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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