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Acrokeratosis
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Also known as: keratosis of hands and feet · acrokeratosis · keratosis of the extremities · hyperkeratosis of the acra · keratinised fingers · keratinised toes · calluses on the extremities · Bazex syndrome · paraneoplastic acrokeratosis · keratinization disorder of the acra · callus formation on the acra
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Your skin is getting thicker. Precisely where you touch the world — on the inner surfaces of your hands, on the soles of your feet. The horny layer grows, hardens, lays itself over the soft tissue like an additional layer. Medically this is called acrokeratosis: increased keratinization at the acra, the outermost ends of your body. Calluses, hardened skin, sometimes cracked, sometimes painful.
Conventional medicine sees this first as a mechanical reaction — pressure, friction, genetic predisposition, nutritional deficiency. And all of that is accurate. But it doesn't explain why precisely this body, precisely in this phase of life, precisely in these places, is hardening. Because it is no coincidence that the skin grows thicker exactly where you give and receive — in the hands — and exactly where you walk and stand — in the feet.
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