I dont think that sounds like a good idea at all. That is a massive amount!
Plus vitamin A isnt like vitamin C, it doesnt just flush out of the body easily, it can become toxic.
I think its important to get vitamin a, but that doesnt sit right with me.

Hi Plasicat,

HEALTH BUILDER by J.I.Rodale, who was this guy

J.I. Rodale was born in New York City, the son of a grocer, and he grew up on the Lower East Side. He married Anna Andrews in 1927, and had three children: Robert D. Rodale (1930-1990), Nina Rodale who married Robert Hale Horstman, and then Arthur Houghton [4], and Ruth Rodale. [3]

Rodale had an interest in promoting a healthy and active lifestyle that emphasized organically grown foods, inspired by his encounter with the ideas of Albert Howard.

He founded Rodale Inc. in 1930 in Emmaus, Pennsylvania. [5] He was the was founder of Rodale Press and publisher of Organic Farming and Gardening magazine starting in 1942. Organic Farming and Gardening promoted organic horticulture; later retitled Organic Gardening, it is the most-read gardening periodical worldwide. To Rodale, agriculture and health were inseparable. Healthy soil required compost and eschewing poisonous pesticides and artificial fertilizers. Eating plants grown in such soil would then help humans stay healthier, he expounded.

One of Rodale's most successful projects was Prevention Magazine, founded in 1950, which promotes preventing disease rather than trying to cure it later. [5] For decades it has been a leading source of information for those in North America interested in alternative health, including before the natural foods movement became popular in the late 1960s. It pioneered the return to whole grains, unrefined sweets, using little fat in food preparation, seldom eating animal products, folk cures, herbal medicines, and breastfeeding. It also promoted consuming more than typical amounts of nutritional supplements, and forgoing nicotine and caffeine

Prevention Magazine was alot different before big pharma started adverizing in it.
Anyway, I have his book and it was published in 1957, my copy is the sixth printing published in 1967. I've come across articles stating new research by so and so and it's the very same thing that I have read in his book. Here is what he had to say, this is under Acne

Acne disappeared in from two and a half to six months under treatment with large doses of vitiamin A, according to an article in the Journal of the Indian Medical Association, March 1954. In all, seventy-five patients were treated. All other kinds of treatments had failed, even those continued over long periods of time. During the time the doctors gave vitamin A, they gave no other treatment. The dosage was 100,000 units of vitimin A. All patients could be "regarded as cured".

It is the belief of the authors of this article, K.D.Lahiri and F.J.Scandrett, that the vitamin A is effective not only because of direct action on the skin, but also, they feel, because of it probably has some effect on the lack of balance of the sex hormones, which appears to be characteristic of Acne ,coming at the time of puberty. Perhaps, say these researchers, large doses of vitamin A may eventually restore the proper ratio of androgen and estrogen--that is, the male and female sex hormones.

As far as taking high amounts of vitimin A being harmful, here is part of what is in the book about an experiment with rats:

"...they took one group of the rat family and double their allowance of vitamin A. The gentelman rats survived for a five per cent longer time and their wives lived 10 per cent longer than any of their other relatives on the "adequate diet" they had been eating over the years.

Then for one group of rats the amounts of vitamin A in the diet was once again doubled without making any other change in the diet. Rats getting this quadruple quantity od vitamin A every day lived(for the males) 10 per cent longer and (for the females) 12 per cent longer than any other rats. The added years were not senile years. It's difficult with rats to decide on a criterion of "useful life". With these rats it was observed that the reproductive life of the females was increased in even larger proportion than the length of life.

In terms of human beings this means that double or quadruple amount of vitimin A might bring about might bring about a 15 to 20 per cent increase in years of life, and an even greater increase that that in active and useful life.

Incidentally when Dr. Sherman and his associates doubled the vitimin A ration once again they found no improvement.

There is more but I'm not use to typing so much. Anyone where you can copy and paste from old books.

Hope this helps Plasticat(and anyone else). As far as cancer from vitimin A, if anybody is going to get cancer it would be the rats.

When I was a teenager -- around 1982 -- my physician prescribed vitamin A 100,000 u/day. High dose vitamin A was used prior to the launch of Accutane. Vitamin A didn't help me at all. Fifteen years later I took Accutane and it cleared my skin completely.

My physician checked my liver enzymes monthly while I was on high dose Vitamin A and warned me not to get pregnant. Same deal as Accutane, except my skin was still a mess.

Pantothenic acid and vitamin D help my skin the most, along with moderate doses of zinc, vitamin A, progesterone cream, and saw palmetto (if your Acne is hormonally related).