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We all have skin defects on our body; holes, bumps, and spots.
Some of them keep on growing as we age.
Human grooming research proves that most skin imperfections are located at the intersection of two cutaneous folds or somewhere along the path of a fold.
Even when the folds can't be seen, you can feel them with your nails and fingertips.
Your skin is criss-crossed by thousands of horizontal, vertical and diagonal folds.
Any fold will soon meet another and every junction creates a fold crossing.
The skin is badly distorted and mangled at fold crossings.
Cutaneous folds are grooves in your skin, and a deep crater is formed where they meet.
Your system considers this deformation as a wound, and it paves the fold crossing over and over with epidermis cells, creating an area of hardened skin in the form of a cavity or an outgrowth.
Many folds are invisible to the eye, but they can be easily located with your nails and fingertips.
You've often noticed fold crossings on your skin, but you didn't know what they were.
Instead, you've given them one of the following names:
Pimple
Blackhead
Comedo
Acne
Node or nodule
Mole
Beauty spot or mark
Nevus
Black or brown spot
Sun spot
Age spot
Dilated pore
Dimple
Hair vertex or crown
Wart
Heel spur
Lentigo
Skin lesion
Bulla
Macule
Papule
Plaque
Pustule
Vesicle
Epithelioma
Melanoma
...
Warning
Grooming problematic cutaneous structures has not been fully tested at this point.
Go slowly, be cautious, and use your best judgment.
If the skin reacts; stop grooming the area until it heals and revise your technique.
To remove holes, bumps, spots, ... you have to crush them repeatedly with your nail and apply pressure grooming techniques on them.
As soon as you press your nail on an imperfection, you'll feel some hardness inside your skin.
Since the tissue is badly compressed, the skin around these openings is much harder than elsewhere.
As you explore the flaw with your nail; appraise its dimensions and shape.
Your goal is to slowly flatten this hardened structure away.
Short pressure strokes
Use short pressure strokes, 5 seconds or less, to crush every part of a skin defect.
Long pressure strokes
As you explore and crush a skin imperfection, you'll occasionally fall on a weak spot of its structure.
When you feel that your nail is placed on an unstable location:
• Stay where you are.
• Lengthen your pressure stroke to over 30 seconds.
Weak spots in skin structures are mostly located on their highest points or at the bottom of their lowest pits.
You don't want to spend too much time grooming a particular spot because you may hurt your skin.
For best results; groom an area several times a day for short periods.
When you crush hardened structures over and over, you feel the skin becoming gradually less tense and more malleable.
If you groom a skin defect every day; its size, thickness and discoloration will continuously diminish.
Holes and cavities
Bumps and outgrowths
Spots and discolorations
Grooming your skin is easy, but you'll benefit from following the guidelines you'll find right here on this site.
The best place to start is to watch the "Human grooming rediscovered" video.
Folds are grooves in the skin and fold crossings are the craters formed when two folds intersect. (See: Fold crossing theory)
Your system considers the crossings as injuries and it paves them with a fresh coat of epidermis cells to protect itself, anytime your movements challenge the skin too much.
Some fold crossings stay open, while others get covered by the process.
This leads to three types of skin deformations:
• Holes and cavities,
• Bumps and outgrowths,
• Spots and discolorations.
You're not supposed to see holes or cavities in your skin.
Pores are very small and hardly noticeable.
If some pores on your skin have enlarged, it's because they are placed on the path of a fold or at a crossing.
Enlarged pores are a joke.
How could the cells of a pore expand, harden and create a deep hole?
It's plain to see that several cells have been added to create the crater.
Those dents in your skin were pores originally, but they have been transformed because they were positioned at the intersection of two folds.
In fact, all fold crossings occur at pore or hair follicle locations because the skin is naturally open and depressed at those points.
Just like cavities, protuberances are caused by underlying fold crossings.
However, cavities have an open chimney, while protuberances have their chimney sealed off by epidermis cells resulting from the wound healing process.
Beneath the mounds, you will find the meeting of two folds and its usual chimney.
But, the chimney is blocked and covered with living epidermis cells.
So, lumps and bumps represent a greater problem for your skin than holes and cavities.
Bodily wastes, such as sebum and sweat, have no exit and your body keeps on fighting their presence.
In most cases, the height and size of the protuberance will keep on increasing all your life.
Furthermore, some fold crossings form a cap, an outgrowth, that is aesthetically displeasing.
As explained on the Fold crossing theory page, fold crossings grows inwards.
The skin, refolded at the top, is gradually pulled down into the chimney, as it digs deeper and deeper.
Just like the astronomer's black holes, fold crossings attract skin cells into their crater.
The skin gets locally thicker.
Having so many skin cell in one location can create a difference in color between the fold crossing and the neighboring cells.
We've all been explained that pimples and blackheads occur inside hair follicles.
However, these illustrations don't correspond to my experience.
Many of my pimples and blackheads were much larger and their content was much greater than what could fit in a tiny hair follicle.
More over, some of my pimples and blackheads presented outgrowths in the form of a mound of flesh with a transparent bulging cap.
Immense sebaceous glands simply don't make sense.
The illustrations above may work for mild non-problematic acne, but many pimples and blackhead are formed inside a much bigger structure; a fold crossing.
Fold crossings serve as containers for blackheads and pimples.
Acne inside folds and crossings
Large pimples and blackheads develop inside folds and fold crossings.
The cutaneous folds and their crossings form caverns; empty spaces where bodily wastes can accumulate.
Your system fights their presence
Your body already considers folds and their crossings as wounds.
It reacts even more to pimples and blackheads.
To protect itself, your skin produces extra epidermis cells to cover the gap and to strengthen the structure.
Bodily wastes accumulate inside
See the following chapter, below.
Your face is about six times more folded than your body is.
There are proportionally more sebum glands there, making their presence inside the folds and their crossings probable.
Your body's sudden size increase at adolescence tightens your grid of folds deeper into your skin.
This augmentation of your skin's tension has a strangling effect on the crossings.
It's as if they were pinched.
When I was in my teens, with acne all over the face, I was intrigued by the fact that new pimples often appeared in very similar positions on both sides of my face.
How could different glands, far away from each other, react and form pimples simultaneously?
The fact that these pimples were actually fold crossings explains it all.
The folds that are formed by facial expressions are similar on both sides of the face.
Most fold crossings form a hole or cave that deepens slowly all your life.
These cavities are made up of several deformed and compressed skin cells that are now oriented sideways, instead of facing upwards.
The bodily wastes that they produce (dead cells, sebum, sweat ...) are now expelled inside the fold crossing.
They accumulate in this skin pouch and have a hard time finding their way out.
Acne is generally found in regions of the body where sebaceous (sebum) glands abound, such as the face and back.
What kind of wastes accumulate inside a fold crossing depends on its position on your body.
Generally, it is a mix of sebum, sweat and dead epidermis cells.
You can expect the sebum content to be greater on your face.
If the sebum content augments too much, the fold crossing can swell and possibly hurt a bit.
The chimney can also contain hair, cellular wastes and possibly some intruders you don't expect to find there.
These uninvited guests include whatever there was on the skin just prior to it being folded: food, cosmetics, dirt, ...
Even when it is open, evacuating the chimney is difficult and awkward.
Since air can penetrate it, its content has a tendency to dry in place.
Fold crossing
with an
open chimney
→
Further waste production pushes some out gradually.
Sometimes, the very top of the chimney's content will dehydrate, forming a plug.
Fold crossing
with a
blocked chimney
→
New wastes accumulate and compress behind it.
People know this phenomenon as a blackhead.
Since your skin considers fold crossings as wounds, its healing process will often pave the top of a crossing with fresh coats of cells.
The opening is blocked.
A capped and sealed chimney imprisons its contents.
Everything stays trapped in.
Fold crossing
with a
sealed chimney
→
The encased deposits don't dry and may remain captive for life.
If wastes, mainly sebum, continue to fill a sealed fold crossing; the internal pressure will increase.
The fold crossing will swell and the epidermis seal at its top will bubble up.
Sealed
fold crossing
with its chimney
under pressure
→
The rise in pressure on the fold crossing can also come from mechanical sources, such as repetitive movements or an increase in the body's size.
People know this phenomenon as a pimple.
When its exit is tightly closed, the pressure inside the fold crossing augments as more wastes arrive.
This stress may push the filling, not finding an exit, to attack its skin sheath at the bottom of the crossing.
The flesh is pierced.
Over pressured
sealed
fold crossing
causing infection
→
Fold crossings are deep cavities in the skin.
Their content is submitted to continuous pressure.
In addition to the above mentioned sebum, pus, serum, sweat and blood, a fold crossing may contain all kinds of compounds: cosmetics, food, soap, dead or sunburned skin cells, insect repellent, ...
These trapped wastes remain in place for years, but, if some crossings are submitted to sudden compressions, they tear the epidermis and penetrate into the dermis to slowly infect the skin.
The infection evolves with time, but it has no exit, so it spreads inwards.
This theory works for all external types of cancers such as: skin cancers, breast cancers, anal cancers, mouth and throat cancers, ...
These cancers would be, in fact, fold crossing cancers.
Cancers occur in areas of the body where the skin is under more pressure than elsewhere (the melanoma pictured above is positioned between the eye and the ear).
The following observations have guided my thinking;
•The link between acne scars or moles and skin cancer is clearly documented and accepted by the scientific community.
•The lumps in my skin or nodules that triggered my grooming adventure are the kind described in breast cancer early detection tests and in prostate cancer rectal touch examinations.
•I am now experienced at seeing what fold crossings look like on my body and that of others. I have examined skin cancer photographs. Not only is the appearance of epithelioma or a melanoma similar to a crossing, their position on the body corresponds to major intersections on the grid of folds.
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