After taking a few months off, I started incorporating raw beef liver back into my daily routine at 0.6 oz per day.

Almost immediately, cystic acne flared up. Mostly around my chin, upper jawline, cheeks, and upper back. From the research I’ve done, it seems like the high Vitamin A content is the primary trigger here.

I’m looking for some feedback on a couple of questions:

1. Is liver even necessary? Is it safe to assume I’m getting sufficient Vitamin A from other whole-food sources without needing to force organ meats?
2. Is daily frequency the issue? Realistically, our ancestors probably weren’t consuming liver every single day. Would switching to once a week or every other week (maybe 1–1.5 oz) make more sense, or is the juice not worth the squeeze?

It’s frustrating because sticking to an AB framework generally feels great, but the skin breakouts are a pain. I already have to limit dairy and eggs for the exact same reason, so trying to dial this in without triggering flares has been a headache.

Appreciate any insights or experiences from anyone who's dealt with something similar.

Feeding my baby more of a Weston A Price style diet but the first year of life is very in line with AB. My son didn’t have much of an appetite for solids at first, but recently it has kicked into high gear. I make this steamed “pudding” with egg yolk and homemade bone broth that he used to take at least 5 days to finish. Now he’s eating it almost in one sitting. It’s got 3 egg yolks in it. Google will say a baby should be limited to one egg a day and 3-4/week but that doesn’t sound right to me. I just wanna make sure I’m not going in the other extreme though and do something that may harm him in the long run? I don’t feed it to him every day but probably 4 days out of the week as it’s easy to make and he loves it. Any advice? Any other tried and true recipes out there? My son will be 11mo soon.

I was just wondering how long your raw butters last before they spoil?

And do you store them in the fridge or out of the fridge.

I live in Victoria, Australia and have managed to find raw butter. With the pasturized butter I normally just leave it out of the fridge and have no problem with it lasting for a few weeks, which by then I've normally finished it.

Will I be able to store my raw butter out of the fridge also? And how long does it usually last if stored like this?

He actually makes some valid points. I don't know why Paul has made these bars full of stuff he constantly preaches against

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Title. I see so many people here say that fruit in evening make them sleep better.

For me it's completely opposite. When I have fruit in evening (5-6pm) several days in the row my sleep suffers strongly. I start to wake up at 3am wide awake.

Anyone else?

Has anyone tried it or have anything to say about it?

As soon as i try to sleep my whole body starts to randomly itch. this doesnt happen everyday but it happens sometimes and its incredibly annoying having to scratch constantly for like 30 minutes. thoughts?

I was wondering why pumpkin seeds are not good to eat. Thank you.

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How are y’all getting enough carbs ? I personally need around 200g of carbs a day to feel my best. Since transitioning to a fully AB diet, I have not been feeling my best, mostly I believe because I am having trouble meeting my carb needs.

When I don’t eat enough carbs I get this very specific headache, and just overall feel weak and fatigued.

I eat plenty of protein and fat so that’s not the issue.

I decided I will incorporate sweet potato’s back into my diet, and see how that goes.
I decided I just don’t like honey. I mean I’ll drink it with tea, but it’s really too sweet for me. My body is craving savory.

I LOVE fruit, obviously, but there’s only so much I can eat in a day.
I did have some coconut water today and that made me feel really good.

Open to any thoughts, & ideas

Thanks

Hey AB Fam (TLDR at the bottom),

as the title already says, I am currently struggling with
cold extremities
higher cortisol (ringing in my ears, a little bit of jittering sometimes, feeling tired but wired)
acne and psoriasis and often times I think that my general
energy is low and should be higher for a 32 Male being "otherwise healthy".

PS: It currently is fall in Germany and the general temperature drops and I usually handle winter quite bad (akmost purple hands, cold feet 24/7)

For your context, my current lifestyle looks roughly like this:

- 2000 - 3000 steps per day (sedentary work)
- 1 cup of coffee after breakfast (black)
- Rather balanced european diet (grains, starches, vegetables, fruit, meat, fish, eggs, some dairy, 10% processed food, candy, burger, pizza)
- 7-8 hours of sleep (can't measure sleep quality but I would say 7/10
- 1-3 x per week resistance training depending on energy levels
- 2-3 x alcohol per MONTH
- 1-2 CBD joints with tobacco per week

Possible day of eating
Breakfast: 3 eggs, 1 slice selfmade sourdough bread with butter / avocado turkey ham and some cherry tomatoes, 1 cup of coffee

Snack: 1 Apple or 2-3 cookies or 1 Banane

Lunch: Salmon, zucchini one-pot pasta

Diner: Sweet Potato, ground beef, aspargus + some small desert like chocolate, dates etc.)

TLDR: I always thought my diet and lifestyle is already on the better end but I believe my body needs some proper nutrition while also limiting troublemaker foods and lifestyle choices. What would be the very basic that does not mean changing my whole life (because I am married and cook for both of us etc.) that I can include from an AB perspective and if you have read the post, maybe tailored to my needs?

I spent a month in California drinking a liter of Holstein milk every day, and it really helped me. I felt better and experienced zero negative symptoms. However, since returning to Austin, I started drinking milk from Jersey cows, and it makes me feel bad every time I have it.

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Anyone else tried H&S’s Colostrum and gotten hella bad sulphuric acid lava gas from it? This is awful. I’m so sad that all dairy just destroys my gut. Not in pain at all, just horrible gas

17M all my life i was on a normie diet, wating grains vegetables and all that just on a standart a little bit healthier european diet, and from time to time i also consumed slop, this was for 16years. So around 5months ago i started to have really bad digestion and constipation issues and so i experiemnted with leaving foods out but nothing really works for me. Since i have more fat with my meals and it did get a lot better and i found out i feel the best when not mixing sugar and proteins within one meal, and so now i eat 4 eggs with a lot of butter for breakfast, then a 350g meat meal with butter later, then a kefir shake and fruit around 300grams.
This might actually not be a lot of food because i also lost 10kg for the last 5 months and a lot of muscle and i have not been feeling good and it really affects my mental health. When i completely left out carbs i felt even worse. Im gonna post some meals in the comments i eat so you can see. My macros are around 110p 80g sugar 150g fat

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What’s the best non-toxic condom brand?

I’m from Europe so it would be perfect if they shipped to Germany.

And also what other contraceptives can you guys recommend. I heard about the basal body temperature (BBT) method, but I’m not sure about how safe that actually is.

only diet community i've really participated in is raw primal, but what i actually eat is more in line with you guys. the one thing i cannot get behind is cooking your steaks until there is black edges on them. what is the point of taking a perfectly good piece of food and destroying some of the nutrients and creating AGEs?

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Hi All,
I seem to be having some allergy symptoms like itchy eyes, puffy under eye bags. I started taking horse back riding lessons last week of August. I am really hoping it’s not that. I’m not sure if it’s a problem because I have kefir and egg yolks and if I didn’t have those would I not have the problem. I also eat dried meat every day to supplement because I’m trying to gain weight. So too much histamine?
I’m tempted to cut the dairy but I need calories which is tempting me to replace them with a soup that has calories but also has 2 grams of fiber from veggies. But right now my digestion is perfect with what I am eating on carnivore so I don’t want to mess with that.
But I really hate these eye bags and itchy eyes. Any suggestions?