I assume if you subsist on a diet of liquids alone that your teeth get upset due to complete underuse.
Anyone know if that's true?
Why would anyone want to live on Soylent?
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#12I assume if you subsist on a diet of liquids alone that your teeth get upset due to complete underuse. Anyone know if that's true?
One also wonders what happens to all that muscle one has to run their digestive system.
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#13I assume if you subsist on a diet of liquids alone that your teeth get upset due to complete underuse. Anyone know if that's true?
Not a doctor, but I'm wondering what you mean by "upset"? Teeth are calcified body tissue, if I'm remembering HS biology correctly, and I don't know how having them not mashing down on things could damage them. Curious to hear other thoughts on this.
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#14My uncle, who admittedly is pretty weird, used to only eat Costco pasta and peanut butter for 95% of his meals. The other 5% of the time he had lavish dinners with friends and family, and felt free to spend quite a bit. His logic was "I would rather have one amazing meal every now and again instead of a bunch of mediocre meals spread out." This may or may not be insane to you in terms of philosophy, but the biggest flaw is that he only ate two kinds of food for weeks on end. I imagine Soylent would be perfect for people like this: on a limited budget they can enjoy the occasional lavish meal without sacrificing nutrition for all their other meals.
From the people I know who like the product, it seems to me that Soylent caters to people whose eating patters are already strange. I find it appealing because I tend to obsess over making sure I'm getting all the right nutrients and food groups (I never am). I like the idea of drinking Soylent every morning as an insurance policy, I know I'm at least getting all the nutrients I need once a day.
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#15I assume if you subsist on a diet of liquids alone that your teeth get upset due to complete underuse. Anyone know if that's true?
Not a doctor, but I'm wondering what you mean by "upset"? Teeth are calcified body tissue, if I'm remembering HS biology correctly, and I don't know how having them not mashing down on things could damage them. Curious to hear other thoughts on this.
As a doctor, I'd like to point out that we don't spend much time learning about this kind of thing. I suspect, but have no evidence to support, that veterinarians would actually be your best resources for this type of question.
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#16It seems like a great solution to the “forgetting to eat” issue while hackathoning.
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#17All this really is, is ground up rice, a vitamin pill, and some oil. No Thanks.
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#18I've been enjoying my first week of Soylent. I eat "regular" dinner, but the rest of the day I drink a cup of soylent every couple hours. The best part about Soylent is it's hackable. I'm looking to gain weight, so I use whole milk instead of water, and add 4 eggs and 1/4 cup heavy whipping cream which also dramatically improves the taste (for me at least). It's almost like drinking melted ice cream, to be honest.
Since you're looking to gain weight, try adding a scoop or two True Mass by BSN to a shake after a workout. That took me from 170 to 230. Syntha-6 is the leaner version which you'll want to switch to when you reach your ideal weight.
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#19I've been enjoying my first week of Soylent. I eat "regular" dinner, but the rest of the day I drink a cup of soylent every couple hours. The best part about Soylent is it's hackable. I'm looking to gain weight, so I use whole milk instead of water, and add 4 eggs and 1/4 cup heavy whipping cream which also dramatically improves the taste (for me at least). It's almost like drinking melted ice cream, to be honest.
What's your poop like?
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#20Soylent is a huge first step. Henceforth, we'll know "what we don't know" about specific humans, and what is a general baseline throughout. That'll help us (humanity) make directed efforts to automate soylent mixture tweaking. I really can't wait for a device that scans me before each meal and decides what I need. Nutritionists would be in high demand, because who's going to trust a machine? At least for N years until entire generations have been through this system.