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MrMind comments on Ketogenic Soylent - Less Wrong Discussion

6 Post author: BrienneYudkowsky 27 September 2013 01:17AM

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Comment author: MrMind 02 October 2013 01:47:02PM 0 points [-]

I've done the test on 23andMe, but I didn't find anything related on ketosis resistance. If you know where to look, please point it out because I'm interested as well.

Comment author: Baughn 02 October 2013 02:13:15PM *  0 points [-]

Sorry, I don't.

Figuring out what genetic markers might or might not help seems like the kind of thing Metamed might be helpful for, but it's pretty expensive. A cursory literature search turned up one or two things, but as I'm neither expending a lot of time on it nor an expert in the area, I don't think it would be useful to pass on.

A lack of actual ketosis, in a ketosis-inducing situation, is a pretty strong indicator of that something is going on - figuring out what is potentially valuable, if you could find a friendly geneticist. Pointing that out is the most I can do.