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>What worries me is that soylent is 20% based on soy. Some studies indicate that eating a heavily soy based diet leads to increased estrogen levels Here's what
by zeteo 11y ago
>What worries me is that soylent is 20% based on soy. Some studies indicate that eating a heavily soy based diet leads to increased estrogen levels
Here's what they have to say about this [1]:
>There are some public concerns about high consumption of soy, but Rhinehart is quick to dismiss them. "Because we’re not using whole soy, we’re just using the protein isolate…the isoflavone levels are much lower than what they would be in soy flour or tofu. There are some levels, but they’re well below any that have shown to have an effect," he explained. "There was somewhat specious research in the past on what impact soy can have on testosterone levels and those have been widely debunked. We’ve certainly done our research here and we’ll be posting our analysis on the Web as well."
[1]http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/08/soylent-2-0-is-coming-pre-mixed-in-a-bottle/ http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/08/soylent-2-0-is-coming...
- tdaltonc 11y agoIt's like people think that they know some nutritional secret that soylent hasn't thought of. I take them on their word that they're taking this seriously and every time I read a comment about "Soylent is so clueless! How could they have thought of 'X'?!" then I google "soylent X" and find an extremely detained post explaining how they're taken 'X' in to account.
- lightbritefight 11y agoDunning-kruger in effect. We are all at least layman when it comes to nutrition and health, so you get people who dont know what they dont know commenting on something to reassure their views. They dont do the research, because they already "know" the right answer. We should be skeptical of any food stuff the purports to be nutritionally near perfect, but Soylent looks like its on track.
- DanBC 11y ago> Dunning-kruger in effect Are you talking about Soylent or people criticising Soylent? Because, for a company that's supposed to have done all tue research, they've made a couple of errors. That might not sound like much but liquid feeds are not new; there are plenty of people that have experience in liquid feeds; so there's not much excuse to make the mistakes Soylent made.
- 222www 11y agoSo they are not perfect demi gods? Burn them!
- DanBC 11y agoReally? I saw Soylent claim to "put you in perfect health", and claim to be suitable for anybody. Both of those are dangerous, scumbag, claims. Soylent has not retracted those claims. They did quietly drop them though.
- tdaltonc 11y agoThat's what iterative improvement looks like. You make mistakes, then you stop making them.