Liver is a great source of folate. Bone broth is a great source of calcium.

Ruby, do you use commercial lip balms, salves or lipsticks? The mineral oil, petroleum jelly, etc, does not actually help the skin. It just makes a slick film on top of the skin. Dr. Richard Bernstein addresses this in his book, [The Diabetes Solution, regarding foot care][1].

Here is the paragraph from his book:

• If the skin of your feet is dry, lubricate the entire foot. Suitable lubricants include olive oil, any vegetable oil, vitamin E oil, emu oil, mink oil, and emulsified lanolin. Many oils and lotions that contain these products as major ingredients are available commercially. Do not use petroleum jelly (Vaseline), mineral oil, or baby oil, as they are not absorbed by the skin.

You could try using coconut or olive oil, rosehips or jojoba, castor.

I melt one part grated, bees wax with three parts liquid oils, such as sweet almond, olive, castor oil, to make lip balm. If you wish to use coconut oil or shea butter, then use a bit less bees wax.

Also, are you drinking enough water? Is the water purified or straight city water? Are you drinking too much coffee, tea, or alcohol?

Are you eating enough animal fats?

Is where you live and work well humidified?

Do you have normal blood sugar regulation? Do you have allergies? Did you get a fever? You can see, there are many things that could cause dry and/or peeling skin.

Those are the ones that come to mind, at the moment. :)

Hope this helps some. :) [1]: http://www.diabetes-book.com/book/appendixD.shtml

the problem may be the seeds and the brown rice, which are not strictly paleo

Stop the madness. Please.

B12 doesn't participate directly in overall skin barrier functioning. Emu oil, mink oil, and emulsified lanolin can ALL create an allergic contact dermatitis. You may have some of that going on as it is to either a food that you've become skin sensitized to, or to your oral hygeine products, makeup, preservatives in your lip balms, etc, etc, etc.

Sometimes people get chapped lips. It doesn't mean you have a nutritional deficiency. Plain petrolatum is almost never a contact sensitizer, and it does tend to prevent further evaporation from the skin that it's covering, which is a big part of the problem. I'm not knocking Dr. Bernstein, but a dermatologist, he is not. Believe it or not, there are many good reasons this is its own specialty and takes 4 years of dedicated training post medical school to be competent at delivering skin care.

You may need to up your fats, increase your hydration, change your toothpaste, or any number of things. I don't think the brown rice directly did anything to change what the problem was, though. At least, there is no mechanism that comes to mind that would immediately change the overall appearance of your lips. Skin doesn't work that way, and generally anything you do now won't show an effect for somewhere around 3 months.

Try vitamin K2 by Thorne Research. If you can handle a bit of dairy, butter oil by green pastures also works.

I've found it relates to my Vit C consumption...collagen and hydration related...

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Cracked corners of my mouth usually means a yeast infection. As soon as I apply anti fungal meds on it, it starts to heal.

I had chapped lips also. I finally narrowed it down to the apple cider vinegar I was using on my salads. Now my lips aren't flaking nearly as much anymore.

I get this problem when I go very low carb (VLC). In going VLC, my consumption of protein tends to increase as well. I notice when I either: deliberately increase my fat intake (thereby lowering my protein ratio), or add in a bit more sugar/starch, the problem resolves within a day. The sugar/starch addition works better for me than the fats. Nothing else I have tried has worked, this includes using lip balms, drinking lots of water, adding in significant salt (to increase water retention?), or Vit. D. I eat plenty of pastured butter so I would be surprised if it is a K2 problem in my case.