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Let's not forget that our understanding of the world, and of our own biology, is full of holes. When science says "glucids exist", that does not suggest that other molecules don't, but we (scientists and the general public) have a tendency to assume it does.

Think about "junk dna", and the underlying culture that end up creating it as an idea: "this does not appear to do anything, must be junk". The key take away for me is that we simply are underestimating what we do not know about the world, dislike labeling things as unknown, and can financially benefit from applying simplifying assumptions on an industrial scale.

So I'd take these formidable claims with a huge grain of salt.

More importantly, I fail to see what's new with the idea of powder / shake food. This shit has been around.



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