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TheJurgen | 5 years ago | on: Lack of sleep, stress can lead to symptoms resembling concussion

The thing about stress is that it can creep up on you. It’s easy to develop resilience debt. Tracking things like HRV, heart rate at sleep, respiratory rate and heart rate at rest help identify early warning signs of stress before they manifest into actual stress. Exercising regularly and eating right helps of course but most people don’t actually know what a good exercise should feel or what reaction a meal has in their body.

Personal anecdote, when I’m getting more stressed I start getting a heart spike at sleep. I’ve tried ignoring it and it turns into anxiousness and stress.

TheJurgen | 5 years ago | on: Body on fast food: Real-time data with Basis

That'd be an awesome feature :)

TheJurgen | 5 years ago | on: Body on a 3-day fast: Real-time data with Basis

We’re developing our own but currently using an Abbott sensor.

TheJurgen | 5 years ago | on: Body on a 3-day fast: Real-time data with Basis

We do but we’re currently using an Abbott sensor

TheJurgen | 5 years ago | on: Body on a 3-day fast: Real-time data with Basis

Ok will post this next

TheJurgen | 5 years ago | on: Body on a 3-day fast: Real-time data with Basis

That’s a percentage increase as a byproduct of losing overall weight.

TheJurgen | 5 years ago | on: Body on a 3-day fast: Real-time data with Basis

I used the system I built with my team for real time health data tracking that includes data from a continuous glucose sensor, Apple Health data (sleep, activity, heart rate, etc), urinalysis feature within Basis for the majority of this. The only data that wasn’t acquired via Basis was the blood panel.

TheJurgen | 5 years ago | on: Body on a 3-day fast: Real-time data with Basis

Agreed. Working on it

TheJurgen | 5 years ago | on: Body on a 3-day fast: Real-time data with Basis

For clarification, I take a daily electrolyte tablet with vit. C, magnesium, calcium, potassium and sodium when I fast. Generally, you want to take in less than 40 calories to stay in a proper water fast and I don’t think Gatorade fits the bill. Unless you’re doing a Fast Mimicking Diet where you’re allowed to eat up to 700 calories (I think). My longest was 5-day water fast (a few times). I found that Day 5 is better than Day 4. What days do you think are the worst in a 2-week fast?

TheJurgen | 5 years ago | on: Body on a 3-day fast: Real-time data with Basis

Basis as a system works with multiple passive, continuous inputs. The goal is to help you track your health without thinking about tracking your health - where many people fail. So to use Basis today (get the minimum benefit) you would need to use a glucose tracking biosensor (that we provide) and have an activity tracking wearable (e.g. Apple Watch, Oura ring, etc). It’s possible to use Basis with your own continuous glucose sensor (if you are diabetic let’s say) and already get those regularly. Depending on the peripherals/wearables you have you could also feed your water intake and temperature in the data as well.

TheJurgen | 5 years ago | on: Body on a 3-day fast: Real-time data with Basis

What would you like to know?

TheJurgen | 5 years ago | on: Body on a 3-day fast: Real-time data with Basis

My fast break meal is a piece of watermelon <10 mins break> spinach, avocado and macadamia nut salad with EVOO <10 mins break> one egg omelette.

Watermelon is very easy for stomach to digest even though it has a fair amount of fructose and would otherwise not be considered optimal for first meal. The breaks are to see how stomach is reacting to food introduction. Rest of the options are made as options that activate sirtuins (restorative cellular signaling) while system is sensitive to new inputs.

TheJurgen | 5 years ago | on: Body on a 3-day fast: Real-time data with Basis

Male

TheJurgen | 5 years ago | on: Body on a 3-day fast: Real-time data with Basis

I will add a non comprehensive list of relevant papers at the end of the post for anyone who wants to look further into the research.

TheJurgen | 5 years ago | on: Body on a 3-day fast: Real-time data with Basis

How about the American diet. A week on pizzas, burgers, sodas and donuts with real time data?

TheJurgen | 5 years ago | on: Body on a 3-day fast: Real-time data with Basis

There’s a continuous glucose monitor, ketone measurement through urine, hydration tracking, sleep tracking and less relevant to this experiment heart rate analysis in Basis. The more complex blood work was done in a lab that’s correct.

TheJurgen | 5 years ago | on: Body on a 3-day fast: Real-time data with Basis

What type of diet would be of most interest?

TheJurgen | 5 years ago | on: Body on a 3-day fast: Real-time data with Basis

Good question. I tend to be on the higher side but after doing a 5-day water fast, several 3-day ones and IF year round I’ve seen that fasting more than 1 day has a significant impact on my* hormones.