A doctor has shared how he ate 720 eggs in one month and was left surprised. While eggs are regarded by many gym goers and health experts as a super-food, still many believe that they raise your cholesterol levels and cause heart problems. For years, eggs have been criticised because their yolks are high in cholesterol, which is believed to build up and damage blood vessels leading to the heart.
However, recent studies suggest that dietary cholesterol has little direct effect on how much of it actually accumulates in the body. To find out whether eggs are truly harmful, one man decided to eat 720 eggs in a month to observe the impact on his cholesterol levels. Nick Norwitz, a doctorate student at Harvard University, found that contrary to the beliefs of many experts, his cholesterol levels actually dropped.
After the month-long experiment that saw him eat the equivalent of 24 eggs per day his low-density lipoprotein (LDL) levels, or 'bad' cholesterol, fell by 18 percent. Dr Norwitz has a PhD in human brain metabolism from the University of Oxford and is completing his medical doctorate at Harvard University. In the video, which has been viewed more than 160,000 times on YouTube, he said he aimed to show that eating eggs did not cause cholesterol levels to surge.
Dr Norwitz said: “I hypothesised that eating 720 eggs in one month, which alone amounts to 133,200mg of cholesterol, would not increase my cholesterol. Specifically, it would not increase my LDL cholesterol. And, in.