{"id":11728,"date":"2014-07-03T14:48:23","date_gmt":"2014-07-03T21:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=11728"},"modified":"2017-06-04T12:06:34","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T19:06:34","slug":"bulletproof-coffee-the-new-power-drink-of-silicon-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/bulletproof-coffee-the-new-power-drink-of-silicon-valley","title":{"rendered":"Bulletproof Coffee, The New Power Drink Of Silicon Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a class=\"navigate\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/user\/courtney-rubin\" rel=\"author\" data-resource-type=\"user\">Courtney Rubin<\/a> \u2014 Fast Company<br \/>\n<br \/> Cloud computing pioneer <a class=\"profile\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/person\/dave-asprey\">Dave Asprey<\/a> took a trip to Tibet in 2004 to learn how to meditate. But it was the yak-butter tea he tried there that ended up transforming his life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had so much more energy and I didn\u2019t feel sick at the altitude at all. I realized: There\u2019s something going on here. I just felt so good, I\u2019d never go back to a <a style=\"text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlecoffeeplace.com\/coffee-makers\/grind-and-brew\"><span style=\"text-decoration: none; ;\">coffee maker with grinder<\/span><\/a> combination\u201d he remembers. He returned home and spent several years fiddling with ingredients, aiming for \u201ca hot version of a Frappuccino without the milk and sugar.\u201d He started with a base of coffee instead of tea because he\u2019s an aficionado; he says he got his only undergraduate \u201cA\u201d the semester he discovered espresso. And the ban on milk and sugar was one of the many biohacks he had practiced over 15 years (and $300,000 in doctors and 3-D radioactive scans of his brain metabolism) trying to rid himself of \u201cbrain fog\u201d and 100 pounds of extra weight.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/3032635\/most-creative-people\/bulletproof-coffee-the-new-power-drink-of-silicon-valley?partner=newsletter\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Courtney Rubin \u2014 Fast Company Cloud computing pioneer Dave Asprey took a trip to Tibet in 2004 to learn how to meditate. But it was the yak-butter tea he tried there that ended up transforming his life. \u201cI had so much more energy and I didn\u2019t feel sick at the altitude at all. I [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11728"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64949,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11728\/revisions\/64949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}