Eating whole animals, including organs, provides a complete spectrum of micronutrients.

“so what I would recommend to people who are considering or on a carnivore diet is to include some liver in your diet how much I think anywhere from 3 to 8 ounces a week is totally safe and will put you much better off in terms of micronutrients”

“this is about eating nose to tail in the animal and this is a really important evolutionary fact our ancestors did not just eat ribeye or tenderloin when they killed they ate the heart they ate the lungs they ate the liver which is super nutritious and they ate the brain and they ate the skin”

“it's a great source of vitamin A as well as a lot of other important things in the animal that are not found in the muscle meat like vitamin C is found in a higher concentration in liver there are numerous other trace minerals that are found there manganese selenium zinc copper iron in different concentrations than muscle meat”

“I see hardest muscle meat and liver in kidney as probably the key organs that will complement the muscle meat”

“I still think this is hugely important for a lot of reasons let's talk about a little bit people don't generally like the taste of liver some people can tolerate it not everybody can I make liver jerky which helps with the texture of the liver and I can end up eating as much as I want when I do it that way when I tried to cook it regularly the texture was just too much for me and I couldn't eat it so that's how I get my liver and I think the liver is one of the key organs liver and kidney are sort of similar in their micronutrient composition I think of heart as like a muscle if you like heart you can eat hard it has a little more coenzyme q-10 than peripheral muscle meat but I see hardest muscle meat and liver in kidney as probably the key organs that will complement the muscle meat so why do I think this is important well as I talked about in that video it's a great source of vitamin A as well as a lot of other important things in the animal that are not found in the muscle meat like vitamin C is found in a higher concentration in liver there are numerous other trace minerals that are found there manganese selenium zinc copper iron in different concentrations than muscle meat so I think that it complements the muscle meat quite well”

“if you look at it organ meats and meat organ meats and muscle meat are much higher in micronutrients than the fat”

“I think the real magic comes when you're getting visceral organs rather than peripheral muscles with your muscle meat in terms of micronutrients”

“the organs do have protein of course but we should not exclude the organs in favor of the meat”

“if you look at what's in a steak it's incredibly nutrient rich but there are some of these micronutrients that are missing and if you look at the way that indigenous peoples and our ancestors have always eaten the animals and to treat animals they eat the whole animal now for a lot of people this conjures up images of like Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom where he's eating like the monkey brains and they're like oh my god I would never do that and I don't think we need to eat monkey brains to eat nose-to-tail but even for many of us things like liver or heart are kind of squeamish and they think that's gross and what I recommend people is they just take a step back and think about how much their conditioning is limiting them and if if there were not unique nutrients in these foods perhaps it would not be as important to consume them but there are and if you look at liver for instance it's a great source of folate and riboflavin in vitamin A and many other things like copper which are particularly lacking in steak”

“so like what folate deficiency isn't an issue if you're eating the organs of an animal nor is vitamin k2 or riboflavin or any you know no I'm saying that full weight is problematic if all you're eating is protein so if you yeah well not exclusively I think if you eat liver in even in the proportions that it's found in animals you'll you'll get you'll get a decent amount of folate especially if you eat it with things like kidney or heart or other organs which have different compositions of folate and muscle meat if you're only thinking about muscle meat yeah but and the same is true with vitamin C that that the liver of the heart the brain the spleen the thymus the pancreas these are all much more rich sources of vitamin C than the muscle meat and so I imagine I'm pretty sure ancestors would have eaten all of these contemporary hunter-gatherer is eat all of these and so many of the nutrient deficiencies I think go away quickly when we're thinking about eating nose-to-tail”