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I just finished reading the Breast Cancer book and was pleased to see that clarified butter may be good enough to be worth the amount of vitamin A it contains. I've been an advocate for good, natural fats for a long time. (The subtitle of my first book was, "Sugar is the New Fat.")
I had been having my coffee with clarified, pasture butter and 8-chain coconut oil (Bulletproof Coffee) every morning for years, but after starting the low-A diet, I quit adding those two fats. I was looking for something similar to use instead and thought of cocoa butter. It has no vitamin A and 130 grams of saturated fat. It doesn't taste as good (to me) as butter, but if I use a sugar-free sweetener with it, it is quite acceptable.
Does anyone know if there is a downside to using it?
It has stearic acid in it which is supposed to make vA symptoms worse. Dr. Smith wrote about it a few months ago. https://nutritionrestored.com/blog-forum/topic/stearic-acid-aka-stearate/
Beef has mostly stearic acid too, I think. I'll check out the link.
Quote from Judy on February 1, 2019, 4:21 pmBeef has mostly stearic acid too, I think. I'll check out the link.
Yes, it has alot too. Smith says at the end of the article that he isn't saying to completely avoid stearic acid but to be aware of it. As for beef, maybe go with as lean and limit it. From what I gather Smith eats grass fed beef even if it has more vA. There are protective things in beef and butter unlike perhaps cocoa butter.
Quote from Guest on February 1, 2019, 2:43 pmI just finished reading the Breast Cancer book and was pleased to see that clarified butter may be good enough to be worth the amount of vitamin A it contains. I've been an advocate for good, natural fats for a long time. (The subtitle of my first book was, "Sugar is the New Fat.")
I had been having my coffee with clarified, pasture butter and 8-chain coconut oil (Bulletproof Coffee) every morning for years, but after starting the low-A diet, I quit adding those two fats. I was looking for something similar to use instead and thought of cocoa butter. It has no vitamin A and 130 grams of saturated fat. It doesn't taste as good (to me) as butter, but if I use a sugar-free sweetener with it, it is quite acceptable.
Does anyone know if there is a downside to using it?
Bulletproof coffee eh?? Me too! started off with paleo, then bulletproof diet, then bulletproof supplements, which basically destroyed me. asprey recommended 10k preformed VA a day. i really wonder if he himself is taking that much everyday or his biohacking is keeping the symptoms at bay.
One thing i do miss though is buetproof coffee, it was really tasty. i think once my VA is thoroughly depleted, i might try the cacao butter and the occasional grass fed butter. there’s gotta be an alternative fat we could use though.
Quote from Guest on February 1, 2019, 4:34 pmQuote from Judy on February 1, 2019, 4:21 pmBeef has mostly stearic acid too, I think. I'll check out the link.
Yes, it has alot too. Smith says at the end of the article that he isn't saying to completely avoid stearic acid but to be aware of it. As for beef, maybe go with as lean and limit it. From what I gather Smith eats grass fed beef even if it has more vA. There are protective things in beef and butter unlike perhaps cocoa butter.
I didn't find the comment from Smith, but I wonder if he is still stuck in outdated fat-phobia thinking. Saturated fat is no longer a villain, but even if it were, stearic acid is converted to mono-unsaturated, like olive oil, as soon as it is ingested.
Quote from pano200 on February 1, 2019, 9:37 pmQuote from Guest on February 1, 2019, 2:43 pmI just finished reading the Breast Cancer book and was pleased to see that clarified butter may be good enough to be worth the amount of vitamin A it contains. I've been an advocate for good, natural fats for a long time. (The subtitle of my first book was, "Sugar is the New Fat.")
I had been having my coffee with clarified, pasture butter and 8-chain coconut oil (Bulletproof Coffee) every morning for years, but after starting the low-A diet, I quit adding those two fats. I was looking for something similar to use instead and thought of cocoa butter. It has no vitamin A and 130 grams of saturated fat. It doesn't taste as good (to me) as butter, but if I use a sugar-free sweetener with it, it is quite acceptable.
Does anyone know if there is a downside to using it?
Bulletproof coffee eh?? Me too! started off with paleo, then bulletproof diet, then bulletproof supplements, which basically destroyed me. asprey recommended 10k preformed VA a day. i really wonder if he himself is taking that much everyday or his biohacking is keeping the symptoms at bay.
One thing i do miss though is buetproof coffee, it was really tasty. i think once my VA is thoroughly depleted, i might try the cacao butter and the occasional grass fed butter. there’s gotta be an alternative fat we could use though.
Perhaps if Dave does enough intermittent fasting it will deplete the vitamin A enough. He plans to live to be 180; I don't know how that will work out for him.
I really miss the Brain Octane Oil. I'm convinced that it saved my husband's life after he suffered a cardiac arrest caused by a blood pressure medication. The paramedics and the doctors gave him a 1% chance of surviving, and that 1% included all the people who were brain damaged and incapacitated. He came back exactly as he was before! I wrote about it here: https://www.carbwarscookbooks.com/the-worst-day-of-my-life-and-an-important-warning/
Does anyone have thoughts on possibly using this as a main added or cooking fat? I bought some to make pie crust over the holidays and thought I'd just use it up since I don't have time to bake much through out the year.
As far as I can tell there's zero A and that's my main focus. I don't really worry about getting nutrients or lots of flavor from fat.
Quote from Judy on February 2, 2019, 2:37 pmQuote from Guest on February 1, 2019, 4:34 pmQuote from Judy on February 1, 2019, 4:21 pmBeef has mostly stearic acid too, I think. I'll check out the link.
Yes, it has alot too. Smith says at the end of the article that he isn't saying to completely avoid stearic acid but to be aware of it. As for beef, maybe go with as lean and limit it. From what I gather Smith eats grass fed beef even if it has more vA. There are protective things in beef and butter unlike perhaps cocoa butter.
I didn't find the comment from Smith, but I wonder if he is still stuck in outdated fat-phobia thinking. Saturated fat is no longer a villain, but even if it were, stearic acid is converted to mono-unsaturated, like olive oil, as soon as it is ingested.
Smith is not fat phobic and definitely not saturated fat phobic though he doesn't seem to be a fan of high fat diets for the most part. His aim is to lower vitamin A metabolites in a sick person and decrease detox symptoms if possible - hence being careful of stearic acid. If those same fats that contain stearic acid also contain phytanic acid, then he doesn't seem concerned like what you should be getting in grassfed beef. He isn't even against most foods with carotenoids or retinoids unless tissues are full of them and causing health problems.
I don't understand why Smith allows butter, it is very high VA and has plenty of stearic acid. Yes it does have butyric acid but if one really saw a need for butyric acid then why not just supplement with it?