Then it turns out Rob reports a higher mental efficiency by drinking the stuff? He has better concentration, alertness, motivation, everything? Hell yes. Sign me up.
Do note that he attributes this primarily to his previous normal diet being absolutely terrible rather than the new one being SUPER SPECIAL. He just guesses many others unknowingly (or knowingly) have pretty bad diets too.
Well, yeah. I've read stories from vegetarians and vegans about how the changed diet produced similar results, probably because it was "healthier." I don't want to go into details about how it was healthier, but basically it's the same concept. The person's diet was lackluster before, switching to another diet that addresses what was wrong with their previous diet results in improvements.
The problem with vegetarian or vegan diets for me is that it can be expensive to buy the foods, a hassle to get or prepare the foods, and I just don't like eating most veggies. So yeh, my diet and nutrition probably isn't up to snuff, and would probably benefit from the nutrients and stuff in the soylent that I otherwise wouldn't be getting much of.
Soylent is just so frikkin' convenient and efficient compared to standard meal preparation that I already liked the thought of it. The reported improvements from Rob and others and how successful it is as an alternative method of sustenance just further emphasize that I want to test this crazy new age food of the future sometime.
Plus, he said he added nootropics to it. Mental drugs. That might explain why he feels the way he feels. Not just nutrition.
This is news to me. I thought it was some other nutritional thing I had never heard of. I'd think adding drugs into a food for distribution would go against some law or other in some country. Then again, caffeine is technically a drug, so...huh. If nootropics are included in the mass distributed product then the public reactions might be interesting.