So things are getting bad again and I’ve started to track my blood glucose with this little glucose monitor thing to see if I can learn anything. What I really want to track is insulin but you can’t track insulin without a lab test so glucose will have to do. You can mostly infer insulin from glucose levels anyway, subject to a phase shift.
What’s cool is getting data and hacking yourself. What happens in your blood when you eat a low-carb meal, for instance? Now I know, precisely. (Blood glucose actually _down_ from fasting levels — 85 to 76, this morning.) There’s a hypothesis that under fasting conditions if you impose a metabolic demand that glucagon and adrenaline will shoot up to make up the shortfall. Am interested to see how that plays out.
The ultimate point is to investigate how blood glucose tracks with energy levels, pain, mood. I will know eventually. Also will get some Ketostix, since I have anecdotal evidence on extended low-carb’s efficacy for pain control.
I wish there was some more shit I could measure. This was one of the big reasons I applied to both the neuroscience and psychology programs, btw — easy access to do my own blood work. Of course, I didn’t mention that in the application.
Maybe I should get a job as a lab tech after this? Hmm. Or better yet: can you buy the equipment they use to do a full blood workup? I’m sure it’s crazy expensive, but maybe after the initial layout running a single test isn’t too prohibitive?