Put discarded dish back on dinner plate

Your mother probably told you to eat it, but maybe you struggled with the taste or the texture... [Click here](1770d7/ct0_0/1/ms?sid=TV2%3AeSgR0iizh) to view this message in your browser | [Click here](1770d7/l-002e/zout?sid=TV2%3AeSgR0iizh) to stop receiving our messages [] [] Al Sears, MD 11905 Southern Blvd. Royal Palm Beach, FL 33411 [] April 8, 2023 [] Reader, When mainstream medicine declared its dangerous and foolish war on cholesterol, the collateral damage included a superfood that had been a critical part of our primal diet since the beginning of the human species. Your ancient ancestors considered it one of their most-prized foods, and it provided tremendous nutritional benefits – especially to those who had limited access to other nutrient-dense foods. Your mother probably told you to eat it, but maybe you struggled with the taste or the texture... I’m talking about liver – and your mom was right. [liver] A classic dish of liver and onions deserves a place on every dinner table. Liver and other organ meats are among the richest nutrient sources on the planet. But in the last 50 years or so, we’ve completely turned away from them. That’s when mainstream medicine launched its war on cholesterol and started spreading the lie that it caused heart disease. Liver, as you may know, is high in cholesterol — and it was one of the first food casualties of the anti-cholesterol war. But there was another unexpected consequence of the war on cholesterol: Instead of reducing heart disease in America, rates skyrocketed. It wasn’t a coincidence. Not only do Big Pharma’s cholesterol-lowering statin drugs deplete your body’s store of the heart super-nutrient Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) by as much as 40%, the disappearance of liver from our dinner plates eradicated one of the richest dietary sources of CoQ10. As a regular reader, you know this nutrient can reverse heart disease... lessen heart attack damage... reverse cognitive heart failure... and lower blood pressure.1,2,3,4 But CoQ10 isn’t just critical for your heart. This vital anti-aging nutrient and antioxidant is essential for the normal function of all your organs — especially as you get older. The latest scientific studies reveal that CoQ10’s powers are more far-reaching than science ever imagined. Just in the past few years, compelling research has linked CoQ10 deficiencies with:5,6,7,8,9 - Alzheimer’s disease and brain damage - Type 2 diabetes - Liver disease - Reduced male and female fertility - Hearing loss - Certain kinds of cancer, including lung cancers Apart from the cholesterol myth — cholesterol doesn’t cause heart disease, inflammation does — the other objection to eating liver comes from the myth that it’s full of toxins. That’s because, as you may remember from a biology class in school, your liver’s primary role is to filter toxins from your body. But these toxins don’t stay in your liver. Those that aren’t filtered out through your body’s waste system leave your liver and accumulate in fatty tissue. Ounce for ounce, liver is one of nature’s most impressive superfoods. A four-ounce portion of calves’ liver gives you more than 1,600% of the daily value of vitamin A and hundreds of times the daily values of B vitamins and minerals. In fact, liver is packed with more nutrients than any other food. Compared with the muscle meat we eat these days, organ meats are more densely packed with every key nutrient you need — including heavy doses of B vitamins, such as B1, B2, B6, folic acid, and B12. Organ meats are also loaded with key minerals like phosphorus, iron, copper, magnesium, iodine, calcium, potassium, sodium, selenium, zinc, and manganese and provide the important fat-soluble vitamins A, D, E, and K. And liver is a powerhouse when it comes to the brain and energy nutrient choline, healthy fats, and essential amino acids. How to add liver back to your dining room table Here’s what I tell my patients about adding this superfood back to the dinner table: - Always choose grassfed meat. Avoid all meat — including organ meat — from animals raised in feedlots because they’re pumped full of hormones, antibiotics, and cheap commercial grains. Pasture-raised animal livers are much higher in nutrients than animal products that come from commercial feedlots. For example, meat from pasture-raised animals has 2-4 times more omega-3 fatty acids than meat from commercially-raised animals. And the livers of grass-fed animals have up to 10 times more CoQ10 than the organs of grain-fed animals.10 - Hide it if you have to. You can easily hide liver in dishes with lots of spices and flavor, such as Mexican or Italian recipes. Try mixing it into beef and vegetable stew — with about 80% beef and 20% liver. You can also make frozen liver cubes to add into ground beef dishes, like chili and spaghetti Bolognese. To make frozen liver cubes, you just: ✓ Cut the liver into chunks ✓ Throw the chunks into a blender and process until they well blended ✓ Scoop mixture into an ice tray and freeze ✓ Simply throw in a cube or two of liver into your ground beef dish - Supplement if needed. If you or your family simply won’t eat liver, I suggest supplementing with desiccated beef liver supplements from grass-fed cows. Desiccated simply means that it’s dried or dehydrated. Be sure to look for pure desiccated liver supplements that come from grass-fed animals. And avoid any product made with silica or silicon dioxide, which are often added to prevent caking, magnesium stearate or stearic acid for easier manufacturing, and guar gum for thickening. Four capsules of pure desiccated calf liver provide the equivalent of about three grams of fresh grassfed liver. To Your Good Health, Al Sears, MD, CNS --------------------------------------------------------------- References: 1. Tiano L, et al., “Effect of coenzyme Q10 administration on endothelial function and extracellular superoxide dismutase in patients with ischaemic heart disease.” Eur Heart J. 2007;28(18): 2249-55. 2. Singh R, et al. “Randomized, double-blind placebo-controlled trial of coenzyme Q10 in patients with acute myocardial infarction.” Cardiovasc Drug Ther. 1988;12(4):347-53. 3. “Spectacular study on heart failure and the supplement CoQ10.” June 10, 2013. Accessed on March 25, 2023. 4. BE Burke, et al. “Randomized, double- blind placebo-controlled trial of coenzyme Q10 in isolated systolic hypertension.” Southern Med J. 94(11):1112-7. 5. Hargreaves I, Heaton R, Mantle D. “Disorders of human coenzyme Q10 metabolism.” Int J Mol Sci. 2020 Sep; 21(18):6695. 6. Dumont M, et al. “Coenzyme Q10 decreases amyloid pathology and improves behavior in a transgenic mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease.” J Alzheimers Dis. 2011;27(1):211-23. 7. Lafuente R, et al. “Coenzyme Q10 and male infertility: a meta-analysis.” J Assist Reprod Genet. 2013 Sep; 30(9): 1147- 1156. 8. Nam D, et al. ““Effects of CoQ10 replacement therapy on the audiological characteristics of pediatric patients with COQ6 variants.” Biomed Res Int. 2022 Sep 9;2022:5250254. 9. Shidal C, et al. “Prospective study of plasma levels of coenzyme Q10 and lung cancer risk in a low-income population in the Southeastern United States.” Cancer Med. 2021 Feb;10(4):1439-1447. 10. Sears A. “Energize Your Heart: The Miracle of CoQ10” The Doctor’s Heart Cure. 2004;143. alsearsmd@send.alsearsmd.com [Preferences | Unsubscribe](1770d7/l-002e/zout?sid=TV2%3AeSgR0iizh) 11905 Southern Blvd., Royal Palm Beach, Florida 33411, United States