Fad diets and tight food intake regulations appear to be highly popular these days. When most people decide to change their eating habits dramatically, they do so with a specific aim. Perhaps they want to gain or lose weight, live a better lifestyle, or align their diet with their principles.

I believe it is reasonable to assume that the majority of us have previously chosen to eliminate certain foods from our diets. I believe it is also reasonable to state that few of us have ever taken on a task like Dr. Nick Norwitz. Dr. Norwitz, a researcher-educator whose website characterizes his purpose as “Make Metabolic Health Mainstream,” recently rose to online prominence via his YouTube channel, where he filmed his experience after opting to ingest 700 eggs in a month to observe what would happen to his body.

That’s correct… 700 eggs! For those wondering, it equates to two cartons of eggs every day for 30 days. Or, as the doctor says, one egg each hour. I think we can all agree that this is not a task for the timid.

To obtain the appropriate levels, Dr. Norwitz had to devour a wonderful 24 eggs every day. What motivated him to go on what most of us would consider a difficult and excessive diet? He sought to establish that eating so many cholesterol-rich eggs would not have a substantial influence on his cholesterol readings, particularly his LDL (low-density lipoprotein).

You’ve probably heard of cholesterol, which is nearly universally recognized to be harmful to the heart when levels are chronically high.

When I was younger, we were told that cholesterol was definitely terrible for you and that eating cholesterol-rich meals on a daily basis would lead to significant problems in the future.

I consume 24 eggs every day.

Of course, the times change, as does the broad agreement among health specialists. Some people now contend that cholesterol is not as hazardous as previously thought. Since I’m not a doctor, I won’t sit here and tell you it’s totally beneficial to eat 24 eggs each day (don’t try that at home, folks), but to be fair to Dr. Norwitz, his experiment yielded some fascinating results. According to the excellent doctor’s YouTube channel, his cholesterol readings did not increase as predicted after eating 720 eggs in one month.

Instead, he claimed to have noticed the opposite: his LDL cholesterol levels were consistent but gradually fell. Dr. Norwitz’s LDL cholesterol fell by 2% in the first two weeks but then plummeted by 18% in the next two weeks.

Dr. Norwitz said that the control of cholesterol production by the liver is regulated by dietary intake and that when he added more carbohydrates to his diet, his LDL levels appeared to balance. “The extra dose of carbs dominated over the insane amounts of cholesterol I was consuming,” he stated to the New York Post.

Norwitz then picked fruits such as blueberries, bananas, and strawberries to eat during the remaining two weeks of his trial, resulting in the aforementioned significant decline.

Have you ever attempted a crazy food challenge or tried a new diet? Please let us know in the comments.