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we know if you liver you're getting an insane amount of vitamin A and probably folate as well do you want to comment on those two yeah you're gonna get tons of vitamin A and liver egg yolks are also another good source of vitamin A
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I think that it is very very hard to get vitamin A toxicity from food and from reasonable amounts of liver unless someone is eating a pound of liver every day and that's the only thing they're eating I just don't see it happening
liver is really the powerhouse of vitamin a and vitamin a toxicity from eating cow's liver is very i've never seen a documented case of that cow's liver is 20 to 100 000 times less rich in vitamin a than polar bear liver which is kind of this wives tale so for most people i would not worry about vitamin a toxicity eating you know ounces of liver every day
if you're getting your vitamin a from liver and egg yolks foods that have been ancestrally treasured forever and you're eating it in amounts that are reasonably consistent with what we would have found evolutionarily amounts that we've mirrored in our supplements from hardened soil amounts that i've recommended all the time an ounce two ounces a day of grass-fed grass-finished liver the chances that you are going to get vitamin a toxicity are essentially zero
it's fat soluble and so we should eat it from an ancestrally consistent form with all of the form all of the other nutrients that it comes with ancestrally and we shouldn't really fall prey to fear-mongering or misinformation about vitamin a
I think that there's probably far far more cases of vitamin A deficiency in our culture and Society than there is vitamin A toxicity and I've never seen vitamin A toxicity from eating cows liver