4 w. ago The Liver King’s ‘ancestral eating’ may have been a con but influencers are still pushing the carnivore diet – is it any good for us?

Despite a new Netflix documentary exposing the extreme diet, Emilie Lavinia asks why unsustainable and unproven diets, that can lead to disordered eating and nutrient deficiencies, are still being peddled?

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4 w. ago Fake fitness influencers: the secrets and lies behind the world’s most enviable physiques

The Liver King’s raw-meat-to-ripped-abs regime has been exposed – but thousands of other influencers claim their bulging muscles are just the result of hard, honest graft. Should we believe them?Looking back to 2022, it seems impossible that anyone ever believed that Brian “Liver King” Johnson achieved his physique without pharmaceutical assistance. He looks like a hot water bottle stuffed with bowling balls, an 80s action figure with more veins – an improbably muscular man who put his bodybuilder-shaming physique down to a diet of “raw liver, raw bone marrow and raw testicles”. And that last part, really, was the trick: by crediting his results to a regime that nobody else would dare try, he gave them a faint veneer of plausibilty. Maybe, if you followed a less extreme version of his protocol, you could get comparable (though less extreme) results. And if you couldn’t stomach an all-organ diet, well, you could always get the same nutrients from his line of supplements.The Liver Kin...

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4 w. ago Fake fitness influencers: the secrets and lies behind the world’s most envied physiques

The Liver King’s raw-meat-to-ripped-abs regime has been exposed – but thousands of other influencers claim their bulging muscles are just the result of hard, honest graft. Should we believe them?Looking back to 2022, it seems impossible that anyone ever believed that Brian “Liver King” Johnson achieved his physique without pharmaceutical assistance. He looks like a hot water bottle stuffed with bowling balls, an 80s action figure with more veins – an improbably muscular man who put his bodybuilder-shaming physique down to a diet of “raw liver, raw bone marrow and raw testicles”. And that last part, really, was the trick: by crediting his results to a regime that nobody else would dare try, he gave them a faint veneer of plausibilty. Maybe, if you followed a less extreme version of his protocol, you could get comparable (though less extreme) results. And if you couldn’t stomach an all-organ diet, well, you could always get the same nutrients from his line of supplements.The Liver Kin...

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4 w. ago The Liver King story chillingly shows how bad role models are manufactured

Netflix’s new fitness influencer documentary lifts the lid on how we end up looking up to such strange and unhealthy figures, writes Ben Bryant. Let it serve as a cautionary tale

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4 w. ago Logan Paul's furious response to Liver King's steroid scandal exposed in Netflix documentary

A new Netflix documentary has explored the rise and fall of Liver King, the fitness influencer who built a huge following by promoting an extreme ancestral lifestyle online

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4 w. ago Netflix's Liver King documentary leaves out star's £60k cosmetic surgery lie

The Liver King has amassed millions of followers on social media for his extreme lifestyle

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last month Where is the Liver King now? Life after the Netflix documentary

Brian Johnson amassed a huge following advocating for a raw meat diet... before it all fell apart

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last month Who is the Liver King's wife? Meet dentist turned 'Liver Queen' Barbara Johnson

Netflix has just dropped a new documentary on highly controversial fitness influencer

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last month What is the Liver King doing now? Brian Johnson's life today after bombshell admission

Brian Johnson, also known as the Liver King, was a huge star on social media

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last month The Liver King review – I am rarely this nauseated by anything

Influencer Brian Johnson spent years eating only raw meat – mainly testicles – to get ripped before he was revealed to be a steroid addict. This exposé about him is truly stomach-churning stuffWe don’t get to say “Only in America!”, complete with a wry smile and a shake of the head, enough any more. The things they have are either too serious (Trump, mass shootings, their police) or we are closing in on their achievements with our own (Boris, knifings, our police).Untold: The Liver King grants us this boon once more. For the Liver King – AKA Brian Johnson – is a phenomenon with “Only in America!” stamped through him like a stick of rock. Though in his case you would probably have to say “stick of salami”. Because the Liver King eats virtually nothing but raw meat. Usually beef liver, but other bovine organs – especially testicles – will do nicely as well. There is ample evidence available via his social media videos, should you wish to check them out. Many of them are played in this...

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