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Eggs

Eggs are a common food item, produced by female animals of many different species, but most commonly consumed by humans are chicken eggs. They are rich in protein, vitamins, and minerals, particularly vitamin B2 (riboflavin), vitamin B12, vitamin D, and iodine.

Category
Food
Molecular Formula
N/A
Mechanism of Action
Eggs provide essential nutrients that are absorbed and utilized by various metabolic processes in the body.
Evidence Grade
A

Other Names

  • Chicken eggs
  • Hen eggs

Primary Benefits

  • High in protein
  • Source of vitamins and minerals
  • Promotes eye health
  • May improve cholesterol levels

Recommended Dosage

Amount 2 eggs
Frequency daily
Method consumption

Side Effects

  • Allergic reactions in some individuals

Precautions

  • Not suitable for individuals with egg allergy

Interactions

  • Antihypertensive drugs: may decrease blood pressure more than intended

Key References

  • Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 'Eggs and Heart Disease'
  • American Heart Association, 'Are Eggs Good For You or Not?'
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“I think if you've got the disposable income to do it go for it it's not included in a standard blood panel no wow the only way women in my practice who've had amhs done and have looked at their follicle count are women who want to freeze their eggs or are having trouble getting pregnant so they are in the reproductive Endocrinology system and they're getting an evaluation and then they're also the women who have symptoms of early menopause so premature ovarian insufficiency which is before age 40.”

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“if you really wanted to eat a very low linolic acid diet how would you do it number one you'd get rid of all seed oils but number two three and four are going to surprise you you would not eat eggs you would not eat chicken and you would not eat pork”

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“You consume collagen, you break it down into both single amino acids, as you do when you eat an egg or a piece of beef.”

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“women that have higher levels of BPA have had fewer eggs retrieved”

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“you generally want something like 2third of your fats to come from plant fats poly and monounsaturated maybe onethird of your fats to come from saturated fat sources like eggs and beef and things like that”

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“when you break your fast protein and healthy fats or protein and carbs it's never carbs naked you know use the term you know naked carbs meaning you don't just sit down any bowl of chips you want to have a steak or a piece of chicken or a piece of fish or some egg and you could have some carbs with that correct but eat the meat or the protein first.”

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“the number one thing is eggs don't eat eggs because the pathogens, the virus, the shingles virus feeds off of eggs”

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“nobody knows what's going on or causing all of that so then you know hey wait a minute but there was a paid for study saying that it's really good for me and my doctor recommended them because it's a great protein Source let me just eat them and then try to do my keto diet with eggs let me try to do this diet maybe stay away from gluten but in the end and have total respect for everybody that's trying to experiment and you know you'll see it on YouTube too you'll see like a few years ago people being like okay I'm doing this and then all of a sudden they're getting sick like it's showcasing now because we have a documented record we've never had before with people with symptoms it's showcasing things now like on social media we're seeing it now where someone's like okay I'm loving my eggs I'm doing it for like you know a year or whatever and then a year later you know they're getting eczema and psoriasis and they don't know why it's like things are we're seeing it now when we never even could see it before because you…”

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“okay so we got no eggs no Dairy what else okay those are those these are the two these are the basics these are the two big ones you eliminate that you should be yeah and gluten is your third basic that's your third those three so anything that tastes good eliminate whether you want to stay animal protein whether you want to be vegan TV in the plant-based that's what you get rid of whether you're gluten dairy eggs yeah yeah exactly but you're saying meat is okay or plant-based is okay and or what's the ideal well meat here's what experience that you should be I'm a big supporter plant-based huge supporter okay the spirit of compassion a big supporter absolutely okay plant-based when I mean total big supporter okay but I'm not I'm not anti the Animal product crowd and what they're doing because I'm not against meat either and I think it gets the plant Pro the plant uh based people mad at me that are that love me they're like wait a minute he's not against him how come he's not against him how come he's not fighting for staying away from you know animal…”

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“You can find it. Uh a good pasture-raised uh pork or chicken or eggs, like you said, is almost impossible to find.”

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“You choose white bread so even if it's the same number of calories say you choose a white bread versus an egg when you eat that white bread glucose spikes up insulin spikes up when insulin spikes up it says put all those calories into storage.”

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“like you eat bread you eat an egg we can measure the difference in the hormones that you've stimulated right it's not just an airy fairy we know it 100 for sure that there is a difference and yet we have to pretend that those hormonal differences make no doesn't matter right which is ridiculous”

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“a certain number of calories 100 calories of bread versus 100 calories of egg are going to have different effects on the body they have different hormonal effects”

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“she cut the calories of the dog, she got uh pollic fish oil, raw eggs and cut all the calories everything was all natural for this dog.”

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“carbohydrates are really important so we see that there is a development of egg maturation we have better endocrine pulse so that means that our hormones that pulse on a daily basis they actually have the full pulse um and return to Baseline to encourage the body a really robust endocrine system so that's thyroid that's our menstrual cycle it's all of the things”

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“after ovulation like I said progesterone comes up it's only produced if we ovulate because progesterone is produced from the breakdown of the housing of the egg progesterone like I said earlier will hold everything in the blood it will tell the body we need more blood glucose and we need that glucose to come to the endometrial lining we also need more amino acids so we're going to break down lean mass or I'm going to make this person crave more protein oriented Foods so that I can have amino acids to come in”

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“So within the limits that we typically eat our food containing cholesterol, that dietary cholesterol does not impact our circula cholesterol obviously at extremes it does but if you're having one to two eggs a day that's an intake of cholesterol that's not going to negatively for most people impact your circulating levels of this LDL bad cholesterol.”

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“if you factor out the people who ate hamburgers at fast food every day and basically find the people who had protein intakes that had reasonable vegetable intakes it all washes out and eggs become a positive”

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“the whole egg near perfect protein score in terms of its bioavailability um eggs are terrific.”

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“I was told I can't eat fruit or I can't eat eggs I can't eat dairy I can't eat shellfish none of those are true it's all about how those things kind of like sit in with everything else that you're doing.”

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“I think eating the foods some of them I listed off before like Meat and Fish and eggs and vegetables and fruits and some I do like starches like you know rice oatmeal some pastas some sourdough Breads and things I love butter who doesn't love butter um of course none of that stuff in excess olive oil but if one looks at kind of that Buffet of options you realize you can get some high quality amino acids you can get some high quality lipids you probably want to get more of them from olive oil than from butter but you can get the micronutrients you need provided those food sources are healthy.”

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“protein of course Very potently stimulates these nutrient receptor cells and specifically like veiling and glutamine seem to have a potent stimulatory effect on glp1 so you're find that and like meat and turkey and eggs and things like that”

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“bioavailability gets lumped into quality protein like this. So there are these charts, right, that say that, you know, egg is the near-perfect protein or beef is the near perfect protein because of the bioavailability, our ability to use the amino acids as opposed to the amino acids being bound up by fiber or somehow not accessible.”

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“a Savory breakfast is what it's based around protein eggs uh fish meat tofu nuts Dairy protein powder dinner leftovers”

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“the evidence would support two to three times that amount closer to 9 n gam of Lucine per day and just to calibrate us n gram of Lucine again is essential amino acid we can only get from food per day what does that equate to in terms of the total amount of let's say egg or steak protein that one would need to eat in order to ensure that just rough roughly yes.”

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“why is it that if I eat a plate of scrambled eggs or a steak or a chicken breast and some vegetables I feel very sated... but that if I eat any of those same foods and one piece of a baguette or one fork full of pasta that then I want a lot more pasta and I want half the loaf of bread?”

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“I've heard that certain forms of animal protein and other proteins are more beneficial at certain times of day for instance meat and eggs early in the day maybe chicken and fish in the middle of the day and that casine and milk proteins might be more advantageous for muscle Health in the final meal of the day or closer to bedtime.”

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“Coline is important for brain function, lutein it's much higher in Greens like kale but there's some in at least pasture raised eggs.”

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“I think eggs is a really good source of protein for breakfast because it's very nutrient-dense with the choline as well.”

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“I like to also have some smoked salmon and eggs so like my Omega-3s.”

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“lutein, found in egg yolk and highly concentrated in kale, is a type of carotenoid that accumulates in the rods and cones of your eye and protects against singlet oxygen from Blue Light and sunshine.”

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“if you can just walk the outside perimeter of the grocery store and only buy what's there and not go up and down the aisles you're going to do a lot better because what you're probably going to end up eating is vegetables fruit meat eggs dairy cheese like you're going to not get into processed foods very much.”

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