High Cholesterol Even With Good Nutrition And Regular Exercise

Nutrition
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Yeah, he is the man. I have his book. Great read, although he has developed his PUFA theories since publication regarding dysfunction at the mitochondria level, which makes perfect sense. In fact, I listened to one of his debates with Ben Bikman, who seemed to agree with the theory.

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Apparently Organ meats also have more than enough vitamins

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Yes, the real superfoods. Although some carnivores like Shawn Baker claim you can do well without them. I personally eat liver up to 5-6 times a week. Cannot get into kidney at all, though.

EDIT: should have added that I also eat lambs hearts maybe once a week or so.

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Iā€™m guessing small amounts then as itā€™s possible to get too much vitamin A through liver?

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you could make soup- just make sure itā€™s fresh and use a LOT of cooking wine and ginger
Itā€™s also quite good in strifries
Iā€™m weird so I sometimes ate it raw when I had access in China

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Itā€™s possible, as apparently explorers found out when they consumed too much polar bear liver - which appears to have extremely high levels of A!

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I donā€™t use spices, herbs, dressings, etc. Just plain old salt. I would rather flash fry it and eat it quickly before my main dish just to get it over with. I will do that occasionally.

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Not weird at all. Eating it raw, if the source can be relied upon, is the way to go. I tend to flash fry my liver to kill any germs on the outside, while itā€™s still raw and bloody on the inside.

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based on my eating habits, Iā€™m surprised Iā€™ve yet to come down with a serious food borne illness or parasitic infection :joy:

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I eat liver heart and kidney about 4 times a week myself.

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have you tried mixing ground heart into ground beef for burgers? I heard someone recommend it

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From which animals and in what types of quantity?

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Thatā€™s the way I eat it.

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Cow. For a meal I eat a pound of a grind of 10% Liver, 40% Heart, 10% Kidney, and 40% Beef.

So Iā€™m getting 6-8 ounces each of liver and kidney and 25-30 ounces of heart a week.

Iā€™ve actually gotten to where I prefer it to straight beef.

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Good to hear.

I used to grind my liver in as well but now I actually enjoy it on its own. May try the grind option for the kidney.

Heart I donā€™t mind at all. Did some cubes on skewers for the BBQ over the summer and it was very nice. Otherwise I will fry it and then allow to simmer covered over a low heat, serve up in some butter and plenty of course pink salt. Lovely.

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You folks are absolute animals. And I mean that admiringly

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Just beef heart or pig heart also?

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Lamb hearts. Offal in the UK is dirt cheap, and sometimes the supermarkets almost give it away when itā€™s shelf life runs down. However, beef organs are harder to source in mainstream shops. There is usually plenty pig and lamb, also chicken livers. Personally, for liver, I rely on organic chicken and lamb. Beef when I can get it.

The chicken liver is interesting because when you compare the labels of the organic versus non-organic you see the former is almost fat free while the latter is not. On closer inspection, you can often see the fatty liver of these poor animals. Another reason to eat free range or organic poultry, if you can afford it. I like some roast chicken from time to time but seldom eat it these days.

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To be honest, I find it quite easy. I think if you are the type of person who likes simplicity, then it is a good fit. You really donā€™t need to put any thought into it, other than maybe portion size, obviously. I actually now really look forward to a huge bowl of steaming beef mince, all fatty and loaded with salt, with a few fried eggs on top. On that point, I will mention one other thing about carnivore - it crushed my cravings in a few days. I used to motor through gum and was always chasing artificial sweeteners to tart up my food, coffee, etc, or could binge eat Quest Bars. That just disappeared.

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Whenever Iā€™ve found any major news outlet doing a carnivore experiment Iā€™ve read a lot of renditions of gastric distress. Or more frankly, unfriendly loo visits. The Guardian I think was the most recent account I read on this. Are they simply unlucky or biased or something else you reckon?