jimrandomh comments on Living Forever is Hard, or, The Gompertz Curve - Less Wrong

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Comment author: jimrandomh 19 May 2011 06:58:24PM 1 point [-]

There's lots of choline is in meat and eggs, and there're smaller qantities of it in various other things. I've heard of headaches from both too much choline (when taking choline supplements) and too little (especially when taking piracetam, which depletes choline. I take both piracetam and choline citrate). Being a vegetarian is listed as a risk factor for deficiency on the wikipedia page.

Comment author: Alicorn 19 May 2011 07:03:10PM 2 points [-]

I've been eating a lot of eggs lately. Should I try eating eggs every day for a week and then no eggs for a week and see what happens?

Comment author: jimrandomh 19 May 2011 07:12:56PM 3 points [-]

That sounds like a worthwhile experiment. I would also suggest keeping a headache log and a food log (there are cell phone apps to make it easy; you photograph things instead of writing them down) and analyzing them after a month or two.

Comment author: Alicorn 19 May 2011 07:47:21PM 1 point [-]

I'll restart the headache log and combine the food diary. (Is it worth including times of eating various things?) A cell phone app will not help, since I don't have a cell phone.

Comment author: wedrifid 19 May 2011 07:54:16PM *  0 points [-]

A cell phone app will not help, since I don't have a cell phone.

Wow. That's a rather significant divergence from culture! Tim Ferris would be impressed.

Comment author: AdeleneDawner 19 May 2011 07:59:45PM 4 points [-]

Or maybe just one that people don't talk about much.

I only own a cell phone because I needed a way to have contact with the rest of the world while my internet access was down when I moved a few months ago. I don't think it's actually useable at this point - I haven't added minutes to it for quite a while.

Comment author: Alicorn 20 May 2011 12:53:42AM 3 points [-]

I had a cellphone once for about a week, but then I gave it back.