Man Who Ate Over 700 Eggs In One Month Reveals The Toll It Took On His Body

A YouTuber took on the challenge of eating 720 eggs in a single month to see what effect it would have on his body, all so you don’t have to.

While you might feel proud for hitting your protein goals with a morning protein shake and some chicken and rice later in the day, YouTuber Dr. Nick Norwitz took things to a whole new level.

He decided to eat exactly 24 eggs a day for an entire month, and the results are both surprising and fascinating.

The experiment

Earlier this month, Norwitz uploaded a video on his YouTube channel detailing the wild experiment. 

For 30 days straight, he consumed two cartons of eggs per day, adding up to a total of 720 eggs. 

According to Norwitz, this amounts to a massive intake of "133,200 MG of cholesterol." 

I certainly wouldn't have wanted to share a restroom with this guy Getty Images/ Mint Images

But, going into it, he believed that eating so many eggs wouldn’t actually increase his cholesterol, and more specifically, it wouldn’t raise his LDL cholesterol.

To give some context, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) describes LDL cholesterol as “sometimes called 'bad' cholesterol.”

They explain that "it makes up most of your body's cholesterol" and that having high levels of LDL cholesterol increases the risk of heart disease and stroke.

Despite the concerning cholesterol numbers, the effects of eating all those eggs on Norwitz's body turned out to be "jaw-dropping."

The results

Surprisingly, even after consuming nearly 1,000 eggs in just 30 days, Norwitz didn’t see an increase in his cholesterol levels.

“Even though my dietary intake of cholesterol more than twintupled, my LDL cholesterol actually dropped by two percent over the first two weeks,” Norwitz explained.

Did you 'eggspect' those results? YouTube / Nick Norwitz

And it didn’t stop there. Over the next two weeks, his LDL cholesterol levels dropped by another impressive 18 percent.

Why Did This Happen?

If you missed your high school biology lessons, Norwitz breaks it down for us. He explains: "Basically, when you eat cholesterol, it binds to receptors on gut cells, and this stimulates the release of a hormone called cholesin. 

"Cholesin binds to its receptor on the liver, called GPR146, and this inhibits endogenous cholesterol synthesis by the liver. So, things balance out and homeostasis is maintained."

If that explanation confused you, here’s the simpler version. During the last two weeks of his experiment, Norwitz added more carbs to his diet. 

These carbs and some fruit helped balance out his LDL levels, causing them to drop by an additional 18 percent.

Despite showing that eating 720 eggs in a month isn’t as bad for your health as you might expect, I’m not in a rush to crack open two cartons of eggs per day anytime soon.