In Kochi, I was doing a lot of egg fasts. I was fit and fine but my immunity system was terrible. Are egg fasts (twice a month) safe?
Egg and Fat. Pause. Repeat
eggs are classified as super food.
If you do not have food allergies to eggs then you should be fine.
Eggs are eggcellent! Your immune system is a function of more than diet though. I find that vitamin D is essential for my health, especially in the winter and especially because I have a darker pigmentation.
I personally try to get as much sun exposure as possible and supplement with vitamin D+K2 and vitamin C. Also, moving and stretching help with the lymphatic system circulation. It doesn’t need to be exercise but just walking and stretching help.
So walk in the sun and enjoy your eggs.
That’s beautiful health advice for everyone (except those allergic to eggs, obviously)!
I can’t find it at the moment but I had thought I read somewhere that a person can end up having allergic reactions to eggs when they eat too many for too long. I do not know if that is technically true or if even partially true whether there is just a low level of intolerance in some people that never manifests itself with low levels of egg consumption that perhaps manifest when doing something like an “egg f(e)ast”.
I have also wondered whether the reactions that some have could at all be related to what the chickens that laid the eggs eat. Many moons ago, I did come from a farm background, not chickens so much as dairy, but some of the stuff that chickens were fed in their rations at that time would have made some people gasp. Seriously, I remember that in one article I read in “Lancaster Farming”, the feed they were giving some of their commercial flocks was actually something close to 1/3 their own fecal waste being reprocessed and fed back to them as they said it didn’t digest the first time through. That’s 30+ years ago so it may not be so today. But I also know there are a lot of genetically modified foods that get fed to them today and there are people that are particularly sensitive to those foods. (My wife is one of them, soy gives a nasty reaction and corn to a lesser extent, though our own homegrown corn, which we have very little of, doesn’t seem to give the same reaction. Thankful that corn and soy are not really a part of our flavor of keto. But that’s a side trip.)
It’s entirely possible that none of the above is even remotely relevant. The subject of allergies is one where even the best minds in science know less than we often wish they did, and I don’t mean that in a bad way. We’ve come a long way but the more we learn, the more we know that we don’t know.
FWIW…
You are what you ate ate… so free range bug fed chickens make better eggs… if you have a chance to find a local source, it’s excellent. The yolks are orange gold instead of pale yellow …
Some people have fewer allergic reactions to duck eggs. So switching between chicken, duck and other types of eggs may help stave off allergies. I’ve got no research for this, just something I remember from AIP.
It’s actually very helpful… I do get organic eggs but they are very very expensive.