A man ate 720 eggs in a month—here’s how it affected his body.

It all started with a theory that eating a lot of eggs wouldn’t raise his cholesterol. This led to him eating a massive 720 eggs in just one month—an average of 24 eggs per day.

Yes, you heard that right! Medical student Dr. Nick Norwitz took on this unusual “egg experiment” and shared his experience in a YouTube video.

Speaking to his viewers, Dr. Norwitz explained that he believed eating 60 dozen eggs wouldn’t impact his cholesterol levels, especially LDL (the “bad” cholesterol), even though 720 eggs contain a total of 133,200 mg of cholesterol.

To test his theory, he ate about one egg every hour for a whole month.

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The results? According to Dr. Norwitz, they were shocking.

“Even though my cholesterol intake increased more than 20 times, my LDL cholesterol actually dropped by 2% in the first two weeks,” he explained.

In the next two weeks, his LDL cholesterol levels dropped even more—by an impressive 18%.

If you’re wondering how this is possible, since we’ve always been taught that cholesterol-rich foods raise cholesterol levels, Dr. Norwitz has an explanation.

Basically, when you eat cholesterol, it attaches to receptors in the gut, triggering the release of a hormone called chisin. Chisin then binds to a receptor in the liver (GPR146), which slows down the liver’s cholesterol production. This keeps everything balanced and maintains homeostasis,” Dr. Norwitz explained.

He added that the purpose of his experiment was to show how different factors can influence cholesterol levels in different people.

“I expected my cholesterol levels to stay the same despite eating so many eggs—and that’s exactly what happened,” said Dr. Norwitz, a cell biologist and metabolism scientist studying medicine at Harvard, in an interview with Fox News.

Dr. Norwitz, who has conducted several experiments to explore metabolic health, also emphasized that there is no single “best” diet for everyone.

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