The Shocking Truth About Eggs & Heart Disease

Hello Health Champions today I want to talk  about the shocking truth regarding eggs and heart  

disease there is a prevailing truth an accepted  truth in mainstream medicine and in our society as  

a whole that cholesterol is bad that saturated fat  is bad that saturated fat increases cholesterol  

and that's why saturated fat is bad and also that  high levels of cholesterol causes heart disease  

and then basically we've been told this so many  times that we don't question it anymore that the  

case is closed this is how it is and we're going  to talk about all of these different factors and  

when I talk about it in a way that you learn  to think about it not just refer to some study  

or some article but you'll understand these things  and when you think about them you'll be able to go  

hey that makes sense or that does not make sense  but how come this became the prevailing truth the  

mainstream truth the current Dogma and a lot of it  has to do with the fact that we associate things  

that these fatty plaques have some cholesterol  in them and therefore we think hey that must  

come from somewhere it must be from what we're  eating it must be the cholesterol and a lot of  

that thinking had to do with something called  the seven countries study so this was late 50s  

early 60s where a guy called Ansel Keys who was a  nutritionist was very convincing in his arguments  

so here is how that study came about he studied  number of countries and as you soon notice there  

were a lot more than seven countries and in fact  there were 22 countries that he started with and  

then you would think this should be called the  22 countries study but he selected a number of  

these countries so these were the only countries  that ended up in the study which is five of them  

and then the other countries were scrapped because  they didn't fit what he was looking for so he was  

had this idea that he was trying to prove that  diets high in saturated fat and cholesterol in  

countries where they had those diets they also had  more heart disease so he had to pick the countries  

that match what he was trying to prove and that  was only five countries out of 22 that matched  

his criteria and then he had to go and find two  more countries Greece and Yugoslavia so now he  

had seven countries where he could kind of see a  pattern and that's what he published as the seven  

country study and you don't have to be a rocket  scientist to see that cherry picking like that  

is not a great idea if you want to be objective  but even so this has been hailed as a landmark  

study and is basically the foundation of why we  think the way we do today and since then there's  

been hundreds of studies performed on these topics  and they tend to kind of fall 50 50 or in in two  

opposite camps not necessarily equally split but  there are some studies that prove that show that  

high cholesterol troll is strongly correlated with  cardiovascular disease but for every study that  

says that there is another that says there there's  no correlation or even an inverse correlation that  

actually high cholesterol High saturated fat diets  result in less cardiovascular disease and that's  

why he had to scrap most of those 22 countries  because a lot of them actually showed the opposite  

relationship but why is it so difficult to  figure this out if we have gold standard research  

double-blind Placebo control why can't they figure  it out and one thing that we have to ask is who  

pays for it and these studies are not cheap they  are in the millions or tens of millions of dollars  

to perform a big comprehensive well designed  study so if you have tens of millions of dollars  

sitting around you can go and order yourself  a study and someone will be happy to perform  

it for you but for the most part the people or  the companies with that kind of money tend to be  

pharmaceutical companies so they have huge budgets  because it's in their best interest to prove that  

high cholesterol causes heart disease but here's  an astounding fact that most people don't realize  

but it kind of makes sense if you understand human  nature we don't want to look bad so if someone  

orders a study and they get the results back  and they're favorable then there's an 85 percent  

chance that their studies will get published if  they can get it through the peer review process  

to show that it's well designed and Rel relevant  then 85 percent of those will get published but  

if it is not favorable if the results coming back  do not support what they wanted then there's an  

85 percent chance that it won't get published and  these are not totally exact numbers because it's  

going to vary a little bit but they're roughly  in the ballpark and what this shows us is that  

what we call scientific truth that we base this  on double-blind placebo-controlled studies and  

we think hey what's out there what's published  that represents the truth but what's built into  

this process is a 45x bias toward the person who  ordered the entity who ordered the study so we  

can't just look at what's out there and assume  that that's the whole truth and nothing but the  

truth so I don't have tens of millions of dollars  sitting around either so I have performed some  

of my own studies on a smaller scale and you may  have seen those videos where I do something I get  

some blood work then I eat something and then I do  blood work again and then I report what happens so  

for example I ate 100 eggs in seven days and the  pre and post blood work showed a few items going  

up or down but overall I did not get sicker there  were no dramatic markers that I had a poor health  

after doing that then another time I ate a hundred  tablespoons of butter in 10 days and interestingly  

you would think that all that saturated fat  would end up in my bloodstream as triglycerides  

but my triglycerides went down and my insulin  resistance improved after doing that I ate a  

hundred hamburgers in 10 days or rather a hundred  hamburger patties because I didn't want to eat a  

bunch of bread and carbohydrate to screw up my  metabolism and interestingly my cholesterol went  

from 233 to 199 which is one of the lowest ones  I've had in recent decades and I don't really  

know why I thought it would stay pretty much the  same and another interesting thing was the blood  

urea nitrogen the bun which went from 16 to 10  even though I ate almost twice as much protein  

as I usually do and the residue from protein is  this nitrogen that we can measure in blood urea  

nitrogen and when I mentioned in that video that  I wasn't sure why that Bond went down and I still  

don't one of my viewers enlightened me and said of  course it went down because you ate the hamburger  

without the bond and if you notice I put quotation  marks around the word studies because I do that  

kind of tongue-in-cheek I don't believe that these  are good examples of research this is actually  

pretty bad science and I'm not claiming that it's  anything else and the reason is that the total  

sample population meaning the number of people  studied is exactly one namely myself and it still  

costs a few hundred bucks to do that so the reason  it's not great science is that I may not be like  

you whatever results I get could be different than  yours but I'm not claiming that it's good science  

or that I represent you but guess what when they  do bigger studies if they have a study with 10  

000 people in them and then they have 55 percent  of people respond a certain way that's going to  

create a trend it's going to be statistically  significant probably even though 4 500 people out  

of the 10 000 didn't respond that way and I'm just  making coarse gross examples here to illustrate  

something but the point is that it doesn't matter  how big the study is it may still not be like you  

okay so you still have to figure out you and the  way that you do that is in these videos I explain  

the mechanisms and the basic physiology so you can  start understanding how the Body Works rather than  

just looking at one example whether it's mine or  somebody else's and then you can look at your own  

blood work or you can look at your own results  in life how you feel your weight your waistline  

Etc and then you figure you out but you can't  do that unless you understand some mechanisms  

and some basic physiology let's look at some  very simple facts eggs have cholesterol eggs  

have saturated fat but the question then is  first if we eat a bunch of eggs does this  

mean that we raise our blood cholesterol we  don't know sometimes we do sometimes we don't  

but if it did go up would that be a bad thing  and here's the huge misconception that a lot  

of people think if it goes up then that's bad  but in itself it doesn't mean anything we have  

to look at the bigger picture now let's  take a look at the concept of conversion  

of turning one thing into another because based  on the prevailing truth about eggs cholesterol  

saturated fat and heart disease as a culture  we believe that dietary cholesterol leads to  

plaques leads to atherosclerosis so let's take an  example let's make a comparison so here we have  

an egg which has obviously cholesterol and  then we have this theory that this leads to  

plaquing and atherosclerosis and narrowing of  arteries and this is basically how we think  

based on these studies the seven country  studies that the cholesterol from here ends  

up as cholesterol in the plaque it's the same  cholesterol more of this leads to more of that  

but here is a question now if we assume that  maybe this isn't true maybe there's some  

conversion going on and let's ask a question  that if in another example that we have a cow

and this cow has a body with some fat in it  with some saturated fat with cholesterol in  

the fat this cow produces milk from which we  can make butter that has lots of fat lots of  

saturated fat lots of cholesterol so if this cow  is full of cholesterol where did that come from  

is it because that cow ate a bunch of eggs with  cholesterol did it eat a bunch of butter with  

cholesterol did it eat a bunch of meat does it  go around eating the other cows is that how the  

cholesterol ends up in the cow no if this cow eats  what it's supposed to then all it eats is grass  

green grass pure carbohydrates basically it has  a trace amount of protein and and fat in it but  

basically this cow eats things eats grass that has  no cholesterol and yet it ends up with all that  

cholesterol in the body so maybe if we understand  that there's a conversion process maybe that  

cholesterol in the plaque doesn't come from there  that's a possibility and this conversion is also  

known as metabolism which means to transform so  it's a form of transformation so if we look at the  

things that we eat as humans and we are by the way  quite similar to a cow in that we are both mammals  

we both store fat and we store it as about half  saturated and about half mono unsaturated that's  

typical for the body fat or both a cow and a human  so the big groups the big macronutrients that we  

eat are protein carbohydrates and fat and protein  the purpose is to turn into tissue to building  

blocks to body parts but the excess will actually  turn into carbohydrates and carbohydrates in turn  

can become fat but it can't work the other way  around so we can convert things sometimes one  

way but not necessarily both ways and then all  three of these turn into something called acetyl  

COA and don't worry about the name don't try  to memorize any of this I'm just trying to show  

you that we have something called conversion  metabolism transformation we eat these things  

and along the way they become something else this  is an intermediary metabolite that we use to make  

energy so if we make energy from protein carbs or  fat it's because we can turn it into acetyl COA  

but if we're really really low on carbs this  acetyl COA can turn into something else depending  

on circumstances depending on what's appropriate  for the body what it needs at that time so if  

we're low on carbs we can turn this acetyl-coa  into ketones and this acetyl-coa is also the  

raw material for cholesterol so again I'm just  trying to show you that this cholesterol didn't  

necessarily come from cholesterol that we can turn  anything that we eat can turn into cholesterol if  

we need it but here's the thing it's really not  a mystery anymore today we know what the cause of  

cardiovascular disease is and it is chronic  inflammation oxidative stress and something  

called insulin resistance I'm not going to go into  depth here because I've done videos on all of this  

and it's also something called metabolic syndrome  or Syndrome X and this is a label this is a cons  

steps when we're metabolically unhealthy then  we have certain manifestations and if we have  

abdominal obesity hypertension meaning high blood  pressure if we have high fasting glucose if your  

body can't control blood glucose as in type  2 diabetes if we have high triglyceride high  

blood fats also very common in diabetes if we  have low HDL the supposedly good cholesterol  

which of course there is no good or bad there's  just appropriate and appropriate cholesterol then  

if you have any three out of these five then they  consider you to have metabolic syndrome and then  

they know that you'll be predisposed to all these  different problems of heart disease Etc but the  

people with metabolic syndrome what they really  have is chronic inflammation oxidative stress and  

insulin resistance so these three things are the  causes that we need to work on and that we need  

to control and this is very very well established  there's really no discussion or controversy about  

this at all what there still is controversy about  is which type of foods and what type of Lifestyle  

will create these states that cause cardiovascular  disease but the question now in this video is do  

eggs cause cardiovascular disease so the question  is do eggs cause these three things and the answer  

is no they don't there is nothing in there  that causes insulin resistance or oxidative  

stress or inflammation unless you are allergic  to them then that becomes a bad food for you  

or if you combine the eggs with things like sugar  margarine and chemicals and this is the problem  

with a lot of observational studies like the seven  country studies that he picked countries that had  

a high intake of saturated fat and cholesterol  but what else did they eat did they eat a bunch of  

sugar margarine and chemicals how much did they  smoke do they ever exercise we don't know but  

here's what we do know High total cholesterol in  itself does not cause heart disease and here's a  

article that I've referenced once before but it's  so good I want to bring it back so basically they  

looked at the total cholesterol levels they only  measured two things they measure total cholesterol  

and how many people died and this was a huge study  because they did this in Korea over a decade or so  

and it was basically everyone in Korea more or  less so 12.8 million adults were part of this  

study and it's not like the seven country studies  where they don't know all the variables because  

here they were only interested in two they didn't  care what else they did they only looked at what  

happens with cholesterol and how many people  die of all the people who died what were their  

cholesterol levels so they looked at 12.8 million  adults and they looked at all cause mortalities  

what that means is they didn't really care if the  cholesterol caused heart disease or not all they  

know because you could maybe save a few people  from heart disease but if they die faster from  

something else then that's not really a gain is  it so all cause mortality is pretty much what  

we're interested in and here's the interesting  thing that they found that we're told that high  

cholesterol is bad low cholesterol is good and  they give people statin drugs I've had people  

come through my office on statin drugs with the  cholesterol under 120 and they keep giving them  

the stat drug as if less is always better but  here's what we find on this graph is that low  

cholesterol is really really bad like really low  cholesterol is really bad and if we compare that  

to very high cholesterol we see that a cholesterol  of of 110 120 is many many times worse much more  

likely to cause death than a cholesterol of 300  but when was the last time you saw a commercial  

for a medication to raise cholesterol it's like  oh my God your cholesterol is 120 we got to get  

we got to get you up into the 250s they don't  do that so much do they because we have this  

bad idea that less is always better and in fact  what we found in this study was that The Sweet  

Spot the absolute lowest death rate the optimal  cholesterol would fall somewhere around 2 30. and  

if we looked at the area where they had a very  slight increase above the lowest rate of death  

like less than 10 percent increase above that  lowest rate we would consider that a pretty good  

pretty good odds then that gives us a pretty wide  range where we are safe so anywhere from 180 to  

270 is a very slight increase in risk and then  we overlap that with the standard range with the  

normal recommendations that we get all over the  world is that the cutoff is a 200 anything over  

200 is too high and you should take medication  to control it and if you notice here that  

what the study found to be the optimal  range where you have just a slight increase  

Falls almost entirely in the red area where you  would be prescribed or recommended medication  

or lifestyle changes or both to lower your  cholesterol now let's just add one more factor  

to this because I think it's a great study but  remember they only look at the total cholesterol  

and the total amount of death all-cause mortality  but what we have to realize is that some of these  

people with high cholesterol were healthy and some  of them were very unhealthy and the other things  

that we just talked about that we know cause  heart disease that some of these people have those  

factors and some didn't so what if we were to take  this population and I'm speaking hypothetically  

now and we took all the people with abdominal  obesity and we took them out of here because  

we're trying to find out how does cholesterol  affect death if we now correct correct for the  

people who had abdominal obesity which we know is  a risk factor and we also take out the people who  

have hypertension and high fasting glucose high  triglycerides and low HDL we know these are risk  

factors for heart disease let's take these people  out so now we isolate more for what cholesterol in  

itself actually does and we also correct we take  the people out who have high insulin levels now we  

have a pure population where only cholesterol is  a causative factor of death and I believe not that  

I've ever known that they've done this study but  I very strongly believe that if we corrected for  

this then the curve would look like that it would  be almost flat and I don't know maybe around five  

six seven eight hundred total cholesterol that it  might go up for some other reason but I think the  

majority of people with cholesterol in the three  to four hundred range if we correct for this which  

we can control through lifestyle then we will  not have an increased risk from cholesterol and  

please hear me when I say that I'm not suggesting  that 350 is any better than 250 what I am saying  

the number of total cholesterol by itself is not  what we want to look at now let's just go back to  

the actual causes that we talked about and see why  do they cause heart disease or why is part of the  

reason so when we have insulin resistance chronic  inflammation oxidative stress and poor metabolic  

Health what happens in the body is that the LDL  changes it's not that LDL is bad but we can change  

LDL into something bad if we have these factors  present because LDL is normally relatively large  

I call it large and fluffy that's how your liver  produces it large and fluffy it actually comes  

from even larger lipoproteins that that shrink  down and then if they're healthy they kind of  

fall into this range but if we have these factors  these destructive factors present in the body then  

they hurt they damage these LDL particles and they  shrink so now this inflammation causes damage the  

inside of your blood vessels plus it makes these  small ldls unrecognizable you can't recycle them  

properly and they're small enough to go to the  wrong places and create damage so what I have  

found in clinical cases we have done hundreds of  these we do blood work on everyone we test the  

size of these in everyone so we can follow up and  see what the changes are and when we put people  

on a lifestyle change where they eat no sugar  and no seed oils no processed damaged vegetable  

oils we give them a high quality diet meaning good  quality meat fish chicken good quality vegetables  

low carb vegetables non-starchy vegetables and we  combine that with intermittent fasting meaning we  

restrict their feeding windows so they don't  eat every hour of every day we feed the meat  

vegetables and yes Eggs unless they are sensitive  to eggs then we take them out and we also give  

them high quality fats we give them extra virgin  olive oil lots of butter lard Tallow coconut oil  

Etc stable saturated fats plus of course extra  virgin olive oil which is mostly mono unsaturated  

then what we find is we measure these sizes before  and after and we find that it goes the other  

way that by making these lifestyle changes your  reduced inflammation and the oxidative stress and  

the insulin resistance and now the body can start  to slowly cycle out clean out these small damaged  

ldls and then the body as it makes new and healthy  ones then the proportion of these small ones get  

fewer and fewer lesser and less proportion but  then of course the question is does that always  

work does this work a hundred percent of the  time and the answer is no nothing works a hundred  

percent of the time and I put only here kind of  as a joke because 90 to 95 percent is Sensational  

and yet that is kind of where we're where we're  getting maybe not in the first couple of months  

maybe not the first time around for a lot of  people probably two-thirds to 75 percent they  

get dramatic changes like the first time through  but for others we might have to play around with  

it and figure out what they're sensitive to  is there an autoimmunity thing is there other  

things causing inflammation but we need to put  this in perspective the only 90 to 95 percent  

because there's something called Placebo and in  a double blind can placebo-controlled study they  

always have different groups and they give one  group a placebo meaning something that looks like  

it's going to do something but there's nothing in  there there's no active component in there and yet  

the placebo group always gets somewhere around 35  percent Improvement 35 percent of people notice  

Improvement even though they didn't get anything  so 35 percent is kind of the Baseline that's what  

you get no matter what because when people believe  that they're going to get better they get better  

and a success medication only has to be better  than placebo so if it's a very large study all  

they have to show is that it's statistically  significant that it's better than Placebo so  

one or two or three or five percent may be better  than Placebo and that's a sensational success for  

a medication and if a medication can show maybe  a 40 Improvement then they are super happy with  

that that's a sensational result but we of course  are not happy with 40 so we try to always get as  

close to a hundred as we can so now we want to  start looking at other sources of inflammation  

and this is where it gets tricky because now it  gets a little more complicated and a little bit  

more individual variation but there are things  like allergies there is other toxicity there  

is autoimmunity and of course gut issues if  you have inflammation in the gut if you have  

poor absorption if you have leaky gut now we have  lots of variables that might be hard to control at  

least in the short term that starts affecting  these numbers but if we're patient enough and  

we're willing to continue to make changes and  monitor blood work and and check on these then  

very often we can get to 98 99 and that doesn't  mean necessarily complete remission or that there  

are no symptoms left but that we are much better  off than we were and then there is that last one  

to two percent and this is very unfortunate but  some people are just given some bad cards that  

there are various genetic factors that if you do  all the things we talked about you're still going  

to be way better off but that may still not be  enough so the shocking truth about eggs and heart  

disease is that you have been lied to we have  all been lied to for much too long for decades  

they have been focusing all their attention on the  wrong guy they've been demonizing the hero because  

it's not about total cholesterol it's not about  dietary cholesterol it's not about saturated fats  

or how many eggs you eat it is about metabolic  health and all the factors that go into that like  

insulin toxicity gut health and the list goes on  and on and that's why we need to understand more  

about how the body works and how the world has  changed because the world has changed more in the  

last 50 years than it has in the previous fifty  thousand and we need to understand how does that  

affect us so that we don't just walk like lamps  to the slaughter so the solution is learn what  

real food is and eat that and this includes eggs  as many as you like make sure to get good quality  

eggs get the pastured eggs and eat both the yolk  and the egg white unless you have been found to be  

sensitive or allergic to eggs because then they're  going to create inflammation and then they're bad  

for you so everyone is different learn what works  for you but understand it from the mechanisms and  

the physiology if you enjoyed this video you're  going to love that one and if you truly want to  

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