Update from the self-experimentation trenches:
Tried nothing but baked potatoes, no oil, and only a tiny bit of seasoning for the last two days.
Still bizarrely, laughably easy to keep up with the diet. Feeling much more energetic, have lost a bit of weight.
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oh yeah still drinking coffee tho ☕️
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Just spitballing here, but if the mechanism is potassium, "not much salt" might make more of a difference than "no oil"
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potato diet is also consistent with the LA/torpor theory as well btw: reddit.com/r/SaturatedFat
(most interesting idea is that one could potentially deplete excess LA stores in 2-3 months as opposed to the 6+ year timeframe people usually talk about)
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For better and for worse, potato diet working is consistent with a lot of theories. But if it DOES work reliably, that gives us a great starting point and we will have a lot of fun teasing apart the potential explanations
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If it works for some people and not others everyone will have a field day trying to explain why, prepare for things to get very chaotic 😛
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you guys (are you a team?) are doing amazing work here, i'm so excited to see where this all will go!
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i think they're a married couple right? Mr and Mrs Mold?
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Thanks! 🥰
Yes team, not a couple / not married!
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(20 rats in a trenchcoat )
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well we've been doing science to the rats for so long they must be better at it than humans by now, might as well give em a chance
