Diet Tips
Food is fuel and a crucial part of overall wellness. So, we’ve created blogs to help you make informed decisions about what ends up on your plate. Including articles about the Bulletproof Diet, healthy eating, intermittent fasting, the Keto Diet, superfoods and weight management that are thoroughly researched and reviewed for scientific accuracy by Bulletproof’s staff naturopathic doctor.

Soy – The Good, The Bad, and The Fermented
For nearly 40 years, soy was one of the biggest health foods in the world. Vegetarians lauded it as a complete protein. Doctors professed its cholesterol-lowering effects. Tofu and soy milk became household staples that you still see today. There’s a toxic side to soy, though. Not all of it...

How to Find Your Ideal Carb Intake
Low-carb, high-fat diets have a number of known benefits for your body and mind. They keep you lean, support your hormones and brain, regulate your blood sugar, stop food cravings, keep you full for hours, and give you license to put bacon on everything. For the vast majority, a low-carb,...

5 Reasons to Eat More Hot Peppers
Capsaicin is the molecule that gives jalapenos, habaneros, cayenne, and other spicy peppers their heat. It’s also a culinary oddity – capsaicin is one of the few cooking ingredients that goes beyond the five tastes humans experience (sweet, sour, salty, bitter, and savory). Capsaicin is an irritant, not a flavor –...

10 Secrets for Success on the Bulletproof Diet
The Bulletproof Diet is the place to start if you want to feel amazing and kick more ass. But this approach to nutrition is an abrupt departure from the Standard American Diet (SAD). So, if you’re having a tough time wrapping your head around the diet or just need some...

6 Common Questions About Bulletproof Coffee
Bulletproof Coffee has already changed hundreds of thousands of people’s lives. You owe it to yourself to see how good you’ll look and feel after drinking it for a couple weeks. It’s powerful stuff. It also goes against almost every mainstream dietary recommendation out there. Dosing your coffee with butter and...

Is Himalayan Pink Salt Safe? Understanding Its Impact on Your Health
Toxic chemicals, whether synthetic or naturally occurring, pose serious risks to your health and well-being. Protecting yourself often means choosing high-quality products and staying informed about potential contaminants in the food and products you use every day. Recently, concerns about lead contamination in Himalayan pink salt have raised questions about...

Is Bulletproof Making You Fat?
You may have heard about a study condemning a Paleo-style, high-fat, low-carb (HFLC) diet. Reports like of the diet have the same takeaway message: HFLC diets don’t actually work. A study has shown that they cause obesity and other health problems. The consensus seems to be that celebrities and charlatans...

A Bulletproof Look At Cauliflower
Let’s talk about cauliflower. This versatile vegetable’s nutrient profile and easy-to-cook nature make it a staple of the Bulletproof Diet. You can make cauliflower into a dozen different dishes, from cauliflower steaks to cauliflower rice to creamy cauliflower bacon mash (you’ll find all three of those recipes in Bulletproof: The...

Here’s A Closer Look at Grass-Fed Beef
When you use the Bulletproof Diet Roadmap (hopefully printed for free here and on your fridge!), you can see that grass-fed beef knocks grain-fed beef out of the park. Organic grass-fed beef has a prime nutritional profile, and it’s free of pesticides, GMOs, synthetic growth hormones, toxins from moldy feed, carbon monoxide, and all the...

Can Vegetarians Eat The Bulletproof Diet?
A major part of the Bulletproof Diet (if you’re new to it, welcome) is high-quality meat. Grass-fed meat and wild-caught seafood are supreme sources of fat, cholesterol, protein, vitamins, and minerals that are tough to find elsewhere. Meat is a simple way to get a lot of nutrition, fast. It’s...

Caffeine and Cortisol: Does Coffee Stress You Out?
More than 2 billion people enjoy a cup of coffee every morning, including 85% of the U.S. population [1,2]. I also want to answer a few common questions about coffee. This article will touch on caffeine tolerance and coffee-related cortisol release. Enjoy! Will you build a tolerance to caffeine...

4 Healthy Fats for High Heat Cooking
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...

How To Stay Bulletproof In College
I wrote this article with the help of a Bulletproof team member who’s a recent college graduate. He started Bulletproof his first year of college and got his degree a few months ago. He picked up some pretty useful habits along the way, and not just ones for college students. These...

6 Additives and Toxins that Hide in Healthy Food
The Bulletproof Diet Roadmap (check it out for free here) provides a simple spectrum: The “Bulletproof foods” in green are most likely to help you thrive, the “Kryptonite foods” in red are have more toxins than nutrients and are likely to make you weak and sick, and the “Suspect foods”...

Bulletproof Cooking Techniques: Make Your Food Do More For You
The primary goal of the Bulletproof Diet is to make you feel and look amazing all the time. You already know it’s important to feed your body high-quality foods, yet many people first going Bulletproof don’t realize this major step that differentiates it from other diets out there: It’s not...