3 ms·

Because the idea of being being metabolically disadvantaged is that you can't eat a traditionally balanced diet. Soylent has none of the complex/unnecessary/un

• dragonwriter 13y ago
  > Soylent has none of the complex/unnecessary/unhealthy chemical substances tradional diets (milk,bread,nuts,fish) have that are the frequent object of intolerances. One of the key "milk" allergies is allergy to whey, which from what has been posted in this thread is the protein source for Soylent..
  • tinco 13y ago
    Oh I thought people were mostly lactose intolerant. I guess you're right, but the nice thing about Soylent is that you can actually replace ingredients rather easily. In his blogs he mentioned that in his head this could ultimately be a drink tailormade for your specific needs, so someone with whey allergy could swap the whey proteins for meat or fish proteins (if those are readibly available at all)
    • dragonwriter 13y ago
      > Oh I thought people were mostly lactose intolerant. People (and, really, adult mammals that aren't humans of European descent) mostly are lactose intolerant, which is a non-immune issue (and thus not an allergy.) Milk allergies (allergies to one or more of whey, cassein, or other milk proteins) are a different issue, but also a real thing.
• papsosouid 13y ago
  No, in this context "metabolically disadvantaged" means "fat and don't want to make an effort to fix it". There is no intolerance, it is just "I want to stop being fat, but pretending to half-follow a fad diet didn't work, so I will call it a medical problem".