[zen_boy]

My girlfriend has Ankylosing spondylitis. The exact cause of the continued inflammation is unknown. It has been hypothesised that the cause is a gut bacteria feeding off of gluten/starch/sugar/etc.

We are super excited about trying out an elimination diet with Soylent, but knowing the real possibility of placebo and other factors, such as stress, we are trying to come up with a systematic way to measure the effect of Soylent diet on the wellbeing.

Do you have any advice on how to go about conducting such a (food) experiment, what and how to track things and anything else to consider? Thanks!

[tansey]

Unfortunately, it's pretty tough to do it as just one person. All of my models assume you have a population of patients that are tracking their diets. With one person, you probably are best off just tracking your foods, medications, and how you feel (numerically, say [0,10] or something). Then after a while you can do a regression based on how much of a given item you think you have in your system.