Written Interview with Chris Masterjohn, Ph.D.: Vitamin A and Consuming Liver

I never did a written interview before so this is quite exciting!

After the many vitamin A and liver interviews, posts and content, I reached out to a few of the pro-liver consuming advocates to get their thoughts on hypervitaminosis A. I don’t like naming names but they have verbally declined.

I told one doctor that when she is ready, the door is always open.

Many of you said to get in touch with Chris Masterjohn since he’s an expert with all things vitamins and minerals. He has kindly responded to a written interview.

My intent has always been to provide evidence-based research to best support the community. So unedited, here is the full interview:

Can you get vitamin A toxicity from just foods?

CM: While there is some controversy in interpreting specific examples of vitamin A toxicity from natural foods, there is no reason to believe that this toxicity isn’t just as possible. Natural foods do have factors that help balance vitamin A that would not be found when taking isolated vitamin A…