Asprey - The bulletproof diet - lose up to a pound a day, reclaim energy and focus, upgrade your life

To my kids, Anna and Alan.
May you grow up in a world full of happy people who eat real food
that makes them thrive. Then hack it even more.

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CONTENTS

FOREWORD

D ave Asprey might be the most inspirational biohacker I know. He hacked his own body to achieve a new kind of physical and mental clarity, and his story empowers others to take control over their health. He did this through herculean trial-and-error to develop a system that helped him lose over 100 pounds. Today hes got not only a six-pack, but also amazing mental acuity and physical vigor.

Using your body as a chemistry lab to connect what youre eating and how you feelin other words, becoming a biohackermight be the most powerful thing you can do for fat loss and optimal health. Ive long argued your body is a chemistry lab, not a bank account. The calories-in-calories-out weight loss model has devolved into a nutrition dinosaur because while calories matter, hormones count more. Food is information, not a math equation.

Take gluten. Youve probably read about its potential problems and how a well-designed gluten-free diet can become beneficial. Yet a complete incentive to change can only occur when you directly connect those effects with how they adversely impact your life. Rather than scold yourself for eating something bad, feeling your fingers swell and seeing your skin break out provide an entirely new understanding about how gluten impacts your body. Daves goal was to figure out how and why these things were happening to him, and to fix them for good.

My gateway to Daves world, probably like yours, involved a special kind of toxin-free upgraded coffee. Coffee gets me excited. Ive long considered it a health food, and if I could classify it as a food group it would quickly become my favorite. Yet something about conventional coffee always left me feeling jittery. I would become buzzed out and then crash hard.

Then I heard Dave talk about how mycotoxins, or mold toxins, became the Kryptonite that created this crash. Also a stalwart coffee lover, Dave created a special blend of beans that eliminated those nasty contaminants. All that sounded well and good, but I became especially intrigued when I heard he added grass-fed butter to his coffee. Surely Im not the only one who initially remarked, Butter in coffee: Really?

From my understanding, Dave got this idea from a Himalayan hike, where he enjoyed tea blended and yak butter. He played around with a coffee variation until he created what we now call Bulletproof Coffee, which gives you this beloved beverages boost without a subsequent crash.

Dave actually made me my first cup. The hot, creamy, decadent drink tasted fabulous and curbed my hunger for hours. You mean I could drink this stuff every morning and burn fat? Plus, these seemingly magical beans gave me improved mental clarity and a newfound energy with none of conventional coffees adverse effects.

Today I serve Bulletproof Coffee at all my events, and make sure I have enough during conferences and anywhere I need to be alert and focused for hours. Ive even had colleagues remark, How did we function before Bulletproof Coffee?

Bulletproof Coffee is amazing, but Dave has even more biohacks up his sleeve. Dave also designed an intelligent, cutting-edge plan based on his own transformation that optimizes hormones, improves mental clarity, and makes you an all-day fat burner. For busy professionals, this plan became a no-brainer: Simply enjoy satiating Bulletproof Coffee for breakfast and then two satisfying, nutrient-dense meals. Couldnt be easier.

With The Bulletproof Diet, you too can utilize that peak-performance plan to become lean, healthy, and mentally focused. This groundbreaking book provides a simple-to-follow roadmap that addresses food intolerances and other potential difficulties, creates hormonal balance, and leaves you performing like a rock star.

Food forms the forefront of the Bulletproof plan. The Bulletproof Roadmap, as Dave calls it, provides a dietary guide that tastes good, edges out the bad stuff, destroys cravings, and helps you feel better so you kick more ass. That Roadmap removes any guesswork out of what foods to enjoy, limit, and eliminate. Many might surprise you, especially if you thought fruit was healthy or particular oils can become artery clogging.

Speaking of misconceptions, The Bulletproof Diet dispels plenty of conventional, outdated, or just downright incorrect nutrition myths that hold your health hostage. In Daves book youll learn how dietary fat can help you become lean, that you dont need to count calories to burn fat, how fruit can stall fat loss, and why you shouldnt graze throughout the day.

Totally contrary to what youve long heard, right? Some of Daves advice might even initially seem a little crazy. Dave also makes a pretty bold claim youll benefit from right away on the plan: Lose a Pound a Day Without Being Hungry during your first two weeks. Who doesnt want that?

To get those results, you neednt starve yourself or spend hours in the gym. (Youll actually learn in this book why those things could work against you.) Instead, youll lower inflammation, boost your sex drive, turn back the clock, and ditch that stubborn weight with the power of your fork and the right coffee.

Altogether, The Bulletproof Diet weaves together a battle-tested plan that gets results, even if (especially if) past eating plans failed you. The Bulletproof Diet provides a solid, well-designed, easy-to-follow plan to efficiently, effortlessly burn fat, perform like a rock star, and reach a new level of amazing. Who knew a simple cup of coffee could become the foundation for all that?

JJ Virgin, New York Times bestselling author of The Virgin Diet, The Virgin Diet Cookbook, and The Sugar Impact Diet

INTRODUCTION

N early 2 decades ago, I was a young, brand-new multimillionaire entrepreneur in Silicon Valley. Life should have been awesome, but there was one problemI was obese, weighing in at almost 300 pounds. For 18 months straight, I had tried restricting my eating to 1,500 to 1,800 calories a day and working out for 90 minutes, six times a week. I poured my initiative and willpower into losing weight, and while I did get stronger, the extra fat wouldnt go away. By the time I was 30, I was diagnosed with the rapid onset of second-phase thrombin-induced platelet aggregation. Basically, my blood was thick, like sludge, and my physician was concerned that I would die of a stroke or heart attacknot at some indeterminate time in the future, but soon.