Stop throwing away those egg yolks!
Let’s get something straight here: An egg isn’t half good and half bad.
And anyone telling you to eat the whites and toss the yolks has a crack in his shell!
Each part is packed with healthy nutrients and essential minerals.
More importantly, the egg – the COMPLETE egg – is loaded with something else that’s critical to your ability to get out and about and get stuff done.
That’s muscle-building protein, as a recent study finds that you need the WHOLE egg — not just part of it — to get the protein you need to keep strong.
Of course, that’s important at any and every age — but for older folks, muscles can melt off faster than butter in a hot pan.
Millions of seniors are suffering from some degree of weakness. Many battle frailty and – worse still – a muscle-wasting condition called sarcopenia.
But you can stop muscle from shriveling up… IF you stop wasting the best part of the egg!
And that, friend, is the yolk, which is not only packed with protein but also the dietary sulfur that’s essential to healthy muscles. That makes eggs WITH the yolk one of the most powerful natural therapies for one of the biggest quality-of-life issues facing older folks.
Yet if you follow mainstream advice, you’re probably throwing it in the garbage!
Toss mainstream advice into the trash
In the new study, scientists asked a group of volunteers to do some exercises then eat some eggs to see how the protein helped with muscle.
Some of the folks ate protein purely from egg whites, a.k.a. the so-called “healthy” breakfast option that doesn’t taste like much.
The rest of the volunteers got the same amount of protein, but they got it from WHOLE eggs… both white and yolk… just as nature intended.
At first, the researchers didn’t spot much difference. Both sets of volunteers had the same jump in blood levels of muscle-boosting amino acids, which might make it sound like it was a draw.
But it was a different story deep INSIDE the muscles.
In the folks who ate just the egg whites, those muscles were practically gagging. It’s as if they were begging for some real food (which is probably how you’d feel, too, after eating a breakfast of flavorless egg whites).
The muscles in the folks who got the whole eggs, on the other hand, were busy. They were working hard to repair, rebuild, and strengthen themselves.
I know that this process sounds important. It IS important. But most people don’t realize just how critical it is to your day-to-day living.
The folks in this study were all young men put through the rigors of resistance exercise. As an Olympic diving coach, I can tell you firsthand about the toll that even short bursts of muscle-punishing activity can take on the body.
You don’t have to be an Olympian to suffer that damage yourself.
You don’t even have to be a young athlete!
You punish your own muscles every day… whether it’s with traditional exercise or just your daily living… and whether it’s hauling in groceries or “diving” into the garage to change your oil or brake fluid.
If your muscles don’t get a chance to recover, you suffer – and suffer big.
That’s why while this study may have been on younger men, it holds a clear lesson for YOU — no matter your age.
When it comes to a good breakfast, don’t chicken out.
I know that the conventional argument is about not wanting “all that cholesterol” found in the yolk, but trouble only happens when the cholesterol in your body gets damaged (a.k.a. “oxidized”).
And the cholesterol in the yolks of eggs is absolutely pure and, in fact, safe!
Eat whole eggs for better, stronger muscle… eat them because they’re more filling and satisfying… and eat them for the best reason of all.
They’re DELICIOUS.
