I Ate 100 EGGS In 7 Days: Here's What Happened To My CHOLESTEROL

Well I'm about to find out because I'm going to  the lab to get my blood drawn then I'm going to  

eat 100 eggs in seven days. I'm gonna get more  blood drawn, I'm going to compare the results  

and I'm gonna share them with you. Hello Health  Champions this is a very detailed cholesterol  

analysis of before and after I ate a hundred  eggs in seven days and I know the number one  

question on everyone's lips right now is did the  cholesterol go up but if you have that question  

that is the absolute wrong question and if you  clicked on this video just to find that out I  

absolutely guarantee that you will completely miss  the point of this video so please don't skip ahead  

I'm going to talk about eighty percent about how  cholesterol works and how they report it because  

if you don't have those Basics then what happened  to me will be completely and totally irrelevant  

but if you stick with it you're going to learn  some things that could save your life what we  

want to look at is the big picture and the balance  between some key markers so I'm going to designate  

with arrows if something stayed the same if it got  better or if it got worse so my total cholesterol  

went from 207 to 277. so that is about the same  and now you're just saying hey this guy is totally  

crazy 207 is not the same as 277 and yes I can  see that the number changed but what I'm talking  

about is the risk factor the total risk factor  and we're going to talk a lot about that my LDL  

went from 1 36 to 201 and that is also about the  same because by themselves those markers don't  

mean a whole lot my triglycerides stayed about  the same both the number and the risk factor  

my HDL went up a good bit so that's a little  bit of an improvement more isn't always better  

once you get up to 90 or 100 then it can be high  for the wrong reasons but if you're in the 50 60  

70 range then more is better also my TSH went up  which has to do with thyroid function and a slow  

thyroid can reduce your ability to process and  metabolize cholesterol and then we're going to  

talk about the size of the LDL particles and  here's something that got a little bit worse  

designated by a red arrow but the question is  how much worse did it get so if you stay with  

me you're going to grasp this picture and I don't  want anyone ever to get on a damaging medication  

for the wrong reasons if you're going to start  something you need to know why and you need to  

understand at least most of these markers and  what they mean and how they relate also we need  

of course a few disclaimers my results may not  be typical don't compare your results to mine but  

rather understand the mechanisms that I'm talking  about this is a study called n of 1 meaning the  

sample size is one person so statistically that  means very very little and results are also going  

to depend on genetics and your overall metabolic  health and finally this study is only seven days  

so in that time period you're not going to see a  lot of long-term changes and why was it so short  

well you try eating 15 eggs a day and seven days  are going to seem like a pretty long time and we  

also want to understand that results can be skewed  by events and complications that happen so if on  

day four you run into some yellow jackets or  three of them and you're highly sensitive that  

can create an inflammatory Cascade that can  also skew the results so I don't know if this  

influenced it but we have to keep that things like  that in the back of our mind and we also need to  

understand the concept of margin of error that  if something just changes is a couple of points  

it really doesn't mean anything so in this case  this is the same test page 1 and Page Three it is  

the same blood draw it was six vials taken from  the same vein at the same time on 10 12 and yet  

when they send it to two different departments one  it to evaluate the NMR and want to do the regular  

lipid profile we get two different results so  for this test on 10 12 there's a four percent  

discrepancy in the cholesterol that they measured  and when they checked the triglycerides there was  

even a 16 margin of error and this is something  they measure from the same blood sample and then  

the marker that most people are the most concerned  with is the LDL cholesterol and if you notice in  

parentheses here it says calculated that means  they don't actually measure LDL cholesterol well  

most of the time because it's very expensive most  of the time they're going to calculate it based on  

total cholesterol HDL and triglycerides and they  have a very complicated formula but if there's an  

error or margin of these numbers then you're also  going to have a margin of error on LDL so in this  

particular case there was an eight percent error  in the LDL and then eight days later when I did it  

again I'm not going to give you all those numbers  but we had four percent on the total we had one  

and a half percent error on the triglycerides and  we had a four percent error on the LDL so all of  

this is just to say that don't look at too much at  the nitty-gritty if one marker changes it doesn't  

really mean a whole lot if eight markers change  then we want to see are they moving in the same  

direction do we see a trend do we understand how  these work together and if you came here to find  

out what happens if you eat 100 eggs in seven days  then first we have to understand what is supposed  

to be a healthy cholesterol and what is really a  healthy cholesterol so first of all here is what's  

supposed to be this is what we've been told that  there's different levels of cholesterol that range  

from dangerous to at risk to what's called heart  healthy and in the general model lower cholesterol  

is always healthier but we're going to question  that very very strongly so they say a total  

cholesterol should be less than 200 you're at risk  between 200 and 239 and over 240 it is dangerous  

it is in the red zone it's like you're walking a  heart attack you could blow up at any time your  

LDL they say should be less than 100 and if you  saw on my test it was 200 and I'm not particularly  

concerned and maybe I'm crazy or maybe I know  this a little bit better than some at risk is 100  

to 130 and anything over 130 is dangerous and the  third marker often mentioned is triglycerides and  

they want that under 150 you're at risk between  150 and 199 and you're in a danger zone over 200  

and keep in mind mine are in the 50s and 60s but  with people who are truly at risk these numbers  

for triglycerides can get into 500 800 a thousand  and then when they quote these numbers they often  

say that don't blame yourself because there's  a lot of people with high cholesterol but don't  

worry because we have medications that can get  you from the danger zone into the heart healthy  

zone but what if none of that is true what is if  they got it completely wrong and maybe instead of  

blaming yourself you should celebrate your higher  cholesterol now please please keep in mind I'm not  

saying that higher is always better you could  be healthy with a high or a low cholesterol you  

could be sick with a high or a low cholesterol but  let's start understand how this works let's take a  

look at what Nature has to say about it it's the  leading science journal in the world and here's a  

study where they looked at the total cholesterol  relationship to all cause mortality meaning they  

don't care what they died from they just did  a study and they saw how many people died and  

what were their cholesterol 10 years earlier so  this is what's called a prospective cohort that  

means they measure the results first and then  they look at the results later so they have very  

little influence when they measure it they don't  know who is going to end up doing what so they  

did 12.8 million people and this was basically  everyone in Korea every adult in Korea that came  

through their Health Care system that recorded  everybody for a period of time between 2001 and  

2004 and then 10 years later they followed up  and they basically kept it really simple they  

just saw how many people died and what were  their cholesterol 10 years earlier so 600  

000 people died which is kind of normal across  the population five percent of people died in 10  

years and then this was published in 2019 so it's  relatively recent now let me break this down and  

make it simple for you this graph shows the hazard  ratio the risk of dying with a baseline of one  

so if you get up to two that means you doubled  your risk of death and if we look at this from  

the highest level of cholesterol where you have  cholesterol of 300 we see that that increased the  

risk by 30 percent whereas a very low cholesterol  of 110 120 increased your risk by 230 percent so a  

low cholesterol is eight times more dangerous than  a high cholesterol and I've had patients walk into  

the clinic with a cholesterol of 115 who were on  a Statin medication for many many years and when I  

asked them why are you on a Statin they said well  the doctors think it's the best just in case so  

they're taking a toxic medication that interferes  with the liver and get it down to a level where  

the risk of death is eight times higher just  from the cholesterol not the medication itself  

and now let's superimpose that color scale  from the previous slide where the green zone  

is lower in the mainstream in the current model  less cholesterol is always better they say but  

when we see how the so-called safe Zone has the  highest risk of all cause death we got to start  

questioning that right and what they call the  danger zone over 240 anything over 200 is at risk  

or in danger and that is where the curve is the  lowest that's the almost flat portion of the curve  

where the lowest risk is what they call the danger  zone and if we blow up that portion of the graph  

a little bit you can see that the curve is almost  flat you're going to increase your risk by two to  

three percent uh between 200 and 250. so that's  kind of the ideal not counting any other factors  

not counting metabolic syndrome or anything else  but 200 to 250 would be the safest range to be in  

we can also see that one 85 is about the same  risk as 265 or 170 is about the same risk as  

280. but why is it then that there are all these  other studies you ask that say for years that  

it's undoubtable it's unquestionable that lower  cholesterol is healthier we have to understand who  

pays for those studies and how are they conducted  so yes they conform to very strict standards  

they're called double-blind Placebo control and  all that good stuff but whoever pays for the study  

owns the study and if they don't get the results  that they were looking for they're not going to  

publish that study why would you pay money and  then get bad results and then tell everybody the  

bad results it just doesn't work like that so 9  out of 10 studies never get published and the ones  

that do get published they're not like super clear  it's like if you stand back far enough and you  

squint a little bit and you look at it sideways  then you could see that it's a little better like  

a couple of percent Improvement here and there  there is nothing really clear and then if you do  

enough of those studies then you're going to see  a pattern eventually but remember ninety percent  

were never published now this single graph here  is both genders and all ages so if we go and we  

look at the little bit older people 75 and up  and we look at men and women on the same graph  

uh now we see that that curve flattens out even  more so even at a cholesterol of 300 we're seeing  

like an eight to ten percent increased risk and  part of this might be that higher cholesterol  

is very protective for the brain that when people  get older they have much lower levels of dementia  

and neurological diseases if their cholesterol is  a bit higher but now it gets really good so we're  

going to come back to this graph we talked  about we're going to add a little bit to it  

and look at it a little bit differently so if  we measure insulin which I always do and 99.9  

percent of the time it's never done then we find  a reference range of 2.6 to 25 essentially so a  

normal range is two to five 25 is called type  2 diabetes it is called metabolic syndrome it  

is called severe metabolic disease and mine if  you notice was 2.9 that's typical for me then if  

we look at another marker called triglycerides  the normal range is 0 to 149 mine was 57 and if  

you look at what's normal is considered under  150 but mild to moderate is up to 500 that is  

an absolutely astounding number no one should  ever ever be close to that range and severe is  

considered 500 to a thousand so here's the point  that this curve only measures total cholesterol so  

it includes a lot of people with metabolic disease  and type 2 diabetes and these diabetics are going  

to be mostly on the high end because diabetics  and people with metabolic disease are not going  

to have super low triglycerides and super low  cholesterol so a healthy thing is to have high  

total cholesterol but low for the other metabolic  markers but this curve like I said is going to  

include a lot of people with type 2 diabetes and  those are the people who are sick those are the  

people driving this curb up so I would make a very  strong case for the fact that if we control if we  

actually didn't just measure total cholesterol  but we also ask who is a diabetic and we took  

those people out of that curve I I am convinced  that the curve would be virtually flat and I don't  

think a cholesterol of a thousand is necessarily  good and I don't know where it starts getting  

dangerous but I know it is much much higher than  300. I bet you've heard a million times that LDL  

is the bad cholesterol well that's not how it  works because the body makes LDL cholesterol  

and your body wouldn't make something bad trust me  however if this LDL gets damaged by inflammation  

then it shrinks if we have a lot of sugar it  causes glycation if we have a lot of oxidative  

stress like kind of rusting or inflammation all  those things shrink and damage the LDL particle  

and that is the bad thing not the LDL particle in  itself so in this test called an NMR they actually  

measure and count the LDL particles and they  measure their size so they want the total number  

to be less than a thousand and I went from 1491 to  1970. so by official standards my numbers were Sky  

High but I'm not concerned because if these are  large and fluffy and undamaged that represents  

no risk so what really matters is how many of the  total particles have been damaged and shrunk and  

are now small the body makes nice fluffy big LDL  and the Damage that is harmful shrinks the LDL so  

how many of the LDL are small well the reference  says less than 500 should be small I went from 111  

to 423 so I'm well below that number and if we  calculate a percentage the reference says that  

up to 53 percent is okay which I don't agree with  that's like an average risk and I started out at  

7.5 which is a very tiny fraction it is basically  bulletproof and then I went to 21 so how do we  

look at this I'm not at all happy about going from  excellent to slightly less good but I'm still way  

ahead of the curve way ahead of the areas where it  becomes a risk but trust me I'm not happy at all  

going from 111 to 423 that is a setback and the  other side of that is to measure the size the LDL  

size should be greater than 20.5 on average that's  the cutoff and perfect ideal number is somewhere  

around 22 which I had when I started and then I  went to 21.7 so that's not a change I'm at all  

happy with obviously but the good news is that I'm  still nowhere near any significant risk so let's  

make sense of all of this first of all I do not  recommend eating 100 eggs in seven days 15 eggs a  

day is not a lifestyle it's a stunt and I did it  to get people's attention and hopefully be able  

to educate about how these markers really work  and in doing this I try to change as little as  

possible but as you can understand eating 15 eggs  a day you're not going to be able to include all  

the other stuff you normally eat so I tried to  stick with some salads and eating some broccoli  

and avocado but I had to cut out a lot of the  other Meat and Fish and Chicken and so forth so  

it's far from a balanced diet and when you give  your body so much of one type of food very often  

you can upset your stomach a little bit so four or  five days into it my stomach wasn't real happy it  

was kind of rumbling and and giving me some signs  that this wasn't such a great idea so some of what  

happened I think is more of a shock to the system  kind of an overload I also normally just eat once  

or twice a day whereas now I had to eat basically  two to three times to get all of this in and that  

again can create some metabolic changes but  if we get back to summarizing and making some  

sense of these markers my LDL particle count it  increased but again that in itself is not a bad  

thing when we look at the milligram cholesterol  that went up same thing not a bad thing so we're  

marking this off with with arrows so we have  two markers in my opinion based on what we  

talked about in that Korean study stays the same  then my HDL cholesterol measured in milligrams  

improved significantly that's an arrow up my  triglycerides stayed about the same my total  

cholesterol the number increased but it's not a  bad thing in itself so we got four markers that  

basically did not change risk wise and then the  HDL particle count also improved significantly  

so that's the second Arrow up then we got to the  two that I just discussed the particle count for  

the LDL got worse it increased the risk factor and  the LDL size also went to smaller which indicates  

some inflammation and again when you overload when  you shock your system That's Not Unusual I would  

not actually ascribe that to the cholesterol or  anything else in the eggs but rather just doing  

a stupid stunt of shocking your body like that  and there's two more really interesting markers  

to complete the picture the first one is TSH that  went from 1.5 to 2.01 and if you notice the range  

is 0.45 to 4.5 again that's way too big a range a  10-fold range is not normal human physiology The  

Sweet Spot is about 1.823 and the middle of that  is around two and a half that's where you want  

to be so if it's less than 1.8 that actually  means that you're slightly hypothyroid you're  

functionally hypothyroid but it's because there is  some stress or inflammation that is blunting the  

pituitary so if the pituitary isn't sensitive to  the messages in the body it's not going to produce  

enough TSH and that that's not significantly  below 1.8 but it's kind of a little bit on the  

wrong side and getting it up half a point to two  really gets it into that optimal range so that's  

a significant Improvement where it helped my  overall metabolism and that's another arrow up  

and then we have homocysteine which is one of the  most important other than metabolic syndrome and  

Insulin homocysteine is probably the strongest  independent risk factor for heart disease it's  

a metabolite that the liver produces it but then  it converts it right back into something healthy  

which is an amino acid called methionine which  then later turns into the body's main antioxidants  

called glutathione but if you don't have enough  B vitamins and methylation factors those are just  

nutrients that help you can convert so you you  build up the homocysteine but if you can convert  

it then it goes right back into glutathione if  you don't have enough or if you don't use those  

nutrients efficiently your homocysteine builds  up and mine isn't super high if you notice the  

range again is 14 and a half some Labs reported as  high as 17. I like to see that below eight ideally  

under six and I hadn't taken I hadn't measured  this in a while I haven't taken any nutrients but  

eggs have a lot of these B vitamins that help  us converge so that's a significant change in  

just a few days we dropped it by almost two and  a half points so my recommendation is don't eat  

a hundred eggs in seven days eat a few eggs a  day if you enjoy them they're a wonderful food  

which I've talked about in some other videos and  learn enough to understand how cholesterol work  

and then share that knowledge and share that  video because this can save a life don't let  

people have a perfect metabolism and a healthy  cholesterol of 250 and get on a medication for  

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