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Protecting from the unavoidable formation of A2E
To get back to your original question, Shannon, I wonder if you and I might need to avoid the other things like tyramine or alcohol so that the body can concentrate on the VA's? However, that's hard for me as the sources of those food are my fave. The best I can do is moderate. But for sure I seem to have problems with detox that have only gotten worse with time and age.
I think keeping the nose unplugged is important (as I said above). I've experimented with swabbing a bit of vaseline in the nostrils to keep the nose a bit happier and get the sticky bad stuff from hanging round.
I was once in an elevator with another migrainer and he said when he feels head pressure he moves his face all around making every muscle in the skull, neck, face area contract and release... and I also think that might be important. My grandfather use to wiggle his ears and when I asked him how he did it, he said the key is to keep the ears still and twitch the entire body. 😉
Quote from lil chick on August 21, 2023, 9:34 amTo get back to your original question, Shannon, I wonder if you and I might need to avoid the other things like tyramine or alcohol so that the body can concentrate on the VA's? However, that's hard for me as the sources of those food are my fave. The best I can do is moderate. But for sure I seem to have problems with detox that have only gotten worse with time and age.
I think keeping the nose unplugged is important (as I said above). I've experimented with swabbing a bit of vaseline in the nostrils to keep the nose a bit happier and get the sticky bad stuff from hanging round.
I was once in an elevator with another migrainer and he said when he feels head pressure he moves his face all around making every muscle in the skull, neck, face area contract and release... and I also think that might be important. My grandfather use to wiggle his ears and when I asked him how he did it, he said the key is to keep the ears still and twitch the entire body.
Yeah, I don't do alcohol. I mean, I have tried a drink or two three times in the eight months. And, each time I paid for it with a half-day headache. (Though, a couple times, I had decent sun exposure, too...so....)
Tyramine, I don't actively avoid, but I generally eat rice/beans and meat. And, they aren't refrigerated long (if any).
I do think that Vitamin A detox is related to peripheral saturation before detox. Your nose may have had added saturation. I know my throat, ears, and brain seem to be the most saturated prior to detox, and they are definitely the more sensitive to detox acceleration.
Annoyingly, ear organs may be the last to deplete (according to a study another here posted). UGH
I would definitely agree that it seems ears lag. However, just a few weeks into the detox one of my ears "quacked". And it felt like some sort of sudden change. The other ear has never quacked. Although I have had some weird sounds like occasionally the sound of rain on a roof. Lately I've noticed that if I lean at the waist sometime the typical tinnitus sound changes.
Quote from lil chick on August 21, 2023, 9:34 amMy grandfather use to wiggle his ears and when I asked him how he did it, he said the key is to keep the ears still and twitch the entire body. 😉
@lil-chick I can wiggle my ears too, but I suspect your grandfather was pulling your leg. I do it with a kind of internal smile, that I switch on and off. If you practice then you get better results, the muscles get stronger and it becomes more and more visible. I used to practice to flash my diamonds to unsuspecting targets. Once you can do it, no need to practice anymore, it is for life.
Excuse me for this late reply!
The study posted earlier was not in humans and I don't know if there is any human study on toxicity in human ears. But just from knowing how yellow/orange ear wax can be it does't seem farfetched that the ears can have a really high vitamin A concentration, maybe the highest after the liver.
Vitamin A is a part of the big chemical group of terpenoids. I believe terpenoids include some waxy substances like wax from trees and by the chemical rule of thumb: "like-dissolves-like" it might just be that vitamin A can easily dissolve into ear wax. Or perhaps ear wax and loosing skin cells from the ear canals are just detox routes for mainly the brain.
As for what to so about it, I really don't know but here are a few untested ideas:
- Avoiding excessive build-up of wax. Doctors use, with extreme caution, special suction machines with a built-in camera to remove wax blockage without damaging the ear drum. I believe there exists simpler scoping machines also with a built-in camera.
- Clean the ears with water. Perhaps swimming in salty water like the ocean is helpful?
- Redlight therapy inside the ear, does it even exist something purpose built for this?
- Something I think might be helpful is to avoid annoying and ugly sounds. Perhaps try to do the opposite and listen to any live classical music. I believe tere is no substitute for good live music.
Also note that the whole brain is neurologically connected to the ears which is why loosing hearing is a sign of brain degeneration. Then hearing less leads to less stimulation of the brain which can lead to more brain degeneration in a vicious spiral. Hearing aid can help slow down that vicious circle for those that need it.