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Source of validity: Scientific
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Beef liver has strong scientific validation for its use in the treatment of pernicious anemia. Historically, before the discovery and isolation of vitamin B12, George Whipple, George Minot, and William Murphy conducted landmark studies in the 1920s demonstrating that feeding large amounts of raw liver to patients with pernicious anemia led to dramatic clinical improvement. Their research earned them the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1934. The underlying reason is that beef liver is exceptionally rich in vitamin B12, the deficiency of which is the primary cause of pernicious anemia. Pernicious anemia is an autoimmune condition that impairs the absorption of vitamin B12 due to a lack of intrinsic factor in the stomach. The high content of vitamin B12 in beef liver was sufficient to overcome this deficiency when consumed in large quantities. Subsequently, vitamin B12 was isolated and has become the standard therapy, but the use of beef liver is foundational in the history of the disease's treatment and serves as one of the most well-documented examples of a food-based cure for a nutritional deficiency disease. Thus, the use of beef liver for pernicious anemia is strongly supported by both historical clinical evidence and modern biochemical understanding.

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