Michael569

Happy B-day Sir! I hope you know how many lives you've changed. Bless you! 🙏🙏

@- Adam - what does the percentile indicate? What does the material on the next page say? Is this percentile based on a population data or some internal comparison model?

yeah but that's not the problem of the studies, Research in itself, has ways to accrue the consensus of its own effects and meta analyse to show an estimated direction of effect. This has been done over and over (not just in nutrition but in psychology, behavioural sciences etc.). This is the way pubic health guidelines are formed, for example. I think the real noise comes from elsewhere which is more likely tied to ego, desperate need for attention on social media, lake of scrutiny, lack of critical thinking and lack of systems thinking. I'll just say that I don't believe the oxidised theory of heart disease is the right point of focus when looking at atherosclerosis pathology but I'll leave it there. When I do, I just boil it in the pressure cooker and then have it hard boiled on the side of main dish. But I rarely eat eggs these days, its just not something that even comes to my mind most of the time, like my partner and I we'll have half a dozen and it will be in the fridge for 2 weeks then we make a mushroom omelette or a scramble when we want something different for breakfast, finish them off and then forget to buy them for another 2 weeks, I don't see eggs as a necessary staple of the diet and I've never experienced anything that I could attribute to (due to not eating enough eggs). Its just a public nutrition myth that eggs are somehow a superfood that we all need to be eating more off. They're not and we don't. Maybe if you live in impoversihed society where eggs are staple of foundational macronutrient or a micronutrient that you otherwise can't obtain elsewhere due to scarcity? Maybe, yeah. But for people like you and I and folks around this forum who are fortunate to be living in rich developed countries, living , what I assume with middle class parents or partners on a middle class income? Nah Look, if we lived in an environment where calories were scarce and nutrition was not abundant but we had unlimited access to eggs, say through having a large farmland with 60 chickens roaming around, right? I'd act differently. But we don't have that scarcity and whatever eggs do, that we think is so healthy that cannot be obtained elsewhere, (which I am not convinced is the case at all), it is not worth it (to me and my biased opinion) the small potential risk of harm in the long term because most of those things can be obtained from foods that are associated with 0 harm and even benefit.

have you forgotten to take your pills today ? @Schizophonia

PUA is a dangerous game, it will mess up with your mind, kinda like AI porn will with the next generation of young men. A (somewhat of a) friend of mine who followed Strauss' s advice for the past 20 years has recently almost committed suicide after a spiral of break-up, toxic relationships, complete inability to open up to a woman beyond one night stand and just years of following the most toxic dating ideology out there. PUA is an equivalent to snake oil salesmanship for a multinational corporation , shady, unethical, gets you good results in short term, long term completely unsustainable, likely to lead to depression, unhappiness and bad karma through years of lying, cheating and treating women like meat

Potentially..... if you have history of certain diseases in a family or just want to err on the side of caution. link <- Egg consumption and breast cancer risk: a meta-analysis It is a small risk. The risk is marginal and the RR revolves around 4-5%, slightly higher in asian and postmenopausal women when comparing to people who eat 0 eggs. While this is a breast cancer study, due to some hormonal similarities in pathophysiology of breast cancer and prostate cancer, I think this data is relevant to men as well. Interestingly, above 5 per day that effect somewhat disappears and actually there is a 3% risk reduction. [above or >5 eggs/week (RR 0.97, 95 % CI 0.88-1.06).] although statistical significance is lost so this result is questionable. Interestingly they did another meta-analysis in 2015 which is sort of pointing similar direction. This one is less ambiguous. You can see that the direction effect slightly increases with increased dose, starting at 5 and running up to 9 which is where it cuts off, I assume they simply had hard time finding sufficiently powered enough cohort which was eating more than 9 eggs per weeks and had a diagnosis but I'd assume it gets worse the more eggs you eat. "For breast cancer, the linear dose-response meta-analysis found a non-significantly increased risk RR for an increase of 5 eggs consumed/week: 1·05, 95% CI 0·99, 1·11, n 16,023 cases). Evidence for non-linearity was not statistically significant (P non-linearity= 0·50, n 15,415 cases) but consuming ≥ 5 eggs/week was significantly associated with an increased risk of breast cancer compared with no egg consumption, with the summary RR being 1·04 (95% CI 1·01, 1·07) for consuming 5 eggs/week and 1·09 (95% CI 1·03, 1·15) for consuming about 9 eggs/week. For other cancers investigated, the summary RR for an increase of 5 eggs consumed/week was 1·09 (95% CI 0·96, 1·24, n 2636 cases) for ovarian cancer; 1·47 (95% CI 1·01, 2·14, n 609 cases) for fatal prostate cancer, with evidence of small-study effects (P Egger= 0·04) So read this however you like. You could say that people who rely on eggs and dairy for protein (e.g. ovolactovegetarians) instead of relying excessively red meat and processed red meat would do better health-wise because they also tend to eat more vegetables, fruit and lead a healthier lifestyle in general. The evidence seems to be in support of that at least when it comes to chronic disease. I'd also like to see a newer meta analysis because there has to be more data and I'm surprised it hasn't been done since 2015 or at least not that I was able to filter for. Yet the effects shown above is undeniable. An argument could be made that the detrimental effect of eggs is not driven by eggs per se but by confounding variables such as people who eat eggs also likely eat more bacon, butter and processed meat (e.g. British Breakfast or American Breakfast - which is basically horrible). Or it could be that people who eat so many eggs are less likely to be physically active and more likely to also smoke, drink etc. A good meta analysis will test for existence of confounding variables if it is sufficiently powered by good cohort size., not all are as those are very very expensive to run,. Still, once you get a little bit older, I don't think it is a good idea to be flooding your body with all that animal derived cholesterol since a lot of men already have hypertension issue and a predisposing cholesterol issue. It is all about the whole picture. For a health conscious person eating more eggs could bea proxy to eating more vegetables overall, if you, for example make your scramble with mushrooms, greens and tons of other veggies. My personal reflection on eggs was that they are a natural multivitamin and eating, on average, one per day goes along those lines. It also appears that some research is in support of this hypothesis. I'm not telling you what to do, consider this a strongly biased opinion.

What's your fasting glucose and A1C Alex? Might be a good idea to be clear on this before you start eliminating a major food groups

You probably don't need it as long as your diet is sufficient. Eggs and chicken are not the only source of protein. You probably don't want to rely excessively on eggs for protein, the long term cost benefit ratio is potentially not worth it. Expand your diet with a variety of other ingredients and you'll easily hit your goal every day. Dairy - cottage cheese, yoghurt, cheddar, mozzarella, semi skimmed milk, Legume - dahl, lentils, bean, soy, chickpeas, Whole grain and legume pasta is an excellent protein source Soy products like tofu, tempeh, soy yoghurts are good Fish and seafood It's really about batching together a variety of ingredients and learning how to make the meals taste nice. But the true growth comes from sufficient stimulation in the gym. Full body training 3 times a week, train mostly big lifts, compound movements with, and your muscles will grow fairly quickly. Ofcourse sleep & stress management Only then If you feel you're not getting there, add something like a hemp protein or whey

Judging by your name, you might live in Middle East or south East Asia, India ? Or northern Africa? Potentially a conservative Muslim or Hindu country? I might be wrong but if so, your parents are likely to be terrified by liberal ideologies, even something as benign as homosexuality. Taking it further and discussing gender neutrality might sound to them like their son needs to be taken into psychiatric ward. The fact that you think this is a normal discussion to have with Gen X or Boomer parents shows how little empathy you have for your parents. I would be careful with whome you discuss these topics, if you do indeed live in a very conservative society as you could significantly downgrade the public standing of your family, which is not a small thing . Don't assume people accept it just because you do. With such "radical" ideas, you might actually need to move to a more liberal continent like Europe (north or west), Australia or US to be able to live up to your values.

@Schizophonia 🙏

@ZenAlex Life seems to have mysterious way to send us these signals. Glad that was a dream and not a real scenario. Still, seems to have served its purpose.

I recently learned that a former client of mine, the one I talked about previously, has died while crashing in the engine-less airplane. His wife is now left with 3 children, 2 of which in pre-school age. Life is so fleeting, so fragile. This thing we are all cultivating, building, honing endlessly and then one day, an accident happens and its all gone and you're out as if you were never here, leaving a void that can never be filled. Cherish the little things. Check on the people who care about you, then check on those who aren't doing too well. Most of all, reflect on the good things in life, stop aiming forward all the time (note to self) . Take care you beautiful people

Other than directly contacting the company you are purchasing from and asking them or them expressly stating that on their website, you can't be sure. I also agree with @Salvijus that if you know the person yourself and you trust them and intuit that they are a conscientious person, they will probably go the extra mile compared to someone who is just selling anything for profit. So my advice would be to get to know your herbalist. Herbalists are unlikely to do 3rd party testing but it is worth asking what measures they take to obtain highest quality

^ what the Doc said In my limited clinical experience with cardiac/diabetic clients, HDL tends to improve as LDL gets better but only to some extend and then it sort of hits a certain level from where it is no longer moving. Eating more fibrous sources of of PUFA & MUFA like different assortment of nuts and seeds, even nut butters may help but only to the extend that they don't start making you fatter because then your LDL will creep up too HDL seems more relevant where LDL and non-HDL are over healthy limits. Once your full lipid profile is optimal, HDL is nice to have but not the most essential of the LDL, HDL, non-HDL cholesterol, triglyceride picture. If you want to go deeper, pay attention to non-HDL and get your ApoB measured as well for total atherogenic particle count

@Salvijus nobody's cutting your wings butterfly boy All we're saying is that there is a reason why people train in herbal medicine for 5+ years. There are nuances which need to be appreciated. I mean, if you're prescribing for yourself, knock yourself out. The moment you recommend things to others who may have less knowledge and will just 'take your word for it' that's when you're putting yourself mildly at risk. Maybe my perspective is different to yours. I know our worldviews are completely different, at least basing on comments I've read from you in the past. The way I'm looking at it is through the lenses of health therapist, which is my side profession. If I give a client bunch of tinctures and they end up with anaphylactic shock response, I'm fucked. If I give a depressed client bunch of nervines and they end up with serotonin syndrom and kill themselves, we're both fucked. If I give a pregnant women Agnus Castus tincture because someone told me it "improves the alignment of her root chackra" or some nonsense like that, and then she loses the baby due to massive surge of Progesterone, I'm fucked and she will be traumatised for life. Maybe it is selfish but with each dispensing of herbs to others come a great degree of responsibility. But again, if you are only dispensing to yourself, this may not apply. I am not condemning anyone, to each their own. I'm just seeing too much bad, irresponsible advice (not pointing my finger at you, I'm generalising) given without consideration for the person's health history, environment, genetics, state of mental health and individuality. That's all I'm saying. I'm fine if you disagree