I've posted about this before but it's really an issue for me and i think it's why i have a general dry skin issue.
Sebaceous filaments, basically my sebum is completely solidified, all along the jaw line where hair grows, all my cheeks, t-zone mainly, the worst part is the cheek areas to the side of my nose under the eyes, i have big visible pores in that area anyway and these Sebaceous filaments just stick out like little rice grains.. If their picked out they will fill back up again in a few hours.
By having this solidified sebum i'm obviously not able to have normal 'runny' sebum that is evenly distributed throughout the skin.I get them on my scalp as well.
I really only started getting this and its got worse since i found ray peat, cut out ALL pufas for the last two-three years and have gone really high on the saturated fat, as i need the calories and makes me satiated and i feel better etc, probably eat over 120g of fat a day mostly from butter/coconut oil. In the last 3 months i have started eating salmon weekly along with olive oil, still i don't think it makes a difference as my saturated fat intake is so high.
I have thought to myself, if this was the case then most peaters would be complaining about it? Thing is, i don't think most peaters here are eating as much saturated fat as me and i found ray peat quite young at the age of 18, my diets NEVER been super high in pufas for them to store, so my guess is that my pufa stores dried up pretty quickly and my sebum has been made of the fat i eat mostly.
I know you guys will say that it's not possible for this as our body temperature is too warm for sebum to solidify but its the only thing i can think of and the only thing that makes sense.
Before finding out about Ray peat i used to have normal oily skin and my eczema wasnt any where near as bad as it is now, i guess the normal sebum just kept my skin naturally moisturised.
Is it worth me reducing saturated fat??
Sebaceous filaments, basically my sebum is completely solidified, all along the jaw line where hair grows, all my cheeks, t-zone mainly, the worst part is the cheek areas to the side of my nose under the eyes, i have big visible pores in that area anyway and these Sebaceous filaments just stick out like little rice grains.. If their picked out they will fill back up again in a few hours.
By having this solidified sebum i'm obviously not able to have normal 'runny' sebum that is evenly distributed throughout the skin.I get them on my scalp as well.
I really only started getting this and its got worse since i found ray peat, cut out ALL pufas for the last two-three years and have gone really high on the saturated fat, as i need the calories and makes me satiated and i feel better etc, probably eat over 120g of fat a day mostly from butter/coconut oil. In the last 3 months i have started eating salmon weekly along with olive oil, still i don't think it makes a difference as my saturated fat intake is so high.
I have thought to myself, if this was the case then most peaters would be complaining about it? Thing is, i don't think most peaters here are eating as much saturated fat as me and i found ray peat quite young at the age of 18, my diets NEVER been super high in pufas for them to store, so my guess is that my pufa stores dried up pretty quickly and my sebum has been made of the fat i eat mostly.
I know you guys will say that it's not possible for this as our body temperature is too warm for sebum to solidify but its the only thing i can think of and the only thing that makes sense.
Before finding out about Ray peat i used to have normal oily skin and my eczema wasnt any where near as bad as it is now, i guess the normal sebum just kept my skin naturally moisturised.
Is it worth me reducing saturated fat??