As I've become older, I've also found that in winter, my skin starts to be a bit unhappy (fingertips on the right hand getting rough and a bit broken up, usuall

As I've become older, I've also found that in winter, my skin starts to be a bit unhappy (fingertips on the right hand getting rough and a bit broken up, usually, but it can also be a bit below the eyes), and my gut starts to be rather unhappy. When the sunshine returns, and I get some sun-on-skin time during the day, it all goes away. I'm now experimenting with vitamin D supplementation. Regarding your comments about doctors; yes. I may be completely wrong, but I think they have a revolving door of patients, and are restricted to actions which are permitted and/or supplied by their institution, or larger, national regulator. I've found that doing my own investigations, usually via Eurakalert, leads me to finding a considerable number of modern, up to date, wel designed studies, and as a result, and also knowing my own body properly, and over all of my life, and caring for it in a way which is impossible for a doctor with a large number of patients all of whom he gets to see for an appointment every month or whatever it is, I give myself infinitely better treatment than a doctor. My experience of institutionalized medicine has been high prices, rote treatments, lack of insight or imagination, and on one occasion, completely unnecessary full chest x-ray (which I would no longer stand for, but I was younger at the time). The only use I see for them is access to larger treatments, such as surgical treatments, which cannot otherwise be obtained.