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What 900 eggs did to my body and cholesterol
🕑 Added 2022-11-22 10:42:15 +0000 UTC <figure>
</figure><figure>Me BEFORE the eggs
</figure>The pictures above are when my 30 eggs a day for 30 eggs challenge started. It was a long road, but I finally finished eating the 900 whole eggs on November 10th. The very next morning I went and got a blood lipid test to see exactly what changed. I’m posting this 11 days later because it took forever for the clinic to finish my labs. Last time I shared a 1 week update of my blood lipids (210 eggs in), and there were some minor changes, but the final results after the whole month was up were unexpected.
<figure>My blood test before and 1 week in the egg diet
</figure>Here are the results before and just 1 week after
LDL to HDL ratio 2.75⇨ 2.5
LDL 102⇨108
HDL 37⇨43
Triglycerides 87⇨44
Blood Urea Nitrogen 22.6⇨16.7
Uric Acid 4.3⇨3.5
Above are the results after just a week of 30 eggs a day. Though, this was a mere week - a measly 210 eggs in. Maybe a week isn’t enough time. What havoc would 690 more eggs wreak?
<figure>Cooked egg whites with some beef, had the yolks raw here
</figure>I was pretty nervous to get my results because the last 8 days or so of this challenge I was not feeling so good to be totally honest. After about a week I was feeling great - tons of energy in the gym, tons of energy while I was doing my work and I didn’t procrastinate as much as usual At some point, it was becoming a pain to cook all those egg whites and choke them down (I ate all the yolks raw - this was easy), so I just drank all 30 whole eggs raw. I felt even better. The food sat on my stomach better, I felt lighter, less bloated and my performance on the toilet was great.
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</figure>However after a little over a week of eating all 30 whole eggs raw, I had one night where I was on the toilet for an hour. First it felt like typical constipation but before long my gut was just cramping on and off for a very long time. After a long time I had success in completing the deed and went to sleep without much issue …until I woke up at 4AM because my stomach was feeling queasy. I had a theory that it was eating the eggs raw that was causing me issues. So, the next day I ate all the eggs cooked and felt a lot better. Then I gave the raw eggs another shot - got up to egg 20 or so and the stomach cramps started again. Went back to cooked egg whites and felt better. I tried them raw once again because I much preferred eating the egg whites raw, but apparently my stomach didn’t. After that, even when I was on the cooked eggs I didn’t feel 100% - something felt off. I couldn’t pin whether it was because of the eggs or because I wasn’t sleeping as well. In any case, I was honestly relieved when I finally finished the last day.
<figure>Squat before: 95kg
</figure>We’ll also take a look at whether those eggs did any good for my lifts. Here’s my starting point:
Deadlift 120kg (264lbs)
Squat 95kg (209lbs)
Bench 100kg (220lbs)
</figure>Before After Pics
Without delay, here is what my body looked like before and after 30 days of 30 eggs.
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</figure>As you can see, I cultivated a decent amount of mass, especially in my legs. Those are the same shorts and they became very tight. Arms and traps look a bit bigger too.
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</figure><figure>(That’s as high as I could get the shorts afterwards)
</figure>Clearly I put on a bit of fat along with the muscle, but the aim was to “bulk.” Is this nuts? Was 30 eggs on par with a mild cycle of the anabolic steroid D-Bol like Vince Gironda said? Honestly I don’t know but I really doubt it. Seems more like a decent bulk, but nothing amazing.
<figure>Squat after: 115kg
</figure>My lifts went up a decent amount.
Deadlift 120kg (265lbs) ⇨ 140kg (309lbs)
Squat* 95k (209lbs) ⇨ 115kg (254lbs)
Bench 100kg (220lbs) ⇨ 110kg (242 lbs)
Note that my squat is 5 kilos or so weaker than this pic considering I didn’t go all the way down. However, comparison wise, I think it’s fair because I was equally shallow on both the before and the after.
My weight went started at 78.6kg (173 lbs)
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</figure>and went up to 84.5kg (186 lbs)
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</figure>I put on about 6 kilos or 13 lbs.
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</figure>The final blood tests were quite interesting.
Total cholesterol 156⇨177⇨179
LDL to HDL ratio 2.75⇨2.5⇨2.4
LDL 102⇨108⇨108
HDL 37⇨43⇨45
Triglycerides 87⇨44⇨39
Blood Urea Nitrogen 22.6⇨16.7⇨15.2
Uric Acid 4.3⇨3.5⇨4.1
So, after 23 more days and 690 more eggs:
・Total cholesterol rose a mere 2 points despite eating 690 more eggs. (Note that even the conventional view acknowledges that total cholesterol isn’t important.)
・LDL to HDL ratio further improved slightly.
・LDL “bad” cholesterol - the one the doctors are actually concerned about did not change. (By the way, even LDL isn’t important. As I’ve explained in this post, what are much better indicators of heart health are low triglycerides and higher HDL. Loads of eggs improved both these metrics)
・HDL “good” cholesterol improved, increasing 2 more points.
・Triglycerides dropped even more, down to 39. Note that this is super low. Less than 150 is considered normal and healthy.
・Blood Urea Nitrogen dropping even more suggests improved kidney function. (Not that I had kidney problems in the first place)
・Uric Acid ended up lower than baseline, though it increased slightly compared to the first week of 210 eggs. This wasn’t surprising as I was increasing my carbohydrate consumption after that first week.A normal uric acid is under 6.8
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</figure>But wait, there’s more… I got a couple other things checked for this last test to see if other markers of heart health went way out of wack or not.
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</figure>Homocysteine plays a role in the development of cardiovascular disease. Mine came out totally fine. (Anywhere under 15 is good.)
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</figure>hsCRP (High Sensitivity C-Reactive Protein) is an indicator of heart disease risk and inflammation. Normal is less than 0.1 mg/dL or 1.0 mg/L. Looks like the eggs didn’t cause any notable inflammation or increase heart disease risk.
But wait!
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</figure>Just one or more eggs per day may increase the risk of diabetes by 60% based on a study looking at egg consumption and blood glucose levels! Well, I got my blood glucose (blood sugar) levels checked, let’s see what happened.
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</figure>This is bad. Eating 210 eggs in a week took me from a healthy blood sugar of 71 near just almost at the bottom of the reference range all the way up to 82. While in the healthy range, it’s still an increase! So what happened after 690 more eggs?
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</figure>My blood sugar … decreased by 6 points after eating 30x more eggs than the American Heart Association recommends.
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