30 Eggs a Day. Day 24 update

It's been a wild ride.

So I’m currently on Day 24 of eating 30 eggs a day.

If you’re asking why I’m eating 30 eggs, take 60 seconds to watch this brief Youtube short explaining it.

What we’ll cover in this post:

・Weight gain
・Increased energy, libido and assertiveness
・Different (probably worse) sleep
・Gut destruction
・Unexpected blood lipid test results

My starting point

This whole experiment started shortly after my trip to India for a 10 day meditation retreat. The retreat was solid and sufficiently mind blowing. If you can’t imagine why anyone would want to meditate 8-10 hours a day for 10 days, read this series of mine. One issue was that the meals served there were mainly low protein, high carb dishes with plenty of wheat and vegetable oils. Some people don’t have issues with these, but around day 6 or so, my stomach started to feel queasy after eating and I couldn’t focus on my meditation until I was able to puke. By then I hadn’t totally realized that the food was the issue. I fasted for a bit after that which helped and before long I was feeling great. I thought I had caught a minor stomach bug that quickly resolved and kept on eating as usual. One day after eating lunch, I slowly started sneezing more and more throughout the rest of the day and my nose dripped constantly. This culminated in a sinus headache - which I would say is the worst headache I’ve ever had, considering how relentless it was. I didn’t sleep more than 30 minutes that night. This persisted until the next day, but I was able to sleep a couple hours.

Then I got back to Japan and was jet lagged for several days. The interesting thing though is that meditating for eight hours a day tends to mess with your sleep such that it seems you need less of it.

So my boohoo story aside, the point is that unfortunately, this isn’t the best controlled egg experiment. It’s not like I had a “control” month where I was eating a certain number of calories while doing a specific workout regimen and then matched the calories, macros and workouts in the egg period. Rather, I went from sitting on my ass for 10 days straight, got sick, slept poorly, was in quarantine after returning to Japan, and then started the eggs. All this said, I have had periods where I’m lifting really hard, eating tons of protein and about as much calories as I am eating during this eggsperiment and have noticed some differences between now and then.

Got brunch with friends. One of the few times I had wheat.

Do you eat other things than eggs?

Yes. The rule is I must eat 30 eggs a day. Other than that I can eat whatever. (As usual, I avoid wheat and vegetable oils). I post every now and then what I’m eating on my Instagram stories.

How do you eat the eggs?

I don’t cook the yolks. Other than that I eat the whites raw or cooked. For a couple days I just couldn’t be bothered to be creative so I drank all 30 eggs raw. This didn’t work out for my stomach (more on that later).

Weight Gain

I gained 4.3kg or 9.46 lbs. Started at 78.4 kilos and now weigh 82.7 kilos.

Is it fat or muscle? What does your DEXA scan show? Unfortunately I don’t have access to one here in Tokyo. I’ve explained in my fasting video why the bioimpedance InBody device I do have access to is pretty much garbage, so I didn’t bother with that either.

The InBody put me at 6% body fat when I certainly was not.

Increased energy and worse (?) sleep

I definitely feel more energetic, driven, assertive and unreserved than usual. If you take a look at my previous Substack posts, you’ll see what I mean by “unreserved.” Normally I try and stay as neutral as possible and not criticize others and would shy away from writing things like Kurzgesagt receiving $570,000 from Bill Gates doesn't make them biased. Though at some point I just said fuck it, enough is enough, someone needs to call these types of things out.

Hard to say if it’s more “energy” or just more zeal in general. When I wake up, I’m excited to get to work researching and writing. Normally writing is something of a chore for me and I over-research topics as a form of procrastination. It takes me a while to actually sit down and write out a script for a video even though I may have three scripts worth of material in my head. Yet, over the past 20 days or so I’ve written about 10 scripts worth on my Substack. I also have come to enjoy and look forward to the gym quite a bit more than before. This all reminds me of how Andrew Huberman said that “testosterone makes effort feel good.”

The downside is that because my routine is to wake up, get to work straight away, take a break to meditate, go to the gym, eat a big lunch and then eat eggs and work on and off straight until 10PM… my sleep hygiene is not so great. A lot of the things I recommended here I haven’t been doing. In the past if I woke up 90 minutes before I should have, I would check the clock and just comfortably fall back asleep. Now I often wake up too early and I’m disappointed when I see that it’s still not time to wake up. I’m just too eager to start the day and am mostly annoyed by my sleep needs. On a couple days I've tried to fall back asleep for a little while, then said screw this I’ll just take a nap later and started my day with 90 minutes less sleep … but then I never took that nap.

This night is October 26th

Ironically, the point of this egg video is testing the question whether eating tons of eggs will get you jacked or not. Sleep is very important for muscle growth.

Gut Destruction