@Unbroken I appreciate the link. My cholesterol goes up huge numbers when I eat egg yolks. I’ve known my cholesterol is high for 30 years and have done all sorts of trials. When I stop eating egg yolks and candy/cake my chilesterol goes down 50 points in less than three weeks. It used to be my go to change in diet when I bothered to worry about my cholesterol when I was younger and the drop in my cholesterol is so huge. When they do those studies I have a feeling they are not sampling people with very high cholesterol, but rather a large random of sample of people with all sorts of cholesterol numbers.
However, I am very interested in the research regarding vitmain K2 and calcium absorption related to heart disease and other heath issues, and egg yolks have K2. I know that my mom has a lot of calcium laying around in her arteries and have to wonder about my own. I still wind up eating a yolk here and there because I cheat and eat cake once in a while. I also take a K2 supplement.
I do think it would be best to eliminate all animal except for some whole eggs every so often. My maternal grandmother, she lived to be older than anyone else in my family, did eat eggs every so often, but almost nothing else from animals the last 20 years of her life, except a little ice cream and chocolate once in a blue moon. My sister who is vegan has the only healthy cholesterol numbers in my family, unless you count relatives on cholesterol medication.
The egg heart disease question is one I think about, and for now I am still on the side of egg yolks probably shorten my life, along with all animal in general. It sucks. I am not vegan, but I try to be as close as possible at home. I go through jags of doi it, and jags of falling off the wagon.