Learning how to use breathing to improve health is one of the simplest and most important things I recommend to patients. It’s also very cost-effective.
I met a British surgeon Nagabhushanam “Bobby” Peddi last night at the #wisdom2conf (https://plus NULL.google NULL.com/s/%23wisdom2conf) holiday event, CEO of Saagara (http://saagara NULL.com). He’s created an app that leads you through breathing [...]
An article in Technology Review discussed data from a Georgia Tech research group suggesting that smartphone accelerometers are now good enough to detect the keys pressed as you enter your password, based on which side of the phone they’re on and the delay between keystrokes. The article also notes that the GPS, microphone, and other sensors [...]
I presented some methods and results from my own self-tracking experiments, performed over the past 6 weeks, at the Quantified Self Silicon Valley (http://www NULL.meetup NULL.com/quantified-self-silicon-valley/events/32673902/) Show & Tell at IDEO in Palo Alto.
What did I do?
1. Implemented a version of the “Paleo Diet” to change my body [...]
We continue to experiment with self-tracking as a way to enhance individual insight, awareness, and potentially control over one’s own health and well-being.
I show here a visualization from the BodyTrack (http://bodytrack NULL.org) platform of my activity level (via BodyMedia (http://bodymedia NULL.com) armband), sleep (via Zeo (http://myzeo NULL.com)), symptoms (via MyMee (http://mymee [...]
Our self-tracking demonstration project is in full swing. We have been testing a variety of devices and aggregating data on the BodyTrack (http://bodytrack NULL.org) platform. Along with 9 volunteers, we have also been exploring how a Quant Coach and Quant Doctor can productively work with self-trackers to improve the experience.
My favorite [...]
Are William Gibson’s visions close to becoming a real-world QS fantasy? Or a privacy debacle?
An “epidermal electronic system” (EES) is a thin film with electronic circuits that mounts on your skin, designed to stretch, flex, and twist — and to take input from the movements, electrical currents, and other measurable signals from your body. Research coming out this week in [...]
There was a nice discussion about implementation of self-tracking this evening over dinner in Chinatown, after the Habit Design meetup at Rock Health. Attendees included Gary Wolf (@agaricus), Nancy Dougherty (@nancyhd), Ernesto Ramirez (@e_ramirez), and other illustrious folks.
I’ve been thinking for a while that we need to develop a the concept of a Quant [...]
I joined 175 other quanters at the Quantified Self meetup in Mountain View this evening, and gave an Ignite talk on the interaction between self-trackers and doctors. This is an area that presents many current challenges, past difficulties, and (I think) great future promise for developing a shared vocabulary and framework to empower both doctors [...]
Do you get enough deep, restorative sleep?
I’ve been helping my patients to sleep better for many years. I’d estimate that 70% of everyone I’ve asked says their sleep isn’t optimal. And perhaps 35-40% say it’s really a problem. And an unknown additional percent have a sleep disorder, but aren’t aware of it. In our [...]
As a doctor, I’m always trying to assess where a given patient is along the spectrum of self-tracking readiness. I’ve found that many people fit into one of these three broad categories:
1) “Hardcore quanter.” They know, or think they know, exactly what they want/need, often specific laboratory tests, [...]
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