JJ Virgin4x NYTimes Best Selling Author, Certified Nutrition Specialist, Fitness Hall of Famer

Cholesterol Is GOOD For You!

22 Feb 2025 · 1 min

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In this video, JJ Virgin explains that cholesterol is essential for hormone production and acts as an antioxidant, but the key concern is consuming oxidized or damaged cholesterol rather than dietary cholesterol from whole foods like eggs. She argues that the main factors driving plaque formation are insulin resistance, inflammatory fats, an imbalanced omega‑6 to omega‑3 ratio, and excess sugar, not the cholesterol found in eggs. Virgin shares a client case where the client ate three eggs daily while other dietary changes were made, resulting in a significant drop in LDL cholesterol to normal levels, illustrating that non‑oxidized dietary cholesterol does not raise harmful cholesterol markers.

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I mean, here's the thing, we've got dietary cholesterol and we've got the cholesterol our body makes. We need cholesterol, it's the top of our hormone cascade, it's an antioxidant, but what we don't wanna do is eat oxidized, damaged cholesterol. But when you really look at the things that can drive cholesterol, it's not eating an egg. The problem with eggs would be if you ate those terrible, horrible powdered eggs that you see at like the buffet. Yeah. With the oxidized cholesterol. The problem is what is driving driving your body to go rogue and cause you to lay down plaque. So things like insulin resistance, inflammatory fats, having a higher degree of omega-6s to omega-3s, eating more sugar— those are the issues. It's not eating an egg. Like, I literally had a client once who I was working with another doctor, and I said, watch this. I had him eat 3 eggs a day and we dropped his cholesterol. He had a really high— back then we didn't really know how to look at things like Lp or ApoB, but he had a very high LDL. We weren't even looking at are small or big. High LDL, low HDL. Flipped his diet around but had him eat eggs every day to prove the point that it's not the dietary cholesterol unless you're oxidizing it, and dropped his LDL right into normal range.