Welcome to the Dr. Berg Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast. Now your host, the man taking your health to a whole new level. Dr. Eric Berg.

There are quite a few reasons why you should be consuming two to four eggs every single day. Now, the egg is really considered a perfect food, not just a

perfect protein. It's low carb, it's higher fat, and it's high quality, moderate protein. Out of all

the proteins, I'm talking about beef, chicken, fish, lamb, pork, all these other proteins

are muscle protein. An egg is a completely different type of protein. It's the most bioavailable

of all proteins, the most efficient protein when you're digesting it, giving the least amount

of waste, which then turns into glucose.

So out of all the different proteins you can eat, definitely eggs rank number one.

Not to mention eggs have a complete profile of essential amino acids.

So today I'm going to talk about the benefits of egg, but primarily for your skin and your

hair.

I'm also going to cover some data on whether you should eat raw eggs or cooked eggs. I'll talk about allergies and a couple other points. So let's

start from the top. Now, the protein in egg, believe it or not, is not just in the egg white. It's also

in the egg yolk. In fact, there is more protein in the yolk,

okay, than there is white if you actually do a comparison of equal value as far as weight goes.

So if you're just eating egg whites, you're missing out not only on additional protein,

but a lot of other nutrients, but the egg yolk is super concentrated in fat-siable vitamins, which really support the skin and especially

your hair. So it's really difficult to find foods that have the active form of vitamin A retinol.

But egg yolk is at the top of the list. And vitamin A is really important in skin health.

If you're deficient, your skin is going to be rough and dry. Vitamin A is also very important for your eyes, as well as your sinuses and the immune

system and many other additional things. Now, one point about vitamin A that's interesting,

in the definitions of vitamin A, they include beta keratin, which is a precursor of vitamin A to be vitamin A, when in fact, it's really a precursor. It's not retinol. So when you do your analysis on nutritional density in foods, a lot of times you'll see like in kale or spinach, there's all this vitamin A, but it's actually

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