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Arket's log
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I have done previously a two year long vA detox period. I stopped it because I didn't notice any benefits and lost my faith in it. Now I understand that it can take a very long time and after that two year period I still had very clear signs of carotenemia so I was still full of vA.
I started my final vA detox November 3th, 2023 and this time nothing is going to stop me. I will see this through no matter what happens.
First signs of heavy detox symptoms started yesterday. I have very severe headache and pressure feeling in my head and jaws. I didn't remember how bad this feels, oh boy here we go. 🤕
Any encouragement is welcome!
Since starting vA detox, I have started to get that same kind of rash that Grant had on his legs. My rash is at the center of lower chest, nowhere else. It itches and kind of burns sometimes. Also I started to get some pimples on my scalp, but face has been totally clear. So weird how you get these symptoms to only some parts of body. 🤨
Quote from puddleduck on November 16, 2023, 7:23 amBrutal symptoms! Have you ever taken activated charcoal at any point during the detox, @arket?
Hey puddy!
No I haven't tried charcoal. Maybe it's this winter dryness together with the detox start that launched this rash. I remember Grant having similar experience.Â
@arket I had a lot of acne on the back of my scalp first months of low vit A diet.. I also had ans still have on and off keratosis pilaris on my hips as well. Somethimes I feel a lot of bumps on the skin it is like goosebumbs, but only on small area on my both hips and sometimes that same area is perfectly smooth.. I also had and still have this on and off very dry and peeling skin on my hands especially around finger tips/nails..Â
Quote from Jiřà on November 16, 2023, 8:33 am@arket I had a lot of acne on the back of my scalp first months of low vit A diet.. I also had ans still have on and off keratosis pilaris on my hips as well. Somethimes I feel a lot of bumps on the skin it is like goosebumbs, but only on small area on my both hips and sometimes that same area is perfectly smooth.. I also had and still have this on and off very dry and peeling skin on my hands especially around finger tips/nails..Â
My scalp pimples are also on the back part of the scalp, how strange is that. Why is the scalp affected, but not the face.
Ok, I'm done with supplements. I have previously suspected that supplements give me acne. I have been two years with minimal supplements, just b12 pill once a day and kelp pill also once a day, nothing else. My skin has been clear the whole time with these supplements. I started taking Life Extension brands super vitamin E, Gamma E and Super K supplements about a week ago and now I have seven pimples on my face and three more incoming. I really can't figure out why I have this reaction to basically every supplement, but this is reality that happens to me every time I eat supplements.Â
Just continuing my monologue here. I have been now two days off of supplements and my skin has cleared and all the redness has subsided. Just amazing how fast my skin reacts once I start eating supplements and how fast all the redness and pimples dry up and disappear.
Also I have finally started reading Grant's second book Poisoning for Profits, I'm currently at page 77/370. I like it so far, it gives me great hope for better things to come health wise. Reading this book I would expect to see amazing success stories all over the place, but for some reason besides Grant's story, I haven't seen them. Are people doing something extra that is preventing them having the same success as Grant or what the fuck is going on?
Just some thoughts I had.Â
Sometimes I wonder if Grant's issues were of short or long duration. Â Â Maybe Grant had a good start in life? Â Maybe, besides his kidneys and his skin, his other organs were basically ok and could support his renovations?
I have this theory there are multiple ways to feel bad, there is the feeling of daily poisoning (VA's in the gut and circulating and looking for a place to land, and your body getting the idea that maybe everything must go, instead of storing this bad stuff, resulting in vomiting, runs, a feeling of being hungover?), there is the symptoms of long-term detox (which I think can look like skin issues, gut issues, elimination issues, swelling, inflammation, brain fog, cramping, allergies?), there are the medical issues of broken-down parts that aren't working well (type 1 diabetes, kidney failure, liver scarring, eye scarring, loss of hearing, memory loss, twisted fingers and toes, spine issues?).
Once I had a very nice holistic guy that I could talk to now and then. Â He told me that the body gets better from the inside out. Â The body would rather work on your heart, liver, veins, etc than give you perfect skin. Â It pushes things to the outside.
Let's take an example. Â No one expects type 1 diabetes to reverse itself quickly (actual organ damage). Â The work that needs to be done on the pancreas might not feel that great or look that great. Â
It's like having a furnace company come and overhaul your furnace but only being allowed to bring in 1/1000 of the new furnace each day, but still making a bit of a mess each day that you have to sweep up from, while you live, shivering upstairs, with a partially-fixed furnace.
Quote from Arket on November 21, 2023, 7:40 amReading this book I would expect to see amazing success stories all over the place, but for some reason besides Grant's story, I haven't seen them. Are people doing something extra that is preventing them having the same success as Grant or what the fuck is going on?
People disappear. And that happens when they reach a level of health that satisfies them. Nothing to ponder, nothing to tweak. You only hear people talking who are still not happy with their health. So we have a perception bias. Here's two forum members who have stopped posting and reported great health improvements, there are certainly more:
- Beata (it's a long log): https://ggenereux.blog/discussion/topic/serious-start11-september-2019/
- YH (very rapid improvement): https://ggenereux.blog/discussion/topic/nearly-7-months-progress/
The real question is: why does it take some people years to improve barely their health, while others make significant progress in the same time?