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by driverdan 3009 days ago
Take a look at his supplement company and you'll quickly find he's a quack.

They sell collagen for $40/lb. Collagen is the cheapest, crappiest animal protein source and is incomplete. I bet their markup is over 1000%.

$23.50 for a 16oz bottle of coconut oil with unsubstantiated claims.

> Brain Octane oil is rapidly absorbed by your body and converted into brain-fueling, fat-burning ketone energy.

Fat isn't converted to ketones unless your body is low on carbs. If you are on a low carb diet the fat source doesn't matter. A ketone is a ketone.

Also he hasn't built a "$100 million empire" as the article claims. On LI he states that Bulletproof has a valuation of $100 million.

That leads me to another point. Why do investors keep putting money into these garbage supplement companies? Stop funding quackery.

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>Why do investors keep putting money into these garbage supplement companies?

Occam's razor says the investment pays off, not all investors have issues with the placebo business.