I want to talk about why I consume four eggs every single day. I did a seminar at Exxon many years ago and I noticed they didn’t invite me back and I called him up I said why can’t I come back and do another seminar because I do a seminar series and they said well you’re recommending 45 eggs a day.
I said no no no no I didn’t say 45 eggs a day I said four to five eggs a day okay and they go oh okay yeah you can come back but generally I will need four eggs and sometimes only need five eggs per day.
Now of course those eggs are not consumed at breakfast they’re actually at my first meal right around one or even two sometimes three o’clock in the afternoon so.
One of the key reasons that I consume eggs on a regular basis not only do I enjoy it but eggs have the greatest anabolic effect okay. Anabolic means that it’s turning into muscle protein or other proteins so it’s building more protein in the body I have a little scale here that shows these percentages and the type of protein so egg forty eight percent of it actually turns into body tissue and I’m not talking about even absorption I’m talking about forty percent of that egg actually turns into your body tissue and that’s pretty much the highest not counting breast milk unless you’re a baby.
You’re not gonna be able to get it now when we take meat fish file that’s 32 percent okay much less an egg white is 17 percent which is fascinating because that cholesterol and fat actually help in the anabolic effect.
Look at soy only 17 percent it might be high in amino acids but it does not turn into body tissue that well.
Dairy whey this would be like cheese and whey 16 percent very small spirulina six percent so if we take 4 eggs comes out to 24 grams of protein times point four eight so eleven point five two grams are actually turning in the body you look at me 24 grams only 7.
68 grams of it is actually turning in the body tissue so you’re gonna have to consume more meat to get the same efficiency as for eggs.
Okay Dairy is only three point four eight grams actually turning into body tissue so you can see that you would have to consume a lot more dairy to create this effect so eggs are very efficient in
turning in the body tissue.
Not only that they’re very high in nutrients. They pretty much have every single vitamin and mineral except item and see the load with B vitamins choline healthy fats which is right here so it has DHA EPA…it has a lot of the carotenoids which is good for the eye and prevent macular degeneration.
It has choline which helps prevent a fatty liver and helps your nervous system now if there’s any consideration your mind that eating eggs will increase your cholesterol, realize that there is
absolutely no data that will increase your so-called bad cholesterol LDL.
It will increase your good cholesterol HDL so it is not bad for the heart. So you don’t have to worry about that. So anyway I just wanted to point this out and recommend that you also get pasture-raised organic eggs. It’s a little bit more expensive but it’s definitely worth it.
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