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Dietary Fats: Types, Benefits, and Their Importance in Your Diet

Bulletproof Staff — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 14:28:01 +0000

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 more good fats in your […]

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Is Saturated Fat Bad for You? Here’s What You Need to Know

Spencer Brooks — Wed, 15 Aug 2018 10:02:36 +0000

Since the 1960s, saturated fat has had a reputation for causing heart disease and obesity. It turns out, that’s not true. Saturated fat’s reputation is thanks to incomplete research and premature conclusions from government policymakers. There was even a bit of corporate deception from the sugar industry to make saturated fat look bad instead of […]

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Is Fat Good for You? Everything You Need to Know About Dietary Fats

Alison Moodie — Tue, 24 Jul 2018 10:00:28 +0000

For years, most people believed that eating fat would make them fat and damage their heart. But this was faulty thinking, brought about in part by a campaign from the sugar industry back in the 1960s, which paid scientists to blame saturated fat, and not sugar, as a major cause of heart disease. People ended […]

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Which Beef is Best: Wagyu, Aged, or Grass-Fed?

Dave Asprey — Thu, 09 Mar 2017 16:34:14 +0000

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 than with a steak. Sounds […]

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4 Healthy Fats for High Heat Cooking

Bulletproof Staff — Mon, 14 Sep 2015 16:00:13 +0000

If you want to make a meal more satisfying, a surefire way is to add fat. Bulletproof fats are nutrient-dense, great for you, and – perhaps most importantly – tasty. That said, not all Bulletproof fats are suitable for all types of cooking. For example, Brain Octane and MCT Oil are excellent for baking below 320° F and […]

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The Bulletproof Guide to Omega 3 Vs. Omega 6 Fats

Bulletproof Staff — Thu, 16 Jul 2015 16:00:14 +0000

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 how you can balance the […]

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Greg’s Butter Experiment: Did Butter Replace Statins For Him?

Dave Asprey — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 16:00:19 +0000

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 help). If you’ve been reading […]

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It’s NOT The Calories – Quality is What Counts

Dave Asprey — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 23:12:41 +0000

When it comes to nutrition and mainstream magazines with lots of ads from junk food companies, journalists sometimes seem to be oblivious to the research they write about. Take Time Magazine in particular. In 1985 they tried to convince you cholesterol and saturated fat caused heart disease, now in the latest edition they’re trying to […]

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