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Rosacea and Seb derm
Regarding those saying to cut pork fat, it's all about the bathtub anology. During detox, you have to limit your intake (the faucet) so that you don't take in more than your body can take out (the drain), so that you don't overflow the body (the tub).
Eating ham was not affecting me, but a few green olives and a few pieces of dark chocolate worsened my sleep and created blood sugar issues.
I think animal products are less problematic because they are in a stored form that is less damaging. The animal already processed the harmful compound in a less harmful one.
Thanks for the feedback guys
I will cut out the pork for now
Maybe I will have egg whites in the morning which is another food I showed up as allergic to in the scratch test alongside the yolk
Trying to puzzle together what foods irritate me is the hardest part for me in any diet since I got this condition (especially the Seb derm with the intense itching of my beard and red blistering spots). I don't get any stomach reaction or indigestion or whatever. My condition just gets progressively worse the "healthier" I try to eat and it's like a cumulative thing no real flare ups and no relief either.
Thats why the VA theory makes the most sense to me now. The rest of the diets always seemed like a shot in the dark. Don't eat grains, eat your veggies rainbow, don't eat your veggies they are full of oxolates, eat liver weekly, drink raw milk and colostrum, eat meat only ect ect
All those restriction or always trying to find the missing nutrient from a "superfood" and it never pans out.
Day 2 meals:
Morning: Quakers quick oats and maple syrup + mushroom coffee (chaga and codryceps added I just had this lying around)
Lunch: steak + white rice+ cauliflower+ one potato
Workout: creatine, taurine, collagen powder
Dinner: ground beef and two potatoes and one beet
Beets seem to be low in vit a not sure where they get their color
I am considering adding the following later on after few weeks: pineapple, duck fat ( seems ok??), beef tallow, black seed oil, Brazil nut, walnut and almond and maybe yogurt???
After yesterday vodka binge my face was a mess today more redness on my scruff and itching burning feeling all day. Not sure if that 'detox', I hate using that word because it is every other diets explanation of bad reaction.
By the way I love the simplicity of this diet. I prefer white rice and ground beef but I am just throwing it other foods to kinda get the gist of what's ok
I also got emu oil I had ordered a while ago. Any idea on the VA content of that?
Quote from Guest on December 14, 2018, 7:12 pmAfter yesterday vodka binge my face was a mess today more redness on my scruff and itching burning feeling all day. Not sure if that 'detox', I hate using that word because it is every other diets explanation of bad reaction.
I suffer from seb derm too. It would be nice if the "detox"-theory for our alcohol flare-ups is accurate.
Personally I do a lot of saunas and I think they help get rid of a lot of toxins. Maybe starting liver depletion through moderate alcohol consumption first and then sweating the circulating retinoids out is a good combination.
"Beets seem to be low in vit a not sure where they get their color"
I am fairly sure beets get their color from a carotenoid and that it is a particularily active one.
Red beets have unique betalain compounds that give them their color: https://www.nutrition-and-you.com/beets.html
They are ok to eat on a low carotene no lutein diet. You can search Sarah's Diet.
Dr. Smith advises to not eat beets on a low vA diet - I can't remember where he says that though, maybe in one of his videos or interviews with Matt. Not that he is the utmost authority but take it for what you think his recommendation is. Maybe the compounds in beets interact with vA is a bad way so not sure why he says not to eat them if they don't have carotenoids.
This article says carotenoids are found in beetroot. https://www.ebi.ac.uk/interpro/potm/2005_6/Page1.htm
"Golden, or yellow, beetroots have greater concentrations of lutein than red beets." from https://conscioushealthnaturaltherapy.weebly.com/research---beetroot.html