Forget Getting ANY Vitamin A from Carrots

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I have a question for you what do you think has more vitamin A three ounces of beef liver or 40 pounds of raw carrots well if you guessed beef liver you are correct now it is true that raw carrots have a lot of pre-vitamin a okay called beta-carotene but the active form of vitamin A is retinol and unfortunately they don’t differentiate between the pre-vitamin A and the active form of vitamin A which is retinol if you look up the databases on this in all these different studies they kind of mix up the different foods they’ll have like beef liver and then it might have carrots or potatoes and so it’s really hard to understand this what you have to realize is that beta-carotene has to convert into retinol and the percentage of conversion is not very high like three percent right recently I had a genetic test to look at my genes to see if there’s any mutations or problems genetically that I have and there were several things but one thing that was interesting I have a problem with this Gene right here bco1 which happens to be in charge of converting beta-carotene into retinol in fact I just recently learned that my conversion is like even 48 less than three percent so I’m getting like 1. 5 convergence now that could be a problem if I was eating in a different way but it’s not a problem but it could be because the solution to this problem right here as well as this problem right here is to make sure you get the animal sources of retinol because the beta-carotene sources are going to be plant-based and this is going to be animal base the best source of retinol would be beef liver odd liver cod liver oil egg yolk butter and there’s nothing wrong with beta-carotene it’s a it’s a great nutrient but if you’re trying to get your vitamin A from beta-carotene good luck now since we’re on the topic of carrots I think we should talk about are carrots okay to consume if you’re doing the ketogenic diet well for that information I created this short video right here check it out all right we’re going to compare carrots to carrot juice right here now both have roughly the same amount of carbohydrate okay but the hormone effect is very very different when you eat carrots you’re not going to stimulate insulin too much okay you’re not going to have a huge blood sugar issue like you would with carrot juice and why is that simply because of the net carbs over here so carrots have 17. 4 grams of carbs but they have 10. 2 grams of fiber so what do we get to do we get to deduct the fiber from the total carbohydrates bringing this down to only two teaspoons of sugar now the question is how much fiber does carrot juice have well it only has one gram so if we deduct the 17. 4 grams of carbohydrates from the one gram that leaves us with 16.

4 grams which is slightly more than four teaspoons of sugar more than double the sugar so even though carrots are high on the glycemic index because of the massive amount of fiber this sugar becomes much less of a problem in fact they call that the glycemic load we’re basically factoring in all this fiber reducing the sugar effect so carrots are definitely okay to eat on keto carrot juice is a big fat no now another interesting thing about carrot juice if you look on the label it says a hundred and eighty percent the daily value of vitamin A okay well what they don’t tell you is that’s not actually vitamin A yes legally it is vitamin A but in reality it’s just beta-carotene it has to convert to retinol which is the active form of vitamin A and because of the majority of population does not convert well you’d be lucky to convert even three percent of this to real vitamin A so if you’re trying to get your real vitamin A from carrots don’t hold your breath now another interesting thing about this carrot juice if you see it says 13 servings of veggies in this whole bottle right here so apparently in my plate which is the USDA recommendations for veggies you can actually drink your vegetables so according to this it says daily recommendations two and a half cups equals five servings of a variety of vegetables so you can drink two and a half of these to get your five servings of vegetables but what they don’t tell you is this sugar thing right here there’s a lot of sugar and juice but there’s a lot of fiber and less sugar and actual carrots since we’re talking about the fiber effect of insulin if you haven’t seen this video check it out I put it up right here