Dry Skin Remedy

[Haai]

About the dry skin thing...I'm thinking of making some beef fat into a paste and applying it to the skin. Has anyone tried this on dry and inflamed skin? It can't be bad for the skin, right?

[Haai]

Also about the sodium/salt thing...how much do you reckon we need? because there is some Na present in the water I drink...just wondering if it's enough

[PaleoPhil]

About the dry skin thing...I'm thinking of making some beef fat into a paste and applying it to the skin. Has anyone tried this on dry and inflamed skin? It can't be bad for the skin, right?

I find that saturated fat solids and thick pastes like suet, cocoa butter, shea butter and tallow work best for me for externally (as well as suet and marrow internally) fighting dry skin.

[MoonStalkeR]

Also about the sodium/salt thing...how much do you reckon we need? because there is some Na present in the water I drink...just wondering if it's enough

It's difficult to say how much salt one needs. The amount may be infected by a number of factors such as potassium consumption etc. The standard amount would probably be 1/4 to 1/2 of a teaspoon a day. If you have conditions such as dehydration problems you will probably benefit from higher salt consumption. The amount of Na in water isn't enough. Potassium is pretty much everywhere, more than enough of it.

The safest way to get salt in your diet is to sprinkle meat with it. Distribute it lightly and wait for it to dissolve into the meat (5 minutes should be enough). If you eat straight up salt crystals it may irritate your body. It should be dissolved, and spread in safe concentrations over your food, as it is in blood.

[miles]

What kind of salt would anyone recommend using? Won't there be other things in blood that are important? So if you add salt, do you really need to add so many other things that it's not worth it?

[laterade]

What kind of salt would anyone recommend using? Won't there be other things in blood that are important? So if you add salt, do you really need to add so many other things that it's not worth it?

There is an enormous variety. At least one of every color. White to black, blue to red.

 

[MoonStalkeR]

What kind of salt would anyone recommend using? Won't there be other things in blood that are important? So if you add salt, do you really need to add so many other things that it's not worth it?

Use sea salt with no additives. There are some famous salt types like Celtic and the pink Himalayan kind. The obviously required sodium is found in salt, I don't see why one wouldn't consume it as a means of obtaining it.

[miles]

Anyone else have opinions on sodium/salt?

[TylerDurden]

Anyone else have opinions on sodium/salt?

I can only state that salt was bad for me, even before I managed to get hold of some blood.

[miles]

How do you get blood? How much do you get/how often? What's it like and how much effect do you notice from consuming it?

[TylerDurden]

How do you get blood? How much do you get/how often? What's it like and how much effect do you notice from consuming it?

   Well, I mostly only get blood from my raw wild hare carcasses. Since these are vacuum-packed, there is usually some blood in it, from half a pint to a pint-and-a-half, depending on the carcass. I  get such wild hare carcasses almost any Sunday from one of the LFM markets. I find that raw blood from raw wild game gives me a vague  invigorating feeling afterwards and it is the only kind of blood I like the taste of. Raw blood from organic, grassfed meat is bland in taste and doesn't have a similiar feel-good effect.

[sabertooth]

I am neutral on the salt issue, I have never salted my food or had much cravings for salt, sometimes in the summer when I am dehydrated I will throw a pinch in with my lemon water. I have gone weeks without using any but I do use it occasionally, without any noticeable deference. I will drink the blood out of my beef cases and have had a noticeable boast from drinking about half a cup, the only thing is I can only get these cases once every three weeks so half a cup every three weeks isn't enough to base a theory on, I may just have to find someone who will let me spear their cow If I want to try fresh blood.

Lets descend upon the live stock in the night and drink from them like vampires(that may give the paleo movement some publicity if we don't get shot first.)

[laurahill]

Apply almond oil or olive oil on your full body and massage it.It is good remedy for dry skin.These essential oil has a good moisturizer and anti-oxidant property.

[Löwenherz]

Fruits have excess potassium and dehydrate regardless of type and season

From my own experience I strongly agree with your notion.

Even during my stays in tropical countries fully ripe tropical fruits dehydrated my skin more and more until it looked really terrible, a little bit like the skin from Douglas Graham. I was shocked, I couldn't believe it. Especially because the first weeks of fruitarian seem always let to glow your skin super healthy. The miserable process of skin destruction needs time.

I have some detailled photos of Douglas Graham on which you can see that he has a skin of a 80 - 90 years old man, at age 56 or 57! And I have collected other photos of long-term fruitarians, they all look like death with extremely unhealthy skin.

Löwenherz

[Löwenherz]

Anyone else have opinions on sodium/salt?

Salt, no matter what kind of salt, always feels very toxic in my body... And it comes out during my skin when I sweat. That makes me even more skeptical. My body tries to get rid of it as fast as possible.

Löwenherz

[PaleoPhil]

From my own experience I strongly agree with your notion.

Even during my stays in tropical countries fully ripe tropical fruits dehydrated my skin more and more until it looked really terrible, a little bit like the skin from Douglas Graham. I was shocked, I couldn't believe it. Especially because the first weeks of fruitarian seem always let to glow your skin super healthy. The miserable process of skin destruction needs time.

I have some detailled photos of Douglas Graham on which you can see that he has a skin of a 80 - 90 years old man, at age 56 or 57! ...

His skin does look old and somehow strange. It's not pale like a lot of 811ers and fruitarians, but certainly doesn't look good. It perplexes me when 811ers/fruitarians claim that Doug and other of their lot that look like pale, dying skeletons actually look good. Many of the 811/fruitarian males seem to look feminized. Even a raw vegan female complained about this the other day. It's strange how the males can look at themselves and each other and not see that many of them look like shit.

Interestingly, raw honey, avocadoes and berries haven't been giving me quite as much dry skin as other fruits do. I'm not sure if it's because my body is now tolerating carbs better or if these forms of carbs are more tolerable for me. They still do dry my skin though.

[FoxWoman]

I remember when I quit dairy for about 8 months in the past, my skin, especially on the hands, gradually became very dry (I am now repeating a non-dairy experiement - will see if the dryness will return). After reintroducing dairy, with lots of butter, my skin became nice and soft again. So, maybe there is something particular about butter which lubricates the skin? And, BTW, my butter was not ever raw!

Another possible cause for dry skin which I have researched recently is lack of biotin - which could be caused by antibiotics or a prolonged consumption of raw AND COOKED egg whites. At least, theoretically. So, depending on how much eggs you eat, maybe a no-egg trial for sometime would be a good idea?

FoxWoman

[Techydude]

I'd imagine raw suet rubbed onto the skin like lotion would be the best. And forgo soap, it interferes with the skin's bacterial balance. And as a user mentioned earlier which is so true, yes don't take hot showers, if even do a "bird bath" old fashioned or if you're going to take a shower have a filter and try warm or cool water. Takes getting used to but better for skin, imo though I don't have proof the heat really "cooks" my skin and dries it out I guess.

As for the salt thing what about salt from sea veggies? Like raw dehydrated below 100 degree sea veggies? Or from a bunch of fish, or oysters, or shellfish, maybe even...insects? And the salt content of meats too naturally?

[PaleoPhil]

I'd imagine raw suet rubbed onto the skin like lotion would be the best.

Yes, I find raw suet, cocoa butter and other treatments that are high in saturated fat to work best for my skin, both externally and internally. It's not surprising because the fat in the human subcutaneous layer is supposedly about 50% saturated fat.

[MaximilianKohler]

salt theory http://www.lymephotos.com/theory/index.html

[Löwenherz]

Yes, I find raw suet, cocoa butter and other treatments that are high in saturated fat to work best for my skin, both externally and internally. It's not surprising because the fat in the human subcutaneous layer is supposedly about 50% saturated fat.

I never tried cocoa butter. I have eaten only some raw whole (disgusting) cacoa beens. No food, IMO.

Is cocoa butter a fat to think about? Is it a "good" one like coconut?

Löwenherz

[miles]

salt theory http://www.lymephotos.com/theory/index.html

Interesting.

[laterade]

salt theory http://www.lymephotos.com/theory/index.html

Very interesting
I feel fine eating no salt at all. Time to experiment

[PaleoPhil]

I never tried cocoa butter. I have eaten only some raw whole (disgusting) cacoa beens. No food, IMO.

Is cocoa butter a fat to think about? Is it a "good" one like coconut?

Löwenherz

Other than "white chocolate" candy bars (which unfortunately add sugar and other additives), I've never seen food grade cocoa butter for sale. It's also a processed product. No need for a food version anyway, as there are other alternatives: marrow, suet, egg yolks, bison back fat, pork leaf fat, duck fat (usually rendered, but can also get it raw by buying duck breasts or whole ducks), pork belly, avocados, durian and coconut oil & cream (products that are processed to varying degrees, but many people report good results from them, though I don't handle them well).

[veronica5000]

cod liver oil, fish oil, avocado, coconut oil & raw egg yolks!!!  No dry skin!!!! <3