It's Boring, But It Slashed ALL My Visceral Fat In My 50s

Dave Asprey (0:00)

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I was 31 years old. He said my blood was thick like sludge, which means I literally could have a stroke at any moment. So for the next 18 months, I went on a low-calorie diet. I worked out for an hour and a half, up to six times a week. And yeah, I got stronger with the fat.

It was stuck to my body, never lost an inch off my waist.

Then I took a trip that really changed my life. I wanted to learn meditation from the masters. So I'm at 18,300 feet elevation, up in the mountains of Tibet. I'm sitting in a mud guest house, and I am frozen to my core and feeling like garbage. And a tiny Tibetan woman handed me a creamy cup of yak butter tea.

And it brought me back to life in a way that nothing could even compare.

It was magic. Five minutes after I drank it, I kind of wanted to dance. I'm trained in high-altitude mountaineering. You're not supposed to want to dance when there's no air. But my brain came alive. When I returned home to Silicon Valley, I tried to recreate the recipe with tea and with butter. It just tasted bad and it didn't work. But when I used coffee that was free of mold and the right kind of grass-fed butter, I started starting each and every day with anywhere from a teaspoon to a couple of tablespoons of butter in my coffee. And that led to a New York Times best-selling book that helped people lose millions of pounds of weight effortlessly without ever being hungry. And that little butter and coffee trick that I learned from the ancient Tibetans led me to discover five hacks that helped to address the things that were keeping me and over half of us fat and aging faster than we should.

And those five hacks are also where my energy feels like, well, better than I've ever felt. I feel better than I did in my 20s or 30s because I was pretty sick then. And hack number one is super counterintuitive. I lost over 100 pounds by eating more saturated fat than what the government says is healthy. In fact, when has the government ever been right about health?