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I'd love to see this study replicated, only instead of "proprietary (expensive?) product", it was just 40% of your daily caloric intake.... in soylent. There's

by windlep 11y ago

I'd love to see this study replicated, only instead of "proprietary (expensive?) product", it was just 40% of your daily caloric intake.... in soylent. There's been multiple studies I've seen now indicating that fasting does this, the questions I want to know are: 1. How much of a caloric intake drop is required? 2. How much does it matter what specific types of calories are used for the lower-calorie period? (ie, 500 cals of fast-food vs. soylent vs. prolon vs. ensure) 3. Is there any tell-tale sign we can test for indicating when a sufficient 'period' has occurred for the benefits, thus knowing we can resume normal diet? I can only imagine if these scientists are associated with a specific product, they probably don't have a huge reason to find out if a cheap existing product (soylent/ensure) works just as well as their most-likely-more-expensive-proprietary one. But it's the first thing I want to know.

_pius 11y ago
I'd love to see this study replicated, only instead of "proprietary (expensive?) product", it was just 40% of your daily caloric intake.... in soylent. Why? Soylent's just another proprietary product.
- windlep 11y ago
  Soylent open-sourced their recipe afaik, that was part of the whole appeal for many, they could replicate the entire formula and tweak as desired. There's other food-replacements as well, like ensure, which I cited. Edit: Soylent has an entire forum of various varients of their recipe: https://diy.soylent.com/recipes https://diy.soylent.com/recipes
  - vlaube 11y ago
    You can also automatically generate recipes using auto-soylent: https://github.com/nick/auto-soylent https://github.com/nick/auto-soylent The nutrient profile can be taken from the patent.
tkyjonathan 11y ago
There was a 10 year study that concluded this year that vitamins pills don't help with cancer and heart disease. The quality of delivery of vitamins to the body is important and based on this study, I don't think soylent is a good long term solution for overall health - unless you eat it with fruit and vegetables.

by windlep 11y ago

_pius 11y ago

I'd love to see this study replicated, only instead of "proprietary (expensive?) product", it was just 40% of your daily caloric intake.... in soylent. Why? Soylent's just another proprietary product.

windlep 11y ago
Soylent open-sourced their recipe afaik, that was part of the whole appeal for many, they could replicate the entire formula and tweak as desired. There's other food-replacements as well, like ensure, which I cited. Edit: Soylent has an entire forum of various varients of their recipe: https://diy.soylent.com/recipes https://diy.soylent.com/recipes
- vlaube 11y ago
  You can also automatically generate recipes using auto-soylent: https://github.com/nick/auto-soylent https://github.com/nick/auto-soylent The nutrient profile can be taken from the patent.

tkyjonathan 11y ago

There was a 10 year study that concluded this year that vitamins pills don't help with cancer and heart disease. The quality of delivery of vitamins to the body is important and based on this study, I don't think soylent is a good long term solution for overall health - unless you eat it with fruit and vegetables.