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              Will I lose weight by drinking it? That          sis can take weeks, and is difficult to maintain. If
              sounds easy! Give me a Bulletproof               consuming MCT oil can quickly induce a state of nu-
              coffee please!                                   tritional ketosis, it could be a pretty neat hack to get
                                                               your body to consume its own fat stores for energy.
               Short Answer: No.                                   Don’t get too excited though. As we said before,
                   Long   Answer:  Bulletproof coffee is like a really   most  bulletproof-prone  humans  have constant and
              fatty latte. And when I say fatty, I’m talking somewhere   generous eating patterns. Ketosis doesn’t happen if
              close to your entire recommended daily intake of fat   your liver has enough glycogen (sugar) to manipulate
              (~60g per serving). This isn’t necessarily a bad thing.   your blood glucose levels (no matter how much MCT-
              Many popular studies have recently salvaged fat’s   loaded Bulletproof liquids you guzzle). Epileptic pa-
              reputation as diet devil, showing that fats can be part   tients are sometimes rushed into ketosis to avoid
              of balanced diets. But, 440 calories is 440 calories. If   seizures by  drinking almost  nothing but MCT.  So it
              you eat it, your body will burn it or store it somehow.  definitely works, but 30g of the stuff will only take
                  Most humans that would potentially drink a bul-  you so far.
              letproof coffee spend a lot of the day in an anabolic   Being the geek Matt is, he wanted some data on
              state.  That  is,  they’re  well  fed,  and  blood  glucose  is   this. So he bought a blood ketone meter and designed
              relatively high from eating. This means their body is   a quick n=1 experiment.
              content to store any excess calories as glycogen in the   He ate a dinner with a standard macro breakdown
              muscles and liver, or fat in adipose tissue. If you con-  at 7pm (40% Carbohydrate, 30% protein, 30% fat),
              sume fat in an anabolic state, it’s more than likely to   fasted overnight and fed himself a bulletproof coffee
              be stored as fat, because that’s easiest for the body. But   at 9:30am. He then  stabbed himself and measured
              Bulletproof coffee has a trick up its sleeve.    blood ketone levels every 30 minutes following con-
                                                               sumption. To make sure it was the drink and not the
              What’s Ketosis? Will it turn me into a fat-burning   fasting that raised ketones, he did it all again the next
              machine?                                         day, without a bulletproof coffee (labelled ‘Control).
                                                                   Did 30g of MCT oil move the needle? Was it any
               Short Answer: If you’re fasted when you drink it, and   different to an identical period of fasting? At the mo-
              don’t eat anything else for a while afterwards - maybe.  ment he drank the Bulletproof coffee (9:30am), Matt’s
                   Long   Answer:  Ketosis is  a metabolic state   blood ketones were at 0.0mmol. This means his liver
              where our body turns to fat as its primary energy   is happily adding glucose to his blood to keep him go-
              source, saving precious sugars for the brain and a   ing. ~99% of the population is most likely somewhere
              few other functions. It will happen if you fast for   between 0.0 and 0.1mmol/L of blood ketones for the
              extended periods, or eliminate nearly all carbohy-  vast majority of their lives (Inuits, some athletes,
              drates from your diet.                           ketogenic dieters, those who are starving etc. will be
                  It has been observed that con-                              so m ewh e re  be twe en 0 .2  an d
              suming MCT oil can induce a light                                 8mmol/L).
              ketogenic state.                                                       So yes. The Bulletproof
                Warning:  inducing ketosis is                                    coffee raised blood ketones,
              not appropriate for insulin de-                                    especially compared to regular
              pendent diabetics.                                                 fasting where his energy needs
                  This is interesting, because                                   were managed by his liver’s
              achieving a steady state of keto-                                  glycogen.
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