tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6715049094354778809.post7624580058991213426..comments2023-06-04T16:25:16.708+01:00Comments on Pay Now Live Later: Doctors and Nutrition Part 1: My Yellow Skin MysteryMethuselahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09134860337125242027noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6715049094354778809.post-12949238816649983142009-04-23T15:26:00.000+01:002009-04-23T15:26:00.000+01:00pnw - good to hear about another yellow/orange exp...pnw - good to hear about another yellow/orange experience! I stopped mainly because I decided it was totally non-paleo. First I transitioned away from fruit towards veg. Then I found the beetroot was turning not me, but my 'output' a different colour, if you know what I mean! And yes, also the cost and effort of hauling all that produce back from the market each week was just more trouble than I was willing to go to in the end.Methuselahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09134860337125242027noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6715049094354778809.post-35406420927578126172009-04-23T08:22:00.000+01:002009-04-23T08:22:00.000+01:00You too huh? Back in 01 people said I was turning ...You too huh? Back in 01 people said I was turning orange. They knew I was juicing though.<br /><br />I never believed them, but "Jay the Juiceman" did have me running a pile of carrots through my Juiceman II.<br /><br />LOL! Maybe I really was? I no longer juice either. I just enjoy eating them way too much. Plus, juicing (for me at least) was wicked expensive!pnw fitnesshttp://pnwfitness.info/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6715049094354778809.post-45173031138669518992009-03-26T06:54:00.000+00:002009-03-26T06:54:00.000+00:00Ditto - I can't help wondering whether most people...Ditto - I can't help wondering whether most people, if given blood tests, would show up something that doctors regard as 'abnormal'. Averages are just that - averages.On the basis of how widely people's diets and lifestyles vary I would think the vast majority of people would have at least one reading out of the normal range, yet be perfectly fine. Since most people never have blood tests, how would we know?<BR/><BR/>However, not being a doctor, I am only in a position to speculate.<BR/><BR/>Question - have you always been a bit yellow, or only recently become a bit yellow?<BR/><BR/>Yo may be interested to know that Dr Eades, in <A HREF="http://paynowlivelater.blogspot.com/2008/12/hunter-gatherer-lifestyle-one-religion.html" REL="nofollow">his book</A>, says that giving blood regularly is a great way to control iron levels which are far too high in most modern people, particularly as they age.Methuselahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09134860337125242027noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6715049094354778809.post-79534702822696505672009-03-24T14:42:00.000+00:002009-03-24T14:42:00.000+00:00I am having exactly the same problem as described....I am having exactly the same problem as described. Someone suggested I looked yellow and what followed were tests which proves that I am but fine except for my red blood count being on the low side. <BR/><BR/>As I am a frequent blood donor, my Dad says it might be a cause of my low blood count and ask me to take a break from it for a while. There is also the fact that I don't eat too much food with carotenes.<BR/><BR/>Right now I'm taking some herbal medicine and hope to see improvements soon.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6715049094354778809.post-43520515811273393672008-12-31T00:42:00.000+00:002008-12-31T00:42:00.000+00:00What an absolutely astonishing find...I thought my...What an absolutely astonishing find...I thought my yellow hands were just a close-knit family joke! My mom teases that especially when I was a baby I ate so many sweet potatoes that I turned yellow. <BR/><BR/>I think I'm pinker now than a few years ago when family could not help but comment regularly that I must be eating too many carrots. What's changed? About a year or so ago I began taking liquid iron (just before that, I had this experience: a Chinese doctor pulled down my lower eyelid and said, "Tsk, Tsk, Tsk...You must eat red meat!" due to my pale looking lower lid.)<BR/>I'm much pinker and my lower lid is bright red!My Year Withouthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17290085498074393110noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6715049094354778809.post-68619024572452328922008-11-09T16:13:00.000+00:002008-11-09T16:13:00.000+00:00Anon - thanks, that's really interesting. So if I ...Anon - thanks, that's really interesting. So if I have understood correctly, the hypothyroidism, pre-treatment, was preventing carotenes being turned into Vit A and therefore there were more of them in your body, causing the orangeness?Methuselahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09134860337125242027noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6715049094354778809.post-31864573969356327022008-11-09T10:01:00.000+00:002008-11-09T10:01:00.000+00:00Fifteen years ago my niece was a yellow-bordering-...Fifteen years ago my niece was a yellow-bordering-on-orange colored baby because of all the carrot, sweet potato, and pureed squash she ate while an infant. They were the only veggies she would eat at one stage. But it was known that the veggies were the cause and it wasn't a problem.<BR/><BR/>I noticed a few years back that my palms had a orangy hue to them, but I never found it particularly worrisome and figured it was carotenes, though I didn't have an especially high intake.<BR/><BR/>But not long after I started thyroid hormone replacement for hypothyroidism, I noticed my palms had lost their orange tint. Later I ran read in several places that hypothyroidism reduces the body's ability to convert carotenes into Vit A. Now I make sure I am eating enough foods with pre-formed Vit A so I don't have to convert so much.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com