Excessive consumption of organ meats can lead to detrimental buildup of vitamin A, copper, or other substances. — Whalespan
Excessive consumption of organ meats can lead to detrimental buildup of vitamin A, copper, or other substances.
⚠ High risk
The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
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High-risk intervention — consult a physician before acting.Drug-drug interactions, dose-dependence, and screening contraindications apply.
“I think that the only only thing I caution people in is that they are because they are so nutrient dense and like you know the the polar bears you don't eat polar bears because they have so much vitamin A that they'll kill you and so if people are eating a massive amount of organs that they should just be worried about you know building up of you know vitamin A or copper or other sorts of things that that may be detrimental”
“when I talk to people about organs I just basically say perfectly fine to have them just don't go crazy you know I mean if you're if we're thinking about our our hunter gatherer past or really our hunter past you know we're taking down a seal we're taking down a gazelle we're taking down Buffalo or whatever and you know we've got a lot of meat you know if we take down a bison or a cow it's just you know hundreds of pounds thousands of pounds or over a thousand pounds anyway of schedle of meat and fat and you know it's got a large liver but it's still only one liver and so you know try to have that in proportion”