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"This acronym is just a fancy way to talk about a substance that some people are intentionally consuming for its energy-boosting capabilities.This isn't so much about the origins of an indigenous food as it is about the dawn of another biohacking trend. Technology entrepreneur Dave Asprey first posted the recipe for his Bulletproof coffee, which involves adding medium-chain triglycerides to coffee, in 2010.Medium-chain triglycerides are fats that are naturally found in coconut and palm kernel oil. Asprey was inspired to create his own riff on this after hiking in Tibet and consuming yak butter in tea. The practice of putting butter in hot drinks is ""a several-tablespoons of his own branded MCT oil, called Brain Octane Oil. It all gets blended together for a roughly 450-calorie drink that he consumes for breakfast ""It's the caffeine that actually helps release the fat from the Brain Octane oil and butter into one's bloodstream so these healthy fats can immediately be used as an energy source. Your body also naturally uses the type of fat found in Brain Octane oil for energy instead of storing it as fat,"" he says.People are using this oil to help support healthy body weight and body composition, along with improvements in brain performance and for quick energy production that comes from a fat not a sugar.In addition to its healthy fats and creamy taste, butter and ghee (the latter of which many use instead of butter, add other benefits. ""Both are filled with essential nutrients including vitamin K2 and butyric acid, which helps promote colon health and brain function. Grass-fed ghee is a great substitute for butter if you are lactose-intolerant,"" he says. (Oh, and in case you didn't now, ghee is a type of clarified butter used frequently in India; most of the milk solids are filtered out.)MCT is commonly purchased as a supplement in oil form at nutrition stores and health food stores. Bulletproof is Asprey's brand and his oil is called Brain Octane, which is sourced from what he calls ""the most potent part of the coconut,"" which contains C8, or caprylic acid (there are four types of MCTs in coconut oil.)"

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