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there are quite a few reasons why you

should be consuming two to four eggs

every single day

now the egg is really considered

a perfect food not just a perfect

protein it’s low carb

it’s higher fat and it’s high quality

moderate protein out of all the proteins

i’m talking about beef chicken fish

lamb

pork all these other proteins are muscle

protein an egg is a completely different

type of protein it’s the most

bioavailable of all proteins the most

efficient protein when you’re digesting

it getting the least amount of waste

which then turns into glucose so out of

all the different proteins you can eat

definitely eggs rank number one not to

mention eggs have a complete profile of

essential amino acids so today i’m going

to talk about the benefits of egg but

primarily for your skin

and your hair i’m also going to cover

some data on whether you should eat raw

eggs or cooked eggs i’ll talk about

allergies

and a couple other points so let’s start

from the top now the protein in egg

believe it or not is not just in the egg

white it’s also in an egg yolk in fact

there’s more protein in the yolk okay

than there is white if you actually do a

comparison of equal value as far as

weight goes so if you’re just eating egg

whites you’re missing out not only on

additional protein but a lot of other

nutrients but the egg yolk is

super concentrated in fat soluble

vitamins which really support the skin

and especially your hair so it’s really

difficult to find foods that have the

active form of vitamin a retinol but egg

yolk is at the top of the list and

vitamin a is really important in skin

health if you’re deficient your skin is

going to be rough and dry vitamin a is

also very important for your eyes as

well as your sinuses and the immune

system and many other additional things

now one point about vitamin a that’s

interesting

in the definitions of vitamin a

they include beta-carotene which is a

precursor of vitamin a to be vitamin a

when in fact it’s really a precursor

it’s not retinol so when you do your

analysis on nutritional density in foods

a lot of times you’ll see like in kale

or spinach there’s all this vitamin a

but it’s actually the precursor beta

carotene so when we’re talking about all

the benefits of vitamin a we’re talking

about the bioavailable form retinol not

beta carotene now vitamin d is also in

eggs and

out of all the vitamins vitamin d is

right at the top of the list as far as

the importance for the skin if you’re

deficient in vitamin d you can have

everything from

rashes to sun sensitivity to sun spots

to psoriasis all sorts of problems occur

in the skin if you’re deficient in

vitamin d and also you’ll have more

inflammation and more acne and as far as

vitamin d and foods in general it’s not

very easy to find vitamin d foods but

eggs are one of the food that actually

contains vitamin d all right vitamin e

is that important for your skin

you better believe it it protects the

skin against uv radiation it helps break

down scarring it acts as a powerful

antioxidant for the skin as well as

internally as well then we have vitamin

k1 and vitamin k2

eggs are loaded with choline which is a

nutrient that prevents

a fatty liver from occurring it also is

essential for brain and nerve health

which includes keeping your mood high

and also improving your memory eggs also

contain a good amount of omega-3 fatty

acids another great thing for your skin

as well as a good

anti-inflammatory eggs also are loaded

with lesser than the antidote to

cholesterol so if you’re concerned about

cholesterol eating eggs you don’t have

to be concerned

eggs will increase your hdl and if

there’s any extra cholesterol in your

body lecithin will will help counter

that excess cholesterol choline as well

eggs are loaded with b vitamins okay

especially b2

b3

b12

and biotin which is good for the hair

now since we’re on the topic of biotin i

should go right to this right here raw

eggs what’s my thought about eating raw

eggs now here’s the thing in the egg

yolk

there is this compound called avidin and

avidin binds with biotin making it

unavailable for you to absorb okay so if

you consume

a lot of eggs over a long period of time

you’ll probably become deficient in

biotin and that can affect your hair but

you would have to consume a lot of raw

eggs over a long period of time the

other point i want to make about raw

eggs is there’s

enzyme inhibitors okay so potentially it

could inhibit the digestion of proteins

i think a little bit of raw eggs would

be fine but i wouldn’t do a large amount

over a long period of time now what

about the point of getting salmonella in

raw eggs

well the odds of you getting salmonella

are one in thirty thousand you’d have to

consume five eggs a day for about 15

years

before there’s a chance of getting

salmonella salmonella comes from sick

chickens chickens that have an altered

microbiome

but if you’re consuming the eggs that i

recommend which are not commercial eggs

okay i’m recommending

pasture raised organic eggs the chance

of you getting salmonella are much much

less than winning

the virginia lottery okay so now i also

run into this this word pasteurized okay

you have pasteurized and pastured okay

two different

words here they do sometimes have

pasteurized eggs at the grocery store

okay

now what does that mean

well since there might be a chance of

getting some microbial infection on the

surface of the egg okay the shell like

salmonella they pasteurize the egg they

heat it up to a certain degree not to

cook the inside of the egg

but just to heat up the outside to

sterilize the eggs so when you see

pasteurized eggs that’s really what’s

occurring now when you have pastured

eggs we’re talking about chickens that

roam around on different pastures being

able to eat

bugs and worms and grass this is the

type of egg that you want now when

someone has an allergy to egg it’s to

the egg white okay not the yolk so if

you do have

an egg allergy what you could do

is just eat the yolks okay that way you

can get some protein you also can get

the benefit of all these things i’m

talking about right here another point

that people bring up when they talk

about raw eggs is that

they don’t want to cook the egg because

they don’t want oxidized cholesterol

well you’re not going to get oxidized

cholesterol if you even scramble an egg

you would get oxidized cholesterol if

you were to

take this egg and put it through a high

pressure

device through small little particles

okay that’s how you’re going to get

oxidized cholesterol there is a good

amount of minerals in eggs there’s

potassium there’s magnesium there’s also

iodine another very important

trace mineral that is not in a lot of

foods

but

it’s in eggs

and selenium which is very important for

your thyroid in converting t4 to t3 the

other cool thing that’s in eggs is these

carotenoids carotenoids include hundreds

of different compounds

these are two powerhouses lutein and

zeaxanthin okay so both of these

carotenoids

greatly support the skin because their

antioxidants as well as the eye

protecting you against

macular degeneration

cataracts and skin damage from the sun

and the bioavailability of these

carotenoids in eggs are much better than

in vegetables now i have a lot of

interesting videos and eggs and if you

haven’t seen

this video it’s fascinating check it out

i put it up right here

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