I have been through quite an up and down cycle regarding my attitude towards Soylent. Upon first hearing about it, I was pretty excited about the idea. But the

I have been through quite an up and down cycle regarding my attitude towards Soylent. Upon first hearing about it, I was pretty excited about the idea. But the more Rob talked, the more I thought the idea was a total hoax. For example, in Rhinehart's blog post "How I Stopped Eating Food"[0], he writes: My physique has noticeably improved, my skin is clearer, my teeth whiter, my hair thicker and my dandruff gone. My resting heart rate is lower, I haven't felt the least bit sickly, rare for me this time of year. I've had a common skin condition called Keratosis Pilaris since birth. That was gone by day 9. I used to run less than a mile at the gym, now I can run 7. I have more energy than I know what to do with. On day 4 I caught myself balancing on the curb and jumping on and off the sidewalk when crossing the street like I used to do when I was a kid. People gave me strange looks but I just smiled back. Even my scars look better." I think the only ailment he forgot to mention was his inoperable cancer that had disappeared by day 10 (sarcasm). On a serious note, after I read this, I realized that Rob was going into full marketing mode. He had talked about releasing the recipe for Soylent in on of his first posts, but I realized now that he wanted to build as much hype as possible so he could commercialize his idea. Mind you, there is nothing wrong with that, but I now felt a degree of skepticism towards the whole thing, because his incentive structure was changing. For goodness sakes, he's claiming that his endurance increased 7x simply by switching to Soylent. It is probably not fair for me to judge the entire project based on this blog post, but I have yet to see anyone claim that Soylent did the above for them, especially after 30 days. [0]: http://robrhinehart.com/?p=298 http://robrhinehart.com/?p=298