Liver ~ Mysterious Anti-Fatigue & Protective Factors
Several of the scientific studies by Dr Benjamin Ershoff, PhD, I am going to list here because of their significance in the arena of human health, above and beyond what would be considered normal. He took three groups of rats and fed them different diets as listed below.
1. Basic Diet fortified with 11 vitamins
2. Diet Number One with additional supply of Vitamin B Complex
3. Diet Number One with additional 10% of rations as Powdered Liver
Rats on these diets were tested in several areas.
* Stress and Strength and Endurance
* Toxic Poisons
* X-Irradiation
Stress
After a period of 12 weeks on their respective diets, the three groups of rats were put into separate tubs of water from which they could not get out. The time was recorded to see how long they could swim and endure until they drowned. The first group of rats on the standard fortified diet lasted 13.3 minutes. The second group of rats with the additional supply of Vitamin B Complex didn’t do much better, lasting only 13.4 minutes. The third group of rats that had their diet supplemented with the powdered liver showed a striking difference. One of these rats swam for 63 minutes, one for 83 minutes, one for 87 minutes, and the other nine were swimming so vigorously at two hours they were just taken out of the water and the experiment terminated.
Toxic Poisons
The scientific data here goes far beyond just the research of Dr. Ershoff. Liver supplementation has been shown to counteract the harmful effects of massive or toxic doses of the following...
strychnine (Battelli)
sulfanilamide (Chamelin and Funk)
promin (Higgins; Ershoff and McWilliams)
atabrine (Ershoff)
dinitrophenol (Ershoff)
diethylstilbestrol (Chamelin and Funk)
alphaestradiol (Ershoff and McWilliams)
desiccated thyroid (Ershoff; Betheil)
thyroxin, thyroglobulin, iodinated casein (Ershoff and McWilliams)
cortisone acetate (Ershoff)
These powerful results are quite extensive and details can be found from
http://jn.nutrition.org/cgi/reprint/47/2/289.pdf X-Irradiation
All three diet groups were subjected to both a lethal dose of x-irradiation and to sub-lethal doses of x-irradiation. With the lethal dose of x-irradiation all three diet groups showed the same results. There was no difference in the number or percentage which died and there was no difference in the length of survival. However, with the multiple sub-lethal doses if x-irradiation, there were differences in both the survival rates of adult rats and immature rats, and differences in all the diet groups.
Adult Rats
Basic Diet 40% survived
Added B Complex 20% survived
Added Liver 80% survived
Immature Rats
Basic Diet 00% survived
Added B Complex 10% survived
Added Liver 30% survived
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