The Bulletproof Diet: Lose Up to a Pound a Day, Reclaim Energy and Focus, Upgrade Your Life

by Dave Asprey

biohacking—the art of using technology to change the environment both inside and outside of your body to take control and make it do what you want.

You get healthy inflammation after you lift weights and your body works to repair the stressed muscle or when you cut yourself and increased blood flow ferries in white blood cells to heal the injury. This is called acute inflammation, and if you’ve ever had an injury or surgery, you’ve seen firsthand how the body can swell during times of physical stress. It’s when inflammation becomes chronic (lasting for months or years) that it causes serious problems.

The main categories of naturally occurring antinutrients are lectins, phytates, oxalates, and mold toxins (mycotoxins).

hosted uBiome at the first-ever Bulletproof Biohacking Conference in San Francisco in January of 2013. uBiome is the first company to set out to allow consumers to measure and understand the genetics of their gut bacteria, and right on their heels came the American Gut Project.

Ubiome

The biggest problem with fruits is the main sugar they contain, fructose. As I already mentioned when discussing leptin, your liver converts fructose to either glucose or triglycerides, the latter of which are then stored as fat. And fructose not only causes you to gain fat through these biochemical

Fat is the most important and least inflammatory macronutrient, and on the Bulletproof Diet, 50 to 70 percent of your daily calories should