My 20 year old (stubborn as a mule) son is doing a lot of weight lifting and is eating somewhere in the neighborhood of 30 eggs a day.

I know that there has been some rethinking about the health consequences of eating eggs, but 30 a day? Come on...

What says the hive mind?

Does anyone have anything definitive that will allay my trepidation or alternatively convince him that his dietary choices need serious re-calibration?

Perfectly fine.

Eggs are one of the most nutritious foods on the planet. Eat up.

Reminds me of what my grandfather (God rest his soul) used to tell me and my brother when we were kids...."Anything taken to an extreme is bad".

As long as he's buying them himself, it's fine.

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Originally posted by RHINOWSO:
As long as he's buying them himself, it's fine.

and the OP isn't trapped in an enclosed space with him

I can't go past 5 in one sitting without having a ton of gas.
Might be best to keep your distance from him for a bit.

Yeah, eggs are fine. Perfect food etc etc

But there’s a much easier way and less silly way to get that protein in his body.

It’s called a protein shake.

When I first started getting into serious lifting and bodybuilding, I did shit like that too.

The worst thing I ever did though was dump a can of tuna in a blender with sprite, blend it, then drink it.

Threw it all up in he sink.

That's almost enough for Ron Swanson

I am with VTail. Cool hand Luke. What we have here son is a failure to communicate...

Many years ago I was one of a number of scientists employed by a large pharmaceutical corporation, in the R&D dept. charged with the development and approval of new drugs. A normal step in the that process is the testing of such drugs in animal models. We had many varieties of animals from mice embryos to fully grown cattle and everything in between except monkeys. I do recall that the entire staff, including several veterinarians, had widely threatened they were leaving the day that the first monkey ever came in(none ever did) as they were considered hateful to tend to.

Anyhow, one of the drugs being developed and tested for reducing arterial clogging deposits of the known-to-be -deadly cholesterol was sodium-dextro-thyroxine, the right hand molecule of the commonly prescribed thyroid drug sodium-levo-thyroxine. It worked remarkably well and was a precedent to the more modern 'statin' drugs but it also had an undesirable side effect(a CNS stimulation) that any prescribing physician had to pay close attention to and hence fell into disfavor (that has left it in the dust although it was approved and is still for sale AFAIK). The statins were another 2 decades in the future at that time.

For the testing of the drug in the selected animal species(several, prior to any subsequent human testing) the animals were fed special diets that produced very startling clogging on the walls of their major blood vessels. The animals had to be sacrificed and then their blood vessels were sectioned for seeing the extent of closure at varying levels of the drug dosages from none to high. I saw many color photos of slides of these sectioned vessels that readily displayed the cholesterol deposits therein. They looked exactly like the photos you have seen of very old water pipes that have handled heavily mineralized water for many decades, commonly to the point of closure.

The specialized animal diets needed only two additives that produced those high levels of deposits of cholesterol, viz., coconut oil and egg yolks. FWIW

30 eggs a day is fine for lifting like he is. If he were sitting on his ass all day, nope.

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Originally posted by PowerSurge:
30 eggs a day is fine for lifting like he is. If he were sitting on his ass all day, nope.

Yeah, he’s young and probably has a metabolism like a blast furnace.

30 eggs a day is just annoying and will get old fast.

Link to original video: https://youtu.be/gvvaZCuvHnc

Beat me to it....

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Originally posted by V-Tail:

30 seems like a whole lot. Have him eat plenty of B/S chicken breasts in addition to some eggs.

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Originally posted by RAMIUS:

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Originally posted by PowerSurge:
30 eggs a day is fine for lifting like he is. If he were sitting on his ass all day, nope.

Yeah, he’s young and probably has a metabolism like a blast furnace.

30 eggs a day is just annoying and will get old fast.

MY thoughts here too. Now what you (or the kid) may find is, amino acids and protein powder are less expensive gram for gram of protein.

Whey protein instead.

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Originally posted by 1967Goat:
Whey protein instead.

Hell, if little mister Olympia likes eggs so much, they have egg based protein powder.

One of the NCOs who works for me eats 12 eggs per day. He's about 240 pounds and much bigger than he needs to be (in this skinny guy's opinion). He runs much too slow for my liking but he doesn't seem to have any ill effects from his massive egg consumption.