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Re:Scurvy is common and should be diagnosed and treated by puredemo on Saturday November 21, 2015 @06:30AM (#10606502)
Such a great analysis, and truly depressing that such a hyped-up "meal replacement drink" maker hasn't done the bare basics of due diligence to ensure they aren't harming their customers. Typical.
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Re:Scurvy is common and should be diagnosed and treated by skybrian on Saturday November 21, 2015 @02:21PM (#10607707)
Sadly typical to see people make these accusations without even doing a Google search. Answers to least two of these are in the FAQ:

https://faq.soylent.com/hc/en-us/articles/203962069-Vitamin-...

https://faq.soylent.com/hc/en-us/articles/204547005-Magnesiu...

I'm not enough of a nutritionist to say whether that's really sufficient, but they do consult with nutritionists, so it seems likely they've at least thought about all this stuff. Proving there's something wrong with Soylent is going to take more research than anyone's likely to casually do for an Internet discussion.

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Re:Scurvy is common and should be diagnosed and treated by puredemo on Saturday November 21, 2015 @04:01PM (#10608010)
Did you read the reason why vitamin D2 was chosen? Simply because it didn't contain animal products, not because it was any better.

Similar for the Magnesium, it was chosen for a neutral taste rather than based on bio-availability. Even though Magnesium Oxide is barely processed by the human body at all.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2407766

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Re:Scurvy is common and should be diagnosed and treated by skybrian on Saturday November 21, 2015 @07:19PM (#10608559)
In general, I think it's okay to make design tradeoffs like that, because higher levels of vitamins beyond what you really need aren't necessarily better. But you could certainly ask them about it.

I'm not going to get into it because this stuff gets complicated really fast [1] and two non-scientists debating it on the Internet gets silly.

[1] https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/Magnesium-HealthProfession...

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Re:Scurvy is common and should be diagnosed and treated by PhantomGremlin on Saturday November 21, 2015 @06:43AM (#10606535)
Whatever you do, don't make any negative comments in one of our regularly occurring Soylent threads. You'll be voted down into oblivion.
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