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Mosby

(17,462 posts)
Tue Dec 6, 2022, 03:11 PM Dec 2022

TikTok 'Liver King' touted raw organ meat diet. He also took steroids.

Last edited Tue Dec 6, 2022, 07:26 PM - Edit history (1)

The self-proclaimed Liver King, a muscular and often shirtless TikTok star named Brian Johnson, amassed millions of followers by promoting an “ancestral” diet of beef brains, bull testicles and raw animal livers.

But recently, Johnson posted a different kind of viral video — an apology. Johnson admitted to taking anabolic steroids, something which he had repeatedly denied in the past. The confessional video has been viewed more than 2.6 million times on YouTube.

Bearded, with bulging abs and biceps, Johnson has been one of the breakout stars of social media this past year, rapidly building his following by claiming that one of the keys to strength, happiness and optimal health is a meat-heavy diet that prioritizes organ meats.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2022/12/06/liver-king-steroids-apology-ancestral-diet/

Just another social media influencer faker.

Eta - he is still taking steroids. Supposively has a special drug nutritionist, I thought this stuff was illegal.

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TikTok 'Liver King' touted raw organ meat diet. He also took steroids. (Original Post) Mosby Dec 2022 OP
I wonder if the steroids help with the terrible gout he must have from all the organ meat sboatcar Dec 2022 #1
I'd like see his red blood counts. multigraincracker Dec 2022 #2
I'd like to see him try to run up a hill for any distance. yonder Dec 2022 #3
Do as he says he does, you'll get vitman A and iron toxicity Warpy Dec 2022 #4

yonder

(10,002 posts)
3. I'd like to see him try to run up a hill for any distance.
Tue Dec 6, 2022, 04:29 PM
Dec 2022

That 90wt gear oil most people call blood is too busy piggybacking extra cells instead of oxygen.

Warpy

(113,130 posts)
4. Do as he says he does, you'll get vitman A and iron toxicity
Tue Dec 6, 2022, 07:01 PM
Dec 2022

on your way to trying to duplicate the H. erectus diet that we are not designed to emulate and which made the former owner of at least one skeleton that has been excavated extremely ill, the vitamin A toxicity showing up in his oddly swollen bones.

I don't care what this twit eats or doesn't eat. I do care that he's got followers, although I['m sure most of them just watch his vids and reach for the beer and chips, they're not as crazy as he thinks they are.

The OP has likely reached the correct conclusion.

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