Acne is often a symptom of liver congestion, or some metabolic condition where excess aggravants arent effectively eliminated by the filtration organs and so toxins are excreted through the skin where they can back up in the oil glands and are eaten/broken down by bacteria, sometimes causing pimples to erupt.
Sometimes if the liver cannot break down certain fats and proteins then the excess is flushed out though the skin and causes outbreaks....everyone is built a little differently in this regard and I have very clear skin and no issues with acne, exect for on rare occasions if I get a less than optimal animal I might have a stray pimple or sore lymph node.
Typically there are multiple factors involved in these issues....such as with dairy; it isn't the Lauric acid which causes intolerance, it is the combination of lactose cassine and other proteins that gunk up the works...the good bad and ugly get all mangled up in the body so its difficult to tell which component is actually causing the issue. Bad organ meat, chemical toxicity, stress, antigenic plant proteins, and a whole host of other factors could overload the liver and weaken ones ability to properly utilize elements such as lauric acid.
The point about only human milk being a suitable source for Lauric acid, is a little bit of a tongue in cheek recognition that most animal milks though they contain good medium chain fatty acids, are also full of lactose and proteins which are problematic....while dreaming there just might be paleo pure maiden with nipples of manna that overfloweth. When the mother of my children was producing milk I would take some every now and then without any issue, and she ate horribly. Imagine a purely pasture raised meat feed woman that does not consume any aberrant materials would produce milk with the least amount of antagonistic elements. Of course this is all a conjecture and finding optimal test subjects would be near impossible, not to mention the ethical difficulties involved. So for now I generally disavow most dairy and believe that there are plenty of other less metabolically aggravating ways to obtain the proper balance of fatty acids, protein, and carbs.
I still insist that the Artisana Brand is Raw, and a whole food not any more processed than air dried jerky....and I am convinced I am either physically or psychologically addicted to it in some way. Its been a while since I have tried to stop but from what I remember.... If I fast from everything there isn't any issue, and I feel just fine, but if I go a couple of days with only meat and fat I will begin to lose my appetite and the fat I eat doesn't seem to digest as well, and my blood sugar seems to drop. Ive experimented with other forms of low glycemic carbs, but after a few days without coconut, any other plant fiber foods tend mess up the microbiome balance, causing bloating and sometimes diarrhea, then as soon as I eat a little coconut everything goes back to being super regular and fine. I came to this diet with a lot of overgrowth issues and digestive insufficiency along with glycemic intolerances and other issues that most people haven't experienced, such as severe chronic viral episodes. Real early into my transition I believed the coconut butter help relieve a number of these symptoms, and worked especially well in curbing yeast overgrowth and the chronic viral outbreaks...I also had a damaged liver and many metabolic anomalies.....during this period of the first few months of my transition into raw paleo I was eating up to half a pound of coconut butted a day, and must of developed an extreme tolerance, reaching a level of adaptability most people would never attempt under other circumstances. Its very possible that I am a freak of nature and my tolerance to absurdly high levels of coconut cannot be replicated in most other people.
Maybe I will try to experiment with a withdrawal sometime in the future, and if I do I will post any noticeable effects.
