Hey there. So, this is cross posted from the experiments.com site. It has been slightly altered, but I figured everyone should have this little bit of info. It’s pretty cool 🙂
First though, a little bit of bad news. We lost one of our test subjects in the last week :/ Subject C dropped out. We’re bummed, but still feeling positive about the project. Luckily, we were up one from our original protocol, so we are still well within parameters.
SFM Dietary Protocols: Depleting Retinol
Jeffrey Tibbetts
Our project to replace Rhodopsin with Porphyropsin in the human eye in order to affect a shift of the range of light that is perceivable can easily be summed up in three steps: deplete stores of vitamin A, administer A2, and measure the changes that occur. While these summations are valid, they don’t do justice to the intricacies involved in each step. This section discusses the steps taken to deplete retinol levels.
Thank you to everyone who has supported us to get us to this point. If you were part of the crowdfunding, data updates are on Monday. If you still want to support, hit up the PayPal link and always fee free to comment here or send us an email at projects@scienceforthemasses.org
Cheers!
Breakfast: Five eggs scrambled in goose fat, plate full of steamed broccoli.
Lunch: Corned beef from my favourite diner. Dabs of made-from-scratch horseradish sauce. Cabbage, boiled and then marked on the grill.
…8oz of steamed half and half….
Supper: Roasted pork loin, hand rubbed with spices. Steamed broccoli and cauliflower. Â Liberal dabs of homemade habanero hot sauce, aged 7 days. A few pieces of mature English cheddar.
I love you food. I know you’re not going anywhere.
Time to do some science.
Just a short update, for those of you waiting to see what’s going on with the NIR project
We will be starting the VAD on Wednsday (​0326) barring any unforeseen roadblocks. This means that we will be taking baseline readings before then (hopefully Friday) and will be letting you guy’s know how it goes. If you were a supporter through the microryza (now experiment.com) fundraiser, you can log in there to get the first round of hard data this weekend.
Edit: I should never mutlitask. Changed start dates. Sorry.