Genetic variation (e.g. hyper-responders) makes population-level egg advice misleading for individuals

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Arguments for

Limits of average guidance

Several precision-nutrition and review quotes argue that population dietary guidelines are built around average responses and do not capture large inter- and intra-person differences. Because genes and other biological, environmental, and lifestyle factors shape these responses, they say generalized advice can be limited for judging an individual response.

Yet, current dietary guidelines lack individual-level personalization and do not account for potential inter- and intra-person variability in dietary responses, which can ultimately limit their effectiveness in improving health outcomes. Precision nutrition aims to overcome these…

Jonathan Kirkland · Jul 6, 2026 · full quote
Generalized, one-size-fits-all nutritional guidelines are often inadequate; dietary responses vary widely, even among individuals with similar demographic or clinical profiles. Personalized nutrition strategies tailored to meet an individual's unique biological and lifestyle char…

Reducing bias and enhancing equity in AI-enabled precision nutrition: addressing measurement error across wearables, multiomics, and dietary data · Jun 4, 2026 · full quote
Blood lipid responses to diet vary substantially between individuals, limiting the effectiveness of uniform dietary recommendations, and genetic variation may contribute to this heterogeneity through gene–diet interactions. This systematic review and meta-analysis evaluated nutri…

One Diet Does Not Fit All: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Gene–Diet Interactions Affecting Blood Lipid Profiles · Jun 3, 2026 · full quote
The goal of the NIH Common Fund’s Nutrition for Precision Health, powered by the All of Us Research Program, is to develop algorithms that predict individual responses to food and dietary patterns. Nutrition plays an integral role in human development and in the prevention and tr…

NIH Common Fund · May 27, 2026 · full quote

Genetic cholesterol sensitivity

Several clinicians and writers argue that some people, including those with familial hypercholesterolemia or genes such as ApoE4, are more sensitive to dietary cholesterol from eggs. In these groups, eggs can raise LDL more than in the general population, so broad reassurance about eggs may not fit the individual.

People with Familial Hypercholesterolemia (FH): FH is a genetic condition that impairs the liver's ability to regulate cholesterol. People with FH cannot compensate effectively for dietary cholesterol intake, so eggs do raise LDL in this population more than in the general popula…

Asfia Fatima · May 14, 2026 · full quote
Nevertheless, for some people — called “hyper-responders” — eating cholesterol will raise blood levels. Hyper-responders have genes, such as the APoE4 gene, that predispose them to high cholesterol. For people with this gene or individuals with high cholesterol, egg whites may be…

Helen West · May 8, 2026 · full quote
The new study's results aren't generalizable to people with high cholesterol. For instance, eggs can raise LDL levels if you have familial hypercholesterolemia.

Michael Miller · Jun 15, 2026 · full quote
But experts said you may want to limit your eggs to four or five per week if you have high cholesterol. For instance, eggs can raise LDL levels if you have familial hypercholesterolemia, a genetic condition of high LDL cholesterol that affects about 1.3 million people in the U.S.

Kristen Fischer · Jun 15, 2026 · full quote
When we eat animal products like dairy, eggs or meat, we take in extra cholesterol. In most cases, our bodies can remove what we don't need. But for people with FH, a mutation in the genetic code gets in the way of this process.

American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Cardiology & Cardiac Surgery · Feb 2, 2026 · full quote
“the majority of our blood cholesterol is made in the liver, not delivered directly from our diet. Our genes play a role in how much cholesterol the liver produces and how much it clears from your blood. Based on genetic factors, individual people may also respond differently to …

David L. Katz · Feb 25, 2026 · full quote

Genotype-dependent lipid effects

Supporters also cite evidence that blood-lipid responses to diet are partly genotype-dependent and that genetic susceptibility may interact with egg consumption in relation to coronary risk. On this view, inconsistent population findings can hide subgroup differences, and stratified recommendations may be more informative than uniform advice.

Although healthy eating patterns provide multiple cardiovascular benefits, including weight reduction, decreased inflammation, and improved control of blood pressure and glucose, the direct effect on LDL-C tends to be more modest. There may be individual variation in LDL-C loweri…

2026 ACC/AHA/AACVPR/ABC/ACPM/ADA/AGS/APhA/ASPC/NLA/PCNA Guideline on the Management of Dyslipidemia · 2026 · full quote
Genetic predisposition may synergistically interact with egg consumption in relation to increased CAD risk. PRS-stratified recommendations on egg consumption may help formulate personalized nutrition policies.

Egg consumption and risk of coronary artery disease, potential amplification by high genetic susceptibility: a prospective cohort study · Aug 21, 2023 · full quote
Remarkable heterogeneity has been observed among population-based studies on egg consumption and risk of coronary artery disease (CAD). Whether genetic susceptibility serves as a potential explanation for this inconsistency remains unknown.

Egg consumption and risk of coronary artery disease, potential amplification by high genetic susceptibility: a prospective cohort study · Aug 21, 2023 · full quote

Monitor the individual context

Another pro argument is practical rather than mechanistic: what eggs mean for a person depends on baseline cholesterol, family history, full dietary pattern, and even how the egg is eaten. These quotes recommend using personal labs and clinician guidance instead of relying only on population averages.

Eggs do contain nutrients with real brain health relevance, but we need to assess the full dietary pattern, cardiometabolic health, labs, and individual metabolic markers before drawing any conclusions about what eggs mean for any one person.

Michelle Routhenstein · May 8, 2026 · full quote
For most healthy people, there is no specific limit on eggs, and research suggests that one egg per day (or 7 per week) is not associated with a higher risk of heart disease. For those with high LDL cholesterol or higher cardiovascular risk, intake should be individualized. Overa…

Cecilia Snyder · Apr 22, 2026 · full quote
Keep in mind, though, that your genes also can affect how much cholesterol you absorb from foods like eggs. So it’s wise to monitor your cholesterol level and eating habits, and moderate your egg consumption accordingly.

Keith Ayoob · Feb 25, 2026 · full quote
The answer isn’t as simple as “good” or “bad.” It depends on which part of the egg you eat, how you cook it, what you eat it with, and who you are.

Ben Jones MD PhD · Jun 19, 2026 · full quote
If heart disease runs in your family, [...] you may need to be a little bit more cautious.

Julia Zumpano · Mar 11, 2026 · full quote
The numbers are interpreted against population averages, when what you really want to know is whether they're normal for you.

Nickhil Jakatdar, Ph.D. · May 22, 2026 · full quote

Arguments against

Broad guidance still holds

Opponents argue that broad egg guidance remains useful because moderate egg consumption is not associated with cardiovascular disease risk overall, and the impact of dietary cholesterol on serum cholesterol is described as low relative to fatty acids. In this view, individual variation does not make population-level advice misleading for most people.

In hypercholesterolemia, the effect of dietary measures on lowering cholesterol varies from one individual to another and depends on initial LDL-c level. They can reduce total cholesterol and LDL-c levels by 10–15%, or even more in hyper-responders. [...] The impact of dietary ch…

French guideline from the French Society of Endocrinology (SFE), the French-speaking Diabetes Society (SFD), the New French-speaking Atherosclerosis Society (NSFA) and the French Society of Cardiology (SFC) · 2026 · full quote

Personalization evidence remains limited

Another skeptical line is that evidence for actionable gene-based personalization is still limited. One quote says there is currently insufficient evidence to support truly personalized nutrition for most people, and another reports that ApoE genotype did not predict lipid response in one heterogeneous population.

For most people, in most situations, we are more similar than different. [...] there is currently insufficient evidence to support truly personalized nutrition for most people.

Michael Greger · Mar 3, 2026 · full quote

Middle ground

General rule, clinical exceptions

Many quotes strike a conditional position: eggs are generally acceptable for most healthy people, but people with familial hypercholesterolemia, diabetes, existing cardiovascular disease, very high LDL, or a strong family history should individualize intake. This keeps general guidance while carving out clearer clinical exceptions.

For most healthy people, there is no specific limit on eggs, and research suggests that one egg per day (or 7 per week) is not associated with a higher risk of heart disease. For those with high LDL cholesterol or higher cardiovascular risk, intake should be individualized. Overa…

Cecilia Snyder · Apr 22, 2026 · full quote
While eggs are safe for most people, they may affect cholesterol differently in certain groups. People with diabetes, existing cardiovascular disease, or familial hypercholesterolemia (high cholesterol due to genetics) should discuss with their healthcare provider or dietitian ho…

Heidi Cope · Feb 28, 2026 · full quote
I advise caution only for those with familial hypercholesterolemia or people who have very high LDL levels despite treatment.

Saumya Sekhar Jenasamant · Jan 28, 2026 · full quote
People who are genetically predisposed to high blood cholesterol levels should work closely with their healthcare provider.

Rebecca Jaspan · Jan 18, 2026 · full quote

Whole-diet context matters

Several sources say the egg question should be placed inside the larger dietary context. They argue that dietary cholesterol often matters less than saturated fat or the full meal pattern, and that the effect can depend on which part of the egg is eaten, how it is prepared, and what it is eaten with.

Saturated fat usually has a larger impact on LDL-C than dietary cholesterol, but high cholesterol intake may matter—especially at higher doses or in certain hyper responders (hyper absorbers).

Mohammed S. Alo · Jan 19, 2026 · full quote
Limit saturated fat (butter, high-fat dairy, fatty cuts of beef/lamb, coconut oil). Across cohorts, E4 carriers show the least favorable lipids with higher SFA/total fat/cholesterol. Emphasize MUFAs/PUFAs (olive oil, nuts, seeds, fish). Dietary cholesterol per se is less influent…

Marc Rouleau · Jan 3, 2026 · full quote
The answer isn’t as simple as “good” or “bad.” It depends on which part of the egg you eat, how you cook it, what you eat it with, and who you are.

Ben Jones MD PhD · Jun 19, 2026 · full quote
Why I eat eggs as a heart surgeon. Well, we’ve all heard it: ‘Eggs raise your cholesterol. Eggs cause heart disease. Avoid the yolk.’ Here’s the truth—it’s more nuanced than that. As a cardiac surgeon, I’ve spent decades treating atherosclerosis. And yes—LDL-C and ApoB are direct…

Jeremy London · Mar 26, 2026 · full quote

Promising but unsettled science

Quotes on both sides treat precision nutrition as a developing field rather than a finished rulebook. Supportive reviews say genotype-dependent responses are real but call for larger, better harmonized studies, while skeptics say the evidence is not yet sufficient for truly personalized nutrition in most people.

Blood lipid responses to diet vary substantially between individuals, limiting the effectiveness of uniform dietary recommendations, and genetic variation may contribute to this heterogeneity through gene–diet interactions. This systematic review and meta-analysis evaluated nutri…

One Diet Does Not Fit All: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Gene–Diet Interactions Affecting Blood Lipid Profiles · Jun 3, 2026 · full quote
For most people, in most situations, we are more similar than different. [...] there is currently insufficient evidence to support truly personalized nutrition for most people.

Michael Greger · Mar 3, 2026 · full quote

Insights

Both sides acknowledge some person-to-person variation; the main disagreement is whether that variation is strong and well-established enough to change routine egg guidance.
Many pro-personalization quotes are broader precision-nutrition statements about diet response generally, whereas the opposing quotes focus more narrowly on overall egg outcomes or the current limits of personalization evidence.
Even many supportive quotes do not call for population-wide egg restriction; they instead reserve caution for identifiable subgroups such as familial hypercholesterolemia, high LDL, diabetes, or strong family history.
Several quotes shift the focus from eggs alone to the surrounding diet, especially saturated fat and the rest of the meal pattern.
The evidence cited spans mechanistic genetics, clinical lipid response, and observational risk studies, which helps explain why participants emphasize different standards for what counts as actionable advice.

The debate centers on how far evidence of genetic and metabolic variability should change practical egg advice. Supporters say hyper-responders, familial hypercholesterolemia, and genotype-dependent lipid responses make average guidance unreliable for some individuals and support more personalized recommendations. Opponents reply that overall evidence still supports broad moderate advice for most people and that gene-based personalization is not yet established enough to replace it.

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Some people have familial hypercholesterolemia, a condition that genetically predisposes them to elevated cholesterol levels. This increases your sensitivity to dietary cholesterol, which is found in eggs. In this case, it’s often recommended to limi...
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If you give two different people the same diet, they will respond to it differently. One person might benefit from that diet, but person two would not just because their gut bacteria is different.
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While dietary guidelines and related public health approaches can help improve nutritional status across a population, researchers have growing appreciation for how different factors may affect people differently.
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Yet, current dietary guidelines lack individual-level personalization and do not account for potential inter- and intra-person variability in dietary responses, which can ultimately limit their effectiveness in improving health outcomes. Precision nu...
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The answer isn’t as simple as “good” or “bad.” It depends on which part of the egg you eat, how you cook it, what you eat it with, and who you are.
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How much your blood cholesterol levels change from your dietary cholesterol and saturated fat intake is highly individual. Additionally, if you are genetically predisposed to high cholesterol, medications may be necessary (along with dietary modifica...
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But experts said you may want to limit your eggs to four or five per week if you have high cholesterol. For instance, eggs can raise LDL levels if you have familial hypercholesterolemia, a genetic condition of high LDL cholesterol that affects about ...
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If you're concerned about your cholesterol levels, stick to egg whites, as most of the cholesterol and saturated fat in eggs are in the yolk.
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The new study's results aren't generalizable to people with high cholesterol. For instance, eggs can raise LDL levels if you have familial hypercholesterolemia.
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Some people are sensitive to dietary cholesterol or have medical conditions like familial hypercholesterolemia, a genetic disorder that causes very high LDL ("bad") cholesterol levels. If this applies to you, it's best to chat with a healthcare provi...
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People with Familial Hypercholesterolemia (FH): FH is a genetic condition that impairs the liver's ability to regulate cholesterol. People with FH cannot compensate effectively for dietary cholesterol intake, so eggs do raise LDL in this population m...
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Eggs do contain nutrients with real brain health relevance, but we need to assess the full dietary pattern, cardiometabolic health, labs, and individual metabolic markers before drawing any conclusions about what eggs mean for any one person.
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Nevertheless, for some people — called “hyper-responders” — eating cholesterol will raise blood levels. Hyper-responders have genes, such as the APoE4 gene, that predispose them to high cholesterol. For people with this gene or individuals with high ...
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If you have familial hypercholesterolaemia (FH) – a genetic condition that causes very high cholesterol levels – you may still need to be careful about foods that contain dietary cholesterol, including eggs, shellfish and offal.
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The risk associated with eating too many eggs differs among individuals. Factors that could influence how many eggs you can safely eat per day include: genetics; how you prepare your eggs; other foods you eat; your overall health. [...] current guida...
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For most healthy people, there is no specific limit on eggs, and research suggests that one egg per day (or 7 per week) is not associated with a higher risk of heart disease. For those with high LDL cholesterol or higher cardiovascular risk, intake s...
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In roughly one-third of the population, cholesterol is absorbed exceptionally effectively from the intestine due to a genetic predisposition, and they, in particular, should follow diets that are as low as possible in cholesterol.
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Dietary cholesterol raises LDL modestly and only in hyper-responders. In most healthy adults, egg consumption raises both LDL and HDL, preserving the ratio. [...] The caveat that individuals with type 2 diabetes or familial hypercholesterolemia may e...
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Why I eat eggs as a heart surgeon. Well, we’ve all heard it: ‘Eggs raise your cholesterol. Eggs cause heart disease. Avoid the yolk.’ Here’s the truth—it’s more nuanced than that. As a cardiac surgeon, I’ve spent decades treating atherosclerosis. And...
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A major clinical takeaway from this recent nutritional research is that each patient is unique in how they respond to nutrients and how nutrients impact their genes, and an individual patient may not respond in the same way to a particular therapeuti...
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At Tufts, we were studying precision nutrition before it even had a name. In the early 1990s, my colleagues and I began exploring how genes shape responses to dietary sugar and fats. We noticed that two people could eat the same meal yet show very di...
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If heart disease runs in your family, [...] you may need to be a little bit more cautious.
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Nutrigenomics is the study of how genes and nutrients interact to affect health and metabolism. This DNA-based approach to nutrition counseling enables dietitians and nutritionists to create personalized dietary plans tailored to individual genetic p...
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Some people have familial hypercholesterolemia, a condition that genetically predisposes them to elevated cholesterol levels. This increases your sensitivity to dietary cholesterol, which is found in eggs.
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While eggs are safe for most people, they may affect cholesterol differently in certain groups. People with diabetes, existing cardiovascular disease, or familial hypercholesterolemia (high cholesterol due to genetics) should discuss with their healt...
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While dietary cholesterol can influence blood cholesterol, the effect is usually small and varies from person to person.
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For them, egg consumption should be personalised based on their lipid profile and overall diet.
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Our genes play a role in how much cholesterol the liver produces and how much it clears from your blood. Based on genetic factors, individual people may also respond differently to dietary sources of cholesterol; some people are hyper-responsive to i...
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“the majority of our blood cholesterol is made in the liver, not delivered directly from our diet. Our genes play a role in how much cholesterol the liver produces and how much it clears from your blood. Based on genetic factors, individual people ma...
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Keep in mind, though, that your genes also can affect how much cholesterol you absorb from foods like eggs. So it’s wise to monitor your cholesterol level and eating habits, and moderate your egg consumption accordingly.
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Nutrition advice is traditionally delivered through population-level guidelines, yet individual responses to diet vary widely. Nutrigenomics provides a framework to understand this variability by examining how genetic differences influence metabolism...
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We’re still learning how these multiple gene changes lead to high cholesterol,” Dr. Cho notes. “But we know that a genetic predisposition can make it harder to lower LDL through diet and exercise alone.
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Multiomics: the intersection of personalized nutrition in cardiometabolic diseases
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Genomic studies indicated that genetic variation in pathways associated with glucose and lipid metabolism influenced individual variability in metabolic responses to dietary patterns. The interplay between genetic risk scores and food quality affecte...
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Janet Angel Welch
American CliniX nutritional biochemist

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While general recommendations can help many people, they often fail to address these individual differences. Nutrigenetics—the study of how genes affect nutritional response—offers a powerful solution. [...] Eggs, fat, salt, or supplements—what’s rec...
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When we eat animal products like dairy, eggs or meat, we take in extra cholesterol. In most cases, our bodies can remove what we don't need. But for people with FH, a mutation in the genetic code gets in the way of this process.
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Amine Segueni
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Roughly 70% of people experience little to no increase in blood cholesterol from dietary sources like eggs. About 30% — often called “hyper-responders” — do show increases in LDL cholesterol. Crucially, these individuals also experience rises in HDL ...
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Carlotta Petti
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The Guidelines take a more neutral stance on dietary fat, acknowledging that healthy fats are present across many whole foods, including meat, eggs, seafood, nuts, seeds, olives, avocados, and full-fat dairy. Importantly, they also state that more hi...
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Saumya Sekhar Jenasamant
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I advise caution only for those with familial hypercholesterolemia or people who have very high LDL levels despite treatment.
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Sarah Berry
King's College nutrition professor

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it varies from one person to the next person. [...] small genetic variations that can impact how efficient we are at removing cholesterol.
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Steven Zeisel
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Knowing those roadblocks just helps you to custom design your diet [...] instead of having to use the average recommendations.
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Bilal H
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Genetics play a big role in how eggs affect your cholesterol. Some people are more sensitive to dietary cholesterol. This can lead to higher cholesterol levels when they eat eggs.
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Mohammed S. Alo
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Saturated fat usually has a larger impact on LDL-C than dietary cholesterol, but high cholesterol intake may matter—especially at higher doses or in certain hyper responders (hyper absorbers).
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Mitigation of Metabolic Diseases Through Personalized Nutrition: A Critical In-Depth Review
2026 Food Science & Nutrition review on personalized nutrition and metabolic disease mitigation.

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Traditional dietary recommendations frequently overlook individual heterogeneity in metabolic health. Personalized nutrition will provide a more focused approach to preventing chronic diseases by tailoring dietary recommendations according to lifesty...
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Rebecca Jaspan
Registered dietitian specializing in eating disorders and nutrition writing.

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People who are genetically predisposed to high blood cholesterol levels should work closely with their healthcare provider.
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Marc Rouleau
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Limit saturated fat (butter, high-fat dairy, fatty cuts of beef/lamb, coconut oil). Across cohorts, E4 carriers show the least favorable lipids with higher SFA/total fat/cholesterol. Emphasize MUFAs/PUFAs (olive oil, nuts, seeds, fish). Dietary chole...
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Nora Eccles Harrison Cardiovascular Research and Training Institute
University of Utah cardiovascular research institute publishing heart health and precision nutrition education

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This is where personalized nutrition will help refine broad guidelines to help people eat a diet that works with how their bodies metabolize, or process, foods. For example, if your genes put you at increased risk of heart disease, dietary changes ca...
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2026 ACC/AHA/AACVPR/ABC/ACPM/ADA/AGS/APhA/ASPC/NLA/PCNA Guideline on the Management of Dyslipidemia
multisociety dyslipidemia guideline

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Although healthy eating patterns provide multiple cardiovascular benefits, including weight reduction, decreased inflammation, and improved control of blood pressure and glucose, the direct effect on LDL-C tends to be more modest. There may be indivi...
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European Food Information Council, a Brussels-based nonprofit organization producing evidence-based food and nutrition information.

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Around 30% of people are “cholesterol hyperabsorbers”, meaning they absorb more cholesterol from their diets due to genetic differences and are at higher risk of developing high blood cholesterol.
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Kanikka Malhotra
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For people with a strong family history, or if you are a ‘hyper-responder’ (about one-third of people), even lower egg intake may be needed, best guided by regular cholesterol testing and individual risk assessment.
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Ashish Sarraju
Cardiologist at Cleveland Clinic.

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There are some people who are hyper-absorbers to dietary cholesterol. This means their LDL cholesterol might rise more with eggs.
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Teresa Wagner
Registered and licensed dietitian who hosts Nutritional Weight & Wellness's Ask a Nutritionist podcast.

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For individuals with this condition, they will usually have high levels of LDL even while following a good diet and exercise routine.
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Joanne Cole
Assistant professor of biomedical informatics at the University of Colorado Anschutz School of Medicine; geneticist researching personalized nutrition.

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Each person is genetically at risk for a different set of conditions. We should be targeting each individual's genetic disease risk with disease-tailored lifestyle interventions.
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Victoria Taylor
Senior dietitian at the British Heart Foundation who comments on cardiovascular nutrition evidence

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People who have familial hypercholesterolemia [an inherited condition where you have exceptionally high levels of cholesterol] are still advised by NICE to eat less than 300mg of dietary cholesterol a day, as they need to take more care than the gene...
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Berry Street Editorial
Editorial team of Berry Street, a U.S. nutrition-care and registered-dietitian service.

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Some people, sometimes referred to as “hyper-responders,” may notice a bigger rise in their cholesterol levels when they eat eggs frequently. But for the majority of people, enjoying eggs in moderation (about one per day) is not only safe but can als...
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Susan White
Registered dietitian nutritionist specializing in heart health.

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Most people don't realize that our own body produces 800 to 1,000 milligrams of cholesterol per day. This depends on genetics and liver function, but this is an average.
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Alastair Hunt
NBC-HWC health coach, Duke-trained Integrative Health Coach, with certificates in Nutrition Science, Exercise Physiology, and Plant-Based Nutrition.

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Research indicates that approximately one third of the population are hyper-absorbers of dietary cholesterol. These individuals experience a significantly greater increase in LDL cholesterol levels in response to dietary cholesterol intake compared t...
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Bryan Munoz
Research assistant in the Tate Lab at the UNC Nutrition Research Institute focused on precision nutrition communication

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These diets don't work for everyone, and sometimes they actually hurt us. For decades, nutrition research took a one-size-fits-all approach. But two people can eat the same food, and one might get healthier while the other develops diabetes. Why? Bec...
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Samantha Kleinberg
Farber Chair Professor of Computer Science at Stevens Institute of Technology; researcher on individualized glycemic-response modeling.

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Because people eat the same meals again and again, the data gives us visibility into the way that individual responses to specific foods change over time.
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Taylor Stein
Registered dietitian and associate researcher at Mount Sinai’s Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine.

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In general, eating two eggs a day is good for most healthy people and won’t raise your cholesterol. If you have heart disease or diabetes, we recommend eating one egg and two egg whites, so you get most of the health benefits without much of the satu...
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Monique Richard
Registered dietitian nutritionist and owner of Nutrition-In-Sight.

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When we begin to understand our own unique needs and our body’s response to input (food, environmental factors, etc.), fear of the unknown of what could happen and labeling of ‘condemned’ food dissipates.
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Suranjit Chatterjee
Internal medicine specialist at Apollo Hospital Delhi, writing on cholesterol and egg consumption.

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However, the story isn’t the same for everyone. Some of us are “hyper-responders,” who may experience a notable increase in their LDL cholesterol levels when consuming dietary cholesterol, including eggs. This is largely due to genetic factors that i...
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Lizzy Swick
Registered dietitian based in New Jersey.

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While there are some people who hyper-absorb cholesterol from food, for most people, cholesterol from foods like eggs is not the primary culprit.
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Katie Thomson
Registered dietitian based in California and CEO of Square Baby.

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Some individuals may see very little change in their blood cholesterol from eating eggs, while others might experience a larger rise.
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Meghana Rao Brito
Cardiologist at Yale New Haven Health and assistant professor of medicine at Yale School of Medicine.

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A healthy person can eat eggs a few times a week and be just fine. However, the risk for cardiovascular disease is already increased if a person is a smoker, overweight, suffering from undiagnosed high blood pressure or living a sedentary life.
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Jared Meacham
Registered dietitian and exercise scientist (PhD, RD, CSCS).

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The response to eating eggs can vary between individuals. In some people, eating cholesterol may not raise blood cholesterol or only mildly raise it. In the others, eggs or other sources of dietary cholesterol may lead to a large rise in blood choles...
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Kris Gunnars
Nutrition writer with a Bachelor of Science degree in nutrition.

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The response to eating eggs can vary between individuals. In some people, eating cholesterol may not raise blood cholesterol or only mildly raise it. In the others, eggs or other sources of dietary cholesterol may lead to a large rise in blood choles...
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Hugo Francisco de Souza
Health and science journalist writing for News-Medical.Net.

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While several studies have suggested that moderate egg consumption (1-2 eggs daily) does not significantly affect circulating cholesterol levels, there is considerable variability in individual responses, with some individuals metabolizing dietary ch...
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Michelle Theodosi
Accredited Practising Dietitian at The Lifestyle Dietitian in Sydney, Australia.

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We all have individual variation in how much dietary cholesterol we absorb, and genetics plus background health conditions influence what is most safe.
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Judith C. Thalheimer
Registered dietitian and executive editor of Tufts Health & Nutrition Letter.

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Some people are genetically highly sensitive to dietary cholesterol, so the cholesterol in eggs could be a factor in raising their LDL cholesterol levels.
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Linda Van Horn
Nutrition researcher and coauthor of a 2019 JAMA study on dietary cholesterol, egg consumption, cardiovascular disease, and mortality

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Precision nutrition, also known as personalized nutrition, is moving away from 'one-size-fits-all' diet recommendations. The goal is to eventually develop diet recommendations based on an individual's genetics and metabolism.
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Cheryl Strachan
Registered Dietitian, nutritionist, and cardiac specialist focused on heart-healthy eating guidance.

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Cholesterol levels are largely driven by the genes you inherit, but your eating habits can affect them as well. For example, more saturated and trans fats cause the liver, in effect, to produce more LDL cholesterol. But does eating more cholesterol c...
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President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology
Advisory body to the U.S. President on science, technology, and innovation policy.

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In developing a coordinated federal vision, current and future research should focus on understanding the unique nutritional needs of population subgroups as well as individuals.
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Simon Hill
Nutrition communicator, podcast host, and author of The Proof is in the Plants.

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you’ll learn about the two simple tests that can reveal whether you’re one of the 30% of people who are cholesterol hyper-absorbers – those who are genetically predisposed to absorb more cholesterol from their diet.
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Debbie Krivitsky
Registered dietitian at Mass General Brigham's Corrigan Minehan Heart Center Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Center.

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Some people have a genetic predisposition that causes dietary cholesterol to raise blood cholesterol. If you know you have a genetic risk or family history of high cholesterol, you should be mindful of high-cholesterol foods in your diet.
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Jose Rossello
Preventive medicine and public health specialist.

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Each person’s response to dietary cholesterol is different, and moderation is key.
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Christelle Nimba
Primary care provider at Hartford HealthCare Medical Group.

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An average large egg contains about 186 mg of cholesterol, so if you have high cholesterol, limit yourself to less than three eggs per week.
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Anthony Sampino
Primary care physician at Hartford HealthCare Medical Group.

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If you have high cholesterol or an increased risk for heart disease, I suggest speaking with your primary care provider, cardiologist or a registered dietitian/nutritionist. They’ll help you determine the right amount of eggs to include in your diet ...
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Thomas Arend
Registered dietitian at Parkview Regional Medical Center.

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Extensive research demonstrates that the cholesterol we eat doesn’t impact blood cholesterol for most people. And for those who see a difference, science suggests that their LDL (bad cholesterol) and HDL (good cholesterol) rise, canceling any negativ...
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Jill Weisenberger
Registered dietitian nutritionist and certified diabetes care and education specialist.

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It’s difficult to give a blanket recommendation on eating eggs because every person’s situation is unique. The best thing you can do is talk with your health care provider or a registered dietitian about what dietary changes are necessary given your ...
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Jessica Migala
Health journalist covering health and nutrition.

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It’s difficult to give a blanket recommendation on eating eggs because every person’s situation is unique.
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Lauren Minchen
Registered dietitian nutritionist specializing in cardiovascular health.

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Some people are more sensitive [to dietary cholesterol], so if they already struggle with high cholesterol, it is recommended to keep intake of high cholesterol foods to low or moderate, depending on their particular response to those foods.
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Vanita Arora
Cardiac electrophysiologist and interventional cardiologist at Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals.

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While an egg a day is considered safe for even heart patients these days, those with unusually high cholesterol levels should consult whether dietary cholesterol that comes from every additional egg consumed can further elevate their cholesterol leve...
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Melissa Prest
Registered dietitian nutritionist and national media spokesperson for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.

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Still, know that for people with sensitivities to dietary cholesterol, eating eggs may cause an increase in LDL cholesterol, which is the type of cholesterol associated with heart disease risk.
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Maria Lucey
Registered dietitian who provides nutrition and cholesterol-management guidance.

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While a small percentage of people may be more sensitive to dietary cholesterol, experiencing a greater increase in LDL cholesterol levels when consuming cholesterol-containing foods, for the general population, eggs remain a safe, economical, and nu...
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Angelos Sikalidis
Professor of nutrition at Cal Poly specializing in molecular nutrition and metabolism.

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Nationally, nutritional recommendations are made but they aren’t necessarily one size fits all. Americans are a diverse group arguably with diverse nutritional needs. This is about taking general recommendations and seeing how they can be applied to ...
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Egg consumption and risk of coronary artery disease, potential amplification by high genetic susceptibility: a prospective cohort study
2023 American Journal of Clinical Nutrition study on egg intake, coronary artery disease, and genetic susceptibility.

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When the joint effect was examined, in comparison with those at low to intermediate genetic risk and consuming <1 egg/wk, the HR (95% CI) was 2.95 (2.41, 3.62) for participants with high genetic risk and consumption of >=10 eggs/wk, and the correspon...
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Tim Spector
Epidemiologist, King's College London; co-founder of ZOE; researcher on personalized nutrition and the gut microbiome.

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One size doesn't fit all, that what suited your neighbor or your sister and helped them lose weight or get healthy isn't going to necessarily work for you.
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Egg consumption and cardiovascular risk: a dose-response meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies
2020 European Journal of Nutrition meta-analysis on egg consumption and cardiovascular risk.

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However, current evidence is not sufficient to address egg consumption as unhealthy nor to generalize potential detrimental effects to the whole population.
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Clock Gene Variants Are Associated with Energy and Macronutrient Intake in Early Childhood and Adulthood
2026 study on clock-gene variants and diet in childhood and adulthood.

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Personalized prevention strategies that consider genetic predispositions can enhance existing strategies. Research suggests that variation in circadian rhythm-related genes, or clock genes, may influence obesity risk, in part through effects on dieta...
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Clock Gene Variants Are Associated with Energy and Macronutrient Intake in Early Childhood and Adulthood
2026 study on clock-gene variants and diet in childhood and adulthood.

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Personalized prevention strategies that consider genetic predispositions can enhance existing strategies. Research suggests that variation in circadian rhythm-related genes, or clock genes, may influence obesity risk, in part through effects on dieta...
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2026 study on clock-gene variants and diet in childhood and adulthood.

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Personalized prevention strategies that consider genetic predispositions can enhance existing strategies. Research suggests that variation in circadian rhythm-related genes, or clock genes, may influence obesity risk, in part through effects on dieta...
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Reducing bias and enhancing equity in AI-enabled precision nutrition: addressing measurement error across wearables, multiomics, and dietary data
2026 AI precision nutrition review

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Generalized, one-size-fits-all nutritional guidelines are often inadequate; dietary responses vary widely, even among individuals with similar demographic or clinical profiles. Personalized nutrition strategies tailored to meet an individual's unique...
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Generalized, one-size-fits-all nutritional guidelines are often inadequate; dietary responses vary widely, even among individuals with similar demographic or clinical profiles. Personalized nutrition strategies tailored to meet an individual's unique...
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Generalized, one-size-fits-all nutritional guidelines are often inadequate; dietary responses vary widely, even among individuals with similar demographic or clinical profiles. Personalized nutrition strategies tailored to meet an individual's unique...
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One Diet Does Not Fit All: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Gene-Diet Interactions Affecting Blood Lipid Profiles
2026 systematic review and meta-analysis of gene-diet interactions affecting blood lipids.

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This variability is increasingly linked to gene-diet interactions, often referred to as nutrigenetics or nutrigenomics, where genetic variants in lipid metabolism pathways shape responses to specific dietary exposures.
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Michael Joseph
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It is also important to note that some people are thought to either hyperrespond or hyporespond to dietary cholesterol—meaning the effect may be relatively higher in some individuals, and lower in others. In other words, dietary cholesterol intake ma...
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Designer eggs as functional foods by nutritional enhancement for health benefits
2026 nutrition review article

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Dietary cholesterol raises LDL modestly and only in hyper-responders. In most healthy adults, egg consumption raises both LDL and HDL, preserving the ratio. [...] The caveat that individuals with type 2 diabetes or familial hypercholesterolemia may e...
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Designer eggs as functional foods by nutritional enhancement for health benefits
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Dietary cholesterol raises LDL modestly and only in hyper-responders. In most healthy adults, egg consumption raises both LDL and HDL, preserving the ratio. [...] The caveat that individuals with type 2 diabetes or familial hypercholesterolemia may e...
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Designer eggs as functional foods by nutritional enhancement for health benefits
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Dietary cholesterol raises LDL modestly and only in hyper-responders. In most healthy adults, egg consumption raises both LDL and HDL, preserving the ratio. [...] The caveat that individuals with type 2 diabetes or familial hypercholesterolemia may e...
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Multiomics: the intersection of personalized nutrition in cardiometabolic diseases
open-access nutrition review

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Genomic studies indicated that genetic variation in pathways associated with glucose and lipid metabolism influenced individual variability in metabolic responses to dietary patterns. The interplay between genetic risk scores and food quality affecte...
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Multiomics: the intersection of personalized nutrition in cardiometabolic diseases
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Genomic studies indicated that genetic variation in pathways associated with glucose and lipid metabolism influenced individual variability in metabolic responses to dietary patterns. The interplay between genetic risk scores and food quality affecte...
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Multiomics: the intersection of personalized nutrition in cardiometabolic diseases
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Genomic studies indicated that genetic variation in pathways associated with glucose and lipid metabolism influenced individual variability in metabolic responses to dietary patterns. The interplay between genetic risk scores and food quality affecte...
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Mitigation of Metabolic Diseases Through Personalized Nutrition: A Critical In-Depth Review
2026 Food Science & Nutrition review on personalized nutrition and metabolic disease mitigation.

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Traditional dietary recommendations frequently overlook individual heterogeneity in metabolic health. Personalized nutrition will provide a more focused approach to preventing chronic diseases by tailoring dietary recommendations according to lifesty...
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Traditional dietary recommendations frequently overlook individual heterogeneity in metabolic health. Personalized nutrition will provide a more focused approach to preventing chronic diseases by tailoring dietary recommendations according to lifesty...
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Traditional dietary recommendations frequently overlook individual heterogeneity in metabolic health. Personalized nutrition will provide a more focused approach to preventing chronic diseases by tailoring dietary recommendations according to lifesty...
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Egg consumption and risk of coronary artery disease, potential amplification by high genetic susceptibility: a prospective cohort study
2023 American Journal of Clinical Nutrition study on egg intake, coronary artery disease, and genetic susceptibility.

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When the joint effect was examined, in comparison with those at low to intermediate genetic risk and consuming <1 egg/wk, the HR (95% CI) was 2.95 (2.41, 3.62) for participants with high genetic risk and consumption of >=10 eggs/wk, and the correspon...
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Egg consumption and risk of coronary artery disease, potential amplification by high genetic susceptibility: a prospective cohort study
2023 American Journal of Clinical Nutrition study on egg intake, coronary artery disease, and genetic susceptibility.

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When stratified by genetic risk, each increment of 3 eggs/wk was associated with a 5% higher risk of CAD for participants at low to intermediate genetic risk (HR: 1.05; 95% CI: 1.01, 1.09), whereas risk increased to HR 1.10 (95% CI: 1.05, 1.16) for t...
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Egg consumption and risk of coronary artery disease, potential amplification by high genetic susceptibility: a prospective cohort study
2023 American Journal of Clinical Nutrition study on egg intake, coronary artery disease, and genetic susceptibility.

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Over a median 11.7 y of follow-up, 1,128 incident cases of CAD were recorded. Both higher egg consumption and increased PRS were related to higher risk of CAD.
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Egg consumption and risk of coronary artery disease, potential amplification by high genetic susceptibility: a prospective cohort study
2023 American Journal of Clinical Nutrition study on egg intake, coronary artery disease, and genetic susceptibility.

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Genetic predisposition may synergistically interact with egg consumption in relation to increased CAD risk. PRS-stratified recommendations on egg consumption may help formulate personalized nutrition policies.
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Egg consumption and risk of coronary artery disease, potential amplification by high genetic susceptibility: a prospective cohort study
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When stratified by genetic risk, each increment of 3 eggs/wk was associated with a 5% higher risk of CAD for participants at low to intermediate genetic risk (HR: 1.05; 95% CI: 1.01, 1.09), whereas risk increased to HR 1.10 (95% CI: 1.05, 1.16) for t...
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Egg consumption and risk of coronary artery disease, potential amplification by high genetic susceptibility: a prospective cohort study
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Both higher egg consumption and increased PRS were related to higher risk of CAD.
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Egg consumption and risk of coronary artery disease, potential amplification by high genetic susceptibility: a prospective cohort study
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Egg consumption was assessed with food frequency questionnaires. Genetic susceptibility was quantified by a predefined polygenic risk score (PRS) with 540 genetic variants. The hazard ratio (HR) and 95% confidence interval (95% CI) of incident CAD as...
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Egg consumption and risk of coronary artery disease, potential amplification by high genetic susceptibility: a prospective cohort study
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We performed a prospective cohort study to investigate the association of egg consumption with incident CAD at different genetic susceptibilities.
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Egg consumption and cardiovascular risk: a dose-response meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies
2020 European Journal of Nutrition meta-analysis on egg consumption and cardiovascular risk.

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However, current evidence is not sufficient to address egg consumption as unhealthy nor to generalize potential detrimental effects to the whole population.
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Egg consumption and cardiovascular risk: a dose-response meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies
2020 European Journal of Nutrition meta-analysis on egg consumption and cardiovascular risk.

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Given the inconsistency of current findings on egg consumption and risk of CVD, future studies should improve the characterization of the population investigated, aiming to identify and remove genetic bias, such as the determinants of normal/hyper-re...
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Egg consumption and cardiovascular risk: a dose-response meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies
2020 European Journal of Nutrition meta-analysis on egg consumption and cardiovascular risk.

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These genetic variants might provide the rationale, at least in part, for the geographical and sex differences observed in this study: however, further studies are warranted to identify other genetic markers that may explain the observed variability ...
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Journalist and staff writer at Tufts Now covering science, health, and research.

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Two people can eat the same meal yet show very different glucose or triglyceride responses, which shows that the same dietary advice cannot work equally well for everyone.
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Science and nutrition writer; coauthor of a 2026 IFT column on precision nutrition.

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Precision nutrition seeks to move beyond generalized dietary advice by tailoring recommendations to an individual’s unique biological, lifestyle, and environmental context, because one-size-fits-all guidance has clear limits.
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Michael Greger
nutrition physician and bestselling author

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For most people, in most situations, we are more similar than different. [...] there is currently insufficient evidence to support truly personalized nutrition for most people.
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French guideline from the French Society of Endocrinology (SFE), the French-speaking Diabetes Society (SFD), the New French-speaking Atherosclerosis Society (NSFA) and the French Society of Cardiology (SFC)
2026 French guideline document

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In hypercholesterolemia, the effect of dietary measures on lowering cholesterol varies from one individual to another and depends on initial LDL-c level. They can reduce total cholesterol and LDL-c levels by 10–15%, or even more in hyper-responders. ...
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Ghada A. Soliman
Author of a review on dietary cholesterol and cardiovascular disease evidence

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Indeed, studies in humans have demonstrated that individuals could be hypo-responders or hyper-responders to dietary cholesterol.
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Eating eggs regularly increases the risk of cardiovascular disease

Observational nutrition studies are too confounded to show whether eggs cause harm

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