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I can see you looking younger and less wrinkles, smoother lines and the biggest difference I can see is less puffiness and less inflammation. A lot of women would kill for those results and they spend big cash on creams and facials etc and they never even get results like that.
Hello everyone,
I have been doing quick noon-time sun baths again (with thoughts of storing up D for the winter) and tried to bring back 2 ounces of red wine per night. The result is more itchyness./bug crawling sensation etc. The inflamed parts of me are not calm.
The alcohol mobilizing vit A out of the liver, (sending it out to it's fave places!) the sunshine degrading it. I'm waffling with what is better-- allow healing to occur in peace, or keep things stirred up. I suppose that come winter I will have plenty of time to heal in peace. (yin and yang of the year?)
I also want to embrace life. I feel like the sunbaths do help in the long run with that feeling of being "too delicate". My skin and eye sun sensitivity has lessened due to the sun baths. Takes pressure to make diamonds. Being able to tolerate a little bit of wine is something that improves my life. (I'm a foodie) You have to try for the stasis that you want, and your body will rise to the occasion.... Right?
My sense of smell is sometimes heightened. Sometimes normal. Last weekend I wanted to throw out the couch. I remember feeling this way on the low-food-chemical diet called FAILSAFE. There was a theory there about people being super tasters, and I wonder if one of the things about being a super taster (or super smeller) is keeping the vegetable poisons away from your senses for a while. Or, maybe my nose is just working better and less inflamed. Or both.
Occasionally I'm struggling to find just the right word and I've seen that mentioned here a few times and wonder if that is a thing.
IMO the vinegar drink is generally helpful. Some days I don't want it and skip it. But especially on hot, sweaty days it is just the thing. I add a few ounces of a low-A juice to my vinegar drink so it is more enjoyable.
I feel that I'm sweating more easily than ever before. I wonder if menopausal hot flashes have anything to do with A-toxicity.
I wonder if one of the reasons we like Barbecue so much is that we get some charcoal with our food?
Sometimes my teeth itch. 🙂 I wish I knew what it was that is making my teeth itch, but when they do I try to oil-pull that day just in case there is some sort of detox going on in the mouth that needs help.
I'm challenging my gut to accept beans and have been eating a small amount every other day. That is going pretty well! A bit of gas.
Hi lil chick! I’ve been wondering the same about sun and alcohol. I do think that the sunshine can be very helpful (and natural) but I’m on the fence about the alcohol. What if your body is not prepared for a release of the A from the liver? I think better not to force anything. Plus, alcohol is still a toxin to the liver and it needs to break it down. I’d rather my liver focus its energy on the A!
I have a theory about why the couch stinks (to me)
My toxic cats and us toxic humans have been sweating on that couch! (heat wave!) We are detoxing all over that couch!
Our sense of smell is part of our survival instincts. I have become ADVERSE to smell of denatured vit A! Literally my nose is 100% TURNED OFF by the smell of VA sweat!
"I feel that I'm sweating more easily than ever before. I wonder if menopausal hot flashes have anything to do with A-toxicity."
I'm not menopausal, but I have mainly resolved my night sweats by avoiding high carotenoids fruits and vegetables. Animal A didn't seem to have the same effect, so I can't say whether it's carotenoids or another plant molecules.
So Much 4 Food, I do think that carotene in foods are probably huge part of my particular problem! I've sworn off certain things for life such as butternut squash. I have been doing a fair amount of summer fruits as they are "in" and I've been baking pies...White peaches, cherries, raspberries... Perhaps they are adding up...
I was struck by the thought that someone else came up with -- that morning sickness might be the body trying to get rid of VA-- and wondered if hot flashes could be the same...
I'm frustrated, my face is still holding orange-brown coloration. (2.5 months) Especially in the "beard" area. Rocacea also looks a bit crap.
Perhaps it's the push-pull, or perhaps, as SoMuchForFood says above, I need to drop more carotenes.
What happens if you are a non-converter? Would this issue of a copper-colored face be a sign of that? Another relative that I know is copper-colored now and not when young (like me).
I stopped skimming my milk today, because I need the full-fat-raw for my carpal. I think Dr. G's diet allows some butter so I'm not going to worry.
I wanted to post a pic of the flaking that is occurring in my rosacea--it's hard to capture though. I think this flaking is an important part of the process. The rosacea flakes are thick and sometimes itchy. At this point much of my face is flaking (however, in a more subtle way that I'm unable to photograph), including the beard area I mentioned in my last message.
I also want to point out an interesting thing, and that is that my face is discolored (yellowed/browned) (see bridge of nose). The socket of the eye is whiter, (as is the area adjacent to the flaking). There is a pretty distinct line between the discolored area and the skin around the eye. Do you see it? I've had people say to me: you look like you got some sun and were wearing sunglasses. (although it is never the case)
The inflammation sits on top of the discoloration.
Perhaps my body stores unconverted carotenes in certain zones of the face, causing inflammation.
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We were watching "Stranger Things", and I was looking at this guy, thinking he seemed particularly yellow and I was thinking that there is a person or two I'm related to who also seem to have this sort of bronziness that doesn't seem like it was probably there to start with. Maybe storing carotenes in the skin doesn't inflame everyone? Like the person I know, he seems to get lots of sun and is able to tan (I don't get very tan).
