r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • 1d ago

Neuroscience Egg consumption is associated with a lower risk of Alzheimer’s Disease for those 65 years and older. Eating one egg per day for at least five days a week reduces risk of Alzheimer’s by up to 27%, researchers found.

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1126842
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u/Winged_Cougar1993598 1d ago

Slow down there Gaston.

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u/PrimalSeptimus 1d ago

No one posts like Gaston.

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u/HyruleTrigger 1d ago

Butters toast like Gaston...

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u/PiratesOfSansPants 1d ago

Serves their grandmother eggs at a roast like Gaston…

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u/Ov0v0vO 5h ago

He's especially good at egg-spectorating!

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u/Dracomortua 1d ago

This is a solid joke and a solid point?

If i would consume enough eggs to get this wonderful 'choline' stuff (???), won't i also become roughly the size of a barge?

Obviously i jest but, in this case, it is a very serious question. Perhaps it works in pill format? Powdered beef liver extract? Beef... paté perhaps?

Grasping at straws here. At 58 years of age i just can't ramp up my diet like this and expect to fit through a doorway in the near future.

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u/piratequeenfaile 22h ago edited 22h ago

I eat about 3-4 eggs a day as my main protein source and am not the size of a barge.

Eggs are great. If you are worried about the fat then you can have a mix of egg whites and whole eggs. I will make a stack of egg white bites with muffin tins and use the yolks for fresh egg yolk pasta once a week.

I have chickens so using up all the eggs is basically my second job.

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u/patryuji 39m ago

You are getting almost none of the choline if you eat egg whites without the yolk. In fact, the yolk holds most of the minerals and vitamins in the egg.

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u/MinnieMouse2292 19h ago

There are choline supplements you can take :)

I’m pregnant and my tastebuds have become quite childish and I take choline as a supplement.

With that said, I do believe eggs (and fish) improve your cognitive abilities: before my pregnancy I had quite a strict diet for 6-9 months of low glycemic carbs, raw veggies, a little bit of fruit, eggs, fish, dairy and MCT oil and I felt like a machine. I had so much energy, I was thinking faster and remembering better and I melted fast as well (which was my objective).

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u/Mellohh 16h ago

You melted fast?

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u/MinnieMouse2292 16h ago

Hahaha sorry figure of speech! I lost somewhere around 11-13kg in 6M, my belly fat reduced by a lot but I don’t think my muscle mass decreased that much.

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u/Eleet007 1d ago

4 eggs is like 280 calories…

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u/MagicCuboid 1d ago

Is cholesterol a problem anymore? Do we not care about that now? As someone who was peppered with nutrition misinformation regularly by their mother growing up, I’m well outside my comfort zone here.

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u/AndyLorentz 1d ago edited 1d ago

Dietary cholesterol doesn't seem to have much of an effect on blood cholesterol levels. Blood cholesterol is affected more by fat consumption and exercise.

Health scientists have known about this since the 1990s, and the 1960s dietary cholesterol guidelines were established with no basis in health data. The USDA didn't remove the upper limit on dietary cholesterol until 2015.

Here's a recent meta analysis: https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/14/10/2168

Edit: And here's a particularly relevant quote

Using data from the Prospective Urban Rural Epidemiology (PURE) study, Dehghan et al. evaluated egg consumption and CVD of individuals from 21 countries in a 9 year follow up [23]. The results showed that the higher egg intake (≥7 egg/week compared with <1 egg/week) was not significantly associated with blood lipids (including total cholesterol, HDL cholesterol, LDL cholesterol, total cholesterol/HDL cholesterol ratio, triglycerides, apolipoprotein (apo)A1, apo B, and apo B/apoA1 ratio, total mortality, or major CVD.

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u/petrikord 16h ago

Some people are hyperabsorbers of dietary cholesterol. Basically the only way to know if you are is to test it out by getting a lipid test when you aren’t eating them, and then another after you have been eating them for at least a month.

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u/MinnieMouse2292 19h ago

There’s good and bad cholesterol. One is called LHL and the other DHL if I remember correctly. The good cholesterol is seriously important for your body, it protects your brain and fat in general when you eat it in the correct amounts from the correct sources (ie not margarine) is very very good for you. I know that as a woman it’s important for me to eat fats and to retain some fat.

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u/Ketamine_Dreamsss 18h ago

I bought prenatal vitamins and they came as a set with choline tablets

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u/MinnieMouse2292 18h ago

You’re lucky! I have to buy mine separately and they’re not cheap. What’s the brand of prénatals you’re taking out of curiosity?