I Tried Putting Mushrooms in my Coffee, so You Don’t Have to

Coffee, butter, MCT oil, and now lion’s mane

Charles Tumiotto Jackson
4 min readJun 13, 2020
Photo by Erik-Jan Leusink on Unsplash

For a while now, I have been skipping breakfast, and I’m having a cup of bulletproof coffee instead.

For those who don’t know, bulletproof coffee is a black coffee with two tablespoons of grass-fed butter and two tablespoons of MCT oil (a source of fat extracted from coconut oil.) This seemingly absurd beverage actually tastes great, and it’s supposed to provide clean, and long-lasting energy, as well as deep focus and excellent mental clarity.

To be honest, it works great for me. I started drinking it when I was following a ketogenic diet, but it’s a habit I kept even when I was off of it. It makes me feel a lot more energized than a classic breakfast. It’s easier and quicker to make. It requires fewer clean-ups, and, as I said, it tastes fantastic.

Because of my interest in health and diet, I’ve been recently spammed with ads on Facebook and Instagram about these new caffeine-free drinks that are supposed to give you an even better and longer boost than coffee.

I was ignoring them at first. I love my bulletproof coffee, after all. But I got curious after a while. That’s when I discovered that the emphasis was put on one ingredient: mushrooms, lion’s mane, to be…

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Charles Tumiotto Jackson

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