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Solgar - Desiccated Liver, 250 tablets

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The nutrition label on this isn't easy to decipher, but it has an added 100 mcg of B12 as cyanocobalamin (listed as just cobalamin) per 3 tablets.

I emailed Solgar who confirmed this.

This is a synthetic form of B12, which is odd since beef liver is supposed to deliver plenty of its own natural B vitamins.

I'd prefer they did not add any synthetic vitamins to this product, as it is the most ubiquitous and easiest to obtain, and Solgar is a more trustworthy name I believe. But there you have it.

I have used Solgar products for years and am always satisfied with the packaging and freshness. I feel healthy, so I guess that they help. These liver tablets are easy for me to swallow and have a rich liver smell.

I have problems with my liver and when I found the Dessicated Liver I have been used it for more than 3 years. It helps me a lot.

These tablets are big and smelly...they smell like grave dirt, I like to joke. They stink out my whole pill box and make me grimace each time I have one, albeit only for a few seconds. (Doable for me though, unlike actually eating liver!)

The tablets are only lightly coated so you can taste the liver-y goodness quite well, sadly.

My only problem with the content is that the liver is defatted which seems a weird idea to me as I had thought a large percentage of the nutrients in liver, such as vitamin A, were fat soluble? I'm also not a fan of the added B12 and particularly this inferior form of it.

Ron's Ultrapure does the best liver capsules (and non-defatted and non-smelly ones too!) but these ones are at least a lot cheaper. I'm going to take soem of both brands I think as I can't afford to take high amounts of the more expensive one.

To read about the benefits of consuming liver in neurological diseases such as MS do a web search for 'Dr Klenner, B vitamins, liver' or similar. There is also great information on the benefits of eating liver if you have liver problems or really any disease at all, on the Weston A Price Foundation website - along with other nutrient dense foods such as bone broths, coconut oil and other (organic) organ meats. Books such as Eat Fat, Lose Fat: The Healthy Alternative to Trans Fats and Deep Nutrition: Why Your Genes Need Traditional Food and Primal Body, Primal Mind: Beyond the Paleo Diet for Total Health and a Longer Life are also good on the subject of liver.

Liver is often said to be the number one superfood. Thank goodness it comes in tablet forms I say!

Jodi Bassett, The Hummingbirds' Foundation for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis