Does eating tons of Liver get you Jacked? (Liver King Finale)
Everyone thinks Liver King is on steroids, but could his unique diet actually help him build a suspicious amount of muscle?
EDIT: This was written before this video came out. Turns out Liver King is indeed on tons of steroids.
A couple years back, I went out to eat at a fish place with a Japanese friend of mine in Tokyo. He’s really into fishing so I was asking him about different parts of the fish he liked to eat and monkfish liver came up. He said it’s really good for libido while doing this gesture making his limp arm powerfully straight. They didn’t have any monkfish at that restaurant, place so I went out and got some the next day. Whatever libido boost it provided was masked by the diarrhea it gave me.
This brings us back to the question of how Liver King stays so jacked. Last time we took a look at whether his massive consumption of testicles increases his testosterone or not. The time before that, I mentioned how Andrew Huberman guessed that Liver King was probably on TRT at the least and we looked at whether certain aspects of his lifestyle might give him abnormally high testosterone. So today let’s look into whether massive amounts of liver might “boost” testosterone.
Liver King often says in his ‘what I’m eating’ videos that he has liver with breakfast, lunch and dinner because “liver is king.” He told GQ that he eats about a pound (453g) of liver per day.
Here are the nutrients for 100g of liver.
Liver King is getting 4.5x that, so:
427% Vitamin A
202% Riboflavin
81% Niacin
67% Vitamin B6
1246% Vitamin B12
80% Folate
76% Choline
28% Zinc
616% Copper
72% Selenium
117% Cholesterol
The iron content listed in that chart seems way off, it should be much higher. Health Link British Columbia puts100g of beef liver at 5.75 - 16.75mg. By that, Liver King would be getting anywhere from 25.8mg to 73.4mg, which would be 148% to 421% the daily value. If you use the lower daily iron intake recommended by NHS.UK, it would from 296% to 842%
So with that in mind, what stands out is the massive amounts of vitamin A and iron that Liver King is getting every day. (I wonder if Liver King gives blood to curb the hemochromatosis risk from all that iron. Excess copper could be an issue for him as well.)
Vitamin A is well known to be an essential food component that is involved in vision, maintenance of healthy epithelium, growth, bone formation, reproduction, and immune function.
The combo of vitamin A and iron might have testosterone boosting potential. In a 2004 study titled Vitamin A and iron supplementation is as efficient as hormonal therapy in constitutionally delayed children, 102 teenage boys with short stature and delayed puberty were separated into four groups: a control, a testosterone-supplemented group, a vitamin A- and iron-supplemented group, and a group that received both testosterone and the nutritional supplementation. Only the control group didn’t gain weight and begin puberty, the other three groups did. The growth acceleration of the vitamin-A treated group was on par with that of testosterone group. Based on increase in testicle size, they noted that puberty started after 9-12 months in the testosterone group, and it started after 12 months in the vitamin-A group.
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