What Is A Keto Coffee?

My Two Keto Coffee Recipes

Many keto peeps are thrilled to discover that coffee, is indeed, a keto-approved drink. What’s even better, is that we can make a mean coffee that is just as good as any SAD (Standard American Diet) coffee. Perhaps you have heard of ‘Bulletproof’ coffee (also known in some circles as ‘butter coffee’)—this is basically the same thing, but not quite as strict of ingredients.

A keto coffee simply replaces the sugar and/or artificial ingredients with healthy fats and/or keto-approved sweeteners. By consuming this type of coffee instead of the SAD coffee, one can begin their day with more energy, improved mood, satiety, and improved brain function; it’s also anti-inflammatory, and promotes a healthy heart and a healthy gut.

Okay, so just so you’re aware, there are some variations, depending on who you are. Whether you’re keto or ketovore, (even some carnivores make an exception for coffee) there are different ways to enjoy what may just be the world’s favorite drink. Here is a list of possible ingredients (you wouldn’t add all of them: these are simply a list of potential elements to a keto coffee):

List of Possible Ingredients for Keto Coffee

• Your favorite coffee beans

• Your favorite instant coffee

• Heavy whipping cream (NOT milk)

• Grass-fed Butter

• Ghee

• Coconut oil

• MCT oil

• Pasture-raised egg yolk

• Unsweetened vanilla almond milk

• Unsweetened vanilla coconut milk

• Beef gelatin

• Collagen powder (from bone broth)

• Maca powder

• Monkfruit sweetener

• Stevia sweetener

• Erythritol sweetener (sugar alcohol)

• Dash of Redmond’s Real Salt

• Dash of pink Himalayan salt

• Pure vanilla extract

• Caramel extract

• Cacao powder (for a chocolaty flavor)

• Cinnamon

• Nutmeg

• Pumpkin pie spice

I have tried nearly all of these ingredients, and I did not have a bad experience with any of them, (I have not yet tried maca; if someone has tried it, please let me know your thoughts). Here are two of my favorite keto coffee recipes:

Spring’s Favorite Keto Coffee Recipes

Recipe #1 (closer to a bulletproof; heavier on the fat w/just a hint of sweetness)

Ingredients:

• 1 cup Kona coffee

• 2 tbs Grass-fed butter

• 1 tbs heavy whipping cream

• ½ tsp pure vanilla extract

• Dash of Redmond’s Real Salt

• Dash or two of cinnamon

Instructions:

Put it all together and blend with an immersion blender for 30 seconds or so. It should be foamy on top. Enjoy.

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Recipe #2 (still enough fat, but quick, sweet, and caramely)

Ingredients:

• 1 Cup Nescafe Taster’s Choice House Blend, instant coffee

• 1 tbs Grass-fed butter

• 2 tbs heavy whipping cream

• ½ tsp caramel extract

• Dash of Redmond’s Real Salt

• 1.5 tbs Monkfruit sweetener

Instructions:

Put it all together and blend with an immersion blender for 30 seconds or so. It should be foamy on top. Enjoy.

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As you can see, I like my coffee pretty rich. But you can play with the recipes I have here, or just create your own from the ingredients list I provided. I do variations of these recipes myself, as I like to change things up on occasion.

If you have an issue with dairy, just use ghee, or unsweetened coconut or almond milk instead; if you just want the extra fat with no sweeteners, just do coffee, add your favorite fat, and a dash of Redmond’s; if you are bold, try adding the egg yolk for fat. I tried it and was pleasantly surprised; it did not taste ‘eggy’ at all.

Get creative! I have even added pumpkin puree to my coffee, and a bit of pumpkin pie spice; it was spectacular! Heck, perhaps I will try a ‘bananas foster’ keto coffee next. Maybe it will be horrid, but maybe not.

If you need a little extra help, or an easier way to make your keto coffee at work, Jordan’s Skinny Syrups has a keto salted caramel syrup with MCT oil that’s pretty good, and not too burdensome on the pocketbook.

After I cross the bridge on the way home from Quincy, Illinois into Missouri, there is a fantastic little coffee drive-up called ‘Hebrews XI Coffee.’ They hook up a skinny frappé for me, with sugar-free chocolate syrup, heavy cream instead of milk, and they blend it. Y’all, it is FIRE! If any of you are in the area, I would highly recommend you stop by. Those Starbuck folks ain’t got nothin’ on Hebrews XI.

Just a heads up for those of you also doing daily IF (Intermittent Fasting)—any coffee that has fat in it, (i.e. butter, coconut oil, heavy cream, etc) will indeed, break your fast! Black coffee will not break your fast. As far as sweeteners go, there is a debate within the keto community over whether or not keto-approved sweeteners will break a fast, so you’ll have to use your own discernment on that one.

Personally, I keep anything sweetened within my eating window, as there is some evidence that any sweetness in your mouth will, at least somewhat, spike your blood sugar, and for me, this defeats the purpose of including IF in my keto lifestyle.

I would love to hear some of your favorite keto coffee recipes! God bless all of you on your journey to health and wholeness. Don’t just live but thrive.

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Is Keto Another Fad Diet?

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Dear Spring,

I am a fifty-three year old woman, in the middle of menopause, and sick and tired of people thinking I’m just lazy or a glutton. I eat less than all the skinny people around me, and I work out so hard that the bra strap on my sports bra actually snapped yesterday. I have tried diet after diet, and not one of them has helped me lose more than a few pounds. Is keto just another fad? Because I can’t take it anymore.

Sincerely,

Frustrated Fran from Kentucky

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Dear Fran,

Boy, do I feel your pain. I am premenopausal myself, and I can tell you, the ‘over forties’ game is no joke! Girl, the hot flashes are relentless—especially during the night.

Just like you, I tried various methods of getting healthy and losing weight, to no avail. Before I found keto, I was actually praying for Jesus to just come and get me. Please take heart, this is not another fad diet. In fact, it’s not a diet at all; it’s a lifestyle. It MUST be a lifestyle, because it does not work as simply a diet. If you use it as a diet and then go back to eating the same way you did before, all the same ailments you had before will just come flooding back.

Dive into the keto-carnivore communities, and read some of the thousands of testimonies of people who have broken free from obesity, diabetes, PCOS, arthritis, cancer, and many other diseases. (No, you do not necessarily have to have these diseases for the rest of your life).

A very good indication that you are in the right place, is that you can find all this information for free. The reason for this is that many of us who have had success with keto and/or carnivore want to share it with others for free, because we believe everyone on earth should have access to the truth about real nutrition, and how to attain real health.

Read my other blogs to find out how to do keto, ketovore, or carnivore. God bless all of you on your journey to health and wholeness. Don’t just live but thrive.

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Thin Does Not Equal Healthy

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As a kind of follow-up to my last advice blog, (Ketovore Advice Blog 13, responding to Susanna V’s inquiry) I wanted to share this with her and all of you…

This story is very personal to me, but I am sharing for the purpose of saving lives, if at all possible. It’s a story about the fittest, most incredible, extreme athlete I’ve ever known. Andre was the track star; a dancer; an avid snow boarder; a biker; a wakeboarder; and any other way he could manage to push his body, he was open to doing it.

Although he ate ‘healthy’ and never ceased from moving, Andre had failing kidneys; was in heart failure; and had type 2 diabetes. There were several other ailments plaguing him as well.

Before I started keto, when my body was so sick, and I was morbidly obese, I thought that surely I would die before him…because he was so healthy; so strong. But on May 8th of 2021, my fifty-nine year old husband of thirteen years passed away as I held his frail frame, that had withered to skin hanging on a skeleton, in the few short weeks he’d been in intensive care.

If he was here, he would want me to tell you: Sugar (and anything that turns to sugar) isn’t good for anyone. Don’t allow others to have charge over your health just because they have a few letters after their name. Do your own research, and make sure the information you are taking in wasn’t created by those with an agenda.

I will qualify all of this by saying that…sometimes it is, indeed, one’s time to leave this earth. Andre had a serious disease that was genetic. However, with the right nutrition, we were able to make Andre’s kidney function go back up, which stunned doctors, as they had never seen such a thing before. At one point, his kidney function went from 17% back up to 25% because of the keto lifestyle. Sadly, this wasn’t enough to save him. Could we have done so had we learned of keto earlier? Only God knows.

But if you believe that a genetic disease can’t be overcome, you are mistaken. I will be doing a future blog on ‘Epigenetics,’ to speak on this topic, so keep watch for it.

But the point is, it is unwise to put all your trust in that beautiful reflection you see in the mirror; if you do, you could discover a serious ailment later on, when it could be too late to do anything about it.

There are thousands of testimonies of people who have been healed of disease because of the keto lifestyle—many of whom have been thin. If the good Lord blesses you with such knowledge, why not take advantage of it, and live out whatever time you have left on this earth feeling whole instead of sick?

God bless all of you on your journey to health and wholeness. Don’t just live but thrive.

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Another Reason To Give Up Grains

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Dear Spring,

In one of your blog posts you said that grains are bad, but they’re not necessarily bad for everyone, right? A lot of people seem to use the keto diet to lose weight, but I eat grains daily and have no problem at all with my weight.

-Susanna V. from North Carolina

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Dear Susanna…

Insulin Resistance, which often leads to type 2 diabetes, as well as obesity, is not the only harm that can come from eating grains. I often feel that there is one benefit that overweight people have that thin people do not: People who are overweight have at least some visual indication that there is something wrong.

There’s a common misconception, that if a person is thin, that it means they are healthy. You can thank (at least in part) Big Food and Big Pharma for helping to perpetrate this lie. The size of their pocketbooks is directly affected by how much the general public believes their narrative. The more people catch on, and begin to eat the proper nutrition, the less money they make.

There are giant corporations living off the sickness of the masses. And until we understand this as a people, they will continue to use us like a parasite sucking the blood from its prey; except this kind of parasite doesn’t care if you die in the process, because you probably had offspring that can take your place.

An easy way to dupe the people is to have a product they first make you believe is healthy. Then they make sure you develop a dependence upon it, to ensure you keep coming back for more. They couldn’t have accomplished such a feat without first tampering with what God created.

For instance, what do you think happens when there is forty times the amount of gluten in a staple food such as wheat, than it once had? People become addicted to it, their bodies malfunction, and eventually…people die. If you’re old enough, you can remember a time, not so long ago, when there was no such thing as ‘gluten-intolerance.’

But other than our food becoming GMO, there is another serious problem that almost no one ever speaks about. What I’m referring to is the way in which grains are stored. Why would this be an issue you ask?

In the U.S., grains are stored in enormous silos. Within these silos, where the grain sits for long periods of time, fungus—or mold—begins to feed. The grain is packaged and transferred from the silos to the grocery stores, and then to our dinner table where we eat the grain that has the mold.

When ingested, the mold attacks our bodies by spewing mycotoxins; these mycotoxins cause inflammation, and as many of us know, inflammation causes disease. Which diseases? Well, all of them—arguably anyway.

Inflammation has been responsible for diseases such as cancer, diabetes, heart disease, Alzheimer’s, high blood pressure, aging, arthritis, and countless more. And you don’t have to be obese to have any of these illnesses—not even type 2 diabetes.

So why avoid grains? Because unless you live in some country where they adhere to far wiser grain storage practices, or you can somehow raise your own grain organically, (if, that is, you could acquire non-GMO grain) then mold will be waiting to wreak havoc in your body. I hope you do your own in-depth research to truly understand the truth.

God bless you on your journey to health and wholeness. Don’t just live but thrive.

-Spring Dalton

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Is The Keto Diet Safe?

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Dear Spring,

I have a couple of friends who are vegans, and they said that the keto diet isn’t safe, because our bodies require carbohydrates for energy, and fiber for proper digestion. They’re telling me that eating only protein and fat will harm organs and cause high cholesterol. What are your thoughts on this?

-Kenneth R. from Wyoming

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Dear Kenneth…

Indeed, I have heard similar arguments to the one your vegan friends are making. I can tell you that through my own research, my own experimentation, and hearing the testimonies of many people who have done keto, (and some who have tried vegan) that the keto lifestyle is not only safe, but highly beneficial to our bodies.

I have learned that what we have been told about carbohydrates, fiber, fat, protein, high cholesterol, and many other variables, (such as the food pyramid) has been false. I’ve also learned not to trust all information—even if I’ve been told something since birth; even if it’s coming from someone in a lab coat; even if I heard it on mainstream media; and even if it’s what most people believe.

My own personal improvements, in particular, are a testament to the legitimacy and effectiveness of the keto lifestyle. A few years ago, after trying countless methods of losing weight and getting healthy—without success—I was praying for God to just come and get me.

I tried excessive work out regimens like P90X, I tried diet pills, I tried the Blood Type Diet, and yes, I tried vegan too. Instead of God answering my prayer to come and get me, He gave me knowledge. And after quitting sugar, grains, and bad oils, I not only lost more than seventy-five pounds, but my adult acne went away; my fibroids shrunk; my PCOS symptoms dissipated; my feet ankles are no longer swollen; and I am no longer diabetic. That’s just a few of the improvements I’ve seen. For the full list, read ‘My Improvements After Switching to Ketovore.’

I am forty-eight years old, and I’m on ZERO medications. I achieved these results WITHOUT exercise. Not to say that exercise is not very good for you. Now that my body is in a state where I can benefit from it, I intend to begin an exercise regimen very soon.

My point is, I can only share with you what I have learned; you must find the truth for yourself, because just my word will not convince you. I would encourage you to take what I have said and dig deeper. This community is growing by the day; it is made up of people just like me who got tired of being sick, tired of being lied to, and who may have even lost loved ones to disease. Tens of thousands of people just like me are getting healed of disease. Please read the testimonies; they are powerful.

God bless you on your journey to healthy wholeness. Don’t just live, but thrive.

-Spring Dalton

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