Since this issue interests me quite much, I open a new post, not to spoil iceman's journal.

Main facts so far pointed out are:

- bioavalilability of egg's protein: I suppose the reason is "avidin" contained in eggs, even if I have to say that eggs protein are used as a reeference for measuring the biological value of proteins
- allergy to eggs: some people claim that they are allergic to eggs. I have a question here. Wich are the symptoms ?
- fertilized eggs: here in Italy there's no mark (in my knowledge) on eggs to state if tehy are fertilized on not. How do you recognize a fertilized egg ?
- some say that problems arised if they relied on eggs only as a source of fats.

What are you experiences re eggs ?
Any useful information to share ?


I start with my experience:

I started have eggs at breakfast some years ago (only whites first cooked or not).
Then (2.5 years ago) I started eating whole eggs, cooked.
1 year ago, i switched to an almost entirely raw omnivorous regimen, since then I eat 3 whole raw eggs per day at breakfast.

So far I didn't notice any problem.
In a few months I'm going to have blood tests, so I weill be able to have more informations.

Any contribution is welcome.

I found out I and my 5 year old boy are allergic to fake eggs / un-fertilized eggs / chicken menstruation.

Now that I have found my sources of raw fertilized eggs, both duck and chicken, we are fine and happy.

Of course I learned not to depend on eggs just recently, seems they are not body building enough, I need real solid meat.

So it is raw fertilized eggs for me or none at all.

I think that they are, indeed, chicken periods as they are an unfertilized egg passed from the body of an animal.

I've noticed thus far that eggs mostly elevate my hormone levels, reverse most of the symptoms from sexual overexertion(headaches, inability to focus, general "blah" sensations). In this light, I view them more as a snack food or hormone-fuel than anything else. I haven't eaten them in large amounts, though, so I can't say if half a dozen eggs or more will have any different effect on the body.

The idea of infertile eggs seems strange now, obviously in the wild the only eggs you would find in a nest will have been fertilized. It also seems very plausible that there would be all kinds of hormonal differences that could cause health problems in unfertilized eggs.

But then again maybe not. I'm just surprised every time I read something that makes so much sense and I haven't really thought of it before, because I spend (and spent) so much time thinking/reading about diet/health.

I'm afraid this is rather unlikely. You see, the only reason why domesticated chickens manage to produce so many unfertilised eggs each year is that they are bred genetically for that purpose over millenia,fed on diets extremely high in grains and are kept away from male cockerels, which would not be the case in the wild. Birds in the wild generally lay only a few eggs a year, usually during a breeding season, not just for human consumption, so 99% of the time the eggs would have been fertilised, due to the presence of male cockerels. Only, in very unusual circumstances, where local predators had killed off the male cockerels etc., would eggs from wild birds be unfertilised.