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Soylent is not healthy. Does anyone remember how Rob Rhinehart gave himself heart palpitations? How he hired a bunch of marketers, branders, engineers before an
by jyu 6y ago
Soylent is not healthy. Does anyone remember how Rob Rhinehart gave himself heart palpitations? How he hired a bunch of marketers, branders, engineers before any nutritionists and medical advisors?
https://soylent.com/pages/careers https://soylent.com/pages/careers
He is still making the same mistake by not prominently showing nutritional consultants, medical experts and hiding behind the claim that this is a nutritional supplement.
Please correct me if Soylent has changed their MO of "move fast and break things" with people's nutrition. I would love to be wrong.
edit: The idea of a fast, easy, nutritious paste is great. Nutrition, however, does not often fit into a piecemeal ready to eat box for all your meals. I ended up taking personal nutrition seriously when I realized my dietary choices were undermining my health. You only get one run at this life. Please take the gravity of your health and who you abdicate your health decisions with the respect those consequences deserve.
- dsizzle 6y agoI read this and assumed he got heart palpitations from Soylent. The closest I could find was this article https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/04/the-man-who-would-make-eating-obsolete/361058/ https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/04/the-man-w... that mentions that he had heart arrhythmia -- but while developing Soylent early on and _deviating_ from the USDA recommendations (specifically with the amount of potassium). From that he concluded that Soylent should adhere to the USDA recommended values, which it does.