Recently, I’ve been thinking about how nutritional supplements go in and out of favor almost as quickly as costume changes at a Britney Spears concert. Sometimes a supplement gets a lot of attention only to quickly fade into yesterday’s news (Red Rice Yeast, anyone?). Sometimes a supplement is so inarguably powerful and important that it

When I was a kid, my grandmother was always trying to get me to eat a lot of foods you had to chew a lot. “Gives you roughage”, she’d say wisely. “Keeps you regular”. Well, that was then, this is now. Our prune-eating grandmothers were onto something, but they had just scratched the tip of

This last weekend I attended a seminar in San Diego, and one of the sponsors was Bulletproof Coffee. What is bulletproof coffee, you ask? The short answer is that it’s coffee with butter in it (more on that in a moment). The long answer is that it’s the brainchild of Silicon Valley entrepreneur Dave Aspery,