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I'm glad they didn't try to see what would happen if he stopped eating eggs. At the age of 88, and given that he has done this solidly for so very long, they co
by ktizo 14y ago
I'm glad they didn't try to see what would happen if he stopped eating eggs. At the age of 88, and given that he has done this solidly for so very long, they could accidentally kill him by putting him on a more average diet.
What would be extremely interesting is studying any genetic factors and whether they could have possibly even drove him to eat this amount of eggs just to keep his cholesterol levels high, and also, conversely, whether there is any biochemical adaptation, especially anything that is unusual for his genetic makeup, that helps him retain this level of cholesterol consumption without getting ill, that could have resulted from long term exposure to his diet or other environmental factors.
- abecedarius 14y agoThe paper did discuss adaptations, though in my skim I saw no sign of anything genetically unusual behind them -- afaik they left that open.
- ars 14y agoI wonder if he has any children, or close relatives.
- soperj 14y agohas a (alive)sister -as per the article
- ars 14y agoI read the article - the whole thing. But I guess I missed that. They should test her to see if the adaptation is genetic, and does it affect her as well.
- abecedarius 14y agoEven bacteria adapt to their diet, so I'd guess that at most his genes got him to want two dozen eggs a day. (I'm not a doctor or a biologist.)
- soperj 14y agoWasn't trying to say anything about you, just trying to say where I got the info. Also he had one sister who had died.