Dave Asprey

Dave Asprey
Born c. 1973[1]
Nationality American
Education California State University, BS, Wharton, MBA
Known for Bulletproof Coffee and the Bulletproof diet
Website www.bulletproofexec.com

Dave Asprey is an entrepreneur, businessman and author [2] from Albuquerque, NM.[3] He founded Bulletproof 360, Inc. in 2013[4] and founded Bulletproof Nutrition Inc. in 2014.[5]

Asprey is a "biohacker,"[6] creator of Bulletproof Coffee and the Bulletproof diet, and authored a book describing the diet.[7]

Asprey is also known for being early to exploit the Internet for commerce, selling caffeine-molecule t-shirts via the alt.drugs.caffeine newsgroup in 1994.[8][9] Previously, Asprey held executive and director positions for technology companies including Trend Micro, Blue Coat Systems and Citrix Systems.[10]

Dietitians point out there is no scientific basis for the claims made for the Bulletproof diet, and that any sense of alertness from Bulletproof Coffee is "just a caffeine buzz."[11][12]

Career

Asprey earned his undergraduate degree in computer information systems from California State University and later earned an MBA from Wharton.[13]

After graduating college, Asprey worked in the IT industry for companies including Bradshaw[14] and 3Com.[15] He also ran the Internet and Web Engineering program at University of California, Santa Cruz, in which Asprey created one of the first working instances of cloud computing.[16] Later, he joined Exodus Communications as director of strategic planning[17] where he co-founded the company’s professional services group.[16]

Asprey was the director of product management for a Silicon Valley startup called NetScaler which was later acquired by Citrix Systems.[16] After working at Citrix, Asprey served as the vice president of marketing for Zeus Technology[18] and later, vice president of technology and corporate development at Blue Coat Systems.[19] He then became an entrepreneur in residence at Trinity Ventures before co-founding a company called Basis.[10] Asprey was the vice president of cloud security for Trend Micro[20] before he left to run his own business full-time.[21]

Asprey founded Bulletproof 360, Inc. in 2013[4] and founded Bulletproof Nutrition Inc. in 2014.[5][22]

Asprey initially started the Bulletproof brand after developing Bulletproof Coffee. He posted the recipe for the beverage and details on the health benefits he experienced on his website while still working for Trend Micro.[21] Asprey also developed low-mold coffee beans, oils and supplements and started selling them on his website in 2011.[23] The following year, Asprey was a panelist at the “Hack Your Brain” event at South by Southwest. By 2013, Asprey had left his position at Trend Micro to run the Bulletproof companies.[21]

Asprey also runs a podcast, "Bulletproof Radio," which was downloaded 10.5 million times in 2014.[23] The stated goal of Bulletproof Nutrition is to enhance human performance. It supports the Quantified Self movement as a way to empower individuals to understand and hack their own health.[24]

In 2014, Asprey authored The Bulletproof Diet published by Rodale Books.[2]

On July 25, 2015, Asprey opened a cafe in Santa Monica selling Bulletproof Coffee and high fat foods.[23][25]

In July, 2015, Asprey raised $9 million from Trinity Ventures to expand the company.[26]

Bulletproof Diet

The Bulletproof diet is a fad diet developed and marketed by Asprey that recommends eating foods high in fat, moderate in protein, and low in carbohydrates, the foundation of which is "Bulletproof Coffee", a coffee drink with butter and medium-chain triglyceride derived from coconut oil.[27][28] Asprey developed his Bulletproof Coffee recipe after traveling to Tibet and tasting yak-butter tea drinks. He returned to the United States and experimented with buttered drink recipes and published the preparation for his buttered coffee drink on his blog in 2009.[29][30]

The Bulletproof diet also recommends incorporating intermittent fasting and "Bulletproof Coffee", a coffee beverage made from low-mold coffee beans, grass-fed, unsalted butter and either coconut oil or medium-chain triglycerides.[31]

Vox contributor Julia Belluz criticized the Bulletproof diet referring to it as "like a caricature of a bad fad-diet book". Belluz wrote particularly against claims that changing diet can reduce inflammation and lead to weight loss, saying Asprey ignored contradictory studies about the health benefits of certain foods, and inappropriately extrapolated studies on animals, very small groups of people, and people with specific diseases to the general human population.[27] Dietitian Lynn Weaver criticized the diet as being hard to follow and supported by only small studies not typically used by medical and nutritional professionals.[28]

Asprey has claimed that when used in combination with other "health hacks", the coffee helped to boost his IQ score by more than 20 points.[29] His company claims that Bulletproof Coffee can aid cognition and trigger weight loss through ketosis.[11]

Dietitians point out there is no scientific basis for these claims, and that any sense of alertness from Bulletproof Coffee is "just a caffeine buzz".[11][12] Some physicians like Dr. Frank Lipman[32] and Dr. Andrew Weil[33] believe that, when combined with a balanced diet, drinking buttered coffee could be healthy and "might give you a bit more energy than your everyday cup."[34][35]

Asprey claims that most coffee beans contain high levels of mycotoxins and that this "steals your mental edge and actually makes you weak." He sells a brand of "upgraded" beans which are advertised as having undergone a secret, proprietary process to reduce mycotoxin levels.[36][25] However, Physician David Bach has observed that coffee producers are already good at removing mycotoxins from their product, and that there is no evidence to support Asprey's claim that mycotoxins make people "sluggish".[37]

Bibliography

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Dave Asprey: Executive Profile & Biography - Bloomberg". Bloomberg. Retrieved 4 May 2017. At the access time Aspreys birthdate was given as 42
  2. 1 2 Torabi, Farnoosh (January 23, 2015). "I Made $6 Million at Age 26—and Lost It by 28". TIME: Money. TIME Magazine. Retrieved June 14, 2015.
  3. ↑ "...Albuquerque, I grew up there..." Transcript – Geoffrey Miller: Sex, Power, and Domination – #138
  4. 1 2 "Bulletproof 360, Inc.: Private Company Information -". Bloomberg. Retrieved 29 December 2016.
  5. 1 2 "Bulletproof Nutrition, Inc. registration". businessfilings.sos.ca.gov. California Secretary of State. Retrieved 28 December 2016.
  6. ↑ "'Biohackers' mining their own bodies' data". SF Gate. Retrieved 21 July 2014.
  7. ↑ "Best Sellers – Food and Fitness". New York Times. 11 January 2015. Retrieved 17 February 2015.
  8. ↑ Tim Nemec (1994-03-30). "FAQ: Vendor List – Version 1.05 – Coffee, Coffee Appliances, Related Accouterments".
  9. ↑ Stuart Wilson (1995). "Internet or Not?". Dave Asprey of the West American T-Shirt Company tried marketing his T-Shirts on UseNet, another internet function. The problem he avoided that he could have come across is that UseNet has a serious anti-commercial bias. He states, 'A newsgroup called "Alt.drugs. caffeine" had a serious base of coffee drinkers, so I created a shirt for them. I posted a message on that newsgroup that an unofficial "Alt.drugs" caffeine shirt was available. I got lots of orders. Enough that I made more from UseNet posts in 2 months than I had made locally in 6.'
  10. 1 2 Carney, Michael (February 14, 2014). "Bulletproof yourself: How Dave Asprey is teaching Valley insiders to hack their biology". PandoDaily. Retrieved June 14, 2015.
  11. 1 2 3 "How ‘Superfoods’ Like Bulletproof Coffee Get Popular". Healthline.
  12. 1 2 Khan, Amir (December 24, 2014). "The Bulletproof Diet Is Anything But". US News & World Report.
  13. ↑ "Dave Asprey Bio". Personal website. Retrieved 22 July 2017.
  14. ↑ Taylor, Dave (October 13, 1997). "Inside the Firewall: Intranets add fuel to the never-ending platform battle". 19 (41). InfoWorld.
  15. ↑ Shachtman, Noah (September 28, 1998). "Next-Level Web -- Businesses Are Raising The Skills Levels Of Their Web-Site Staffs". InformationWeek. CMP Media LLC.
  16. 1 2 3 Levinson, Meridith (October 14, 2011). "Stress Management: Better Living Through Technology". CIO. CXO Media Inc. Retrieved June 14, 2015.
  17. ↑ Barthhold, Jim (August 13, 2001). "Exodus hangs onto customers - for now Most are sticking with Web host despite analysts' warnings". 241 (7). Telephony: 32. ISSN 0040-2656.
  18. ↑ Broadhead, Steve (February 2008). "Optimising small business networks". ComputerWeekly.
  19. ↑ "Blue Coat Integrates Sophos True File Type Detection To Fight Malware". FirstPost. February 12, 2009. Retrieved June 14, 2015.
  20. ↑ Lawler, Ryan (March 22, 2012). "What big data really needs is security". Gigaom. Retrieved June 14, 2015.
  21. 1 2 3 "Could buttered coffee make you smarter?". Crain's Wealth. Bloomberg News. April 22, 2015. Retrieved June 14, 2015.
  22. ↑ "Bulletproof Nutrition Securities Registration". www.sec.gov. SEC Edgar. Retrieved 29 December 2016.
  23. 1 2 3 Megroz, Gordy (April 21, 2015). "Buttered Coffee Could Make You Invincible. And This Man Very Rich". Bloomberg Business. Bloomberg. Retrieved June 14, 2015.
  24. ↑ Xerox Contributor (7 October 2013). "XeroxVoice: Biohack Guru Stresses Big Data and Biofeedback for Wellness". Forbes.
  25. 1 2 Ogilvie, Jessica P. (27 July 2015). "David Asprey Wants You to Drink Coffee With Butter. Some Dismiss His Science (VIDEO)". L.A. Weekly.
  26. ↑ https://techcrunch.com/2015/07/23/trinity-bulletproof/
  27. 1 2 Julia Belluz (2014-12-19). "The Bulletproof Diet is everything wrong with eating in America". Retrieved 2015-02-10.
  28. 1 2 Megan Ogilvie (January 28, 2015). "Butter and coffee for breakfast touted as the latest weight-loss trick". The Star.
  29. 1 2 "Bulletproof Coffee, the New Power Drink of Silicon Valley". Fast Company.
  30. ↑ Jill Kransy (January 29, 2015). "Turning the 'Bulletproof' Coffee Craze Into a Big Brand". Inc. Magazine. Retrieved June 3, 2015.
  31. ↑ Toby Amidor (February 15, 2015). "Diet 101: The Bulletproof Diet". Food Network.
  32. ↑ Courtney Rubin (December 12, 2014). "The Cult of the Bulletproof Coffee". The New York Times. Retrieved June 3, 2015.
  33. ↑ Alana Kakoyiannis (October 18, 2014). "The One Thing You Can Add To Coffee For Even More Energy In The Morning". Business Insider. Retrieved June 3, 2015.
  34. ↑ Adam Hadhazy (January 28, 2015). "Should You be Drinking Bulletproof Coffee?". Men's Journal. Retrieved June 3, 2015.
  35. ↑ Andrew Weil (April 4, 2013). "Q and A Library: Should I Drink Bulletproof Coffee?". Weil Lifestyle. Retrieved June 3, 2015.
  36. ↑ Megroz, Gordy (21 April 2015). "Make You Invincible. And This Man Very Rich". Bloomberg Business. Retrieved 1 July 2015.
  37. ↑ Khan, Amir (24 December 2014). "The Bulletproof Diet Is Anything But". US News. Retrieved 16 February 2015.
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