Tag: Mct Oil

The verdict is in: keto ice cream — loaded with healthy fats and low in carbs — reigns supreme. This roundup of the best keto ice cream recipes features some that you can make in your blender or food processor, so no ice cream maker is required. Others make use...

When you first switch to a keto diet, it takes a few days for your body to get used to burning fat for fuel instead of sugar. You go through a period of feeling anywhere from a little sluggish to full-on keto flu until your body shifts to burning fat...

Recipe courtesy Courtney Swan Purple sweet potato sushi is colorful and functional. What first began as an effort to replace the traditional white rice with a more blood-sugar-stable and vitamin-rich carbohydrate turned out to be almost too pretty to eat. It also makes this sushi roll recipe completely Paleo-friendly. Steaming...

Bring on the beef with this perfect-for-winter pot roast recipe. With 26 grams of protein per serving, grass-fed beef is one of the best sources of protein on the Bulletproof Diet. To make sure you’re getting 100% grass-fed meat, request grass-fed and grass-finished when you purchase. Animals are often grain-fed...

It’s fall–get ready for gourds! Winter squash – summer squash’s more colorful cousins – are packed with phytonutrients and antioxidants, which are great for your mitochondrial and overall health. They’re also filled with fiber and low in carbs, making them an excellent alternative to high-starch vegetables like potatoes or yucca....

The Bulletproof Diet is all about healthy fats, high-quality protein from animals, wild fish, and pastured eggs, and plenty of polyphenol-rich vegetables. But meat at every meal isn’t mandatory. In fact, Bulletproof Protein Fasting is a tenant of the Bulletproof Diet that can help reduce inflammation and kick start fat loss....

Chocolate is one of those heftily debated topics in the health world. Good or bad? Will it make you fat or provide you with essential nutrients? Sure, most chocolate candies, truffles, cakes, etc. cause inflammation and sugar spikes, but it’s not the chocolate that’s at fault. It’s the sugar, the...

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...

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...

Oil pulling was introduced to the Western world twenty years ago; today, it’s a growing trend with many oil pullers boasting fantastic oral and total health results. There are thousands of patient testimonials, but where does the science land? There isn’t a ton of science on this yet, but here’s...

Enjoying yourself around the holidays means eating (and sharing!) delicious food. If you follow a keto or gluten-free diet, you might wonder what’s on the menu this Thanksgiving. Good news: It’s easy to enjoy flavorful, satisfying meals that fit your health goals. Here are a few delectable dishes to whip...

Wondering how to get more fat into your salad? Brain Octane MCT oil, of course! You might already know that Brain Octane is a brain-powering, fat-burning part of Bulletproof Coffee, but it’s also excellent in MCT oil salad dressing. Here’s why. MCT oil brings out the fat-soluble flavors in foods. It’s flavorless, so...

  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...