have you heard of these people eating eggshells? Is this crazy, insane, or is this something you should consider doing as well? Good question. I'm Dr. Ken Berry, a family physician. Let's talk about eating eggshells. Should you? Why should you? And how should you? Now, it may never have occurred to you that you should eat eggshells, but it's almost certain that our ancestors, millennia ago, they didn't crack eggs and eat them. They ate them whole. They ate the shell and the ingredients whole. They did not waste a thing. And I think all of us, in an attempt to honor the animals that are harvested for our diet, we should attempt to eat as close to nose to tail as possible. And including the eggshells in your diet is a way to honor the animal, but also, it is an excellent source of nutrition. So, what's in an eggshell, you might ask? Let's talk about that. Eggshells are an excellent source of calcium, one of the best sources of calcium on the entire planet. The calcium

in eggshells, if prepared properly, is far more absorbable and usable than any calcium supplement you'll ever buy. Uh, eggshells are also a good source of magnesium, phosphorus, sodium, and chloride, and other minerals that you need as part of a proper human diet. The membrane that's inside of the eggshell, that little very thin little almost transparent membrane, don't peel that out and throw that away. Eat that as well. That isn't it. It contains every building block for collagen, for cartilage, for tendon, and for connective tissue. If that is also a part of a proper human diet, you should eat that as well. Now let's talk about how in the heck would you even go about eating an eggshell. So there are many ways. You could just crunch it up. That's totally fine and ancestrally appropriate. But since we are modern humans, there's a little better way to do it. The way we do it is we wash the eggs very thoroughly before we crack them. We crack them and eat the

insides immediately. We have scrambled eggs or fried eggs or whatever, and then we save the shells in a Ziploc bag and keep them in the freezer so that, you know, there's not going to be any bacterial growth at all. When we have a 1-gallon Ziploc bag full, then I take them out. I, uh, put them on a cookie sheet. That's what we use cookie sheets for in our house 'cause we never bake cookies. And I put them on 250° and I cook them in the oven for an hour. What this does is it ensures that the eggshells are completely dried out. It leaves all the membrane intact, all the albumin intact from any remaining egg white, and it kills any bacteria, so I know this is perfectly safe. Then I crunch them up in a big bowl until they're partially crunched. Then I put them in a Magic Bullet or a Ninja food processor and put them on pulverize, and I let this run as long as it needs to when it's

done. I have this very fine eggshell powder that you can then sprinkle on any dish that you make. No one can tell it's in there. It's essentially tasteless. Uh, 1/2 teaspoon of this powder a day gives you 90% of the RDA for calcium. And remember, as I said earlier, this form of calcium is very absorbable and usable by your body. Your body's going to know what to do with this calcium, and it's never going to put it in inappropriate places like the lining of your arteries. We also sprinkle some of this, uh, eggshell powder on our dog's food once it's prepared, and on our cat's food, because they need excellent sources of calcium and other minerals as well. And this way, no part of the gift that was given to us by our hens goes to waste. Please tell me in the comments below, have you ever eaten eggshells on purpose, and do you intend to try it in the future? If you have not, I would love to read your comments down.

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