Fad diets and stringent meal guidelines seem popular these days.
Most people who drastically change their diets have a goal. Maybe it’s to gain or lose weight, live healthier, or because their morals don’t match their diet.
I guess most of us have cut something from our diets. Few people have taken on a challenge like Dr. Nick Norwitz.
Dr. Norwitz, a researcher-educator whose website says he wants to “Make Metabolic Health Mainstream,” became famous on YouTube after documenting his month of eating 700 eggs to see how it affected his body.
Yes, indeed… 700 eggs! That’s two cartons of eggs per day for 30 days. The doctor says one egg every hour. We can agree it’s a tough challenge.
Dr. Norwitz ate 24 eggs a day to reach the needed amounts. His motivation for a challenging and rigorous diet? He wanted to prove that eating so many cholesterol-rich eggs would not affect his LDL cholesterol.
Most people have heard about cholesterol, which is thought to be harmful to the heart at high levels.
When I was young, we were taught that cholesterol was bad for you and that eating cholesterol-rich foods daily would lead to serious health issues.
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The consensus of health experts changes with the times. Today, they say cholesterol isn’t as hazardous as once thought. I’m not a doctor, so don’t try eating 24 eggs a day, but Dr. Norwitz’s experiment yielded some fascinating results.
As per the good doctor’s YouTube channel, his cholesterol levels did not exhibit the expected spike after he had consumed a whopping 720 eggs in just one month.
He said his LDL cholesterol levels stayed stable and even dropped. In the first two weeks, Dr. Norwitz’s LDL cholesterol reduced by two percent, but would go on to plummet by 18 percent in the two weeks that followed.
Dr. Norwitz stated that the liver regulates cholesterol synthesis based on nutrition, and that adding carbs to his diet balanced his LDL levels.
“The extra dose of carbs dominated over the insane amounts of cholesterol I was consuming,” he told the New York Post.
In the final two weeks of his trial, Norwitz ate blueberries, bananas, and strawberries, causing a substantial decline.
Have you tried a new diet or crazy food challenge? Share in the comments.