A DTLA Adventure with Bulletproof Café and King Tut: Treasures of the Golden Pharaoh

A DTLA Adventure with Bulletproof Café and King Tut: Treasures of the Golden Pharaoh
By Kat Thomas

Last week Edible Skinny was lucky enough to experience at day in Downtown Los Angeles at the Bulletproof Café and King Tut: Treasures of the Golden Pharaoh at California Science Center

The day started with some DTLA butter coffee at Bulletproof Café in the Arts District!  Similar to it’s Santa Monica location this coffee shop a unique café and restaurant experience, complete with everything to biohack your way to higher performance!  This tech friendly stylish space offers coffee drinks with added grass-fed butter or oils that aim to boost energy.  While there we grabbed some Vanilla Lattes comprised of Espresso, Steamed Coconut Milk, Brain Octane, Grass-Fed Butter, and Vanilla Max.  The result: a brain that was running on full throttle!

With our brains buzzing, it was then off to the California Science Center to celebrate the 100-year anniversary of the discovery of King Tut’s tomb!  King Tut: Treasure of the Golden Pharaoh, is the largest King Tut exhibit that has ever toured!  Organized by the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities and the management company IMG, the new exhibition has about triple the number of objects that have previously toured, many leaving Egypt for the first time, along with advanced display technology and new science about King Tut's life, health, death and lineage.  In curating new material for the exhibit, organizers said they aimed for intimate objects like the gold sandals on the mummy's feet when it was discovered, and a pair of worn linen gloves he may have used in real life.  As Steve Martin would say, “How'd you get so funky?  Did you do the monkey?”

So make sure to check out the Treasure of the Golden Pharaoh while it’s in LA as it bound to be the last time!  The exhibition will appear in 10 cities internationally over seven years, then the objects will go to the still-under-construction Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo, where they will remain permanently.



Kat Thomas is the Editor in Chief of Edible Skinny, a site dedicated to making your life postcard worthy. She is also the CEO of the creative media company This Way Adventures. You can find more about both brands at http://www.thiswayadventures.com

Instamix: Bulletproof Coffee on the Go

Instamix: Bulletproof Coffee on the Go

By Omid Vojdani

Bulletproof  Coffee has changed my life. I mean that in every sense imaginable. Butter, mct oils and single sourced organic coffee mixed together gave me unbelievable energy, mental clarity, and even helped me shed some body fat along the way. Over the years since I discovered this miracle elixir I’ve explored much of what Dave Asprey has created for his Bulletproof brand, including the Upgraded Glutathione, Upgraded Activated Charcoal, and his Upgraded Collagen Protein, all which I believe are quality products that have made a positive impact on my life. 

To put it bluntly, I am a fanboy.

When Dave Asprey, founder of Bulletproof, announced his Instamix product, I couldn’t wait to try it. Dave has been working on Instamix for a little over three years, aiming to make a product for people who want their Bulletproof coffee while traveling, but don’t want to pack a blender, butter and oil. And while this product does exactly that, my first experience wasn’t was what I expecting. Spoiled by the frothy perfection of my at home BulletProof coffee, this tasted thick, a tad burnt and did not mix well. I did manage to finish the cup, and I was rewarded by all the normal effects: increased energy, mental clarity, and a curb in appetite for a few hours. 

But being the fanboy I am, I refused to believe that Bulletproof could put out a subpar product.  I decided to give Instamix a few more tries. I realized my error was trying to stir the product into the coffee with a spoon. For the second try, decided to mix it all inside my travel coffee tin, and shake the heck out of it for a full minute. What a difference! Still not the creamy and frothy mix you get after blending, but definitely a much more pleasant experience. 

This made me think about my expectations. I think as with anything in life there is  a small price to be paid for convenience. Instamix will never been my multi-step, full kitchen, frothy, homemade cup of Bulletproof coffee, but with Instamix now I can be Bulletproof no matter how far away I am from the comforts of my own home or kitchen appliances. 

14 individual pouches of Instamix retail for $29.99, and you can pick them up at Bulletproof Café if you’re in Santa Monica, CA, or at www.bulletproof.com/instamix. 

I highly recommend this to traveling Bulletproof Coffee addicts and fanboys/girls like me. Just keep in mind that to get all the same effects, we’re trading a little bit of comfort for convenience. 

Upgrade Yourself Science Wise with the Bulletproof Diet Cookbook

By Omid Vojdani
Edible Skinny Health and Wellness Editor

As a personal trainer who taught himself to cook, I understand nutrition now, but it wasn’t always that way. I spent the last five years going through many different diets and seeing what would work for me. Many of them were too strict, and others were just weird (I’m looking at you raw vegans). Some diets just plain made me feel low energy all the time, but were supposedly ‘healthy.’ 

Which means I get it when clients come to me confused, quoting conflicting news articles and way too much bro science about nutrition. How does anyone start to understand it all? Well, it all started for me when I came across a video of some silly guy putting butter in his coffee, promising unlimited energy, mental agility, and even a six pack without working out! Already having tried many diets and disliking most of them, I gave it a go, and became hooked on The Bulletproof Diet.

Pioneered by Dave Asprey (that silly guy in the video), the Bulletproof Diet focuses first and foremost on getting enough healthy fats into the body to not only help us lose weight and turn off food cravings, but also turn on our brain and mitochondria (what gives us energy through the day). On top of that, this diet also recommends a minimum of 6 servings of veggies a day, and upwards of 11 if you can. Dave believes that food should be something that not only tastes good, but also makes us feel the best that we can, not rob us of energy and give us crashes through the day. Through the last two years being Bulletproof, I’ve resorted to personal research, the Bulletproof Forums, and many failed experiments in the kitchen in attempts to feel like a million bucks. I quickly discovered that certain foods dubbed healthy by the American Medical Association (I’m looking at you, quinoa) led me to feeling lethargic and ‘hangry.’ After exhaustive online research and many a spreadsheet, I hit my stride, finding out that Dave Asprey really does deliver on all he promised with his revolutionary diet. I started leaning out without changing my workout regiment (hello abs without crunches), raising my mental clarity and even kicking my addiction to coffee (yup, one cup for all day energy).

In December, Dave Asprey finally released his Bulletproof Diet Cookbook. Now, I can tell my clients they can skip the five years of experimenting and exhaustive spreadsheets, and simply select any of the 125 Bulletproof recipes cleanly detailed out in the book. Recipes like: Steamed Artichokes with Salmon and Vinaigrette, or Cauliflower-Bacon Mash. Do you like rice, but always heard it’s too many carbs? There is a recipe and simple instructions to make low carb rice with honey. Like sweets? How about Bulletproof blueberry Gelato (only need a blender and an ice cube tray).

If you haven’t heard of the Bulletproof Diet before, or are new to nutrition, the first 50 pages of this cookbook is a beautifully written summary of how it works, and even tips for eating Bulletproof on the road. It gets scientific (yay science!), but Dave does a great job of boiling down the science into easy to understand and digest vocabulary and analogies. The book also has beautiful color picture of many of the 125 recipes.

I look forward to trying many of the recipes I haven’t had a chance to try yet, and if our readers would like, I can write up specific recipes with detailed pictures and grocery costs. But for now, just know that the Bulletproof Diet is all about using our food to make us perform better, kick more butt in life, and eliminate food cravings for good!

Apparently Oil and Water Do Mix as Bulletproof Announces The Creation of FATwater

For most people certain things are supposed to be separated: Solange and Jay Z, cats and dogs, oil and water… but for Biohacker, bestselling author and Bulletproof Coffee CEO Dave Asprey the last one on that list is up for debate with the launch today of FATwater, an oil water fusion to biohack the body’s hydration and power your day.  

Bulletproof proclaims FATwater as the next generation of energy drinks: caffeine free, no artificial sweeteners, and only 20 calories.  FATwater contains patented nanoparticles of Bulletproof XCT Oil™, the most valuable Medium Chain Triglyceride fats (MCTs) found in coconut oil.  Your body easily absorbs these XCT Oil nanoparticles, which efficiently escort water into your body so you can experience extreme hydration.

 

“If you’re wondering, the answer is YES: oil and water do mix,” says Asprey. “People have rejected the low-fat dogma of the 1980’s because it doesn’t work.  FATwater leverages the power of fat from coconuts to drive hydration in a new way and disrupt an industry addicted to sugary drinks.  When you take control of your hydration, you perform better.”

Today’s FATwater announcement was made simultaneous to the announcement that Bulletproof has raised $9 million from Trinity Ventures, an early Starbucks and Jamba Juice investor, with plans to further expand the company, bringing the benefits of the Bulletproof lifestyle to the masses.

Bottled FATwater is available in the flagship Bulletproof Coffee café in Santa Monica and at Erewhon Markets.  Erewhon, a leader in natural grocery since 1968 was the first Bulletproof retail outlet on the west coast and is the exclusive FATwater launch partner. FATwater concentrate is available nationwide at bulletproof.com.