Share positive experiences with eating liver
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@LetTheRedeemed said in Share positive experiences with eating liver:
@yerrag would you say you substantially increased viewing distance since your introduction of Peaty foods?
That certainly was the case, but prior to my lifestyle change to eating liver once a week, I ditched my glasses because it was too difficult wearing bifocals and was hoping my eyesight would just improve because I was forcing my eyes to. So I was also having difficulty reading small type.
So I think ditching my glasses and eating liver both made my eyes see better correcting both my nearsightedness and the newly developed farsightedness of getting older.
n.b. My nearsightedness was uneven at 75 and 175 for the left and right eyes. I could still drive without glasses as my nearsightedness wasn't so bad.
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@Sunniva said in Share positive experiences with eating liver:
@yerrag I'm glad you mention this. I have gone many years with no worsening of my eyeglass rx- it even got slightly better. I was eating liver once or twice a month. I have not had any now for awhile- not sure why, maybe life got busy, I am the only one in my family that will eat it. I was just thinking I should start eating some again, and if my next eye exam has a change in my eyeglass rx, I most definitely will.
I think the medical badmouthing of liver by doctors for supposedly being high on uric acid is responsible for a greater part of poor eyesight among the general population. Together with their preaching that carrots (beta-carotene) are good for eyesight. But beta-carotene is far less effective while being in with the falsely highly educated Ivy League Wannabe crowd, and pretty much all vitamin A supplements are made with beta-carotene.
Yet my sister, who sells and uses a popular brand of network marketing based supplements, takes beta carotene. And she is due for cataract surgery. It helps to know that the body has to have adequate B12 to convert beta-carotene to the real vitamin A retinol. Liver already has retinol.
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@Peatful said in Share positive experiences with eating liver:
I used it judiciously and like a supplement
To supplement my dietI cut off small capsule size pieces
Froze them
Then took them ~three times a weekThen
I had my fill
And have never felt the need to go backI think it is a wonderful way to meet micronutrient needs
The only way actually
No synthetic supplements for me anymore everAlways try liverwurst if repulsed by swallowing raw frozen liver
Nice!
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@yerrag Sorry, I don't understand; the case was that you were indeed looking long distance more often?
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My husband processes lambs and kids at home. We vacuum seal the whole livers and put them into the freezer immediately. These livers always taste sweet and good. At some times of year we run out of liver and buy some from neighboring farms that send their animals to small butchers/ slaughterhouses. These farms have good practices but I often find myself not able to eat the livers, the taste is so bad. One last year made me gag and my daughter just kept asking how it could taste so bad compared to our livers. With beef livers, the butcher will often cut them into strips which is the worst! My friend told me a story about the slaughterhouse calling him 4 days after he sent his lambs for slaughter to ask him about how he wanted the livers packaged. That means they didn't freeze them for 4 days. I think that the oxidation of liver is probably a large factor in what makes it taste bad and may make you feel bad. Putting it whole into the freezer immediately is crucial.
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@LetTheRedeemed said in Share positive experiences with eating liver:
@yerrag Sorry, I don't understand; the case was that you were indeed looking long distance more often?
I was nearsighted since high school. At some point, I also became farsighted as it became difficult to read. I had to use bifocals for my condition.
I started eating liver once a week. 8 yrs later, I took an eye test and I realized I was no longer nearsighted.
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@yerrag oh wow. So you did NOT begin looking long distances at the same time you began consuming liver.
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Had done that before but never made inroads as I was still wearing glasses. Kinda like always on crutches and can't go far beyond baby steps.
This time I just ate liver and have enough CO2 from good metabolism as both were needed. But only realize this after I looked into it after the fact.
Wasn't aiming at all to improve my eyesight but it happened.
Serendipity, not genius.
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@yerrag so basically it’s the improved metabolism and vit A consumption, not looking long distances. the other poster assumed falsely about your eyesight improvement.
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@LetTheRedeemed I think she got it right but she had the wrong idea thinking eye exercises are more important than the nutrition aspect.
I think both matters. I was doing Chinese eye exercises that I picked up from a Chinese magazine since high school. While it didn't get rid of my glasses, it still kept my nearsightedness from getting worse all these years. My grade of 75 left and 175 right managed to stay the same all these years. I know many whose eyesight kept deteriorating to 400+ grade.
Of course, I can't blame her as she still believes in Vitamin A being toxic, but that's not something I would waste time debating about.
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@yerrag interesting, thanks for sharing
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Not sure why people are laughing at my comment. It is well established in the scientific literature that staring at screens and early reading for kids causes nearsightedness. Eating liver is not necessary for vision acuity. If it was we'd have a cure ! (far from it, ate plenty of liver in my life and still needed glasses)
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I laughed that someone-
presumably from the old RPF- felt the need to correct a rather benign comment-
in support for the VA is toxic teaching
and that one needs to “be careful”I hope that trend doesn’t root over here
Ray’s ideas supported that forum for over a decade
The toxic VA trend does not look sustainable -
@Janelle525 I don't think you'll find anyone here who disagrees with the scientific understanding of screen time / indoor activity (including reading books in poorly lit conditions) greatly contributing to eyesight problems in people of all ages, but the science of Vitamin A necessity in eyesight, is also sound.
In my eyes, and of most people here, the answer is clearly both!
You made a bold blind assertion that yerrag changed his lifestyle to see the eye improvement when he himself asserted that the change that predicated the improvement was the introduction of liver as a vitamin A rich food -- that is funny enough to laugh at lol; the alternative is being anonasses!
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@GreekDemiGod My libido tanked on a raw vegan diet and after transitioning out of a plant-based diet I still had trouble getting my libido up and running again. I kid you not the day i first tried liver my libido was back almost instantly and it felt incredible. Now I have a consistently healthy libido even without consuming liver regularly but I thought that was an interesting story.
The earth speaks to us all, Just listen
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@Sugarnotsnow
I don't know if this were true but my dad told me of a story about tigers and being barren in captivity. Until one day when they were fed liver. Soon thereafter the tigress got pregnant and delivered. I'm told the first thing predators like lions and tiger would est from a fresh kill is the liver
They know something most Ivy League woke professors don't as trained by hallowed medical schools.
Temporal thinking is the faculty that’s
engaged by an enriched environment, but it’s
wrong to call it “thinking,” because it’s simply
the way organisms exist... - Ray Peat Nov 2017 Newsletter -
@yerrag If they crave it naturally, sure.
**Yes, tigers (and other carnivores) can suffer from vitamin A toxicity (also known as hypervitaminosis A). This condition occurs when there is an excessive intake of vitamin A, which is typically stored in the liver.
In the wild, tigers naturally get their vitamin A from their prey, particularly from eating the liver, which is rich in the nutrient. However, if tigers are overfed liver or receive excessive vitamin A supplementation in captivity, they can develop toxicity.
Symptoms of vitamin A toxicity in tigers may include:
- Joint pain or stiffness, leading to difficulty in movement
- Bone abnormalities (like bone overgrowth)
- Liver damage
- Lethargy or weakness
- Loss of appetite
In captivity, it's important to carefully balance their diet to avoid both deficiencies and excesses of vitamins and minerals.**
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@yerrag Haha thats a funny dtory I hope its true
