What 900 eggs did to my body and cholesterol
I was not expecting eating 1860% the DV of cholesterol every day to do this.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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)
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