He ate 700 eggs in one month: Here’s what happened to his body

The 700-Egg Experiment: What One Researcher Learned About Cholesterol

Conversations about food today are louder than ever. Fad diets, viral nutrition trends, and carefully curated meal plans dominate social media and dinner table debates alike. People make dietary changes to lose weight, gain muscle, improve metabolic health, or align with personal values.

Few challenges are as extreme as Dr. Nick Norwitz’s recent experiment. A researcher-educator focused on metabolic health, he documented consuming 700 eggs in a single month on his YouTube channel to see how it would affect his cholesterol.

That meant roughly 24 eggs per day—about one every hour. The goal was to test whether a massive intake of dietary cholesterol would significantly raise LDL, or “bad” cholesterol.

For decades, conventional wisdom warned that cholesterol-rich foods like eggs increased cardiovascular risk. But recent research has questioned whether dietary cholesterol directly raises blood cholesterol, suggesting that the body may adjust internal production in response to intake.