Why I'm eating 30 eggs a day

this is 300 eggs it's only going to last  me 10 days because I'm gonna eat 30 eggs  a day for 30 days a while ago I was  reading about this bodybuilder from the  1960s who claimed that eating 36 eggs a  day for six to eight weeks was as good  as a mild steroid cycle that sounded way  too good to be true so I thought I'd  give it a shot the first step was to  acquire tons of eggs  I took a before picture  then I checked my weight and got some  blood tests checking cholesterol  testosterone and a couple other things  the other thing I needed was a good gym  excuse me hey uh you look like you  kicked my ass you know a good gym around  here  absolutely uh yes to all the above and I  actually have a gym right here  [Applause]  kill this point I wasn't really a  serious lifter I was mostly doing  CrossFit with a bit of lifting here and  there to see if this egg diet would give  me some strength gains I checked the big  three lifts Vince geronda originally  recommended consuming all the eggs as a  smoothie with half and half of banana  and protein powder he also said to eat a  pound of hamburger meat with salad for  lunch and one to two pounds of steak  with steamed vegetables for dinner but  for my experiment a typical day of  eating for me would usually be something  like 30 eggs a bowl of rice a bit of  beef a small yogurt some fruit a bit of  honey and maybe a protein bar  so I was getting about 3 300 to 3 700  calories  the first day in the first couple days  weren't really all that hard for me I  mean in total it's only about 3 500  calories and since I'm doing all that  lifting I'm getting really hungry so  it's not like a massive amount of food  to eat so a bunch of people were asking  me how I ate the eggs either cooked or  raw and I ate pretty much all of the egg  yolks raw because I don't want to  oxidize the fats within the egg yolk  I've explained why this is bad in  another video  as for the whites I ate them either  cooked or raw and you can actually make  a surprisingly good mango ice cream with  about 10 egg yolks and about 100 grams  of mango  but could eggs really be any better for  gains than just eating a ton of protein  and calories we'll tackle that later but  one city did find that whole eggs build  more muscle than a protein mesh amount  of just egg whites  so day five was not too great I had so  much gas I couldn't sleep and my  girlfriend asked me to sleep on the sofa  because the flatulence was keeping her  awake I was really worried here because  I still had 750 eggs to go so I was  really hoping something else was the  issue I was thinking about what is  different about my diet other than a ton  of eggs and I was eating a ton of that  mango ice cream and turns out that  mangoes are high in fermentable short  chain carbohydrates which can mess with  your gut causing diarrhea or a bunch of  gas  so the next day I skipped the mangoes  and my stomach felt fine  the next challenge was the Eighth Day  Nick Pettis invited me on an episode of  his channel junk food Japan so I got to  eat tons of really good Yakitori but I  still had to eat my daily 30 eggs so uh  what are you actually planning after  this actually I was planning on heading  home probably ate about 15 eggs  what I had really had trouble getting  all the eggs down until this day I was  choking down egg whites until about 9 30  at night  so one of my favorite ways to get down a  couple eggs was to get one of these rice  and beef bowls and then put about five  or six egg yolks in it  and then mix it up  the ninth day is when I noticed I had  actually been feeling pretty great I  felt more focused had tons of energy in  and out of the gym my libido was higher  and I was a bit more driven and  unrestrained I usually procrastinate on  my writing but within the first 10 days  of this egg diet I had written eight  different posts on my sub stack so could  eggs raise testosterone well 30 eggs  gives me 190 grams of protein 150 the  daily value of vitamin A 120 of vitamin  D tons of B vitamins a crap ton of  choline and plenty of minerals all of  these arguably support muscle growth in  one way or another but 30 eggs also  gives you tons of cholesterol 2100 the  daily value and tons of saturated fat 45  grams Dr Juan Carlos casano presents in  his article on the Vince rode egg diet a  study that suggests that more saturated  animal fat will increase concentrations  of testosterone and free testosterone  another study found that low saturated  fat was associated with reduced  testosterone production you would put  your saturated fat to zero your  testosterone will drop there's no  question about it we only hear about bad  things about cholesterol but it's  actually necessary for producing  hormones like testosterone in a 2017  review the author said that the reason  people see a rise in testosterone on a  ketogenic diet may be because of the  increased intake of cholesterol dietary  cholesterol is is vital for hormone  production butter red meat from good  sources is wonderful eggs are really  good eggs are really good for a while  things were going really great for me I  continued to feel focused with tons of  energy and was getting a lot stronger in  the gym  at one point I was eating all 30 eggs  raw for about six days straight then on  the night of the 20th day of this  experiment after I had finished all 30  of my raw eggs I found myself stuck in  the bathroom for over an hour I was  really constipated and my stomach kept  painfully cramping up standing up made  the cramps even worse but at some point  I had to get up because I also needed to  puke I took a bath to soothe my queasy  stomach and went to sleep with 10 more  days and 300 more eggs ago I really  needed to figure out what was going on I  knew raw egg whites contained this stuff  called avidin that can deplete vitamin  B7 causing skin or nail issues but those  30 egg yolks would give me 900 the daily  value of B7 so I figured I'd be okay if  I didn't cook every single egg white  however raw egg whites also contain  trypsin Inhibitors and trypsin  Inhibitors have been found to cause  inflammation and stomach issues for  certain sensitive people it was a bit of  a guess but I figured I'd try cooking  all of the egg whites to see if that  would help  [Music]  luckily this seemed to do the trick and  I didn't have any more stomach issues  but now I had to eat 30 cooked egg  whites trust me for whatever reason  cooked egg whites are way more filling  and a lot harder to get down than raw  egg whites  with my stomach issues out of the way  everything was great again except I  hadn't mentioned that I had been  sleeping less for an interesting reason  I don't drink any caffeine nowadays but  the extra energy and drive that I was  feeling thanks to all these eggs was to  the point that on several days I would  wake up an hour early but I was too  excited to start the day and couldn't  fall back asleep  as we discussed 30 eggs gives you 120  your vitamin D and 150 of vitamin A I  think it's generally well known that  vitamin D supplementation can increase  testosterone but vitamin A can increase  the levels of a protein that regulates  how much testosterone can be made from  cholesterol while this is really  interesting we can't say that you could  eat tons of vitamin A and expect to get  more and more testosterone though one  study on 155 twins found vitamin A  intake correlated with testosterone  levels and another study was looking at  how to induce puberty in boys who  weren't developing as fast as they  should they found supplementing a  combination of vitamin A and iron to be  as good as supplementing actual  testosterone for inducing puberty in  these boys  however the dose of vitamin A was quite  low so these kids were probably not  getting enough vitamin A in the first  place if you're interested I've written  about vitamin A and testosterone in a  lot more detail on my sub stack Linked  In the description and if you'd like to  discuss these types of things on The Wil  Discord take a look at my patreon  did you want me to read these test  results or not so I finally got my  testosterone results and  it didn't change this was kind of  surprising to me because my mood focused  libido and energy all made it seem like  I had higher testosterone but apparently  not though I was also sleeping less  which is bad for testosterone so finally  here's what I looked like before and  after eating 900 eggs and plenty of  lifting  I definitely cultivated some Mass  there's a bit more fat and probably  water but I added a good chunk of muscle  on my frame I wore the same shorts here  both times so my legs definitely got a  lot thicker  but is this result really as good as a  steroid cycle well it was a decent bulk  but I really don't think anybody is  going to be making a Natty or not video  about me maybe the result would have  been more impressive if I did it for the  six to eight weeks Vince Toronto  recommended or if my lifting routine was  more on point I thought I was lifting  pretty well but about 20 days in my  buddy at 10 restructured my routine to  optimize it more for hypertrophy and  right away it felt like it was a lot  more effective than what I was doing  as for my weight I gained about 6 kilos  or 13 pounds my Max deadlift started at  120 kilograms 265 pounds and went up to  140 kilograms 309 pounds my max bench  started at 100 kilograms 220 pounds and  went up to 110 kilograms 242 pounds my  max squat started at 95 kilograms 206  pounds and it went up to 115 kilograms  254 pounds  read the results the other blood work  I'm sure you guys are dying to hear  about is my cholesterol especially the  LDL bad cholesterol because this is what  everyone is concerned about believe it  or not my LDL cholesterol in fact didn't  really change I got my blood checked at  the start of the egg experiment one  weekend and at the end of the 30 days  my LDL cholesterol went from 102 to 108  in the first week which is a negligible  change and then three weeks later it was  still 108. eating 690 more eggs did not  change my LDL so-called bad cholesterol  don't you worry about cholesterol I  don't worry about anything anymore in  fact my HDL good cholesterol improved it  went from 37 to 43 in the first week and  was 45 at the end of the month and my  triglycerides which you generally want  to be as low as they can get went from  87 all the way down to 44 in the first  week at the end of the month they were  down to 39. even my kidney function got  a tiny bit better my creatinine which  you want to be lower went from 0.78 to  0.74 and it ended the month at 0.71 a  couple people were asking me would you  eat that many eggs again well I kind of  have to I bought all these extra eggs so  I could take this sweet shot but  honestly I think I might do this again  if I needed to bulk up though I would  just toss out all the egg whites and  replace them with red meat now it 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