You Don’t Get Vitamin A From Vegetables

So I want to talk about vitamin A. There’s a lot of benefits from vitamin A, not just for yourimmune system, but especially for your vision. If you’re deficient, you’ll have a hard time seeingat night. And if you’re very deficient, you can even go blind. Vitamin A also is essential forthe inner skin, the inside of your sinuses, your throat, your lungs, your digestive system. Sowithout enough vitamin A, you get chronic sinus issues. You have skin issues on the outside of

your body as well as on the inside. But here’s the problem. A lot of people think they can getenough vitamin A from veggies despite the recent alteration in the definition of vitamin A.But a true vitamin A is retinol. So retinol is the active form of vitamin A. So there’s someconfusions on vitamin A. Is it a precursor? Is it an active form? So I wanted to tell youthat when you think of vitamin A, always think of the active form retinol, not the precursor.

Why? Because at best, you’re only going to convert 3% of your precursors or beta caroteneto retinol. But on top of that, up to 45% of the entire population has a defect, a genetic defectin the conversion of the pre-vitamin beta carotene to retinol. Let’s take a look at what it wouldtake what you would have to eat to get 9 000 micrograms of vitamin a active retinol beef liveronly three ounces cooked carrots you’d have to consume 4.4 pounds of cooked carrots to get this

much retinol if you were lucky raw carrots you’d have to consume 40 pounds now that’s a lot ofcarrots i mean i can see consuming maybe 20 pounds of carrots in one sitting but 40 poundsthat’s significant then we have cooked kale 50 cups you’d have to consume to get this muchretinol raw kale 454 cups that’s a lot of kale so guess what you’re not going to get your vitamin afrom vegetables now there’s a lot of benefit to beta carotene but to get enough bio available

retinol, you’re going to have to get it from non-plant sources, as in cod liver oil,or grass-fed liver, or raw milk cheese, or grass-fed butter. And by the way, out of allthe dairy out there, sheep cheese has the highest amount of retinol. However, based on the studythat I’m going to put down there on sheep cheese, there is another animal that will produce the sameretinol as sheep milk, and that is the rat. But the problem nowadays, it’s very difficult to get

enough milk from your pet rat. So I would just go with the sheep cheese. It’s much easier. All right,guys, thanks for watching. I will see you in the next video. Before you go, if you have a questionabout a product, or you’re new to keto and you want to know how to begin keto, or you’re on ketoand you need a debug because it’s not going as smooth, I have a keto consultant standing byto help you. This is just for the people in the US. Hopefully in the future we’ll be able to answer

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