Consuming Organ Meats: Nutritional and Traditional Significance
Episode 15 – airs December 4, 2025
Dr. Sarah Clarke, DC, IFMCP, and Dave Hogsed, DOM, AP, discuss traditional and cultural trends around the consumption of organ meats, and the nutritional value these foods offer. They cover nutrients found various organ meats and how they can either be eaten or taken in supplement form. Dave shares clinical success stories, including his own personal experience, using organ meat glandular therapy. He explains how various organ and glandular meats can support immune function, cardiovascular health, nervous system health, cognitive function, bone health, and more.
David Hogsed, DOM, AP, is in full time practice at the Natural Healthcare Professionals clinic in Fort Myers, Florida. His practice specializes in providing effective nutritional support for endocrine, digestion, musculoskeletal, nervous system, and immune system health. David has been a clinical consultant and speaker for Standard Process since 2003. His seminars are best known for simplifying clinical nutrition, herbal medicine, laboratory tests, and patient education.
David has taught post-graduate programs through Texas Chiropractic College, Logan Chiropractic College, the University of Miami-Miller School of Medicine, Palmer Chiropractic College, Life University, and Northwestern Chiropractic College. He is a regular speaker for the Florida Chiropractic Association, and Palmer Chiropractic College homecoming.
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Highlights of the episode include:
- Organ Meats: the forgotten superfoods – historical consumption around the world
- Liver: the most nutrient dense organ meat
- Studies and historical evidence of health benefits of organ meats
Podcast Summary
- 2:40 Dave’s first personal success story with organ meat glandular therapy
- 5:15 Clinical results from combining organ meat supplements with herbal and nutritional support
- 7:06 Organ Meats: the forgotten superfoods – historical consumption around the world
- 8:50 Traditional Chinese Medicine – consumption of organ would support that organ
- 9:48 Liver: the most nutrient dense organ meat
- 12:04 Returning popularity of other traditional foods – raw sauerkraut, bone broths, cod liver oil, and more
- 12:46 Foods essential for health – “you must take it (as a supplement) or eat it”
- 14:00 Tips for incorporating liver into your diet
- 15:03 Key benefits of bone broth and bone extracts
- 16:53 Animals instinctively know the health benefits of organ meats
- 18:06 The consumption of heart for cardiovascular health
- 21:30 Combating the effects of stress with organ meats: liver and adrenal glandular extract
- 23:30 Studies are now finding additional nutritional benefits in organ meats – mRNA
- 24:21 Nutritional difference between skeletal muscle meat vs. organ meat
- 27:24 Studies and historical evidence of health benefits of organ meats
- 28:17 Liver: the ultimate multivitamin
- 31:00 Organ meats for immune support – thymus extract
- 32:40 Historical consumption of brain around the world for cognitive health
- 34:49 Testicular and ovarian extracts for hormone regulation
- 35:40 The importance of thymus extracts in young children and with aging populations
- 36:46 Liver is the king of organ meats
