The Real Reason You Should Eat Eggs For Longevity | Dr. William Li 

My grandmother raised chickens and sold eggs in the 1940s & 50s. She didn't feed them because they naturally ate bugs and produce scraps. She never refrigerated the eggs. The hens keep them warm when they nest so they don't need to be cold. She only washed the shells prior to cooking them. Washing them is what makes it necessary to refrigerate them. Great video! ❤

Egg yolks raised on pasture have orange egg yolks, you rarely see that in grocery store eggs! When we were in Scotland the food was so much healhier. Beautiful orange yolks, all pasture raise meats! Food was cheaper too. American food is factory farmed crap.

Wow. All you need to know about eggs in one video! Thanks Dr Li!

When I was in primary school in the early 60's, my parents esp my Dad is very strict we should have a proper breakfast before we leave for school (there were no roti canai nor nasi lemak those days). My bunch of sisters hate eggs, they wait for Dad to leave & skip their eyes. Good for me, I will have their shares as well. From those early days till now, I have my 2 half boiled eggs without fail ..... am gonna be 75 soon. To me eggs are the best source for healthy proteins !

We Euros do not remove the cuticle from the egg and we vaccinate our chickens against salmonella. In Germany you have to go out of your way to even find non pasture raised eggs. Caged "battery" chicken are illegal. There are some that are just "free range" without specifying pasture but those all go to the fast food industry and large scale industrial processors.

Butter (or even better, ghee) is healthy too. 8-/ PS: Even better is organic, grass-fed ghee, which is what I cook with when eating animal products, partly because it's high temperature tolerant. I do add organic extra virgin olive oil to other foods.

I needed to know this as I love eggs but have cholesterol problems. I look to you for trustworthy information!

Thank you for defending the humble, wonderful egg. I have two eggs every morning with sourdough toast and 15 g of baby spinach. This breakfast starts the fat burning process in my diet plan. I lost 8 kg since last Christmas. Thank you, Doctor !

😊 we call eggs "bum nuts" in Australia. Grandma lived to 97 eating chunks of butter everyday, salt too and cream. It is the ultraprocessed food that is the killer.

I am amazed! I never saw Red-yellow egg yolk. I never knew all the health aspects. I stopped eating eggs regularly because of my misunderstanding of cholesterol risk, and I didn’t know that healthy eggs do not need to be refrigerated. I have no problem with paying more money for healthy eggs. Now I know what to look for. Thank you once again, Dr. Li!

The color of the yolk does depend on what they eat, but pasture raised may not be that dark orange color. It depends on the pasture. And...whether pasture raised or in a factory, you can put things in the feed to get a dark color - which may or may not indicate carotenoids.. Get to know your chickens :)

We raise free range hens for eggs. They are the happiest creatures. The yolks are indeed bright orange and absolutely delicious!

Thank you Doc, great video! I grew opposite as you, didn't have eggs in the fridge till later in my teens, I'm 57 now, and everything you say is true. My grandma kept the eggs in her special basket and I befriended all the chickens and roosters and the geese and turkeys and so on. I was amazed by the younger generations,for some time now, they don't like anymore the eggs, meat and diaries as well, that are naturally produced - they say the taste is different and they don't like it. I hope your videos will change their mind and I'm grateful if this might educate them, at least on how to eat. I thank you as well for your videos and for sharing your knowledge with the world, for the work behind them! ❤

❤❤❤❤eggs. My great grandmother lived to 94 and she had 1-2 eggs everyday.

Eggs are tasty, too, I always get pasture raised when I run of eggs from my daughters chick's that are pasture raised. Also, I leave those out until washed off . Thank you Doc. for this video 🎉

I listen to Dr. Greger and Dr. Pradip Jamnadas MD as well as Dr. Li. I love learning about foods from Dr. Li as he goes to food markets.

Thumbs up if you want him to make a video in which he comments on others who say eggs are really bad for you. Dr McDougal has a 1 hour presentation on why they are bad. There are documentaries saying they are all the same, that there is no reason to buy the expensive kinds like pasture raised.

Greatly informative and useful information that I didn’t know, thank you ❤

Thank you, wonderful Dr. Liu, for enriching our lives! May you live forever!❤

Egg yolks are very healthy unless its some store bought kinds, then the levels drop some, eggs do not cause cancers...overfrying can be harmful, but beyond that eggs are VERY beneficial, especially homegrown ones with a good diet! We are WHAT OUR ANIMALS EAT

I always felt nauseous after eating eggs, I had to stop consuming them. I switched to a whole food/plant based diet and feel so much better now!!

Hi Dr Willian Li , have A Blessed Day ahead . Thank you for sharing. God bless you always. ❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉

Again a great video filled with super info. Thank you❤

Thanks Dr Li for this very informative free information . I really appreciate all your posts 🙌🙏

Thanks Dr Li for sharing your knowledge on health😊

I’ve bought eggs from Rosy’s Organics in South Carolina and her chicken were just beautiful! Seeing is believing. She is what we need more of in this world!!!♥️

Thanks for the info!

I raise my own chickens and eat free range eggs almost daily. Great information. ❤

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Thanks for the info 😊

Thank you Dr. Li for the information. All your recommendations on a healthy diet are implemented in our family, including your books.

Thank you for sharing you knowledge and paying it forward. 😊

Wow! Great info. Thanks Dr Li for sharing all your healthy sessions. Really enjoy listening to your videos.

Thanks for all the tips

Nice video! I love and pay the extra for pasture raised 0:03 eggs. They are certainly worth it! My favorite brand is ‘Vital Farms’ raised on family run farms. I cook my pasture raised eggs in pasture raised dairy butter. The flavor and nutrition cannot be beat. I do not cook with olive oil, I put it on my salads. 😋

Excellent video. Thank you for sharing your knowledge 😊

Please keep telling us good foods ur the BEST ❤

Great information… thank you so much!! Blessings!🙏

Good stuff from Dr. Lee. I tend to binge watch - hard to just watch one.

Thank you so much Dr. William Li 😊

Eggs-cellent information! Thanks!

Thanks Dr. LI very informative

Great info!

There is nothing wrong with butter. These doctors always talk about gut health but omit the butyrate in butter that is excellent for gut health. While I like olive oil, it does not compare in comparison with butter when it comes to flavoring an egg.

Thanks for sharing !

This is so true...I have been eating eggs 2 to 3 a day and my Lipid profiles are perfectly fine! As long as you do not mix it with high saturated fat foods, you will have great benefits from eating eggs everyday.

Great info and big AHA moment to me too! Thank you for great information and always the latest research studies on topic. ❤❤❤

I always have 2 half boil eggs on alternate days now I can have it everyday. Thanks Dr Li

I heard one published study said that the increase in TMAO because of egg consumptions due to the conversion of Choline in the gut by some bad bacteria. But there is another study seemed to contradict with that assertion by stating that increasing eggs consumptions did not result in a correlated increase in TMAO.

Thanks Doc.

Thanks Doctor.

Hm, I have read that saturated fat is better than poly-unsaturated fat because it does not break down as easily into harmful free radicals. Btw, I generally use lard to cook my eggs, has a higher burn point than butter, so fewer advanced glycation end products. I also would like clarification on the difference between butter from organic free-range non-CAFO cattle vs. cattle raised with chemicals and glyphosate-impregnated soy and grain.

Hey Dr., great info. Regarding egg yolk color it seems some farmers now use additives to "dye" their yolks to meet the demand of people wanting orange yolk eggs. Looking online I have found that paprika, marigold petals, chili flakes, and alfalfa feed as some of the popular additives. Also, I have read that many of the bigger feed mills automatically have started putting these additives to change the yolk color. Just fyi.

EVOO should never be heated, so no cooking, but excellent at room temperature. Also note that even organic eggs don't come from the nest as clean as you find them in the market. They always have little bits of feather, or whatever was in the nest, on them. So the seller wipes them. Even so, they will keep well outside the fridge, as long as it is in a cool spot. As a child in the Fifties I used to fetch the eggs from the nests in our yard, so I know. In South Africa eggs in supermarkets are kept outside the fridge, but of course there is air-condintioning to keep the store cool.

Thank you, Dr. William Li, that was an interesting video on eggs.

Very knowledgeable!

Thanks for your input about this, blessings 🌌🌍👂♥️🙌🙌🙌👍

You are brilliant. And your vivid adjective laden description of factory eggs has convinced me to spend money on better quality eggs.

Thank you. That help me lower my blood sugar levels too. I ate better. Greens and eggs abd lost waistline.😊

Awesome info video enjoy my healthy eggs thanks for sharing

I enjoy your videos as I find the information based on your research fascinating. I trust the ones that you do directly as opposed to others which use your name but don't appear sincere. The question I have about eggs is how many can one eat in a week. I have high bad cholesterol and was told by my Dr that I could eat only 1 omega 3 egg a week. I usually buy large eggs because I like to bake with these, although they do sell small and medium. Does the size of the egg matter as to how many one should be eating per week? I find the information you provide very interesting and I am looking forward to reading your book! Thank you so much!

Cook the eggs with olive oil below 300 degree otherwise the good oil will change to bad oil.

Thank you docter.

Thank you! I was diagnosed with MD but eating eggs n dark greens so far so good

Since I live in a house with a garden , I have the opportunity to raise chickens .They give me fresh eggs every day.🐔🐓🥚🥚😊

Hi Dr. Li, Thank you for info! What about those with an autoimmune disease. Should they eat eggs (especially egg whites) that may cause issues?

I feed my hens organic layer feed and also lots of fresh herbs from my garden 🐔

can you do video on your own supplements and medications (repurposed included)? Thanks!

We still have horrible studies that don’t regard other risk co-factors or interpret with sufficient clinical knowledge. We just had this total confusion in the xylitol world - and also in some mouthwash studies that have scared everyone in 2024. Why don’t scientists doing studies talk with clinicians to see if their hypothesis is missing something?

I eat two eggs every morning for breakfast and have done so for best part of forty five years. Before that it was a bowl of cereal.

I eat a scrambled egg per day. I love eggs to start my day.

Thanks 👍

A great video on eggs Dr William & you have answered all or alot of the questions I really want to know just got answered about cholesterol & it's health benefits & thank you Dr William & I am going to watch this specific RU-vid video about eggs very soon & thank you for answering all my questions about eggs Dr William & Iove to eat the right kind of healthy eggs too Dr William too !

When I had chickens they would hide their eggs in nests. By the time we found them they may have been in the garden a week or more. The eggs were still fresh and good and never harmed us.

Thanks 💚

I ate 40K eggs ( approximately) beginning from 2009 and my HDL is around 80, triglycerides 50.. i eat 5 to 10 eggs a day with plenty of butter..

I was surprised to see eggs on the shelf in 7-11's in Thailand and Cambodia unrefrigerated... Had to look up and learned what the Dr. in this video explained.....thanks for the video

The colour of an egg yolk can be manipulated depending on the feed.. a hard to crack egg (thicker shell) is a good indicator of higher quality. So get cracking!

It’s been five years now, I have two raw eggs which I have been told is not good, but never had an issue. Feel great and it save me time in making breakfast.. yes, feeling great.. I am 65 now.. my eyes are ok.. should I eat more???

I learned that in order to keep all the nutrients from the eggs that we cook, we need to keep the yolk intact. So, boil the eggs is the best way to keep the nutrients. Scramble eggs diminishes the nutrients because we break the yolk.

Love eggs on avocado toast with kimchi on the side

please publish sources!

Egg yolk contain a rich source of lecithin which has been shown in some small studies to reduce cholesterol

I wish I would have asked my acupuncturist why she’s told me to never eat eggs, dairy,bananas and shrimp. I don’t know what to believe anymore 🤷‍♀️

I've always wondered what the AMATEUR tips are?

Grass fed butter so healthy

It would be nice if you could post the sources that you quote 😊

I eat eggs every single day. I’m 52 and my bad cholesterol is low and my good cholesterol is high.

Is frying eggs in coconut oil healthier than using olive oil? Thanks!!!

How are we squaring away the elevated PFAS/PFOS content in eggs, though? (and in rice, coffee, etc)

I eat 2 eggs daily Since many years ago. Thank you for your information to the public. Im Gonna live 120 years so I started to focus on food to reach my goal. I'm just behind in exercising. 😅

Dr. William Li, please clarify to us older folks if these affirmations I read on a few websitess that, apparently, eggs can cause further damage to an enlarged prostate. 🙏

Very interesting. Thank you. I'm sure eggs are great for people who have no health issues. What about if one has gallstones or some other issue?

I'm in Japan, and I almost never see eggs in the refrigerated section. They are kept at room temperature.

Egg's are great. They are a food that has not had mineral level collapse as in almost the entire edible plant's catalogue. Black salt if taken before every drink well do more for your health than every other product.

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really want to watch this video at some point but pressed on time with appointment! Just incase I have time to run to grocery store, are regular grocery store eggs fine?

I add a raw organic egg to my juice. My mom used to give me like this, every day.

Dr. Li, Does it matter how you cook the egg? Does it have to cooked till solid? Can you eat pouched eggs and not be worried as long as you follow your three rules?

Also note that caffeine potentiates the choline in eggs, making it more nutrient available. People have been drinking coffee and tea with eggs long before we knew what choline was. How cool is that? Healthy cravings are your body requesting what it needs.