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It's been a while since I've posted here on the forums because I've been focusing on incorporating different diets into my life. For the past 3 years I have experimented with probably every diet known to mankind, from carnivore to veganism, Foodmap , Glutens, Histamines, Salicylates ect. I have been eliminating ingredients or doing provocation tests. I tested my levels of all vitamins and trace elements and visited 20-25 doctors of various specialties. No one could help me.
To return briefly to my story, I have been struggling with my red face for 20 years; dermatologists, ointments, medications, and lasers have been of little or no help. Diet also seemed to help only for a while or not at all.
However, the last time I experimented was not time wasted because I found out that the effects of flushing and red face usually occur after eating, the worst was in the afternoon and evening, and I felt and looked my best first thing in the morning. At that point I couldn't think of anything else because I thought I had exhausted all the sensible ways.
Another clue for me was that after showers the skin on my cheeks noticeably worsened. So I started to look at tap water. What is added to the water. My first thought was, well, chlorine. So I started experimenting with chlorine but it didn't have much effect, I was still in a pickle.
In my country the water can also contain arsenic from pipes and artificially added chlorine. The former I could not check, but the latter I did. I have significantly reduced the amount of fluoride I consume. I replaced the toothpaste with a fluoride free one and installed a simple activated carbon filter on the shower tap to catch 50-60% of the fluoride as described by the manufacturer. I ordered a jug which is supposed to catch up to 95% of fluoride so that I can drink from it. I have limited the foods that contain high amounts of fluoride, especially tea, which extracts fluoride from the soil. In addition, fluoride-rich foods include water, which accounts for most fluoride intake (especially high fluoride content), spinach, sea fish, milk, walnuts, etc.
Everyone can check which foods are high in fluoride. I have been on this diet for 2 weeks now and I am not restricting myself in anything else and the results are stunningly good so far. In the meantime, although it has been a challenging week, I have not had any flushing. The red on my cheeks has visibly diminished. I am beginning to believe that I have found the answer to a question that has plagued me for 20 years. The next step will be to install a reverse osmosis system on all taps to rid the tap water of fluoride, both the one I drink and the one I shower in, and hopefully in a few weeks the effect will be permanent.
To return briefly to my story, I have been struggling with my red face for 20 years; dermatologists, ointments, medications, and lasers have been of little or no help. Diet also seemed to help only for a while or not at all.
However, the last time I experimented was not time wasted because I found out that the effects of flushing and red face usually occur after eating, the worst was in the afternoon and evening, and I felt and looked my best first thing in the morning. At that point I couldn't think of anything else because I thought I had exhausted all the sensible ways.
Another clue for me was that after showers the skin on my cheeks noticeably worsened. So I started to look at tap water. What is added to the water. My first thought was, well, chlorine. So I started experimenting with chlorine but it didn't have much effect, I was still in a pickle.
In my country the water can also contain arsenic from pipes and artificially added chlorine. The former I could not check, but the latter I did. I have significantly reduced the amount of fluoride I consume. I replaced the toothpaste with a fluoride free one and installed a simple activated carbon filter on the shower tap to catch 50-60% of the fluoride as described by the manufacturer. I ordered a jug which is supposed to catch up to 95% of fluoride so that I can drink from it. I have limited the foods that contain high amounts of fluoride, especially tea, which extracts fluoride from the soil. In addition, fluoride-rich foods include water, which accounts for most fluoride intake (especially high fluoride content), spinach, sea fish, milk, walnuts, etc.
Everyone can check which foods are high in fluoride. I have been on this diet for 2 weeks now and I am not restricting myself in anything else and the results are stunningly good so far. In the meantime, although it has been a challenging week, I have not had any flushing. The red on my cheeks has visibly diminished. I am beginning to believe that I have found the answer to a question that has plagued me for 20 years. The next step will be to install a reverse osmosis system on all taps to rid the tap water of fluoride, both the one I drink and the one I shower in, and hopefully in a few weeks the effect will be permanent.
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