Here’s Why Conventional Health “Experts” Are Wrong About Eggs

The egg is at the top of the list of all the healthy things you could eat.

Eggs, often misunderstood, are actually a powerhouse of nutrition, ranking high on the list of healthy foods. However, because of their agenda, conventional health “experts” (activists) will try to convince you how terrible eggs are. Unfortunately, science says otherwise.

Here are science-based facts that you probably didn’t know about eggs.

1. Where your eggs come from matter

An interesting fact about eggs is 84.2% of all chickens worldwide are in cages.

They're not even outside the cage. They live their whole lives in a cage, and it's terrible.

Now, out of all the egg and chicken production only 12.4% are cage-free, while 3.4% have access to the outdoors.

However, there’s been a push in recent years to change the way hens are raised.

As of March 2024, 40% of hens used for eggs are now cage-free in the U.S.

The ideal scenario in which you want to buy your eggs is to go organic and pasture-raised.

Pasture-raised chickens sleep in their chicken house at night but can roam freely throughout the farm during the day. This lifestyle is important for the health of the hens because it affects the quality of the eggs they produce.

If you’d like to know more, Cornucopia is a great resource for helping you identify whether your products are organic and the history of the farms they come from.

2. Egg yolks are loaded with vitamin A

Egg yolks are the second-best resource for vitamin A.

The best source is beef liver.

And when I say vitamin A, I’m specifically talking about the active form of vitamin A called retinol.

Vitamin A is critical for vision and good eye health. It’s like the anti-dry eye remedy.

If you're deficient in retinol, everything will be very blurry. Retinol is also an anti-infection nutrient, especially for the outer part of your skin and the inner part of your skin.

That includes the inner part of the mouth, the esophagus, the lungs, and the entire digestive system. Vitamin A is also intimately involved in the immune system that lines those surfaces.

Vitamin A is essential in converting the inactive T4 thyroid hormone to the active T3 thyroid hormone. That’s vital for proper thyroid function.

Vitamin A can help decrease the risk of melanoma–skin cancer and decrease wrinkles, and that’s because of the incredibly concentrated fat-soluble nutrients in egg yolks.

3. Egg yolks have the highest amounts of choline

The egg yolk has the highest choline source of any food you can eat.

What’s good about choline is it helps prevent a fatty liver.

Choline supplies the brain to help make the neurotransmitter acetylcholine. Choline helps support the parasympathetic nervous system, which is responsible for rest and digestion.

Choline is also critical for brain health, specifically cognitive function.

Studies have shown that higher choline intake improves verbal and visual memory.

4. Egg yolks have more concentrated protein than egg whites

Now, you probably think the egg white has the most concentrated protein compared to the egg yolk.

That's not actually true.

If you look at the protein per 100 grams of that protein and we compare the egg white to the egg yolk, the egg white has 11 grams of protein per 100 grams, and the egg yolk has 17 g of protein per 100 grams.

Now, the catch-22 is that there's obviously more white than the yolk, so you'll have a little more protein. But the yolk is super concentrated with actually more protein per volume.

5. The yolk contains the majority of the nutrients

You may have known this, but I want to put it out there.

The yolk contains most nutrients except for two, and I'm talking about vitamins and minerals.

The egg white has a little more B2 and B3, but if we look at all the other minerals and vitamins, it's in the egg yolk.

And it's tragic because sometimes people cook egg whites and throw out the egg yolk. You're throwing out the nutrition.

It’s the equivalent of buying multivitamins and throwing away the pills to lick the inside of the container. It doesn’t make sense.

Maybe people throwing the yolk out relates to my next point.

6. No research indicates eating eggs can negatively affect cholesterol

People probably throw the yolk away because they don’t want the cholesterol.

Well, no research indicates that eating eggs will negatively affect your cholesterol in any way, shape, or form.

Seriously. Do a Google search right now to verify.

No accredited university, organization, or laboratory has found that eating eggs negatively affected cholesterol levels.

In fact, new studies show there was no change in cholesterol after participants ate eggs for four months.

The BMM Takeaway

Listen, there’s a lot of rubbish on the internet.

And sometimes, it’s hard to decipher what’s fact or fiction. Certain people with certain biases can be very persuasive and seek to recruit new followers to their preferred style of living.

That’s fine if what they preach works for you, your health, and your body.

However, dieting isn’t a one-size-fits-all topic. And we must remember that.

So, always do your own research.

Question everything—even articles like this one.

When in doubt, always go to the science and read the studies, data, and literature.