MED....Minimum Effective Dose. Suggestions for pwp. Pareto’s principle...

[beehive23]

MED used to be apart of getting q-map'd. Im certified in the state of Colorado to administer medications/injections etc. A big part of getting your cert USED to be the focus on minimum effective dose. These days there is almost no focus on MED and more on maximum effective dose. it is a shame but it seems to be increasingly crucial for us a patients to take control of our condition ourselves. I would suggest that everyone keep MED in mind when.......taking meds heehehe....Hang tough!

Minimum Effective Dose: Results With Little Effort

An important part of your experimentation will be to find the minimum effective dose (MED), which is the smallest dose that will create a particular result. For example, the MED to boil water is 212 degrees Fahrenheit. Heating water past 212 degrees doesn’t make it any more boiled. Further heating just wastes fuel.

Whenever you want to make a change to your body, only do the minimum that’s required to cause the change. The minimum effective dose is desirable for two reasons:

Reason #1: Avoiding injury. If you do more than you need to, you’ll actually slow your progress or go backwards because you’ll tire yourself out and overload your body’s healing mechanisms.

For example, if you need to put your shoulders under 100 pounds of tension for two minutes twice a week to strengthen them, don’t train every day—you’ll put your shoulders under unnecessary strain and risk injury. Instead, only do the minimum.

Reason #2: Saving time and energy. Pareto’s principle states that in general, 80% of results are caused by 20% of the effort. When it comes to performance science, the ratio is even higher—according to the author, 2.5% of effort is responsible for 95% of results. Doing more than you have to isn’t going to have much effect and is a waste of your time.

Getting Tested

There are limits to what you can learn from self-experimentation if your only data-gathering technique is observation. For example, you might notice that after eating bananas, you feel better, but this could be for a variety of reasons—bananas contain important nutrients, so perhaps you were feeling unwell because you were deficient in those nutrients. Or, you could have just been hungry. Either way, you might have felt even better if you ate something else. To learn more about what’s actually going on with your body, you need to have tests done. This will help you determine your minimum effective dose, especially an MED for weight loss.

There are three rules for testing for minimum effective dose:

Don’t test anything you can’t change. There’s no point in knowing you’re predisposed to an illness if you can’t do anything about it.

Double-check alarming results. If you get a result that requires you to make a big change, get retested, ideally by a different lab, to confirm the result.

When retesting, try to create the same conditions as the original test. Take your tests on the same day of the week, around the same time, and at the same time in your menstrual cycle (if applicable).

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Rina Shah | Dec 5, 2020

[Godiv]

That’s helpful, thank you. It seems to be that medications are a one size fit all. That’s just impossible with all our different chemistries and weights and everything else.

[HekateMoon]

Thats a very interesting principle. It makes sense not to go around like a headless chicken overdoing everything...