Why an 88 YEAR OLD Had Normal Blood Cholesterol Despite Eating.. 25 Eggs/Day
An 88 year old man who consumed 25 eggs a day for the best part of 15 years was found to have no history of stroke, heart or kidney disease.
His ECG findings were all normal and what’s more he was also found to have completely normal blood cholesterol levels; which bewildered his doctors and scientists alike because it was 1991 and common wisdom at the time had it that the more cholesterol you consumed in your diet, the higher your blood cholesterol would be (which in itself is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease).
Eggs are some of the richest cholesterol sources out there, yet despite consuming roughly 5000mg of cholesterol (or 16x the RDI); this 88 year old man seemed to get by just fine.
That’s because dietary cholesterol actually does not equate to blood cholesterol as the majority of your blood cholesterol is made up of cholesterol that is manufactured endogenously inside of you!
Your body can also reduce the amount of cholesterol absorbed in response to a greater intake of dietary cholesterol; this 88 year old man was consuming so much dietary cholesterol that his body responded to this influx by only absorbing around 18% of it.
references
https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/10/4/426
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31049144/
https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/10/6/780
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199103283241306
Here’s a video I made for the more “visual” of you guys that summarises the evidence nicely (I think):
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