Eggs, cholesterol, fitness

Because I just keep seeing over and over questions and wrong anwsers, I'll try to answer simply.
Through years, the number of people suffering from hypercholesterolemia increased, Health authorities advised to lower eggs consumption, which is a rich cholesterol food - in fact, there is nothing to fear about eggs, no matter what you think about them.

It has been proven the cholesterol consumption has nothing to do with cholesterol level in the blood stream (same story as fat will make you fat). Several hypothesis has been put on - the most probable one being the liver regulates it's cholesterol production if this last is brought via food.

The studies
- A study showed during an hypocaloric hypoglucidic diet, the consumption of 3 eggs per day allowed the increase of the HDL cholesterol in an overweight group

- The big american study NHANES III showed people who consumed 4 eggs per day had their cholesterol levels lower than the people who ate only 1 egg

- A famous case was reported par scientists in 1991 : a 88 years old man who ate around 25 eggs per day during 15 years. His blood report showed a normal cholesterol level and not any cardiac issues

- Other studies tried to see if a link could exist between yolks consumption and mortality rate. While results presented variations, they all showed a high risk for diabetic people with the consumption of 2 eggs per day. The risk seems non-existent with healthy people for 1 egg per day.

BUT - all these studies have one common point : eggs came from battery farming hens ; hens who never saw the daylight, and being mainly fedd with GMOs - which is in no comparaison with the classical food for a hen who happily walks outside. Produced eggs have their yolk pale, almost white. Hens are given extra pigments in their food, giving to these eggs a more natural color.
Regarding their nutritive infos, their characteristic is their fatty acids : high in omega-6, low in omega-3. That simply means every consumed egg higher the misbalance of the essential fatty acids , meaning a higher risk of cardiovascular diseases, cancers, mental diseases, and any inflammatory diseases (mean a ****load of diseases).

Moreover, this omega-6 consumption is responsible for the increase of inflammatory that could be found in the diabete, while the markers of that last (interleukine-6) has been proven to be predicators of this pathology evolution.
I think this hypothesis is quite solid, and would explain the mortality rate that some studies showed

Cholesterol and fitness
While some only eat the yolk, while others buy whites only ?
The link between muscles and cholesterol appeared when studies showed after a strength training, the cholesterol level in the blod decrease during two hours, while days were required (up to 3 days) for restoring the normal level. The fatigue which comes after a strengt training is also highly correlated to the cholesterol level decrease, way more than the muscular fibers damages.
Sure, tissues need cholesterol to heal...

Studies went even further in that interesting link between dietary cholesterol (again, via eggs only) and muscles strengt ; results went in one way only :
- The more cholesterol you eat, higher are chances to gain strength and mass
- The more blod cholesterol is produced by the body, higher are the chances to gain lean mass and strength.

That last result is even more right when LDL levels are high, while HDL levels are low ! This makes sens, LDL are lipo-proteins which transport cholesterol from liver to cells (meaning also muscles' cells) while HDL transport cholesterol from the cells to the liver

source :
http://www.agriculturejournals.cz/publicFiles/52305.pdf

Few days back, I quite enjoyed my high-cholesterol pizza


See the top-right of my fridge ?