Re: worse than ever

Hi Tony.

I have to completely agree with you about the nutrition aspect of this. I certainly do not think that this is an form of malnutrition because I absolutely flood my body with nutrients and have been for most of the last 10 years consistently. I have been juicing for years- fresh organic vegetables and fruits. I eat no refined sugar, no chemically-laden food, etc.

I might have to disagree with you about detoxing though. I'm not sure that my issue is a matter of detoxing/cleansing as I have been cleansing and rebuilding for the past 6+ years. I have done countless (and I do mean countless) liver flushes, colon cleanses, kidney cleanses, deep tissue cleanses, parasite cleanses, etc,etc, etc. I have taken every cleansing/detox single and multiple herbs for years.

What this appears to me is to be a genetic metabolic disorder. I have ALL the symptoms of a SEVERE metabolic imbalance:

- ultra severe dry skin
- seborrhea
- incredibly dry, brittle hair
- everything is dry- eyes, mouth, everything


What happens is this- my skin is as dry as human skin can be, yet my oil glands still pump out MASSIVE amounts of oil. The dry skin forms a thick crust that completely blocks off my oil glands which causes deep infection at almost every pore.

A lot of people have said..."Oh, that's easy...you just need to exfoliate." Believe me, I have used every type of exfoliation from alpha hydroxy acids to walnut husks. There is nothing that prevents the thick dead skin from accumulating on my skin almost immediately. The mere instant my skin comes in contact with water of any kind (including spring, distilled, alkalized, etc) it immediately turns almost completely white with dead accumulated skin.

I ordered this product once that guaranteed an end to dry skin. It was a type of exfoliation product with papain enzymes. So like a dummy I believed them and sure enough as soon as the product comes off, the dead skin is back (almost instantaneously).It's also not a matter of internal nutritional oils (I take them all). I should also tell you that the skin is incredibly dry with or without water contact. It is just that water seems to make it worse. I tried not letting my skin have any contact with water for a few weeks but my skin was ultimately just as dry. Water just seems to create an acute situation with the dryness.

The reason I shy away from going to another doctor is that everytime I go to a new one we have to start completely over again. They put me on herbs/supplements that I have used 100 times before. They don't listen to me that these things do not work. We waste so much time, effort, and money trying everything that I had done before on my own or with other doctors.

Like I said, we go for months and months on there recommendations and they then inevitably recommend that I see someone else, somebody who specializes in skin because they are not qualified to deal with a condition such as this.

Well, there a very few naturopathic dermatologists. I only have ever found one. He was in new york state (quite a drive for me). He didn't have the slightest clue as to what I had. He was nice enough to tell me that I had the driest skin he had ever seem though. Yeah, I get that a lot. Almost every practitioner is shocked by my condition and admit that they have NEVER seen anything like this before.

This is why I am certain that this is a genetic metabolic disorder.

No amount of nutrition and no amount of cleansing and detoxing is going to help this condition because I have already done all of that.

And as to the water fasting. I think I mentioned that I contacted dr. furhman's office down in new jersey and wrote him an very long and detailed email about my condition and everything that I have tried and was wondering if fasting could help. His office wrote back and said that the doc had read my email and it was in his opinion that i should NOT fast. He said that it would likely not help at all and may cause more harm than good to this condition. So that's where I am with that. I am by no means deciding not to water fast again but I have to admit that I have little confidence when one of the foremost experts on the topic has advised that I not do it.

It's coming down with learning to live with this or not. And I'm not going to learn to live with it. I can't live with unbelievable suffering for the rest of my life.

Anyways with this amount of stress and suffering, I am quite sure I would develop a dead form of cancer or some other disease quite soon. It is only a matter of time. You CANNOT be tortured every single second of every day and not have that stress manifest in a deadly disease.