Many medical professionals (among others) continue to insist that there is no direct link between your diet and acne breakouts. That’s easy to understand, I suppose, since most of those making these claims are the same folks that are making money either treating you directly, or selling you products to help you treat yourself.
The fact is, however, that diet and acne are related. Believing that there is no relationship between the things you put into your body and the way that your body reacts is absurd. Tobacco smoke affects your lungs. Saturated fat and cholesterol affect your heart health. And certain food groups will affect acne formation.
How Diet and Acne are Related…
Acne starts because your body is secreting too much sebum oil from your sebacious glands, located in the base of hair follicles. The excess oil tends to pool in the follicles and skin pores, creating the perfect breeding ground for the P-acne bacteria that is on everyone’s skin. The bacteria begin breeding at an excellerated rate, emitting an enzyme that begins to irritate your skin cells. Your body reacts to this irritation by sending white blood cells to fight the infection. All of this continues until the pore becomes clogged and a nice, fat zit forms.
For most of us with acne, this first becomes evident in our teenage years when hormones are running wild. Your body is using the sebum oil to emulsify the excessive hormones that your body is making and remove them through your skin. Although there is nothing you can do about the hormones your body is producing internally, a proper acne diet will limit (or, eliminate) your consumption of more hormones that are in the food you eat.
One good example of this is the milk that’s in your refrigerator. Every ounce contains fifty nine different hormones. If you suffer from hormonal (teenage) acne, drinking milk only adds fuel to an already raging fire. And, that’s just one example!
Yet, people that should know better still claim that diet and acne aren’t related.
It Can Get Worse!
Some of us are cursed with bodies that have very little (or, no) tolerance to excessive amounts of any foreign material, not just hormones. For us, acne persists well passed the age of adolescence and raging hormones, and continues into adulthood.
If you suffer from adult acne, your body is reacting to the presence of unnatural chemicals and toxins, rather than just hormones. And, where do you suppose these chemicals are coming from?
There are over three hundred chemicals in use today that didn’t exist 60 years ago. They keep your clothes bright, your hair soft, your skin younger looking, and your food fresh & pretty. Your everyday environment is full of things that your body can’t tolerate and it’s still using sebum oil to remove them.
And they still claim that diet and acne aren’t related!
Well, I do know better, because I’ve been on the Acne No More! program for about 18 months and, after suffering severe acne outbreaks since I was a teenager, have been completely acne free for over a year. No doctors! No medicine! No acne creams! I follow the diet and made some small lifestyle changes (no big deal!) and my acne breakouts stopped!
The bottom line here is that I have no doubt that diet and acne have a very close relationship (especially for adult acne!). Personally, I found success with the Acne No More! program, but, there are others out there that may be just as good. What ever you do, though, don’t take advice on diet and acne from those that make money only so long as you continue to suffer outbreaks!
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