Beverly International Ultra 40 Grass Fed Desiccated Beef Liver, 500 Tab. Golden-era Secret for Boosting Muscle Growth, Stamina and Performance Naturally. Break Through Those Sticking Points-Endurance

I am almost 50 years old and started my weight training hobby back in the early 1980's. I first discovered desiccated liver tablets reading something by Vince Gironda and while I was stationed at Edwards Air Force Base in California. I recall taking 20 tablets at a time, all in one big mouthful! I would do this 3 or 4 times a day most days. For about 3 years I drank over a gallon of milk a day, ate steak every day for breakfast, shoveled down a half dozen little yogurts every day, plus 3-4 bananas, and of course my desiccated liver. I also took a bunch of amino acids capsules. From around 1984 to 1988 I was so healthy and strong and had all great workouts. I went from 180 pounds to 220 and became an honest-to-goodness real amateur bodybuilder. I believe that the desiccated liver were an important part of my being able to gain so much quality muscle. THe convenience of being able to take 40 grams of really high quality protein ANY time I needed to kept my body in a positive nitrogen balance facilitating as much muscle growth as I could force on it from my workouts. And I worked out HARD. I'd hit the base gym every single night for 2 hours. I don't recall why, but I eventually just quit taking them. Looking back, I think I got convinced that the newer products and fancy protein drinks were better. I eventually forgot about desiccated liver tablets altogether. Until I recently read a story that mentioned Vince's advice for everyone to take liver tablets. I figured that they didn't even make them anymore. I searched Amazon, and there was that SAME huge bottle of Bev International tablets that I used to have in my dorm room on the Air Force base! So I did some refresher research and I remember why I took them in the first place: #1 Easy, convenient protein source, #2 High quality protein, #3 Great source of Vitamins and Iron as well as other unique benefits from liver, #4 cost effective, #5 Vince knew more about nutrition and muscle building back in the 1960's than most experts do in the 2010's. If you want a physique like Vince's, I would take Vince's advice. If you liked the physiques of the 1960's through 1980's then take the training and nutrition advice of leaders from those eras and you will have a shot at getting there. I still think that Armold, Zane, and of course Gironda look better, and definitely healthier than these behemoths winning contests today. Those guys were big and yet they were healthy enough to still enjoy a relatively normal life and normal activities. Today's bodybuilders, if you pay attention, are super heroes in the gym, but outside the gym they are constantly in slo-mo, huffing and puffing just walking down the sidewalk. (Not ALL of them, but the majority for sure). Anyway, I've been back on the liver tabs for about 2 weeks now and although it took about a week to feel anything, I can say that now I'm feeling the energy boost we read about. Plus I know that while I was struggling to get enough protein every day, now it's no problem. I boost every meal, especially if it's something like just a salad, with liver tabs. When I first get up I will drink a protein shake with milk and liver tabs. I have found that I can now drink a weaker protein shake and by adding 12 liver tabs I get just as much as a thicker shake, but not the indigestion and gas I used to get. After the workout I do that again. Throughout the day if I get busy and know it's time to eat but don't want to take the time, I'm good to go by downing a dozen or so tablets. Before bed, if it's late and I'm getting hungry again, but I don't want to eat so late, more tablets. I'm feeling good, I have energy in the gym, and I'm not suffering from any gas. On a typical day I have been getting in about 40-60 tablets which works out to from 80 to 120 additional grams of protein. That would be pretty challenging to do any other way. Carrying protein power and mixing it up sucks. But carrying tabs and downing them with water is a cinch. I've written a lot, but I wanted to make it clear that I think that Beverely's Ultra 40 is a good deal, works good, and has a LONG track record of helping people like myself. I may come back and update this review after 6 months or so. If my results are anything like back in the 1980's, I should be up about 10 pounds by then, all muscle, and having great workouts.

I built up to the max level the bottle suggests so I am using about one bottle a month. It seems to have knocked out the anemia issue. I sleep better than ever before. My energy level has rocketed. I can lift and do my yard work easily now. My breathing has improved immensely. Raw meat source is prebiotic which means this is prebiotic so I'd suggest taking the build up slow as it does houseclean the lower tract and rebuild body tissue inside from what I can tell. I can feel strength coming from my lungs like I've never felt before. I can breathe deeper than I've ever had before. I can feel more air in my lungs than I've ever felt before. My body is getting more oxygen than its ever had. (I'm asthmatic.) This is good stuff for men and women. It puts the hormonal balance back in balance for both genders. It is good for women and really good for anyone having lung problems as it increases the amount of oxygen the body is getting. Liver is good for everyone. It has a different taste than what you'd expect from cooked liver because it is not cooked liver. It is organic raw source liver, grass fed cows and as organic as you could get. Cows are not USA grain fed and hormonal hit but healthy cows from Argentina. I take the tabs and just nibble on them. I take them with food always. The bottle suggests eating with meals so I always have food with it. I can tell my body uses it better when with meals than without so I don't use them as between meal snacks as I don't think it is effective that way. For what this costs, eat them with meals. They do not give you gas unless you eat them with fruit and fruit is one food you always eat alone. Ideally eat protein with protein or low carb foods and avoid eating protein with high carb foods as it takes different enzymes to digest each type of food. If you ever get gas from eating foods, you are probably defying the rules of food blending. Keep the food types together and you lose weight; combine food types and you get gas and/or weight gain. This product is great for getting healthy and staying healthy. It will create strong lean muscle with the l tab per ten pounds of weight rule as suggested on the container. It is probably as close to creating muscle strength and tone for the body out of a container as is possible. Add some exercise workout and results are even better. And yes walking is a good exercise as well for anyone starting out. I will point out that some people, especially women, may find it puts them in the bathroom a little more. I suspect that is because it is burning fat. The body turns fat into water and that water has to leave the body so more bathroom visits to some degree and then better body tone and lean muscle. If females don't have much fat, then less bathroom visits. From what I've read, most guys using this product, don't have the bathroom issue but women are a different hormonal base. And as I said, it doesn't harm the hormonal balance of either gender, but enhances it. Seems to be a good product for women who have gone thru menopause as it balances that hormonal issue. Really interesting stuff. I've never seen anything like it before. Other companies who put out dessicated liver, gas problems are an issue, but not with this stuff. I have friends of both genders who use this product; we all love it.

Awesome product. Allows you to get all the iron you need. Gave me lots of energy.

I am doing fasted training in the morning. I'm doing intermittent fasting. I use these to help me hit my protein recommendation. They pack about 1.5 or so grams of protein a pill. I don't have a direct source other than My Fitness Pal and using the same database entry from the Uni-Liver product. I did look for protein amounts for this product specifically but could not find it anywhere. I've been using these for 3 weeks now. I take about four pills 20-30 minutes before I head to the gym. You may want to take more if you like. The bottle recommends 28 daily. I can't imagine taking that many as these are some big @zz pills. I must say I do feel a boost in my energy level during my lifts. I'm no body builder or competitor. I'm an average guy trying to get into shape and lose some body fat. So right now, I don't see a need for me to take any beyond my nutrient requirement. They do have a smell to them. It's not bad but it's also not that great. They smell like cooked, unseasoned meat with a slightly sweet note. This is not something I could see myself looking forward to but it is not something that grosses me out either. It is a unique fragrance that's hard to describe. I will say that IMO, the GNC Mega Men pill smells worse and has an after taste. These do not have much of an aftertaste. The size of the pills takes some getting used to. They are large and for me, I need a lot of water to take them down and have to basically feel it in the back of my mouth and then gulp it down. Sometimes I can get it in one gulp, other times, it may take multiple tries. A coating would help but I'm pretty sure they won't be adding that. I even tried to chip them down in to pieces but then, they were not even and due to the diameter of them and the rough edges, it was harder to swallow them that way over just leaving them whole. Don't know why they have to be this large as I'm not opposed to taking twice as many pills half this size as it would be the same amount of product. Anyway, I'm pretty sure I'll order another bottle before I'm done with my current one. This is a quick way to get some extra protein in when a shake isn't convenient. It's not exactly horrible and doesn't have the volume or calories that a mixed protein shake would have.

I am not a bodybuilder. What I am is a woman who has been pregnant with twins and then breastfed three children at once. I have absolutely enormous protein needs. Protein is absolutely essential for building bodies -- including little ones. And beef liver is one of the best sources of that that exists. When frequently exhausted, with neither time nor inclination nor energy to cook, I need to have a source of excellent beef protein that I can swallow easily. These fit the bill perfectly. Beef jerky is good, too (Ostrim Beef and Elk Jerky is awesome), but sometimes you just get sick of the taste. These pills are cost-effective (about the same price as your average price for ground beef, gram-for-gram of protein), no problem if you've just brushed your teeth, and very, very easy. They're also very large, so if you have trouble swallowing enormous pills, bear this in mind. (You can buy dessicated beef liver in powder form instead, if that's a problem for you.) I use these like food, because that's what they are. I've been known to take thirty pills in a sitting. More than once a day. I'm not so concerned about building muscle as I am about meeting my basic protein needs and growing and feeding small children. But on the bright side (and this is a super bright side), I think I AM building and maintaining muscle more effectively, even with just mild exercise, like walking. These are exactly what I needed, and I've bought something like ten bottles of these because I find them to be one of the most valuable foods I have.

Great product, provides good energy. I take these tablets after a meal along with some B-12 and they cut down on after-meal drowsiness. Will buy again.

I was using another brand of Beef Liver supplements that was in capsule form. The gelatin capsule started severely irritating my esophagus. I should have realized sooner because at times, when putting the capsule in my mouth, it would stick to the roof of my mouth before going down. It was painful, so searched and searched for a “tablet” alternative. Not only is this one WAY better, the dosage is only 4 per day, where the other that I was taking was 6. Even though these are large tablets, I have no trouble getting them down and NO more pain from pill esophagitis that can be caused by gelatin capsules. OH, and did I mention... these are also more economical!

I put these in my smoothies. They are very large so they would be difficult to swallow even if you cut them in half.