Normally when we think of super foods, we think of broccoli, we think of collard greens,
we think of all our fruits and veggies, we don't typically think of liver.
But the crazy thing is is that liver is quite honestly probably one of the most powerful
super foods that you could consume.
It doesn't just have your vitamins and minerals, but it also contains one particular fat soluble
antioxidant that is extremely, extremely, extremely important to not only your eye sight
but just about every other hormonal function in your body as well.
So the first and foremost, the coolest thing we have to look at with beef liver, is the
fact that it's a very high quality protein.
Normally when you're looking at a 100 gram serving of beef liver, you're gonna have between
25 and 30 grams of protein and only three to four grams of fat.
So a very very lean, high quality, source of protein.
But you're also getting all nine essential amino acids that you would ultimately need
to build muscle.
See, people typically think that if they're gonna consume an organ meat, that they're
not gonna get the full muscle building potential, or the amino acid profile that they would
normally get from consuming skeletal muscle meat.
The reality is, you actually get all that and then some.
You see, in that same 100 grams serving of liver, you're also gonna have 1176% of your
daily recommended intake of vitamin B12.
So vitamin B12 is critical when it comes down to creating red blood cells and actually delivering
energy.
Then you're also gonna have 634% of your daily value of vitamin A in it's preformed form.
And I'll explain that in a second 'cause that is extremely important.
You're also gonna have 714% of your daily intake of copper.
This is not something you would normally get, it's hard to get copper.
I know people that go and spend a lot of money on copper supplements, simply because they're
not getting copper from their diet.
Now copper plays a big role in balancing iron out, and balancing other minerals in your
body, making it so that your body can actually produce testosterone.
There's a huge link between copper and zinc in the actual formation of testosterone in
the body.
But let's stop for a second, let's focus on that vitamin A for a second.
So you remember how I mentioned that it's preformed vitamin A?
You see they have two different kinds of vitamin A that we can be ingesting.
We can ingest preform vitamin A, which is gonna come from fish, and some meat sources,
and mainly organ meats like liver.
But then we also have plant based vitamin A, and these are the ones that are marketed
a lot.
We're talking about the beta carotene, and these are usually provitamin A carotenoids.
What that means is they turn into vitamin A eventually but the body has to go through
an entire metabolism process before those ever really become a bioavailable, usable,
vitamin A. You see, in the case of beef liver, you're actually talking about a preformed
vitamin A. It's already been synthesized, it's already been created as vitamin A.
So when you consume it, it goes straight to the source.
Which means that it creates retinol, retinal, and retinyl esthers.
So that means that your body can actually have better eye sight.
You think about your retinas in your eye, and then you think about the word retinal
coming from vitamin A, you can do the math.
It kind of makes sense, right?
I used to feed my old dog carrots because I thought the beta keratin in carrots would
actually help the eye sight.
I know a lot of people that do that, they give their dogs carrots because the vitamin
A's supposed to be good for their eyes.
When in reality, if they just gave them all cuts of meat, it would work out a lot better.
But I'm going off on a tangent, the point is, is that you want preformed vitamin A.
You don't want the vitamin A from the plant sources because by the time it actually gets
down to the root of what it's doing in your body, it's not doing much good.
Now vitamin A also plays a critical role in a lot of hormonal functions.
It's a powerful, fat based, antioxidant.
Which means it neutralizes free radicals throughout the hormonal system, but also throughout our
body in it's entirety.
Very, very important if you're training hard, of if you're just trying to live a long life.
Now one of the other things I wanted to point out that's very very important when it comes
down to liver, and beef liver to be specific, is the amount of selenium that's in it.
You see, normally we're trying to get selenium from things like brazil nuts or other high
calorie foods that would normally have selenium.
Or we're getting it from some kind of supplement where it's been somewhat synthesized and it
may not be really having a positive affect in our body.
Selenium is very important for thyroid function, we need selenium for the thyroid to function
at it's best.
Which means that it's going to allow our metabolism to speed up a little bit.
Healthy thyroid, healthy metabolism.
That's what we're after.
You get such a good amount of selenium in a true bio available form from beef liver
that you'd be hard pressed to find anything else that's gonna give you the same kind of
quality.
Now when it comes down to getting a true value with your beef liver, you can't always just
go to the butcher shop and order a fresh liver.
It's not always practical to eat that every night.
The reality is, our ancestors were probably eating these kind of organ meats all the time.
This day in age, it's just hard to do.
And it's not always palatable.
That's exactly why Antler Farms has created their beef liver capsules.
They've actually dehydrated beef liver and put it into a form where you get a concentrated
amount in just a couple of capsules.
So that's exactly why Antler Farms created this product.
They saw a need, and they inserted a perfect product into the market so that people that
weren't always able to get their hands on good quality, organic beef liver, could actually
get it in a capsule form.
So make sure you check them out, and make sure you're getting your organ meat in one
way or another.
I'll see you soon.