Hey eat meat raw too, it would save lots of time.
umm…salmonella?!?
salmonella scare is crap.
There’s only one chance in 30,000 that you contract salmonella and 90% of the people who do get it don’t even need to do go to the doctor. And that’s with our regular shitty eggs. If you buy organic or free-range your chances are practically nil.
I use a raw egg in most shakes. Fuck, cream soda used to be always made with a raw egg. Somehow nobody made a stink about this salmonella crap until recently.
Eat’em up!
I don’t now, but did for years. Sometimes 30-40 a day. Never once had a problem. Unless you count the fact my girlfriend lived in an old farm house and I used to send the shells down the disposal. Getting that drain unclogged was a bitch.
My advice-Do not drink raw eggs.
Raw eggs are only 51% bio-available. Cooked eggs are 95% bio-available.
This means that if you drink 10 raw eggs, your body can absorb only 5 of them. If you drink 4 your body absorbs 2.
Now cooking them increases the protein absorbtion to a whoopin 95%. This is higher than in most foods. Some foods are absorbed better than others.
It is a common misconseption that heating the eggs will denature the protein. This not true, cooking changes the shape of the proteins in an egg when you cook the egg. In this case, denaturing the egg proteins changes the texture of the egg from slimy to firm.
Cooking changes the shape of proteins, but cooking doesn’t take away the amino acids found in them.
Cook your eggs, from an efficiency point of view it hold many advantages.
Now considering the theory of bio-availability, let me try to change your mind.
You will get the same amount of protein+nutrients if you-
- Drink 10 egs
- Eat 5 eggs.
So if you say you cant eat as many eggs cooked, the answer is you dont need to.
Digesting the raw egg will also put alot of stress on your digestive system.
Hope this helped.
But yes it is safe, you wont die.
Just make sure you wash the eggshell thoroughly before cracking the egg.
I read most of the bacteria that would give you grief is found on the outer eggshell and contaminates the yolk and white as you crack it.
Unless ofcourse the egg was rotten.
[quote]ImSkinny wrote:
My advice-Do not drink raw eggs.
Raw eggs are only 51% bio-available. Cooked eggs are 95% bio-available.
This means that if you drink 10 raw eggs, your body can absorb only 5 of them. If you drink 4 your body absorbs 2.
Now cooking them increases the protein absorbtion to a whoopin 95%. This is higher than in most foods. Some foods are absorbed better than others.
It is a common misconseption that heating the eggs will denature the protein. This not true, cooking changes the shape of the proteins in an egg when you cook the egg. In this case, denaturing the egg proteins changes the texture of the egg from slimy to firm.
Cooking changes the shape of proteins, but cooking doesn’t take away the amino acids found in them.
Cook your eggs, from an efficiency point of view it hold many advantages.
Now considering the theory of bio-availability, let me try to change your mind.
You will get the same amount of protein+nutrients if you-
- Drink 10 egs
- Eat 5 eggs.
So if you say you cant eat as many eggs cooked, the answer is you dont need to.
Digesting the raw egg will also put alot of stress on your digestive system.
Hope this helped.
But yes it is safe, you wont die.
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I agree. This is the main reason I don’t eat them raw anymore. If I’m going to eat all those damn eggs, I want maximum benefit.
[quote]ImSkinny wrote:
My advice-Do not drink raw eggs.
Raw eggs are only 51% bio-available. Cooked eggs are 95% bio-available.
This means that if you drink 10 raw eggs, your body can absorb only 5 of them. If you drink 4 your body absorbs 2.
Now cooking them increases the protein absorbtion to a whoopin 95%. This is higher than in most foods. Some foods are absorbed better than others.[/quote]
There’s just one study on isotopes that confirms it so I wouldn’t buy into that. If you put eggs in a shake it could be a whole different story. Also I’ve seen a study that says the yolk is better absorbed raw so it’s nothing that should be paid attention to, IMO. People drank raw eggs for thousands of years and it worked for them so I don’t see a good enough reason to change.
[quote]ImSkinny wrote:
My advice-Do not drink raw eggs.
Raw eggs are only 51% bio-available. Cooked eggs are 95% bio-available.
This means that if you drink 10 raw eggs, your body can absorb only 5 of them. If you drink 4 your body absorbs 2.
Now cooking them increases the protein absorbtion to a whoopin 95%. This is higher than in most foods. Some foods are absorbed better than others.
It is a common misconseption that heating the eggs will denature the protein. This not true, cooking changes the shape of the proteins in an egg when you cook the egg. In this case, denaturing the egg proteins changes the texture of the egg from slimy to firm.
Cooking changes the shape of proteins, but cooking doesn’t take away the amino acids found in them.
Cook your eggs, from an efficiency point of view it hold many advantages.
Now considering the theory of bio-availability, let me try to change your mind.
You will get the same amount of protein+nutrients if you-
- Drink 10 egs
- Eat 5 eggs.
So if you say you cant eat as many eggs cooked, the answer is you dont need to.
Digesting the raw egg will also put alot of stress on your digestive system.
Hope this helped.
But yes it is safe, you wont die.
[/quote]
i wish they were more “bio-available”. can you increase your absorbtion by eating more? regardless though i only eat raw eggs when im too lazy to cook. raw eggs and whole milk are my “ehhhhh” foods.
i just need to find a girlfriend who will cook for me all day.
[quote]Majin wrote:
ImSkinny wrote:
My advice-Do not drink raw eggs.
Raw eggs are only 51% bio-available. Cooked eggs are 95% bio-available.
This means that if you drink 10 raw eggs, your body can absorb only 5 of them. If you drink 4 your body absorbs 2.
Now cooking them increases the protein absorbtion to a whoopin 95%. This is higher than in most foods. Some foods are absorbed better than others.
There’s just one study on isotopes that confirms it so I wouldn’t buy into that. If you put eggs in a shake it could be a whole different story. Also I’ve seen a study that says the yolk is better absorbed raw so it’s nothing that should be paid attention to, IMO. People drank raw eggs for thousands of years and it worked for them so I don’t see a good enough reason to change.
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Agree with this. Buy only cage free organic eggs and wash the eggs thoroughly. One dozen per day and you’ll be training like old time bodybuilders, like Vince Gironda.
Anyone bothered by raw: soft boil the eggs.
Any particular reason why some of you don’t think our stomach acid would do a good enough job with the denaturation of the protein?
[quote]Majin wrote:
People drank raw eggs for thousands of years and it worked for them so I don’t see a good enough reason to change.
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I don’t see why people don’t just take five extra minutes to cook the eggs. Bodybuilding is about building the most massive physique possible through the easiest and most available means. Why short yourself the taste and the bio-availablity?
Raw eggs did bad things to my guts which were rather counter productive. I eat 4 eggs every morning, scrambled, it takes all of 3-4 mins to cook, bit of ketchup and pepper, its all good.
[quote]SSC wrote:
Majin wrote:
People drank raw eggs for thousands of years and it worked for them so I don’t see a good enough reason to change.
I don’t see why people don’t just take five extra minutes to cook the eggs. Bodybuilding is about building the most massive physique possible through the easiest and most available means. Why short yourself the taste and the bio-availablity?[/quote]
I can’t stomach more than an egg or two at a time when they’re cooked.
[quote]anonym wrote:
SSC wrote:
Majin wrote:
People drank raw eggs for thousands of years and it worked for them so I don’t see a good enough reason to change.
I don’t see why people don’t just take five extra minutes to cook the eggs. Bodybuilding is about building the most massive physique possible through the easiest and most available means. Why short yourself the taste and the bio-availablity?
I can’t stomach more than an egg or two at a time when they’re cooked.[/quote]
Really? Why’s that? I’m genuinely curious…
[quote]SSC wrote:
anonym wrote:
SSC wrote:
Majin wrote:
People drank raw eggs for thousands of years and it worked for them so I don’t see a good enough reason to change.
I don’t see why people don’t just take five extra minutes to cook the eggs. Bodybuilding is about building the most massive physique possible through the easiest and most available means. Why short yourself the taste and the bio-availablity?
I can’t stomach more than an egg or two at a time when they’re cooked.
Really? Why’s that? I’m genuinely curious…[/quote]
Couldn’t tell ya why, exactly, outside of they just make me feel full.
I don’t really have much of an appetite in the mornings, anyhow, which is why I started drinking my breakfast in the first place…and wanting to get some eggs in me didn’t help the situation. I guess I just stuck with the raw eggs throughout the rest of the day for convenience and simplicity.
I’m not terribly worried about protein absorption (not evenly entirely sure if this is true) - I get well over 300 grams a day from my diet (plenty for my size), so I can afford to lose a bit here and there for the sake of the extra calories they allow me to get in (which I feel is more important for me at this point).
I find it easier to eat 6 eggs raw, vs 6 eggs cooked.
[quote]HunterKiller wrote:
I find it easier to eat 6 eggs raw, vs 6 eggs cooked. [/quote]
Sure but then you need to drink 12 raw eggs to get the benefit of 6 cooked eggs.
[quote]ImSkinny wrote:
HunterKiller wrote:
I find it easier to eat 6 eggs raw, vs 6 eggs cooked.
Sure but then you need to drink 12 raw eggs to get the benefit of 6 cooked eggs.[/quote]
Rocky would only drink like 5 and look where it got him.
(Not being serious!)