Eggs? Why the Headlines Got it All Wrong

The Dr. Hyman Show

Dr. Mark Hyman

Nutrition, Medicine, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 22 March 2019

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

A new study published in the medical journal JAMA says, ‘Eggs are bad,’ but are they really? In this episode, we take a look at the specifics of the study. This particular study is an observational study; it does not prove cause and effect. An ideal nutritional study would take 10,000 people and have them eat eggs for 20 years, then take another 10,000 people, and for the same time period, keep them from eating eggs to see what happens. Of course, this would be incredibly difficult and very expensive to do. This recent study surveyed 30,000 people over a 17 year time period, with each person completed one questionnaire about what they’ve been eating. During the time this study was conducted, eggs were considered bad. We were told not to eat eggs; to avoid cholesterol. So people who were eating eggs were likely people who weren’t otherwise health conscious. It doesn’t mean the eggs caused the heart disease.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Dr. Mark Heimann and today my team and I are excited to share with you a special
0:08.4	mini episode of the doctor's pharmacy.
0:11.2	Hey everybody, guess what?
0:14.7	I'm going to talk about eggs.
0:16.3	Why?
0:17.3	Well, I just got off the trail from a backcountry ski trip with my daughter and her boyfriend
0:20.8	and his mom and I saw the headlines that you all did that eggs are going to kill you.
0:24.6	Don't eat eggs.
0:25.6	They are bad for you.
0:26.6	In fact, if you eat eggs every week, you're going to increase your risk of death significantly
0:31.6	by 17 or 18%.
0:34.2	Now, is this true or not?
0:36.1	Now, are these going to kill you?
0:37.4	Are these evil?
0:38.4	Are these going to be the death of you?
0:40.6	Well, I don't think so.
0:42.4	And here's why.
0:43.4	The problem with the headlines is they don't actually represent really is going on in
0:48.3	the science.
0:49.3	It makes me crazy because the science is there, but the interpretation of the science
0:57.8	is not clear.
0:59.7	When you look at the headlines, they take the headlines and say, hey, eggs are going to
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