Bulletproof Coffee

The man who &quot;invented&quot; this can be found here: <a href="http://www.bulletproofexec.com/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bulletproofexec.com&#x2F;</a><p>If this doesn&#x27;t convince you I don&#x27;t know what will: <i>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.</i><p>Notice he thinks he&#x27;s got a registered trademark on the word Bulletproof.<p>Do we really need more crapily to none researched dietary fads on HN?

Bulletproof coffee is a great breakfast (and snack) for anybody on a high fat diet like keto or Atkins. This is because while on these diets, your body has put itself in a state where it can more easily convert fat to energy. However, people on a regular high carb diet will not be able to make the most of all that fat and will just be hungry and tired after an hour.<p>Don&#x27;t get me wrong, I think most people need more good fat in their diet. But if you&#x27;re on a &quot;regular&quot; diet, the fat needs to be a supplement, not a replacement.

Call me old school, but I love my mediterranean (italian) diet: a balance mix of all the nutrients in normal portions. I think nothing is really bad for you in right in normal quantities. Try to eat a 6oz steak with a nice salad (EVOO, salt, lemon juice for dressing) instead of a 16oz steak with a bunch of sauces. Afraid of carbs? Try eating 60g of pasta next time instead of a salad bowl of it.

I don&#x27;t really understand how this is an &#x27;alternative&#x27; to soylent.

Umm... well, glad to see the mods changed the title from the ridiculous &quot;The Soylent Alternative&quot; on the blog.<p>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.<p>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.<p>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&#x27;ll have all the calories you need. If you&#x27;re eating fat without the accompanying necessary protein or vitamins and other nutrients, then as they say, &quot;you&#x27;re doing it wrong&quot;.

Kiiiinda misleading title. I too am a fan of bulletproof coffee, but don&#x27;t see it as an alternative to soy lent which is a food replacement.<p>This would have been more interesting had you added nutrients and protein to your version of bp coffee.

In what sense is Bulletproof Coffee remotely an alternative to soylent? I&#x27;m not even going to touch the major problems with Dave Asprey&#x27;s claims, especially regarding mycotoxins.<p>But this seems like an extremely bait-y headline. There&#x27;s no new content here - just a restating of Asprey&#x27;s claims, plus the word &quot;soylent&quot;.

I&#x27;ve been on DIY soylent on and off since last June, and had a few weeks of bulletproof while I was doing high-protein low-carb soylent.<p>Bulletproof is nothing like a soylent replacement, it&#x27;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.<p>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.

Completely misleading title. This is at best a &quot;breakfast hack&quot; of sorts. It definitely is a cool concept and introduces interesting ideas, but it surely is not a food replacement or alternative to soylent.

Or, you can make an actual simple Soylent alternative and do what I do:<p>- 8 oz Silk unsweetened original coconut milk<p>- 2 scoops (servings) of powdered Slimfast<p>- 1 Nature&#x27;s Way Alive! Women&#x27;s Multivitamin<p>- 8-10g (about 1 tbsp) of Potassium Gluconate*<p>Add protein at another meal and some omega-3 capsules and you&#x27;re set. I hate to reduce my extensive research down to such a simple formula, but that&#x27;s what I&#x27;ve done for a while now and it works great.

Where&#x27;s the protein? Sure you might loose some weight, but will it actually be fat your loosing or muscle tissue?<p>While fruit and fish oil are good for you, that amount of cream (4 tbsp all up) probably isn&#x27;t the best. Cream&#x2F;Butter is fine in moderation, but I don&#x27;t think this much on a daily basis.