Feet….anyone have insight?

#1

Sorry, I hate feet as much as the next person but could anyone enlighten me?. Before going keto I had suffered for years with horrible raw cracks in my feet which needed creams, plasters and constant dead skin removal. I put it down to wearing boots all day every day as I live in a farm plus I have pretty dry skin.
I just realised after 2 weeks of keto my feet haven’t bothered me at all, I can walk around the house barefoot which used to be impossible. The skin is healthy, no cracks and I’m not having to carve away at pounds of dead skin on my heels.
Which leads me to wonder, was I pre diabetic or at least on the way? I am an older woman who stores fat around her middle, which is currently melting away nicely too.

(Allie) #2

My first thought is increased healthy fats working to moisturise your skin from the inside out?

(John) #3

I think I would have to second that thought.
Keto and carnivore are said to improve your skin.
And now that it has been mentioned, my feet are looking less rough than normal!:footprints:

(Marianne) #4

Honestly, I saw your post and could so relate. Pre-keto, I had terribly cracked feet which no cream or lotion would touch. I’d have a pedicure about every six weeks to plane my heels and balls of my feet so that my stockings didn’t catch when I would take them off (like nails on a chalkboard, I kid you not. It would shiver me.). My nail lady has commented twice now that she wishes she had my skin. My feet don’t need any planing and are completely smooth. I have a pedicure now just to have my toes painted. Sometimes, I’ll rub my feet together in bed and they are silky smooth. In addition, I’ve always had scaly elbows which moisturizer, pure lemon, exfoliation, etc. couldn’t resolve. Unsightly. Completely smooth and beautiful now - without doing anything to them. Whenever anyone tells me I am eating unhealthy and harming my body (including my doctors), I just chuckle and think, “you’ve got it backwards” (and these people are overweight/obese, with obvious metabolic syndrome, and a list of other maladies).

(Edith) #5

I used to have very dry, flaky skin that cracked on my shins of all places. That went away when I gave up gluten. As a result of going keto and giving up a variety of foods as a result, maybe you have given up some food was causing the skin issue.

(Robin) #6

Thrilled you’re already seeing the changes/benefits. Just two weeks of keto is surprising, but you never know. Especially if you managed to correct something like pre-diabetes in short order. I recently noticed that my thick yellow disgusting toenails that I’ve had since my 30s (67 now) are totally normal now and I see sandals and pedicure in my future. Awesome!

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #7

All types of skin problems clear up once the carb intake goes low enough. I used to have a greasy face and a fair amount of recurring acne, yet dry elbows (sometimes they’d crack and bleed spontaneously in the winter), and a patch of eczema on the back of my left hand (and often on my right), that would manifest themselves every fall once the outdoor temperature dropped below 50°F/10°C. Not to mention skin tags and “liver” spots (I believe now we have to call them “age” spots).

All of these problems went away, eventually, on keto. I was just thinking last week that I haven’t had to moisturise my elbows in a long time, possibly a couple of years. My skin tags, age spots, and acne have all cleared up, and my face doesn’t get greasy the way it used to. This is the second or third winter when I haven’t been troubled by the eczema, either.

When I started keto, I had a small keloid scar on my left elbow that used to trouble me, but it is now completely gone. I also recently noticed that a wart on my right leg that had bothered me for decades is now gone. Not sure that’s attributable to keto, because warts sometimes just disappear, but it’s possible that the immune benefits of higher cholesterol played a role.

I think I actually put this in the Complaint Department thread, but my nails and hair now grow so fast, it seems as though I’m trimming them all the time. Now, if I could just grow blond again and grow back those three inches I’ve lost over the years, . . . :grin: