RE: Re: I have some questions...

[Guest guest]

>>>>>>Seriously though. Species and diet do both play a huge role. A

single

normal sized serving of liver from a polar bear is generally enough to

induce acute vitamin A toxicity... There's supposedly something like

9,000,000 IU of Vit A in 8 oz of polar bear liver!

****Zoinks! I'm going to run down to my market now and tell my grocer to

remove it from his shelves!

Suze Fisher

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On Tue, 07 May 2002 04:19:38 -0000 " mnoel2 " <mnoel2@...> writes:

2lbs a week is way, way too much liver.

*****maybe, maybe not.

There is such a thing as

vitamin A toxicity, even though mainstream healthcare people are too

paranoid about it and most people don't get enough vitamin A. And

yes, it occurs even with natural vitamin A. Also, the liver does

filter toxins, and while it's worth taking in some toxins to get the

nutrients in liver, you don't want to overdo it. A normal-sized

serving of liver once a week is plenty. Going by the USDA database,

2lbs per week would come out to about 6 times the RDA every day, and

that's conventional liver -- I would think grassfed would be much

higher in vitamin A as the animal would take in more carotenes.

*******Vitamin A needs are quite variable amomg folks and some people can

eat a lot of organ meats and be just fine. I'm not sure either that the

concept of the liver storing toxins in grass fed animals is a valid one.

just a thought,

Bianca

[Guest guest]

> ***While the liver does *filter* toxins, it doesn't *store* them.

If we agree that the liver doesn't store " toxins " why are so many people

interested in " cleaning " it? What's dirty about your liver?

*********I wondered about the liver not storing toxins too, because I have done

many liver cleanses and can tell you the stuff that came out of my liver was

very toxic. But I quicky realized that my liver (like many industrialized,

previously SAD people) wasn't working properly, was congested and was storing

toxins. This should not be the case with a grass-fed cow (but I wouldn't trust

that it is not the case with cows fed antibiotics, hormones, toxic grains, etc)

So, I figure in a more ideal senerio, the liver would not store toxins, but in

humans who eat, breath, and soak in toxins at an unnatural rate and who don't

eat the nutrients needed for healthy liver and bowel function - the liver

probably gets overloaded and can't filter like it should and ends up storing the

backlog.

I know that in the nutrition programs I have done where you are detoxifying the

body and cells with good nutrition, it is frequently the case to do regular

liver cleanses to help flush out the toxins that are dumping at a faster than

normal rate (and quantity). When this is not done, people don't progress as

well.

Barb

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--- Kroyer <skroyer@...> wrote:

> Yes. Absolutely. ...and no matter how cheap they

> have it on sale for at

> Whole Foods or Trader Joes *DON'T EVER* eat polar

> bear liver...especially

> two pounds...whether it's grassfed or not... ;-)

>

> Seriously though. Species and diet do both play a

> huge role. A single

> normal sized serving of liver from a polar bear is

> generally enough to

> induce acute vitamin A toxicity... There's

> supposedly something like

> 9,000,000 IU of Vit A in 8 oz of polar bear liver!

>

I've read that people who allegedly got sick after

eating polar bear liver actually got sick due to

cadmium (if I remember correctly) toxicity, not

Vitamin A.

Roman

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