How do you keep track of everything and learn what works? So many options and communities

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I think we can all agree that it’s important to track as much as we can related to our health. So many different things we do can impact any given part of our body’s systems, and it’s important to see the big picture. It would also be really helpful to see what other people are tracking and how it impacts their health, so you can copy or avoid their methods and results.

This is why I built Staqc.

Staqc is an all-in-one health tracking and social platform, letting you track supplements, biomarkers, diet, fitness, and symptoms/health effects. You can then view all of your health on a timeline, seeing how your biomarkers and effects change over time as you start or stop different supplements, diets, and routines. On Staqc, you can link what you do to the effects it has. For example if you took creatine and your hair started falling out a week later, you can link creatine to your hair loss.

Then when somebody else looks at the creatine page, they can see how many people linked creatine to hair loss, because we are all unique and many people do not experience hair loss from creatine. This works for all supplements, diets, fitness routines, or events like jet lag. View that item and see everyone who’s taking/using it, their values, and aggregate data on what effects people are experiencing.

Key Features:

  • Track Everything: Track supplements, biomarkers, health effects, diet, fitness routines, food journaling, and event tracking (e.g. injuries, meditation, individual workouts, etc.)
  • Pattern Discovery: See exactly when your energy improved, sleep got better, or mood changed, and what you were doing differently at the time
  • Community Insights: Before spending money on supplements, see what percentage of users felt more energy, better sleep, or improved focus from specific products
  • Personal Health Roadmap: Get AI-generated reports analyzing your data trends and providing specific recommendations
  • Honest Reviews: Read real experiences from people who actually used products, not sponsored content
  • Lab Report Import: Paste your entire lab report and we automatically log all your biomarkers

What Makes It Different:

Unlike other tracking apps that just collect data, Staqc helps you understand the connections between your actions and outcomes. You can see your entire health evolution in one place - how biomarkers change over time, when you started/stopped supplements, and how different approaches affected how you feel.

The platform is completely free with no credit card required. You can start tracking in 30 seconds and see your first insights immediately.

I’d love to hear from the QS community - what features would be most valuable for your own health tracking? What pain points do you currently face with existing tools?

Check it out at staqc.com and let me know what you think!

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If you include genes, then it goes somewhere, without adding the genetic basis for reactions and cause/effect, the data will still be misleading because crowdsourced “wow, this works for 70% of the people” can result in the other 30% trying it and failing or having deleterious effects. If the system takes into account complex health issues - think even of malabsorption - how many people have that undiagnosed and affecting their results. I hope your platform takes these things into account because it can be a lot of work to find helpful products.

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That’s a really good thought, thank you. For example, the MTHFR would be important information. And yes, it is important to take into account things like leaky gut or chron’s that may affect absorption, thanks for that idea. Currently I just have bioavailability ratings for supplements.

I’ll definitely look to add these to the user profile, and then add filters to hide/show data based on whether user’s genes match.

Any other ideas?

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MTHFR is a great example, COMT, and more. Anemia of chronic disease. Anemia in general. Do people have enough Vitamin K in the diet to go along with Vitamin D, magnesium, and calcium. If you’re ill it can be an endless effort of optimization. Lactose intolerance. How much inflammation do they have? (It may take more of a thing for a longer period to get a result.) The list goes on.

What I have personally found is it’s also not enough to know I am taking something. Past months I started charting the time of day as well. It has permitted clearer testing alongside diet.

Oh! Probably most important is to include the science of when to take certain things (empty stomach, with food, with Vit A, or whatever). You could even score trust and clients by allowing for the fact that the body is smart and may not need what we add endlessly … so prompt user to reevaluate plan or to say 'you have been taking X Y amount of time … research says …" I don’t know if that requires medical review, nor do I know if this is helpful. :slight_smile:

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Sounds great, and sorry about your hair :winking_face_with_tongue:

Any other personal insights you discovered?

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Haha thanks, was definitely going to happen anyway, but creatine definitely sped up the process.

More recently I’ve learned how much better I feel, sleep, and recover when I get enough potassium in my diet. There’s a very clear difference in my resting heart rate and heart rate recovery (time for heart rate to normalize after a set of weight lifting) on days where I have had my RDA of potassium in the last 24 hours than on days where I have not.

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How do you know? Are you tracking K in your diet, or just the supplements?

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Just diet. I logged my diet in cronometer for a few days to figure out how much of which foods I need to hit 4000+mg of potassium. After a couple days of logging I figured it out and from then on it was just tracking my heart rate metrics and knowing if I had enough potassium the day prior or not to figure it out.

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Are you predisposed to male pattern baldness/are your father/uncles and grandfathers bald or balding? If yes, then you do want to pay attention more compared to if none of your relatives are balding.

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That sounds interesting, great job! Especially the way you’re revealing others actions and outcomes. For me, the most valuable features would be the ones that help connect why something is happening, not just what is happening. For example, not general averages, but insights filtered by people with similar conditions, habits, or demographics. That would make community data much more meaningful I believe.

I’m actually curious about your process while building Staqc, so I wanted to ask a few things:

  • Did you conduct any user research while building Staqc? If so, what did you discover users struggle with the most when tracking their health data?

  • How do people feel about sharing their health data on the platform?