W re to toxins the liver isnt like a regular micron size rated particle filter. It doesnt intentionally filter out toxins like an air filter element would ( tho certain compounds, perhaps toxic, like metals, can and do become lodged inadvertantly).

Excepting for the livers relationship with fats, the liver filters the blood as a secondary function soley to expose the fluid to the livers functions. One of the functions of the liver is to detect toxins, neutralizes those it can, structurally, elementally rather than by capture as with the air filter particle type cleaner. The liver dissasembles the unwanted and or unneeded compounds and saves the chemical pieces tobe recombined later for other needed purposes. The liver finally directs toxins unable to be rendered safe to the fluid that runs into the intestinal system.

The small print being that there are numerous toxins that perhaps wernt involved in the environmental evolvment of the livers functions, heavy metals,ect, so some of these can become lodged in the organ and thus become problematic in ways the liver hasnt been prepared to deal with.

I think cod liver oil would be excellent for you. Several years ago, I bit the bullet and began taking cod liver oil by the spoonful. It smells so bad you have to keep the oil and the spoon in the refrigerator. The difference in taking it that way and taking the capsules is amazing.

I have always worn contacts, and while contact prescriptions do have to be made stronger with age, they rarely have to be made weaker. Well, I made wonderful progress with my vision.

Now I am taking the capsules and am not seeing the progress I did with the liquid.

I have oily skin, but I still have a real high need for Vitamin A. I have to take high doses of it all the time, plus my cod liver oil. If not, I have severe mucuous problems. It is the only thing that will help a chest cold if I get one.

No one knows why certain people have high needs for certain things. Your dry skin shows you really need oil and whatever else you need to absorb that oil. I think cod liver oil is a good start for you.

According to University of California Berkeley:

Cod liver oil, bottled or in capsule form, has its own special problems. It is the richest source of vitamins A and D. Just one teaspoon of cod liver oil has 4,500 IU of A, for instance, and the standard dose is one to three teaspoons a day. Capsules of cod liver oil contain less oil, but the vitamin can still add up, especially on top of the amount you get from foods and from a multivitamin, if you take one. Recent studies have found that as little as 6,000 IU of vitamin A daily can interfere with bone growth and promote fractures. And women of childbearing age should not exceed 10,000 IU of vitamin A because of the risk of birth defects. Cod liver oil is made from livers, of course. The liver is a filter, so toxins (such as PCBs) get concentrated there. Thus cod liver oil is more likely to be contaminated than other fish-oil supplements.

If you want to try fish oil supplements, avoid cod liver oil—and talk to your doctor first.


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