Re: Ultimate Stoic Frugality Challenge
Posted: Sun Aug 08, 2021 10:23 am
@ember@plow_2:
Thanks for the suggestions. Based on my current scope of research, I have decided that in addition to course of prednisone which I am now tapering off, and maintenance dose of oral delayed delivery system mesalamine (anti-inflammatory), I will attempt my own version of clinical trial currently being conducted on humans at Stanford utilizing the Fast Mimicking Diet. Previous experiments on mice with chemically induced version of disease indicated some positive results. I can't join the actual trial because it excludes humans with nut allergies. Another next step option I may try would be either adding or switching to suppository version of mesalamine delivery system. I am feeling better than before I started the prednisone, but not good enough. If my choice in the moment was continue ad infinitum at this level of discomfort/impediment or have colon removed, I would choose to have my colon removed. However, I do not yet have enough information and have not yet explored enough options to make this call. My guesstimate is that this decision is at least 4 years out, barring emergency event.
I am trying to remember the name of a particular method for analyzing benefits of particular factors when you are changing multiple factors at the same time. It was something like The Taguchi Box. Does this ring a bell with any of you? Probably more relevant to engineering design than being your own lab rat, but I would like to attempt some level of analysis beyond How Many Times I Pooped Today Journal.
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Systems level design is often based on natural "design" or pattern. Similar patterns are found in many different organisms or situations, because they are inherently beneficial.
Another interesting thing I have learned about the "design" of the human digestive system is that when your colon/rectum are functioning normally, sensors that judge fullness will send a message to your brain and you will get the notion that you ought to make a journey to restroom, outhouse, or designated spot beyond village, some time within the next half hour or so. However, if your colon/rectum is damaged or inflamed, as with flare of chronic IBD or easily imagined acute toxic event "in the wild", the message from the fullness sensors in your rectum will go directly to your spinal column rather than your brain, causing your bowels to immediately start to emergency empty themselves, literally beyond the scope of your will, except to the extent that you have muscular control of your outer anal sphincter. Kind of like short loop of your guts and spinal cord constitute a primitive creature within your skin sac, but no longer in direct communication with the thinking/planning you.
Somehow I feel like this could be related to the overall notion of agency, because as Freud noted, our bowel movements are one of the first behaviors we learn or are taught to control within the social context, and the Anal Retentive type is supposed to be stingy or thrifty with money. Embodied language allows us to make sense of multiple metaphors in a statement such as "You will never have fuck you money if you can't keep your shit together." because analogous or naturally extended from more core recognition of truth in statement such as "You will never sequester enough power to assume dominant posture in sexual intercourse with other, until/unless you gain consistent conscious control over your bowel movements."
Thanks for the suggestions. Based on my current scope of research, I have decided that in addition to course of prednisone which I am now tapering off, and maintenance dose of oral delayed delivery system mesalamine (anti-inflammatory), I will attempt my own version of clinical trial currently being conducted on humans at Stanford utilizing the Fast Mimicking Diet. Previous experiments on mice with chemically induced version of disease indicated some positive results. I can't join the actual trial because it excludes humans with nut allergies. Another next step option I may try would be either adding or switching to suppository version of mesalamine delivery system. I am feeling better than before I started the prednisone, but not good enough. If my choice in the moment was continue ad infinitum at this level of discomfort/impediment or have colon removed, I would choose to have my colon removed. However, I do not yet have enough information and have not yet explored enough options to make this call. My guesstimate is that this decision is at least 4 years out, barring emergency event.
I am trying to remember the name of a particular method for analyzing benefits of particular factors when you are changing multiple factors at the same time. It was something like The Taguchi Box. Does this ring a bell with any of you? Probably more relevant to engineering design than being your own lab rat, but I would like to attempt some level of analysis beyond How Many Times I Pooped Today Journal.
***************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
Systems level design is often based on natural "design" or pattern. Similar patterns are found in many different organisms or situations, because they are inherently beneficial.
Another interesting thing I have learned about the "design" of the human digestive system is that when your colon/rectum are functioning normally, sensors that judge fullness will send a message to your brain and you will get the notion that you ought to make a journey to restroom, outhouse, or designated spot beyond village, some time within the next half hour or so. However, if your colon/rectum is damaged or inflamed, as with flare of chronic IBD or easily imagined acute toxic event "in the wild", the message from the fullness sensors in your rectum will go directly to your spinal column rather than your brain, causing your bowels to immediately start to emergency empty themselves, literally beyond the scope of your will, except to the extent that you have muscular control of your outer anal sphincter. Kind of like short loop of your guts and spinal cord constitute a primitive creature within your skin sac, but no longer in direct communication with the thinking/planning you.
Somehow I feel like this could be related to the overall notion of agency, because as Freud noted, our bowel movements are one of the first behaviors we learn or are taught to control within the social context, and the Anal Retentive type is supposed to be stingy or thrifty with money. Embodied language allows us to make sense of multiple metaphors in a statement such as "You will never have fuck you money if you can't keep your shit together." because analogous or naturally extended from more core recognition of truth in statement such as "You will never sequester enough power to assume dominant posture in sexual intercourse with other, until/unless you gain consistent conscious control over your bowel movements."