I’d go so far as to say that my self-experimentation has resulted in the unusual sensation of aging in reverse: as I learn more about my own body and how to make it function better I am continuously becoming healthier and more fit than I ever have been before. [...] I discover more and more ways of improving my own health which result in even better focus and even more productive work. I don’t know how sustainable this trend is, but I’m going to find out.
Sounds like a material for an interesting discussion (maybe even main, if well documented) post. Please write one!
As a general remark, not just for you—I have noticed that many people underestimate how cool is what they do professionally. Probably because they are exposed to it every day, and speak every day with people fluent in that topic, they develop a bias “people already know this, it’s nothing new, nothing to be excited about”. Yet for a person unfamiliar with that topic, many seemingly trivial details are exciting (and unfortunately, the non-trivial parts are often incomprehensible).
I would like to write some more detailed articles on “hacking your own health,” but I’m still trying to figure out how to balance clarity with scientific rigor.
This information is very controversial and covers a broad range of medical topics- for each topic my post needs to have the scientific rigor and clarity of a well written journal article to convince other experts, while being comprehensible to non-experts.
The only solution I can think of is to write two articles on each narrow topic: one for the general public, and another one for other medical experts (which probably also needs to be published in a peer reviewed journal). This will be tedious and take considerable time, time that I don’t have in the near future.
Also, I’m still learning so much so fast that I am afraid to put myself out there. If I had written these articles ~2 years ago I would be embarrassed about them now- they wouldn’t have been wrong per se, but they’d have been so overly-simplified and lacking in key ideas/points that they’d seem ridiculous to the current me.
Sounds like a material for an interesting discussion (maybe even main, if well documented) post. Please write one!
As a general remark, not just for you—I have noticed that many people underestimate how cool is what they do professionally. Probably because they are exposed to it every day, and speak every day with people fluent in that topic, they develop a bias “people already know this, it’s nothing new, nothing to be excited about”. Yet for a person unfamiliar with that topic, many seemingly trivial details are exciting (and unfortunately, the non-trivial parts are often incomprehensible).
I would like to write some more detailed articles on “hacking your own health,” but I’m still trying to figure out how to balance clarity with scientific rigor.
This information is very controversial and covers a broad range of medical topics- for each topic my post needs to have the scientific rigor and clarity of a well written journal article to convince other experts, while being comprehensible to non-experts.
The only solution I can think of is to write two articles on each narrow topic: one for the general public, and another one for other medical experts (which probably also needs to be published in a peer reviewed journal). This will be tedious and take considerable time, time that I don’t have in the near future.
Also, I’m still learning so much so fast that I am afraid to put myself out there. If I had written these articles ~2 years ago I would be embarrassed about them now- they wouldn’t have been wrong per se, but they’d have been so overly-simplified and lacking in key ideas/points that they’d seem ridiculous to the current me.