[xutopia]

People have to stop trying to depend on supplements for what a diet should provide.

Neither spirulina nor chlorella are good sources of choline. For example if you had to take spirulina you'd need about 6 cups per day to reach RDI. Way to risk getting elevated uric acid, vitamin A overload or a slew of other intestinal issues.

Compare with 3-4 eggs... or 90g of beef liver I know what I would take.

[jimkri]

I stated the supplement has choline and has helped with my anxiety. I never stated it was a main source of choline.

[soganess]

3 or 4 eggs a day? 90g beef liver? Sign me up for those pills, Bill.

Like 120 eggs a month, 1400 eggs a years. That is what you envision as the healthier alternative?

[wpm]

Ahhh the old "eggs are bad for you" meme. Eggs are demonstrably healthy. Just don't fry them in a gallon of butter and you'll be fine.

[Sparkle-san]

As Lenny once said on the Simpsons: "While it has been established that eggs contain cholesterol, it has not yet been proven conclusively that they actually raise the level of serum cholesterol in the human bloodstream."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHAFMFFQlkI

[jules-jules]

So, one of those Egg Council creeps got to you too?

[estimator7292]

It's not that eggs are bad.

It's more that that's a shit ton of eggs. Money aside, this just contributes even more to the incredibly polluting factory farm industry.

A suppliment synthesized in a lab has far less ecological impact. Also it's far cheaper.

[wpm]

It's 400 calories worth of eggs, a very modest meal that would get you to just 1200 calories a day. That is not a shit ton of eggs.

Back when I was in college I would eat 6 eggs plus some fruit for breakfast because I was flat broke and they kept me full all day.

[HK-NC]

4 eggs a day isnt a shit ton of eggs by any means.

[soganess]

Then demonstrate?

In 2015, the U.S. Dietary Guidelines shifted from implying that one egg a day is “probably a bit much” to saying “one egg a day is fine if you don’t fry it.” This coincided with the removal of the quantitative cap of 300 mg/day on dietary cholesterol (a single egg basically maxes that out).

EDIT: The calorie count used to compute the portion of the comment below were incorrect. I'm leaving it unchanged for posterity, but want to clarify that an egg has about 80 cals.

Four eggs a day is almost 1,000 calories of egg, roughly half of many people’s total daily calorie intake.

[DANmode]

Fat and cholesterol don’t hurt you, or make you fat.

Sitting on ass does.

If you are looking to the landing page of any of those major bodies to figure out how to fuel your body, good luck.

[soganess]

I'm sorry, but this just sounds like the "Forbidden Knowledge" Trick (think of it as a cousin to Galileo's Gambit)

(1) In your most authoritative tone, state something as fact without citation.

(2) Say major testing-based orgs are never going to give you the real truth.

We have a system for knowledge. I think it is an absurd mess, but I trust it way more than anything presented in the format you’ve just used.

Maybe this is just a formatting issue and you have credible information to back your claim, but as it is currently presented it does not pass the sniff test.

So, as politely as possible, pass.

[DANmode]

Good news: I wasn't trying to sell you anything!

Read other people's experiences, and feel your own body.

Or, politely as possible: don't, I don't care.

It's truly up to you.

[samsolomon]

What? A jumbo egg is like 70-100 calories.

Like most things I’m sure you can overdo it. But if you’re choosing between cereal and a bagel or a couple of eggs, I think most would be better off with the eggs.

[soganess]

You're 100% right. In the back of my head I had egg at 200+ calories

[rkomorn]

Maybe they're eating goose eggs.

[jamal-kumar]

Liver can be pretty good if you spice it up Jamaican style. I regularly make this for people who tell me they don't like liver and they just love it. Pretty easy - Fresh and whole tumeric, ginger, garlic, onions, thyme, oregano, and as much scotch bonnet as you can handle. Soak the liver in brined water or milk for a few hrs and it will draw out a lot of the strong taste as well (French technique). Stew in some water after sautéing the onions to your liking. Same recipe works for stewing heart meat if that's something more to your liking, and it also contains a lot of the same nutrients that a lot of people are lacking in modern westernized diets. Consider what other predators do when they get to their prey: They go straight for the liver and heart.

However if you don't like the idea of trying new things, and just want something in pill form, honestly lecithin or even better citicoline is the way to go in my opinion

[kstrauser]

I think I could eat just about anything if it were doctored up that way. First, seriously, that sounds delicious! Second, I doubt even the terrible (to me) tast of liver could make it through that wall of flavor.

[PenguinCoder]

Chicken liver has more iron and selenium in it per Oz than beef liver. Easier to eat a ton and not as harsh tasting. Make some dirty rice or just liver stew!

[jamal-kumar]

I prefer to turn that into patê personally. Always the goal is getting people to actually eat the stuff

[DANmode]

I can eat a hard boiled egg on the way to the bathroom.

What’s up with you?

[skeezyjefferson]

> Way to risk getting elevated uric acid, vitamin A overload or a slew of other intestinal issues.

I thought vegatables = good? You can never eat too many greens I think youll find is the prevailing wisdom

[swiftcoder]

Spirulina is not really what is mean by a "green" in that context. You probably can't physically ingest enough spinach/kale/etc to do yourself any harm. Powdered algae is not necessarily such a sure thing

[craftkiller]

Eggs are gross and I'd need a much better reason than "someone said it was better than supplements" to take a life.

[estimator7292]

The eggs you buy in the store are not fertilized. They are not, never were, and never can be alive.

This is like fifth grade biology.