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. Its also frustrating because people I live with think eating raw meat is unhealthy and have recently blamed my raw meat eating on the cause of my dry skin.. I am smarter then to believe that bullshit. I just want help!!
Any Ideas welcome. ;)
I've never had skin issues, and tend to have even smoother skin on this type of diet, but I DO feel especially dry/parched when eating RAF (I'm probably eating more from dairy, getting much of my fat from butter, some from animal fats, organs and whole egg)
I do tend to drink less/little water doing the diet this way but it seems even if I was to drink more that it makes little difference.
I bring this up only to mention that by logic, or from RPD/primal claims, this makes little sense, as I consume no cooked food, which is incredibly drying, and I consume tons of fat, which is supposedly lubricating. dust and other factors seem to dry me out much more than the average person, and I imagine humidity does the same IICR when I was doing the diet at the beginning of last summer. Before doing raw again this time around, I did basically cooked paleo/primal and didn't experience the same kind of dried out feeling, which leads me to believe there is something going on internally (either positive that requires more moisture/lubrication to facilitate such as getting rid of poisons, or possibly negative:undefined, requiring more water or other lubrication, than even a normal person who drinks coffee and eats crap) that is accelerated on an all-raw diet.
I get massive skin problems if I eat dairy, raw and/or cooked. Especially raw butter makes my skin unhealthy, very dry and pasty.My health seems awesome on so many aspects this is one of the very few problems I have. I don't have acne, but I get supper sensitive skin. Its almost like I can just give it a little scratch and skin will peel off and become dry and flakey.
Rawzi, I completely 100% agree I have been in the process of looking for a new place all this month. I think its amazing how unopen minded some people can be and I don't want that interfering with my physical or mental environment.
Out of curiosity do you eat honey? If it is heated it will cause skin issues. Also yolks may be an issue.
someone on the forum once posted that consuming carbs can make the skin oilier. i would tend to agree with this. IMO when i eat carbs my skin is oilier. there are also many claims from people who have done juice fasts (which i am not advocating) who describe oily skin when fasting. my skin definitely felt like it was glowing, completely different, actually normal, right after a waterfast i did for 9 days. but i felt the dryness during the actual fast.
i am now VLC and did notice that when i am ZC my mouth, eyes and skin felt drier. according to chinese medicine, my tongue would be considered to red, and dry when ZC. i do not believe it has to do with consumption of water but rather a glandular issue headed by the liver. perhaps ZC is too "dehydrating" for some.
at the moment, i believe cyclical or occasional consumption of fruits/veggies is probably of benefit to most people as paleo man resorted to eating them.
perhaps variability in diet gives us a lower margin of error since most of us do not know what our optimal diet is.