“The liver does not filter toxins. Instead, the liver modifies them to make them less toxic and to make them easier to excrete."

Repeat After Me: The Liver Is Not a Filter!, by @ChrisMasterjohn https://t.co/nsMRb2POse

— St. Michael, the Archangel (@aveng_angel) January 5, 2024

from Chris Masterjohn, Ph.D.:

Please join me in a global campaign to correct the misunderstanding that the liver “filters” toxins.

Filters remove undesirable things from air, water, oil, or other desirable materials. They do so by holding on to them. As a result, they get dirty and eventually need to be replaced.

Many people believe that this is what the liver does.

When you mention eating liver, they say, “I'm not going to eat something that filters toxins,” as if all those toxins are actually in the liver.

But this is not what the liver does. Not at all.

I do not believe people need a background in physiology to understand what the liver does correctly. Therefore, I propose that we all join forces to correct anyone who ever says or implies that “the liver is a filter.” To do so, I recommend these three corrections, each appropriate to a different level of scientific understanding:

Level 1. “The liver does not filter toxins from the blood. The liver helps pump them into your poo and your pee so that they leave your body.”

Level 2. “The liver does not filter toxins. Instead, the liver modifies them to make them less toxic and to make them easier to excrete. This leads to their elimination in the feces and urine, not their retention in the liver.”

Level 3. “The liver does not filter toxins. Hepatic detoxification takes place in three phases. Phase 1 oxidizes the molecule. This serves to prepare it for phase 2. Phase 2 conjugates the molecule to one of several chemical groups. This serves two purposes: one is to make the toxin less metabolically active; the other is to make it more water-soluble. Phase 3 exports the conjugate into the bile, which brings it into the intestines. From there, it either leaves in the feces, or is reabsorbed into the bloodstream and exits the body through the urine.

Everyone can understand at least one of these!

Practically every Indian carries in a little pouch a quantity of these leaves in dried form.  The effect of this drug is to increase their capacity for endurance; it makes them unconscious for hunger and fatigue.  Through our interpreter, we frequently asked them about the comfort and nourishment they obtained from leaves and were told that they often preferred these leaves to food when they were on a journey and carrying heavy loads.  Price was informed that they could increase the quantity of the drug used to a point at which they were quite unconscious of pain and able to endure injuries without suffering and operations without discomfort.  

Biotin has reversed the loss of taste that occurred in one case due to lipoic acid supplementation

Biotin’s Health Benefits: Way Beyond Hair and Nails, by @ChrisMasterjohn https://t.co/TQtYthgVdj

— St. Michael, the Archangel (@aveng_angel) October 26, 2023

Most people who take biotin take it for their hair and nails.

Yet biotin does much more than this:

Biotin deficiency causes moodiness, cloudy thinking, and fatigue in some people; in others, it causes hair loss, difficulty concentrating, and stomach problems; in yet others it causes hand tremors, muscle pain, and trouble breathing; and in some people it even makes them need to wear glasses. All of these are reversible with biotin supplementation. Yes, I literally mean one person had to wear glasses when biotin deficient and was able to get rid of them when he went back on biotin.

Biotin deficiency can also cause candida-infected red, itchy, scaly skin, and “unusual body odor.”

Finally, biotin deficiency can massively increase serum cholesterol.

Biotin has reversed the loss of taste that occurred in one case due to lipoic acid supplementation (which interferes with biotin transport) and in another case as a side effect of surgery.

Biotin has allowed type 1 diabetics to go off insulin and maintain nearly normal blood sugar, and dramatically improved neuromuscular problems in type 1 diabetics.

Half of mothers become spontaneously biotin-deficient during pregnancy, and correcting this likely prevents birth defects.

On the other hand, massive biotin doses can make human multiple sclerosis patients more likely to relapse, shown at least twice, and they cause infertility in rats and birth defects in rabbits. Humans taking huge biotin doses for genetic defects do fine with pregnancy, whether on 10-20 milligrams or 100 milligrams, but they are special cases who need the high doses.

Smoking, the anti-convulsant valproate, and egg whites that are not thoroughly cooked by boiling for 4-8 minutes can all induce biotin deficiency.

There is no RDA for biotin. Officials have instead set an “adequate intake” by looking at the average intake among American infants and adjusting it upward by bodyweight for adults. This is set at 30 micrograms per day.

This replaced an older recommendation of 300 micrograms per day, which was based on 150-300 micrograms per day being needed to correct severe deficiency.

The biotin requirement increases as a function of protein intake. By my calculations, the following rule of thumb applies:

Get at least 150 micrograms of biotin per day, which will allow an intake of non-collagen protein up to 100 grams.

For each additional 50 grams of non-collagen protein, get an additional 35 micrograms of biotin.

This puts most people in the range of 150-300 micrograms of biotin.

To do this with food, make the base of your diet rich in grass-fed animal products, a diversity of fermented foods, and a large volume of fresh produce. Then, add one egg yolk equivalent for every 25 grams of non-collagen protein in your diet.

Each egg yolk equivalent can be any of the following: one raw or cooked egg yolk with the white thrown in the trash; one whole egg boiled for at least four minutes; 1.5 fried eggs; 3.5 poached eggs; 8 grams of natto; 9 grams of chicken liver; or 36 grams of beef liver.

Pregnant and lactating women should multiply these values by 1.7. Children should adjust downward based on protein intake.

Doses used for diabetes are between 5 and 16 milligrams per day and those used for reversing loss of taste are 10-20 milligrams per day.

Continue reading. 

Raw milk is one of the best foods for detoxification, but only raw milk specifically, not pasteurized.

Raw Milk and Glutathione @ChrisMasterjohn has a great article on the Weston Price Foundation website that discusses how raw milk is one of the best foods for detoxification, but only raw milk specifically, not pasteurized.

For those of you who are new to researching… pic.twitter.com/xpSqbTOvpb

— Inversionism (@Inversionism) August 31, 2023

Locally, Sprouts, my least favorite store because of their COVID-19 policies and reinforcements which turned them into thugs and still carry on with their authoritarian fantasies, carries it. 

YOU NEED FAT-SOLUBLE VITAMIN A IF YOU'RE CONSUMING HIGH AMOUNTS OF PROTEIN

Protein Powder? you don’t do pea protein/vegan but do whey or egg white based? Read this- “…The problem with whey is that it eats up concrete, so you can’t put it in the sewers. But not to worry; the industry has figured out how to turn this substance…”  https://t.co/TUv5sd0CoO

— Wejolyn 🇺🇸 (@Wejolyn) March 14, 2022

Retinol is the fat-soluble vitamin A; Retinol Palmitate is the esther form of it.  

PROTEIN & VITAMIN A

We need look no further than Chris Masterjohn’s article, “Vitamin A, The Forgotten Bodybuilding Nutrient” (Wise Traditions, Fall 2004). As Masterjohn explains, “The utilization of protein requires vitamin A. Several animal studies have shown that liver reserves of vitamin A are depleted by a high dietary intake of protein, while vitamin A increases in non-liver tissues. One explanation for this is that adequate protein is necessary for vitamin A transport. In one study, researchers fed radioactively-labeled vitamin A to rats on low-protein and high-protein diets, using the amount of radioactivity present in exhaled gases, urine and feces as a measure of the metabolism of vitamin A, and found that vitamin A is indeed used at a higher rate on a high-protein diet.”

Masterjohn continues, “Vitamin A is not only depleted by a high intake of protein, but it is also necessary for the synthesis of new protein, which is the goal of the bodybuilder. Rats fed diets deficient in vitamin A synthesize protein at a lower rate than rats fed adequate vitamin A. Cultured skeletal muscle cells increase the amount of protein per cell when exposed to vitamin A and D, but not when exposed to vitamin D alone.”

In other words, eating lean meat or taking a protein powder sends a signal to the liver: “Send me vitamin A!” Protein consumed in the absence of fat, with its precious cargo of fat-soluble vitamins, including vitamin A, is an effective way of rapidly depleting your liver of vitamin A stores.

What happens when the liver becomes depleted of vitamin A, so that none can be made available to the body when needed?

Vitamin A is key to almost every process in the body—the concert master, so to speak—not only for protein synthesis, but also for hormone production (including sex hormones like testosterone, and thyroid hormone); vitamin A is also key to immune system function, critical for healthy vision and hearing, plays a role in bone health, and works in tandem with vitamins D and K2 for everything from the prevention of heart disease to the production of feel-good chemicals. A diet of lean meat, or one that incorporates protein powders, is a recipe for hormone disruption, fatigue, depression, bone problems, auto-immune disease, vision and hearing problems, heart disease and even cancer.