Fun anecdote. My dad sold Herbalife back in the 90s. He didn't get rich, but young me listened in on him using their person-focused sales tactics. Later in life, when I ran a fencing club, I used the tactics I picked up from listening to make the club members feel included and to track their achievements. It worked marvelously. Turns out celebrating success, giving everybody some personal time to ask them how their session was this week and so on is great advice if you are actually giving them something they can use and that makes them better people. In this case, better fencers and members of a club that had fun and collectively fought to get better and better. Not so much if you're doing an MLM selling over priced shakes though...

"Unlike their customers, soylent did produce some solids from time to time."

I was shitting myself watching this because I use huel. Not because I thought you were gonna slate it, just because of the huel

"Cleanse" = completely evacuate your entire GI track in one violent go.

Naming it Soylent. That's like naming an ai network skynet or your pharmaceutical company Umbrella

The sentence "Once the arctic got all discovered, people realized there weren't nothin there" is the funniest thing in the world to me and i don't know why.

“Skinfluencer” actually sounds like a really good term for describing the kind of influencers who have made their carriers on just their body/looks. Anyway, keep on producing 10/10 videos for us to enjoy.

I had a terrible habit of not eating for my entire 13 hour nursing shifts d/t stress, over caffeination, and lack of time and ability to leave the nursing station (falls, heart rate spikes, any and every medical issue under the sun that requires my constant monitoring) and huel helped me fill that crucial gap in my diet. Additionally, I have seen huel help supplement the diets of elderly relatives who have mostly lost their appetites and interest in food. Not a bot, and philosophically I find Huel horrifying, but I must admit it serves some useful functions.

damn this kinda hit home. one of the darkest times in my life was when i was working as a mechanic, prescribed vyvanse & was replacing meals with soylent shakes because they were cheaper than actual meals & i could get back to work quicker. lost 50 pounds & everybody thought i got into heroin. especially when the amphetamine induced psychotic episode set in. i legitimately suspected i was an android. fuck hustle culture. totally not reccomended.

Despite all of this, I gotta thank meal replacements for keeping me alive when my meds made me not want to eat and an easy to swallow juice was all I could take without wanting to throw up.

The most ironic thing about all this is that the Instagram models that these companies pay to advertise their bullshit are people that actually take fitness seriously and have spent years of hard work to achieve their body goals.

After my great-grandmothers 9th child, she’d been on speed every moment she hadn’t been pregnant. This is what they sold to pudgy housewives at the doctors in those days. A few times, they put a tapeworm in her too. All of that made her very sick. The diet industry is truly horrifying. She lived a long life though, despite this, and was very elegant and well spoken. I miss her a lot. She decorated everything with silk and pastels, and had an orange tree that hung into her window and made it hard to close. When I was a kid, I always felt like I’d been raised by wolves around her. Even though we were the same class, she seemed like nobility to me. She played the piano, but only these slow church tunes. I think she wanted to be skinny because she worried her size would be at odds with her grace. But I’ve never met anyone like her in all my life. Her weight didn’t matter. She had more class than anyone I’ve ever met.

The first thing that came to mind when I first heard about "Huel" wasn't "human fuel", it was "human gruel"

i honestly have never come across a channel as addicting and interesting as this one. good shit dude

A similarly structured History video on Energy Drinks would be wild.

A few years ago a bunch of "cafes" opened up around me selling basically just reskinned herbalife teas and coffees. It seemed super sketchy to me because they all had similar names like "Unbreakable Nutrition" "Unbeatable Nutrition" "Unstoppable Nutrition", etc. The worst part about them was that one opened up literally across the street from my high school, so most of the girls would come in everyday tweaking off this highly sugary/caffeinated appetite suppressant. Pretty much everyone i knew was getting addicted to these drinks, some of them even started working at the cafes and selling herbalife themselves. Blew my mind when i started talking to the older people in my life about this and they all explained how herbalife has been around for decades and surprised its still going around. Its terrifying that they have an entirely new and even younger audience now from opening up these starbucks-esque shops and preying on high school aged girls under the guise of "nutrition" and being healthier

A historian in the morning and some ordinary things in the evening, what a treat

If a company advertised a drink to me with the slogan: "Shit yourself thin!" I'd buy it.

Talking of the 4 hour thing. I noticed that with belvita. They claim it slowly releases energy over 4 hours. I thought to myself "yeah I'm pretty sure all food digests slowly over 4 hours......".

Oh man. Glad to see Huel get an 'alright' rating. I had a period in my life when I was working 12 hour days, but had a nutritional-ish provided lunch. Whenever I got home I didn't want to cook or buy convenience food so I choked down a huel shake in the evening. Pretty solid hearing "you could have done worse" when it comes to my health.