It's the epitome of taking this whole trad bullshit to its logical end. Dude was super famous in 2022-2023, and he's still doing stuff after the steroids stuff came out apparently. I just checked his insta.
Anyway. If you don't know the liver king, he's a social media influencer who became famous in the early 2020s for eating raw beef liver and testicles. That was his shtick. This guy -- and I think he admitted as much -- was the kid in school that'd eat any gross thing if you gave him 5 bucks. Of course, you're allowed to enjoy the foods you enjoy. By itself this is not toxic or inedible or anything. It's just that he seems like he was the only person in the world that actually enjoys doing this. Or maybe he was pretending for the clicks. Also, we're talking raw. Because of his "ancestral lifestyle" (a bunch of nonsense he cobbled together to appeal to the trad-right man), he never cooked anything.
His other shtick was appearing absolutely yoked, I mean completely jacked, shredded, massive, an absolute unit. I'm talking this:
That was basically his two things. You didn't watch him for his personality lol.
But anyone even as far back as 2020 (me included) could tell you he was obviously on steroids and HGH (human growth hormone) lol. You can tell because you don't get muscle mass from walking barefoot, you get it from doing resistance exercises. And you don't get this kind of muscle mass from simple resistance exercises, you get it from steroids which essentially shut down your body's sense of "maybe this is too much muscle". People on steroids don't just have shorter recovery times (meaning they can train even twice in a day) and can lift more weights -- you lift more weight on virtue of having more muscle, not bc of steroids. They make this muscle mass because the steroids basically bypass the system's limits. If they stop taking, they will lose most of it in just weeks.
And this guy wasn't just doing one injection every so often, he was on a battery of 5 or 6 different molecules. An email leaked in 2024 or so and basically the jig was up.
Growth hormone on its end makes everything grow, including your organs. And possible your skin too? Regardless, you usually see HGH use through the beer gut in otherwise very muscly people.
Also just the amount of calories he needs to sustain this physique completely destroys any semblance of "ancestral" lifestyle. Before agriculture you did not hoard all the protein for yourself so you could get some lean mass in lol. If you look at hunter-gatherers in either historical pictures or even today, they don't look like he does at all.
These are Indigenous people in Australia circa 1939, and they're absolutely stocked for sure, but they also look nothing like liver king does. Their muscles are well-defined but very lean. And that's an extreme when it comes to hunter-gatherers, these guys are the most massive units I could find a picture of.
Despite this he sold his raw lifestyle as influencers do and there's a whole conversation to have, and that I've already had, about how influencers sell an unachievable result through their shitty products, but I'm more worried about his health. Doing steroids like he was is not healthy, and you can see it in his latest video on IG. Dude looks like he's aged 20 years. He's 45 but looks 60. And no amount of feet anchoring (walking barefoot on grass) is going to undo any of that. He's heading for an early grave and is clearly still taking steroids despite the controversy he was in.
He's basically the kid that did gross things in school and found a way to capitalize on that lol.
Edit: if there is one thing I kinda agree with him, it's that harder surfaces are better for sleeping. You don't necessarily need to sleep on a wooden plank like he claims he does, but you do need something to support your spine (remember you're sleeping for 8 hours straight no breaks every day! That's a lot of time to be laying down) because of this:
