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If you're interested in minimal usage, I'd say take it for a week, cease use until you notice something is missing, then take it for two days and repeat. When w
by dlss 12y ago
If you're interested in minimal usage, I'd say take it for a week, cease use until you notice something is missing, then take it for two days and repeat. When we tested this, we've found the off phase is between 0 and 14 days depending on the person. If you're thinking of going that route, please do refrigerate the product as shelf life is 4 months for fresh bottles at room temperature and 18 months in the fridge.
This IMO happens for the same reason the product works -- with your current habits and behavior, some niches in your gut aren't able to stably support life... If there aren't any missing now you shouldn't notice any effect / if you don't change your behavior after repopulation they are unlikely to survive on their own.
On the off chance you're a QS type, we are very interested in which behavioral changes change this drop off time. Any thoughts/notes/data you end up generating would be very much appreciated, especially exotic data (ie interactions with other self-experiments you run)
- wdewind 12y agoOk I will give that a shot, thank you. In terms of behavioral changes: outside of eating fiber what is there to do? What is a QS type? I'll be sure to give you some feedback about my use of it.
- dlss 12y agoAhh, sorry. QS is QuantifiedSelf (for example http://quantifiedself.com/2010/09/seth-roberts-on-arithmetic-and/ http://quantifiedself.com/2010/09/seth-roberts-on-arithmetic...) I was saying that if you were already tracking yourself, we would be interested in that data as well :) (So for example: meal spacing, vitamin intake, whole food vs refined vitamin intake, exercise types, chlorinated water vs bottled, type and form of fat, soluble vs insoluble fiber intake, whole food fiber vs refined fibers, stress levels, sleep quantity and quality, pet exposure, social exposure, etc) If you're not already logging it (and don't find the idea exciting for other reasons) no sweat... I was just trying to say we'd be very interested in surprising correlations here.
- wdewind 12y agoAh ok I loosely am logging some of that stuff, and I am interested in doing it better so I'll give it a shot. Thanks for the link.