$20 000 suitcase to bust fake diets! (Patreon)

There are so many BS ‘lose weight quick’ diets out there. In reality of course theres only one way to lose weight, excrete more calories than you consume!

How you live is fairly chemically simple, you breathe in oxygen, use it to burn sugar, and breathe out carbon dioxide. However following that in real time is tricky because its never clear where exactly that carbon came from. If however you were to eat some carbon 13 sugar, you would know exactly when you breathe it out because you would breathe out carbon 13 dioxide! The experiment is fairly simple on paper, fairly tricky in practice. The first problem is you need to be able to detect carbon 13 dioxide with a high accuracy, which basically requires a mass spectrometer. They will happily clock in at over a million dollars- WAY out of my price range. However you can get some mass spectrometers specialized to gases for about $20k. The next thing you need is some carbon 13 sugar…. Again not so cheap ~$300/ gram.

After quite a lot of research and back of the envelope calculations…. I think I have the machine that will do the job J