Bulletproof Coffee(blog.ryanio.com) |
Bulletproof Coffee(blog.ryanio.com) |
If this doesn't convince you I don't know what will: Can you really lose 100 pounds without using exercise, upgrade your IQ by more than 12 points, and stay healthy by sleeping less than 5 hours? It took more than 15 years and $300,000 to learn how to reach the Bulletproof® state of high performance. And it’s all here on the blog for you.
Notice he thinks he's got a registered trademark on the word Bulletproof.
Do we really need more crapily to none researched dietary fads on HN?
Seconded. Between all the overreactions and slavish devotion that's being thrown around, it's starting to look less like a community of probing, thoughful, inquisitive thinkers and tinkerers, and more like like a religion full of sects.
http://www.linkedin.com/in/asprey
That resume doesn't lie.
But as you can see my article, I don't recommend any of his products. I don't really believe in his whole mycotoxin kick.
But it doesn't mean you can't learn from other things he's saying!
High fat diets have been heavily researched and are generally regarded as safe and healthy. See here: http://www.marksdailyapple.com/high-fat-diet-healthy-safe/
http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4803:1g9...
As for the sources given in the article, not a single one is credible.
Don't get me wrong, I think most people need more good fat in their diet. But if you're on a "regular" diet, the fat needs to be a supplement, not a replacement.
That's either false or tautological. Mercury is bad for you in any quantity. If you say "the normal quantity for mercury is zero", then "nothing is bad for you in normal quantities" is a meaningless statement.
Yes, fat is good, particularly if you want to lose weight, and I mostly agree with the people who say we should get most of our main calories from it, not carbs.
But pouring butter and oil into your coffee is crazy talk. Encouraging over-caffeination is hardly healthy, and this fat is devoid of other nutrients and vitamins.
Just slather butter on your broccoli, have bacon with eggs cooked in butter, eat the fat on your steak, eat nuts and avocados and cheese, and you'll have all the calories you need. If you're eating fat without the accompanying necessary protein or vitamins and other nutrients, then as they say, "you're doing it wrong".
This would have been more interesting had you added nutrients and protein to your version of bp coffee.
Do you really feel better drinking it, or is it just a nice way to get quick, easy calories in the morning without any insulin spike from carbs?
But this seems like an extremely bait-y headline. There's no new content here - just a restating of Asprey's claims, plus the word "soylent".
Bulletproof is nothing like a soylent replacement, it's just like a crazy energy drink. Basically you just skip breakfast and have your coffee whisked with unsalted butter and MCT oil. My experience is that it accentuates the alertness feeling of drinking a lot of coffee but without the wiredness. However, it tastes like ass - coffee with theanine has very similar effects and tastes much nicer.
Also worth noting that Dave Asprey talks a lot of hype - like many non-scientists trying to interpret the literature he tends to find one or two papers that confirm what he was hoping for, and ignores the counterevidence. Talk to your doctor before you start having a stick of butter every morning.
- 8 oz Silk unsweetened original coconut milk
- 2 scoops (servings) of powdered Slimfast
- 1 Nature's Way Alive! Women's Multivitamin
- 8-10g (about 1 tbsp) of Potassium Gluconate*
Add protein at another meal and some omega-3 capsules and you're set. I hate to reduce my extensive research down to such a simple formula, but that's what I've done for a while now and it works great.
- 60g uncooked dry soybeans
- 60g uncooked brown rice
- 7g oil or butter
- Multivitamin
To make it, you soak the soy and rice in water for a few hours, and then boil them. Uncooked soy beans may be carcinogenic, so don't eat them raw. You can boil them into a mush, or for a shorter time, and it will change the consistency and flavor of the final product. The less time, the more planty it will be.
Next, drain the soybeans and rice (unless you boiled them into mush) and blend them together with the oil/butter, water (for however thick you want it) and salt (to taste). You can also add sweetener and vanilla extract or whatever flavoring you want.
Take the multivitamin (only once a day, obviously).
The above is in a single serving. I typically will do the boiling in advance and then blend on a per-serving basis.
Soylent and the powdered approach is a bit silly because it's not very hard to get 99% complete nutrition from certain zero-prep foods readily available at truck stops. Bananas and cheese is maybe another one.
Go ahead and punch OJ and milk in a nutrition calculator like cronometer.com.
While fruit and fish oil are good for you, that amount of cream (4 tbsp all up) probably isn't the best. Cream/Butter is fine in moderation, but I don't think this much on a daily basis.
And he's clearly got something to sell with this whole Bulletproof thing.
I'd truly be interested in Asprey's business insights (particularly startups), but IMHO we've had more than enough unscientific dietary claims on HN to last us for a while.
That kind of thinking is how we got the government sanctioned food pyramid. I'd rather think for myself, thanks.