One common expression that is rarely used for people with PTSD, especially those like me with Complex PTSD, is he/she has thick skin. For most of the past 8 year's I have felt like wet tissue paper, with almost everything penetrating through my boundaries. Then, again, she/he has thick skin is rarely used for the elderly. "Age spot's" and every so frequent ding's on the dorsal skin of the hand's, due to the skin's thinning as we age.
Histologically, our skin is always 5 cells deep, with very little dimensional variation throughout life, but the fat in the subcutaneous region's does thin, and as a result of the loss of soft protection, they "we" have many many ding's if we are engaged in physical work. I was constantly seeing this happen to me this gardening season. Then, once again, I amazed myself with my blind spots.
On 6 occasions during my medical practice, I was hired by neutraceutical companies to develop products for health or other human benefits. All but one time they came to me, the one time, I chose to fund Shayla and Susan's trip to NYC to sing Handle's Messiah on stage at Carnegie Hall. So, why not thicken your skin with a natural product, topical, not internal. There are many well established nutrient relationships with the various tissues and structures of the animal kingdom, and human's in specific. Some nutrients are "essential", meaning that if we do not deliver them intact in our food's, we suffer deficiencies, disease and premature death. 8 adult, 10 child amino acids, a large variety of vitamin's and minerals, and then the dominant category of western disease and aging, the efa's or essential fatty acids. There are only two, and as a whole, American's who consume 30-40% fat in their diet's do not get the 5% essential sources (omega 3 and omega 6), required to maintain health and function. The Omega 3's and the derivatives found in fish reduce hearth disease, diabetes and a plethora of western diseases. The Omega 6's are protector's against most forms of cancer, comprise the cell membrane fluid necessary for cell function and life, absorption and elimination of chemical's, and it is 90% of the subcutaneous fat.
Sunflower oil, is 100% Omega 6. Thus, starting with organic, cold-pressed sunflower seed oil, I added tumeric to open circulation and absorption, henna to not be so yellow, MSM to enhance delivery and absorption of the fat's, lecithin to help fat's and salt water fluids to co-mingle, gelliton as a food for skin and hair, raw honey as a preservative.
The first attempt was way too thin for a skin cream or lotion, leaving excess oil on everything, so the lecithin was added. It ended up being too thin again, so knowing how to make traditional salves with bee's wax and olive oil, bear fat (they have cholesterol levels in excess of 600), and either coconut or palm oil's which are solid at room temperature, like bacon great, totally "saturated". I got a pint of coconut oil, put it in a pan with water to simmer, and poured it into the mixture, now, when refrigerated the skin cream smells wonderful, does not leave oil everywhere and should be a wonderful success. I haven't had a single ding for the month following a week of the first attempt. With proof being in the pudding, you should be able to see it's benefits shortly on my pod cast's as I take on father time.
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