Welcome to the Nutrition Science Podcast, where we help you cut through the noise and make informed science-based decisions about nutrition and your health.

How's it going, everyone?

Welcome back to another episode of the Nutrition Science Podcast.

I am your host, Dr. Adrian Chavez.

And in this episode, we are going to be discussing a controversial topic,

and that is eggs. Depending on who you get your information from, you may have heard two opposite

ends of the spectrum on this topic. On one end, there are people claiming that eggs are as bad

as smoking cigarettes, as was claimed in the What the Health documentary. And then on the other end,

there's individuals who claim that eggs are nature's perfect food, eggs or nature's multivitamin, and everything in between.

And what I want to do in this episode is give you the science on this topic.

So we'll first discuss the nutrient composition of eggs, then we'll go into some of the science

on egg consumption and long-term health outcomes, and then we'll tie it all together to help you make some decisions about your own

dietary choices.

Before we get into it, I want to thank you all for tuning in today.

I know I've been incredibly inconsistent with this podcast over the last few years,

and the truth is, it's just really hard for me to keep up with this

because the podcast requires a lot of time and I make no money from it. So what I'm doing from

here forward is I've now hired some help with the production of this podcast and that is going to

help me be more consistent because it takes away some of the time,

effort required on my end.

However, I'm still not making money from this, and this is costing me money, to produce this.

Now, I really enjoy podcasts because they allow me to go into more detail about topics and

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