India, May 30 -- Dr Cyriac Abby Philips, a certified hepatologist popularly known as The Liver Doc, took to Instagram on May 30 to talk about eggs and how 'eating eggs really helps the liver'.

Per The Liver Doc, a Framingham Heart study showed that eating fewer than two whole eggs a week, one egg a day, or even skipping eggs altogether made no measurable difference in who went on to develop non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) during six years of follow-up.

Why? According to Dr Cyriac, it is because the real protector was dietary choline, and eggs happened to be its richest source. "People who consumed the highest level of choline (approximately 400 mg per day) had a 31% lower NAFLD risk than those who consumed much less," he added...