The reason egg consumption is associated with elevated cancer risk may be the TMAO, considered the “smoking gun” of microbiomedisease interactions.

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What did the egg industry do in response to this information? Distort the scientific record. See Egg Industry Response to Choline and TMAO (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/eggi....

This isn’t the first time the egg industry has been caught in the act. See, for example:
• Who Says Eggs Aren’t Healthy or Safe? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/whos...)
• Does Cholesterol Size Matter? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/does...)
• How the Egg Board Designs Misleading Studies (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/howt...)
• Debunking Egg Industry Myths (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/debun...)
• Eggs and Cholesterol: Patently False and Misleading Claims (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/eggs...)
• Eggs and Breast Cancer (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/eggs...)

For background on TMAO, see my original coverage in Carnitine, Choline, Cancer, and Cholesterol: The TMAO Connection (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/carni...) and then find out How to Reduce Your TMAO Levels (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/how....

This is all part of the microbiome revolution in medicine, the underappreciated role our gut flora play in our health. For more, see:
• Stool pH and Colon Cancer (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/stool...)
• Bowel Wars: Hydrogen Sulfide vs. Butyrate (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/bowel...)
• Putrefying Protein & “Toxifying” Enzymes (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/putre...)
• Microbiome: The Inside Story (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/micro...)
• Prebiotics: Tending our Inner Garden (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/prebi...)
• What’s your Gut Microbiome Enterotype? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/whats...)
• How to Change your Enterotype (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/howt...)
• Paleopoo: What We Can Learn from Fossilized Feces (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/paleo...)
• Gut Dysbiosis: Starving Our Microbial Self (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/gutd...)
• Is Obesity Infectious? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/isob...)
• How to Develop a Healthy Gut Ecosystem (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/howt...)
• How to Become a Fecal Transplant Super Donor (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/howt...)
• The Role of the Gut Microbiome in Autism (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/the...)
• Microbiome: We Are What They Eat (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/micr...)
• Gut Microbiome: Strike It Rich with Whole Grains (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/gut...)
• Effect of Sucralose (Splenda) on the Microbiome (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/effe...)

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