How many eggs?
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If I eat more eggs I’ll be getting a hell of a lot more nutrients but the only thing stopping me is their PUFA content.
Should I be concerned about this or would it just be worth balancing instead like having less fat with other meals throughout the day?
Thoughts…??
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chickens on strings
take them to the forest and tie them to a tree
easy eggs
or buy them from someone who lets them eat bugs. I got some eggs like that a few days ago. very good probably no pufa
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@questforhealth
Yea a good source would be ideal your right
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build a chicken coop
fuck the system
I am being 100 serious the food that makes me feel warmest it what i've grown myself. theres just something special about it if you can actually do it
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@Jakeandpace I stopped worrying about PUFA content in (high-quality) eggs.
Following an intuitive eating program, I feelgood eating 3 eggs most days, occasionally 6 or 8, and occasionally none. Sometimes, I want three eggs per day for two weeks in a row. Sometimes I want considerably more, and sometimes I don't want any. Sometimes I skip 2, 3 or 4 days in a row. I probably average 2 to 3 per day most months.
Having tried strict PUFA restriction and PUFA-depletion diet for several multi-month periods in my early days of following Peat, I don't think it was a net positive for me. Maybe it helped recalibrate some things that needed adjusting in those early years (10-7 years ago). Peat said PUFA depletion would take 3 years. The fast-PUFA-depletion threads at RPF suggested that PUFA depletion in 6 months was possible. Maybe I didn't persist for long enough. I'm strict about seed oils but looser and looser (with positive effects) about PUFA from eggs. Keen to hear what others think.
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Is there anyway to get around the serotonin symptoms of eggs?
I also think it lowers my blood sugar significantly.
I can't seem to have them in the morning because they make me incredibly tired.
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When eating more than 2.5 g leucine, it must be balance with glycine.
One egg brings a lot of leucine and methionine. Two excitatory amino acids.
0.5 to 0.6 gr leucine per egg.
Ray Peat has said many times that even much smaller doses of PUFA are carcinogenic. This study agrees and says that human equivalent doses of as low as 5g - 7g also increased inflammatory biomarkers and are considered carcinogenic.
About PUFA in excess (more than 5-7 gr):
Dietary glycine significantly blunted the rapid activation of NF-κB caused by corn oil, by 75–80%.
http://carcin.oxfordjournals.org/content/20/11/2095.long
