Recipe of Bangtan coffee (Bulletproof Coffee)

Bangtan coffee is made by American venture entrepreneur Dave Asprey.

It's a famous coffee from all over the world, including Silicon Valley.

Bulletproof coffee is similar to BTS in Korean, so many people misunderstand it in Korea. 😂

But it is named because it means 'you can get energy and concentration strong enough to prevent bullets.' 💪

In this post, I will talk about the diet effects and recipes of bulletproof coffee. 😉

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The origin of Bulletproof coffee.

Bulletproof coffee refers to coffee that is melted with butter and MCT oil (a type of coconut oil) in coffee. "The effect and advantage is that the calories produced by butter and oil are enormous, so you can get strong energy and concentration.
The coffee was first introduced in the book "The Best Meal" published in 2014 by Dave Aspri, a Silicon Valley engineer-turned-American writer. CEO Asfree, who was considered a successful young businessman in Silicon Valley due to the development of the e-commerce system, lost his health at the age of 30 and couldn't even walk 400m properly, and made efforts to improve his health by analyzing biometric information with biohacking technology. The healthy diet method created by collecting these results is the "complete diet" method using bulletproof coffee. He drew attention by announcing that he lost more than 50 kg in this way and that his IQ increased by 20. Since then, bulletproof coffee has become popular among many celebrities, ranging from Hollywood stars to athletes, creating another craze across the United States. In Korea, it began to attract attention after the book was introduced in 2017.

It's effective for dieting.

The principle is actually simple. By itself, it adds fat to black coffee without calories and turns it into a high-calorie drink. It is a diet that reduces the intake of other foods by drinking it instead of breakfast to make you feel full. For dieting, reducing the amount of food is the key, but if you don't eat, you lose strength and become lethargic, making it difficult to work. Bulletproof coffee instantly drinks high-calorie drinks so that you can live a lively life without eating food. It's a method of "low-carb, high-fat diet" that uses fat as a source of calories.

The reason why they recommend drinking this coffee instead of breakfast includes the principle of diet that keeps you hungry for a long time and reduces weight. It's the same principle as "intermittent fasting" that keeps you hungry for 16 hours a day. While we sleep, we consume energy for basic metabolism such as maintaining body temperature and blood circulation, and our bodies are made into ketogenic conditions that burn fat instead of sugar and utilize energy. Eating a carbohydrate meal in this state will return to a sugar metabolism that burns sugar to gain energy, so you drink fat-containing coffee instead of breakfast and keep it in a ketogenic state that burns fat all morning. In addition, the taste is greasy, so I don't feel my appetite anymore.

How to make

It's also easy to make.

Add a spoon of butter and a spoon of MCT oil or coconut oil to a regular coffee and mix well. It is said that it is more advantageous for absorption in the body to stir well and drink fat particles in a small size rather than just melting them.

However, it is good for your health to use natural butter, not processed butter. Many people recommend using a salt-free butter for healthy fat intake, but in fact, it doesn't seem to matter if it's a salt-free butter. I add a little salt on purpose to get rid of the greasy bulletproof coffee.

Drinking bulletproof coffee several times a day is not a good way to suppress appetite. The calorie content of a glass is 300kcal and the fat content is 14g, which reaches the recommended daily fat amount (15g) for adults. If you drink several cups a day to reduce your appetite, you will rather consume excessive calories and fat. Rather than losing weight, hyperlipidemia can occur due to excessive fat intake, and people with weak intestines are at risk of diarrhea. In particular, diabetics who have difficulty controlling blood sugar should be avoided by maintaining an empty stomach for a long time. Experts warn that "In the case of diabetes patients, performing bulletproof coffee can cause side effects such as hypoglycemia, acute kidney failure, and arrhythmia." Remember that if you want to try the bulletproof coffee diet, you should only have a drink instead of breakfast.