Max Lugavere
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They're one of nature's multivitamins.
They're a cognitive multivitamin.
An egg yolk literally contains everything that nature has deemed important to grow a brain.
So there's now evidence linking a specific nutrient in egg yolks called choline to better long-term brain health.
Well, if you have an egg allergy, hope is not lost.
You can still get choline from red meat.
Whoa, that's so interesting.
That's amazing.
Yeah, I didn't know that.
Duck eggs are awesome.
Yeah, I've had them, you know, a handful of times.
Do they?
Huh.
Yeah, there was a study that found it was an observational study, you know, so make of that what you will.
Correlation isn't causation.
Lots of limitations in nutrition, you know, epidemiology.
But it found that people who consume eggs about, you know, all it took was one egg a week to slash dementia risk by 50%, which was crazy to see.
And, you know, again, like...
Correlation doesn't equal causation, but mechanistically, like egg yolks do contain a lot of nutrients that are beneficial to brain health.
Carotenoids, choline, which I mentioned, vitamin B12.