Traditional cultures across the world ate the whole animal, and often the organs first. They had a point. When researchers ranked foods by how many of the micronutrients we most often fall short on they deliver per bite, organ meats such as liver came out at the very top, together with small fish and shellfish.¹

Liver is one of nature’s richest sources of vitamin B12, retinol (the active form of vitamin A), copper, folate and heme iron. Those nutrients are exactly what a menstruating body keeps spending: in a recent study, four in ten young women had iron deficiency.² Muscle meat, the part we eat almost exclusively today, simply contains far less of all of this.

Behind Powervrouw lies an old idea: that eating an organ supports the same organ in you. Bovine uterus, ovaries and fallopian tubes were valued in many traditions for a woman’s cycle and fertility. I want to be honest here: that specific “like supports like” effect has hardly been studied in humans.

What is solid is the nutrient profile. Six capsules give about 250% of your daily vitamin B12, your full copper requirement and close to your daily vitamin A, together with riboflavin and selenium. Reproductive tissue also naturally contains small amounts of hormones and signalling proteins. That is precisely why Modern Native itself advises against combining it with hormonal contraception or hormone-sensitive conditions.

Colostrum is the thick, golden milk a cow makes in the first hours after giving birth. It is designed to build a newborn’s immune system and gut from zero, which is why it is so rich in immunoglobulins (antibodies such as IgG), lactoferrin and growth factors.

In a study with athletes, bovine colostrum strongly reduced the rise in gut permeability that heavy exercise normally causes.³ Your gut lining is the border between your food and your bloodstream, so keeping it tight matters for inflammation, for immunity, and for how you feel in your skin. Modern Native only uses colostrum from the first twelve hours, after the calf has had its share.

Oysters are the richest natural source of zinc there is. Zinc is involved at nearly every step of female reproduction, from the maturation of the egg to ovulation itself,⁴ and it contributes to normal fertility, to the maintenance of normal skin, hair and nails, and to the protection of cells against oxidative stress. Oysters bring copper, selenium, iodine and B12 in their natural balance alongside it.

Then iron and vitamin C, a classic duo: vitamin C markedly increases how much iron you absorb from your food.⁵ Their natural vitamin C combines acerola cherry with bovine spleen, a source of heme iron. And magnesium oil, sprayed on the skin, is an easy evening ritual for many women. Honesty again: how much magnesium is absorbed through the skin is still being debated by scientists,⁶ so I see it as a lovely addition, not a replacement for magnesium-rich food.

Modern Native started in a converted bedroom, with organs collected straight from Dutch farmers. Their cattle graze on Dutch grassland with partners such as Zorg & Natuur in Friesland, without pesticides, hormones or antibiotics. The oysters grow on oyster tables in the Oosterschelde, still following the tides.

Everything is freeze-dried, which keeps far more of the delicate nutrients intact than heat drying. The capsules contain the organ and a gelatin shell, nothing else, and they are packed in glass jars that never let them touch plastic. Their motto says it all: add what is missing in the modern world.