Just when you thought it was safe to bring home the yogurt and ice cream

Maybe we shouldn’t have this stuff in all of our dairy products ? pic.twitter.com/vzEpjvGWHY

— Dr Shawn Baker 🥩 (@SBakerMD) February 6, 2025

DR. KEN D. BERRY: Skin Tags are the result of metabolic syndrome, insulin resistance, hyperinsulinemia, pre-diabetes, because you're eating too many processed carbohydrates

Note that this video is 4 years old.

There's a diet that tens of thousands of people have used to shrink or completely reverse or remove their skin tags: and that is the low-carb, keto, carnivore, Banting, Atkins diets.  --Dr. Ken D. Berry

Most people and many doctors don't know that Skin Tags are a sign of hyperinsulinemia! (prediabetes)
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— Ken D Berry MD (@KenDBerryMD) September 12, 2024

Skin tags are benign.  They're not dangerous at all.  Minor surgery removes skin tags, but removing the skin tags does not remove the syndrome responsible for the tags going on inside your body.

 

CAUSES

1.  Genetics.

2.  Viral component.

3.  Major culprits, especially if you have multiple skin tags, are metabolic syndrome, insulin resistance, hyperinsulinemia, pre-diabetes, and Type 2 Diabetes.  There is a direct association between the NUMBER of skin tags you have on your body, regardless of their location, and your risk of developing hyperinsulinemia, pre-diabetes, and ultimately Type 2 Diabetes.  There's also a direct correlation between the number of skin tags you have and being obese.  But that's not because obesity causes skin tags.  That's because of metabolic syndrome, insulin resistance, hyperinsulinemia, and pre-diabetes.  That's what's causing your skin tags.  

And so you can go to a skin specialist or a family doctor and have them removed, 

2:50  You can keep the skin tags from ever developing and reverse the ones that you already have and make them smaller and smaller and make them evaporate.  It's better to fix the underlying problem, and that's the fact that you're eating too many carbohydrates and too many processed carbohydrates.  There's a diet that tens of thousands of people have used to shrink or completely reverse or remove their skin tags: and that is the low-carb, keto, carnivore, Banting, Atkins diets.  These diets all lower your blood sugar levels back to normal levels.  They lower your insulin levels back to normal levels, and that gets rid of the hyperinsulinemia, gets rid of the blood sugar spikes, and then your skin tags just start to dissolve on their own.  

furball8967 writes in the video notes, 

I’ve had skin tags for years, I started keto, eat 4 to 6 eggs a day, have salt instead of sugar in my coffee, eat bacon and cook that in butter, ever since I’ve changed my diet, I’ve gotten healthier. Here are the changes: 1. I no longer have plaque build up in my gums. 2. Skin tags around my neck, gone completely. 3. My leg veins have disappeared, this is a biggie for me. 4. Lost weight so much that my self esteem has jumped through the roof. 3 years and I’m younger now than I was 5 years ago! Edit July 2024: I’m still doing keto, it’s a way of life for me. Healthy as I’ve ever been. Had a medical checkup. Blood tests scans. My doctor examined me and his words.....”All blood good!” “All scan good”. “Whatever you are doing, keep doing”.

So there's that. 

NUTRITION DOC: Skin tags are not to be ignored. It's your body shouting it needs diet & lifestyle changes. Mostly, skin tags are a sign of underlying insulin resistance, characterized by high insulin resistance & impaired carbohydrate metabolism

AN and skin tags should be considered clinical markers of hyperinsulinemia in nondiabetic, obese patients.  -- A. Plascencia Gómez, et al. 

The solution?  Fix the diet with carnivore.

Skin tags are not to be ignored.

It's your body shouting it needs diet & lifestyle changes.

Mostly, skin tags are a sign of underlying insulin resistance,

characterized by high insulin resistance & impaired carbohydrate metabolism. pic.twitter.com/k89OuQWnG3

— Nutrition Doc (@jason_muthomi) November 8, 2023

The Chief Herbalist recommends the pencil plant to eliminate skin tags, comparing skin tags to warts.  If skin tags are the equivalent of warts, why not use Compound W on them?  Chief Herbalist doesn't provide any proof that the pencil plant is the remedy.  I would say that the insulin resistance theory best accords with their presence.  

One of the best plants to remove tags and warts from the skin is the pencil plant.

Break the stem of the plant and apply the latex on the affected skin. The tag will fall off and the warts will be cured.

Nature heals #BackToEden pic.twitter.com/56wUeGH3yW

— ChiefHerbalist (@HerbalistChief) May 25, 2024

The Nutrition Doc at least provides an argument, something to sink your exploratory teeth into in an article titled, "Skin Disorders in Overweight and Obese Patients and Their Relationship with Insulin," A.  Plascencia Gómez, M.E. Vega Memije, M. Torres Tamayo,  A.A. Rodríguez Carreón, Science Direct, March 2014.

Results

In total, 109 patients (95 adults and 13 children, 83.5% female) were studied. The mean (SD) age was 38 (14) years and the mean body mass index was 39.6 ± 8 kg/m2. The skin conditions observed were acanthosis nigricans (AN) (in 97% of patients), skin tags (77%), keratosis pilaris (42%), and plantar hyperkeratosis (38%). Statistically significant associations were found between degree of obesity and AN (P = .003), skin tags (P = .001), and plantar hyperkeratosis. Number of skin tags, AN neck severity score, and AN distribution were significantly and independently associated with insulin levels.

Conclusions

AN and skin tags should be considered clinical markers of hyperinsulinemia in nondiabetic, obese patients.

Fix your food. Reverse diastolic heart failure within 4 weeks of low carb diet

BREAKING:

Major root cause of heart failure is insulin resistance caused by poor diet

‘It’s something most cardiologists are not aware of’

One study showed reversal of diastolic heart failure echo markers within 4 weeks of low carb diet

Need to fix the food!  @GBNEWS pic.twitter.com/IcoRivlm8E

— Dr Aseem Malhotra FRCP (@DrAseemMalhotra) October 23, 2021