Egg Yolk vs Egg White: What's the Difference?
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 9 May 2020
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I want to talk about the difference between egg yolk and egg white. This is a question I get a lot.
Many people only eat egg whites because they think that egg yolk is unhealthy, and it will lead to clogged arteries. This is a big mistake. Most of the good nutrition is in the yolk. Yes, egg yolks contain cholesterol, but this will not clog your arteries.
Keep in mind that when you consume cholesterol, your body simply makes less of it. In fact, only around 25% of your cholesterol comes from your diet—your body makes the other 75%.
You need cholesterol for your brain, cells, membranes, and hormone production.
Egg yolks also contain healthy fat-soluble vitamins—A, E, D, and K2. In addition, it contains trace minerals, vitamin B12, folate, phospholipids, calcium, and immunoglobins.
Egg whites contain most of the protein, avidin, B2, B3, magnesium, and potassium.
I recommend that you consume both egg yolk and egg white. Always go with farm-raised and organic eggs.
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| 0:00.0 | So if you guys have any questions whatsoever about keto or in a minute fasting, |
| 0:04.4 | whether you're starting keto as a new person or just need to debug your program or we have a question about a product. |
| 0:10.5 | Call one of our keto consultants. They'll be able to help you. Call 5405.7. |
| 0:29.0 | Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Kito and Interminute fasting podcast, where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and the egg white. |
| 0:48.8 | There's a lot of people that just are eating the whites and they're shooting the yolks away, |
| 0:54.3 | thinking that the yolks are unhealthy because it's going to clog the arteries, |
| 0:57.5 | because it's so much fat. Well, that is a big mistake, |
| 1:01.1 | because most of the good nutrition is in the yolk. |
| 1:06.0 | Egg yolks are loaded with cholesterol, |
| 1:08.7 | but here's the thing, that cholesterol |
| 1:11.3 | will not clog your arteries. In fact, it's not going to increase your own body's |
| 1:16.1 | cholesterol. When you increase the dietary cholesterol, guess what? Your body makes less. So if you take a look at all the cholesterol that's in someone's body, |
| 1:27.0 | 75% of it is actually made by the body. |
| 1:33.0 | Only 25% comes from your diet. |
| 1:38.0 | So your body makes most of the cholesterol that it has. |
| 1:42.0 | So it's tightly regulated. When you actually... most of the cholesterol that it has. |
| 1:42.8 | So it's tightly regulated. |
| 1:44.4 | When you actually eat more, your body |
| 1:46.0 | makes a little bit less. |
| 1:47.5 | And we need this cholesterol to feed the brain, the nervous system, |
| 1:51.9 | all your cell membranes, the hormones, especially |
| 1:54.8 | testosterone, estrogen, the stress hormone called cortisol. The egg yolks are |
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