What’s the Deal with… Butter in Coffee

[R.B. Kazenzakis]

In fact it's a bit like trying to have a sensible discussion about harm reduction using snus with an anti-tobacco zealot.

That's a low blow, squeezyjohn.

[Andy105]

Any company that sells products wants your money and if you like the products you can exchange your money for them. It is called a business transaction and is done everyday on the internet and at brick and mortar stores..

12 oz bag of Starbucks beans $8.00
12 oz bag of Bulletproof beans $20.00

[piks101]

[QUOTE=Andy105;401803]Ok, ok. To each his own. But I do have a pizza recipe available that's guaranteed to make you live ten years longer, or your money back. It's not free though.[/QUOTE

Good luck with that one.

[piks101]

His website, Bulletproofexec dot com sure looks like he wants your money. Special beans, oils, K-cups, blenders, even sells a special sleeping mat for only $49.95. I doubt if any of it will hurt you, but he's not doing any of this just to help people.

Any company that sells products wants your money and if you like the products you can exchange your money for them. It is called a business transaction and is done everyday on the internet and at brick and mortar stores..

[Andy105]

Ok, ok. To each his own. But I do have a pizza recipe available that's guaranteed to make you live ten years longer, or your money back. It's not free though.

[piks101]

I agree... I want to see a simple meal plan w/o all his hype.

Geez, this guy sells about 10 or so different specialty items, he is not my guru and I don't follow his diet plan. I like his coffee recipe and I substitute red palm oil for butter since I have dairy allergies, If you want to checkout the diet I follow go to one of these sites... www.perfecthealthdiet.com www.marksdailyapple.com, or www.chriskresser.com

[piks101]

This! What happened to eating a balanced diet and exercising? Do you stay on this "diet" for the rest of your life? I eat, I drink, I enjoy life, I will go when I go, I will eat bacon whenever the hell I want to, I will eat whatever the f,uck I want to eat whenever I want to eat it. I had lobster for lunch today, why? I wanted to! Peace!

Boy, a few of you are getting overly worked up about replacing creamer in your coffee with butter and mct oil. I don't live off a cup of buttered coffee. I eat beef, pork, fish and fowl, as well as fruits, vegetables and limited grains. I eat and love bacon. Who said bacon was off the menu? Same with Lobster? I eat both whenever I want. I drink alcohol as well typically a drink or two everyday and more on weekends. I don't eat or eat very little of vegetable or seed oils, gluten, and beans. It is not a diet it is a lifestyle and very easy and satisfying. If you don't like it or don't have have any interest fine..bk the fk off pls.

[wa3zrm]

His website, Bulletproofexec dot com sure looks like he wants your money. Special beans, oils, K-cups, blenders, even sells a special sleeping mat for only $49.95. I doubt if any of it will hurt you, but he's not doing any of this just to help people.

I agree... I want to see a simple meal plan w/o all his hype.

[Andy105]

His website, Bulletproofexec dot com sure looks like he wants your money. Special beans, oils, K-cups, blenders, even sells a special sleeping mat for only $49.95. I doubt if any of it will hurt you, but he's not doing any of this just to help people.

[wa3zrm]

I am more concerned about the source of carbs then the carbs. Approx 100mg carbs, as calories approx 600, primarily from starches (potatoes, white rice); around 300 protein calories; and fats supply a majority (50-60%) of daily calories.

Could you please point me to a meal plan?

[piks101]

The guy who started it was a Silicon Valley investment guy named Dave Asprey. He's got the Bulletproof coffee stuff trademarked, and sells a lot of magic coffee beans and special oils, so he got rich.

Again, the idea is based on 14th century practice. He is not rich off of his Bulletproof wares. He shared this information long before he started selling products. His day job internet security software supports his this venture. He is not or did not get rich of his Bulletproof business.

Squeezy, I thought you said not to make your point but not to personally criticize? Your post above say's otherwise... "Anyone who tells you otherwise is either stupid and gullible, or delusional with an eating disorder.

Also, I did not know you were so fat as you stated above. I think that is good info to know, so that people can consider the source when it comes to health and nutrition and your opinions regarding the matter.

[squeezyjohn]

lol Andy ... I can see how it's had to let it go if you've been taken in by the latest version of snake oil.

But I would suggest that anyone who's been taken in by it takes a step back, re-evaluates, and gets out ...

[Andy105]

The guy who started it was a Silicon Valley investment guy named Dave Asprey. He's got the Bulletproof coffee stuff trademarked, and sells a lot of magic coffee beans and special oils, so he got rich.

[squeezyjohn]

I mean - are there detailed studies of these people in Tibet who ate yak butter with tea for breakfast showing the amazing fat-burning qualities of undergoing ketosis were for their overall health and wellbeing for the entirety of their lives (probably up to the age of 40 if they were lucky!)?

Or could it be that they were healthy and needed almost unlimited fat and calories due to living in a world where there was absolutely no mechanisation and they worked long physically gruelling days just to stay alive - a level of physical work and exercise that would make most of our western sedentary asses cry with the exhaustion?

It's a fad - just like all the other things which aren't simply eating the right amount of the right things to balance out with your energy requirements based on your activity during the day. Simple equation really - eat the same amount of calories as you use up while ingesting the right things to make your body function.

And if it's as easy as that, why am I such a fat bastard you ask? Well - you have to make the most of the life that you live - and we have as long as we have on this Earth ... and then we die and that's the end of it ... so I will have another bacon sandwich and put my feet up in front of the fire please!

[Skell18]

Piks - I will not enter in to a debate with people who list undocumented pseudo-facts and will try and back up their opinion with anything other than scientifically proven realities - there is no point because people more interested in their own opinion than facts are impossible to have a discussion with.

This! What happened to eating a balanced diet and exercising? Do you stay on this "diet" for the rest of your life? I eat, I drink, I enjoy life, I will go when I go, I will eat bacon whenever the hell I want to, I will eat whatever the f,uck I want to eat whenever I want to eat it. I had lobster for lunch today, why? I wanted to! Peace!