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foot ulcers, slow-healing sores, diabetic foot ulcers, leg ulcers
Quote from lil chick on February 23, 2026, 5:12 amWoman, somewhere in her 80's, still works, generally well but lately falls a lot. Not diabetic or overweight. The ulcer is the result of an injury that never healed properly.
I was just asking the AI about scurvy (since scuvy causes leg ulcers)
It had some good ideas, actually. Of course it said high-dose vitamin C, vitamin C foods. But also addressing underlying causes such as alcohol usage, malabsorption.
My gum disease was impossible to address until my isotretinoin crisis forced me to learn low vA. No amount of vC helped. When I quit vA sources, the gum disease resolved on its own at the same time as my isotretinoin induced sacroiliitis. From that and other experience and similar anecdotal evidence from others, more convinced daily that scurvy is vA toxicity, not vC deficiency. vC does sometimes help, but have never seen it resolve it the way eliminating vA resolves it.
vC seems to work by increasing ALDH and liver function. Wondering also how much high vC induces duration paradox where vA gets stuffed back down in liver to reduce symptoms. And yeh, alcohol intake is going to mess with liver function too.
80 years old is going to be a challenge to help without her buying into a few ideas that most seem to distrust. When I started low vA I had horrific eczema on lower legs with edema so wounds were slow to no healing. Kept them wrapped and salved in shea butter with zinc oxide powder. Healing time improved. Doubt the salve will help someone without addressing vA.
Yeah, thanks Joe2, I'm not sure she is able to make huge diet changes at her age. I wonder if Grant's high-tech idea could be the answer, since it is something that is applied to her and she doesn't have to change.
Suggest to make her aware of kaizen. Pick one tiny thing. Something so tiny that it is impossible to attribute any improvements to that change. So tiny it is impossible to grudge making that change. Just that one tiny thing and see what happens.
I live in a world of such folk. Being old and set in ways is one of my most often heard excuses. I got to recognize that whether or not it is valid the problem is not mine to solve. It is none of my business. The only reason I lay the idea out there is that later, I will not feel responsible for being the major dude with half a heart who did not tell them when I could have.