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Did you know liver is a remarkable multivitamin? But not just a meaty version of the multivits we can buy in health stores. It’s actually the finest multivitamin on the planet.
At a glance and in order of the highest it contains to the lowest, liver can offer you:
- Vitamin B12
- Vitamin A
- Vitamin B9 (folate)
- Vitamin B2 (riboflavin)
- Selenium
- Pantothenic acid
- Iron
- Vitamin B3 (niacin)
- Vitamin C
- Vitamin B6 (pyridoxine)
- Phosphorous
- Zinc
- Copper
- Vitamin B1 (thiamine)
- Manganese
- Chromium
Liver also offers us a rich source of CoQ10 which gradually reduces as we age and is vital for many healthy functions in our body from energy production to cardiovascular health.
CoQ10 is found in the greatest concentrations in our mitochondria which are our cellular powerhouses for producing energy.
And let us not forget that liver offers an excellent source of high quality protein.
Liver offers high bioavailability
Unlike most manufactured multivitamins, liver comes from animal tissues that are almost bioidentical to our own and so all the above nutrients are far more easily absorbed by your body than those from artificial nutrients.
Bioavailability refers to the ability of your body to take something and use it. As an example, just 4% of magnesium oxide is taken up by your body when you ingest it. Magnesium carbonate is better but still only 30%.
So increasing your liver intake offers a fast way of getting optimum absorption of a whole range of very important nutrients.
Of course, the challenge is that people love to eat it or loathe it! Though you can eat liver pate (preferably homemade to avoid the bad fats many processed food manufacturers use) which many people find a more palatable version of liver.
And that’s where our supplements LINK come in since they give you all the benefits of eating liver for your health without any concerns about having to cook it and eat it, or even worse, be unable to stomach it at all.
It really is not that long ago that we in the west happily tucked into a meal that contained liver most weeks. In fact, I can recall being served liver for lunch at school back in the late 1970s.
That’s because back then we knew that liver is good for you. That it came with lots of goodness for growing children.
Do schools provide such food anymore? I fear not. In fact, I suspect the vast majority of children would not be able to cope with its taste now. Our modern palates have turned away from such foods.
Of course there are people who enjoy eating liver. I love it! But it does divide opinion which is fine, we are allowed to have different tastes.
What does the liver do?
The liver is the largest organ in our body. This fact alone tells us that it is a very important organ for our health.
It is an incredibly clever organ and acts a little like a post office sorting centre deciding where various things should go in the body.
It can determine what should be stored, which nutrients to process, what should be removed as waste and what gets put back into the blood stream that will have a useful purpose.
The liver also stores vitamins and minerals that can be released when the body needs them.
And it is also important in metabolizing fats or using them for energy.
One of the main roles of our liver is to detox, break down poisons and enable them to be removed by our excretory systems.
Because our liver is at the epicentre of detoxifying our body many people think the liver is full of toxins. Therefore, when we consume liver or a desiccated liver supplement LINK they are concerned they will be eating a lot of toxic waste.
Isn’t the liver full of toxins?
The idea that the liver is full of toxic waste comes from the fact that the liver is critical for drawing in toxins and working out what to do with them.
However, the liver is not a storage centre for these toxins. As I explained above, the liver is the sorting centre and it establishes where the toxins are to go and breaks them down or hurries them away to safety, normally via excretion from our bowel movements.
Though if we are in desperate straits our body can excrete waste directly through our skin.
There is an enormous amount of blood flowing through the liver continually. Whilst the liver is approximately 2.5% of our body weight it uses 25% of the output of blood flow from our heart!
Any toxins from things such as pharmaceutical drugs or poor quality foods are very quickly rushed into the liver and dealt with and pushed out again with such vigorous blood flow through it.
Can’t eating too much liver be bad for you?
I have yet to find a news article describing a person becoming sick from eating too much liver. Like many of the animal products that are made up of primarily protein and fats it is actually very difficult to over eat them because they bring satiety very quickly.
There are a myriad of articles about the dangers of Vitamin A toxicity and yes, liver has a good dose of Vitamin A in it. However, all the science I have read about this refers to artificial or man made Vitamin A.
I have not discovered a single piece that refers to eating liver.
I have also searched high and low for news articles about people becoming sick from eating too much liver. I have found nothing yet and let’s face it, with the kind of press we have these days that kind of article would be right up there in the sensational headline-click-bait madness.
In summary
The liver is a vital organ for cleansing but can be eaten freely because it does not store the toxins it deals with.
It provides us with a wide range of vitamins and minerals that our body can easily absorb.
If you do not like the taste you can now get all the benefits from our amazing desiccated organ supplements. LINK
There is a lot more benefit to eating liver than meats (geddit?) the eye!
