The REAL Reason You Should Eat Liver (MTHFR Gene Mutation)

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I want to discuss the real reason why you should start consuming

Liver liver is the number one nutrient dense food on planet Earth

Number two would be oysters, but number one is liver and it's not just the nutrients that liver will give you

There's something else that liver will do for a great majority of the population

And so hear me out because at least half of you watching has this very specific problem that you can benefit greatly

Don't consume any more liver now. You might already know that liver has the best bile available nutrients like vitamin A

And it has a ton of vitamin in it. It has B1 B2 B3 B6 B9 which is holy we'll come back to that in second

B12

Coal beam that has vitamin D it has iron the keen form of iron which is very different than plant-based iron

It has copper. It's loaded with zinc

Selenium and many other trace minerals. It has phosphorus and it also has all of the essential amino acids and especially this compound called

Methionine which I'll talk about in a minute the two main common confusions people have with eating liver is that

They have this idea that liver is just filled with toxins

Well liver itself is not a storage for toxins. It helps you get rid of toxins

But it doesn't hold toxins

The fat cells normally hold toxins but not the liver and of course the liver that I'm going to recommend you consume if you can get a whole of it

Would be grass-fed grass-finished liver other point about liver and some people will say well, you don't want to have liver

You know very frequently because you're going to get an overload and toxicity of vitamin A or copper or iron

Well, if you look up the studies that talk about that

They never talk about consuming excessive little, okay? They talk about consuming

individual synthetic vitamins like synthetic vitamin A or they might talk about consuming too much copper

So of course liver does not contain synthetic vitamins. Now I will say there has been one study that I could find

And that was consuming

polar bear liver and that's very toxic if you consume too much of it because the amount of vitamin A is the softest chart

But I don't even believe that you can create a toxic effect if you're going to consume it every single day

Now of course, there's always exception if you consume a tremendous amount of liver potentially could create a problem

But you probably notice the side effects and you would cut that back

But here's why the majority of the population

Should start consuming liver because there's a very common genetic problem

With our population apparently it's a defect or mutation in a gene called MTHFR

Now first it might look like an acronym for a dirty word or a swear word

But it's now this gene if it's altered inhibits

A certain enzyme

That creates a cascade of problems in your body

In fact, this gene is probably the most important gene in your entire body

I'm going to explain why because if there's a problem with it

You'll have no

methylation now. What is methylation?

methylation involves

adding a methyl group

Well, that probably didn't explain anything

a methyl group is

C-H-3

And methylation is really adding something to a lot of different enzymes

to create different effects

Without methylation, you're not going to be able to detoxify heavy metals

Okay, and that includes

iron

There's so many people have an issue with too much iron

And iron will build up

And then the liver is affected

But with the methylation problem

You will have a situation where the iron is not breaking down

Yet the iron is unusable to you

So you'll have symptoms of high iron and symptoms of low iron

So your feet and hands might be cold all the time

Despite having a normal thyroid

So that's just one symptom

Another big problem is the lack of producing neurotransmitters

So what is that going to do? That's going to affect your mood

Specifically anxiety and depression

Another function is DNA repair

Now is that important?

Yeah, especially if you want to prevent cancer

And with this enzyme problem

You'll have a tendency to be more at risk for colon cancer

You will also have a problem with inflammation

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Because the cause of it is this other thing

It's a genetic thing

Now this enzyme is also involved with producing energy ATP

So you're generally going to be kind

You're not going to be able to have the full capacity of energy

Despite how many hours of sleep you get

Despite how good your diet is

It can also affect your cognitive function

Specifically memory, focus, concentration

So this can lead to a new dean

It can lead to dementia

And even Alzheimer's

Nethylation also helps you break down things

Like astrodial to lesser toxic forms of estrogen

So many people have estrogen dominance

In fact, you have too much estrogen

You're at risk for breast cancer

And cancer of the uterus and your ovary

And so people will start taking remedies

Like you might need more crucifulls food

Or take a product called dim

Or avoid soy

But if they don't have enough methylation

They're not going to be able to break down the estrogen as well

They might also have lower testosterone

Despite how many things they try to do

To fix that problem

Nethylation also helps to protect against autoimmune diseases

It's intimately involved with your immune system

And especially to protect you against the adverse reactions

That can occur when someone gets a vaccine

Not being able to manipulate increases your risk of a slow

So I hope you can see the importance of this whole chemical pathway

Well, here's the thing you need to know

This chemical pathway is dependent on two primary nutrients

And some secondary ones too

But the two primary nutrients are

volate and B12

So even now you are consuming them from your diet

You're just not going to be able to get enough

Because they're not able to be converted to the active form

Without this enzyme and methylation working correctly

In fact, if you end up taking the synthetic version of these two nutrients

Which is in all sorts of things which I will cover

That can create a buildup and make things a lot worse

Because there's a lot of toxicity symptoms from just those two nutrients as well

If they're in the synthetic form

You see that gene is all about converting that nutrient into the active form

And so this is why you never want to take like folic acid

You want to take folic, which is the natural version

And the same thing will be 12

You don't want to take the cyanokobolemine version

You want to take the methylokobolemine version

Now this specific genetic problem

Is fairly recently discovered because of the DNA testing that's being done

And the great majority of the population

Probably has not tested their genes yet

And so there's a lot of people walking around

With this problem, with these symptoms

And don't have a clue of this connection

But it's a very simple problem to solve

If you understand it and you know what to do

Which I'm going to explain

So I recently got a DNA test

So apparently I don't have this exact problem

But I have a version of it

Which blocks my ability to use coldening

As well as these other two nutrients

But not quite to the degree that someone with MTHFR we have

So in simple terms

What does this mean if you have this mutation with this gene

It means that you're always going to be efficient

In the folate and B12

And so the solution is just to take more of it

And it just so happens out of all the foods that you can eat

Liver is at the top of the list

Liver has super mega amounts of folate and B12

And the other associated nutrients that go along with methylation

And that would be B2, B3, B6, coldening, vitamin D, Z

And methionine

Now let's say for example you don't like to eat liver

Well, you're just going to probably have to get a supplement

That has high amounts of the correct form of B12, B6, and folate

But there are four things you need to focus on

Okay

Number one, you need to take more folate and B12

And I already discussed that

And by the way, folate is also in dark green vegetables

But it's also in liver as well

Number two, you want to avoid the synthetic folate and B12

That is in the enrichment process or the fortification process

Of various foods

If you consume the breads that pass to the cereal crackers

Or biscuits

You are getting an enriched grain product

With a lot of synthetic folate acid and B12

So this is just another reason why you

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And when you consume nutritional yeast

Many times it's fortified

With synthetic vitamins

If you take nutritional yeast, you want to get the one that's not fortified

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All right, number three

You want to minimize your alcohol content

No more than a six pack a night

You don't want to drink excessive amount

Because alcohol tends to make this condition worse

And that probably explains why I cannot power an alcohol

I mean, if I just drink a little bit

I feel like, wow

Well, because of this genetic beat that

Now for those who do that don't know that I have the dress that's him

Or I was being sarcastic with a six pack

Okay, I mean just keep it below like maybe two or three drinks for now

Okay, all right, number four

You might be taking synthetic vitamins right now

And not even knowing that it's worsening this problem

In fact, if you just stop taking your synthetic vitamins

You might feel so much better

Now, how do I know the majority of the population

Is consuming synthetic vitamins

Talking about the folate in the week 12

Because 99.9% of all vitamins sold

And are synthetic

So that's how I know

So start reading the labels

And get vitamins that are from food source or from natural sources

Now, since we did touch on detoxification

There's a really good video that I did on that

That I'd love to share with you

And I put it up right here

Check it out

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