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1. 0:06Well I'm about to find out because I'm going to  the lab to get my blood drawn then I'm going to
2. 0:12eat 100 eggs in seven days. I'm gonna get more  blood drawn, I'm going to compare the results
3. 0:18and I'm gonna share them with you. Hello Health  Champions this is a very detailed cholesterol
4. 0:25analysis of before and after I ate a hundred  eggs in seven days and I know the number one
5. 0:32question on everyone's lips right now is did the  cholesterol go up but if you have that question
6. 0:39that is the absolute wrong question and if you  clicked on this video just to find that out I
7. 0:46absolutely guarantee that you will completely miss  the point of this video so please don't skip ahead
8. 0:52I'm going to talk about eighty percent about how  cholesterol works and how they report it because
9. 0:59if you don't have those Basics then what happened  to me will be completely and totally irrelevant
10. 1:05but if you stick with it you're going to learn  some things that could save your life what we
11. 1:10want to look at is the big picture and the balance  between some key markers so I'm going to designate
12. 1:16with arrows if something stayed the same if it got  better or if it got worse so my total cholesterol
13. 1:24went from 207 to 277. so that is about the same  and now you're just saying hey this guy is totally
14. 1:35crazy 207 is not the same as 277 and yes I can  see that the number changed but what I'm talking
15. 1:42about is the risk factor the total risk factor  and we're going to talk a lot about that my LDL
16. 1:50went from 1 36 to 201 and that is also about the  same because by themselves those markers don't
17. 1:58mean a whole lot my triglycerides stayed about  the same both the number and the risk factor
18. 2:06my HDL went up a good bit so that's a little  bit of an improvement more isn't always better
19. 2:14once you get up to 90 or 100 then it can be high  for the wrong reasons but if you're in the 50 60
20. 2:2170 range then more is better also my TSH went up  which has to do with thyroid function and a slow
21. 2:31thyroid can reduce your ability to process and  metabolize cholesterol and then we're going to
22. 2:37talk about the size of the LDL particles and  here's something that got a little bit worse
23. 2:43designated by a red arrow but the question is  how much worse did it get so if you stay with
24. 2:50me you're going to grasp this picture and I don't  want anyone ever to get on a damaging medication
25. 2:56for the wrong reasons if you're going to start  something you need to know why and you need to
26. 3:01understand at least most of these markers and  what they mean and how they relate also we need
27. 3:08of course a few disclaimers my results may not  be typical don't compare your results to mine but
28. 3:15rather understand the mechanisms that I'm talking  about this is a study called n of 1 meaning the
29. 3:23sample size is one person so statistically that  means very very little and results are also going
30. 3:30to depend on genetics and your overall metabolic  health and finally this study is only seven days
31. 3:37so in that time period you're not going to see a  lot of long-term changes and why was it so short
32. 3:43well you try eating 15 eggs a day and seven days  are going to seem like a pretty long time and we
33. 3:50also want to understand that results can be skewed  by events and complications that happen so if on
34. 3:58day four you run into some yellow jackets or  three of them and you're highly sensitive that
35. 4:04can create an inflammatory Cascade that can  also skew the results so I don't know if this
36. 4:11influenced it but we have to keep that things like  that in the back of our mind and we also need to
37. 4:17understand the concept of margin of error that  if something just changes is a couple of points
38. 4:22it really doesn't mean anything so in this case  this is the same test page 1 and Page Three it is
39. 4:30the same blood draw it was six vials taken from  the same vein at the same time on 10 12 and yet
40. 4:39when they send it to two different departments one  it to evaluate the NMR and want to do the regular
41. 4:46lipid profile we get two different results so  for this test on 10 12 there's a four percent
42. 4:54discrepancy in the cholesterol that they measured  and when they checked the triglycerides there was
43. 5:02even a 16 margin of error and this is something  they measure from the same blood sample and then
44. 5:08the marker that most people are the most concerned  with is the LDL cholesterol and if you notice in
45. 5:15parentheses here it says calculated that means  they don't actually measure LDL cholesterol well
46. 5:21most of the time because it's very expensive most  of the time they're going to calculate it based on
47. 5:26total cholesterol HDL and triglycerides and they  have a very complicated formula but if there's an
48. 5:33error or margin of these numbers then you're also  going to have a margin of error on LDL so in this
49. 5:40particular case there was an eight percent error  in the LDL and then eight days later when I did it
50. 5:46again I'm not going to give you all those numbers  but we had four percent on the total we had one
51. 5:52and a half percent error on the triglycerides and  we had a four percent error on the LDL so all of
52. 6:00this is just to say that don't look at too much at  the nitty-gritty if one marker changes it doesn't
53. 6:06really mean a whole lot if eight markers change  then we want to see are they moving in the same
54. 6:13direction do we see a trend do we understand how  these work together and if you came here to find
55. 6:19out what happens if you eat 100 eggs in seven days  then first we have to understand what is supposed
56. 6:27to be a healthy cholesterol and what is really a  healthy cholesterol so first of all here is what's
57. 6:35supposed to be this is what we've been told that  there's different levels of cholesterol that range
58. 6:40from dangerous to at risk to what's called heart  healthy and in the general model lower cholesterol
59. 6:47is always healthier but we're going to question  that very very strongly so they say a total
60. 6:53cholesterol should be less than 200 you're at risk  between 200 and 239 and over 240 it is dangerous
61. 7:02it is in the red zone it's like you're walking a  heart attack you could blow up at any time your
62. 7:09LDL they say should be less than 100 and if you  saw on my test it was 200 and I'm not particularly
63. 7:15concerned and maybe I'm crazy or maybe I know  this a little bit better than some at risk is 100
64. 7:23to 130 and anything over 130 is dangerous and the  third marker often mentioned is triglycerides and
65. 7:30they want that under 150 you're at risk between  150 and 199 and you're in a danger zone over 200
66. 7:38and keep in mind mine are in the 50s and 60s but  with people who are truly at risk these numbers
67. 7:45for triglycerides can get into 500 800 a thousand  and then when they quote these numbers they often
68. 7:52say that don't blame yourself because there's  a lot of people with high cholesterol but don't
69. 7:58worry because we have medications that can get  you from the danger zone into the heart healthy
70. 8:04zone but what if none of that is true what is if  they got it completely wrong and maybe instead of
71. 8:12blaming yourself you should celebrate your higher  cholesterol now please please keep in mind I'm not
72. 8:19saying that higher is always better you could  be healthy with a high or a low cholesterol you
73. 8:25could be sick with a high or a low cholesterol but  let's start understand how this works let's take a
74. 8:31look at what Nature has to say about it it's the  leading science journal in the world and here's a
75. 8:39study where they looked at the total cholesterol  relationship to all cause mortality meaning they
76. 8:45don't care what they died from they just did  a study and they saw how many people died and
77. 8:50what were their cholesterol 10 years earlier so  this is what's called a prospective cohort that
78. 8:57means they measure the results first and then  they look at the results later so they have very
79. 9:04little influence when they measure it they don't  know who is going to end up doing what so they
80. 9:11did 12.8 million people and this was basically  everyone in Korea every adult in Korea that came
81. 9:19through their Health Care system that recorded  everybody for a period of time between 2001 and
82. 9:262004 and then 10 years later they followed up  and they basically kept it really simple they
83. 9:32just saw how many people died and what were  their cholesterol 10 years earlier so 600
84. 9:38000 people died which is kind of normal across  the population five percent of people died in 10
85. 9:45years and then this was published in 2019 so it's  relatively recent now let me break this down and
86. 9:51make it simple for you this graph shows the hazard  ratio the risk of dying with a baseline of one
87. 10:00so if you get up to two that means you doubled  your risk of death and if we look at this from
88. 10:07the highest level of cholesterol where you have  cholesterol of 300 we see that that increased the
89. 10:14risk by 30 percent whereas a very low cholesterol  of 110 120 increased your risk by 230 percent so a
90. 10:26low cholesterol is eight times more dangerous than  a high cholesterol and I've had patients walk into
91. 10:35the clinic with a cholesterol of 115 who were on  a Statin medication for many many years and when I
92. 10:44asked them why are you on a Statin they said well  the doctors think it's the best just in case so
93. 10:52they're taking a toxic medication that interferes  with the liver and get it down to a level where
94. 11:01the risk of death is eight times higher just  from the cholesterol not the medication itself
95. 11:07and now let's superimpose that color scale  from the previous slide where the green zone
96. 11:14is lower in the mainstream in the current model  less cholesterol is always better they say but
97. 11:23when we see how the so-called safe Zone has the  highest risk of all cause death we got to start
98. 11:32questioning that right and what they call the  danger zone over 240 anything over 200 is at risk
99. 11:40or in danger and that is where the curve is the  lowest that's the almost flat portion of the curve
100. 11:49where the lowest risk is what they call the danger  zone and if we blow up that portion of the graph
101. 11:55a little bit you can see that the curve is almost  flat you're going to increase your risk by two to
102. 12:01three percent uh between 200 and 250. so that's  kind of the ideal not counting any other factors
103. 12:09not counting metabolic syndrome or anything else  but 200 to 250 would be the safest range to be in
104. 12:17we can also see that one 85 is about the same  risk as 265 or 170 is about the same risk as
105. 12:25280. but why is it then that there are all these  other studies you ask that say for years that
106. 12:34it's undoubtable it's unquestionable that lower  cholesterol is healthier we have to understand who
107. 12:41pays for those studies and how are they conducted  so yes they conform to very strict standards
108. 12:47they're called double-blind Placebo control and  all that good stuff but whoever pays for the study
109. 12:54owns the study and if they don't get the results  that they were looking for they're not going to
110. 13:01publish that study why would you pay money and  then get bad results and then tell everybody the
111. 13:07bad results it just doesn't work like that so 9  out of 10 studies never get published and the ones
112. 13:15that do get published they're not like super clear  it's like if you stand back far enough and you
113. 13:21squint a little bit and you look at it sideways  then you could see that it's a little better like
114. 13:26a couple of percent Improvement here and there  there is nothing really clear and then if you do
115. 13:32enough of those studies then you're going to see  a pattern eventually but remember ninety percent
116. 13:38were never published now this single graph here  is both genders and all ages so if we go and we
117. 13:47look at the little bit older people 75 and up  and we look at men and women on the same graph
118. 13:53uh now we see that that curve flattens out even  more so even at a cholesterol of 300 we're seeing
119. 14:00like an eight to ten percent increased risk and  part of this might be that higher cholesterol
120. 14:08is very protective for the brain that when people  get older they have much lower levels of dementia
121. 14:16and neurological diseases if their cholesterol is  a bit higher but now it gets really good so we're
122. 14:24going to come back to this graph we talked  about we're going to add a little bit to it
123. 14:29and look at it a little bit differently so if  we measure insulin which I always do and 99.9
124. 14:36percent of the time it's never done then we find  a reference range of 2.6 to 25 essentially so a
125. 14:45normal range is two to five 25 is called type  2 diabetes it is called metabolic syndrome it
126. 14:54is called severe metabolic disease and mine if  you notice was 2.9 that's typical for me then if
127. 15:03we look at another marker called triglycerides  the normal range is 0 to 149 mine was 57 and if
128. 15:14you look at what's normal is considered under  150 but mild to moderate is up to 500 that is
129. 15:25an absolutely astounding number no one should  ever ever be close to that range and severe is
130. 15:33considered 500 to a thousand so here's the point  that this curve only measures total cholesterol so
131. 15:43it includes a lot of people with metabolic disease  and type 2 diabetes and these diabetics are going
132. 15:53to be mostly on the high end because diabetics  and people with metabolic disease are not going
133. 15:58to have super low triglycerides and super low  cholesterol so a healthy thing is to have high
134. 16:06total cholesterol but low for the other metabolic  markers but this curve like I said is going to
135. 16:13include a lot of people with type 2 diabetes and  those are the people who are sick those are the
136. 16:21people driving this curb up so I would make a very  strong case for the fact that if we control if we
137. 16:30actually didn't just measure total cholesterol  but we also ask who is a diabetic and we took
138. 16:37those people out of that curve I I am convinced  that the curve would be virtually flat and I don't
139. 16:46think a cholesterol of a thousand is necessarily  good and I don't know where it starts getting
140. 16:52dangerous but I know it is much much higher than  300. I bet you've heard a million times that LDL
141. 17:00is the bad cholesterol well that's not how it  works because the body makes LDL cholesterol
142. 17:06and your body wouldn't make something bad trust me  however if this LDL gets damaged by inflammation
143. 17:15then it shrinks if we have a lot of sugar it  causes glycation if we have a lot of oxidative
144. 17:21stress like kind of rusting or inflammation all  those things shrink and damage the LDL particle
145. 17:29and that is the bad thing not the LDL particle in  itself so in this test called an NMR they actually
146. 17:38measure and count the LDL particles and they  measure their size so they want the total number
147. 17:45to be less than a thousand and I went from 1491 to  1970. so by official standards my numbers were Sky
148. 17:56High but I'm not concerned because if these are  large and fluffy and undamaged that represents
149. 18:04no risk so what really matters is how many of the  total particles have been damaged and shrunk and
150. 18:12are now small the body makes nice fluffy big LDL  and the Damage that is harmful shrinks the LDL so
151. 18:21how many of the LDL are small well the reference  says less than 500 should be small I went from 111
152. 18:30to 423 so I'm well below that number and if we  calculate a percentage the reference says that
153. 18:39up to 53 percent is okay which I don't agree with  that's like an average risk and I started out at
154. 18:497.5 which is a very tiny fraction it is basically  bulletproof and then I went to 21 so how do we
155. 19:00look at this I'm not at all happy about going from  excellent to slightly less good but I'm still way
156. 19:11ahead of the curve way ahead of the areas where it  becomes a risk but trust me I'm not happy at all
157. 19:18going from 111 to 423 that is a setback and the  other side of that is to measure the size the LDL
158. 19:28size should be greater than 20.5 on average that's  the cutoff and perfect ideal number is somewhere
159. 19:36around 22 which I had when I started and then I  went to 21.7 so that's not a change I'm at all
160. 19:45happy with obviously but the good news is that I'm  still nowhere near any significant risk so let's
161. 19:53make sense of all of this first of all I do not  recommend eating 100 eggs in seven days 15 eggs a
162. 20:00day is not a lifestyle it's a stunt and I did it  to get people's attention and hopefully be able
163. 20:08to educate about how these markers really work  and in doing this I try to change as little as
164. 20:16possible but as you can understand eating 15 eggs  a day you're not going to be able to include all
165. 20:22the other stuff you normally eat so I tried to  stick with some salads and eating some broccoli
166. 20:28and avocado but I had to cut out a lot of the  other Meat and Fish and Chicken and so forth so
167. 20:34it's far from a balanced diet and when you give  your body so much of one type of food very often
168. 20:42you can upset your stomach a little bit so four or  five days into it my stomach wasn't real happy it
169. 20:49was kind of rumbling and and giving me some signs  that this wasn't such a great idea so some of what
170. 20:57happened I think is more of a shock to the system  kind of an overload I also normally just eat once
171. 21:04or twice a day whereas now I had to eat basically  two to three times to get all of this in and that
172. 21:11again can create some metabolic changes but  if we get back to summarizing and making some
173. 21:17sense of these markers my LDL particle count it  increased but again that in itself is not a bad
174. 21:25thing when we look at the milligram cholesterol  that went up same thing not a bad thing so we're
175. 21:32marking this off with with arrows so we have  two markers in my opinion based on what we
176. 21:38talked about in that Korean study stays the same  then my HDL cholesterol measured in milligrams
177. 21:47improved significantly that's an arrow up my  triglycerides stayed about the same my total
178. 21:56cholesterol the number increased but it's not a  bad thing in itself so we got four markers that
179. 22:03basically did not change risk wise and then the  HDL particle count also improved significantly
180. 22:13so that's the second Arrow up then we got to the  two that I just discussed the particle count for
181. 22:21the LDL got worse it increased the risk factor and  the LDL size also went to smaller which indicates
182. 22:30some inflammation and again when you overload when  you shock your system That's Not Unusual I would
183. 22:37not actually ascribe that to the cholesterol or  anything else in the eggs but rather just doing
184. 22:45a stupid stunt of shocking your body like that  and there's two more really interesting markers
185. 22:52to complete the picture the first one is TSH that  went from 1.5 to 2.01 and if you notice the range
186. 23:01is 0.45 to 4.5 again that's way too big a range a  10-fold range is not normal human physiology The
187. 23:10Sweet Spot is about 1.823 and the middle of that  is around two and a half that's where you want
188. 23:17to be so if it's less than 1.8 that actually  means that you're slightly hypothyroid you're
189. 23:27functionally hypothyroid but it's because there is  some stress or inflammation that is blunting the
190. 23:36pituitary so if the pituitary isn't sensitive to  the messages in the body it's not going to produce
191. 23:42enough TSH and that that's not significantly  below 1.8 but it's kind of a little bit on the
192. 23:50wrong side and getting it up half a point to two  really gets it into that optimal range so that's
193. 23:57a significant Improvement where it helped my  overall metabolism and that's another arrow up
194. 24:04and then we have homocysteine which is one of the  most important other than metabolic syndrome and
195. 24:13Insulin homocysteine is probably the strongest  independent risk factor for heart disease it's
196. 24:20a metabolite that the liver produces it but then  it converts it right back into something healthy
197. 24:28which is an amino acid called methionine which  then later turns into the body's main antioxidants
198. 24:35called glutathione but if you don't have enough  B vitamins and methylation factors those are just
199. 24:42nutrients that help you can convert so you you  build up the homocysteine but if you can convert
200. 24:49it then it goes right back into glutathione if  you don't have enough or if you don't use those
201. 24:55nutrients efficiently your homocysteine builds  up and mine isn't super high if you notice the
202. 25:01range again is 14 and a half some Labs reported as  high as 17. I like to see that below eight ideally
203. 25:13under six and I hadn't taken I hadn't measured  this in a while I haven't taken any nutrients but
204. 25:19eggs have a lot of these B vitamins that help  us converge so that's a significant change in
205. 25:26just a few days we dropped it by almost two and  a half points so my recommendation is don't eat
206. 25:33a hundred eggs in seven days eat a few eggs a  day if you enjoy them they're a wonderful food
207. 25:39which I've talked about in some other videos and  learn enough to understand how cholesterol work
208. 25:46and then share that knowledge and share that  video because this can save a life don't let
209. 25:53people have a perfect metabolism and a healthy  cholesterol of 250 and get on a medication for
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