A Harvard medical student ate over 700 eggs in a month — and his cholesterol levels actually dropped

This egg-pert was not yellow-ing about.

Medical student at Harvard, Dr. Nick Norwitz ate 720 eggs in one month to study the effects of the “bird” diet on his cholesterol and saw his levels drop by nearly 20 percent.

Norwitz “hypothesized” before his experiment that consuming 60 dozen eggs would not raise LDL (low-density lipoprotein) or “bad” cholesterol by the end of the month.

Eating 24 eggs a day for an average of one per hour “Norwitz’s dietary cholesterol intake more than quintupled,” Norwitz’s intake to a perceived 133,200 milligrams of cholesterol over the course of the month, he said in a video posted on YouTube.

Norwitz’s LDL levels dropped 2 percent in the first week of his new diet before dropping a dramatic 18 percent in the last two.

Norwolk’s normal LDL levels were around 90 mg per decimeter while he was on his “mixed, standard American-style diet” before he went Keto.

Eating two eggs, or half a cup a day, compared to an eggless, high-carb breakfast made no difference in blood cholesterol levels, according to Healthline.

The study also found that those with health problems, including diabetes, who ate six to 12 eggs per week did not have a negative effect on total blood cholesterol levels or heart disease risk factors, but rather increased lipoprotein cholesterol. high-density lipoprotein (HDL). or “good” cholesterol.

Dietary cholesterol attaches to intestinal receptors, stimulating the release of the hormone Choleson, which combines with a receptor in the liver that inhibits “endogenous cholesterol synthesis” while maintaining homeostasis or balance.

“In lean and insulin-sensitive people who follow low-carbohydrate diets, particularly ketogenic diets, it is common for LDL levels to rise as part of a lipid triad,” Norwitz explained.

The lipid triad consists of “high LDL, high HDL, and low triglycerides, which are a metabolic marker of a rapid shift in eggs from burning carbohydrates to burning fat,” he said.

Adding carbohydrates back into the diet of “lean and mass respondents” can lower LDL.

However, Norwitz chose fruits, including blueberries, bananas and strawberries, to eat in the last two weeks, resulting in dramatic declines.

Sixty grams of net carbs per day wasn’t enough to reverse his “lean and massive hyper-responsive phenotype,” but it did have a significant enough effect to get him “up and running” out of ketosis.

“The extra dose of carbs dominated the crazy amounts of cholesterol I was consuming,” he said.

The Oxford University PhD recipient says he was eating 75 grams of saturated fat, or 100 calories, and about 5,000 milligrams of cholesterol a day.

The American Heart Association recommends that no more than 6 percent of your daily calorie intake should come from saturated fat.

Norwitz says the reason he undertook the “crazy” experiment was to invoke “intellectual provocation” in the extreme messaging when it comes to the topic of diets on social media.

Describing it as “legit bait,” Norwitz used the diet and his quirky story to get more researchers interested and involved in the study of metabolic health.