# Anyone here into Bulletproof Coffee? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** coffee\ **Created:** [January 2, 2017, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-here-into-bulletproof-coffee/776118 "2017-01-02T01:35:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![raventhief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raventhief/32/4_2.png) [@raventhief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raventhief)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2017, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-here-into-bulletproof-coffee/776118/21 "2017-01-08T17:23:35Z")
I have had it and it does taste like a latte. The person who gave it to me used a bit of vanilla, i think. ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2017, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-here-into-bulletproof-coffee/776118/22 "2017-01-08T17:48:45Z")
Have never tried it, but I figure one fatty/dairy product thrown into your coffee is as good as another in terms of immediate impact. I find the name to be kind of silly, but that’s branding for you. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2017, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-here-into-bulletproof-coffee/776118/24 "2017-01-08T18:07:14Z")
For my ownself, I don’t care about Dave’s claims, bold or otherwise. I care that this morning my fasting blood sugar was 113-- YES!! And that drinking this coffee sustains me until noon (since I’m also doing the 18-hour fast) without adding any carbs. Frankly, I don’t see why it matters what someone “claims” about a thing. Try it for yourself. If you like the results, fine. If not, move on. Like they say in AA, “Take what you like and leave the rest.” \ ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2017, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-here-into-bulletproof-coffee/776118/26 "2017-01-08T23:22:41Z")
> [@marco305](#): > > I#m the kind of guy trying to live low fat, drinking 4 cups of coffee a day would add almost 100gr of pure fat to my diet. I’d need to ride bike like a berserk. > > [source](http://www.fatsecret.com/calories-nutrition/usda/butter?portionid=29479) [The percentage of calories from fat does not correlate to health threats.](https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/what-should-you-eat/fats-and-cholesterol/). What is more important is they type of fats which are consumed, which should be a goodly amount of monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats with a reasonable amount of saturated fats. (Natural saturated fats tend to carry a larger portion of fat-soluble vitamins.) Trans-unsaturated fats–primarily produced by hydrogenation for use in processed foods to obtain a long shelf life–should be avoided as much as possible, e.g. minimize “food from a bag”. The notion behind “bulletproof coffee” isn’t that you add it to your diet, but use it to replace calories from other sources, and particularly “white” carbohydrate-rich sources like bread, cereal, breakfast “nutrition bars”, et cetera, which are currently strongly implicated in long term health issues like atheromatous cholesteral buildup (“arterial plaque”), gallstones, and acquired Type 2 diabetes. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2017, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-here-into-bulletproof-coffee/776118/28 "2017-01-10T01:46:18Z")
Again, the point is to replace some of the calories in your current diet with the fats in that are added into “Bulletproof Coffee”, not just add them directly to your current diet without modification. The notion that a low fat diet is inherently superior from a health standpoint has not been demonstrated by the evidence, and in fact most foods branded as “low fat” alternatives have replaced fats with simple carbohydrates to give lower caloric density without consideration for the impact of “white carbs” on the metabolism. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2017, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-here-into-bulletproof-coffee/776118/29 "2017-01-10T04:11:05Z")
Apparently, there’s coffee with butter and MCT (medium-chain triglycerides) added and then there’s Bulletproof Coffee, a specific product sold by a specific company owned by Dave Asprey, who has some very specific things to say about the health benefits of their _very_ specific coffee beans. [Needless to say, he, specifically, is full of shit](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulletproof_Coffee): > [@](#): > > Asprey claims that most coffee beans contain high levels of mycotoxins and that this “steals your mental edge and actually makes you weak.” He sells a brand of “upgraded” beans which are advertised as having undergone a secret, proprietary process to reduce mycotoxin levels.[20][21] However, Physician David Bach has observed that coffee producers are already good at removing mycotoxins from their product, and that there is no evidence to support Asprey’s claim that mycotoxins make people “sluggish”.[22] Adding fat to hot, caffeinated drinks is nothing new. Even if you discount creamer (and you should, because who pays full retail?) you have the specific drink Bulletproof Coffee was made out of, tea with rancid yak butter in, made specifically in the Himalayas for Tibetans who burn more calories not becoming people-sicles than you, specifically, burn all week. Transpose that across an ocean (the Pacific, to be specific), and you get Americans adding Irish butter and tropical coconut oil to Brazilian coffee. So it goes. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-here-into-bulletproof-coffee/776118.md?page=1)