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cmac2012 · #1 06-01-2016, 03:16 AM

This is both a brand name and a recipe - in brief, big cup of strong coffee with 1 to 2 tbsp of grass fed butter and 1 to 2 tbsp of coconut oil. Melt into the coffee then froth up in a blender. Before frothing looks like an oil slick on top of the coffee, after frothing looks like it has creamer added plus a nice expresso-like foam on top. Add nothing else.

Origin:

https://www.bulletproofexec.com/how-to-make-your-coffee-bulletproof-and-your-morning-too/

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When people hear more than half my calories come from healthy fats, one of the most common questions after “Why?” is “How?”

I start the day with a cup of Bulletproof® Coffee: a blended drink made of Upgraded Coffee blended together with grass-fed unsalted butter and Brain Octane Oil (see recipe below).

I first learned about the power of butter at 18,000 above sea level, near Mt. Kailash in Tibet.
I staggered into a guest house from the -10 degree weather and was literally rejuvenated by a creamy cup of yak butter tea. The biohacker in me asked, “why?” and after a couple years of careful research, that was the genesis of the recipe below, which is today, used by Billboard recording artists before they go on stage, world champion athletes, and some of the world’s top executives, because it has a massive impact on cognitive function.

It was John Patrick Henry’s 2nd cousin’s boyfriend Juan Valdez who said, “Give me high-end coffee or give me death.” That’s because clean coffee helps protect your mental edge and performance.

So, I use the lowest toxin, highest performance coffee there is (I know, because I created it and tested it!) I brew it, and then I blend unsalted, grass-fed butter into it, along with an extract of coconut oil that improves brain energy. Yes, butter. All the benefits of healthy milk fat with none of the damaging denatured casein proteins found in cream. It makes for the creamiest, most satisfying cup of coffee you’ve ever had. It will keep you satisfied with level energy for 6 hours if you need it, and because I’m having it for breakfast, I’m programming my body to burn fat for energy all day long!

The Science Behind Bulletproof Coffee

When I first tried that yak butter tea in Tibet I felt like a million bucks. I had to know why. When I got back home, I began researching butter, tea, types of fat, how fat affects your brain, etc., etc. I began experimenting in my kitchen, looking to recreate that mental and physical boost I felt after the mug of yak butter tea. I eventually moved away from tea in favor of coffee (not that I’m hating on tea; green tea in particular is great for you. If you don’t like coffee, try swapping in green tea in the recipe below. But you really owe it to yourself to try the coffee!).

Anyway, during my research and kitchen experiments I discovered a lot of powerful science around coffee, butter, and Brain Octane Oil. I’ll break it all down for you here:

More at the link.

The founder of this recipe, and seller of high end refined coconut oil (plain ol' coconut oil works well and is cheaper - I get mine at Trader Joe's, ditto for grassfed butter, Kerrygold brand, about $3.25 per half pound) and equally high end coffee is a colleague of Dr. Mark Hyman, the nutrition researcher and author.

I've been drinking the stuff for a month and the high quality fats really satisfy the hunger bug. I've had virtually no urge to go back to my bad habits during this time and have lost about 12 lbs (?!).

There is some good science behind this. Hyman's book "Eat Fat, Get Thin" lays it out.

TX76513 · #2 06-01-2016, 08:28 AM

I have tried the butter before and its the only way to do coffee with chicory (have a lot of friends that only go this way). Now the coconut oil is something I had not ventured towards but will give it a try.

cmac2012 · #3 06-01-2016, 02:05 PM

And I'm not familiar with chicory in the mix. I'll search on it. Coconut oil is reputed to be high in medium chain fatty acids which are supposedly metabolized rapidly. Word is, and my experience affirms it, in my head anyway, they yield an energy boost w/o the crash that one gets from sugar.

*EDIT*

This site has what sounds like an informed discussion of chicory as a coffee companion:

http://drinks.seriouseats.com/2010/12/is-chicory-coffee-any-good-new-orleans.html

TX76513 · #4 06-01-2016, 03:01 PM

Yes that the stuff. The last line sums it up. it's even easier to imagine how much better it tastes after a night of touristy carousing on Bourbon Street, which, let's face it, is more or less where it should probably just stay sigh... some people just love it and wouldn't think of having coffee without it.

cmac2012 · #5 06-01-2016, 03:18 PM

I'm curious, I'll try it.

I think I'm even spending less on grass fed butter for my coffee than I was on cream. I buy the Safeway qt (or did) of heavy whipping cream, just under $5. A half lb of Kerry Gold butter is $3.25 at Trader Joe's and lasts me more than a week. Fringe binnnie.

I've had a Haagen Dazs habit for years. It pains me to admit but I'm pretty sure my annual outlay on the stuff has averaged $600 to $1000 for much of the last 30 years. One pint a day at $3 is over $1000 a year. Really boneheaded but the craving was there.

I'm thinking the desire for fat in the diet is deeply ingrained. Hyman's research (and others) is pointing towards a small revolution in US diet. Hyman says that an early diabetes specialist, Dr. Elliott Joslin, namesake of the Joslin diabetes center at Harvard, in the 20s would recommend a diet of 75% fat, 20% protein, and 5% carbos to treat diabetes. When dietary fat became demonized in the 50s and 60s, a low fat, higher carbo approach was used. Diabetes continued to increase.

Hyman himself looks pretty damn good in his late 50s. Physician heal thyself and all of that.

Anyway, back to the ice cream, I've been off it for a month. Had a small amount a few days ago, no big thing, no craving for it the next day. Hyman recommends treating sugar/honey/maple syrup as recreational drugs that you can allow yourself now and then.

I'm psyched. At 6'0" I'm now at 182, after having hovered between 195 and 200 for 20 years at least. Washboard abs, here I come.