Spira: a complete meal supplement you can grow in your home

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While I do actually drink Soylent occasionally as a replacement for Oatmeal when I need a quick breakfast, I'm not a "food replacement" guy. Still, I find this project fascinating and Elliot is a passionate scientist and entrepreneur who would probably love any feedback HN has.

Isn't the neurotoxin β-N-methylamino-L-alanine (BMAA) an issue with Spirulina [0], though?

[0]: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4130116/

But that study didn't seem to find a problem in procured supplements:

"Using two advanced LC-MS/MS techniques, we were unable to detect BMAA to a level of 80 ng/g in any of the product samples. Although reassuring, the small sample of pure spirulina and spirulina-containing retail products can only be considered as a preliminary step toward larger investigations..."

I liked that as a background for the BMAA concern, but from here [0], it looks like BMAA is actually caused by contamination and is not directly produced by spirulina itself, which I didn't know.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirulina_(dietary_supplement)...

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