You're listening to Bulletproof Radio with Dave Asprey.

Today's cool fact of the day is about cookie dough.

And it's not a cool fact of the day that you'll probably like because they just found

out that eating raw cookie dough can make you pretty sick.

And it turns out it's not the raw eggs.

In fact, raw eggs usually won't make you sick, especially if you wash them before you

crack them.

This is a substance called E. coli.

It's a bacteria.

And there's been several outbreaks in the U.S. and Canada over the last couple years

from people eating raw cookie dough, which has uncooked flour in it.

And it's funny because the CDC could not figure out how this happened until they finally

heard a bunch of people say, oh yeah, that's right.

I had some raw cookie dough.

So your best bet is, well, cook your cookies if you're going to eat them.

And better yet, don't use flour in them at least.

Not wheat flour because it has all sorts of stuff in it that you don't really want.

Or you could just eat one of the brand new Bulletproof chocolate chip cookie dough, college

and protein bars that are the best bar we've made in all of history that tastes exactly

like real cookie dough, but they're good for you and they taste amazing and all that kind

of stuff.

So if you don't know about the new flavor you do now, and sadly, no raw cookie dough for

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