Grass-Fed Beef Organs

Beef organs are actually very high Ibn DAO, which is needed to break down histamine and deal with histamine intolerance - kidney is particularly high in it, and our beef organs are made with kidney, heart and liver. Beef organs are also very unlikely to raise histamine levels, so they should be fine to take.

That said, if you are concerned, please do speak with a healthcare provider before taking, as everyone is different and has different reactions to certain foods.

We also had this review regarding histamine intolerance:

“I bought these hoping for an overall boost, and as nutritional support when I don't have access to fresh organs. However, I've found they also serve as an anti-histamine support! After realising I have histamine issues I did some research on whole food support, to find that beef organs have DAO, an enzyme necessary for the production of the body's own anti-histamine response. I hadn't opened the bottle before learning this, because I wanted to try some other supplements on their own first. Now I have taken two capsules with every meal for a couple of weeks, and notice a huge difference - if I forget, I notice while I am eating or shortly thereafter. I am thrilled to have found a whole food ally for these specific issues, and excited to see what else it can support in my body!”

Our organs come from a grass-fed and organic certified farm where the cattle are free to roam on pasture. We use heart (25%), liver (50%) and kidney (25%) to ensure a wide variety of bioavailable micronutrients. 

Key nutrients include fat soluble vitamins A, B2 (Riboflavin), B3 (Niacin), B5 (Pantothenic Acid), B6 (Pyridoxine), B7 (Biotin), B9 (Folate) and B12 . Organs are also a great source of the minerals Phosphorous, Copper, Selenium and Iron.

Pregnancy is a very sensitive and personal time in life, and for this reason we urge you to seek the guidance of a health professional or nutritionist, who can guide you personally.

Although many traditional cultures prize liver as a wonderful fertility, pregnancy and postnatal food, mainstream health advice currently warns against consuming liver during pregnancy over concerns of vitamin A toxicity.

For this reason, we advise you to research this topic for yourself, speak to a health professional or nutritionist and make sure you're comfortable with your decision to consume or avoid it during this time.

From our experience... when Izzi was pregnant we really looked into this topic, and found Dr Lily Nichols' (a prenatal and postpartum dietician) book Real Food for Pregnancy very helpful (excerpt from the book / her website below). As a result Izzi made the decision to consume a small amount of Beef Liver during pregnancy and took 6 Beef Organs capsules daily. These are made from 50% Beef Liver, 25% Beef Kidney and 25% Beef Heart. Izzi felt these really helped her maintain good energy levels throughout the pregnancy and we were blessed with a healthy baby at the end. As a side note, Izzi also felt our Collagen powder really helped her during this time and as soon as our son was born, started taking our Female Vitality Starter Pack to replenish nutrients post birth.  

“Many of you reading this may have been specifically warned to not consume liver during pregnancy, precisely because it is rich in vitamin A. This has sparked controversy over the years, mostly because old studies linked high-dose synthetic supplemental vitamin A to birth defects. However, we now know that naturally occurring vitamin A does not exert this toxicity, particularly when consumed with adequate vitamin D and vitamin K2, nutrients that are also found in abundance in liver. This illustrates perfectly why obtaining nutrients from food is far safer than getting them from supplements.

As one researcher points out, “Liver and supplements are not of equivalent teratogenic potential [risk of causing birth defects]. Advice to pregnant women on the consumption of liver based on the reported teratogenicity of vitamin A supplements should be reconsidered.”

Ongoing concerns over vitamin A toxicity from liver consumption are perplexing, considering that deficiency is fairly common in pregnant women. One study found that one-third of pregnant women were borderline deficient, despite having access to plenty of vitamin A-rich foods. This essential nutrient is widely recognised for its role in normal growth and development during pregnancy, including the developing lungs, kidneys, heart, eyes, and other organs. Even the National Institutes of Health states, “pregnant women need extra vitamin A for foetal growth and tissue maintenance and for supporting their own metabolism.” Certainly, an excessive amount of any nutrient is problematic, and since vitamin A is fat-soluble, it does raise the risk of toxicity. However, given what we know about deficiency and the safety of food-sourced vitamin A, this does not defend the recommendation to avoid liver, our most valuable food source of the vitamin.”

Yes! Beef organs offer valuable nutrients to support children’s growth and development. Our recommended dosages for children are:

• Under 5 = 1 capsule per day
• 5 - 10 = 1-2 capsules per day
• 10+ = 1-3 capsules per day

We recommend opening the capsule(s) and mixing the contents into a smoothie, drinks or food. To learn more about nose-to-tail nutrition for kids, read our blog here.

Yes, you can stack as many of our products together as you like in a variety of combinations. The only potential exception to this is when it comes to stacking more than two Nose-to-Tail products together.

Generally we recommend people stack two Nose-to-Tail products daily if they really want to maximise nutrient intake when they don't eat organ meat. This is based on Weston A Price's guideline to eat one ounce (28 grams) of liver per day. We use around 15 grams of raw organs to make each serving of our products (6 capsules) so taking 12 per day would bring you in at just over that guideline at 210 grams per week.

That said, we have many customers who take or eat more than this (including Josh) and they have only noticed increased benefits, especially when taking a variety of the products and therefore a wider range of micronutrients. However, if you want to air on the side of caution to not overload on micronutrients, we would suggest not taking more than 12 organ meat capsules per day.

Some of our most popular combinations include:

• Beef Organs + Celtic Oysters
• Beef Organs + Optimised Female
• Beef Organs + Optimised Male

We gently freeze dry raw organs sourced from a grass-fed and organic certified farm to maintain as many of the fragile nutrients and enzymes found within them. 

It takes roughly 15g of raw beef organs to create 6 capsules. Weston A Price and other leading nutritions in this field like Chris Masterjohn recommend consuming around 170-225g of beef liver per week. Our capsules will cover 90g of this split out on a daily basis to ensure the key micronutrients they provide are continuously circulating in your system. We recommend consuming one portion of organ meat (around 80-135g) on top of this per week.

It’s difficult to answer this without knowing specifically what multi-vitamin you are taking. However, often multi-vitamins, like plant foods, contain pre-cursor versions of vitamins and minerals. For example, beta-carotene instead of vitamin A. If you have the BCM01 gene, which one study estimated that between 32-69% of women in the UK have, you will struggle to convert beta-carotene into the active form of vitamin A called retinol. Our organ meat capsules contain vitamin A in this active form. The same can be said for for minerals like iron. Most plant foods and supplements contain non-heme iron, which is much less bioavailable (able to have an active effect) when compared to heme-iron, which is abundant in animal foods especially organ meats. Generally speaking, we recommend to get as much of your micro-nutrients as possible from whole foods and if you’re not keen on how organ meats taste or you want to have the nutrients they provide constantly circulating in your system to perform optimally, our capsules are a great way to achieve this.

Unfortunately when it comes to animal foods, the organic logo can be a bit of a smokescreen. Technically an animal can be classed as organic if they’re fed on unnatural but organic feed such as cereals or soy. We believe it’s best that animals, like humans, should be eating the foods they have throughout the vast majority of history before the food industry started introducing unnatural foods that are causing disease in modern society. To this effect, we believe cattle should be eating grass and in addition to this should be living outdoors for as much of the year as weather conditions allow. For this reason, we only use the organs from cattle that are free to roam on pastures. This means that our cattle eat a natural diet of grass, wildflowers and herbs and are kept outdoors for as long as possible. If they do have to be brought inside due to poor weather, they are fed preserved pasture. That said, the farm the cattle are from is also certified organic and therefore uses no pesticides, herbicides, antibiotics or hormones.

The capsules are a medium size and we haven’t come across anyone so far that’s said they’re too big to swallow. However, if you would prefer to open them and add them to bone broth or other dishes this is absolutely fine.

It depends on your specific requirements really... the Beef Organs contain a wider variety of micronutrients including some more unique nutrients like Selenium (great for immunity and thyroid function) and CoQ10, which is great for cardiovascular health. Whereas the Beef Liver contains less of a variety but the nutrients it does contain (Vitamin A, all the B vitamins, copper, etc) are in a greater density. Personally I usually opt for the Beef Organs as I have a history of poor heart health in my family and I generally recommend this to men over the Beef Liver as they need more heart support. Whereas for women I usually recommend the Beef Liver. That said, it might be worth trialing one and then the other and seeing which works best for you.

Josh personally sources all of our products to ensure they are only of the highest quality. The cows we use are not given hormones, or antibiotics before calving, and are not exposed to pesticides, heavy metals or any other chemicals.

We source from both organically certified and non-organically certified farms across Europe, and are currently working on partnering with UK farms to bring everything back to UK soil.  All the farms  we work with operate to an organic standard in terms of no hormone implants, etc. The farms we work with are also 100% grass-fed, which personally we believe is more important than organic as organic can be a bit of a smoke screen in the animal products world. For example, cattle may be being fed an unnatural but organic diet of oats. 

Once our raw materials are powdered, we have them third party lab tested for microbiology (salmonella, e-coli, etc) as well as heavy metals. In addition to this, our manufacturing partners are registered with the Food Standards Agency and are also HACCP certified for food safety.

All of the capsules containing beef organs are made from beef gelatine.