I was once a guinea pig for a study looking at the effects of lycopene (the stuff that makes tomatoes red) on males. It was a preliminary thing that looked at blood levels and how long it stays in our body to get data before they tried it in prostate cancer patients.
The first 48 hours were the worst, had to spend them in the hospital getting blood drawn initially every 15 minutes, then by the end it was every few hours. The diet was terrible because we couldn't have anything with lycopene or lycopene like stuff in it initally and so they overloaded us on calories to try to compensate. They doubled my daily intake from my diet diary I kept beforehand, which was like 1800...so I had to eat 3600 calories of terrible, terrible hospital food.
By the end of the 48 hours I was sure it was not a lycopene study but rather a study to see how much food we could choke down before we vomited.
After those two days it was much better, and I only couldn't eat anything with tomatoes in it for 4 weeks, keep a diet log like 2x a week and get blood drawn every few days. At the end I got $500 cash. I felt it was well worth it, but if you had asked me when I was in those first 2 days...ugh.
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