I intend on running rigorous self-experiments on my health through biohacking and supplements. This blog post will capture my experiments and running logs.
- Feb 13, 2026 at 10:00
- Up to now I finished the zinc tablets and I did not become sick. So that’s awesome. And in fact, at a certain point due to lack of sleep I thought I was at risk of becoming sick, so maybe the zinc helped prevent.
- Since this morning I’ve started taking the magnesium ashwagandha tablets; they supplement for muscle, bone, heart, and relaxation according to the label. So until I run out of them, I will observe if there’s any correlated effects.
- Feb 23, 2026 at 17:46
- Haven’t been relaxed lately so I think the magnesium ashwagandha pills aren’t causaully significant.
- Mar 13, 2026
- I haven’t been taking any supplements since BOM when I ran out of the magnesium pills (not sure if they were helpful, didn’t have any specific observations). Was sick from March 7 to 12—not having zinc then was a mistake. Not sure what the sickness was due to; could have been overeating and also eating food that someone else ate from.
- Apr 26, 2026
- I’ve been taking vitamin D consistently since around March 13th, and now I’m switching to vitamin D gummies from vitamin D pills, but same thing, except these gummies have K2 as well, which apparently is a good combination with vitamin D. Also, I was taking zinc consistently for like two or three weeks in March to the start of April, but then I looked online and the upper limit of zinc per day is like 40 mg for a male, and the tablets I was eating were 50 mg, so I was essentially overdosing on zinc, which is great if you’re sick but I don’t think it’s a good idea long term. I stopped doing that.
- Apr 27, 2026
- Take one Solaray VegCaps per day (200 mg L-theanine and 100 mg green tea leaf per capsule). Since this includes green tea leaf, this is not a pure L-theanine test.
- Aug 18, 2026
- Restarting the L-theanine trial. Last logged capsule was May 28.
L-theanine trial log
Auto-fill target: Polar sleep score/charge and Polar training status if available. Manual fill: capsule/time, energy, and composure. For composure, 5 means calm and settled; 1 means anxious or unsettled.
| Date | Capsule/time | Energy (1-5) | Composure (1-5) | Sleep score (1-100) | Sleep charge (1-5) | Cardio load status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-271 | 10:00 | 5 | 4 | 52 | 1 | maintaining |
| 2026-04-282 | 18:30 | 5 | 5 | Watch didn’t record sleep, but it was poor quality | ditto | detraining |
| 2026-04-29 | 09:00 | 5 | 4 | 74 | 4 | maintaining |
| 2026-04-30 | 10:00 | 4 | 4 | 65 | 2 | maintaining |
| 2026-05-013 | 09:30 | 5 | 2 | 63 | 2 | productive |
| 2026-05-024 | n/a | n/a | 69 | 3 | maintaining | |
| 2026-05-035 | 08:00 | 2 | 2 | 72 | 4 | detraining |
| 2026-05-046 | 07:53 | 4 | 3 | 74 | 4 | maintaining |
| 2026-05-05 | 10:00 | 2 | 2 | 79 | 4 | productive |
| 2026-05-197 | 09:45 | 3 | 3 | 77 | 4 | overreaching |
| 2026-05-20 | 09:30 | 3 | 3 | 76 | 4 | overreaching |
| 2026-05-21 | 11:15 | 5 | 4 | 45 | 1 | productive |
| 2026-05-22 | 10:35 | 5 | 5 | 68 | 3 | productive |
| 2026-05-25 | 11:20 | 4 | 5 | 72 | 3 | productive |
| 2026-05-26 | 09:35 | 5 | 5 | 64 | 2 | productive |
| 2026-05-27 | 11:30 | 3 | 2 | 74 | 4 | productive |
| 2026-05-28 | 16:50 | 2 | 1 | 59 | 1 | productive |
| 2026-08-188 | 14:16 | 2 | 5 | 62 | 1 | overreaching |
| 2026-08-19 | 06:50 | 5 | 5 | 64 | 2 | productive |
| 2026-08-209 | 09:24 | 2 | 5 | recovery after overreaching | ||
| 2026-08-21 | 11:07 | 4 | 5 | 66 | 2 | recovery after overreaching |
| 2026-08-2210 | 13:37 | 2 | 4 | 64 | 2 | recovery after overreaching |
| 2026-08-23 | 12:07 | 4 | 4 | 76 | 4 | recovery after overreaching |
| 2026-08-2411 | 17:33 | 4 | 3 | 55 | 1 | recovery after overreaching |
| 2026-08-2512 | 05:11 | 3 | 5 | 62 | 2 | recovery after overreaching |
| 2026-08-26 | 11:00 | 4 | 5 | 81 | 5 | maintaining |
| 2026-08-27 | 06:30 | 5 | 5 | 64 | 2 | maintaining |
| 2026-08-28 | 11:20 | 5 | 5 | 79 | 4 | maintaining |
| 2026-08-29 | 08:17 | 3 | 5 | 58 | 1 | maintaining |
| 2026-08-30 | 08:51 | 5 | 5 | 59 | 1 | maintaining |
| 2026-08-31 | 06:51 | 5 | 4 | 72 | 3 | recovery after overreaching |
| 2026-09-0113 | 08:11 | 4 | 2 | 78 | 4 | recovery after overreaching |
| 2026-09-0214 | 06:00–07:30 | 3 | 4 | 79 | 4 | productive |
| 2026-09-0315 | 06:45 | 1 | 3 | productive | ||
| 2026-09-0416 | 05:30 | 2 | 5 | 80 | 5 | productive |
| 2026-09-05 | 09:12 | 4 | 4 | 59 | 1 | productive |
| 2026-09-06 | 08:49 | 3 | 5 | 70 | 3 | productive |
| 2026-09-0717 | 06:40 | 1 | 4 | 55 | 1 | productive |
| 2026-09-0818 | 05:51 | 3 | 5 | detraining |
-
Morning started great, and then I had a slump in the afternoon after eating two meals and also feeling hopeless about the project, but then afterwards I felt great in the evening since our poject picked back up. ↩
-
Excellent day, concentration-wise, as usual. I started crashing at 9 PM due to fatigue, so in an ideal world I would have gone home already, but had to finish my task. Otherwise, I also ate quite a lot in the evening, which is not ideal. ↩
-
2026-05-01: This day was terrible. I did not plan, and for that reason I failed. ↩
-
2026-05-02: I was out hiking all day, so I did not take the pill. Polar exercise log returned one long
HIKINGworkout with cardio load389.543(VERY_HIGH). ↩ -
2026-05-03: Not a great day at all for me. I think I’ve had some accumulated sleep deprivation since April 30th, which has not helped at all. Polar exercise log has a short 06:48 run with cardio load
15.7855(VERY_LOW). ↩ -
2026-05-04: Today will be different. I will succeed. Aujourd’hui c’est le premier jour de ma vie que j’ai vécu le sevrage de la caféine. ↩
-
2026-05-19: Hiatus May 6 → May 18 — lost all my habits and was a degen. Resuming the trial today. ↩
-
2026-08-18: Hiatus May 29 → Aug 17. Restarting the trial today. Also, energy is two, even though the day has been great, because I’m fasting for the Cerebras event. ↩
-
2026-08-20: I downgraded the energy from 5 to 2 the next day just because I literally fell asleep for like 2 hours in the middle of the day. That might have likely been because I ate some fatty processed food, which gave me that brain fog, but I am not sure for 100%. ↩
-
2026-08-22: Beaucoup trop mangé encore une fois. ↩
-
2026-08-24: Juste parce que la trajectoire du jour a été bouleversée, mais pas grave du tout! ↩
-
2026-08-25: Energy is 3 because I only slept from 23:00 to 4:00, still feel great though! ↩
-
2026-09-01: C’est parce qu’il y a quelques hiccups sur la préparation d’aller à Sacramento. C’est pour ça que je lis uniquement 2 sur cinq. ↩
-
2026-09-02: Capsule sometime between 6:00 and 7:30. ↩
-
2026-09-03: Energy is 1 because I was tired after the bike trip. Composure is 3 because I messed up last night by staying up until 10 pm and going on Reddit. ↩
-
2026-09-04: There was this weird burning smell in my room last night that I still have no idea where it originated from. I slept with the window open as well as the door, and despite having earplugs, I was still waking up, I think at least twice, or definitely once, in the middle of the night due to car noise, which makes me feel subtly tired. I’m still excited for the day. ↩
-
2026-09-07: I literally slept from 9:30 to 6:30, which is amazing (9 hours), but I cannot describe the level of fatigue I felt upon waking up. It was kind of exhausting, to say the least, and I was just sitting there on my bed for a good 15 minutes, from 6:30 to 6:45, in this stupor state. Now I’m sitting at my desk. It’s 9 am, and I’ve had a first aid drink and also went on a 10 km run. My energy level now is actually 5, but I want to be faithful to the time I consumed the pill, which was at 6:40. At that point, it was just pretty insane fatigue. I think I probably woke up in a REM cycle or whatever without the complete sleep cycle, which may have exacerbated this fatigue. The one thing that’s true is I’m proud I went on that run despite the fatigue, and now I’m feeling great. One last thing I didn’t mention is the fact that I did a bunch of glute exercises yesterday too, which made me physically tired as well in my glutes. ↩
-
2026-09-08: Energy is 3 because I thought I closed my window before sleeping, but didn’t, and that caused me to wake up a few times in the middle of the night. ↩