Bio-hacking in CocoBurbia

It was the evening before our flight to Manila: sitting across a dinner table in a San Francisco restaurant The Bulletproof Executive gave us some advice on how to bio-hack our bodies and minds. He shared some great tips on how to change our diets to upgrade our biology and mental performance, keep us strong, AND even make us smarter... with a line up like that why wouldn't we try it out?

One of the interesting take-aways, was that our grain-fed, animal-based diets are actually the cause of most of the maladies affecting our health. It's an interesting idea with widespread implications considering virtually all dairy products come from grain-fed cows and we eat grain-fed beef. The good news is that by simply switching to grass-fed foods, we can solve much of the problem, you just need to know where to look.

Another idea that seems counter-intuitive is that we can lose body fat and gain mental acuity by consuming the right kind of fats. That includes grass-fed dairy and our friend virgin coconut oil (cold-pressed). During dinner, we were quite surprised when The Bulletproof Executive pulled a stick of grass-fed butter from his pocket. That's when we figured we should give it a try.

The Bulletproof Executive suggested that we put a stick of grass-fed butter and virgin coconut oil in our morning coffee instead of cream and the body fat would begin to fall away. More importantly, our cholesterol would improve and we would become smarter. Sounds too good to be true, right??

Since we were about to depart on our adventure, we decided to run the gauntlet and give his bio-hack a try. The steps to the detailed diet are at his website, and the first week we started with adding half a chunk of grass-fed unsalted butter and a spoonful of cold pressed virgin coconut oil to our coffee and all natural hot chocolate in the mornings. In the Philippines the only grass- fed brand is Anchor from New Zealand, and in the US it is Kerry Gold from Ireland.

We'll post our recipe for Liquid Cookie at a later date, but the basic ingredients are unprocessed chocolate, unsalted Anchor butter, cold pressed virgin coconut oil, Anchor culinary cream, and a teaspoon of muscovado sugar. We drink this at breakfast and then are not hungry until around 4pm. We then have a small fruit or vegetable snack or protein drink.

So far, so good. We have both lost 7 pounds of body fat, have lot's of energy, and feel great.

P.S. We're not selling anything, just passing along our first experience at bio-hacking...