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 getting 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 an egg yolk in fact .
there's 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 soluble 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-carotene 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 the precursor
beta carotene so when we're talking about all the benefits of vitamin a we're talking about the bioavailable form retinol not beta carotene now vitamin d is also in eggs and out of all the vitamins vitamin d is right at the top of the list as far as the importance for the skin if you're deficient in vitamin d you can have everything from rashes to sun sensitivity to sun spots to psoriasis all sorts of problems occur in the skin if you're deficient in vitamin d and also you'll have more inflammation and more acne and as far as vitamin d and foods in general it's not very easy to find vitamin d foods but eggs are one of the food that actually contains.
vitamin d all right vitamin e is that important for your skin you better believe it it protects the skin against uv radiation it helps break down scarring it acts as a powerful antioxidant for the skin as well as internally as well then we have vitamin k1 and vitamin k2 eggs are loaded with choline which is a nutrient that prevents a fatty liver from occurring it also is essential for brain and nerve health which includes keeping your mood high and also improving your memory eggs also contain a good amount of omega-3 fatty acids another great thing for your skin as well as a good anti-inflammatory eggs also are loaded with lesser than the antidote to cholesterol so if you're concerned about .
cholesterol eating eggs you don't have to be concerned eggs will increase your hdl and if there's any extra cholesterol in your body lecithin will will help counter that excess cholesterol choline as well eggs are loaded with b vitamins okay especially b2 b3 b12 and biotin which is good for the hair now since we're on the topic of biotin i should go right to this right here raw eggs what's my thought about eating raw eggs now here's the thing in the egg yolk there is this compound called avidin and avidin binds with biotin making it unavailable for you to absorb okay so if you consume a lot of eggs over a long period of time you'll probably become deficient in biotin and that can affect your hair but you would have to consume a lot of raw eggs over a long period of time the other point i want to make about raw eggs is there's enzyme inhibitors okay so potentially it could inhibit the digestion of proteins i think a little bit of raw eggs would be fine but i wouldn't do a large amount over a long period of time now what about the point of getting salmonella in raw eggs well the odds of you getting salmonella are one in thirty thousand you'd have to consume five eggs a day for about 15 years before there's a chance of getting salmonella salmonella comes from sick chickens chickens that have an altered microbiome but if you're consuming the eggs that i recommend which are not commercial eggs okay i'm recommending pasture raised
organic eggs the chance of you getting salmonella are much much less than winning the virginia lottery okay so now i also
run into this this word pasteurized okay you have pasteurized and pastured okay two different words here they do sometimes have pasteurized eggs at the grocery store okay now what does that mean well since there might be a chance of getting some microbial infection on the surface of the egg okay the shell like salmonella they pasteurize the egg they heat it up to a certain degree not to cook the inside of the egg but just to heat up the outside to sterilize the eggs so when you see pasteurized eggs that's really what's occurring now when you have pastured eggs we're talking about chickens that roam around on different pastures being able to eat bugs and worms and grass this is the type of egg that you
want now when someone has an allergy to egg it's to the egg white okay not the yolk so if you do have an egg allergy what you could do is just eat the yolks okay that way you can get some protein you also can get the benefit of all these things i'm talking about right here another point that people bring up when they talk about raw eggs is that they don't want to cook the egg
because they don't want oxidized cholesterol well you're not going to get oxidized cholesterol if you even scramble an egg you
would get oxidized cholesterol if you were to take this egg and put it through a high pressure device through small little particles okay that's how you're going to get oxidized cholesterol there is a good amount of minerals in eggs there's potassium there's magnesium there's also iodine another very important trace mineral that is not in a lot of foods but it's in eggs and selenium which is very important for your thyroid in converting t4 to t3 the other cool thing that's in eggs is these carotenoids carotenoids include hundreds of different compounds these are two powerhouses lutein and zeaxanthin okay so both of these carotenoids greatly support the skin because their antioxidants as well as the eye protecting you against macular degeneration
cataracts and skin damage from the sun and the bioavailability of these carotenoids in eggs are much better than in vegetables ?
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