Thank you for this! I assume you have tried dessicated liver for your ailments?
With the diagnosis of a mercilessly progressing and by conventional medicine non-reversible disease, I right away used orthomolecular medicine (high dose vitamins, minerals, amino acids and herbs) and didn't even bothered with something where one can't know how much of each of these agents could be got from 1-2 g of desiccated liver. I did however use for example canned cod liver, which contains about 60.000 IUs of retinol per 100 g.
Do you get a full blood panel by a regular GP? I had a special test done that was sent to some lab in the US and cost a pretty penny. I won’t be able to repeat that test unless i’m willing to pay up. Basic blood tests by my GP are covered here but not sure how accurate they are. I will check out your other post for more information.
My GP only tests for the most rudimentary (B9, B12, electrolytes, 25(OH)D, ferritin and other iron panel markers, zinc and copper..), other things I tested out of my pocket, selectively with no single test more expensive than about 30 bucks (retinol and retinol binding protein, CoQ10, oxLDL, selenium dependent Glutathion peroxidase, vitamin K, Holo-Transcobalamin..). Also yearly HTMAs which with the amount of minerals and toxic metal tested turn out sufficiently inexpensive.
Each kind of test has its strengths and errors. For example B vitamins in serum are only accurate if they show deficiency, with higher than normal values one still doesn't know they get properly metabolized, and therefore are useless.
My worry about taking Dessicated liver along with a multi is the vitamin A or B6 content. Is it possible to get too much if I take them together?
So you recommend using a multivitamin and adding in additional supplements such as B complex for extremely low levels? Wouldn’t that cause an excess of B vitamins?
It is highly individual what would amount to too much. The daily 25.000 IU vitamin A I finally arrived might be already much too much for an other. Therefore always advisable to start with low doses, and increase gradually over weeks, months and years. While testing especially potentially toxic fat-solubles like vitamin D3 and A.
2 g of desiccated liver would amount to maybe about 10 g of wet liver? Though it sums up taken daily, I really don't think it amounts to the same as offal taken weekly in much much larger fresh amounts. It's the same as with 'mixed tocopherol' supplements, if it contained amounts of nutrients worth mentioning, the manufacturer would proudly present them in the 'supplement facts'.
Concerning excess of B vitamins, that's again why its always advisable to start low doses and increase gradually. Usually too much water-soluble B-vitamins are just peed out, which becomes visible for example by yellow urine from riboflavin, or are even felt that too much has been taken.