Pemmican and the polar explorers
Indigenous peoples in North America made pemmican: dried and pounded meat mixed with melted tallow. It kept for months and weighed little. Fur traders adopted it and later polar expeditions also travelled with it, because it provided so much energy per gram.
From the pastures of New Zealand
The tallow comes from cattle that graze outdoors their whole lives, mainly in New Zealand and partly in Australia. They are not given added hormones or antibiotics. Ancestral uses the kidney fat, known as suet, and melts it at low temperature into tallow. The capsules are filled in the United States.
Facts about tallow
For a long time, tallow was not only eaten. Until the nineteenth century, people made candles and soap from it. Until a few decades ago, many chip shops fried in beef fat. Kidney fat is the firmest fat of the cow and becomes hard at room temperature.
Grass-Fed Beef Tallow from Ancestral Supplements
Native Americans and other traditional peoples have been convinced for centuries: eating the organs of a healthy animal strengthens and supports the health of the corresponding organs in our human body. The traditional way to treat someone with a weak heart was to have them eat the heart of a healthy animal. Grass-fed Beef Tallow from Ancestral Supplements naturally provides powerful nutrients, such as stearic acid and the essential unsaturated fatty acids linoleic acid and alpha-linolenic acid. Like other animal fat, beef tallow is a powerful source of the supporting matrix for the fat-soluble vitamins A, D, K and E.
The power of Beef Tallow
Beef tallow is a collective name for all the fat in the body of a cow. Native Americans already regarded buffalo fat as the most nutritious and therefore most valuable part of the animal; animal fat was the basis of their primitive yet healthy diet. Why is it so nutritious? Animal fat, organ fat and oily fish all provide the right fats, which consist of 50% saturated fatty acids. Our cells need a high concentration of saturated fatty acid molecules, such as palmitic acid and stearic acid, to function properly. Grassfed Beef Tallow is also rich in unsaturated fatty acids such as linoleic acid (CLA), arachidonic acid (AA), oleic acid and alpha-linolenic acid (ALA), and these fats provide a supporting matrix for the important fat-soluble vitamins A, D, K and E. These fat-soluble vitamins are found mainly in the fat of foods and can be stored in the body's tissues.
Benefits
Contains only pasture-raised cattle from New Zealand and Australia. Tallow rendered at low temperature from kidney fat (suet) to preserve vitamins, minerals and cofactors. Rich in unsaturated fatty acids such as linoleic acid (CLA), arachidonic acid (AA), oleic acid and alpha-linolenic acid (ALA). Source of important saturated fatty acids such as palmitic acid and stearic acid. Linoleic acid is good for cholesterol levels. Fatty acids help create a supporting matrix for the essential fat-soluble vitamins A, D, K and E. Purely formulated without fillers and with high-quality ingredients. Contains no pesticides or hormones and is GMO-free.
How do organ supplements work?
Proteins play an important role in the formation of new cells. Your body needs essential proteins in order to transform them through protein synthesis into nucleoproteins, antibodies, enzymes and tissue cells. Organ meat contains a range of essential proteins, but also fatty acids, bioactive components and micronutrients such as vitamins and minerals. These nutrients are not found in such concentrations in other animal or plant protein sources. Animal organs also contain tissue-specific nutrients that can be transported directly by our body to the corresponding organs in our body. The organ-specific nutrients are like puzzle pieces that fit exactly into the nutritional needs of the same organs in the human body. Through organ meat we can take in essential nutrients that are good for our whole body and that also contain components aimed in particular at the target organ in our body to which the supplement corresponds.
Eating nose to tail
For anyone pursuing a sustainable, ethical and healthy way of life, the nose-to-tail principle or evolutionary eating could be an interesting starting point when eating animal products. When we nourish ourselves this way, we not only make sure that as little meat as possible is wasted; eating animal organs also corresponds to the age-old human tradition of eating organ meat because of the high concentration of nutrients it contains. The knowledge that organ meat is extremely rich in essential nutrients already existed in many ancient civilisations. Animal organs contain high concentrations of the fat-soluble vitamins A, D, K and E, as well as magnesium, iron, choline, iodine and vitamin B12. These are nutrients that many people on a modern diet could do with a little more of. In addition, the specific nutrient composition of an animal organ matches the nutrients that the same organ in the human body can use.
Natural ingredients of Beef Tallow
Fatty acids as a supporting matrix for the fat-soluble vitamins A, D, K and E. Saturated fatty acids such as linoleic acid (CLA), arachidonic acid (AA), oleic acid, palmitic acid, alpha-linolenic acid (ALA) and stearic acid.
According to the principles of Weston Price
American dentist Weston Price (1870-1948) studied the dietary habits of traditional peoples around the world. He discovered that the original inhabitants of Canada attached great value to eating meat from animal organs; bone marrow in particular was popular. Organs were a staple of the daily diet of our early ancestors, and for good reason: the intake of fat-soluble vitamins and a large share of the essential minerals came through the organs of animals.
Organ meat of the highest quality
Ancestral Supplements' supplements are made from grass-fed cattle from New Zealand and Australia, whose health the company considers a top priority. The beef tallow is rendered at low temperature from kidney fat (suet), filled into gelatine capsules and formulated without the use of hormones, pesticides or antibiotics. The animals' quality of life is constantly and carefully monitored. The animals are well cared for and have a pleasant living environment. Because the work is done with care for people, animals and the environment, the meat used for the supplements is ultimately of the highest possible quality.
About Ancestral Supplements
Ancestral Supplements is a Texas-based company that produces high-quality organ supplements. The company's mission grew out of the personal drive of Brian Johnson, one of the founders, who would do anything to make sure his sons, both in poor health, could finally be fit and full of vitality. After years of doctor's visits and tests, they took matters into their own hands and the whole family started eating organic, pasture-fed and wild-caught animal meat according to the nose-to-tail principle. Their entire way of life changed drastically and is based on the way our ancestors lived and related to the world around them. It is the great success of this way of life that led Johnson to found Ancestral Supplements. To make eating animal organs and glands more accessible to everyone, the company has carefully put together products containing these animal organs full of essential nutrients.
