Going from Keto to a Fast and issues

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(Allie) #22

Can’t say I’ve noticed this one unfortunately :pensive:

#23

Dang it. The little heckers LOVE me. My Dad always had the same issue.

(Allie) #24

I’ve found taking a double dose of vitamin B complex through bitey season helps a lot.

#25

I think I’ve tried just about every single tip and trick I ever found online and so far, not a single one has had any effect. I swear I could be in a room with 50 other people and 50 mosquitoes, and they’d only go for me.

I believe they did a study at one point where they basically funneled bitey things toward random people and found that there were some who always got nommed on, and some that never did. I guess it’s clear which category I’d be in ; )

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #26

Mosquitoes hardly bother me, these days, and certainly not the way they used to. My guess would be that it’s a combination of less glucose in my perspiration, and an immune system that’s a lot less reactive. When I do get a bite, it doesn’t swell up, the way the bites used to.

#27

That’s encouraging, thanks.

If I’d guessed at how keto may improve things on that front I’d have probably said the same.

When I come to think of it, I’ve been sleeping on top of the bed covers with the house all opened up overnight for weeks now as it’s been so warm, and normally I’d expect to have at least 3 rage inducingly itchy bumps on me as a result (always manage to get bitten on the butt xD) but so far this year… nothing…

Of course just saying that has probably gone and done it now xD

(KCKO, KCFO 🥥) #28

I is my 5th summer of being keto/lchf and in that time I have had a total of 10 bites in those years. I used to be their favorite flavor, ignored DH and went straight for me. 5 mins. outside before keto could get me that many bites. I do a lot of fasting don’t know if that helps as well. But I’m guessing my blood chemistry has been altered for the good. This and no more new skin tags are my BEST results from this WOE.

#29

Maybe the effect just hasn’t quite kicked in yet… no word of a lie, it was the very next morning after my quote above that I woke up with a huge, red lump on my right leg :sob:

Either that, or it’s simply a sign that I should branch out into fortune telling :thinking: