Doctors reveal that eating eggs in the morning causes… well, it depends on who you are, how many you eat, and what you eat with them.
Let me cut through the noise and give you the surprising truth about eating eggs every day—based on science, not headlines.
First, Let’s Bust the Biggest Myth (Cholesterol)
This is the source of nearly all egg confusion.
The myth: Eggs are high in cholesterol. High cholesterol foods raise your blood cholesterol. Therefore, eggs cause heart disease.
The truth: Dietary cholesterol has a surprisingly small effect on blood cholesterol for most people. Your liver produces the vast majority of your body’s cholesterol. When you eat more dietary cholesterol, your liver simply produces less.
The nuance: About 25% of people are “hyper-responders” to dietary cholesterol. Their blood cholesterol does rise slightly with egg intake. However, even in hyper-responders, the increase is in both LDL (“bad”) and HDL (“good”) cholesterol, maintaining the ratio.
