Research Shows That Avoiding Eggs Entirely Linked To 22% Higher Risk Of Memory-Stealing Disease

[StudyFinds]:  But now researchers have tracked nearly 40,000 older adults for more than 15 years, and  found that people who ate eggs regularly were far less likely to be diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease than those who never or rarely touched them. The most frequent egg eaters, those having five or more servings a week, showed a 27% lower risk.

In this graph below, it's almost like eating less than 10 grams a day of egg is a deficiency….

The study was published in The Journal of Nutrition, and drew on data from the Adventist Health Study-2.

The results show there is an association between eggs and dementia, but this sort of study can't prove causation. It's always possible that people who have some high risk of dementia for some reason choose not to eat eggs. But on the plus side, the results were dose dependent — the more eggs people ate, the lower their risk of Alzheimers, which is about as good as it gets in this kind of study.  And they did exclude all the obvious factors, including vegans, and still found the strong link.

There are reasons…

Eggs are some of the richest sources for choline which is essential from brain and liver health. We know people taking cholinergics (e.g. some antihistamines) may be at higher risk of Alzheimers, and the condition is associated with a loss of cholinergic neurons and a drop in acetyl-choline levels.

Two eggs provides almost as much choline as a 3 oz steak but cost a lot less. Eggs also have antioxidants like lutein and zeaxanthin, and they have some DHA fat that is more common in fish oil (especially if the eggs come from free range chickens.)

The study was funded by the American Egg Board, so there's a potential bias, but it begs the question — why wasn't this study done in 1980 before the experts tossed eggs under the bus? Where was the government?

For forty years people thought they were doing "the scientific thing" and were following the experts, but potentially thousands of people suffered with a  form of dementia that might have been prevented?