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hey dr. Berg here in this video we’re

going to talk about egg yolks so many

people when they tell me that they’re

eating eggs they they’re not eating the

yolk part they’re eating the white and

the benefit of the egg yolk is huge and

I’m going to cover three reasons why you

should start eating the egg yolk it’s

actually in my book under eggs and

cholesterol I think the big concern with

people is that they’re afraid of

increasing their cholesterol but the

fact is that egg yolks will only

increase the good cholesterol the HDL

and just to back up a little bit I want

to explain what HDL really is the

difference between the good cholesterol

HDL and the bad cholesterol really has

to do with the direction of where that

cholesterol is going in relationship to

the liver the cholesterol coming out of

the liver is considered good cholesterol

and the cholesterol going into liver is

considered bad so really if the if both

of these are high but the exchange is

balanced then all that means is your

body needs a little more cholesterol to

heal something because one of the

functions that acts as a natural

band-aid to heal different parts of the

body when you’re under stress so you

want to look at the full picture not

just the total cholesterol and the

relationship between going out and going

in and the fact is that even HDL or LDL

is those aren’t even that’s not even

cholesterol it stands for high density

lipoproteins low-density lipoproteins

so they’re actually proteins that carry

the cholesterol either out of the liver

or in the liver so we just want to look

at the exchange of those two but the

fact is that the egg yolk will increase

some cholesterol but only the good

cholesterol so you have nothing to worry

about there

egg yolks have way more nutrition

vitamins minerals than the egg whites

okay that’s another interesting point

the other benefit of cholesterol from

egg yolk is that it supports hormones

specifically cortisol and other adrenal

hormones so when you’re under stress the

reason why the cholesterol goes up is it

needs

more cholesterol to build more of that

stress hormone egg yolks might contain

per egg about 400 maybe actually it’s

300 milligrams of cholesterol but don’t

be concerned about that because your

body makes 2,000 milligrams of

cholesterol every single day so you can

imagine how many eggs you’d have to eat

to equal 2,000 so the bottom line is

that if your body makes it and you eat

some of it it’ll make less of it it

adapts to that so anytime anyone tells

you that cholesterol is bad all you have

to do is ask them why what’s the purpose

of cholesterol and they should know that

sports hormones it’s the natural

band-aid to heal the body and it’s a

precursor for hormones and also ask them

if it’s so bad why does your body make

2,000 milligrams of cholesterol every

single day so there must be a reason for

that

all right so I just wanted to touch on

egg yolks and don’t be afraid of eating

them it’s actually a very healthy thing

to do