Eggs – an ancient superfood

Firstly, some food for thought

Video cred: the British comedy series White.

I quite fancy this video clip from the British TV series "Whites", as it truly reflects the weirdness of modern time, with a warm and humorous wink. Although, while it is funny, my heart also drops a beat, because the girl in the clip makes me think of just how disconnected many people are today, as a result of smartphones, scrolling and conventional media, along with a dietary intake of too little animal fats and too much inflammatory sugar and processed carbs. These things provide nothing but malnourishment and stupidity to the brain. And it makes me think of the wide-spread confusion amongst the younger generations of today. There is so much misinformation out there in terms of what's healthy and what's not. Especially in regard to food choices. The vegan/vegetarian trends and ultra-processed fake foods, have – in biochemical terms, literally – hijacked many young brains, and the industry is not only stealing their money but also ruining their health. Mentally, physically and spiritually.

I feel for the younger generations growing up today, because these are challenging and unhealthy times for all, but perhaps especially for those born straight into the very much processed, and digital, era.

Smartphone addiction & modern food is poison for the brain

The smartphone and social media addiction is real. Many are socialising online rather than taking part in reality. Cities are becoming increasingly over-stimulating and hard to handle for our nervous systems and for our ancestral brains. There is a constant information flow, necks bent down into digital screens, exposure of artificial lights, existing in unnatural living conditions – these things are the new normal. Add to that, that this is also, without doubt, the era of a somewhat narcissistic superficiality taking place both in social media platforms but also in people's day-to-day lives. And the fact that most of the food being sold, is poison.

So there is a need to inform, educate, and spread some old school, real knowledge.

As the ancient physician and philosopher Hippocrates once said; all disease begins in the gut. So let's talk a bit about real food. It is after all foundational for building brain health, mental health, a proper immune system, a strong and sound body, natural dopamine production, and key for anyone interested in rejuvenation or purification. From inside and out.

Eggs are nutritional powerhouses

Ketogenic Sunday breakfast eggs with extra yolks, the nutritional powerhouses, and natural sea salt.

A consequence of the modern diets, which don't allow animal foods and/or contain mostly inflammatory ultra processed foods, is that they result in nutritional deficiencies. One of them is a lack of iron. To avoid this, it is wise to eat the following sources of heme-iron: meat, organ foods, seafood, poultry and eggs.

Eggs have been a true superfood since the beginning of time, and make a great staple in the kitchen.

Iron – hemoglobin – oxygen

Eggs come with iron. And iron helps the body produce hemoglobin, a protein located in the body's red blood cells. What you eat – or choose not to eat – will impact your levels of hemoglobin and red blood cells, which in turn has impact on the quality of your breathing, and your ability to utilise the oxygen you inhale.

The primary mission of hemoglobin, is to transport oxygen from the lungs to each cell, tissue, muscle and organ, such as the brain and the heart. Healthy levels of hemoglobin will also support the pH-balance in the blood, and proper mitochondrial energy metabolism.

An additional way of improving all of the above, is to do breathing exercises, also known as breathwork. Some sceptics who have not yet tried it, may raise their eyebrows and call it "just a hippie-inspired trend", but it really is a timeless thing, and there's nothing woo-woo about it. It's about human biology and brain biochemistry, and the fact that the breath is a power switch for regulating the nervous system – or in other words, it's about the design of our ancestral blueprint. Which holds the keys on how to thrive, to optimum health and wellbeing.

No, cows & chicken are not causing climate change

Individuals with iron-deficiency anemia have a lack of red blood cells and hemoglobin, often due to eating too little or no animal foods like meat and eggs, and due to dysfunctional breathing patterns. Both of these factors are signs of modern time;

our breathing patterns have changed due to modern life environments, smartphones and processed foods, making many sick, stressed, inflamed and foggy-brained.
media, big food & big pharma have spent decades making money on having people fear eggs, cholesterol, animal fats and meat. By tricking entire populations into believing that these perfectly healthy, ancestral foods would cause cancer, wreak havoc on cholesterol levels, clog the arteries, have us dying from heart attacks AND cause climate change. None of which is true.

The food products which generate cancerous effects, are the ultra processed versions. Meat isn't the problem. On the contrary, meat can be a huge part of the solution for anyone who wants to improve health or reverse illness and disease. As is cows and chicken in regard to saving mother earth, the soil and the climate; old school, regenerative farming heals. The real villain is – in various forms – human behaviour (which is a whole topic of its own), and the production of ultra processed fake foods. When it comes to cholesterol, we need it. For anyone curious to learn more, I describe how cholesterol works in my book KETO-licious, along with telling the story on how come cholesterol got its bad reputation.

In short; your liver has a fantastic ability of both producing and regulating cholesterol, and dietary cholesterol is not dangerous. And for the bad rep, it stems from a dusty old hypothesis based on hasty conclusions from insufficient studies made in the 1950's and 1960's.

For example, The Seven Country Study, which was performed solely on men, and in just 7 of the world's 200 or so countries. Hence, it excluded key factors such as half of the world's population in terms of gender and biology, and grossly disregarded health determinants (food, lifestyle habits and other conditions) of a vast majority of people in the world. The misleading scientific results were used frequently from the 1970's and forward, to back up the marketing of low-fat food products and cholesterol-lowering medications, like statins, and the demonisation of animal fats such as egg yolks, butter and beef tallow.

The truth on cholesterol

The truth is, we need proper cholesterol levels to live well and thrive. And an increasing amount of newer (and more thoroughly performed) studies, also indicate that high levels of dietary cholesterol from animal foods and healthy fats pave the way to longevity, and comes with the potential to keep diseases such as Alzheimer's, at bay. So eggs are in fact both brain- and heart healthy. And like any animal food, they also contribute to maintaining stable blood sugar levels. This is a very good thing.

A better food pyramid

It is no secret that animal-based, ketogenic and low carb diets rich in good fats, are great for improving overall health and wellbeing as well as for reversing many chronic illnesses. Below this text, you will find to find a illustration which I hope can bring some insight and inspiration. It is the first-ever peer-reviewed low carb / ketogenic food pyramid, along with a link to brilliant and fresh paper by Nina Teicholz et al, in the journal Nutrients. This is for anyone who wants better health and more life quality through the power of real food.

With love,

Hanna

P.S. On the topic off eggs, it's among the top 3 on my goals list to one day have chickens and a rooster in a future backyard and a bee-friendly, lush garden (with a home-built solution for rotational grazing). To be able to pick your own eggs, that is the real luxury to me. D.S.