so here's an interesting question what if your only protein source came from egg what would happen would you build up all this cholesterol in your arteries and die of a heart attack maybe a stroke well actually no you would not let me explain why in six major clinical studies it was found that eggs did not increase or was not associated with heart disease in healthy people they talk about all the benefits of eggs and how it doesn't create a problem other than increase your good cholesterol and have all these other nutrients but the recommendation is
really less than two eggs a day which is interesting if eggs are so good why aren't they recommending that and i'm going to get to that in a minute if you look at any in all negative studies relating to eggs they're all questionnaire studies they're observational studies and those are not real credible studies at all so if you have a political slant or maybe a certain bias and you want a study to look a certain way just do an observational study because you could make those look any which way you want and you're basically just
giving people a bunch of questions and forcing them to answer a certain way first of all how is someone going to remember what they ate even two days ago let alone months or even years ago so what would happen if you just relied on eggs as your only source of protein you'd actually do much better health-wise and that's what i want to get into in this video i think the big problem that people have with eggs is being brainwashed i mean educated in that eggs are high in cholesterol when in fact they are high in
cholesterol okay but they also contain lecithin okay which is the antidote to cholesterol they're loaded with choline which is in it's actually one of the ingredients in bile salts that helps break down cholesterol and as well as b3 which is probably the best antidote to cholesterol problems so if you're concerned at all about eggs increasing your cholesterol and making things worse you don't have to have that concern anymore now what's so different about eggs versus other sources of protein the egg is the highest quality source of protein other than breast milk okay it has virtually
every nutrient that you need and it's uh its amino acid profile is complete the nutrients and amino acids are very bioavailable the waste product from eggs is so minimal because you're utilizing all this great protein so eggs are number one meat is number two dairy is three and plant-based protein is low on the list in fact the protein you get from plant-based sources is actually pretty poor and unfortunately as much as you hear on the news about everything shifting the plant base that every man woman and child should be a vegan you have to realize
that the studies are observational and there's so much political bias going on right now regarding plant-based away from real science and of course the attack against red meat is big time they put in the same category as processed meat and even of the same caliber as like sugar and refined sugars so here you have this meat that we've been eating for you know thousands and thousands of years it's just not just nutrient dense but if you're consuming something that's grass-fed grass finished you're getting a very high source of protein that can greatly help you not
just with your muscles but repair the proteins overall in general sometimes people think about proteins as just muscle but you have all the enzymes in your body the different metabolic pathways are all protein a good portion of your skin is protein good portion of your bone is protein your immune system is protein so when we're trying to replenish or repair proteins we need sufficient proteins and a bioavailable source that our body can really use efficiently but eggs are at the top of the list okay one egg will give you seven grams of protein and virtually
every single nutrient it may not give you all the vitamin c but it will give you the b vitamins vitamin a vitamin d vitamin e vitamin k1 and k2 omega 3 fatty acids so this is packed full with nutrients okay so other types of protein are just like muscle protein but egg is a very unique source of protein because it's not just a muscle protein and there's a lot of amazing things and additional factors that can help your health one being something called sphingomyelin okay what is that well that's a compound that can help prevent
plaquing in your vascular system so if you're still hung up on this idea that eggs might clog your arteries actually it doesn't it actually prevents the plaquing of your arteries choline which is a really important nutrient that can help prevent a fatty liver in fact if you're deficient in choline you will get a fatty liver but choline is also necessary for a healthy brain and choline is a really good antidote to uh high cholesterol okay lutein and zeaxanthin these are two compounds that greatly support the macula of the eye that's the back part of the
eye and the macula helps you with central vision it also will help to act as a like a filter for for uv radiation as well as filtering blue light so there's a thing called age-related macular degeneration and these two compounds can help prevent that condition then we have something called phospholipids what's that it's combination between lipids and phosphorus which is a great anti-inflammatory it's very important in building your cell membranes and then we have the the protein and egg so people have been confused about the egg whites and the yolk okay they think that all
the protein is in the egg whites but did you realize that if we compare per 100 gram of the yolk versus the white the yolk has 16.4 grams of protein per 100 gram and the white only has 10.8 grams of protein per 100 gram so per weight the yolk has more protein not to mention it has so many other things that are essential for repair and even preventing something called sarcopenia which is a age-related muscle loss condition in fact i'll put one study below that compares consuming whole eggs versus just the egg whites and it
demonstrated that if you have the whole egg you have better results with post exercise repair and muscle building so if you're trying to build muscle and you're just doing the egg whites you might want to do the whole egg the other thing i'm going to mention as a side note is what about just you know drinking your eggs raw well the problem with raw eggs and i'm not against it in certain amounts but raw eggs have a protease inhibitor okay that means that the enzyme to help break down protein is inhibited so you may not
get the full benefit of that egg white not to mention you may develop a biotin deficiency if you have a large amount and so this compound is kind of nullified when you heat the egg when you cook the egg and the best form of an egg i would recommend is something like an over easy egg where the egg yolk is runny okay but you're cooking the white part but even if you scramble your egg or your hard boiler egg you're still gaining a lot of benefits so i don't want to get too far in the
woods with the cooking methods of an egg but i will say that at this point realize that eggs in general are super super healthy especially if you want to get a high quality source of amino acid there's even some data on certain compounds and eggs giving an anti-cancer effect as well as an immuno modulation effect which can help regulate your immune system so the idea of consuming eggs as your primary protein source it really the only drawback i see that it has is nothing related to health it has to do with maybe boredom and making
your foods more interesting by adding different protein sources but if you were to just to consume eggs as your primary protein source you would not only increase your health but you would probably increase your digestion as well because eggs seem to be very easily digested for most people unless you have an allergy so realize that eggs only have seven grams of protein right so depending on your the size of your body how much you weigh how much muscle you have your age really will determine how much a protein you really need to replenish those amino
acids so less than two eggs a day is not going to cut it okay so maybe if you have two three four or more eggs per meal now we're getting to an amount that your body really needs to satisfy its requirements since we're on the topic of eggs if you haven't seen this video okay on chickens you might want to check that out i put it right here you
