2. It provides healthy fats for your brain and body to create cell walls (membranes) and hormones. The short-chain fatty acid Butyrate, once thought to be bad for you, has been linked to preventing neurodegenerative diseases, increased energy expenditure, and is also anti-inflammatory, further preventing heart disease.
3. Drinking it each morning puts your body in the routine to burn fat all day, helping you trim down overall. CLA (conjugated linoleic acid), found in grass-fed butter, has been shown to reduce body fat mass especially in overweight individuals.
4. “Bulletproof” coffee will give you energy as well as increase cognitive function that you can literally feel when it kicks in for about six hours- and without the crash. Mixed with more healthy fats from coconut oil, this amped up drink will help produce ketones, which are created when your body creates energy from fat rather than carbohydrates.
5. Two tablespoons of butter in your coffee is all you need to replace a breakfast meal altogether, making this a quick alternative for people on the go. Providing your body with essential fats and calories is a higher performance blend than a carbohydrate source like oatmeal.
If you don’t know what this is, then it is a recipe for a coffee drink that replaces breakfast:
2 cups of coffee.
2 tablespoons (at least) of grass-fed, unsalted butter.
1-2 tablespoons of MCT oil.
All mixed in a blender.
But I digress… here are 3 reasons why I think bulletproof coffee is a bad idea.
1. You Are Displacing a Highly Nutritious Meal With Something That is Low in Essential Nutrients
Bulletproof coffee supplies 441 calories with 0 grams of carbs and and 51 grams of fat (80% of which are saturated).
2. Saturated Fat is Good… But Humans Did NOT Evolve Eating Such Massive Amounts
3. There Have Been Some Case Reports of Dramatically Elevated Cholesterol Due to Bulletproof Coffee
This is promoted by Dave Asprey, the man behind the website Bulletproof Executive