Quote from lil chick on August 6, 2019, 3:04 pm

In the first few weeks of detox mine peeled a little but no changes since then.  (I'm at 2.5 months)

Quote from Patti on August 11, 2019, 11:51 am

Quote from Gswitch on August 6, 2019, 1:39 pm

Has anyone who suffers from these unsightly, wart-like skin spots noticed an improvement since going low A?  Most dermatologists say it’s a part of aging with no cure.  Remove them and they just keep coming back!

Hi, Gswitch...  I had a couple of "barnacles" some years back (long before I knew about this low A protocol). My doctor said "nothing to worry about" but I wanted them gone, so I read up on a favorite alternative healing website. They are caused by a virus and the "cure" prescribed was raw apple cider vinegar. I had some on hand and figured it couldn't hurt, so I tried it. The largest one (that had been with me the longest) was on my back, about 3/8 of an inch in diameter, dark brown and had the surface texture something like cauliflower. I soaked a cotton ball with the ACV and taped it over the barnacle, leaving it only for about 2 hours in the evening while I watched TV. After a day or two, the top layers started to peel off and that process continued until it was entirely gone after treating it every night for two weeks. The skin underneath was slightly pink for a few weeks, but gradually you couldn't tell it was there at all. I had another one on the back of my neck, about pencil eraser sized. It had only been there about a year, and the same treatment took about four days until it peeled away for good, too. That was over ten years ago and they have never grown back. I've shared this with other people and it has worked for them, too. The only thing I would say is to check with your doctor and make sure they are really seborrheic keratosis and not something else. "Age spots" or "liver spots" are different... those tend to be flat, not bumpy or scaly and I think are more to do with maybe Vit A that's trapped in the skin, not a virus.

 

Quote from Gswitch on August 14, 2019, 12:53 pm

Thanks, Patti, as this is the first time I have heard that SK’s are caused by a virus.  Unfortunately, I can’t do the ACV soaks as I have about a hundred of these on my back and chest (particularly in the area beneath my underwire bra) and they are definitely Sk’s diagnosed by a dermatologist who told me the condition was likely genetic.  Additionally, they are small and widespread. I was just hoping there would be some tie to hyper A as they began during my Retin A use but that may have just been a coincidence.  I’m hoping my low A diet will improve this condition.

Quote from Ourania on May 1, 2020, 9:12 am

Hi @patti! Thank you so much for your tip about skin barnacles! I have had some for years and the dermatologists were useless. As a result, I got more and more and this was very discouraging. With your method I have successfully removed four big ones. over the last 10 days. I am going to go on to get rid slowly of all the ones I can see.

THANKS YOU!!!!

How is your journey with low Vitamin A going?

Quote from Ourania on May 5, 2020, 1:00 am

@gswitch and @patti and@lil-chick A bit more about my vinegar experiment:

• Because of the lockdown I could not get Apple Cider Vinegar so I used plain white vinegar for housecleaning made from wine alcohol I suppose, 15% (ACV is only 5%)
• If the spot is unresponsive it does not sting, but after a few days some spots start to hurt, that is after their protective layer is thinning and it starts to work. I had tried this ACV method before and was unsuccessful, maybe because I only tried it for a day or two or maybe because I was using 5% ACV instead of the stronger stuff.
• I noticed that when I apply the vinegar and it starts burning, I often feel like a pin prick in another place in my body. This might mean that the vinegar information is travelling pretty quick and affecting other areas.
• After having the first four spots magically disappear and while working on the next two spots, it seems that all other places where there are such blemishes have been affected and the brown spots over all are raised, or smaller. Something is going on generally in the skin. The reverse is true: when suffering a detox attack, the spots all grow bigger and even new spots appear. My husband saw three big ones appearing huge in only one day.
• Because treating a place under the bra has been very painful (but successful), I am going to treat all other less sensitive places first, see if I can frighten off the sensitive places, who knows? They might shrink a bit on their own?
• The first time I tried this ACV technique on my skin I was still eating a lot of vitamin A. Maybe my skin has lost enough vitamin A in its depth and the environment there is less favorable to the viruses involved. I suppose I could just wait a couple of years to see if these warts go away on their own, but I hated them so much, and they were such an obvious sign of my helplessness that I cannot resist! Every morning I stick my two vinegar cotton balls and let them attack while I read the news.
• I cannot help noticing that this renewed resolve to get even such a little cure may mean that the helplessness and indifference to fate noted by Grant in his chapter 24 of ETFOH is lifting at last!

Quote from Patti on May 8, 2020, 2:24 pm

Hi Ourania,

I'm glad it has worked for you.:) I would be really careful with the stronger vinegar. I think it can certainly work, but even ACV will BURN your skin... and can damage it. So maybe just try to cut a cotton pad down to the size of the actual SK lesion, so the vinegar isn't in as much contact with your normal surrounding skin, and/or try not to leave it on very long. I think consistency is the key. Day after day after day... rather than just trying it short term and giving up. To answer your question in the first post, I am not following the low-A protocol currently. I do still keep an awareness of it, though. I would never ever consider taking a vitamin A supplement, and I avoid ALL products that contain it as an added ingredient, in foods and in skin care products. I watch my intake, but the main culprits (to me, anyway) are out of my diet for good... I adopted a whole food, plant-based, low fat diet about 15 months ago. SO, no eggs, no dairy, no animal fats of any kind. I do still rely on many of the foods I ate while sticking to the low-A way. I hope you continue to do well! Cheers. 🙂