Let me ask you this for a second.

How many eggs per day do you think is 'healthy' to eat per day?

What if I told you that you could scramble a baker's dozen daily and be healthy AF.

The word 'superfood' gets thrown around way too often, but the humble egg has earned the title of legit superfood.

Yet, for decades it's reputation was tarnished.

I'm about to rectify that once and for all...

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Funny story...

​I ate so many eggs that I made myself intolerant to them.

How did I do that you ask?

There was a stage in my life where I was eating 6-8 eggs daily for several years.

Long story short, during a personal training session in the gym I had to make an abrupt exit to the bathroom...​

I'll let you decipher the rest 😂

How did I know it was the eggs?

I did the same thing a few days later. Egg’s where the common denominator.

I took a break for a couple of years and now I'm at a pitiful 3-4 daily 😂

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Eating that many eggs each day, there are two things that ALWAYS happen when someone finds out.

(FYI, I'm not going around randomly telling people about my egg consumption. That would be weird 😂 90% of the time it's a client that asks me.)
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1. That have a look of complete shock on their face.
2. They ask the following question...

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Q: Isn’t eating that many eggs BAD for you?​

There's a strong possibility that you're thinking the very same thing. Aren’t you?

Well, the answer is a resounding NO!

Eating that many eggs is NOT bad for you.

There has long been a massive misconception around heart disease and the cholesterol found in foods.

The thinking behind it was simple, and to be honest, it's easy to see why it caught on like a house on fire...​

This very outdated and somewhat simplistic view, proclaimed that eating cholesterol-rich foods caused the so-called 'bad cholesterol' to accumulate in our blood and make a mess of our arteries.

In his book "Outlive", Dr. Peter Attia excellently explains it...

"It's as if you poured bacon grease down the kitchen drain every time you make breakfast. Sooner or later, you sink will back up."

Back in the 60's, the superfood that is the egg was in for a particular rough time, thanks to a bit of research from the American Heart Association.

They accused the poor old egg of causing heart disease because of its high cholesterol content.

Their advice?

That all individuals consume less than 300 mg of dietary cholesterol per day and no more than three whole eggs per week.​

That means I was eating twice the recommended amount in one meal, and over 1000% for the week.

How am I still alive?​

As a result, the reputation of eggs not only got scrambled, it got battered!

So for decades, the egg has had to deal with the label of being a killer, despite it being a legitimate superfood.​

This recommendation to limit eggs to three per week drastically changed the populations dietary habits.

​Not only did it result in the public limiting a highly nutritious and affordable source of high quality nutrients, including choline which was limited in the diets of most individuals, it limited one of the most bioavailable protein sources we have.

​Bioavailability of protein is how much of the protein in a food source the body can utilise.

​The protein found in eggs is utilised by the body at a much higher percentage than that of chicken and beef.

​Now, why would they be so bold in their statement around eggs considering how nutritional they are?

​Well eating a diet high in saturated fats can increase the buildup of plaque on the walls of arteries. The plaque can cause arteries to narrow, blocking blood flow, and leading to potential heart issues.

​But as I've said, the cholesterol found in food, and in particular eggs, does not contribute to the cholesterol circulating around our body.

​In fact, most of the cholesterol found in our food ends up coming out of our arse.

​Most of our cholesterol is produced by our own cells, not by food.

​Ever since the 60's, the humble egg has been working tirelessly to repair its reputation as a legit superfood, and its had some help along the way...

Research in 1999 which involved 117,000 men and women documented no differences in cardiovascular disease risk between those consuming one egg a week versus one egg a day.

​​Another paper in 2007 involving 9734 adults aged 25 to 74 years further disproved the idea that egg consumption was linked to cardiovascular disease and stroke.

​There was research out of Japan in 2006 that involved 90, 735 people showed that egg consumption was not associated with the risk of cardiovascular heart disease.

I could name a bunch of other studies, but you can see that the evidence is crystal clear...

​The consumption of eggs does NOT cause circulating cholesterol to rise.

​In 2002, over 20 years ago, the American Heart Association dropped it's recommendation of no more than 3 whole eggs per week.​

And while the US continued to recommend limits on dietary cholesterol, a quantity of countries removed dietary cholesterol restrictions from their national dietary guidelines (Australia, Great Britain, Ireland to name a few).​

But then something very surprising happened.​

When publishing their guidelines for 2015, the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (DGAC) stated the following in its report...​

“Previously, the Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommended that cholesterol intake be limited to no more than 300 mg/day. The 2015 DGAC will not bring forward this recommendation because available evidence shows no appreciable relationship between consumption of dietary cholesterol and serum cholesterol.”​

Just like that, a recommendation known worldwide that lasted for a whopping 47 years had been discarded.

Opening the doors for the humble egg to reclaim it's spot with the food gods.​

So there ya go, conclusive evidence once and for all.

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