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Really dry/flaky/cracked skin
Maybe anyone can help me figure this out?
I have had extremely dry skin for at least 10 years. It comes and goes I guess. If wearing black the inside of my clothes will look like someone dusted white powder on them. And heels have been more or less dry/white. I guess it has gotten worse as I dont remember having the same issues as a vegan 10 years ago but after veganism came the LCHF-experiment with daily butter, egg yolks and fatty pork. That fxxed me up pretty hard and after that most, if not all, my health issues really exploded. Now I know why.
But I was hoping the dry powdery skn would improve somewhat quickly but it has not. Intermittently I get cracked lips and same with skin around nails starting to flake up. Then it goes away. And comes back. Detoxing? Probably.
But no improvements on feet or overall dryness/powdery skin. Eczema is almost 100% gone though which is 👍 and I could run today without every cell screaming STOP = mitochondria are probably getting better. But I want normal skin again!!
Anyone else have any experience on dry skin getting better? After how long did it start to improve?
My first thought when reading your post is that you are lacking in iodine. Iodine increases moisture in the body.
I have had dry, cracked and sometimes bleeding lips during winters for the my whole life but on detox they got extremely bad for a month in late November and early December and now are ok, still dry but not that bad. I haven't noticed a difference in the rest of my skin on detox which has been and is now slightly dry but again not bad though my heels are cracked but not painful. Some of my chronic problems (insomnia and fatigue) haven't gotten that much better 3 months in but I expect them to someday. Your dry skin will probably resolve itself once winter is over and you've had more time on the diet but I unerstand how wanting to get better now as my insomnia is really tough to deal with and can't wait for that to get better.
Quote from Doublecapricorn on January 2, 2019, 5:01 amMy first thought when reading your post is that you are lacking in iodine. Iodine increases moisture in the body.
Nope 🙂 not lacking iodine. But if I had not been on an iodine protocol already i would def try it 👍
Quote from Guest on January 2, 2019, 5:48 amI have had dry, cracked and sometimes bleeding lips during winters for the my whole life but on detox they got extremely bad for a month in late November and early December and now are ok, still dry but not that bad. I haven't noticed a difference in the rest of my skin on detox which has been and is now slightly dry but again not bad though my heels are cracked but not painful. Some of my chronic problems (insomnia and fatigue) haven't gotten that much better 3 months in but I expect them to someday. Your dry skin will probably resolve itself once winter is over and you've had more time on the diet but I unerstand how wanting to get better now as my insomnia is really tough to deal with and can't wait for that to get better.
All the waiting sucks 😂 feel bad for your insomnia though. That got to suck way more than all the dry skin in the world. My bff has had insomnia followed by unable to wake up in the morning (can sleep 16 hours) all his adult life. His insomnia got better after 2 weeks in. Then he fell off the wagon and his insomnia came back the same night. We all respond differently I suppose. I hope you will get that resolved soon.
I always got very ithy eczema every winter on my legs. This year none and that is def because of this diet. Well except for the giant eczema i got after a casein experiment this fall that is almost gone. It itch a little from time to time still but is constantly improving.
It's no small feat that your eczema is gone. Congrats on that and I guess all you can do is be patient.
Liz, I think that Grant said that his skin, eyes, and kidneys were the last things to heal. Don't know what his timeline was for this.
That is a good reminder Guest - thank you. as long as improvements occur I am at least on the right track. I never was the patient one 😂
DWL - thanks for mentioning it, i should re-read the ebooks. I will probably notice different things now that I am in the middle of it myself. 👍
RE: Liz, I think that Grant said that his skin, eyes, and kidneys were the last things to heal. Don't know what his timeline was for this.
My recovery timeline looked like this:
At ~3-4 Weeks: Chronic fatigue lifted – never returned
At ~3-4 Weeks: Joint pain and stiffness vastly improved – has only gotten better
At ~ 1 Month: deeper sleep, started dreaming again – this has remained the same since then
At ~3-4 Months: big drop in overall body inflammation, significant improvement in skin
At ~ 6 Months: vision improved a lot, not at all 100% - it has slowly continued to improve. I still have some vascularization of the sclera.
At ~ 1 Year: Overall general health was quite good, not perfect, yet it was nothing to complain about.
At ~ 2 years, notice a lot more natural tears in the mornings, and eye dryness had completely resolved.
At ~ 4 Years, noticed that my bottom eye lashes are growing back in. My vision remains to be very good – to excellent.
Skin: Very good improvement in the first 3-4 months, lots of up and down cycles though. The lutein zeaxanthin was a HUGE setback. It took at least 6 months to recover from it. And more like a year or more to 100% recover from it. Even now, in our dry winter air I still have dry skin around my knuckles. It’s not at all severe, and no eczema. The rest of my skin is very smooth. My hair is soft and smooth too.
RE: Kidney Disease: That’s a much longer and more complicated story.
For a very peculiar reason, when I was first diagnosed with CKD, I immediately decided to not follow any treatment program (nor dialysis) and just let nature take its course with me. I also decided not to have any follow-up testing done, as I thought it was pointless. But, I could judge the rate of protein loss just by the foaminess of my urine in the AM. So, I can’t tell you exactly when I actually made more or less a full recovery. But, I’d say that my urine became far less foamy by about year one into my diet. Then, with my lutein zeaxanthin mistake, my kidneys became extremely inflamed for about a month.
It wasn’t until summer of 2018 that I finally had my urine tested again, and confirmed that I no longer had any protein loss. Other biomarkers for CKD were all good too. There are other details of my recovery timeline in my ETFOH eBook.
Have you also seen improvements in your teeth or gums Grant?