Hi, Mike -- just curious: Any science to back up yams being crucial, or at least not/not as harmful if consuming starches/grain-like carbs/moderate-carb?
Also, did yams specificakky make a large differebce, and would sweet potatoes therefore differ significantly -- or not?
just wanted to point out a couple things that jumped out at
me in this article. the first is regarding comments on rob's claim that the
brain only needs glucose. the first point made is that the brain also uses
ketones. ok, so the brain doesnt only need glucose. but ketones are made from
omega-3, which is in soylent. so that checks out from a nutrition standpoint,
even if the claim is not true. the author also points out that some cells
prefer lactate. ok... but lactate is made from glucose, so soylent covers that
pathway as well.
next, regarding olive oil and the ratio of omegas. the point made is that olive
oil has an imbalance of omegas, with omega-3 losing out. what is not mentioned
by the author is that omega-3 is a supplemental component in soylent (in addition
to olive oil), which should help to balance out that ratio.
regarding HMG Co-A Reductase... yes, it is activated to produce cholesterol in
the absence of dietary cholesterol. but, cholesterol itself is an inhibitor of
HMG Co-A Reductase. this is a common trend in biology, when a product of an
enzyme is an inhibitor of said enzyme. it is a signal to stop producing,
because enough production has taken place. The system is self-regulatory. http://www.nature.com/nrd/j...
The author points out that ‘high dose vitamin E had a
substantially higher mortality rate’. Many things, in high dose, are bad for
you. That includes water. It’s true; too much water can kill you. As such, Soylent
does not contain a high dose of vitamin E, it contains exactly the recommended
daily value. So, no need to bring that up. What’s funny is that you can buy
vitamin E on priceplow. I bet you can buy enough to kill you.
Regarding the call for a clinical trial, priceplow (and many
other vendors) sell a ton of products that have not been evaluated by the FDA
to have certain implicitly claimed benefits, and have not been through clinical
trial, including meal replacement powders.
I can't help but imagine a prehistorical version of you, arguing that stuff like fire, tools, wheels and farming are stupid ideas and we should just go on collecting our berries...
Nice suggestion for a name: SOYLENE. ^__^
So will you update your article to reflect these changes, their pros and cons?
Also Mike you may want to reconsider your position on oats considering there is not much nutritional difference from brown rice; and oat flour is just shredded oats. Yes, you no longer have the presence of the intact germ layer but it's not removed before processing, so essentially it's just doing some of the chewing for us. Clearly you have a bias and that is great because brown rice works for you, but don't hypocritically pretend it is significantly better or really that much different.
Side note, what about blending whole veggies with the mixture or creating vegetable smoothies on the side. Why has this not been suggested? Remember...constructive not destructive