Overview of my self-experiments in microbiome diagnostics, continuous glucose monitoring and more. Presentation for Me Convention, Frankfurt Germany, Sept 12, 2019
15. 0 - 6 6 - 7 7 - 8 8 - 9
0 - 2 16 62 84 34
2 - 6 0 1 0 2
6 - 10 0 9 5 2
10 - 15 1 4 3 4
Z (hrs)
mg Welch Two Sample t-test
t = -1.1048, df = 34.861, p-value = 0.2768
95 percent confidence interval: -0.85 … 0.25
sample estimates
mean of x: 6.93
mean of y: 7.23
N = 32 (CBD)
N = 172 (no CBD)
No Effect
on Sleep
16. Microbes are everywhere
The vast majority of the DNA in and on your body comes from microbes, most of them co-
evolved with humans and much older than we are.
20. Blue line represents days on which I drank kombucha (3+ bottles/day)
GT’s drinksadd the patented Bacillus coagulans GBI-30,6086,
Kombuchadoesn’t domuch
22. Microbiome and Diet
Tily, et al. Gut microbiome activity
contributes to individual variation in
glycemic response in adults
Zeevi, D., Korem, T., Zmora, N., Israeli, D., Rothschild, D., Weinberger, A., … Segal, E. (2015).
Personalized Nutrition by Prediction of Glycemic Responses. Cell, 163(5), 1079–1094.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2015.11.001
We live in a Golden Age for personal science: New, lost-cost technology makes it much easier for all of us to be scientists.
The first meaning – I think the most common one – is a sense of wonder about the world.
Another meaning – very common as well – associates science with technology. “Cool stuff people have been able to do”
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.
Imagine my surprise when, analyzing the data later, I found this.red lines are with fish oil; blue lines without [higher is better]
Here’s the most popular wearable. Maybe you use it to track your activity – and there are many interesting things you can learn if you just use the built-in apps. But what else is there?
http://darwinian-medicine.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/human_ecosystem.jpg
https://68.media.tumblr.com/243136221766e8fd6c6d357ff0ce0fe8/tumblr_o0fx6nYXph1qio57co1_1280.jpg
Also see: https://www.differencebetween.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Difference-Between-Microbiome-and-Microbiota-1.jpg
I’m a little bit crazy…I’ve tested myself quite a bit. Since 2014 I’ve been testing my microbiome a lot – almost daily.