The Super Power of Carrots for Your Health

Carrots have long held a spot in our refrigerator vegetable drawers as the stable for many meals. From soups to salads and more, carrots are a go-to for healthy nutrition that most people can easily like. What's not to like about a carrot, right?

The challenge is most of us do not eat enough vegetables in general so anytime we can get one in our families it feels like a victory dance should occur. The fact is carrots is often that most preferred vegetable and lucky for us it contains a great deal of both important nutrients and natural medicine to make a difference.

Low Carb and Glycemic Index Considerations of Carrots

Many popular diets advise to consider the glycemic index of foods as a guardrail in choosing nutrient rich, low carb options. This is a great guideline but can miss important healthy options the body needs for nutrients. Most people will benefit from low carb eating styles but it is important to align nutrition to the individual and allow for nutrient specific foods to be included. This is why it is advisable to work with a trained nutritionist or holistic health practitioner to get the best of both a low carb diet as well as your body's individual needs for nutrition. That is often the best way to not only achieve fastest results but see long term outcomes.

The truth is comparably speaking, carrots are always going to be a healthy choice than ice cream. However, the carrot glycemic index to say another vegetable will be higher. When using low carb and glycemic index guidelines, it is important to consider what the individual's body needs instead of strict adherence to a diet that does not consider your nutrient needs.

Carrots and Chi

Carrots have long been used alongside other treatments for cancer. Tissues destroyed by cell starvation can be nourished back to healthy by including carrot juice as a primary nutrient in the diet.

This is because carrots, according to Traditional Chinese Medicine, contain the ability to improve one's chi through warmth and light processes that open the pathways (meridians). This is also believed to be why carrots have such deep healing powers to promote bone formation, growth, and healthy cellular regeneration.

Carrots and Sunlight Processing

When it comes to what a carrot can actually do in our health, the sky is literally the limit. Despite being grown in the ground, carrots are known to help the body process light. The utilization of light absorbed into the body is processed as nutrition that is used by the nervous system among many other body systems. Specifically, with the nervous system we see carrots help support nervous exhaustion, including adrenal fatigue from long term stress.

This is why natural sunscreen containing beta carotene and carrot is key to healthy skin. Not only do these ingredients help protect the skin, they help convert sunlight into the cells delivering health benefits in the right dose.

Sunlight is needed by the body so it can be absorbed into the cells for nucleus and mitochondria health. This greatly influences our growth, regeneration of tissues and oxidative stress recovery.

Carrot Nutritional Support Combinations

Carrots are naturally high in antioxidants that are converted in the body to Vitamin A. They also contain B vitamins, Vitamin C, silica, calcium, iron, potassium, magnesium, sodium, phosphorus, sulfur, copper and chlorine. The nutrients in a carrot provide that well-rounded multi-vitamin support that many are not getting through their supplements.

The body knows how to break down a carrot to get the nutrients it needs to the cells. This process does not work the same with supplementation that is chemically made. Instead, carrots have a higher bio-availability and bio-retention of nutrients resulting better outcomes for health improvements.

Carrot Medicinal

When used as medicine, we find carrots not only help with antioxidant, oxidative stress and cell regeneration but they also contain many herbal health related benefits including acting as a:

• Stimulant

• Laxative

• Gas and bloating relief

• Parasitic remover

• Antiseptic

• Diuretic

• Dissolver of blockages

Herbally, carrots have been used to help treat:

• Infections

• Gas and bloating

• Colic

• Parasitic infections

• Edema

• Gout

• Kidney stones

• Urinary tract infections

• Prostate enlargement

• Infertility

• Skin issues

• Cancer pain

• Abscesses

• Itching

• Amenorrhea

• Adrenal insufficiency

• Liver health

Carrots can also be used as a poultice for pain and discharges.

Eat a Carrot

Carrots are just one great example where a commonly used food can be both nutrition and medicinal. Understanding how to use food as medicine can provide the path to healing on not only a physical side, but emotionally, mentally and spiritually as well. Carrots are readily available, accessible, and affordable to include in family diets to promote health and well-being.

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