Unresponsive Gastritis, Beef Liver in Milk, Steps Per Day | THRR152

Please Subscribe and Review: Apple Podcasts | RSS Submit your questions for the podcast here News Topic: kitten corner: testable predictions The Joe Rogan Experience: #1979 Dr. Aseem Malhotra Show Notes:   Questions:    Soaking Liver in Milk?  Laura says:  Hi Robb & Nicki, First, I want to say thank you so much for your work. I was a mostly vegetarian for 20+ years before reading (and watching) Sacred Cow. After adding red meat and more protein into my diet, I feel renewed energy in my workouts and in daily life. I'm now an avid listener to your podcast and love the refreshing tell-the-truth approach that you both have on diet, health, and LIFE. Encouraging people to THINK rather than just follow the status quo. Now for my question...BEEF LIVER. The food we know we should eat, but most people don't find palatable and therefore, don't eat often. After lots of experimentation, I finally found a way to make it that I find palatable (and dare I say, even enjoyable?!)... I soak the liver in raw milk for at least an hour, then discard the soaking milk and pulverize the liver in a blender. I freeze it in small portions in silicone muffin cups. Then when I want to eat some, I thaw the 1-2 oz. portions, and fry it in coconut oil, chopping it up with a spoon so that it is the consistency of a very soft ground beef. Add a little salt and it tastes great! BUT I shared this method with a friend recently and she thought I was depleting the liver of its iron by soaking it in milk first. I consulted Google but got conflicting answers to this question. What say you, biochemist Robb? Am I making the liver "not as good for me" by soaking it in milk first? And a follow-up question: would raw milk or pasteurized milk make a difference in this scenario? Thanks, Laura P.S. I also just bought my first box of LMNT and I'm HOOKED. My husband calls it my afternoon "cocktail" every day. Raspberry Salt is my fave thus far...but I'm hoping Chocolate Mint comes back in the future!   Steps per day vs zone 2 cardio: Sam says: Hey Robb and Nicki, Every day I clock in between 10k and 18k steps at work. (Dead serious, no exaggeration) Work is 5 days a week and 8-12 hr shifts. Usually it is in 100 meter bursts and a fairly quick pace. It definitely burns sufficient calories as in the past before i committed to the paleo diet, I would maintain my weight dispite having a bad diet and huge portions. Granted I was very overweight at the time and am still, however much less so since switching to paleo. I'm dropping weight like crazy. Anyway I have heard in the past that zone 2 cardio "gently" burns calories and helps maintain cardiovascular health. So my question is, does my activity level and amount of steps per day qualify as zone 2? Thanks for reading my question. Sam   Unresponsive gastritis and IBS John says: Hi Robb and Nicki, I seem to have come to a dead end in solving my health issues and wanted to see if you might have any ideas. In March 2020 I was given an antibiotic (Pen V) at the same time as I may have had covid. Overnight my digestive system was wrecked, I had non-stop severe stomach burning and a churning intenstinal pain. Fast forward three years and the symptoms have not stopped, only calmed down slightly after the initial weeks when it started. After numerous investigations including scopes, blood/stool tests and scans, I have only been diagnosed with mild 'chemical type' gastritis (no h.pylori), slightly elevated calprotectin (around 100-150) but no visible intestinal inflammation, and a small hiatus hernia. Standard gastritis medications like PPIs, H2 blockers and sucralfate do absolutely nothing and I was quickly spat out the other side of the medical system after they didn't know what to do with me. At various points over the years since I developed tinnitus, minor muscle twitching, migraines and also a c.diff infection after starting a PPI, but that was successfully treated with vancomycin. To keep the word count down I'll just say that I found the functional medicine world and worked my way through a self compiled list of diets, supplements, probiotics, herbs and alternative treatments but have made zero progress. I have probably done most things on the usual list for gastritis and IBS. I have even tried a capsule FMT and a 7 day water fast, both of which just gave me a headache. I tried strict carnivore a couple of times, up to about 3 months each time, but unfortunately it wasn't quite the magic bullet that it seems to have been for others. It has made minor improvements but not enough to say it is resolving my issues. Today I am still eating mostly carnivore as I feel the least bad on it but I am left with all my symptoms. I am out of ideas, the frustrating part is that the pain seems to be completely static. I know how to make it worse but it never improves, almost as if the set point of my nerves has moved. Can you think of anything I could look for or try? Thanks a lot for reading and for the podcast, John   Sponsor: The Healthy Rebellion Radio is sponsored by our electrolyte company, LMNT. Proper hydration is more than just drinking water. You need electrolytes too! Check out The Healthy Rebellion Radio sponsor LMNT for grab-and-go electrolyte packets to keep you at your peak! They give you all the electrolytes want, none of the stuff you don’t. Click here to get your LMNT electrolytes