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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when one of my kids was younger he could not pronounce “ yolks”. He called them “ oiks”...arou d our house its been “ oiks “ ever since
What BS.
When I go to the doctor I always get my cholesterol checked because my father had high cholesterol. The results always come back in the normal range. I tell the doctor, “Don’t blame me. I try to raise it.”
Good question.
We have to have or make (in our liver) 1,000 - 1,500 mg of cholesterol a day. An egg yolk is around 180 mg of cholesterol.
Dietary cholesterol appears to only increase blood cholesterol if it exceeds the need of the body during that ingestion process. So, eating more than a few egg yolks at once would push up blood cholesterol, but if you ate five over the course of a whole day, with no other cholesterol source, you would seemingly be fine and wouldn’t have to make it.
Well said.
A fairly strict keto diet has put my cholesterol numbers in the ideal range - I probably eat eat least 14 eggs a week - and ton of meats and cheeses
Every few months I go off it for the beer and chips enjoyment, but make sure to get back on long before I have to fast and retest
All vertebrates eating eggs in the first 517,999,885 years of that period are dead. Cause and effect?
Who still trusts the medical profession?
When I was a yute, I raised and cared for about 2 dozen chickens and they kept us in both eggs and meat from when I was ten until I went into the Army and then my younger brothers took care of them until they too left home.
If you have a little space {we had 2 acres in the country} keeping chickens is easy and it saves loads of money.
I am a “hyper-responder”...I went on KETO diet a few months ago...total chol 317...my CRP dropped by about half to .71
Will repeat a CIMT test in January. Last Jan showed some plaque...goal is none.
Eggs are good food. Your brain is made of cholesterol. I don’t believe their nonsense. I eat three eggs every day and have zero health issues at 68. No meds, no nothing.
I’ve noticed a 100% correlation with being born and dying.
100%
“Last Jan showed some plaque...goal is none.”
Does plaque ever go away?
Do you mind me asking, what was your underlying condition?
Evidently, there are ways to reduce it and make it go away...natto kinase may be one...not sure of others. Will be interesting to see my next CIMT with the drop in my CRP.
I have no stents and no heart disease at age 85.5.
I eat one egg omelette every morning. And I eat hi cholesterol stuff like shrimp and pork chops & ground beef burgers. My best guess is 30 minutes mild aerobic exercise 365 days of the year is saving my azz.
What are your CRP, A1C and APOB levels? They might tell the story.
Cholesterol is largely genetic. It depends on the type.
You have that right. Nothing bad about eggs. Remember when the “ scientists” said for decades butter is bad? Use margarine ( a killer). DO NOT trust man’s modern science, remember the Covid debacle?
A co worker ate two three eggs a day, never caught Covid. I took Ivermectin, same same. We are both Purebloods, It is a shame how many got sucked into the “ scientists “ science.
Eat eggs, use butter, in fact do everything opposite of what their modern advice is.....my Grandmother did, lived to 98, my Aunt did, lived to 96, my mother does ( loves butter and eggs) and she is 94.
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