N = 1

From Wiki:

An N = 1 trial is a clinical trial in which a single patient is the entire trial, a single case study. A trial in which random allocation can be used to determine the order in which an experimental and a control intervention are given to a patient is an N = 1 randomized controlled trial. The order of experimental and control interventions can also be fixed by the researcher.

This page will be dedicated to my on-going N=1 experiment. I will post what i am doing for S&C what I am eating and how its working as I move along. Stay tuned…

Stress and Blood Sugar

I wrote about testing blood sugar levels as a way of gauging how your body deals with carbohydrate (CHO) a few weeks ago and I plan on posting a complete breakdown of my results soon. But I have to come to a realization that warrants a preemptive post, “Bread and Butter” calls might be jacking your blood sugar…

We all have heard of and or experienced the “fight or flight” response that dumps hormones and revs up our adrenal glands when we are hit with an acute stressor. This is the response that enables us to jump out of bed at 0400 and perform mental and physical gymnastics on demand. We rely pretty heavily on this ancient mechanism of survival in our day to day lives at the fire house with only a nagging recognition of the dangers. I probably pay more attention to this stuff than the average person and the initial results of my n=1 experiment with blood sugar really opened my eyes.

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