Hi there,
Ever since starting to follow Peat a year ago my face has blown up with acne and inflammation. I tried Nutrisorb A, aspirin topically, coffee topically, niacinamide, A from liver, incandescent light etc.... and really nothing helped. Recently I got serious about it and realized that I might need huge doses the likes of which I had not tried. So I got several bottles of Nutrisorb A and stocked up on liver. I'd have 4 oz of liver a day and got up to hundreds of thousands of IU of Nutrisorb per day and then my acne started going away. In reading around here I came across someone stating that in similar circumstances there may be a zinc deficiency. So... the only zinc I had around was some zinc oxide from purebulk.com : I tried a big dose orally. It seemed to majorly improve the acne quickly, as well as that night improving my stomach problems and making me sleep soundly, apparently. So I figured I probably had a zinc deficiency or copper excess or something like that (doesn't copper synergize with estrogen? what would be the circumstances for that? I know I have estrogen issues). So I repeated the zinc dose the next couple days but my acne started coming back and my face is not looking so hot. Also on the repeated zinc doses it did not seem to help my sleep or stomach. So I was confused. Perhaps it was also because I ran out of Nutrisorb (since I have to keep ordering bottles and I'm basically broke now). But I'm thinking of trying a different type of zinc supplement. Meanwhile now I'm eating like a pound of liver a day at the moment.
One factor I have not gotten a handle on, conceptually, is thyroid. I have been supplementing with cynoplus for a few months with some moderate results I think. However, I have never reached a state of sufficiently warm hands and feet, and yet I am wondering if I have anyhow reached too high a dose and should lower it. Can the hands and feet still be cold with a high enough thyroid dose and how? How would I know if I'm too high? Lately I've been at 3/4 of a tab, worked up to over a couple months I think. I think I may go down to half a tab while sorting these issues out.
I know there must be other factors I have not rooted out also because I had the face blow-up going on while I was not on thyroid supps. I suspect that gelatin was causing problems for me but I'm not sure honestly. I cut out all gelatin just recently and all my issues seem to have improved. Could/would a person have some sort of intolerance to gelatin? One thing I know is that the stuff always made me gag, except when I added it into potato soup and less so with broth gelatin.
Well, back to the face issue... Frankly it's a big pain in the **** because I'm good looking, but I am trying to woo a quite wonderful girl and with this stuff going on it's making my lady-courting a more self-conscious affair.
Opinions? Ideas?
Take care all
Ever since starting to follow Peat a year ago my face has blown up with acne and inflammation. I tried Nutrisorb A, aspirin topically, coffee topically, niacinamide, A from liver, incandescent light etc.... and really nothing helped. Recently I got serious about it and realized that I might need huge doses the likes of which I had not tried. So I got several bottles of Nutrisorb A and stocked up on liver. I'd have 4 oz of liver a day and got up to hundreds of thousands of IU of Nutrisorb per day and then my acne started going away. In reading around here I came across someone stating that in similar circumstances there may be a zinc deficiency. So... the only zinc I had around was some zinc oxide from purebulk.com : I tried a big dose orally. It seemed to majorly improve the acne quickly, as well as that night improving my stomach problems and making me sleep soundly, apparently. So I figured I probably had a zinc deficiency or copper excess or something like that (doesn't copper synergize with estrogen? what would be the circumstances for that? I know I have estrogen issues). So I repeated the zinc dose the next couple days but my acne started coming back and my face is not looking so hot. Also on the repeated zinc doses it did not seem to help my sleep or stomach. So I was confused. Perhaps it was also because I ran out of Nutrisorb (since I have to keep ordering bottles and I'm basically broke now). But I'm thinking of trying a different type of zinc supplement. Meanwhile now I'm eating like a pound of liver a day at the moment.
One factor I have not gotten a handle on, conceptually, is thyroid. I have been supplementing with cynoplus for a few months with some moderate results I think. However, I have never reached a state of sufficiently warm hands and feet, and yet I am wondering if I have anyhow reached too high a dose and should lower it. Can the hands and feet still be cold with a high enough thyroid dose and how? How would I know if I'm too high? Lately I've been at 3/4 of a tab, worked up to over a couple months I think. I think I may go down to half a tab while sorting these issues out.
I know there must be other factors I have not rooted out also because I had the face blow-up going on while I was not on thyroid supps. I suspect that gelatin was causing problems for me but I'm not sure honestly. I cut out all gelatin just recently and all my issues seem to have improved. Could/would a person have some sort of intolerance to gelatin? One thing I know is that the stuff always made me gag, except when I added it into potato soup and less so with broth gelatin.
Well, back to the face issue... Frankly it's a big pain in the **** because I'm good looking, but I am trying to woo a quite wonderful girl and with this stuff going on it's making my lady-courting a more self-conscious affair.
Opinions? Ideas?
Take care all