Comments on: Latest Greatest Research: Glycemic Load and Acne

By: joe

joe — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 15:57:40 +0000

I tried one of the low glycemic diets, basically involving eating onlu naturally-occuring food (no bread, cereals etc) Mainly meat, veg, eggs & fruit & nuts. And to my amazement it works not partially but COMPLETELY – on days when I managed to completely do this all my spots deflated, and no new ones formed. On the occasion I managed to do 2-3 days in a row, my skin was 10x better as it appears all the spoys naturallu go down if no new oil is produced to ‘inflate’ them.
It’s hard keeping it up – now I just do this brekfast & lunch but still my skin is improving all the time and no new breakouts ever happen

By: Simon

Simon — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 19:52:42 +0000

I’ve always considered diet a factor in acne, so one day decided – based on my own conclusions – to go low GI.

My results suggest high GI is a trigger in major breakouts. However, low GI does not eliminate my acne. So I guess it’s just one of those increasing factors, like irritation.

Keep up the research, Dan!

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 18:34:42 +0000

I’m a longtime acne.org reader and have used Dan’s regimen for about five years. While it’s helped control things somewhat, I continued to get cysts and other types of inflammatory and non-inflammatory acne.

Over the past 15 days, I haven’t eaten any sugar or processed foods containing sugar or natural sweeteners, with the exception of a tiny bowl of yoghurt with maple syrup or honey late in the evening. To my great delight, my skin is clearer than it has been in years (I’ve had acne for about 25 years and have tried just about everything except for Accutane). Normally I get new nodules and cysts every few days.

I should note that the rest of my diet is quite low-glycemic, too — lots of vegetables, legumes, whole grains, etc. Very little dairy and hardly any meat. But that’s never brought on the kind of improvement that I’ve seen over the last weeks.

This is purely anecdotal, of course, and too short a time frame to draw any real conclusion. But I’d definitely give it a try if you suffer from persistent acne!

P.S. Dan: regarding your lingering question,* I haven’t lost any weight in the two weeks I’ve eliminated sugars. Probably because I allow myself the occasional no-sugar treat like pizza or cappuccino with a croissant

* “What stands out most sharply is the lingering question of whether glycemic load leads to decreased acne symptoms or whether it is the weight loss that tends to go hand in hand with this sort of diet that causes the reduction in acne.”

By: Tyler

Tyler — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 18:23:05 +0000

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By: UsNck

UsNck — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 09:41:24 +0000

If this is true, it sucks! )

I love white bread and white rice..not giving it up. )

By: Josh

Josh — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 02:42:19 +0000

Haha, wow. I’m honored to be mentioned, i think. Good info even though we still don’t have answers but that gets me thinking. What if we did a mass “study”, among whoever on acne.org wants to participate, whenever we get enough info to form a heavy hypothesis to what may help clear acne. Of course it would not be nearly as accurate as studies being performed by scientists who pay their guinea pigs but we could try the honor system. People do a lot of things like that in the message boards with various ideas. But i think it would mean more being led by Dan or another Acne.org worker person. Just an idea!