How the Liver King Changed His Signature Organ-Based Lifestyle After Being Diagnosed With Life-Threatening Diseases
The Liver King is taking better care of his health. After years of marketing himself towards an “ancestral diet,” he’s taking a step back from his infamous lifestyle.
Brian Johnson, who’s known as The Liver King, started to show off his diet and lifestyle on social media. Everyday, he would post intense workout videos, and his content eventually evolved to him eating raw meat. “I threw out everything in the house. All the boxes went. There was nothing in there, just bone broth, liver and meat,” his wife Barbara, the “Liver Queen,” says. “The diet changed everything. Our life and the kids’ life right away.”
“This is the way we evolved for millions of years. And it kinda made sense,” he explained in the new entry in Netflix‘s documentary series, Untold: The Liver King. “We evolved with sun, we evolved with these sorts of organs. We never had processed food ever in our lives.” His followers shortly became influenced by his lifestyle and would use the things he promoted in videos.
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His empire shortly fell in 2021 when people accused him of taking supplemental steroids in order to enhance his body. He confessed that he was spending $11,000 per month on performance-enhancing drugs, including anabolic steroids and human growth hormones. He made a public apology saying, “I misled you. I got caught up in the game, and I lied.”
What happened to Brian Johnson, the Liver King?
The Liver King still continues to upload videos to his social media accounts. However, he hasn’t been uploading as much as he used to.
In December 2024, he posted a health update on Instagram and how he’d been “losing lightning” because of a plethora of health problems. He listed that his health problems ranged from being “anemic af, crashed Thyroid (so clever I am), gut mortality, and general subprimal energy.” He ended up losing 25 pounds as a result of the crash. A CT scan revealed that he had a “mass in colon, twisted kidney, necrotic fold, large ‘fatty’ liver.”
In order to combat the ailments, he revealed his regimen that consisted of “biweekly gut massages, daily IVs, hyperbaric o2, fasting, praying, breathing, red lights, goldenlites, walking/in place jumping, midday sunning n sleep cave dreaming… dropping into my Queen’s divine (the infinite wisdom n healing of the soul/mate).”
Unlike before, the Liver King has also been eating fruits and vegetables that he grows in his garden. In 2023, he revealed that he was doing a steroid-free lifestyle. He noted that after a 60-day detox, he “feels better, looks better, and functions better.” He noted that the detox did leave him with several symptoms like “blurry vision, low energy, low drive, low mood.” He wrote, “Can’t wait to get out of this hellhole.”
