"How I Stopped Eating Food"

[o well this is ok I guess]

http://robrhinehart.com/?p=298
tl;dr guy doesn't like cooking so he gets all the nutrients and sugars in their raw form, mixes them together, and drinks.

[Charles Marxley]

This is so awesome. I have long been waiting for something like this, because I also hate cooking/cleaning and have bad responses to lots of food, and the act of finding something to eat is stressful and time-consuming, especially since I don't drive anymore and I'm a broke student. I might just give this a whirl.

[ind_com]

If you read it then you can tell that it's not true and he is trying to market that product.

[o well this is ok I guess]

If you read it then you can tell that it's not true and he is trying to market that product. He's put up the exact measurements, which means anyone could hypothetically make it themselves, if they can figure out where to obtain the materials. Not really a good way to make money, brah.
http://robrhinehart.com/?p=424

[ind_com]

He's put up the exact measurements, which means anyone could hypothetically make it themselves, if they can figure out where to obtain the materials. Not really a good way to make money, brah.
http://robrhinehart.com/?p=424

From the measurements that he gives, no one will ever make that soup and add all those things together, some of them only in a few micrograms. Read the comments there and you'll understand. Moreover no nutrient soup can work the miraculous way he describes it. It's simply impossible.

[o well this is ok I guess]

From the measurements that he gives, no one will ever make that soup and add all those things together, some of them only in a few micrograms. Read the comments there and you'll understand. Moreover no nutrient soup can work the miraculous way he describes it. It's simply impossible. it's a matter of making measurements and then throwing the stuff in a jug with water. With the right measuring equipment it's less difficult than homebrewing beer.

Also I don't see what makes it impossible. At the very least, what would make it worse than the average junk diet. Could you elaborate?

[Tenka]

Spencer
March 11, 2013 at 5:11 pm
When you say you take 3.5 g of potassium, do you take into account the fact that potassium gluconate is 16.69% potassium by mass, and therefore you would need to take roughly 21 g of potassium gluconate to get the 3.5 g for your daily requirement?

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rob
March 12, 2013 at 1:08 am
Yes, of course

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Jonathan
March 15, 2013 at 1:12 am
If that's the case, you must have found a really cheap source of potassium gluconate. The cheapest I've found would add up to over $300/month.

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I found this interesting. And already, on the 12th of March, we can see Rob's life energy dissipating by such lethargic responses as "Yes, of course"--his final reply to comments so far, by the way, so we can only presume that Rob has perished in the name of Science.

Or is busy figuring out some way to get a patent in order.

[o well this is ok I guess]

I found this interesting. And already, on the 12th of March, we can see Rob's life energy dissipating by such lethargic responses as "Yes, of course"--his final reply to comments so far, by the way, so we can only presume that Rob has perished in the name of Science.

Or is busy figuring out some way to get a patent in order. No better way to go, really.

But yeah the formula is obv not perfect, probably even damaging to ones health. But it's the concept, man.

That aside, so long as he's posted this online and admitting most of what he used was readily available, he's dug his own financial grave. A competitor could just throw the same thing together and skew the measurements or use a different protein source and such.

[ind_com]

it's a matter of making measurements and then throwing the stuff in a jug with water. With the right measuring equipment it's less difficult than homebrewing beer.

Also I don't see what makes it impossible. At the very least, what would make it worse than the average junk diet. Could you elaborate?

First of all, you can't just make a mixture of essential compounds and get all your nutrients from it. Some nutrients need to come in specific forms, and some nutrients conflict when in the same meal. Secondly look at what this guy says: "But on day 3 I noticed my heart was racing and my energy level was suddenly dropping. Hemoglobin! I think, my heart is having trouble getting enough oxygen to all my organs. I check my formula and realize iron is completely absent. I quickly purchase an iron supplement and add it to the mixture the next day. I have to be more careful not to leave anything out." Your heart will work properly even if you starve completely for a couple of days. And to top it all, he calls his product soylent, as if it wasn't enough of a joke already.

I am not claiming that synthetic nourishment is impossible, in fact some people do have to live on synthetic nourishment for a while due to illness. But all the nutrients that we need have not been chemically identified yet, and there is a lot of research going on in this direction. So it is pretty much impossible for this person getting the formula correct at his home while serious and organized research in labs has not been able to obtain it so far, more so considering that throughout the comments, people have pointed out multiple faults in Rob's potion.