Indeed, carrots have significant health benefits, nutritional value, and medical value, and the European Economic Community even passed a resolution to classify carrots as fruits. However, excessive consumption can potentially cause harm to women's health.
If you wish to conceive, or if you want to avoid abnormal menstruation, then do not eat carrots incessantly all day long like Bugs Bunny.
Perhaps you will ask: "Is it really that serious?"
Yes! According to research by physicians at a certain hospital in the United States, excessive carotene can affect the synthesis of progesterone in the ovaries, leading to reduced secretion, and in some cases, it can even cause amenorrhea, anovulation, and irregular menstruation.
This condition was first discovered in patients with anorexia nervosa; even though they did not eat and had no menstruation, blood tests revealed excessively high levels of carotene in their blood. Later, it was found in some female patients who did not have anorexia nervosa that large amounts of carrot consumption could lead to high blood carotene levels, resulting in abnormalities such as infertility, amenorrhea, and anovulation.
Researchers explain that this may be caused by beta-carotene interfering with steroid synthesis. Physicians have, in fact, found in six women who experienced menstrual abnormalities due to excessive carrot consumption that their ovaries were a golden-yellow color, which was termed "golden ovaries."
If you also eat carrots one by one with a "crunch, crunch" sound like Bugs Bunny, should you consider that you might be causing yourself to develop golden ovaries, reduced progesterone secretion, leading to amenorrhea (menopause), irregular menstruation, anovulation, and infertility!