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>because GNC stopped making the micro nutrient powder that was essential too it.

Your anecdote is interesting, but it seems biased towards, "everything was better and healthier, but I didn't get the joy of food".

I'm skeptical that you were getting optimal nutrition from some powder produced in a factory in Mexico. If everything about this was "better", I assume your original diet was terrible.

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It's more likely that my body is just overly sensitive to foods (which is very common). I eat clean now but still not feeling like I did back then. Maybe 80%.

Diet and how you feel is highly variable and highly individual dependent. So the shake is excellent for creating a baseline since it is about as plain as you can get food to be.

    > getting optimal nutrition

Did OP claim this? I didn't see it, unless deleted on edit.

>Did OP claim this? I didn't see it, unless deleted on edit.

It's implied, otherwise what's the point of his post?

What is someone trying to achieve by drinking entire meals in a shake, if not optimal nutrition? What other benefits are there?

Having done the Huel thing, it's incredibly low-effort. If you don't value the time spent converting ingredients into a meal, or in expending decision energy either on what to buy or what to prepare, it's a pretty big win.

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