Recently, a story made the rounds about a woman who decided to eat eggs at every single meal, breakfast, lunch, and dinner, for five straight months. She was curious about how this highly nutritious staple would actually affect her body. When she sat down for her routine checkup, she was fully expecting her doctor to scold her about her cholesterol.
Instead, the doctor looked at her blood work and was absolutely shocked.
The Diet: Five Months of Eggs at Every Meal
The woman did not set out to make a statement or to prove anyone wrong. She simply started eating eggs as a convenient, affordable source of protein. Breakfast was an omelet or scrambled eggs. Lunch became egg salad or a frittata. Dinner was quiche, shakshuka, or another egg-based dish.
She ate an egg in some form at every single meal for five months. That is roughly fifteen eggs per week, or about sixty eggs per month, far beyond the old recommendations that people limit themselves to a few eggs per week. When she went in for her routine checkup, she prepared herself for a lecture about her eating habits.
The Shocking Blood Test Result
The doctor looked at her cholesterol panel and was genuinely surprised.
Her LDL, the bad cholesterol we are always told to worry about, had actually decreased. Her HDL, the good cholesterol, had increased. Her triglycerides were in a healthy range. Overall, her blood work had improved, not worsened, despite eating eggs every single day.
This aligns with what a growing body of research has been showing over the past decade. Dietary cholesterol is not the villain we were told it was.
Why the Science Has Shifted
