I've been tracking my own health data for quite some time now, blood tests, sleep, how I feel, diet. The problem was always that everything lived in separate silos inside a basic CMS I have built. Some time ago I started taking a master's degree, in nature science and I started studying statistics and while looking for some project to exercise and apply what I was learning I decided to resurrect my health cms project try to tie some basic analysis in it, but then rabbit hole digging began ahah. I began reading papers on biomarker correlations, EWMA smoothing, allostatic load. At some point I thought: what if I actually modeled this properly?
So I refactored my whole app into something a bit more modern, thanks to AI helping me during this process and now I integrated some of the most interesting findings I found in the papers (linked in the readme of the repo). I named it Synaps, because it's about connections and integrated system, and so far this is what it can do:
- Extracts biomarkers from lab report PDFs/photos via Claude vision
- Tracks sleep, diet, activity, wellbeing, body composition, medications, environment (Open-Meteo, I'm mad about this stuff)
- Computes continuous-time EWMA, z-scores, trend detection, and within-person Pearson correlations across domains with lag 0–2 days, autocorrelation correction, and Benjamini-Hochberg FDR
- Builds a typed knowledge graph (biomarkers, conditions, lifestyle, environment) with AI-inferred edges validated against the statistical correlations
- Estimates allostatic load from a 17-cohort IPD meta-analysis consensus
Everything runs on your own hardware. Install is a single curl | bash. No cloud, no subscription, you can also use it without AI and just analyse all your reports manually, but you lose some important feature.
In the next future I would like to also test how it perform with local models using ollama, but this is what I have been using for my self and I like it
For remote acces I use NetBird, I think is the best and secure option to not expose stuff directly on the web and put all your resources under a vpn. Is super easy to setup and it supports also sso with 2fa
you are just used to google, it doesn't mean it's better than others. I switched to DDG several years ago, now I'm used to it. Sometimes when I go back to google i think the results are just bad, because I'm used to how DDG works now. Google just shows you always what you'd like to see, this is not good at all, you just live inside a walled garden.
I embarked on this experience of dedicating my some of time to children, totally free of charge. I believe that we must give back our fortune somehow. This is my way.
I just stopped working for other people/company, I only work for myself.
Any kind of anxiety disappeared just after I learned how to survive by myself.
I'm Italian, and unfortunately, we currently have shortsighted politicians. They seem clueless about their actions, and rather than promoting progress and research in various fields, they are attempting to halt time or, in some areas, even regress. They are a group of illiterate fascists who don't even understand how they attained their positions. The advent of cultivated meat doesn't mean that our Italian traditions will be eradicated in its favor. Both can coexist, allowing people to decide what's best for themselves and the planet. For instance, Italy has a ban on GMOs, yet our intensive farming practices involve feeding chickens and other animals imported GMOs daily. So, what's the point of this ban? It's mere propaganda with no scientific basis, and it's ruining our country.
Extra fun fact: Lollobrigida (Italy's minister of agriculture) holds his position as a Minister, solely because he is the husband of the Prime Minister's sister, and that's the extent of his qualifications.