Dr. Robert Whitfield followed a keto diet heavy on eggs and developed itchy eyes, facial swelling, and bloating. A food sensitivity test revealed an egg allergy. After cutting eggs, he lost 11 pounds of retained fluid in months.
So for many, uh, months I was trying to do just a really pure keto diet, and I would get up early. Everybody knows, um, who knows me knows I drink a ton of black coffee. So I would get up and I would make some coffee, and I try to be super quiet. So I would just cook some eggs, have some eggs, have some coffee, and then I'd go to work. And by the time I got to work here in Austin, and my office at that point was about maybe 15 minutes from where I lived, I would start having itchy eyes, I would start sneezing, and I wouldn't have a stomach that was upset, or, and I didn't feel unwell, but I would have swelling. And it got so bad, I felt like I, I, I looked like Santa Claus, like I was the skinny fat guy. My beard's kind of getting gray. And ultimately we had a food sensitivity test done and I was essentially allergic to eggs. So when I cut out eggs, I personally lost 11 pounds. And that's just fluid that had nothing to do with— I didn't lose any muscle, I didn't lose any fat. It was just fluid and it was mostly packed around my GI tract.
