Posted on 11/17/2025 7:22:43 AM PST by LouAvul
Mayo Clinic says a healthy person can eat up to 7 egg yolks a week
So, an otherwise healthy person can eat an egg a day? Their article doesn't define what constitutes a "healthy person." I had a stint put in a couple of years ago. I also take a statin. Does that put me in the "unhealthy category" and should avoid eggs?
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How about the scene from “Rocky” where he chugs all the raw eggs?
I heard eating raw eggs isn’t safe.
Suggest you research EDTA and its benefits in removing plaque from cardio vascular system..
Grok: No, dietary cholesterol is not a major factor in serum (blood) cholesterol levels for most people.
Key Evidence and Consensus (as of 2025)
Historical Context vs. Modern Understanding For decades, public health guidelines (e.g., American Heart Association before 2015) strongly recommended limiting dietary cholesterol (<300 mg/day, later <200 mg/day for high-risk individuals) because early observational studies linked cholesterol-rich foods (especially eggs) to heart disease.
This assumption was challenged by better-controlled research starting in the 1990s–2000s.
What Actually Determines Blood Cholesterol ~75–80% of blood cholesterol is produced by your liver (endogenous synthesis), regulated primarily by saturated fat intake, genetics, insulin resistance, and overall metabolic health. Only ~20–25% comes directly from diet, and the body tightly down-regulates its own production when dietary cholesterol intake rises (homeostatic compensation).
Meta-analyses of controlled feeding trials show that increasing dietary cholesterol by 100 mg/day typically raises LDL-C by only 2–4 mg/dL on average, and often has no effect in “hyper-responders” are the minority (15–25% of people).
Major Reviews and Guideline Changes 2015–2020 U.S. Dietary Guidelines: Removed the strict 300 mg/day limit, stating “cholesterol is not a nutrient of concern for overconsumption.”
2019 American College of Cardiology/AHA Guideline on Primary Prevention: Dietary cholesterol is no longer considered a primary target.
2021 European Society of Cardiology guidelines: Similar conclusion—focus on saturated fat, not cholesterol per se. Large 2020–2024 meta-analyses (e.g., Berger et al. 2015 ? updated cohorts through 2023) continue to show no significant association between egg intake (the richest common source) and cardiovascular events in the general population.
Exceptions Where Dietary Cholesterol Matters More “Hyper-responders” (genetic variants, e.g., APOE4 carriers or certain LDL receptor polymorphisms) can see larger LDL rises.
People with diabetes or familial hypercholesterolemia sometimes show greater sensitivity. Very high intakes (>1,000–1,500 mg/day, rare in normal diets) can overwhelm compensation in some individuals.
Bottom Line (Current Scientific Consensus)For the vast majority of people, eating cholesterol-rich foods (eggs, shrimp, liver, etc.) has minimal or no meaningful impact on blood cholesterol levels or cardiovascular risk.
The primary dietary drivers of elevated LDL and total cholesterol remain excess saturated fat (especially from processed foods), trans fats, refined carbohydrates, and overall caloric surplus leading to obesity/insulin resistance.You can safely eat 1–3 eggs per day (or equivalent cholesterol from other whole-food sources) without worrying about your cholesterol levels in almost all cases.
If you have very high LDL already or a strong family history of heart disease, get tested to see if you’re a hyper-responder—but even then, the effect is usually modest compared to fixing saturated fat or metabolic health.
Omelet this one go.
My son is a health nut, 26 years old and getting his masters in nutrition to become a licensed dietitian, and that kid eats between 4 and 6 eggs every day.
He’s also big on the carnivore diet as well, he put me on it and I dropped 80 lbs in about 4 months. He told me that certain professors will preach one way on eggs, others the exact opposite.
Yeah, you don’t want to end up like Stallone.
Your data is old. Eggs are heart healthy
That’s exactly right. Big Pharma controls the FDA so they can sell more drugs. And the FDA is completely complicit
I gave a copy to my doctor. She no longer recommends statins for me
Mayo is still hanging on to bad science.
Eat two-three eggs a day, preferably free range, anti-biotic free, cooked in Irish butter.
Cholesterol from diet is a myth.
What matters is not even LDL cholesterol but VLDL (broken fragments), seldom tested for, but caused by LDL oxidizing. So eat your veggies, fruits, coffee, mushrooms, and bitter spices.
Ancel Keys was Fauci, before Fauci. Killed a lot of Americans.
Cholesterol has nothing to do with causing atherosclerosis - it is part of what the body uses to repair damage caused by inflammation inside of the arteries. It is found in plaque, so it has been (incorrectly) blamed for causing plaque, when the inflammation is really to blame (which, in turn, is caused by too many carbs in the diet). Blaming cholesterol for heart disease is like blaming the firemen who show up to put out the fire that threatens to burn down your house.
By the way, your body (liver) produces 4-5 times as much cholesterol as you consume, so it certainly isn’t the cholesterol that you eat that would be the primary cause of heart disease, even IF cholesterol was actually the cause. Besides, cholesterol is a primary component of your brain, is necessary to the production of hormones in your body, and is part of the cell wall of every single cell in your body. Why would the body manufacture cholesterol if it was harmful, vs. the reality that it is a critical material for life?
Eat all of the eggs you want.
only eat one egg a day is outdated science. Start doing some research on cholesterol, there are many books written on the topic as well. Weird anomaly you might think, but people who make it to 100 tend to have high cholesterol. The type you want to avoid is the small dense ldl... but the statins don’t work on it, but they will lead to metabolic syndrome by the way of blood sugar issues! Traditional cholesterol tests will not reveal whether you have small dense or larger buoyant particles of ldl. I think a great way of evaluating your doctor is if he knows about the various tests. if you’re eating clean, you can eat lots of eggs every day, if you’re eating seed oils and junk, then you’re creating your own inflammation.
The Great Cholesterol Myth
Read that book and it is a real eye-opener. Tears apart the evolution that led to the fear. Making those, even with moderate elevation, beg for their meds.
Sadly, I followed the book, ate healthy, exercised daily. My cholesterol was always around 300 w/o meds. Now I have 2 stents (stints?) after 2 heart attacks, and my right artery is currently 100% blocked.
Even after all this, i still know it wasn’t random clotting from irratic LDL. My high numbers were/are only a symptom of another underlying condition.
All in all, I highly recommend your recommendation!
Play Percival rule of thumb is four eggs a day.YMMV
“Ancel Keys was Fauci, before Fauci. Killed a lot of Americans.”
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This.
But he made a fortune for Big Pharma and Big Food.
“Even after all this, i still know it wasn’t random clotting from irratic LDL. My high numbers were/are only a symptom of another underlying condition.”
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Inflammation, likely caused by too many carbs and/or seed oils.
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