Bulletproof Coffee?

[CzechCzar]

Has anyone tried this? Does it help you lose weight? Does it taste good? Are your energy levels increased?

[crullers]

I haven't tried it yet but I plan on it as soon as I find some coconut oil. Vulpes brought it to my attention in another thread a week or so ago. He claims it's a great coffee beverage.

I don't think it would work for losing weight unless you are already on a ketogenic diet.

[Reynard]

Has anyone tried this? Does it help you lose weight? Does it taste good? Are your energy levels increased?

As crullers says, bulletproof coffee only really works if you're planning a ketogenic diet - wikipedia. It's an incredible brew when on this diet and your body is 'keto-adapted' - used to deriving most of its energy from fat.

I pretty much go by the book - 500ml coffee, 80g (yes, 80g) unsalted grass-fed butter & 2tbsp coconut oil, all blended up. The medium-chain triglycerides in coconut oil act - in energy terms - like carbohydrates, and give you a real buzz. Together with good quality butter, once you get past the eww factor if there is one (I loved this drink from the start) you'll never even think about oats/wheat/cereal again. It's VERY good for you to consume a decent whack of fat first thing in the morning, it prepares your body to metabolise fats throughout the rest of the day, and insulin (fat-storage hormone) is kept at base level.

With the help of BPC and a high fat low carb diet, which is fun and I'm never hungry, I've lost a stone and a half (10kg) and feel great! I recently had bloods done at my surgery and everything was optimal - glucose, triglycerides, cholesterol... Oh and don't believe the crap conventional wisdom feeds you about the 'horrors' of saturated fat. People have been consuming high levels of the stuff for 2 million years. It's processed food and grains that have messed us up in this day and age. If you look at the bones and teeth of our pre-Neolithic ancestors (palaeolithic, before grains), they are healthy. Fast forward to 10,000 years ago and subsequent, with the advent of grains, bones and teeth are riddled with disease.

Here's a link to the bulletproof coffee recipe Bulletproof Coffee - the recipe

[Skell18]

As crullers says, bulletproof coffee only really works if you're planning a ketogenic diet - wikipedia. It's an incredible brew when on this diet and your body is 'keto-adapted' - used to deriving most of its energy from fat.

I pretty much go by the book - 500ml coffee, 80g (yes, 80g) unsalted grass-fed butter & 2tbsp coconut oil, all blended up. The medium-chain triglycerides in coconut oil act - in energy terms - like carbohydrates, and give you a real buzz. Together with good quality butter, once you get past the eww factor if there is one (I loved this drink from the start) you'll never even think about oats/wheat/cereal again. It's VERY good for you to consume a decent whack of fat first thing in the morning, it prepares your body to metabolise fats throughout the rest of the day, and insulin (fat-storage hormone) is kept at base level.

With the help of BPC and a high fat low carb diet, which is fun and I'm never hungry, I've lost a stone and a half (10kg) and feel great! I recently had bloods done at my surgery and everything was optimal - glucose, triglycerides, cholesterol... Oh and don't believe the crap conventional wisdom feeds you about the 'horrors' of saturated fat. People have been consuming high levels of the stuff for 2 million years. It's processed food and grains that have messed us up in this day and age. If you look at the bones and teeth of our pre-Neolithic ancestors (palaeolithic, before grains), they are healthy. Fast forward to 10,000 years ago and subsequent, with the advent of grains, bones and teeth are riddled with disease.

Here's a link to the bulletproof coffee recipe Bulletproof Coffee - the recipe

Does your breath stink though? People I know who had done that diet I can't go within 2 ft of, their breath is putrid!

[Reynard]

Does your breath stink though? People I know who had done that diet I can't go within 2 ft of, their breath is putrid!

It's funny you mention smell, as, ketosis (the utilisation of stored fat cells for energy in the absence of glucose) has its own sort of fruity smell in breath/urine/sweat, at least until you are fat-adapted.

[Skell18]

It's funny you mention smell, as, ketosis (the utilisation of stored fat cells for energy in the absence of glucose) has its own sort of fruity smell in breath/urine/sweat, at least until you are fat-adapted.

Pear drops or nail varnish remover normally, but this smell isn't that, its like death! Its vile! lol

[Reynard]

Pear drops or nail varnish remover normally, but this smell isn't that, its like death! Its vile! lol

I heard a comment a few years back that Westerners smell of dairy to Indians

[squeezyjohn]

I haven't tried a ketosis diet before - but I have been on tour with someone starting one ... and I have to agree with Skell!

At the beginning, said person did smell really rank for about a week - but the smell got better and disappeared after that. I think if you go for such a radical dietary change then you also go through quite an extreme detox at the same time ... and toxins don't smell nice ... they have to get out somehow!

Because of this I think anyone considering such an extreme change to your body - you should really have a good health check-up before embarking on something like this. Extreme detoxing puts quite a strain on the body - ketosis diets do still give the body something to take energy from whereas absolute detox doesn't - but it doesn't mean it's easy for the body to undertake.

Cheers

Squeezy