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When a Plains hunter brought down a bison, the children ran first. They squeezed the gallbladder over the still-warm liver and ate it raw on the spot. It was the most prized food in the camp. The most successful warrior caste of the most powerful Plains nation called themselves Tanima. The translation is Liver Eaters. S.C. Gwynne documented the practice in Empire of the Summer Moon. The detail is buried in the book: they knew which organ was the most concentrated source of nutrition in the animal, and they ate it first. The Comanche weren't alone in this. The Lakota called liver winter medicine; the Hadza in Tanzania still eat it first when they bring down an animal; Aboriginal Dreaming traditions wrote songs about its place in the kill. Linda Black Elk, food sovereignty educator at United Tribes Technical College, has put it simply: bitter is medicine. The bile poured over the organ delivered fat-soluble vitamins and minerals the body absorbs without conversion. They had no nutrition science. They had observation, repetition, and the consequence of getting it wrong before winter. The American food system, in less than a century, replaced that knowledge with shelf-stable convenience and a cholesterol panic, the dietary consensus around which has since been substantially walked back. By the 1970s, organ meat had effectively disappeared from the standard American table. Frozen TV dinners and the rise of muscle-meat-only retail did the rest. The country built on the bison plains now ranks 171st of 175 nations in organ meat consumption. In the first half of 2016, the United States exported 150,000 metric tons of cow offal because Americans wouldn't eat them. Sol makes bison liver because that's the animal this continent was built on. 3,000mg per serving of freeze-dried whole organ. The label has one ingredient on it. Bison sourced from Poland and EU pastures, where federal law and EU regulation prohibit growth hormones. Made and shipped from the USA. As with any liver supplement, talk to your doctor if you're pregnant or nursing. We're not selling the ceremony. The ceremony belonged to the people who lived on the buffalo. We make the food, in the dose the old hunters would have recognized as the right one. The food was always there. The capsule is the way back.