Beef Organ Supplements for Weight Loss: What You Should Know About the Claims

There are many companies selling beef organ supplements that claim they’ll help you lose weight, but is that true?

Do Beef Organ Supplements Help With Weight Loss?

Organs and beef organ supplements are a great addition to your diet because they are among the most nutrient-dense foods on the planet, making it easy to help people get the valuable nutrition missing from modern diets. Most people are deficient in, and don't get enough of, many vitamins, minerals, cofactors, and other important compounds. Organs are one of the best ways to fix that. 

That being said, claims that eating organs and taking organ supplements will rev up your metabolism are simply not true. We wish it were that simple, we really do.

Is Beef Tallow A Fire Starter For Fat Burning And Increased Metabolism?

One of the most common beef organ supplements sold with weight-loss claims is beef tallow, made from suet, also known as kidney fat. It is often described as a “fire starter for your metabolism.” Here’s the truth. While beef tallow has lots of great fatty acids, like stearic acid, and is perfect to replace omega-6 rich vegetable and seed oils in cooking, taking beef tallow capsules is not going to make you lose weight or boost your metabolism. It’s pure marketing madness. 

Animal Based Protein Powders With Beef Organs For Healthy Weight Management*

There is a way that beef organs and high quality animal based protein powder can help support healthy weight management, though.*

A big part of weight loss is reducing your caloric intake. It’s important to reduce them moderately, not dramatically, because if you have too few calories, you won’t get enough nutrition, and there are a lot of health issues that can come with eating too few calories.

One of the easiest ways to reduce your calorie intake is to replace one of your larger meals with a clean, whole food animal based protein powder.^ These whole-food powders contain ingredients that include beef protein, beef organs, and fruit. Combine this with your favorite milk and fruit, and you have an easy, nutrient-dense shake. Let’s say your lunch is normally 700-800 calories. One scoop has 90 calories and supplies 22 grams of protein. Combine it with 8 ounces of whole milk (150 calories, 8 grams of protein), and one cup of frozen blackberries (60 calories, plus 8 grams of fiber, yay!). You have a very healthy, filling lunch, with only about 300 calories, but providing 30 grams of protein, 8 grams of fiber (which most people don’t get enough of), and a host of vitamins and minerals. Using this recipe to cut 400 to 500 calories from your day is an easy way to help you safely work towards your weight management goals* without crash diets or sketchy pills, while still eating something packed with nutrition from beef organs and fruit, and without reaching for ultra-processed protein bars and shakes filled with synthetic vitamins and rubbish additives.

It’s important to choose animal-based protein powders made with the highest-quality ingredients and free of unwanted additives, such as thickeners, gums, non-nutritive sweeteners, “natural” and artificial flavors, and lecithin.

How to use Animal Based Protein Powders

You can mix them into any food or beverage you like, from smoothies and juices to applesauce and yogurt. They can also be added to baked goods and foods like pancakes and waffles.

Whole food animal based protein powders won’t mix completely smooth into drinks shaken by hand, so using an electric hand mixer is recommended to get the clumps out.

Why NXGEN Wholefoods Makes The Best Animal Based Protein Powders

It’s a lot of work, and it’s not easy to produce the best animal-based protein powders. Unlike most companies that sell animal based protein powders, NXGEN Wholefoods makes its own from pasture-to-bottle. It’s a dirty secret that nearly all of the companies selling beef organ supplements and animal-based protein powders don’t make anything. They slap their branding on products made and sourced by unknown companies, so you never truly know who you are buying from.

NXGEN Wholefoods sources the grass-fed organs and beef for its protein powders directly from regenerative family farmers in the Lake Eyre River basin of Australia. After they arrive at the facility, the organs are low- and slow-freeze-dried to avoid the problems that arise with traditional freeze-drying. Then they are cryogenically milled so that the fragile compounds are not damaged by the heat that comes with standard milling. After that, they bottle it up and send it to your door. They also make the beef protein used in the protein powders; they don’t source it from an unknown middleman. To see what you should be looking for when choosing an animal based protein powder, check out the beef organ supplement checklist.

To learn more about what makes NXGEN Wholefoods different from other beef organ supplement companies, check out this blog.

Be Wary Of Weight Loss Claims That Seem Too Good To Be True

Companies often promise quick, easy weight-loss hacks, but beware of claims that you know are too good to be true. There’s never going to be a pill that you can take and lose lots of weight that would not come with some pretty serious side effects. While no one wants to hear this, it will always be better and safer to lose weight the old-fashioned way, with exercise, lifestyle changes, and improving your diet.

^ This is not a low-calorie food.

*FDA Disclaimer: These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.