Eat Eggs and Butter and Lower Your Cholesterol
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 13 October 2023
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Today we’re going to talk about how consuming eggs and butter could potentially benefit your cholesterol.
However, keep in mind that if you have a genetic problem called familial hypercholesterolemia or if you are a hyper responder, this information will not apply.
Health benefits of cholesterol:
• It helps make hormones
• It helps make vitamin D
• It supports cell membranes
• It supports the brain
• It supports the immune system
• It’s needed to make bile salts
Egg yolks are one of the highest sources of cholesterol-mobilizing nutrients: choline and lecithin. One egg gives you about 186 mg of cholesterol. But, the body makes about 3000 mg of cholesterol a day.
Dietary cholesterol isn’t associated with increased cholesterol. There are also no studies that show that consuming eggs negatively affects the cardiovascular system.
In one study, they found that certain phytonutrients in eggs improved the cholesterol profile in a group of people on a low-carb diet.
Egg yolks are also loaded with vitamin K2, which supports a healthy heart.
Grass-fed butter also has an incredible influence over cholesterol, and if you can find cultured butter, then that’s even better. Cultured butter has the added benefit of friendly bacteria that help boost the benefits of butter.
Your friendly microbes make bile salts, which help mobilize and regulate cholesterol. Butter is also a good source of vitamin K2 and is great for anyone going through menopause because cholesterol is needed to support hormones.
One study shows that butter has a neutral association with cardiovascular disease and diabetes. Beta-carotene, which is high in butter, may also help lower cholesterol. Butter is also rich in CLA, butyric acid, and omega-3 fatty acids, which may benefit healthy cholesterol.
If you’re concerned about your cholesterol, certain things can potentially help lower cholesterol naturally, including:
• Exercise
• Vitamin B3 (niacin)
• Nattokinase
• Red yeast extract
• Bile salts
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| 0:00.0 | Now, what is Dr. Berg talking about now? Eggs and butter actually helping your cholesterol profile? |
| 0:06.8 | How can that be? Now, of course, if you have familial hyper-collestrial anemia, which is a genetic |
| 0:13.4 | problem, this does not apply to that sector of the population. Also, if you are what's called |
| 0:18.8 | a hyper-responder, this information doesn't apply. |
| 0:22.0 | But for everyone else, I think it does apply and just hear me out. |
| 0:25.9 | So let's first talk about the egg yolk. |
| 0:29.2 | The egg yolk has one of the highest sources of cholesterol mobilizing nutrients. |
| 0:37.1 | Number one, coline, okay, and number two, less the thin. Both of these |
| 0:43.1 | compounds help you mobilize cholesterol out of the body. And the thing you need to know about |
| 0:49.8 | eggs, for example, is that one egg gives you roughly about 186 milligrams of cholesterol, |
| 0:57.4 | but you have to also realize that your body makes cholesterol. It makes a lot. It makes like |
| 1:02.8 | 3,000 milligrams of cholesterol every single day. So if we look at 3,000 milligrams and 186 milligrams, there's a big difference between those two. |
| 1:15.1 | And in that egg yolk, Mother Nature has provided the mobilizers of cholesterol. |
| 1:20.4 | And I'm going to put a lot of data down below in studies. |
| 1:23.9 | But dietary cholesterol, which means the amount of cholesterol that you're eating, is not associated with |
| 1:30.4 | increasing your cholesterol. And that's kind of a counterintuitive, but that's just a fact. |
| 1:37.5 | Also, there is no study that shows that consuming eggs negatively affect your cardiovascular system. Yet in one study, which is a |
| 1:48.9 | pretty interesting study, it was talking about the two phytonutrients in egg yolks, |
| 1:54.2 | lutein and zionzanthin, which happened to improve the cholesterol profile in the carbohydrate |
| 2:00.7 | restrictive group. |
| 2:02.3 | So they looked at people on a low carb diet and how their cholesterol was altered when eating |
| 2:09.0 | eggs. They showed a lower oxidative cholesterol reading. They also showed higher levels of |
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