Tag: Healthy Fat

Fats are essential to your diet, but not all fats are the same. Understanding healthy and unhealthy dietary fats can help you make better food choices. The Bulletproof lifestyle emphasizes the importance of healthy fats for energy and brain function. Learn about saturated vs unsaturated fats and how to include...

With an abundance of fiber, monounsaturated fats, and vitamins, avocados are the crown jewel of ketogenic diets. When they go on sale, there’s no shame in piling as many as you can into your grocery cart. However, avocados can be troublemakers. Since their window of ripeness is so small, slicing...

If you’ve been drinking Bulletproof Coffee made with MCT oil, you’ve already felt the powerful effects these brain-boosting fats have on your energy and cognitive function. MCT oil, especially C8 MCT oil, in your coffee and on your food can raise fat-burning, brain-fueling molecules in your body called ketones much...

Historically, saturated fat has gotten a bad rap. In the 1960s, a campaign from the sugar industry paid scientists to blame saturated fat—not sugar—as a significant cause of heart disease, which spooked people. But here’s the skinny on fat: It’s necessary for the body to function correctly. It’s one of...

A study in the journal Scientific Reports links canola oil consumption to memory deterioration, degenerative learning ability, and weight gain in mice – symptoms modeling Alzheimer’s Disease (AD). The study is the first of its kind to reveal that canola oil is indeed more harmful than beneficial for brain health. Earlier in...

Have you tried Japanese wagyu beef? It is a type of beef designed to melt in your mouth because the muscle is completely striated with fat. Wagyu beef is so decadently fatty that you can cut it with a fork. Taste-wise, it almost has more in common with foie gras...

Do you know what’s in your oil bottle? Not all oil products are created equal. When you buy something that says “MCT” on it, it’s not always just from coconuts. Palm oil is often in there too, which nutritionally isn’t a huge deal… except that the palm oil industry has...

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...

You may have heard about a study condemning a Paleo-style, high-fat, low-carb (HFLC) diet. Reports like of the diet have the same takeaway message: HFLC diets don’t actually work. A study has shown that they cause obesity and other health problems. The consensus seems to be that celebrities and charlatans...

When you use the Bulletproof Diet Roadmap (hopefully printed for free here and on your fridge!), you can see that grass-fed beef knocks grain-fed beef out of the park. Organic grass-fed beef has a prime nutritional profile, and it’s free of pesticides, GMOs, synthetic growth hormones, toxins from moldy feed, carbon monoxide, and all the...

The type of fat you eat is key to your performance — that’s why the Bulletproof Diet suggests eating 50-70% of your calories from fat every day. With that in mind, here’s a quick primer on different types of fat, with a particular focus on Omega 3s, Omega 6s, and...

Just about any coffee can stop dry eyes in two ways: 1.  Bad coffee tastes bad and has toxins in it, which makes you sad, which makes you cry. Problem solved! 2.  The caffeine in coffee acts on certain chemical receptors in your brain, which facilitates the release of tears....

  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...

Not all Bulletproof readers have kids – but those who do frequently ask, “What the heck should I feed my kids?” It’s hard to get kids to eat healthy food when they’re used to chocolate frosted sugar bombs for breakfast. Fortunately, it’s much easier to get kids to eat a...

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...