The Surprising Truth About Eggs

today I'm going to answer the question  are eggs healthy because there's a lot  of people in our society that believe  that eggs are not healthy and that they  actually increase your risk of a  cardiovascular event due to the  saturated fat and cholesterol levels  however the research has shown that  consuming foods with saturated fat and  cholesterol if you're on a lower  carbohydrate diet you have good insulin  sensitivity and blood sugar stability  actually does not increase your risk of  some sort of atherosclerotic or  cardiovascular event in fact it actually  helps prevent it and increases your  overall longevity and health span  meaning the the length of time that  you're able to be healthy as you age so  the key here is keeping your blood sugar  stable keeping your body very insulin  sensitive when you do those things  you're able to consume saturated fat and  cholesterol and they actually have very  good health benefits for your body  however if you combine and you're eating  a lot of saturated fat and cholesterol  you're also eating a lot of ultra  processed High carbohydrate foods that  is when you drive up more inflammation  and the saturated fats can actually be a  carrier for bad microbes we call it a  lipid carrier that bad microbes will  jump on in the gut cross into because  the gut is damaged because of  inflammation will jump into the  bloodstream and drive up inflammation  throughout the body so  when you look at the average individual  out there they're consuming a lot of  ultra processed foods and they're also  consuming a lot of saturated fat and  cholesterol on top of that so they have  this terrible combination you think  about ice cream for example ice cream  loaded with processed carbohydrates  Ultra processed high glycemic  carbohydrates on top of that it's got  the saturated fat cholesterol not a good  balance right so that's that's a setup  for more inflammation in the body  however when you look at an egg eggs are  obviously very low in carbohydrates and  extremely rich in nutrients in fact it  may very well be the most nutrient dense  food that you can put in your body is a  good  pasture-raised egg and that makes sense  because that's all going into all those  nutrients are coming from the chicken  going into making the baby chicken so  you're going to get a lot more  concentrated nutrients in in the egg  particularly in the egg yolk than you  are even consuming you know a piece of  chicken or a piece of meat so egg yolks  eggs  nominal food now  for some individuals they have immune  reactions right so they have an allergy  or a sensitivity to consuming eggs for  those individuals they should avoid  eating eggs what does it mean to have an  immune reaction it means when you  consume the egg it drives up  inflammation in your body you consume  eggs your joints start hurting you have  brain fog you feel uh fatigued you have  skin reactions acne eczema different  issues like that hives some individuals  really can't consume any eggs because  their body is created this immune  reaction for those individuals in spite  of the nutrients that are in the eggs  they should avoid them for other  individuals they don't feel as good and  that's because they have very sluggish  bile flow they have a liver gallbladder  issue and for individuals that have  liver and gallbladder issues we  recommend getting your liver and  gallbladder healthy getting your bile  flow healthy and you can do that by  consuming a lot of bitter herbs things  like ginger drinking ginger tea  dandelion tea consuming supplements with  milk thistle consuming things like like  artichokes and radishes all those things  kind of the bitterness or the astringent  nature of a lot of these types of plants  helps to thin the bile and helps the  bile flow more effectively and you need  bile it's a fat emulsifier you need that  in order to metabolize and break down  the healthy fats that are in the eggs so  we got to get our liver and our  gallbladder working well if you're  struggling to digest eggs I really would  focus on again improving liver  gallbladder function I've got a lot of  content on drjjockers.com that goes into  that in great detail including my  cleanse your liver e-guide that will  really show you what you need to do to  improve your liver health so if you  don't feel good when you're eating eggs  it may be because you have a liver  gallbladder issue now let's look at the  nutrients that are in eggs  eggs are one of the best nutritional  sources of vitamin D as well as Vitamin  K2 now when it comes to vitamin D I  recommend you're really going to get it  from the Sun you're going to get the  more significant quantities by getting  regular sun exposure I'm a huge advocate  of that however getting some in your  diet is a good idea as well egg yolk is  concentrated form of vitamin D3 as well  as Vitamin K2 and vitamin K2 really  works with vitamin D to take calcium out  of the bloodstream and put it into the  bones this is why actually consuming  eggs reduces your risk of having some  sort of cardiac event some sort of heart  attack because we're actually taking  calcium calcium makes up roughly about  25 to 50 percent of an arterial plaque  it's actually calcium it's Scar Tissue  so when you're endothelial lining or  your blood vessels gets damaged your  body comes in with scar tissue in a  sense mortar to kind of protect to to  try to heal the blood vessel and in  doing that it's you know it's trying to  kind of it's like it's like if you have  like some something broken in your house  like a wall that's that's damaged you're  going in there  putting drywall up well that's what it's  trying to do and in order to create some  sort of stability there it puts a lot of  calcium into it by getting calcium out  of the blood and into the muscles into  the bones where it belongs you have less  of that available to build up in the  endothelial lining of your blood vessels  to build up in your joints and that's  really key so vitamin K2 as well as  vitamin D and magnesium which we find in  eggs acts like a vacuum cleaner pulling  the calcium out of the bloodstream into  the bones where we want it for strong  healthy bones we want it in our muscles  for good muscle contraction so that's  one of the key things that eggs has in  it eggs are also a great source of  Omega-3s particularly if we're getting  pasture-raised eggs the more grass and  greens that the chicken eats the higher  amount of omega-3 fatty acids which are  very anti-inflammatory very good for  brain health  the more of that is going to be  concentrated in the egg this is why I'm  a big fan of Pastor raise it's not  pasteurized a lot of people confuse that  pasteurized means basically that it was  cooked in a sense to kill bacteria so  it's not pasteurized it's pasture raised  we're consuming a pasture-raised eggs  we're going to get the higher amounts of  Omega-3s we're also going to get another  fatty acid called CLA conjugated acid  which is amazing for turning on fat  burning so great for your metabolism  also great for immune Health there's  actually research that shows that CLA  getting a higher amount of CLA in your  diet reduces your risk of developing  autoimmune conditions as well as cancer  so really powerful nutrient eggs are one  of the best sources grass-fed  pasture-raised eggs one of the best  sources also very rich in these minerals  selenium and zinc selenium and zinc very  critical for immune function very  critical for thyroid Health the better  our thyroid is functioning the better  we're going to burn fat for fuel so very  important for keeping a healthy immune  system  as well as healthy metabolism getting  selenium and zinc we're going to get  that in our pasteurized egg one of the  best sources of both of those we're also  going to get something called vitamin A  and vitamin E all of our fat soluble  nutrients vitamin A vitamin D vitamin E  and vitamin K2 are found in egg  particularly in the yolk really the  white all the white really has is  protein which is important we want that  protein so we don't want to just consume  yolk but it doesn't have the nutrients  so we really need to make sure we're  consuming the yolk because that's where  the nutrients are so don't throw out  your yolk don't stick with egg whites  it's one of the biggest mistakes people  make is they go with the white they get  the protein but they don't get any of  these nutrients and healthy fats so we  really want to make sure we're doing  that there's also something called  biotin inhibitor in the egg white and  that biotin inhibitor blocks our body's  ability to uptake biotin now the in  nature the egg balances it out because  the egg yolk is so rich in bio 10 as  well as other B vitamins that were able  to get the biotin we need however if  we're removing the yolk we're just  consuming the white we might actually be  depleting our overall sources of Biotin  and other B vitamins setting us up for  future problems so B vitamins vitamin A  vitamin E all really critical for immune  function critical for metabolic health  so our ability to burn fat vitamin E is  actually one of the most important  nutrients most important antioxidants  for protecting that endothelial lining  of the blood vessels protecting against  damage to that to those blood vessels  and protecting against Scar Tissue  formation we talked about that with the  calcium so getting nutrients like  vitamin E as well as Vitamin A getting  your Omega-3s your vitamin D vitamin K2  helps protect the blood vessels and  helps you have better blood flow better  blood pressure and a healthier  cardiovascular system  on top of that  eggs are rich in choline and choline is  one of the most important nutrients for  all cell membranes it's also very  important for brain health it helps to  upregulate something called  acetylcholine which is a  neurotransmitter that you need for good  memory acetylcholine helps it's it's  concentrated neurotransmitter in our  frontal lobe as well as in our temporal  lobe that helps us with memory recall  choline helps up regulate that choline  is also critical for good bioflow we  talked about that before choline is a  bile salt so choline helps support good  bio function good bioflow so eggs are  one of the best sources of choline that  you can be consuming so choline we also  have saturated fat and cholesterol now I  know I just talked about how saturated  fat and cholesterol have been demonized  and how they could be a problem if we're  eating a diet high in Ultra processed  foods however in a diet that's low in  carbohydrates that's really made up of  real foods that are nutrient dense  saturated fat cholesterol are incredibly  important and that is because  they are key components to every cell  membrane around every cell of your body  you have a double lipid a double layer  of fat and saturated fat cholesterol  provide stability for that cell membrane  things like Omega-3s and omega-6s they  provide what we call fluidity and that  allows for good hormone receptor  function when you have enough and the  right ratio of very stable fats  saturated fats monounsaturated fats  cholesterol those provide a lot of  stability and then the more fluid fats  which are going to be your  polyunsaturated fats your Omega-3s your  omega-6 when you have the right ratio  there you're going to have really good  hormone receptor function we need the  cholesterol unsaturated fat so it's  super critical we get it in our diet  those fatty acids also are very hard to  become rancid right there they're very  stable and that helps reduce the overall  oxidative stress load in our system if  we're eating a lot of polyunsaturated  fats a lot of these Omega-3s a lot of  omega-6s we do need some right but if  reading a lot of them because we're  eating lots of nuts and seeds and we're  getting most of our fats from  plant-based sources then we're going to  create more oxidative stress because  those fats are less stable so  the saturated fats and cholesterol  provide membrane stability and they're  also more stable so they reduce the  oxidative stress load on our system and  we know oxidative stress it's kind of  like rusting in the body and it's the  precursor to inflammation and so we want  to keep inflammation down we got to keep  oxidative stress down so getting the  cholesterol saturated fat in the diet  avoiding the ultra processed foods and  the really high carbohydrate really high  glycemic index glycemic load Foods uh  that is the perfect combination for  reducing oxidative stress reducing  inflammation and allowing you to thrive  so quick summary eggs are one of the  most nutrient dense foods you could put  in your body rich and fat soluble  nutrients rich in all the different  compounds that create healthy cell  membranes healthy mitochondria healthy  fat burning healthy immune function  healthy cognitive function and great  energy throughout the day as well as  great cardiovascular health  what you want to avoid are the ultra  processed foods don't combine Ultra  processed foods with something like eggs  eat eggs with other healthy real foods  that's really the big summary if you  have an immune reaction if you have a  sensitivity or an allergy to eggs avoid  them work on healing your gut and  supporting your liver we talked about  some of the bitter herbs Ginger  dandelion milk thistle artichoke  radishes there's a whole number of them  parsley cilantro all these types of  things help thin the bile help move bile  through your bile ducts in your liver as  well as in your gallbladder more  effectively so you're able to digest  fats more more effectively work on  healing and sealing your gut okay make  sure that uh you know that you're  activating your parasympathetic nervous  system taking some deep breaths maybe  praying before your meal that helps  activate your parasympathetic nervous  system it helps increase your stomach  acid bile flow pancreatic enzymes to set  you up for good digestive success  you want to make sure that you know  you're eating foods that are easy on the  gut that are not going to be damaging to  the gut so avoid your Ultra processed  foods if you do those things you may be  able to consume more eggs even if you've  had an immune reaction in the past where  it caused more inflammation so that's  the summary support your liver your  gallbladder your gut make eggs one of  the staple parts of your diet if you're  able to tolerate it and avoid Ultra  processed foods hopefully you get a lot  out of this video be sure to share it  with somebody that you know and you care  about and we'll see on a future video  training be blessed