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Harvard med student eats 720 eggs in 30 days, cholesterol drops

Ellsworth Toohey
Sep 25, 2024
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Harvard medical student Nick Norwitz ate 720 eggs in a month as an experiment to study the effects on his cholesterol levels.

"I hypothesized that eating 720 eggs in one month, which alone amounts to 133,200 milligrams of cholesterol would not increase my cholesterol," Norwitz said in his YouTube video. Surprisingly, his results confirmed this hypothesis.

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