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Learn about the benefits of liver in our article The Liver Files that addresses some misconceptions as well! The fourth of our 11 Wise Traditions Dietary Principles includes the recommendation to eat some raw animal foods. Eating raw liver? Good heavens!
Eating raw liver is definitely not a standard American dietary practice! So why in the world would a sane person even consider eating their liver raw? Most of the reasons are anecdotal with the primary one being that people who do consistently report how good it makes them feel.
- Southern hunters have a tradition of eating the liver of their freshly killed deer as a βmanlyβ thing to do.
- In Argentina, cowboys eat liver (and meat) raw or very lightly cooked.
- People who grew up on farms tell of eating the liver freshly warm from the animal and only lightly cooking it (and all the organs and glands)
- Dr. Weston A. Price reported on the consumption of raw liver among African hunter-gatherer tribes. Liver was considered so sacred that they never touched it with their hands, only with their spears. They ate it both raw and cooked.
- The physician Max Gerson used raw liver juice, extracted with a special juicer that pressed out the liquid, in his original healing protocol with pancreatic cancer patients. His daughter, Charlotte Gerson, later dropped this part of the protocol because of the unavailability of fresh clean liver without bacterial contamination. Now a crude liver extract injection or desiccated liver tablets are used in the current protocol. However, Dr. Nicholas Gonzalez, a New York doctor who treats cancer holistically, insists that all his patients eat raw liver.
HOW TO EAT RAW LIVER
This takes some getting used to! There are two basic methods. One calls for freezing the liver for 14 days in large chunks. Fourteen days will ensure the elimination of pathogens and parasites. You can then grate the liver on the small holes of a grater and add it to milk or juice, or even hot cereal. A teaspoon or two of grated raw liver can be added to babyβs egg yolk, or even to mashed vegetables. Raw liver can be added to smoothies:
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The second method turns liver into pills! Cut fresh liver into pea-sized pieces and freeze for 14 days. Swallow like vitamin pills.
For both methods, the liver should be of the highest quality available, preferrably from 100% pasture-raised animals and very fresh.
Nick Gonzalez died a few years ago, but his wife carries on his work.
He focused on metabolic individuality, particularly the influence of the nervous system, sympathetic or para-sympathetic. He also referred to the earlier work of John Beard and the use of pancreatic enzymes. May he rest in peace.