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Self Experiments In the Biochemically Unoptimized State

Mastering Nutrition

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The Effects of Fasting on Neurological Symptoms

"If I believed that my neurological symptoms were induced by fasting, then I was likely to make decisions in these gray areas with a bias towards confirming my hypothesis," he said. "I decided the best solution to this was to come up with a pre-specified scoring system for all the symptoms I would consider and then to mercilessly track everything no matter how trivial it could have seemed on the specific days included in my experiment" He randomized himself to three days of fasting till 4 PM and three days of eating regularly. His pre-specified symptom score was as follows: Tingling in the hands upon sitting on a hard surface got a 4 instead of a 5; Acute tinnitus

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