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lil chick's log
(please read my two prior posts as they are part of the same thought)
Some people don't react to poison ivy. Are they NOT VA-toxic (yet)? I used to run through the forests here with no thought for poison ivy until a certain age.
It is said that people who don't react just aren't allergic yet.
Are some of us here actually allergic to carotenes (or this lacquer-like substance that seems to be created when carotenes and oils mix?) Is this why some here have to go down to zero on carotenes?
I have had itchy reactions on my arms to SOME topical exposures to leaves. (not all leaves do this) Tomato, hemlock, squash are examples. I suppose you could say these are resinous, unlike, for instance, grass.
(Please read todays prior posts)
I just read an article about removing tree tree sap from your person. Ideas were alcohol, oil such as olive or coconut, and salt. Personally, I've used peanut butter to remove sap, it works well.
INTERESTING. (especially when you consider the salt and oil cleanses talked about last week)
Think Rinds and Barks...
I did a double take yesterday after catching a glimpse of my face in a mirror at a department store. There was something odd about my skin and mind started to think oh WTH ... what now? And then I realized it was ... wait for it...
"A healthy glow" !
Soft skin with a bit of reflectivity. Haven't seen it there for years. I sort of wonder if it has something to do with the occasional "cradle cap" method I've been using. Or perhaps just time on lowered-VA.
I think the lather-rinse-repeat shampoo habit might be quite similar to the cradle cap (oil and then shampoo) method. The two steps are the key: the first application softens a resistant surface layer, and then then the second clears the deck.
I've noticed that the second step of the cradle-cap method can sting a bit, which makes me think that some of those peely bits are getting THE BOOT.
Do carotenes and oil bond into a sort of hard lacquer-type material in the skin? Perhaps in the skin it is much like tanning leather. Is this a reason my lips chap? They are very stiff.
In this region people talk about their antique pumpkin-pine floors. Is it more than just an imaginative notion? I bet that primitive/unrefined flax (linseed) oil contained carotenes.
It makes me wonder about things like scleroderma (which often accompanies lupus and raynauds etc). My feet have some hard, dry patches. Not safe to oil the feet before a shower, although they could probably be oiled while sitting in a bath. I'm going to do lather-rinse-repeat on the feet in the shower.
from google: Scleroderma, or systemic sclerosis, is a chronic connective tissue disease generally classified as one of the autoimmune rheumatic diseases. The word “scleroderma” comes from two Greek words: “sclero” meaning hard, and “derma” meaning skin. Hardening of the skin is one of the most visible manifestations of the disease.
Galalith!
Most probably that is what my crusts are.
As you said, they flake off at some point. Mine go away by very small crumbs from the outside.
But sometimes, I wake up and they are itchy and if I touch them they are very soft and waxy and can be rubbed away. So something has happened to them, some kind of excretion that can expel them this way.
What exactly?
Interesting link about Galalith. https://www.galalith.store/about
@ourania I'm glad you read the posts, and so interested in this Galalith thing! Here in the US colonies people also made Milk Paint. Possibly it got hardness from this same thing. From ancient times artists have painted with Egg Tempera.
Whenever my face looks overly peely now I'm massaging in oil and then soaping up. We'll see what happens. Yesterday I read up on scleroderma and sort of wish I didn't lol. Yikes. Fodder for my fears.
My mind has turned once again to Weston Price. Although it seems to me now that he got something wrong about vitamin A, he obviously DID see something changing around the 1930's in his US dental practice, and in the health of so-called primitves who took on the foods of commerce. What changed? How can we re-frame his conclusions in light of VA?
A neat thing to do is to google/images Weston Price and you can see how he documented facial changes in so-called primitive faces. For instance, showing siblings in which one sibling continued on their trad food while another went over to the "store foods" or "boat foods".
I intuit that people like me, whose bodies can't make fat in which to store VA around the middle, have always been at a disadvantage when it comes to VA. Sally Fallon, pres of the WAPF has this talent (to store VA around the middle), like my husband. My guess is HER husband does not.
Price saw crooked teeth begin in the 1930's.
I suppose that Price was seeing the same thing that happened to the monkey in Thailand zoo named "uncle fatty" and to the wild cross-bite deer that I once read about. Bizarre reactions to diet.
It's probably multi-factorial, but it seems like Price shows that things started going down hill in the 1930's.
I do believe that VA toxicity has always been a thing (leading to nursery rhymes like "there was a crooked man"). Rheumatism is an ancient word, as is Lupus. My bet is that VA problems were worse in those whose bodies didn't know how to store VA in fat around the middle. But I bet that by old age most people were suffering from at least a few VA problems.
My brother has an old German heirloom handed down in our family. It depicts four older people playing cards. They all have the thickness around the middle. Women became matronly with time, men became portly.
It appears modern changes made things worse somehow. There might be more than one culprit. Ag chemicals seems like a good bet. Agriculture based on corn is something I suspect--corn is full of carotenes and runs down b-vities. Did deep wells become common then, rather than using surface water? It seems my problems got worse when we moved to a house with a deep well with hard water. Lard was changed up for vegetable oil around that time (crisco invented in 1911). (many here avoid pig fat, is that best?) (is it ok to replace pig fat with trad oils like olive and coconut, not, for instance, "new" oils like cotton seed oil?)
Vaccinations might stir things up, but not many were given in the 1930's. It appears vitamin A was first synthesized in 1947 according to the google machine. So the problems of the 1930's predate synthetic vitamin A. (The WAPF is anti-synthetic VA, at least).
There is a image of crooked teeth in Brits, it was utilized in this fictional 1960's based character. I suppose fictional Austin Powers would have been born around 1935. I bet that Brits didn't, in general, didn't develop crooked teeth like this through all of time. Am I right here? What changed?
I was thinking about another colored vegetable pigment that creates a strong surface and that is henna. Anyone that has tried henna knows that it coats the hair and makes it thicker. It is quite seriously permanent as well. In other words, it doesn't just color the outside of the hair, it coats it, strengthens it, and even enters it's matrix.
This page here is very interesting and talks a lot about natural pigments and their usages as dyes.
Click to access dye%20stuff1.pdf
One of the most logical things I've read about VA was (I think)said by Dr G and that is there is no "animal VA". All VA is vegetable pigment. Sure, we may take that and put it into some sort of form that isn't colored anymore. But that doesn't make it a vitamin (in my mind). It's a pigment. Our bodies know how to break it down, perhaps into a form we can tote around and not dye ourselves orange. Perhaps we recycle it to color things like hair and eyes? I don't really know. There are a lot of ginger animals.
I have decided what side I'm on, in the debate "is VA a vitamin?"
I have decided that I consider the entire VA family now *pigments* (or broken down pigments).
I'm on the Not-a-Vitamin team.
I totally see how VA was mistaken as a vitamin, because these pigments infiltrate living things' fats--and end up even in mammal milk or bird yolk.
Pink flamingos get dyed pink when they eat certain foods. When they are young they are gray and they become pink with time. But that doesn't mean the pink pigment is a VITAMIN to them. We don't consider any pigments besides carotenes vitamins (that I know of). The blue in blueberries -- not a vitamin.
I've also decided that with this big decision (and because I'm I'm sick of masks) that I'd un-mask here in virtual land, LOL. Howdy, my name's Renee!
Cottonseed oil must be refined to remove gossypol. This naturally occurring toxin gives the oil its yellow color and protects the plant from insects.
Gossypol is a natural phenol derived from the cotton plant. Gossypol is a phenolic aldehyde that permeates cells and acts as an inhibitor for several dehydrogenase enzymes. It is a yellow pigment.
Arise, Dame Renée!
By the magick of Grant's work (and yours) you have been transformed, from a little chick into one of the Reborn (Renée).
Hugs.