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Why Taking Beef Liver Without Labs Is a Huge Mistake

And how to know if it's wrong for you.

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Leland Stillman, MD
Nov 13, 2023
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Beef liver is getting a lot of love these days.

It deserves it.

But as Paracelsus said, "The dose make the poison."

For many of you, beef liver is the LAST thing you need.

Why do I say this? I used to take beef liver blindly. Then I started to measure nutrients in all of my patients, and discovered what I was missing. I was missing all kinds of nutritional excesses and imbalances.

Most practitioners, even functional medicine doctors, are missing these still.

What's the short list of my contraindications to beef liver?

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