The One Deficiency Behind Dry Eyes, Dry Mouth, and Bumpy Arms transcript

If you have these gritty dry eyes, which I used to have, or a mouth that's dry, or your skin on the back of your arms becomes very roughened like there's these little bumps coming out, then this video is going to be very valuable for you. Most people end up treating each issue separately with some type of lotion [music] or cream or treatment that's just treating the tip of the iceberg. It's not getting to the root cause.

There's one vitamin deficiency behind all three of these problems. And I'm just curious. Go ahead and put in the comments right now what you think that vitamin deficiency is. The eyes, the mouth, and the skin all need as a base nutrient vitamin A to work correctly. And I'm primarily talking about mucous membranes and a lipid barrier, which is a fat barrier that protects the skin. So, let's first talk about the eyes. You have three different layers of material on the eyes.

The inner layer is a mucous layer, and then you have a water layer, and then an oil layer right on top of that. The most critical layer is this mucous layer right here because you can kind of look at that like Velcro that holds the tear in the eye and prevents it from drying out. The cells that control this mucus run on vitamin A. It helps regulate the layer of skin over your body and also internally as well. If there's not enough vitamin A, you can develop very rough skin and all sorts of weird things that can grow on the external part of your body like a corn that develops on your foot for example.

So, vitamin A has everything to do with keeping your tissue soft, wet, having the right amount of mucus, and also to make sure that your skin does not turn into toad skin. Now, the single biggest mistake that people make with vitamin A is thinking that beta-carotene is vitamin A. And if you don't know this, they'll waste their time consuming a tremendous amount of carrots and sweet potatoes thinking they're getting enough vitamin A when that's not going to give them the right type of vitamin A.

There's the active form of vitamin A called retinol, and then there's the precursor called beta carotene that's supposed to turn into retinol, but for most people, they do not convert a lot of beta carotene into vitamin A. You would have to consume a massive amount of carrots to get retinol. And people don't consume pounds of carrots every day. Retinol comes from liver, egg yolks, salmon and other seafood, butter, and cheese.

I remember in my late 20s, I had severe dry eyes. I had no idea it was a vitamin A deficiency. In fact, the inside of my eyelids were so dry and sticky that they turned bloodshot. And yes, I also had those bumps in the back of my arms. I had no idea what those were, but that was a severe vitamin A deficiency. I have a free download that I want to give to you. This free download is my daily routine and a checklist. This is the routine that I use every day to feel like I'm 18 years old, even though I'm 60 years old, and I want to give it to you for free.

And so there's a little link down below, click it, and definitely download that. Now, you may be consuming enough vitamin A, but still have the symptoms. How can that be? Well, there's several reasons because in order for vitamin A to work, you need to have a healthy gallbladder and also sufficient bile. Bile is made from the liver, okay, and it gets stored in the gallbladder. And the purpose of bile is to break down the fat that you eat and extract certain things from it, like fat-soluble vitamins, vitamin A, D, E, K2, omega-3 fatty acids.

So, if you don't have a gallbladder or you have problems with your gallbladder or even have a fatty liver or have other problems with the liver, vitamin A could end up being deficient in your body. In my case, I had a tightness underneath my right rib cage and I had right shoulder pain for literally 12 years. I had no idea back then that my problem was a severe gallbladder issue. Another reason why you might not get enough vitamin A is you don't have enough hydrochloric acid in your stomach.

Having sufficient hydrochloric acid actually works with the gallbladder and triggers the release of bile. So, one reason why someone might not produce enough bile is because they don't have enough hydrochloric acid. How would you know if you didn't have enough hydrochloric acid? You would have indigestion or you would have acid reflux. Okay, that was our classic symptoms of low hydrochloric acid. In which case, you would need to take betaine hydrochloride before you ate to be able to fix that.

Another reason which is not necessarily related to vitamin A, it's a separate reason, not as common, but it can occur. If you have too much omega-6 and not enough omega-3 fatty acids in your body, that can also dry out your skin, especially if it's flaky skin around your nose because you're consuming too many seed oils in the diet. An average person consumes a tremendous amount of seed oils. They're in so many different foods and especially if they consume a lot of fried foods and they go out to fast food restaurants and consume that food.

You're going to get a lot of omega-6 fatty acids and your skin's going to look pretty bad. The last reason why vitamin A might not work in your body is you are low in zinc. In order for vitamin A that's stored in the liver to come out and go into your skin, your eyes, your mouth, it needs to be transported with a little shuttle called zinc. So, if you're deficient in zinc, that could be the reason why you have dry eyes, dry skin, dry mouth.

So, what would be some reasons why you would be deficient in zinc? Not enough hydrochloric acid or you consume a lot of grains. Grains have something called phytic acid that blocks zinc. If you want to know the food that has the most zinc, oysters. So, seafood, shellfish, also red meat has zinc. And if you're deficient in zinc, you'll notice like your sense of smell will be inhibited. You won't taste foods as well as you did before.

But overall, I do not recommend that you ever take a supplement with vitamin A because most of them are synthetic. Get your vitamin A from food. Now, since I mentioned the gallbladder and a lot of people have gallbladder problems, I think it'd be most appropriate now for you to watch this video right here on the gallbladder. Check it out right here. Click right there.