Book Summary: Bulletproof Diet
Dave Asprey’s Bulletproof Diet teaches you how to optimize your health and increase your mental ability. He focuses primarily on a diet built around protein and fat but also on optimizing your sleep and exercise.
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Grain Brain – David Perlmutter
The Sleep Solution – W. Chris Winter
Quotes:
An inflamed brain is an unhappy, low-performance brain that will make you act like a jerk even when you don’t want to.
Excessive ultraviolet A radiation causes sunburns, which are associated with cancer, so we decided with no evidence that we should remove all sources of ultraviolet radiation. But our bodies were not designed to be in an environment without any UV light.
Looking and feeling sick, tired, fat, or weak is not an option, and you were not meant to be that way.
Bulletproof Diet Book Summary Notes:
- Adding a fat such as butter to your morning coffee is a great way to up your fat intake as well as encourage your body to burn fat as a fuel source.
- Many coffee beans these days contain mold spores which has resulted in some countries even enforcing bans on beans with high amounts of these harmful toxins.
- While coffee is an important part of this diets strategy, cheap coffee has a higher potential of containing these harmful spores.
- MCT oil or butter in your coffee will also help you reach a state of ketosis faster.
- Positive gut bacteria can be cultivated by eating foods containing polyphenols such as brightly coloured vegetables, coffee and chocolate.
- Eating resistant starches such as white rice, potatoes, carrots or pumpkins can also help cultivate beneficial gut bacteria.
- Avoid foods that are overly processed or high in sugar.
- Intermittent fasting can boost metabolism and improve mental focus.
- High intensity training is best for helping your body produce more HGH, an anti aging hormone.
- Your diet can also have a large impact on your sleep which in turn affects your cognitive ability each day.
