Three reasons why bulletproof coffee is not recommended is bulletproof coffee really capable of losing weight? do you have any side effects?

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Since the advent of butter beer, the editor has been curious: can everything be buttered? Open the search engine and find buttered coffee?! And a lot of people use it to lose weight?

The origin of bulletproof coffee

It is said that in order to wash his soul, Dave DaveAsprey, an entrepreneur from Silicon Valley, went to Xizang and tasted buttered tea locally, which made him feel the mysterious power from the East.

After he returned home, he began to develop his own buttered tea, using butter instead of butter. As we all know, Westerners like to drink coffee. As a result, this kind of western buttered tea-buttered coffee appeared. Later, Dave created a brand for his buttered coffee, bulletproof coffee (Bullet Proof Coffee).

He claims that after a long period of personal experience, he can lose weight. And then put on "high-fat low-carbon water", "suppress hunger", "lose weight", "improve awareness" and other information to promote a new diet to the public. Soon, many celebrities also began to promote, bulletproof coffee quickly became popular in Europe and the United States. With the rise of ketogenic diet in 2017, netizens on social media are following suit, and bulletproof coffee, which is low-carbon and high-fat, has certainly become popular.

Does bulletproof coffee really work?

Let's start with weight loss:

In this society where physical humiliation is still very serious, people ask too much for their own body, and they should be light and slim. But does bulletproof coffee really work?

The ingredients for a bulletproof coffee:

A cup of black coffee

One to two teaspoons of MCT oil

One to two teaspoons of grass-fed unsalted butter

From the material is full of oil, it is not difficult to see that want to use bulletproof coffee as a weight loss tool, take nothing more than a low-carbon ketogenic diet. Bulletproof coffee can be done without eating all day after a cup of bulletproof coffee is simply because people feel greasy after eating a lot of fat, resulting in a poor appetite and eating less.

However, this low-carbon ketogenic diet is originally intended to be high in fat intake, simulating human hunger, when the ketone body produced by fat metabolism provides energy. It was used in medicine to treat epilepsy in children. And ketogenic diet is only suitable for short-term rapid weight loss, not suitable for long-term, stable and sustained weight loss.

Long-term use of a ketogenic diet can cause inevitable harm to the body:

① metabolic acidosis. Because there is not enough carbon water source to provide glycogen, the body can only obtain glycogen by decomposing fat. While fat is decomposed, ketone body production increases over utilization and accumulates, resulting in ketosis.

The muscle content of ② decreased. Inadequate intake of carbohydrates, the body will not only break down fat, but also break down muscle to supplement function. At the same time, because glucose is the direct energy source of muscle, and ketogenic diet can not provide it with sufficient direct energy source, so exercise performance is affected, the body is prone to fatigue.

The weight of ③ bounced back. Many friends who rely on iron will adhere to the ketogenic diet for months, and after stopping the ketogenic mode, they will uncontrollably overeat high-carbohydrate foods and fall into a vicious circle of weight loss.

The burden of liver and kidney was increased in ④. The increase of ketone body and the conversion of protein to glucose lead to the increase of nitrogenous waste. The liver is responsible for the production of ketone bodies, the conversion of protein into glucose and the conversion of protein metabolic waste into urea. The kidney is responsible for excreting urea and ketone bodies from the body. When both of them operate at high load for a long time, the life may be shortened.

⑤ although in recent years, a lot of medical research has rehabilitated the allegation that fat is harmful to the human body. However, excessive intake of saturated fatty acids will increase the level of cholesterol in the blood and increase the risk of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.

The second is to raise awareness:

To a large extent, this is the illusion that caffeine gives you. A previous article from the coffee shop, "didn't wake up? Coffee, let's go! Can coffee really save you? It is mentioned that if you don't get enough sleep, even if you consume caffeine, the positive impact is very limited and you can only perform some relatively simple tasks, while in some challenging tasks that require high vigilance and high cognition, the results of the experiment are not good.

Finally, if you want to try to lose weight with bulletproof coffee in front of the screen, the editor advises you to spread your legs and exercise more. Bulletproof coffee is just one of the drinks in a ketogenic diet, not a panacea, if you try it once in a while.