It has little impact on fasting cholesterol, but absolutely raises your blood cholesterol after eating it. So e.g. you eat one egg, you get a spike in blood cho

It has little impact on fasting cholesterol, but absolutely raises your blood cholesterol after eating it. So e.g. you eat one egg, you get a spike in blood cholesterol. Wait 8 hours, it's gone. So it would seem that if your baseline fasting blood cholesterol is "healthy", eating one meal a day that leads to a spike in blood cholesterol should not be an issue. The problem is if you eat an egg for breakfast, then bacon on toast for brunch, then a steak for lunch, then an afternoon snack and then a burger for dinner. In that scenario your body can't clear out the dietary cholesterol you've ingested and you absolutely have a persistent raise in blood cholesterol. Of course then there's still the question of if cholesterol is a cause of, or an indication of increased danger of cardiovascular disease. This guy [1] summarises several studies and it comes out as a shrug. At least we know that statins do help people to not have a second heart attack. The science on this is progressing slowly partly because you need to run 10-year long trials on thousands of people to get good data. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RKrFQ-cKZc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RKrFQ-cKZc