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I’m cool with Liver King!
I have no TikTok on my phone and I am a light user of Instagram but, thanks to my teenage kids, I am aware of “trending” social media personalities. They told me about Andrew Tate a few months ago. Then just recently my son introduced me to Liver King. We had a good laugh because the three of us (my two oldest sons and I) often discuss nutrition. My fifteen-year-old son and I have stopped eating red meat. No one pressured us and I didn’t pressure my son. But we are athletes and we felt better and cleaner about not eating red meat. My seventeen-year-old is an athlete too but he says not eating meat is silly because it’s super nutritious, so sometimes we debate.
Liver King couldn’t understand our debate!
In case you haven’t heard, the Liver King dude preaches an extreme variation of the carnivore diet. He’s an “ancestral lifestyle influencer”. The stuff he does is so grotesque and extreme, I shouldn't even call it a “diet”. He eats raw animal organs.
For example, lungs:
Raw liver — obviously, as his persona name suggests:
