It all started with a hypothesis that his cholesterol levels won\u2019t level up, and ended with the consumption of whooping 720 eggs in just a month, equaling to 24 eggs per day.<\/p>\n
Yes, you\u2019ve heard that right. Medical student Dr. Nick Norwitz decided to undertake an interesting \u201ceggsperiment\u201d that he documented in a YouTube video.<\/p>\n
Addressing his followers, Dr. Norwitz said he believes that consuming 60 dozen eggs won\u2019t affect the levels of his cholesterol, especially the LDL cholesterol, or the \u201cbad cholesterol,\u201d despite the fact that 720 eggs \u201camounts to 133,200 MG of cholesterol.\u201d<\/p>\n
In order to prove his theory right, he ate an average of one egg per hour for an entire month.
\nThe results? Well, put into Dr. Norwitz\u2019s wods, they were jaw-dropping.<\/p>\n
\u201cEven though my dietary intake of cholesterol more than twintupled, my LDL cholesterol actually dropped by two percent over the first two weeks,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n
Over the following two weeks, the levels of his LDL cholesterol dropped an impressive 18 more percent.<\/p>\n
Now, if you wonder how that is possible, since teachers taught us that cholesterol-rich foods increase the levels, Dr. Norwitz provides an answer.<\/p>\n
\u201cBasically, when you eat cholesterol it \u2018binds 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,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe purpose of this whole experiment was a metabolic demonstration to discuss the \u2018levers\u2019 that can affect cholesterol in different individuals,\u201d the cell biologist metabolism scientist who\u2019s pursuing medical degree at Harvard.<\/p>\n
\u201cI expected my cholesterol levels not to change by just adding the eggs \u2014 and that is indeed what happened.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dr. Norwitz, who has done a number of experiments in order to show his interest in metabolic health, further explained that there is no a universal \u201cbest\u201d diet.<\/p>\n
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