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I recently came across a video series from "Golden Era Bookworm," who looks more in depth to the recommendations of the Golden Era Bodybuilders, especially names like Steve Reeves and Vince Gironda.
Gironda has been mentioned on this forum a few times, and one of his more controversial statements was that "Eating 36 Eggs a Day is equivalent to taking Dianabol." Obviously, eating that many would be a huge dose of cholesterol (about 7 grams a day), but this video does a dive into the hormones that you might also get-
He get's the values from this study-
Note it's from 2013, so the values are likely to still be relevant today, even with the current state of food production.
Here is a screenshot of his table for eating 36 eggs a day, and calculations-
So, in a week of eating 36 eggs every day, Gironda or other bodybuilders would get about 50 mg of Testosterone, and 15 mg DHT. That's about endogenous levels of these hormones for a young man, maybe slightly higher. But check out progesterone.......... 1 week would be 3.5 GRAMS of P4! Huge! That would be massively anti-catabolic and anti-estrogen. It also fit's in line with what @haidut talked about using Progesterone with DHEA..... This would be a big dose of progesterone, balanced out with (comparatively little) doses of Test and DHT. It might also make the Androstenedione more likely to go down the Test or DHEA route, rather than Estrogen.
This is apparently a similar amount of eggs that helped treat severe burn patients and keep them in positive nitrogen balance- 35 Eggs per day in the treatment of severe burns
Obviously, eating 36 eggs a day is massive, and unrealistic for average people, even many bodybuilders. But even 36 eggs a week would give someone 540mg of P4, which is about 5 eggs a day. Still high, but fairly easy to hit.
There is the question if these hormones get absorbed, but it seems pretty likely based on some other studies that Haidut has posted.
This might be part of the reason the Seyle study found Egg Yolks themselves to be "catatoxic."
And, as Golden Era Bookworm points out, and steroids absorbed would be on top of the other muscle building properties of eggs, including cholesterol, AA profile, vitamins and minerals and such.
Gironda has been mentioned on this forum a few times, and one of his more controversial statements was that "Eating 36 Eggs a Day is equivalent to taking Dianabol." Obviously, eating that many would be a huge dose of cholesterol (about 7 grams a day), but this video does a dive into the hormones that you might also get-
He get's the values from this study-
Yolk concentrations of hormones and glucose and egg weight and egg dimensions in unincubated chicken eggs, in relation to egg sex and hen body weight
Birds can manipulate offspring sex ratio under natural and experimental conditions and maternal hormones have been shown to be involved in this proces…
www.sciencedirect.com
Note it's from 2013, so the values are likely to still be relevant today, even with the current state of food production.
Here is a screenshot of his table for eating 36 eggs a day, and calculations-
So, in a week of eating 36 eggs every day, Gironda or other bodybuilders would get about 50 mg of Testosterone, and 15 mg DHT. That's about endogenous levels of these hormones for a young man, maybe slightly higher. But check out progesterone.......... 1 week would be 3.5 GRAMS of P4! Huge! That would be massively anti-catabolic and anti-estrogen. It also fit's in line with what @haidut talked about using Progesterone with DHEA..... This would be a big dose of progesterone, balanced out with (comparatively little) doses of Test and DHT. It might also make the Androstenedione more likely to go down the Test or DHEA route, rather than Estrogen.
This is apparently a similar amount of eggs that helped treat severe burn patients and keep them in positive nitrogen balance- 35 Eggs per day in the treatment of severe burns
Obviously, eating 36 eggs a day is massive, and unrealistic for average people, even many bodybuilders. But even 36 eggs a week would give someone 540mg of P4, which is about 5 eggs a day. Still high, but fairly easy to hit.
There is the question if these hormones get absorbed, but it seems pretty likely based on some other studies that Haidut has posted.
This might be part of the reason the Seyle study found Egg Yolks themselves to be "catatoxic."
And, as Golden Era Bookworm points out, and steroids absorbed would be on top of the other muscle building properties of eggs, including cholesterol, AA profile, vitamins and minerals and such.