My Lifestyle Platform
After years of chronic pain and fatigue, Shuk Yi was diagnosed with fibromyalgia and told to "just learn to live with it". Together with her husband Yung, she took matters into her own hands. Through intensive self-research and hundreds of scientific papers (citizen science) they found the cause: an excess of oxalic acid and severe vitamin B deficiencies — partly because a gut bacterium was missing and her body absorbed vitamins poorly due to a genetic defect and an auto-immune disease. With a radically adjusted diet and targeted, high-dose supplements and injections, her pain complaints disappeared completely and her fatigue decreased sharply.
Inspired by this success, Yung now uses his background as an IT professional for the foundation: he is building a metabolic dashboard with artificial intelligence that lets people measure and track their nutrition, symptoms and biomarkers. The AI recognises patterns and deficiencies, proposes personalised meal plans and helps people take control themselves through data and citizen science — exactly the idea behind My Lifestyle Platform.