The secret to longevity is eating two raw eggs a day

[Eboard10]

The previous holder of the title of oldest person in the world, Susannah Mushatt Jones, put her longevity down to eating bacon and eggs every morning. The new record holder, a 116 years old Italian lady, shares a similar advice to living a long an healthy life.

The secret to longevity is eating two raw eggs a day, says newly-crowned oldest person in the world
13 May 2016 - 11:52 AM

She is the world’s last living link to the 19th century. And the secret to her longevity? Three eggs a day, two of them raw, and a little raw minced meat.

Emma Morano, who was born in northern Italy on Nov 29, 1899, is now the world’s oldest person at 116, after the previous holder of the title, Susannah Mushatt Jones, died in New York on Thursday.

Born in Alabama in 1899, Mrs Jones was the last living American whose life began in the 1800s.

The only person in the world who now has a living connection to a century marked by the Crimean War, the unification of Italy and the invention of the internal combustion engine is Mrs Morano.

She lives in a small flat in the town of Verbania, on the shores of Lake Maggiore, close to the Swiss border.

Her life has spanned such tumultuous events as the Boer War, two World Wars, the advent of the nuclear age and the invention of email and the Internet.

She watched Italy embrace and then reject Fascism, enter the Second World War and dispense with its monarchy in favour of becoming a republic.

She was happy to hear that the title of the world’s oldest living human had passed to her, one of her carers told The Telegraph on Friday.

“She was told this morning and she said ‘My word, I’m as old as the hills,’ but she was very pleased,” said Rosi Santoni, a sprightly 72-year-old relative who helps care for the old lady. Mrs Morano was not able to come to the phone – she is almost entirely deaf and these days barely watches television. She wakes at 8am and has a little milk and some biscuits for breakfast.

When The Telegraph called she was eating an early lunch of semolina with a boiled egg. She also eats two raw eggs a day, ever since a doctor advised her that it would be good for her health when she was diagnosed with anemia at the age of 20. She has maintained the regime ever since.

Another secret to her longevity, she says, is regularly eating small quantities of minced meat, and having only milk for supper. “Considering her age she is in pretty good health,” said Mrs Santoni. “She does find walking very tiring, though, and she has a nap during the day.”

Her social life is a bit limited these days – not just because her sight and hearing are failing, but because all her contemporaries are dead. “Her friends are all in the cemetery, sadly,” said Mrs Santoni.

Mrs Morano was born in the village of Civiasco in the Piedmont region of northern Italy on Nov 29 1899. She was one of eight children – five sisters and three brothers. It was the year in Guglielmo Marconi first transmitted a radio signal across the English Channel.

She worked in a factory making jute sacks and then as a cook. When she turned 116 last November she offered to sing for well-wishers, telling them she still had “a beautiful voice”.

On her birthday she received a congratulatory telegram from Sergio Mattarella, the president of Italy, and a signed parchment of blessing from Pope Francis, which is now framed and hangs on the wall of her flat. The Pope wished her “good health and serenity of spirit”.

Aside from raw eggs and meat, she credits her longevity with having left a violent husband in 1938, shortly after the death of her only child at the age of seven months. She remained single for the rest of her life.

 

[munaychasumaq]

Good saturated fats for her mitochondria ;)

 

[whitecoast]

As long as she's not sensitive to them, all the power to her.

 

[adam7117]

Good on her! This is probably not a universal recipe for longevity, especially for somebody born more recently. Nevertheless, a great achievement and it does look like there are plenty of saturated animal fats there.

Food intolerance is a big deal though. I would not cope with the milk and probably spend most of my time in the toilet, not to mention the acne. Others may be in a lot of pain because of the eggs. There is plenty of information on this forum to explore the possibilities.

 

[Eboard10]

Good on her! This is probably not a universal recipe for longevity, especially for somebody born more recently. Nevertheless, a great achievement and it does look like there are plenty of saturated animal fats there.

Food intolerance is a big deal though. I would not cope with the milk and probably spend most of my time in the toilet, not to mention the acne. Others may be in a lot of pain because of the eggs. There is plenty of information on this forum to explore the possibilities.

True, with all the food sensitivities that people have nowadays due to their immune systems having weakened from all the crap they have been fed, many are intolerant to eggs and dairy making her recommendation hard to follow. I myself avoid dairy products as they make my stomach feel uncomfortable but I can luckily eat eggs just fine.

It's still nice to see that these ultra-centenaries are disproving everything that we're being told by mainstream health practitioners and that saturated fats are clearly not shortening your life expectancy.

 

[Carl]

Since I didn't notice a difference in cutting out eggs, I started having 2 raw egg yolks a day in the evening again. I'm pretty sure it does something good for hormone levels and they are full of all kinds of goodness :D

 

[T.C.]

Since I didn't notice a difference in cutting out eggs, I started having 2 raw egg yolks a day in the evening again. I'm pretty sure it does something good for hormone levels and they are full of all kinds of goodness :D

How do you take those, Carl? (Says T.C., interested in trying it, but afraid of the answer )

 

[Gaby]

The research and experience seems to be compelling. A lot of people can't deal with eggs (a common food intolerance).

A Beloved Food That Surprisingly Has Been Found to Contribute to Diabetes

Over the last few years I started seeing an unanticipated trend that totally took me by surprise. The trend was totally fit individuals who were eating three to six eggs a day were developing Type 2 Diabetes ...

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Over the last few years I started seeing an unanticipated trend that totally took me by surprise. The trend was totally fit individuals who were eating three to six eggs a day were developing Type 2 Diabetes (T2D) confirmed with an elevated Hemoglobin A1c levels ranging from 5.8 to 6.2.!

The A1C test—also known as the hemoglobin A1C or HbA1c test—is a simple blood test that measures your average blood sugar levels over the past 3 months. It's one of the commonly used tests to diagnose prediabetes and diabetes, and is also the main test to help you and your health care team manage your diabetes.

My Research And Discovery on The Relationship Between Increased Egg Consumption and the Trend Toward Diabetes

According to a study published 2021 in the British Journal of Nutrition, consuming one or more eggs per day may increase the risk of diabetes by 60%!.

Researchers compared egg consumption with blood glucose levels in more than 8,000 participants from the China Health and Nutrition Survey. Those who habitually consumed the most eggs increased their risk for diabetes when compared to those who ate the fewest eggs.

A study published in Nutrition found an increased risk for diabetes and high cholesterol among Chinese women, while research published in Circulation found a link between higher egg consumption and prevalence of diabetes mellitus and hypertension.

Although an older study, the medical journal, Circulation from a meta-analysis and data from the Physicians' Health Study and Women's Health Study showed an increased risk for diabetes of up to 77% with seven or more eggs consumed per week.

Higher egg consumption was associated with higher blood glucose in subjects with T2D.

What the Medical Literature is Leaning Toward as it Relates to Diabetes and Eggs

Many studies, including meta-analyses, systematic reviews, case-control studies, and large-scale epidemiological studies, all point in the same direction.

Eating eggs increases your risk for the development of type 2 diabetes, heart disease, diabetes complications, and all-cause mortality.

Whether you are currently living with diabetes, consuming an increased number of eggs per week can significantly elevate your risk for developing diabetes and its health related complications such as cardiovascular disease and kidney disease.

Dr. Grisanti's Comments:

My analysis of the research was an eye-opener and to be quite honest if it wasn't for the fact that I was seeing what appeared to be perfectly fit patients exhibiting elevated Ha1c with a possible correlation of increased egg consumption, I would have been doubtful on the conclusions of these studies.

I suggest limiting egg consumption to three eggs per week

I found the following short video from Michael Greger M.D. FACLM (author of How Not to Die and his most recent book, How Not to Age) a good summary on this important topic.

Eggs and Diabetes | NutritionFacts.org

** As a side note, I realize that there will be egg proponents that will debate me and show me other peer reviewed studies negating the contents of my article. My response will be the fact that I see the true evidence with real patients and not simply some conflicting studies. I prefer to err on the side of being cautious and do no harm.

This is a controversial topic with two opposing sides and I have done my due diligence and weighed out the evidence and I believe over abundance of egg consumption should be carefully curtailed as to be 100% certain you are doing no metabolic damage to yourself and your patients.

If you are staunch advocate of increased egg consumption, I simply say, do the benefits out weigh the risk.

Again what I have observed in clinical practice with real patients, the lab tests do not lie and with no evidence of other reasons for compromised glucose metabolism (diabetes), I report that eggs may indeed be the culprit.

I will continue to report on my findings as I continue to monitor my patients.

References:

Higher egg consumption associated with increased risk of diabetes in Chinese adults - China Health and Nutrition Survey - PubMed
Egg consumption and the risk of diabetes in adults, Jiangsu, China - PubMed
Egg consumption and risk of type 2 diabetes: a prospective study and dose–response meta-analysis
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Egg consumption and risk of type 2 diabetes: a meta-analysis of prospective studies - PubMed
Egg consumption and risk of type 2 diabetes in men and women - PubMed
Association between egg consumption and cardiovascular disease events, diabetes and all-cause mortality - European Journal of Nutrition
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