Finally Clear Your Brain Fog With This Forgotten Superfood

Finally Clear Your Brain Fog With This Forgotten Superfood

With: James Barry

About the Episode

If you’ve tried every supplement, cleaned up your diet, and still can’t shake that mental fog or fatigue, this episode might change everything. The answer isn’t another pill. It’s a nutrient-dense food your great-grandparents ate regularly, but that somehow got lost along the way.

In this episode, James Barry, a celebrity chef with 20+ years of culinary experience cooking for clients like Tom Cruise and Barbara Streisand, reveals why organ meats are Mother Nature’s original multivitamin and how you can get them into your diet without the taste or intimidation factor.

Listen now and start eating nature’s multivitamins today!

What We Discuss

James breaks down the biggest hurdles keeping people from consuming organ meats (taste, cooking knowledge, and sourcing) and offers a surprisingly simple solution. You’ll also learn why lions go for the organs first, what your liver actually does with toxins, and why your ancestors would never have dreamed of eating only the rib eye.

Why Organ Meats Are Different From Muscle Meat

Each organ contains the specific nutrients it needs to do its job, making them far more nutrient-dense than muscle meat. For example, the heart contains CoQ10, the liver is rich in iron and vitamin A, and the spleen has five times more iron than the liver. These vitamins are already paired with other necessary vitamins as nature intended, unlike isolated supplements that often fail to absorb properly.

The Brain Fog and Energy Connection

People who incorporate organ meats consistently report clearer thinking, more energy, and improved skin. The nutrients that science has identified as essential for brain function and vitality (B vitamins, fat-soluble vitamins A, D, and K2) are all found in organ meats in their most bioavailable form.

The Liver Toxin Myth

Many people avoid liver, thinking it stores toxins like a filter, but this misunderstands its function. The liver’s job is to convert toxins into water-soluble compounds that leave through elimination, not to store them. If it couldn’t detoxify effectively, we wouldn’t survive. In fact, when impossible to excrete, toxins are actually stored in fat, not organs.

Be mindful that rather than eating large portions occasionally, small daily amounts of organ meats create a cumulative effect over time. This ancestral approach mirrors how our ancestors actually ate (a little bit shared among the tribe) and avoids overwhelming your system while delivering consistent nutritional support.

Listen now and start eating nature’s multivitamins today!

Guest Bio

James Barry’s 20 years in the culinary field started as a private chef cooking for celebrities such as Tom Cruise, George Clooney, Gerard Butler, Mariska Hargitay (of Law & Order:SVI fame), Barbra Streisand, and John Cusack. James is CEO & Founder of the organ-based, superfood seasoning, Pluck. It’s the first of its kind and an amazingly easy and delicious way for people to get organ meats into their diet.
James is also a published cookbook author having co-authored the recipes in Margaret Floyd’s book Eat Naked and Dr. Alejandro Junger’s book, Clean 7. He authored the cookbook The Naked Foods Cookbook. He is the host of the podcast, Everyday Ancestral.

Social

https://www.instagram.com/eatpluck/
https://www.instagram.com/chefjamesbarry/

Links

https://eatpluck.com/everydayancestral/
https://eatpluck.com

Podcast

https://www.youtube.com/@EverydayAncestral

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