Can Bulletproof Coffee for Breakfast Control Blood Sugar and Help Lose Weight? Doctor: Be careful, these situations may ruin your health

You don’t have to drink only milk or soy milk for breakfast. There are many “keto” benefits, such as bulletproof coffee as a breakfast drink. Recently, some media quoted the conclusion of Japanese doctors, pointing out that drinking cream coffee for breakfast can reduce the risk of diabetes and seems to have the benefit of controlling blood sugar. Can domestic weight loss experts recognize "ketone" when they say that bulletproof coffee can control blood sugar?

The origin of Bulletproof Coffee was proposed by an American high-tech engineer. He was an obese patient himself. He tried adding unsalted grass-fed butter and some medium-chain fatty acids to coffee for breakfast. After consuming it for a period of time, his weight actually dropped significantly. This way of eating is roughly the concept of a ketogenic diet.

Doctor: Diabetic patients rely on ketogenic diet, beware of hypoglycemia complications

Liu Bowen, executive director of the Taiwan Obesity Education and Prevention Association and a weight loss specialist, said that according to medical statistics, most diabetic patients suffer from type 2 diabetes. The pathological cause is insulin resistance, which means that the ability to metabolize blood sugar has deteriorated. In theory, if the instantaneous large-scale intake of sugar can be reduced, the occurrence of high blood sugar can be reduced.

In fact, the ketogenic diet generally does not cause blood sugar problems for normal people, but for diabetic patients, because they rely on the ketogenic diet, they may produce too much ketoacids, which will increase insulin resistance and even cause complications of hypoglycemia.

Eating Bulletproof Coffee for breakfast alone may cause insufficient calories and increase hunger

Let’s discuss the fact that some people outside say that drinking bulletproof coffee can make you feel full, and it is inferred that it helps with weight loss. Dr. Liu Boen said that the calories for a typical Bulletproof coffee breakfast combo come from cream and medium-chain fats. Although the same weight of fat can produce about twice as much calories as starch (1 gram of starch can produce 4 calories, while 1 gram of fat can produce 9 calories), fat produces calories more slowly than starch. Moreover, the formation of satiety is related to the volume of food. For the same calories, the volume of starch will be larger, while that of fat will be smaller. So in theory, it is not easy to feel full just by using Bulletproof coffee for breakfast. In fact, due to insufficient calories and increased hunger, you may even want to eat more.

In addition, other possible hidden problems are negative emotions caused by insufficient calories. Some people will have a compensatory reaction of palpitations when they are fasting due to the effect of caffeine. Therefore, it is generally recommended that you drink bulletproof coffee with some low-GI foods, such as brown rice or oatmeal, which contain dietary fiber.

Note that too much fat in bulletproof coffee will still form triglycerides and be stored

If you are used to having bulletproof coffee for breakfast for a long time, you should also pay attention to excessive fats, which will still stimulate the secretion of insulin, which will then turn into fat and accumulate under the skin, leading to obesity. Therefore, excess fat will still form triglycerides and be stored.

There are also many people who often use coffee as a weight loss food. In fact, although the caffeine in coffee has the effect of stimulating the sympathetic nerves, there are many causes of obesity, some of which are endocrine problems or the sarcopenic obesity that has gradually increased in recent years. Therefore, it is not advisable to use coffee to lose weight. In addition, some patients with cardiovascular disease or peptic ulcer should not use coffee to lose weight, because caffeine will aggravate the original condition. After all, obesity is a complex disease syndrome. Only after finding out the original cause can we prescribe the right medicine and achieve safe and effective results.