Cosmo posted a new blog entry
90 Days of Soylent
Almost four years ago, a software engineer named Rob Rhinehart began self-experimenting with nutrition and posted a blog entry entitled How I Stopped Eating Food.
In it, he hypothesized that the body doesn’t need food itself, merely the chemicals and elements it contains. He set out on a quest to formulate a way ONLY to consume the raw ingredients the body actually needs for a perfectly balanced diet.
From there, his self-experiment went viral, and he eventually began a crowdfund campaign to start selling his formulation to the masses. His goal was $100,000; he raised over $2,000,000.
Being the bold futurist that I am, I was naturally one of first (of many) crowdfund backers. I’ve bounced on and off throughout the last couple years, but my experience has largely been positive. Stopping was mainly because the temptations of what people around me were eating, and being married means the other person is having to “forever alone” their meal-for-one.
There was ONE exception for what prompted me to quit this last time, and that was due to some digestive issues with the Soylent Food Bar. I was, apparently, one of the people sensitive to whole algal flour. Long story short, you never want to eat a Soylent Food Bar, pile a Mark's Roll on top of it and then do three laps around the mall… You will end up sprinting (with bulging cheeks) past concerned onlookers into the questionable bathroom of Dave & Busters while there is a group of beatboxing middle schoolers in there.
Soylent has stopped using whole algal flour after a disagreement with their vendor, and have also released reformulated versions of its products. In addition to that, they’ve also released Cacao and Nectar flavored versions of their bottled drink which brings us to the point of this article:
Halovesya and I will be trying a 90-day diet of ONLY Soylent. Now, we certainly are not the first ones to do this. If you search around, you’ll find plenty of journalists and self-experimenters documenting this very same thing. What we’re doing is a little different, though, in that:
This experiment is not entirely scientific as we won’t be getting blood tests before, during or after (THANKS, OBAMA), but we’ll be looking at things a bit more holistically – Weight, mood, basic cognition and energy levels.
Our first shipment arrives this Friday, and we'll be posting our first update that same day (or Saturday if it arrives late).
Aside from the obvious, what else should we try to monitor? Let us know in the comments below!
See this post on the main site.
90 Days of Soylent
Almost four years ago, a software engineer named Rob Rhinehart began self-experimenting with nutrition and posted a blog entry entitled How I Stopped Eating Food.
In it, he hypothesized that the body doesn’t need food itself, merely the chemicals and elements it contains. He set out on a quest to formulate a way ONLY to consume the raw ingredients the body actually needs for a perfectly balanced diet.
From there, his self-experiment went viral, and he eventually began a crowdfund campaign to start selling his formulation to the masses. His goal was $100,000; he raised over $2,000,000.
Being the bold futurist that I am, I was naturally one of first (of many) crowdfund backers. I’ve bounced on and off throughout the last couple years, but my experience has largely been positive. Stopping was mainly because the temptations of what people around me were eating, and being married means the other person is having to “forever alone” their meal-for-one.
There was ONE exception for what prompted me to quit this last time, and that was due to some digestive issues with the Soylent Food Bar. I was, apparently, one of the people sensitive to whole algal flour. Long story short, you never want to eat a Soylent Food Bar, pile a Mark's Roll on top of it and then do three laps around the mall… You will end up sprinting (with bulging cheeks) past concerned onlookers into the questionable bathroom of Dave & Busters while there is a group of beatboxing middle schoolers in there.
Soylent has stopped using whole algal flour after a disagreement with their vendor, and have also released reformulated versions of its products. In addition to that, they’ve also released Cacao and Nectar flavored versions of their bottled drink which brings us to the point of this article:
Halovesya and I will be trying a 90-day diet of ONLY Soylent. Now, we certainly are not the first ones to do this. If you search around, you’ll find plenty of journalists and self-experimenters documenting this very same thing. What we’re doing is a little different, though, in that:
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- We have a male and a female doing this at the same time
- Both parties have identical living conditions and activity levels
- Both parties have had the same diet leading up to day 1
This experiment is not entirely scientific as we won’t be getting blood tests before, during or after (THANKS, OBAMA), but we’ll be looking at things a bit more holistically – Weight, mood, basic cognition and energy levels.
Our first shipment arrives this Friday, and we'll be posting our first update that same day (or Saturday if it arrives late).
Aside from the obvious, what else should we try to monitor? Let us know in the comments below!
See this post on the main site.
