Ben Greenfield
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And if that's not your jam and like the time thing, if that's not like your highest priority and you're like, okay, I will grill a steak for myself and my boyfriend, but I'm not going to like spend 48 hours figuring out how to do a liver heart casserole.
And organs tend to be very high in fat-soluble vitamins.
Fat-soluble vitamins, you don't necessarily pee out.
Your body can store them.
And so...
I recommend everybody get a quarterly blood test anyways, but if you start onto a protocol that includes encapsulated organs, you should consider doing a test for vitamin A, D, and E, particularly, just to make sure that you're not getting any toxic buildup of fat-soluble vitamins, and in most cases,
Capsules like that can be kind of a cool shortcut.
The only thing you have to bear in mind is that when you grind up and powder something like that, you're getting pretty highly concentrated versions of these organ meats.
And organs tend to be very high in fat-soluble vitamins.
Fat-soluble vitamins, you don't necessarily pee out.
Your body can store them.
If you're following the label required instructions, not having like a quarter bottle a day, and you're not stacking it on top of a whole bunch of other organ meat consumption, you're pretty good.
And so I recommend everybody get a quarterly blood test anyways.
But if you start onto a protocol that includes encapsulated organs, you should consider
And I would consider those to be kind of like nature's multivitamin.
doing a test for vitamin A, D, and E particularly, just to make sure that you're not getting any toxic buildup of fat soluble vitamins.
That, of course, highlights the fact that if you're taking those and also taking a multivitamin that has a bunch of vitamin A or D or E or K in it, you should just...
And in most cases, if you're following the label required instructions, not having like a quarter bottle a day, and you're not stacking it on top of a whole bunch of other organ meat consumption, you're pretty good.
Take that into account and monitor your blood work just to make sure you're not getting too much of a good thing.
And I would consider those to be kind of like nature's multivitamin.