related to the plot and games featured in Squid Game.
This document provides 3 links to motivational videos intended to encourage and bless viewers with inspiring messages. The first video can be found at https://uii.io/BtXTTI, the second at https://uii.io/vkSA, and the third at https://uii.io/1qSIDb.
This document discusses the author's microbiome and how it changed over a one week period after tracking macronutrients and microbiome data. Key findings include an increase in certain bacteria like Roseburia, Faecalibacterium, and Bacteroides after one week. The author's diversity of phyla, classes, orders, families and genera decreased over this period, while the ratio of Bifido/Firmicutes increased. The document encourages readers to also track their microbiome over time to better understand changes.
Nan discusses what she learned from her weight loss tracking over the course of a whoping 26 years, with an emphasis on how health issues, major life events, and physical challenges impacted weight gain.
Presented at the Washington DC meetup group on November 19, 2014
1) The document analyzes the author's resting heart rate data over multiple years from the OpenHumans platform and compares it to different diets.
2) A study is cited that found higher resting heart rates are correlated with increased risk of all-cause and cardiovascular mortality.
3) The author concludes that their resting heart rate was higher in 2020, and that low-carb diets and fasting increased their resting heart rate.
The Technology of Self-Tracking: From the Microbiome to Continuous Glucose Mo...Richard Sprague
Overview of my self-experiments in microbiome diagnostics, continuous glucose monitoring and more. Presentation for Me Convention, Frankfurt Germany, Sept 12, 2019
AI Technology for Prevention and Control of Juvenile MyopiaRichard Sprague
1) The document discusses the rise of juvenile myopia and how AI can help address this issue.
2) It describes Airdoc's AI-powered myopia prediction model which can predict vision changes in children aged 3-18 based on optometry records.
3) The AI provides reporting and suggestions to help monitor myopia development and the efficacy of different countermeasures for schools and parents.
Quantified Self Seattle January 2019 : Continuous Glucose MonitoringRichard Sprague
Experiments with Continuous Glucose Monitoring and the microbiome. Using microbiome test results from DayTwo and Viome, I tested myself using the new Freestyle Libre continuous glucose monitor.
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This document summarizes a presentation about hacking one's gut microbiome. It includes disclaimers that the information is not medical advice and results from uBiome sampling kits cannot be used for diagnosis or treatment. The presentation discusses visualizing one's microbiome data over time, including dominant bacterial phyla and specific genera present. It describes an experiment where the presenter followed a special diet for over a month to attempt to change their microbiome, and the results showing that while amounts and ratios changed, the core organisms did not. The presenter concluded that one's microbiome recovers quickly and is hard to significantly alter.
This document summarizes Richard Sprague's experiments with his own microbiome over time. He tracked changes in the composition of microbes and bacteria in his gut from May 2014 to July 2015. Sprague also conducted an experiment where he cleared out his gut biome using a colon cleanse to see how it would recover. He found that while the amounts and ratios of bacteria changed after the cleanse, the overall composition recovered quickly and most of the same organisms returned. A few taxa did change permanently in larger amounts. The document concludes that it is difficult to significantly alter one's microbiome in the long run.
The document summarizes the results of analyzing changes in a person's gut microbiome before and after a 2-week backpacking trip in New Mexico. Some key findings include:
- The microbiome was overall pretty stable, with the main bacterial phyla composition not changing much.
- Certain genera like Faecalibacterium and Bacteroides decreased after the trip, while Blautia, Odoribacter, and Akkermansia increased.
- Microbial diversity was higher after the trip compared to previous tests, suggesting the trip helped diversity.
Your body is home to three pounds of germs, a rich microbiome that weighs as much as your brain! Thanks to the recent plummeting cost of gene sequencing, scientists are just now discovering how important these microbes are to health and wellness, with surprising links to conditions ranging from obesity, autism, allergies, depression, and much more. We’ll discuss the latest developments, and show how new, low-cost testing kits can help you learn more about — and reshape — your own unique microbiome.
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Covey says most people look for quick fixes. They see a big success and want to know how he did it, believing (and hoping) they can do the same following a quick bullet list.
But real change, the author says, comes not from the outside in, but from the inside out. And the most fundamental way of changing yourself is through a paradigm shift.
That paradigm shift is a new way of looking at the world. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People presents an approach to effectiveness based on character and principles.
The first three habits indeed deal with yourself because it all starts with you. The first three habits move you from dependence from the world to the independence of making your own world.
Habits 4, 5 and 6 are about people and relationships. The will move you from independence to interdependence. Such, cooperating to achieve more than you could have by yourself.
The last habit, habit number 7, focuses on continuous growth and improvement.
You may be stressed about revealing your cancer diagnosis to your child or children.
Children love stories and these often provide parents with a means of broaching tricky subjects and so the ‘The Secret Warrior’ book was especially written for CANSA TLC, by creative writer and social worker, Sally Ann Carter.
Find out more:
https://cansa.org.za/resources-to-help-share-a-parent-or-loved-ones-cancer-diagnosis-with-a-child/
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A proprietary approach developed by bringing together the best of learning theories from Psychology, design principles from the world of visualization, and pedagogical methods from over a decade of training experience, that enables you to: Learn better, faster!
AI Technology for Prevention and Control of Juvenile MyopiaRichard Sprague
1) The document discusses the rise of juvenile myopia and how AI can help address this issue.
2) It describes Airdoc's AI-powered myopia prediction model which can predict vision changes in children aged 3-18 based on optometry records.
3) The AI provides reporting and suggestions to help monitor myopia development and the efficacy of different countermeasures for schools and parents.
Quantified Self Seattle January 2019 : Continuous Glucose MonitoringRichard Sprague
Experiments with Continuous Glucose Monitoring and the microbiome. Using microbiome test results from DayTwo and Viome, I tested myself using the new Freestyle Libre continuous glucose monitor.
Can a Microbiome-Informed Diet Help My Sleep?Richard Sprague
Presented to Seattle Quantified Self Group: my experiences with microbiome-based personalized diet tests from DayTwo and Viome. My sleep improved when I followed the advice.
Biohackers Seattle June 2016 Microbiome HackingRichard Sprague
This document summarizes a presentation about hacking one's gut microbiome. It includes disclaimers that the information is not medical advice and results from uBiome sampling kits cannot be used for diagnosis or treatment. The presentation discusses visualizing one's microbiome data over time, including dominant bacterial phyla and specific genera present. It describes an experiment where the presenter followed a special diet for over a month to attempt to change their microbiome, and the results showing that while amounts and ratios changed, the core organisms did not. The presenter concluded that one's microbiome recovers quickly and is hard to significantly alter.
This document summarizes Richard Sprague's experiments with his own microbiome over time. He tracked changes in the composition of microbes and bacteria in his gut from May 2014 to July 2015. Sprague also conducted an experiment where he cleared out his gut biome using a colon cleanse to see how it would recover. He found that while the amounts and ratios of bacteria changed after the cleanse, the overall composition recovered quickly and most of the same organisms returned. A few taxa did change permanently in larger amounts. The document concludes that it is difficult to significantly alter one's microbiome in the long run.
The document summarizes the results of analyzing changes in a person's gut microbiome before and after a 2-week backpacking trip in New Mexico. Some key findings include:
- The microbiome was overall pretty stable, with the main bacterial phyla composition not changing much.
- Certain genera like Faecalibacterium and Bacteroides decreased after the trip, while Blautia, Odoribacter, and Akkermansia increased.
- Microbial diversity was higher after the trip compared to previous tests, suggesting the trip helped diversity.
Your body is home to three pounds of germs, a rich microbiome that weighs as much as your brain! Thanks to the recent plummeting cost of gene sequencing, scientists are just now discovering how important these microbes are to health and wellness, with surprising links to conditions ranging from obesity, autism, allergies, depression, and much more. We’ll discuss the latest developments, and show how new, low-cost testing kits can help you learn more about — and reshape — your own unique microbiome.
ProSocial Behaviour - Applied Social Psychology - Psychology SuperNotesPsychoTech Services
A proprietary approach developed by bringing together the best of learning theories from Psychology, design principles from the world of visualization, and pedagogical methods from over a decade of training experience, that enables you to: Learn better, faster!
Covey says most people look for quick fixes. They see a big success and want to know how he did it, believing (and hoping) they can do the same following a quick bullet list.
But real change, the author says, comes not from the outside in, but from the inside out. And the most fundamental way of changing yourself is through a paradigm shift.
That paradigm shift is a new way of looking at the world. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People presents an approach to effectiveness based on character and principles.
The first three habits indeed deal with yourself because it all starts with you. The first three habits move you from dependence from the world to the independence of making your own world.
Habits 4, 5 and 6 are about people and relationships. The will move you from independence to interdependence. Such, cooperating to achieve more than you could have by yourself.
The last habit, habit number 7, focuses on continuous growth and improvement.
You may be stressed about revealing your cancer diagnosis to your child or children.
Children love stories and these often provide parents with a means of broaching tricky subjects and so the ‘The Secret Warrior’ book was especially written for CANSA TLC, by creative writer and social worker, Sally Ann Carter.
Find out more:
https://cansa.org.za/resources-to-help-share-a-parent-or-loved-ones-cancer-diagnosis-with-a-child/
Aggression - Applied Social Psychology - Psychology SuperNotesPsychoTech Services
A proprietary approach developed by bringing together the best of learning theories from Psychology, design principles from the world of visualization, and pedagogical methods from over a decade of training experience, that enables you to: Learn better, faster!
Understanding of Self - Applied Social Psychology - Psychology SuperNotesPsychoTech Services
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I want to be smarter.
After two fantastic days listening and watching so many brilliant people, I’m having a hard time keeping up. Can I change something about myself – the foods I eat, my environment – to make me smarter?
My friend, the late Seth Roberts, was interested in this question too.Many of you knew Seth. He’s no stranger to the long-time QS crowd. UC Berkeley psychology professor, NYTimes best-selling author, inventor of the somewhat odd “Shangri-La Diet”, that said you can lose weight by drinking sugar water and looking at faces in the morning.
I met him when we were both living in Beijing a few years ago, where he was teaching at Tsinghua University, and like any of you who ever had the privilege of knowing him, I treasured every conversation we ever had.
He had invented an odd psychology test, which he called “Brain Tracker”. It was supposed to measure your “brain reaction time” and I helped him turn it into an iPhone app, which sadly we didn’t complete before he died. But I’ve continued to work on it, and I made some discoveries that I’ll share with you.
The basic idea: you’re presented with some type of “stimulus”. In this case it’s a series of balls, one of which suddenly turns red. You have to hit the red ball as quickly as you can.
Repeat the test 32 times and save the results someplace. Do this every day and track your results over time.
Here are a bunch of charts that I made from the data. By looking at the results — and comparing with anything unusual that you may have eaten or did during that period, Seth believed you could tell whether something was good for your brain or not.
Here are the results from his classic self-experiment. He found that he had better results on this test on days after he had eaten half a stick of butter. He was pretty sure of the results, having tested it many times over many years. He even got a bunch of you (working with Genomera) to crowdsource a bigger test.
One of his fans, Alex Chernovsky, using the same test found that soy increases his performance on this test. Contrary to what a lot of people might tell you about dangers of soy…
Alex found that, contrary to what some people suggested, flaxseed didn’t help.
So for the past year I decided to try too. Like many of you, I’ve been tracking myself for years, and for the past year I’ve done that along with my BRT results.I found that most things don’t seem to matter. My daily test results are about the same day-to-day, regardless of what I do.
I tried testing it with sleep. It seems obvious that sleep would help. I strap on a Zeo every night, carefully measuring exactly how much sleep — and breaking it into REM and deep sleep phases. How does that help my brain reaction time?
Answer: it doesn’t. To my surprise, there’s pretty much no difference in my scores no matter how much I slept (or didn’t). REM, deep sleep too: no difference.
Answer: it doesn’t. To my surprise, there’s pretty much no difference in my scores no matter how much I slept (or didn’t). REM, deep sleep too: no difference.
For example, here are my results on mornings after I had a drink of alcohol the night before.Incidentally, Seth’s latest algorithm used “BRT” to measure time, a normalized variant of milliseconds that makes it more accurate to compare over time. Red Lines are with alcohol; blue lines without. HIGHER IS BETTERNot really much difference.
that’s when I discovered this. People tell me that fish oil is supposedly good for the heart, so I’ve experimented off and on for many years, taking 2 or 3 of these daily. It’s just normal Costco cheap stuff. No fancy “organic”, “mold-free"
Imagine my surprise when, analyzing the data later, I found this.red lines are with fish oil; blue lines without [higher is better]
Imagine my surprise when, analyzing the data later, I found this.red lines are with fish oil; blue lines without [higher is better]
Not only that, but my score results fade over time, as you would expect. Remember, this is me randomly taking them at no particular schedule.
Most recently, I tested with a statin drug. My doctor had prescribed these for me several years ago, but I stopped taking them when I’d heard about studies that showed it can impair brain function. Hmmm… would I be able to prove that?
Answer: no. Statins markedly improve my function on this test.
Again, I was surprised that the effect was so dramatic.
I’m very sorry that Seth is not around to interpret these results. I think he would have been very impressed. and now that I know what helps — and doesn’t — I’m empowered, right? I should take more fish oil. More statins.This is the whole point of QS and self-discovery, right? I know what makes me smarter!
But then I saw this chart.
See that final data point over there on April 25th? It was taken at 6:50pm, and it’s Seth’s final brain reaction time test. He died suddenly at 4pm the following day, of “occlusive coronary artery disease”.
Knowing what I know now about how this test works , I have no doubt that with a score like that Seth was feeling very smart that day. In fact, when I searched through all of his data – more than 90,000 runs of this test over many years – I found that last data point was his best day ever.
And I’m left wondering what to think. There’s no question that fish oil makes me smarter. But like so many things we do to improve ourselves, am I just trading off one thing for another?
I answer it the only way I know how. Let’s keep measuring!
If you would like to try this test for yourself, please follow me on Twitter, or email us to learn how you can try the app for yourself. See what makes you smarter!
Thank you!