Raw Carrot Salad
If you follow me on instagram or anyone else in the pro-metabolic space, then you’ve likely heard of Raw Carrot Salad (RCS). Raw carrots are beneficial 2-fold: they stimulate bile flow from your liver and they contain a specific fiber that helps grab on to estrogen in your digestive tract, making sure it gets carried out in your poop rather than being reabsorbed. By stimulating bile flow, the carrot is also helping improve your detoxification. Your liver binds up toxins and hormones (like excess estrogen) in bile to be carried out of the body when you poop.
why does this matter?
If bile is not flowing well— which can be due to a buildup of excess estrogen, lack of nutrients for producing healthy bile, overload of toxins or too much iron— not only will your body struggle to digest fats, but you will also get over-burdened with toxins. This can cause weight gain because your body’s back up system for dealing with toxins, hormones and heavy metals is to store them away in fat tissue. In the event that it is just disrupting fat digestion, this will eventually lead to nutrient deficiencies (fat soluble vitamins A, D, E, K), but also other unpleasant symptoms of fatty acid deficiency. As for binding up excess estrogen, if you have slow transit time on your bowel movements, experience constipation or are just over-burdened with too much estrogen in your body, it is very common that the estrogen intended to leave your body in your poop ends up being reabsorbed in your colon. The fibers in raw carrots helps bind to and keep estrogen from being reabsorbed!
Reported benefits:
Improved fat digestion, stools that are well-formed and sink, no floating poops!
Bowel regularity, helps many people start having 1-3 healthy bowel movements per day.
Improved PMS symptoms related to excess estrogen like cramps, mood swings and acne!
How to make it:
Wash and peel 1 organic carrot
Shred your carrot or make ribbons using your vegetable peeler
Put ribbons or shreds of the whole carrot into a bowl
add 1 tsp of raw, organic Apple Cider Vinegar
add 1 tsp of organic, virgin coconut or olive oil
add a pinch of salt to taste
Toss all ingredients together and enjoy!
RCS is best enjoyed in between meals and specifically before lunch. If you forget or that doesn’t work with your schedule, any time of day is better than not having it. Consistency is king with the RCS, many people do notice symptoms right away, but others need to be consistent with eating it every day for weeks to notice changes, so stick with it if at first you don’t think it is doing anything for you.
If RCS is not your jam or you need something with less effort, peeling and eating a single whole raw carrot will have most of the same benefits! The only benefits you won’t get from a carrot alone are the benefits imparted by the other 3 ingredients.
If you start eating RCS or a plain raw carrot, DM me on instagram and let me know!
