Does The Answer To Our Masculinity Crisis Really Lie In Chugging Raw Eggs?

If you are what you eat, then the average person is a doughy mess. Today, more than 1 billion people worldwide are obese. In the U.S., one in three adults is obese. That’s about 66 million people. By 2030, that number will be close to 100 million. The average person’s diet is, for lack of a better word, atrocious. We are guzzlers of inordinate amounts of processed foods. Not surprisingly, what we’re consuming appears to be making us sicker.

Among the legions of self-proclaimed experts on health and diet, one internet personality who goes by the name “Raw Egg Nationalist,” is attracting quite a lot of attention — not just for his fitness tips, but for his searing condemnations of the Western culture and politics that have created this rampant obesity. He has built himself a cult-like following dishing out unorthodox advice that goes well beyond fitness — and while he is eccentric and amusing, his sensibility and humor are at times offensive and challenging to traditional conservatives.

So far, the anonymous bodybuilder has amassed 100,000 followers on Twitter, authored three briskly selling books, and has been publishing his own magazine, “Man’s World,” which is currently on its eighth issue. As his sobriquet indicates, he’s most famous for resurfacing one of the chief dietary prescriptions of pioneering bodybuilder Vince Gironda — men should chug raw eggs in order to improve their testosterone levels and build muscle.

To that end, Nationalist recently appeared in “The End of Men,” a documentary produced and hosted by Tucker Carlson. The message throughout the oddly entertaining documentary is clear: People are getting fatter, softer, and weaker. One of the major reasons for this has to do with the foods they are putting in their ever-expanding bodies.

Nationalist, who speaks with a rather posh British accent, comes across as an interesting character. A cross between Jordan Peterson and The Most Interesting Man In The World, Nationalist blends the sensational with the scientific. Dr. Peterson shot to fame telling young men to clean their rooms; Mr. Nationalist is busy telling men to clean up their diets. 

Two of his books are essentially opinionated cookbooks that read like Gordon Ramsay telling gym rats what’s what. The first cookbook, published back in 2020, is called “Raw Egg Nationalism In Theory and Practice.” “Forget what you know about nutrition,” we’re told. Forget the “nostrums of a medico-political regime that has done nothing but sicken the world.” Instead, embrace “the wisdom and diets of mavericks like Vince Gironda, the Iron Guru.”

The second cookbook, published in July of this year, is called “The Eggs Benedict Option.” In this book, Mr. Nationalist warns readers that the globalists in Davos and beyond are preparing to implement “a new worldwide diet.” This diet, “almost entirely plant-based,” seeks to eliminate animal agriculture from the food-fueled equation. The globalists, we’re warned, are attempting to push “new alternative forms of protein” on the masses. While some might dismiss this as paranoia, it’s increasingly hard to dismiss the fact that