Bulletproof Coffee
Coffee blended with grass-fed butter and C8 MCT oil, drunk in place of breakfast
Brewed coffee blended for twenty seconds with one to two tablespoons of unsalted grass-fed butter and a teaspoon to two tablespoons of C8 MCT oil, until it froths like a latte. Dave Asprey built the recipe after drinking yak butter tea in Tibet, then sold the branded beans and oil through Bulletproof. People drink it instead of breakfast. They report steady energy and no hunger until lunch, which the fat and caffeine explain between them. It runs to several hundred calories, so people argue about the fasting framing. The mold-toxin case for the specific beans is his rather than mainstream.
People on record
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Does it: documented as part of their own routine. Recommends: explicitly advises other people to do it. Discusses: covered it substantively without clear personal adoption; this can include criticism or disagreement.
- Dave AspreyDoes it
Biohacker · Bulletproof Coffee
Coffee blended with grass-fed butter and Brain Octane in place of breakfast is the morning he built his whole approach around; he invented the recipe. Most days his own cup stays fat-only, and he says clients of his have gone from one cup until mid afternoon without wanting to eat.
Source: Dave Asprey blog: A Proven Path to a High-Energy Morning
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