Physical Intelligence - Day 67

The chief issue apart from arguing over the "danger" of eggs, is how many can one eat.  The irony is that one family member who has staunchly limited eggs was the very person who was diagnosed with the highest level of cholesterol and that AFTER a heart-attack, with 95% blockage in many arteries. 

I certainly don't want to listen to the Egg industry give me advice because that is their job, which is to get us to buy more eggs but I also look at thinkers who do not appear to be shrills for a particular food industry group and my conclusions are that the medical advice given prior was not correct and based on inadequate assumptions or at least study criteria that was flawed.

So the problem still remains - what facts can I acknowledge as being facts when prior expert recommendations have been cited as misinformation or just plain wrong.  Dr. Mercola has strong opinion in that regard and has criticized dietary guidelines - more importantly citing that since 2015 certain claims about eggs have been dropped.  He also talks about "vested interest".

The lack of objectivity caused by special interest should at least raise concern but should be a part of due diligence.  It is not expertise that I question but special interest that buys off experts to push their interests.  This is where Dr. Mercola's viewpoints become compelling and if his opinions are harmful to special interest groups, then I would expect those groups make an effort to discredit such viewpoints.  We know these interest groups at one time influenced national dietary guidelines, guidelines which now have been dropped.

Mercola's most interesting view is how we prepare eggs and how we consume the yolk and how too much heat destroys health benefits found in the yolk and that was an interesting takeaway for me. There are other outspoken critics of practices that balance what industry advice we can rely on and when I listen to this criticism it muddies the waters - because it goes into legalese and what cannot be said about eggs, and the final video shows just how political this gets and how fine tuned the wording gets.  Taking every eventuality into perspective Dr Greger points the guns back on the egg board and industry - and so even now what I think about eggs is not predicated on science but more on faith - and I've deciding that I trust the source of who supplies the eggs we buy from our supermarket.  It is still a minefield of claims and counter-claims all the way to how wording is applied in advertising messages :

The chief thing that sways me is discerning what is bureaucracy and marketing and the picture that emerges when specialists discuss aspects of egg nutrition such as this insight about "The Egg Yolk Myth" - at least this video talks medical properties rather than just messaging :