It's a rarity these days, but I think I found someone at Harvard who has done something worthwhile with his time.
This med student did an experiment where he ate 720 eggs in a month and found out that the conventional wisdom around eggs (which seems to change every year) may be way off base.
You know how eggs are supposed to be bad for your cholesterol?
Nick Norwitz, 25, decided to eat 720 eggs in one month to see what the effect would be on his cholesterol.
At the end of the month, the Boston man found that his cholesterol levels had dipped by 20%.
Dude went full savage mode for a month, ate two dozen eggs a day, and dropped his cholesterol by a whopping 20%!
1/5 in just one month of eating eggs.
'My colleagues and I come up with creative ways to try to translate our awe and love for physiology and biology into something that is interesting and accessible to the public,' he told Fox News Digital.
'The goal is to provoke conversation and bring people to the table so we can talk about human metabolism, which I find utterly fascinating.'
I would love to see this made into a "Super-Size Me" type documentary where scientists rediscover just how amazing eggs are for the human diet.
During his egg-eating month, Norwitz consumed 24 eggs per day.
He ate them in 'all the ways,' he said — scrambled, fried, omelets, deviled.
'Eggs are a pretty versatile food, so making them in different ways made for a pretty pleasant experiment — it wasn't that difficult.'
All you pro-egg people and even you raw egg enthusiasts (I know you're out there) probably feel a little vindicated right now.
However, Norwitz points out that he wasn't simply adding eggs to his diet and taking his cholesterol down. For the first two weeks, he dropped most of the carbs from his diet and his cholesterol didn't move, then he continued the two dozen egg diet and added the carbs back in. The resulting shift in his metabolism caused his cholesterol to drop.
'The purpose of this whole experiment was a metabolic demonstration to discuss the ‘levers' that can affect cholesterol in different individuals.'
'I expected my cholesterol levels not to change by just adding the eggs — and that is indeed what happened.'
Every human is different, but what an experiment, eh?
Gonna go fry up an egg now!
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