Tag: Performance

For years, the strength training and fitness communities have spoken openly about the benefits of creatine for gaining body mass and building muscle. Meanwhile, many people have used creatine in an effort to boost their athletic performance. Yet despite being one of the most commonly used nutritional supplements, there are...

Your gut bacteria affect your entire body, including your sleep quality, mood, and appetite. If all is going well, these organisms live in perfect harmony with you, their host. However, your gut microbiome is influenced by everything from your diet to your stress levels. If things go south, you can...

Download the Bulletproof Sleep Bundle now (includes Bulletproof Sleep Roadmap, sleep log and your printable sleep checklist) via the sign-up form below! Raise your hand if any of these scenarios sounds familiar: You struggle to fall asleep, and once you do, you wake up multiple times a night. Or perhaps...

Want to upgrade your workout performance? A study published in the Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition finds that women who took a mineral and nutrient supplement for a month improved their three-mile run time by nearly one minute. The supplement included iron, copper, zinc, carnitine (an amino acid derivative)...

Vegetables have fewer nutrients than ever and that could be because of increases in atmospheric CO2, according to an article by Politico. Along with the depletion of essential nutrients, crops’ sugar levels are rising, making our veggies the least nutrient-dense in history. Here’s how climate change could be affecting our...

Have you ever tried a low-calorie or sugar-free diet, only to be foiled by sugar cravings? See if this sounds familiar. You swear to stop eating all sugar (or chips, or fast food, or whatever). You stick to it for a few days, or maybe even a few weeks. But...

Your mitochondria power every cell in your body. They turn the fats and sugars you eat into cellular energy that keeps your body running. If you make your mitochondria stronger, your whole body benefits from the increased energy. More efficient mitochondria make you live longer, too. On the other hand,...

Low-carb, high-fat diets have a number of known benefits for your body and mind. They keep you lean, support your hormones and brain, regulate your blood sugar, stop food cravings, keep you full for hours, and give you license to put bacon on everything. For the vast majority, a low-carb,...

Support your sleep, your energy, your digestion, your mood and your brain function with these five easy biohacks. 1. Sleep and see better with F.lux F.lux is a free plugin for your computer, iPad and iPhone that removes melatonin-suppressing blue light from your screen. You need melatonin for deep sleep,...

Egg rolls taste delicious. But the crispy outside layer of the average egg roll, wheat flour cooked in peanut or canola oil, can rob you of your energy and leave you craving more kryptonite foods. Not very Bulletproof. Luckily, we have cool friends. Nick Kowalski of Nicksfit.com formulated and tested this amazing...

Bulletproof Coffee has already changed hundreds of thousands of people’s lives. You owe it to yourself to see how good you’ll look and feel after drinking it for a couple weeks. It’s powerful stuff. It also goes against almost every mainstream dietary recommendation out there. Dosing your coffee with butter and...

I wrote this article with the help of a Bulletproof team member who’s a recent college graduate. He started Bulletproof his first year of college and got his degree a few months ago. He picked up some pretty useful habits along the way, and not just ones for college students. These...

The Bulletproof Diet Roadmap (check it out for free here) provides a simple spectrum: The “Bulletproof foods” in green are most likely to help you thrive, the “Kryptonite foods” in red are have more toxins than nutrients and are likely to make you weak and sick, and the “Suspect foods”...

When you look at biochemistry, it really is amazing that people still think of wheat as a food. Besides lectins, phytic acid, digestive inhibitors, and various other antinutrients, wheat is mostly contaminated with mold toxins.  The toxins form while the wheat is being transported or stored, but new evidence is...

  Statins are one of the most used drugs in the history of human existence.  In 2008, $12.4 billion dollars worth of Lipitor was sold. In 2000, almost half of all patients with dyslipidemia (bad blood results) were taking a statin (this is despite a lack of clinical trials showing they...

When it comes to being Bulletproof, eating is only a small part of what you can do to perform better. You won’t find many Paleo bloggers who follow neuroscientists, but I consider neuroscience and psychology to be as important for personal performance as food. If you eat crap, you won’t...