Important Update on Eating Raw Eggs

re: Important Update on Eating Raw Eggs

grace hebert — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 02:02:44 GMT

Need help!! I have purchased all sorts of eggs including free range,well fed,from local farm raised hens and almost all of of them "bubble" when I place them in salted, cool water.

May get one egg out of three dozen. I love raw eggs :( .

re: Important Update on Eating Raw Eggs

michelezic — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:01:33 GMT

I would like to get some clarification on consuming raw egg yolks/whites in pregnacy and while breast feeding. Should I be eating the raw yolk one day and the raw white the next day or is it safe to have one whole raw egg each day?

re: Important Update on Eating Raw Eggs

Dorenda1234 — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:19:49 GMT

Dr William Donald Kelley wrote "One Answer to Cancer" and he recommends putting the egg in very hot tap water (140-160 degrees F) for 5 min before cracking. He states this destroys an enzyme inside the membrane just under the shell that prevents the biotin in the egg from functioning normally. This sounds logical and sure is a lot simpler than the other ways Dr. Mercola recommends. Most people now can't afford one more supplement. This would be easier and cheaper than purchasing biotin.

re: Important Update on Eating Raw Eggs

redcedarproperties — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 11:01:35 GMT

A friend just brought this article to my attention. I've been eating probably an avergage of 1.5 raw eggs a day in a blender breakfast concoction for about 4 years. I'm 53, full thick head of hair, just a little gray, healthy fingernails, no rashes. No hallucinations since my college days.

The eggs that I eat are from our own farm. The hens are turned out on lush pasture everyday and also fed greens that I grow to feed them. I wonder if the eggs that the scientist analyzed were factory farm eggs. If you google "Mother Earth News free range eggs" you should find the article reporting the results of analyzing true free range eggs that readers submitted and also factory farm eggs. Big difference.

Dr. Mercola, I'd be glad to send you a urine sample. Just e-mail me.

Thanks for all the good info that you post. It is much appreciated!

Bill

re: Important Update on Eating Raw Eggs

ngrabow1 — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:03:01 GMT

Has anyone ever heard of Davidson's Safest Choice Eggs?

re: Important Update on Eating Raw Eggs

MoneyReikiHealer — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 04:39:03 GMT

What is the MOST CURRENT and LATEST recommendation about eating raw eggs?

There are way too many contradictory articles on Mercola.com. Old articles should be purged so only current data and info remains. Too misleading otherwise.

So is the latest, that it is best to eat the whole egg Rocky Style? Yolk and white together?

Or is it to separate yolk and white, eat the yolk raw and cook the white.?

Is it to never eat the whites raw at all, but always the yolks raw?

Is it to eat the yolks raw on one day and whites raw on another day?

I'm so confused by Mercola's contradictory recommendations Plus in each article he links to other articles on raw eggs and eggs that contradict the article he linked from!

I really wish I had the confused smiley right now! ;-)

So who can help?

Thanks much!

re: Important Update on Eating Raw Eggs

harmoaneus — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 21:19:18 GMT

I would love to hear Dr. Mercola's thoughts on this, but why isn't the simple answer a sublingual biotin supplement? Sublingual supplements absorb directly into the bloodstream via the blood vessels under the tongue and therefore bypass any digestive processes. Sublingual biotin is inexpensive, and in my opinion, should logically thwart this issue altogether. Simple.

re: Important Update on Eating Raw Eggs

stewgrand — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 02:18:44 GMT

Does the unbound (to biotin) avidin in the uncooked white have any effect on any other biotin in the digestive tract other than the 25 micrograms in the accompanying yolk, and if, as I suspect, not, and you eat both the white and yolk together, why wouldn’t supplementing at least 25 micrograms of biotin for each egg eaten this way prevent any net loss of biotin, providing the supplement is taken at the next meal or the previous meal? If the concern is that some residue of avidin remains in the digestive tract as long as one or two meals later, when the supplement is taken, wouldn’t taking a high potency supplement of, say, 5000 micrograms (5 mg) of biotin be enough to overcome that possible avidin residue? (I strongly suspect that it would.) I think more likely, though, there would be effectively zero residue remaining and a moderate size supplement of perhaps 100 micrograms per whole raw egg consumed should be all that is needed rather than 5000 or so micrograms.