The Food Experiment: Primary and Secondary Outcomes
- Eric Pifer
- Feb 10
- 1 min read
The individual experiments in the Lifestyle Experiment (Sugar, Fitness, Sleep and Food) will all have shorter term, more responsive metrics called primary outcomes. Those are outcomes that are likely to change over the short (usually 3 month) period of the individual experiment. We call these "responsive" metrics because we expect that they might respond in that short period whereas other metrics, although very important to the overall experiment, they take longer to respond. Some of these longer term metrics might change in this short period but they might not. Thus, these longer term metrics will be secondary outcomes for the individual experiments.
The Primary Outcomes for the Food Experiment are as follows:
Number of days during the week where ketosis is achieved.
Time spent in ketotic state during the week.
Subjective food content compliance (food journal)
hsCRP
The Secondary Outcomes in the Food Experiment are as follows:
A1c
Body Fat
Waist Circumference
Triglyceride
Cholesterol
LDL
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