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Now, let's get started on today's two questions.

I have two questions from listeners and both are related to eggs.

So the first one I'm going to talk about. The question is, what is the latest

research on egg consumption and cardiovascular disease? I have been getting conflicting information

from a pharmacologist and dietitian. This is a really common question that I get because it seems like one day, eggs are good for you, the next day they're not good for you, and it can be really confusing.

But I am here to tell you that eggs are great for you. I encourage my clients to incorporate them into their diet.

I personally eat them most days, and my cholesterol is great.

I've had clients actually consume more eggs and see that their cholesterol improves overall.

So I want to break this down a little bit further.

Back in 2015, the U.S. dietary guidelines, and they are more of a conservative group, they said that dietary cholesterol is not a nutrient of concern in our diet. One egg contains about 200 milligrams of cholesterol. And the reason why it's not

an issue is that dietary cholesterol does not really have an effect on our blood cholesterol.

Why? Well, the majority of your cholesterol, specifically about 80%

is produced in your liver. So that dietary cholesterol really has little to no effect on

blood cholesterol. In recent years, there was a proposed new link between eggs and coronary heart disease that doesn't

involve cholesterol researchers were looking into coline that's found in eggs that's a nutrient and the

effect on something called tm ao levels because higher tm ao levels have been linked to coronary heart disease.

So that whole idea that eggs increase this TMAO level that has also been debunked.

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