Gerrard Kaonga
A baseball athlete has revealed just how many eggs he was eating on the daily in his quest to improve his strength and recovery.
Athletes tend to do things a little bit differently than the rest of us, otherwise they wouldn’t be some of the best in their chosen field.
But New York Mets prospect Ryan Lambert, opted to do things noticeably different, and it is fair to say he has gone on to have some success with it.
At one point, the 23-year-old has admitted to downing 30 raw eggs every day in hopes of building muscle and improving his body’s recovery rate.
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Speaking to MLB.com’s Anthony DiComo, he said: “Day 1, it was an adjustment for sure.
“But I'm not a chicken. I like a little adversity and challenge. It kind of gets me going."
DiComo noted that Lambert became curious about the egg diet after seeing a video about it on social media two years ago.
He was curious about the potential health benefits and while he no longer downs the 30 eggs a day, he has seen some benefits. His primary selling point has been his impressive pitching speed which has exceeded 100mph.
While Lambert is confident his egg intake contributed to his improvement, he isn’t the only person who has tried the diet.
YouTuber Dr Nick Norwitz made a similar change to his diet by opting to eat 24 eggs per day for a whole month.
The content creator explained that 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'.
In his video, he added: “It makes up most of your body's cholesterol. High levels of LDL cholesterol raise your risk for heart disease and stroke.”
At the end of his experiment, Dr Norwitz explained that despite eating almost 1,000 eggs in just 30 days, his cholesterol didn't increase.
He explained: “Even though my dietary intake of cholesterol more than twintupled, my LDL cholesterol actually dropped by two percent over the first two weeks.”
As well as this, Norwitz's LDL cholesterol levels dropped by an impressive 18 more percent over the following two weeks.
Explaining why this happened, the doctor said: “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."