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In Busy Silicon Valley, Protein Powder Is in Demand

posted by takyon on Wednesday May 27 2015, @11:45AM   Printer-friendly
from the big-burly-bulky-beefy dept.

AnonTechie writes:

Boom times in Silicon Valley call for hard work, and hard work — at least in technology land — means that coders, engineers and venture capitalists are turning to liquid meals with names like Schmoylent, Soylent, Schmilk and People Chow. The protein-packed products that come in powder form are inexpensive and quick and easy to make — just shake with water, or in the case of Schmilk, milk. While athletes and dieters have been drinking their dinner for years, Silicon Valley's workers are now increasingly chugging their meals, too, so they can more quickly get back to their computer work.

Demand for some of the powdered drinks, which typically mix nutrients like magnesium, zinc and vitamins, is so high that some engineers report being put on waiting lists of one to six months to receive their first orders. And the drinks are taking off across techie social circles. Venture capitalists have also poured money into the companies that offer the meal replacements, and investors including Alexis Ohanian, a founder of Reddit, count themselves as fans of the drinks.

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 27 2015, @12:21PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 27 2015, @12:21PM (#188561)

    It was caused by steroids.

    Steroids are hormones. Gym freaks take the kind of steroids that are testosterone. But the body is efficient, it sees that they have enough testosterone in the blood so it reduces maintenance of the testicles since they don't need to produce testosterone any more.

    It is the same old story - use it or lose it.

    Also these drinks like soylent are not really "protein powder" -- yes there is protein in it, but there is everything else in there too. They are more like Ensure than Muscle Milk.

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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday May 27 2015, @12:49PM

    by c0lo (156) on Wednesday May 27 2015, @12:49PM (#188565) Journal
    ''.

    Steroids are hormones.

    Nope [wikipedia.org]

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    • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 27 2015, @01:05PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 27 2015, @01:05PM (#188570)

      (a) Holy shit! Could you have linked to a less helpful webpage?
      (b) Close enough [wikipedia.org]

    • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Wednesday May 27 2015, @02:32PM

      by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Wednesday May 27 2015, @02:32PM (#188620) Homepage
      Anabolic-androgenic steroids are hormones. And it was AASs that were being talked about. The fact that they are not endogenic, but are externally introduced into the body should be irrelevant. Insulin and epinephrine don't magically stop being hormones when sitting in phials, nor should any testosterone derivatives.
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      • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday May 27 2015, @08:06PM

        by c0lo (156) on Wednesday May 27 2015, @08:06PM (#188750) Journal

        Anabolic-androgenic steroids are hormones.

        Yes, but OP claimed that all steroids are hormones, I fail to see how the bile acid (a steroid) can be called a hormone.

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        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 27 2015, @08:48PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 27 2015, @08:48PM (#188774)

          Autism for the lose.

          • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 27 2015, @10:07PM

            by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 27 2015, @10:07PM (#188803)

            Pedantry for the lose. Pedantry always loses.

        • (Score: 2) by Balderdash on Thursday May 28 2015, @12:43AM

          by Balderdash (693) on Thursday May 28 2015, @12:43AM (#188888)

          If you puke bile onto a whore, she will doubtless moan.

          Therefore it is totally relevant.

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        • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Thursday May 28 2015, @07:34AM

          by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Thursday May 28 2015, @07:34AM (#188995) Homepage
          In the context of testosterone. There was bollocks in the sentence before it, and testosterone in the sentence after it. The statement was clearly about the steroids used for an anabolic purpose. If you had wanted to have made a useful response, rather than a pedantic one, it would have been "not all", rather than "no".
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