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user-inactivated  ·  4274 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: This Man Thinks He Never Has To Eat Again

I read his initial blog post a few days ago, it looks really interesting honestly. I would do this myself but I'm worried about missing nutrients, notably choline was absent from his original stack.

There are minor mutations among the population that leave a minority of people unable to synthesize certain nutrients from precursors, but it's fine because those nutrients are readily available in food so there is no significant effect. I expect as he expands his consumer base, some of these problems will appear, and they won't be immediately apparent.

I'm a little disappointed by his pivot towards nootropics. I understand it's the next logical step but there's a lot of quackery in that field. I think it would be better if he perfected his original goal before he moved on to more experimental things.

Once this becomes a consumer product, I'll be interested. Until then I will leave the guinea pigging to someone else.