Man who ate over 700 eggs in one month reveals the shocking toll it took on his body
Topics: Food and Drink, Health, Social Media, YouTube
Poppy Bilderbeck
Featured Image Credit: YouTube/ Nick Norwitz
Topics: Food and Drink, Health, Social Media, YouTube
If you've ever wondered what it would be like to eat 720 eggs in one month and the effect it would have on your body, thankfully, a YouTuber has put it to the test for you.
Scrap an apple-a-day, YouTuber Dr Nick Norwitz decided to eat 24 eggs per day for a whole month.
Why? Well, all in a bid to see what happened to his cholesterol levels - and the results may surprise you.
Norwitz took to his YouTube page earlier this month to reveal what happened when he embarked on a wild experiment of eating two cartons of eggs per day for 30 days.
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The content creator explains eating 720 eggs in a month 'amounts to 133,200 MG of cholesterol' however, he hypothesized that eating so many eggs wouldn't actually 'increase [his[ cholesterol' and 'specifically it would not increase [his] LDL cholesterol'.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention explains LDL cholesterol is 'sometimes called "bad" cholesterol'.
"It makes up most of your body's cholesterol. High levels of LDL cholesterol raise your risk for heart disease and stroke," it adds.
However, the results of 720 eggs on Norwitz's body - despite their high cholesterol level - are pretty 'jaw-dropping'.
Well, surprisingly, despite eating not far off 1,000 eggs in just 30 days, Norwitz's cholesterol didn't increase.
"Even though my dietary intake of cholesterol more than twintupled, my LDL cholesterol actually dropped by two percent over the first two weeks," he explains.
And that's not all, Norwitz's LDL cholesterol levels dropping by an impressive 18 more percent over the following two weeks.
If you miss high school science class, Norwitz breaks down: "Basically, when you eat cholesterol it 'binds to receptors on gut cells and this stimulates the release of a hormone called chisin and chisin binds to its receptor on the liver called GPR1 146 and this inhibits endogenous cholesterol synthesis by the liver so things balance out and the homeostasis is maintained."
But, if that's scrambled your brain a bit, basically, when Norwitz added more carbs into his diet in the final two weeks of eating so many eggs, something sciencey took place and essentially the amount of carbs helped balance out the LDL levels, dropping them by the extra 18 percent, alongside some added help from some fruit too.
Despite proving eating 720 eggs a month isn't as bad for your health as you may've thought it would be, I'm not sure I'm going to get cracking eating two cartons per day anytime soon.