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With all that in mind, yes, any coffee, including Bulletproof coffee, breaks a fast.
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Read More »I’ve been wondering lately about how Bulletproof coffee (inspired, of course, by Dave Asprey) in the morning affects intermittent fasting and my general routine of not eating other food until after 2. Now, I’m not super strict about going until 2 pm without eating, or doing a 16/8 or 18/6 or Warrior diet or any of the variations of intermittent fasting. Those happen a few times a week for me, but not out of any specific intent. I used to be far stricter when I was training for long distance running, so I'm familiar with and have used all those. Still, I’m curious about fat and fasting, especially for how it works with a more normal routine. I'll start with a disclaimer: I use "Bulletproof" and "butter" coffee interchangeably. I mean the same thing: Coffee with fat in it. This also gets called keto coffee, although my version has more protein than a true keto follower would like. In any event, it doesn't matter if you're using butter, MCT Oil, Dave's proprietary blend, our cacao butter cups or just coconut oil; for the purposes of this discussion, butter & bulletproof are the same.
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Read More »That’s an N of 1, but I’ve heard about that same "smoothing" effect anecdotally from a bunch of other folks. The bottom line is that it works for me. Black coffee + me is a disaster unless I immediately go for a hard workout. Weight loss is more complicated than counting calories, but drinking butter coffee in the morning seems to depress that hungry feeling for a long time; until noon for some, later for others. If you're not hungry, you're not eating, and if you're not eating it gets a lot harder to take in calories. In the second instance of restricting calories to shorter feeding window, my feeling is that butter coffee helps with this. Once I drink it I’m not truly hungry until late in the day. Sure, I’ll get all emotional and eat based on being a rudderless sucker when it comes to available food and something to do, but I’m not actually hungry until well past 5 pm. If I'm eating just one meal a day, I've found it's hard to actually eat enough food to sustain serious physical effort; my stomach just isn't big enough to comfortably take in that many calories at one sitting. It's going slightly off topic, but the short version of how I use intermittent fasting with physical exercise is this:
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Read More »Most people don’t follow their blueprint, which leads to all kinds of problems, many of which can be addressed by coming back to the “2 million years of evolutionary pressure” perspective. Again, the idea of what happens at a chemical, hormonal, muscular, and gut level has been exhaustively covered through the internet. The basic thrust is that stopping eating for a while gives your gut and body time to rest, recharge, and prepare to digest the next round of food. This is probably the most likely candidate in the reasons not to drink butter coffee when intermittent fasting, as there’s no pretending that butter coffee doesn’t need digesting. In fact, the recipe for butter coffee that I use includes 3 different fats (butter, coconut oil, and cacao butter) 2 different powders (a mushroom blend and BUBS collagen) and an egg, and there’s no way all of that doesn’t need energy to digest or isn’t a disruption to some hormonal and physiological systems that would otherwise get to rest if I didn’t drink it. So, in the case of hormone balancing and general physiological disruption, butter coffee as part of an intermittent fasting routine probably isn’t the best thing for you. Still, I’ve been drinking it for a few years now, am ultra stoked with how I (in the immortal words of Robb Wolf) “Look, feel, and perform” and the few blood tests I’ve done come back showing me generally to exceptionally healthy (depending on the background of the doc reading the results.) Finally, let's talk about how breaking your intermittent fast with butter coffee might be a performance enhancement. This is where butter coffee seems to have the strongest case for being used in conjunction with a general pattern of intermittent fasting. If the goal of IF is performance, and performance is achieved by in general having a happy empty stomach and lots of useful energy, then butter coffee is (in my experience) a superb addition to the performance enhancement routine. With butter coffee I have very productive mornings, very little need for food until dinner, a great appetite at the end of the day, excellent sleep, and plenty of energy to get under the bar and drive out of the hole a few days a week. If you’ve been zoning out as you read this and daydreaming about paleo desserts or how to justify adding a Cacao Now to your evening routine like Lee, let’s sum up this whole thing: By the book, butter coffee breaks a fast. This would be the de jure side of the argument. However, the world we live isn’t one of strict rules, so the de facto side states that despite it breaking the rules of intermittent fasting, overall, adding butter coffee to your routine is probably a net benefit.
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