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Am I going deeper than you’d care about?

Quick disclosure: This is a post about an unreleased upcoming free app that i want to get your feedback on since I’m pretty much only a Redditor and deleted other social media a decade ago. Skip if that disinterests you.

Some context, I’m a professional data engineer and supplement nerd who’s spent the last year losing 100lbs (270->170) on one of the Rx jabs and diving into supplements for fun and patching gaps as I dieted harder than I should have.

In the evenings I’ve been applying my data pipeline experience to build a dataset processed from > 11,000 supplement studies, mostly Meta-analysis and RCTs, overwhelmingly human only studies, deriving how effective supplements actually are. Ask me about GRADE chapter 26 and ROB 2.0

If you’ve been around a while you’ve probably seen my supplement info site linked, and now I am working on a free app.

I want to be able to go from scanning a bottle to the studies behind it in a series of taps, diving in through more detail at each layer.

Pictured in the post is the current flow, from the result you get if you scan a barcode, to the summary of an individual study that was pooled.

I don’t expect this to appeal to everyone, heck I’d be happy if 1 in 10 people wanted to dive in this deep.

But, would this interest you?

u/dataoops — 11 days ago

No Significant Effect - Maternal Diet Rich in Eggs and Peanuts to Reduce Infant Allergy

Eating more eggs and peanuts during pregnancy and breastfeeding didn’t significantly reduce infant egg/peanut allergies. In a randomized trial of 2,137 women with strong family allergy histories, infant allergy at age one was 7.8% with higher maternal intake versus 8.4% with lower intake (RR 0.93, 95% CI 0.69–1.26). This tested mothers’ diets, not feeding allergens directly to babies.

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u/dataoops — 11 days ago
▲ 132 r/supplement_research+1 crossposts

Does Magnesium Help You Sleep?

Magnesium shortens sleep onset in older adults with insomnia, but the benefit is small, uncertain, and not a reliable sleep aid for everyone.

  • Across three randomized trials, oral magnesium shortened sleep onset latency by about 17 minutes.1
  • The evidence comes from older adults with insomnia, not from healthy sleepers or younger populations.
  • Total sleep time did not clearly improve, and the meta-analysis remained small and low certainty

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Personally I swear by magnesium glycinate, but the glycine could be doing work too i guess.

suplmnt.app
u/dataoops — 1 month ago

Lemon balm for anxiety?

Has anyone tried lemon balm for anxiety?

u/dataoops — 2 months ago

Whats actual growth look like if you aren't an influencer?

First off, holy shit I'm so sick of 'building isn't challenge distribution is', I promise I'm not going to make this about that.

Posts on reddit are making it hard for me to calibrate what to expect for my own funnel, I launched my a pre-launch wait list for my app, and considering that a wait list requires people to actually get to my site and then to also decide to submit their email, I feel this is better than I told myself it would be.

Obviously I wish it was 10x more, but its not zero. For very poorly optimized screenshots on a launch page I just slapped together, people are still trickling in, so there is some interest here. The problem is I just have no sense of scale, and the bot posts about hitting 10k MRR after 4 months drown out most of the real conversation.

What did your initial months of trying to gain traction look like?

Also, would you dip into your launch wait list to recruit testers? I need to expand my feedback sources beyond family and friends, but I also keep telling myself that I have to finish X Y and Z before I do, which is probably just thinly disguised rejection anxiety tbh.

u/dataoops — 3 months ago

Workout Supplement Guide (With Evidence)

All of this data is from meta-analyses focused on general healthy population adults, the people diagrams are mine, but I think they are reasonably in the spirit of Cochrane's guidance^(1):

Page 1

Creatine monohydrate
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39519498/

Protein supplementation
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28698222/

Caffeine
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32551869/

Beta-alanine
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27797728/

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Dietary nitrate / beetroot
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35580578/

Dietary nitrate / beetroot, muscular performance
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33554654/

Sodium bicarbonate
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34794476/

Citrulline malate, repetitions to failure
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34010809/

Citrulline malate, maximum strength
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34176406/

^(1)15.5.3.3, “Re-expressing SMDs through dichotomization and transformation to relative and absolute measures.”

u/dataoops — 3 months ago

Looking for cursed PDF data tables

Hey r/research, I’m a software engineer working on extracting clean structured data from ugly scientific PDFs, think multi-level headers, merged cells, nested row labels, footnotes mixed into labels, repeated subheaders, broken text layers, and scanned physical documents.

There are some decent tools in this space, specifically I've been building on top of PyMuPDF, Camelot, GMFT/Table Transformer, and img2table. Each has different strengths, so I’m combining them in a hybrid pipeline instead and trying to heuristically select the best results on a table by table basis, axis by axis basis.

It’s working pretty well so far, and on clean tables the existing tools do most of the work by themselves, where it breaks down is gross PDFs, the ones that when you try to copy and paste from it chrome freaks out and the text comes out all wrong, or you cant select it at all.

Currently from my test set I can recover the complete physical structure of a nasty 54-row table from a medium res scanned image. This specific test is one that all of the tools I'm building on fail in isolation, but using them as an ensemble my system is recovering it correctly. One of the more interesting cases has a symptom score with nested Pain, Burning, Paraesthesiae, and Numbness underneath it, and that hierarchy comes through correctly instead of being flattened into unrelated rows.

I’m looking for more hard cases so I can find where it still under performs, any cases with ugly merged headers, interrupted sections, image-only scans, corrupted symbols, enormous tables, or layouts that make no sense are all welcome.

Unfortunately, since I'm an engineer not a researcher, I don't have any kind of journal access, so anything you want to share would need to be open access. DOI, PMID, or direct PDF link would be ideal.

Hey, if you read to this point, thank you, and please help me break my code.

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u/dataoops — 3 months ago

What is the UI right pattern here?

I’m trying to use this row as both a navigation element that takes you to a detail page, and as a checklist item where you can tap to track if you’ve taken that supplement for the day, but visually it feels a bit busy with the chevron and the check circle.

I added the chevron because without it my only tester (my wife) didn’t know the row had dual functionality.

Is there a way to make this work without looking bad or should I abandon trying to make the row also function for nav?

FWIW, there are other places in the app to navigate to a supplement’s detail page I just thought it’d be convenient to get there from the stack tracking page too.

u/dataoops — 4 months ago

Do you still take Acetyl L-Carnitine?

A little while back there was a thread that discussed how 90% of ALCAR gets converted by gut bacteria into TMAO.

Subjectively I feel like ALCAR was one of the supplements that had more oomph, but if its just going to be getting metabolized into a harmful byproduct then its probably not worth it.

I haven't personally dug into this one much is it actually a big concern?

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u/dataoops — 4 months ago

Is this just a Guerilla Marketing campaign?

Reposting this for this sub since another once just got spammed over here: https://www.reddit.com/r/NooTopics/comments/1th74ra/when_your_labs_say_normal_but_your_body_strongly/

There is a series of accounts that seem to be attention farming by posing memes over and over about a frustration with labs / ordering labs on your own.

I don't want to name the provider, but I bet this is guerilla marketing from that one labs provider that buys a bunch of ads on reddit.

There are probably more than just these two accounts, but after like the 10th eerily similar post in a week I finally clicked into the profiles and saw the pattern in these two

https://www.reddit.com/user/NYM2000/search/?q=labs - account created 3 weeks ago, repeated posting of the same meme

https://www.reddit.com/user/Exotic-Cook-7740/search/?q=labs - account created 1 week ago same deal

In just two weeks this is what those two accounts alone have posted on this topic:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Healthcareshitposting/comments/1te0qf1/me_after_one_slightly_low_lab_result/

https://www.reddit.com/r/cardio/comments/1t7jawo/the_guessing_game/

https://www.reddit.com/r/medlabprofessionals/comments/1te3h2e/patient_portal_season/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Supplements/comments/1tgo51z/when_the_labs_say_normal_but_your_body_says/

https://www.reddit.com/r/QuantifiedSelf/comments/1te9av8/ordered_one_lab_panel_and_i_feel_like_im_vip/

https://www.reddit.com/r/medicalmemes/comments/1t7c2kp/and_round_and_round_we_go/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Supplements/comments/1tcykzi/fake_it_till_you_make_it/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Hellcare/comments/1tb8w7r/elbows_up/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Supplements/comments/1tae8r8/getting_it_on_my_own/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Supplements/comments/1tdblyf/me_checking_if_the_supplement_stack_did_anything/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Biohackers/comments/1td7ikg/going_9_innings/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Biohackers/comments/1tgmxgf/when_your_labs_say_normal_but_your_body_strongly/

https://www.reddit.com/r/QuantifiedSelf/comments/1t7ddss/normal_labs_zero_answers/

reddit.com
u/dataoops — 5 months ago

Is this just a Guerilla Marketing campaign?

There is a series of accounts that seem to be attention farming by posing memes over and over about a frustration with labs / ordering labs on your own.

I don't want to name the provider, but I bet this is guerilla marketing from that one labs provider that buys a bunch of ads on reddit.

There are probably more than just these two accounts, but after like the 10th eerily similar post in a week I finally clicked into the profiles and saw the pattern in these two

https://www.reddit.com/user/NYM2000/search/?q=labs - account created 3 weeks ago, repeated posting of the same meme

https://www.reddit.com/user/Exotic-Cook-7740/search/?q=labs - account created 1 week ago same deal

In just two weeks this is what those two accounts alone have posted on this topic:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Healthcareshitposting/comments/1te0qf1/me_after_one_slightly_low_lab_result/

https://www.reddit.com/r/cardio/comments/1t7jawo/the_guessing_game/

https://www.reddit.com/r/medlabprofessionals/comments/1te3h2e/patient_portal_season/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Supplements/comments/1tgo51z/when_the_labs_say_normal_but_your_body_says/

https://www.reddit.com/r/QuantifiedSelf/comments/1te9av8/ordered_one_lab_panel_and_i_feel_like_im_vip/

https://www.reddit.com/r/medicalmemes/comments/1t7c2kp/and_round_and_round_we_go/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Supplements/comments/1tcykzi/fake_it_till_you_make_it/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Hellcare/comments/1tb8w7r/elbows_up/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Supplements/comments/1tae8r8/getting_it_on_my_own/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Supplements/comments/1tdblyf/me_checking_if_the_supplement_stack_did_anything/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Biohackers/comments/1td7ikg/going_9_innings/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Biohackers/comments/1tgmxgf/when_your_labs_say_normal_but_your_body_strongly/

https://www.reddit.com/r/QuantifiedSelf/comments/1t7ddss/normal_labs_zero_answers/

reddit.com
u/dataoops — 5 months ago