One person ate 720 eggs in a month, consuming 133,200 mg of dietary cholesterol. His LDL cholesterol dropped 20% over four weeks instead of rising. He credits the body's natural regulation of cholesterol production when intake spikes.
In one month, I ate 720 eggs. That's one egg per hour, every hour, for a whole month on average. And here's what happened. I hypothesized that eating 720 eggs in one month, which alone amounts to 133,200 milligrams of cholesterol, would not increase my cholesterol. Specifically, it would not increase my LDL cholesterol. And indeed, drum roll, it didn't. Not a smidge. All those eggs did not increase my cholesterol, even though my dietary intake intake of cholesterol more than quintupled, my LDL cholesterol actually dropped by 2% over the first 2 weeks, and then it dropped by 18 more percent over the subsequent 2 weeks. This might seem unbelievable, but it's actually just physiology. When you have an understanding of metabolism in your own body, in your own metabolic context, you can do these kind of weird quirky n=1 experiments with predictable outcomes. If you want to know more, watch the video.
