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today i’m going to talk about why i eat

four eggs a day and why you should as

well now you’re probably wondering why i

consider myself an

egg spirt on eggs that’s an

excellent question sorry i just had to

do that but it’s primarily because i’ve

been eating so many eggs for so many

years that makes me an expert but

there’s some really interesting

information about eggs and why you

should be eating more of them now the

first point i want to bring up is that

you can’t really tell

how good an egg is by the color of the

egg yolk well at least recently because

they actually use

synthetic coloring now that they give

chickens

to

color the egg yolk on exactly what the

farmer wants and there’s actually 15

different shades between yellow and

orange that you can pick

to determine what color your egg yolk is

going to be so unfortunately the egg

yolk nowadays doesn’t really tell you

about the amount of nutrition in that

egg yolk they also use different

colorings in the meat itself so you can

turn like a pale white color

chicken meat into either yellow or a

beige color so apparently consumers

demand a certain color of their chicken

meat and their egg yolks but if you’re

not using these color dyes and you look

at the actual color of the yolk

you can tell how much carotenoids

present in that egg

you can’t tell the nutrition by the

color of the

shell okay because they come in

different colors that doesn’t give you

too much data the nutrition of an egg

and a chicken is determined by how

they’re raised and what they’re fed and

unfortunately chickens nowadays just

have absolutely no flavor

like the chicken breast is bland they

actually have to flavor it i’m not

kidding next time you go to the store

look at the label for chicken breast and

you’re going to notice it has natural

flavorings or even artificial flavorings

because you’re trying to make this

tasteless bland piece of meat taste more

like chicken so unfortunately we have

grown chickens for size and we want

chickens that can grow fast because

chickens are sold by the weight now in

2015 the cost of a chicken was like

seven dollars okay now to me that’s

actually pretty cheap because

i mean you have to grow the chicken you

have to take care of the chicken how are

you gonna make any profit at all if you

have to feed the chicken grain

and most of these chickens that are sold

conventionally are fed grain they’re not

allowed to go out and eat bugs or worms

or any of that but in 1948 the cost of a

chicken was like three dollars now if we

compare that to the dollar now it would

be like buying a chicken for 30 dollars

and that is because the quality back

then is much greater than it is now now

before i get into the benefits of egg i

want to just quickly talk about

different terms that they use for eggs

so you have free range eggs right well

what does that actually mean well it

means that they’re not in a cage they

are cage-free but it doesn’t really mean

that they can go outside it just means

that they have access to the outside and

they don’t define axis it could be some

small little hole in the barn

that they never find also the

verification process on free range

is

not followed up with an on-site

inspection so there’s a lot of great

areas when you talk about free range and

then when we get to cage free it means

that they’re just outside the cage which

is a step up and what about grade a

well that just means the shape of the

shell

is really nice and it has no cracks so

it’s really just a marketing thing like

i’m sure you never go home and go wow

honey i have some grade a eggs they’re

perfectly round and they have no cracks

then you have pasteurized eggs right

that does not mean

pasture raised okay raised on a pasture

outside it means that they’re heated

which preserves them it makes them last

longer and then you get a vegetarian fed

right and yet this sounds very wonderful

vegetarian fed means you’re feeding them

grains like soy and corn which are gmo

so i would recommend getting organic

pasta raised type eggs now what is

better than that well buy your eggs for

at a farmer’s market

or

if you have a little bit of space

raise your own heads and get your eggs

that way and these are the type of eggs

that they produce

they produce a lot of eggs even in the

winter which they’re normally not

supposed to produce we have like 16 eggs

every single day so we’re still trying

to figure out what to do with all these

eggs but man there’s such a big

difference between

these eggs that we’re consuming and the

eggs that you buy at the store and i’m

doing a lot of experiments

on

growing animals and also growing

vegetables testing certain things out in

different soils

feeding animals different things to see

what produces

the healthiest animal and the healthiest

plant and i will be releasing this on a

new youtube channel but i will say that

growing your own chickens using organic

grains without corn and soy

is pretty darn expensive so we’re

experimenting on different ways of

feeding animals that are not just

healthier but cheaper i mean check this

out right here this is

called fodder it’s sprouted barley you

start with a certain amount of barley

seed

and then you let it sprout for seven

days and it increases in weight by seven

times this is like crack for your

chickens they love it so i will keep you

updated on that very very soon all right

so now let’s talk about the benefits of

eggs and why you should be eating eggs

and just realize i don’t eat my eggs for

breakfast i eat them at my lunch because

i fast of course it’s a late lunch it’s

probably around 2

2 30 maybe sometimes three o’clock so

number one

the protein in eggs is superior

and what i’m talking about is the

anabolic effect which means the ability

of that egg to help build

protein tissues in your body and the

percentage of how much that egg protein

is converted into body

protein

like your muscles your joints

and other proteins as well so if we

exclude breast milk okay protein is at

48

so 48 is turned into body tissue if

we’re talking about meat or fish it’s

only 32

and when we talk about soy protein

that’s like 17

and as a side note egg white is only 17

when you add the yolk in there you get

more utilization which is interesting

and then whey protein is only 16

so what happens to the other part of

this protein well it’s converted into

glucose and used as fuel now there’s

another little thing about this i want

to mention and it’s called insulin index

i talk about this in my book

but insulin index

is the scale of how a non-carbohydrate

food

influences insulin

and

whole eggs with the cholesterol

have a much lower

insulin

effect than egg whites

so the more that you take out fat and

have it as a pure protein as in whey

protein

the higher the insulin spike so eggs if

you compare that to anything else

is basically the best protein for you

all right next point is choline

choline

is really good for your brain

choline acts as a bile salt in your

liver it helps break down cholesterol so

it’s a good antidote for gallstones it’s

a good antidote for a fatty liver

and then we get to lecithin which is

also another antidote for cholesterol to

keep your cholesterol in check because

eggs come with cholesterol and a lot of

people are concerned about cholesterol

in fact there was a study out that said

that when you

eat eggs it increases your risk for

death from heart attacks by i think 17

but i did a whole video on that i will

put the link down below it’s a

ridiculous study based on a

questionnaire

i wouldn’t even call it a study because

this association was so weak and they

didn’t talk about the million other

variables

that could have caused heart attacks and

without getting into it too much eggs

will increase your hdl uh more than the

ldl but that’s for a different topic now

the other cool thing about eggs is that

they have a good amount of vitamin k2

which keeps the calcium out of the

arteries and keeps the calcium out of

the joints

and eggs also have vitamin d so vitamin

d and vitamin k2 work together and

there’s not a lot of foods out there

that will give you vitamin d eggs also

have vitamin e good for the heart good

for the skin and eggs are loaded with

vitamin a the type that’s extremely

bioavailable and it’s called retinol so

part of these pigments in the vitamin a

complex are like yellow orange so the

deeper the color the more the vitamin a

you’re going to get and eggs have

omega-3 fatty acids okay especially if

they’re loud outside so they can eat

worms and insects eggs are loaded with b

vitamins b1 b2 b3

b6 b12 now i did mention that i feed my

chickens

a organic grain without the soy without

the corn

that grain is fermented for three days

to release a lot of the b vitamins and

other nutrients that are locked up in

that grain and not only is that more

nutritious you can feed them less

because it helps their digestion eggs

also have trace minerals and minerals

eggs also have carotenoids okay

that is a

nutrient-dense pigment that

gives that yolk the color but it also

has a lot of health benefits okay now

the two big carotenoids are number one

lutein which is yellow in color and

zeaxanthin

which is more orange both of these

pigments greatly improve the eye in fact

the greatest concentration of these

carotenoids are in the eye

so they support the lens the retina they

help prevent macular degeneration they

help reduce the blue light that you’re

exposed to with all your computers and

cell phones etc but there’s a lot of

other benefits too for your brain as

well now one question that has been

asked is how do you prepare an egg to

maximize the nutrition in the egg

because if you’re going to heat it too

much you might destroy some of the

carotenoids and so poached or over easy

would be a great way to do that or if

you want scrambled what i’d recommend is

crack the egg inside the pan let the

whites turn a little white

and then turn the heat down and then mix

it up and scramble it after the white

part has turned a bit white this allows

you to preserve a lot of these nutrients

as compared to taking your egg in a bowl

and mixing it up and then putting it in

the frying pan so now that you know the

benefits of eggs if you’re a small

person maybe you only have one or two

eggs if you’re a larger person have

three or four and if you have any

considerations about the cholesterol and

eggs

you gotta check out this video right

here

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