Dave Asprey, inventor of Bulletproof Coffee, explains the three-ingredient recipe: lab-tested beans, grass-fed butter, and Brain Octane C8 MCT oil. He claims it boosts energy, suppresses appetite, produces ketones, and aids weight loss.
About 10–20 seconds (blending is 'really important').
Almost 200 million cups.
People have lost more than a million pounds on the Bulletproof diet (claimed).
He reports he used to weigh 300 pounds and now weighs about 205 pounds, with 10.3% body fat.
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Hey Jake, I'm glad you asked. Bulletproof coffee is a carefully designed recipe and it has three ingredients. You can't just put butter in your coffee. Although that's not a bad idea. It's not bulletproof that way. The first ingredient is lab tested mold free bulletproof coffee beans. This matters because a lot of coffee out there has toxins in it, as I mentioned earlier. And those toxins can actually undo the benefits of coffee. That's why I'm really a stickler for super high quality clean coffee without that jitter crankiness that comes from fermenting it wrong. You brew the coffee, you put the hot coffee in a blender and instead of cream or milk, you add grass fed butter. And it has to be grass feder, it doesn't work. And you add brain octane oil, which is that C8MCT oil made by bulletproof. And anywhere from a teaspoon to a tablespoon of those things works fine. And then you hit blend on the blender and you blend it for 10, even 20 seconds. And blending is really important. If you blend works much better than if you just kind of stir it around or shake it. But if you can only stir or shake, do what you can. And when you do this, it should look, taste and feel like a latte when you drink it. It's enjoyable, it's pleasant, it's not gross or anything like that, as you might expect on drinking butter that hey, butter is the same stuff that's in cream. We're just removing some of the things that are in cream that aren't beneficial. And why would you drink this weird concoction? Well, we've done almost 200 million cups of bulletproof coffee. It is available as a cold brew nationally and people have lost more than a million pounds on the bulletproof diet. And you drink it because it makes you feel amazing. Cause it gives you a burst of energy from fat with zero sugar in it because it doesn't activate insulin in the body, it doesn't activate any of the protein digestion pathways. So basically you drink it. You don't want a snack in the middle of the morning, you probably don't even want lunch. And you have such amazing energy. It is truly, truly a game changer for me because, well, I used to weigh 300 pounds and I weigh about 205 pounds right now. I'm 10.3% body fat. So that's why you do bulletproof gavi, because it makes your brain work, because it's like you're fasting, but you have way more energy and you get the benefits of having ketones that are added from the brain octane in there and you feel truly good.
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