Episode 5: Ancestral Wisdom, Modern Science

Your great-grandmother didn't take vitamin pills. She didn't optimize her micronutrients or track her selenium intake. But she had energy. She didn't crash at 2pm. She didn't need the weekend just to recover from the week.

What did she know that we've forgotten? She ate the organs.

This episode bridges the gap between understanding the problem and seeing the solution—by looking backward at what humans ate for 200,000 years before we decided organ meats were "gross."

In this episode:

• Why every traditional culture on earth prioritized organ meats—and what happened when they stopped
• The bioavailability gap: synthetic vitamins absorb at 15-30% vs. food-based at 80-90%
• Why beef liver is the most nutrient-dense food on the planet (3,000% daily vitamin A, 2,000% B12)
• Weston A. Price's research on traditional cultures—and how health deteriorated within one generation on Western diets
• The "orchestra vs. one violin" problem with isolated supplements

Key insight:

Organ nutrition isn't a trend or a biohack. It's a return to what humans always ate—and what your genes still expect. The question isn't whether it works. The question is how to get it in a form your modern system can actually tolerate.

The problem we're focusing on:

There are two reasons people don't eat organs: it's culturally foreign, and when they try supplements, they have a terrible experience. But that terrible experience isn't because the concept is wrong—it's because the processing is wrong.

Resources mentioned:

• Weston A. Price Foundation research
• Comparative bioavailability studies
• Anthropological nutrition research
• USDA nutrient density data

Next episode: "Why Organ Supplements Fail (And What's Different)" — If you've ever thrown away a bottle of liver pills because they made you sick, this one's for you.