Eating a daily raw carrot has a powerful effect on your digestive system, your hormonal system and your health in general.
Due to the naturally present antibiotic (the carrots defense against microbes and fungus while it is growing in the ground), eating one raw carrot daily will have a “sanitizing” effect on your digestive system. It will have a limiting effect on fungal growth and bad bacteria that generates internally produced toxins. This in turn will contribute to a very favorable hormonal balance.
Ray Peat, PhD, independent researcher, discovered research that showed that women who were on antibiotics had a drastic shift in hormonal balance for the better; the antibiotics reduced the bad bacteria in the digestive system subsequently lowering the stress hormones estrogen and Cortisol levels while simultaneously increasing progesterone (health promoting hormone) levels. He, then, applied this information to the Raw Carrot effect and discovered the same outcome as the antibiotics.
As an ongoing habit, eating a raw carrot will progressively improve your digestive process, by decreasing endotoxin (Lipopolysaccharides) production.
One can’t live on Carrots alone, but as part of a balanced diet of quality proteins, fats, fruits and vegetables, one can greatly improve one’s digestive function.