• last year
A lifelong vegetarian who switched to eating fresh meat daily claims the new diet helped cure her anxiety, depression and acne.

Liz Seibert, a model and influencer from New York City, became a veggie at the age of nine.

Liz, who is now 23, began slowly adding meat to her diet in September last year and began eating organ meat daily in April.

She quit veganism under the advice of her nutritionist who also instructed her to begin taking organ meat supplements.

Liz had suffered from acne, constant anxiety, and depression since she was in her early teens.

She also suffered from irritable bowel syndrome, headaches, and insomnia.

Liz had tried everything and was even recommended to take medication, both conventional and psychiatric.

But when she began eating organ meat, Liz claims her symptoms cleared up and her new lifestyle and diet gave her "life back".

She said: "I had been eating vegetarian or vegan my whole life thinking I was keeping myself healthy.

"I felt like I had tried everything. Numerous different mental health medications, countless types of therapies, physical health medications, and even multiple different diets.

"I think poor diet and lack of proper nutrition were a huge contributing factor to many of my health issues."

Now she makes sure to include organ meat and high-quality meat in her everyday eating.

The organs she eats the most are heart, brains with eggs, liver, and bone marrow.

She claims that her anxiety, depression, and stomach issues improved in the first month and her acne cleared up within three.

Her period also returned after about four months and she also stopped getting headaches and began sleeping better.

Her change in diet came along with other lifestyle changes, such as her routine exercise, limbic and nervous system retraining, and daily laughter.

She believes, however, that the diet played a major role.

Liz said: "My whole entire life has changed. I feel alive again. I had been severely anxious and depressed my entire teenage/adult life.

"This came with eating disorders and other mental health conditions. Not even therapy or medication helped very much or for very long.

"My relationship with food is incredible. I don’t get headaches, pain, bloating, IBS, my periods are back. I lost them due to low weight and painless".

Liz does not only eat fresh organs but also takes organ supplements and eats other whole, unprocessed foods.

Liz's diet is expensive as it is all whole and unprocessed, but still costs less than she spent as a vegetarian.

She buys her food from farms, which sell her the organs cheaper than normal meat.

A packet of supplements for £41 ($50) or a single cow heart for about £16 ($20) both last her almost a month if eaten alongside other meats and food.

Liz says she was spending far more as a vegetarian and she also required constant medications and doctor visits.

She said: "My old diet was expensive. I used to eat all of the fancy vegan baked goods, cereals, and almond milk.

"My new diet is also expensive because I focus on really high-quality animal foods. However, now I don’t have to pay nearly as much for medications and doctors.

“I’m learning to use food as medicine, and live in a way that supports my body, mind, and soul.”

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00:00 Okay, this is day one of eating organs
00:02 to see if it'll improve my health.
00:04 This is an entire raw liver.
00:06 Not sure why there's holes in it.
00:08 Oh!
00:10 I've been vegetarian/vegan for like my whole life.
00:13 So this is very out of character for me.
00:16 Half an ounce.
00:16 Just so you know, I'm not lying.
00:17 I'm going to eat that whole thing.
00:19 Everyone's telling me to eat it raw.
00:21 I can't do that.
00:22 There's no way.
00:22 A little bit of butter.
00:28 It's like, (groans)
00:31 Don't think about it.
00:32 Three, two, one, go.
00:33 Last bite.
00:39 I did it.
00:44 I'm being dramatic.
00:44 It's really not that bad.
00:46 This is a brain.
00:47 Actually not going to be eating the brain though today.
00:50 I'm going to be eating the heart.
00:52 Never thought I would eat one of these.
00:53 Smell test.
00:54 It smells like blood.
00:56 Oh.
00:57 I just cooked it in butter and some sauce.
01:00 Five, four, three, two, one.
01:02 It honestly just tastes like a really good steak.
01:07 I ordered a bunch of organs online
01:12 and they just got delivered.
01:13 So let's do a haul.
01:14 They come in this like frozen pack.
01:16 This is everything I got.
01:17 I got a lot.
01:18 Oh my God.
01:19 This is a heart.
01:20 Look at how big this thing is.
01:21 It's like bigger than my head.
01:23 I actually think I got two of them.
01:25 Yes, I did.
01:26 So beef livers are pretty massive.
01:28 I just got one because I only eat
01:30 like a small amount of this every day.
01:32 The heart, I could eat like three ounces a day of.
01:34 So I need a lot of this.
01:36 I've never actually tried kidney,
01:38 but apparently they're super good for you.
01:40 So I got a bunch.
01:41 These are lamb kidneys.
01:43 I also got a beef kidney.
01:45 Apparently these don't taste as good,
01:46 but I figured I'd try it.
01:48 These are sweetbreads.
01:50 Sweetbreads are the thymic gland.
01:52 I believe it's like right here, but I could be wrong.
01:55 I don't know.
01:56 My nutritionist told me to get these.
01:57 I got quite a lot of brain.
02:00 These are veal brains.
02:01 They're rock solid right now.
02:03 I'll have to show you what they look like once they're done.
02:06 That's it.
02:06 That's all my organs for this week.
02:09 Slay.
02:09 I got two beef hearts.
02:11 I paid $30 for both of these.
02:13 That's cheaper than like regular ground beef.
02:16 And this is like a million times more nutritious.
02:18 Low key, if you're on a budget,
02:20 you should just buy organ meat instead
02:22 because I feel like it might be cheaper.
02:24 Is this real?
02:24 Am I doing this math correctly?
02:25 I don't know.
02:26 The beef kidney, 1.25 pounds.
02:29 This was 8.99, so a little bit more expensive.
02:31 And then we have the veal sweetbreads.
02:33 These are each half a pound, so one pound,
02:35 and it was $34.
02:38 So these are more expensive.
02:39 Don't go for these if you're on a budget.
02:41 A single beef liver, 1.3 pounds, $9.
02:44 Pretty good.
02:45 I got two half pound packs of veal brains.
02:48 I don't know how many brains are actually in these packs.
02:50 They're frozen, so you can't really tell.
02:52 These were $34.
02:53 So again, brain is gonna be more expensive.
02:56 I can't get over the fact that an entire beef heart,
02:58 first of all, is four pounds,
03:00 and second of all, is only $15.
03:02 I'm about to break this thing down.
03:04 Wish me lots of luck.
03:05 I've never done it before.
03:06 I have almost finished an entire brain in two days.
03:10 Today, I have to eat this part,
03:12 which I don't know how it's gonna go.
03:14 When I first started eating this brain, I ate it raw,
03:16 which was definitely a mistake.
03:19 It was absolutely disgusting.
03:20 I did almost vomit.
03:21 I've learned a way to cook the brain
03:24 so that I can eat it without even really knowing it's there.
03:27 A lot of people have asked me
03:28 why the heck I'm eating brains and organs.
03:30 I was sick for a very long time,
03:32 and organs are the most bioavailable, nutrient-dense foods.
03:37 This is how I'm trying to get healthy.
03:38 Okay, it's all chopped up.
03:41 And this is what we're left with.
03:48 I just put it with some avocado and some cheese on the top,
03:51 but you literally can't even tell that the brain is in there.
03:55 Today, we're doing brain.
03:58 Last time I did brain, I just did a little lamb brain.
04:02 It's very small, but today we're doing a veal brain,
04:05 so it's going to be a bit bigger.
04:07 I don't know why the farm that I buy from
04:08 only sells baby animal brains.
04:12 All they have is veal and lamb.
04:13 I don't know.
04:14 I have a really hard time with brain.
04:16 I don't know what it is.
04:17 I just, I have a really hard time with it.
04:19 I am not going to be eating this raw.
04:21 I'll show you how I cook the brain
04:23 to make it seem like it's not even there.
04:25 First, I just cut it all up.
04:26 The veal brain is like way less gross
04:28 than the lamb brain for some reason.
04:30 I like to weigh it just to kind of see
04:31 how much I'm actually having.
04:33 We're doing 0.6 ounce today.
04:34 Then we're just going to add some onion.
04:37 And we just put in two eggs.
04:42 I like to do a lot of butter,
04:45 and then you just kind of dump it in there.
04:48 Doesn't look so bad anymore.
04:50 You just can't think about the fact
04:53 that there's a brain in there.
04:54 It's also really good with some cheese.
04:55 My first time having brain in a while.
04:58 Sometimes you just got to face your fears.
05:00 (silence)
05:02 [BLANK_AUDIO]

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