Freckles, or Seed Oil Spots?
"Old Age Spots" are not a natural aging process
You already know how seed oils cause sunburn and cellulite. Surely that must be all of the suspicious skin problems caused by seed oils, right?
Unfortunately my friend, the evil of seed oils knows no bounds.
Let me introduce you to another of the many faces of seed oil toxicity: Seed Oil Spots.
Freckles
These are “freckles”, and they occur in otherwise healthy people of all ages, most of whom have fair skin. There’s nothing wrong with freckles, and they’re not an explicit sign of bad health.
Seed Oil Spots
But not all skin-spots are created equal, and in some cases freckle-like spots can be a sign of Seed Oil Toxicity. You may have heard them called “liver spots” or “old age spots”, but I prefer Seed Oil Spots, which correctly attributes their cause.
They’re most commonly seen on older people. Here’s an example:
That’s not what the skin of a healthy old person looks like.
Don’t believe me? Let’s look at photos of old people who hadn’t eaten a modern industrial diet for most of their lives.
Examples come from modern non-industrialized cultures, like the woman above, or from old people in western societies before seed oils became common, like this one:
For more examples, you need only look at an old family scrapbook. Look for photos of elderly relatives prior to ~1970, and you’ll notice that no one has these spots.
So what specifically causes them, and how can they be avoided (or reversed)?
What are freckles
There are two types of “freckles”, each with different causes.
Ordinary freckles are “more commonly found on children before puberty”, and disappear or remain constant as the child grows up. They are caused by an overproduction of melanin and seem harmless. They are not the subject of this article.
However, another type of “freckles” are “caused by exposure to sunlight”.
As I explained in this article, intense sunlight accelerates the decay of seed oils that are stuck in the skin, leading to irritation and tissue damage.
Healthy, seed oil-free skin can handle the sun. Thus it seems logical that if your skin is filled seed oils, damage via sun exposure could lead to these freckle-like spots.
Sounds reasonable, but what mechanism could be responsible?
Lipofuscin
What if there were a pigmented substance, formed by oxidized seed oils, that accumulates in the skin and forms freckle-like spots?
Turns out, there is exactly such a substance, and it is called lipofuscin. Here’s what we know about it:
Lipofuscin is a byproduct of the “oxidation of unsaturated fatty acids” i.e. lipid peroxidation i.e. seed oil decay, combined with heavy metals like iron and aluminum
Lipofuscin causes macular degeneration, which is also caused by seed oil consumption
Lipofuscin causes alzheimers, which we also know is caused by seed oil consumption
Lipofuscin is even reduced by Vitamin E, which you all know by now also cleans up seed oil decay
That’s a pretty damning rap sheet, and it seems to meet all the criteria to explain our Seed Oil Spots. Lipofuscin
Causes brown pigmentation in the skin (and other tissues), and
Is the byproduct of seed oil oxidation
This means that it would afflict only people living in industrialized countries, and would increase with age and total sun exposure, which is exactly what we see with Seed Oil Spots.
While Seed Oil Spots are only visible on the skin, by the time you can see them your entire body is riddled with them.
These balls of seed oil decay and toxic heavy metals have been found in eye, nerve, liver, and brain cells, but likely afflict all soft tissues in the body. Some people have even claimed that IBS/leaky gut is really just lipofuscin in the intestines.
We all know that seed oil decay forms free radicals and aldehydes; lipofuscin is yet another toxic byproduct of the odious oils.
tl;dr:
Lipofuscin, a brownish pigment, is a combination of seed oil decay byproducts and toxic heavy metals
It accumulates in various tissues, and can be visible on the skin, where it’s called “liver spots”, “old age spots”, or even freckles
These spots are not a naturally occurring aging process, and are a specific symptom of chronic seed oil usage
Ideas for Treatment
The lipofuscin treatments recommended by pharmaceutical sources involve lasers and expensive drugs that don’t actually account for the cause of the problem.
Of course, the simple methods likely to work have not been explicitly tested for this purpose.
Perhaps with enough interest and awareness we can organize a crowd-sourced study of Seed Oil Spot reduction through Shire Labs, which is currently studying raw milk and women’s health (follow us on twitter as well).
In the meantime, we will have to base the protocol off of relatively scant, but sensible research. Here’s what I would do if I had lipofuscin overload:
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