{"id":1756065,"date":"2022-11-30T07:32:45","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T12:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1756065"},"modified":"2022-11-30T07:32:49","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T12:32:49","slug":"healthy-is-hot-the-liver-king-is-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/healthy-is-hot-the-liver-king-is-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Healthy Is Hot, The \u2018Liver King\u2019 Is Not"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhealthy-is-hot-the-liver-king-is-not%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1756065&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Whether it\u2019s the \u201cTiger King\u201d or the \u201cLiver King,\u201d anybody prancing around as the \u201cking\u201d of a miracle product or enterprise is almost certainly a con man exploiting gullible consumers who almost deserve to be conned.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, the throne of Brian Johnson, the man who coronated himself the \u201cLiver King\u201d with a fitness franchise that brought fame and fortune, finally collapsed under the weight of his own insecurity. Underneath his primitive persona, which sold a nature-based lifestyle with organic supplements to his millions of online followers, he was reportedly just some guy on steroids all along. <\/p>\n<p>According to emails <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BKpmAGZQetc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">published <\/a>on the \u201cMore Dates More Plates\u201d podcast, Johnson, who claimed to have found the secret to longevity through ancestral living, had been pumping himself with a cocktail of performance-enhancing steroids to the tune of $11,000 a month.<\/p>\n<p>Derek, the body-builder podcast host who broke the story in an hour-long episode, explained just how much the \u201cLiver King\u201d was actually exploiting his liver to live out a fantasy brought by manufactured products. <\/p>\n<p>With 5.8 milligram vials of pharmacy-grade human growth hormone (GDH) injected 16 times a month, Derek said, that \u201cis like a f-cking really, really high, super expensive dosage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo be honest,\u201d Derek added, \u201cI know bodybuilders who compete at the open Mr. Olympia who\u2019d use less form of grade GDH than that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Johnson\u2019s leaked emails outline a veritable pharmacy of steroids he used to forge a fictional superhero who for 18 months sought to be a mascot for holistic natural living, a model for the wannabe \u201cman.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><strong>[READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/01\/28\/if-conservatives-want-to-defend-manliness-they-better-know-what-it-means\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">If Conservatives Want To Defend Manliness, They Better Know What It Means<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">SHOCKING: Liver King was on steroids \ud83d\udc89<\/p>\n<p>Leaked emails shows that Liver King was taking almost $12k worth of pharmaceutical HGH per month, three injections per day. All while promoting his brand of holistic lifestyle, ancestral tenants, and eating raw meat on camera. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dl6AhuknBP\">pic.twitter.com\/dl6AhuknBP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 OutKick (@Outkick) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Outkick\/status\/1597646061426061312?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 29, 2022<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>Careful to protect his ego, his persona, and his $100 million salary, Johnson denied his use of synthetic steroids on seemingly every major fitness podcast. A montage presented in the expos\u00e9 by \u201cMore Dates More Plates\u201d shows Johnson going on program after program to denounce any accusation that he was maybe, probably, almost definitely using steroids to build his Instagram physique in his mid-40s. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the record, I\u2019ve never taken steroids,\u201d Johnson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BvIujxrbrCA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said <\/a>on the \u201cNo Jumper\u201d show just a month ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe short answer is no, I don\u2019t touch this stuff,\u201d Johnson said again on the CarnivoreMD podcast. <\/p>\n<p>Johnson would even go on to attack those who assumed drug use as people who just \u201chate their lives,\u201d while labeling those who <em>did<\/em> exploit steroids as \u201csub-primal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHate always comes from below, and hate always comes from within,\u201d Johnson said of his critics with the hosts of the \u201cH3 Podcast.\u201d \u201cWhen people really hate their lives, because most people do, they go to jobs they hate, they go to jobs they don\u2019t love,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8216;Liver King&#8217; presented a mirage of health and fitness to his millions of followers across social media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":1756068,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1756065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1756065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1756068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1756065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1756065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1756065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}