Recently, the Human Microbiome Project was given $42 million in stimulus money to conduct in depth research into how microscopic organisms affect our health. Since the microscopic organisms which live in or on our bodies outnumber human cells by about 10 to 1, and are largely unstudied, this could be very interesting.

The Human Microbiome is defined as “all the microorganisms that reside in or on the human body, as well as their DNA, or genomes.” In short, scientists from around the country are going to sequence at least 400 microbial genomes in a first step at looking at how they may affect health and disease.

$990,000 is going to UCLA to look at possible connections between skin organisms and acne. Let’s hope they find something!

I put up a page about visualizing clear skin a few months ago and asked for some feedback from you guys on whether or not it worked for you. You responded with some comments which are now on the visualization and acne page. I know trying this stuff can be a stretch, but if the mind and body really are one, which when you think about it…they really are to some extent…then perhaps it’s worth a shot. I personally enjoy and employ the whole concept of visualizing what I want to create, and it seems to work well in most areas of my life. Medical conditions are one area where I’m a little less convinced, but I remain open. If you decide to try this, please keep submitting your comments on the visualization page.

New ratings pages: Paul and Joel have been busy redoing our ratings pages to simplify them and create more sorting options. It’s going to be amazing when it’s finished.

Everydayhealth blog: Everydayhealth.com asked me to write a guest blog once a week and I’m on my third week. Feel free to check it out if you’d like. I’m having a lot of fun with it. I can just let my mind run wild once a week and get creative. Good stuff.

New videos: We uploaded new videos to the homepage, the regimen page, the personalized advice page, and the regimen advice page. Don’t tell anybody, but they’re taken in front of a white sheet that we taped up to the wall of my living room

Reading about tricotillomania and other cognitive treatments to help with picking related disorders, in particular a therapy called “acceptance and commitment therapy” which consists of not fighting against intrusive thoughts. I want our picking pages to be as amazing as possible. I find the subject fascinating.

Reading research on Epiduo, a combination adapalene and benzoyl peroxide topical prescription treatment. I’ll add that information to the medications page shortly.

Good stuff

Hey you guys. I’ve got multiple projects at the ready: a newly updated scars page, an interactive picking page, and several other fun new web pages which are designed and ready for implementation. But, Joel is back in school and too busy to handle it all! So, we need another Joel OK, that’s not possible. We’re all unqiue But let’s way it were. What is another Joel? Basically, someone who is amazing in PHP, Javascript, and who can also design stuff in Photoshop part time to full time. The work would be done remotely. Pay is commensurate with experience. If you’re interested, please email miriam@acne.org with a resume and cover letter outlining why you’d like to work for Acne.org in particular.

Thanks you guys!

Acne.org has been around pretty much forever now. If you want a good laugh, check out the old website from WAY back in the day. The images used to be roll-over animations, but only the myths page seems to still be working that way.

Throughout the years, I’ve received many inquiries into this subject. I did as much research as I could on the topic and the new masturbation and acne page is now live.

I forgot to mention in the video that I’m gonna take a little vacay too Fun in the sun!

Hey you guys. I am headed out of town unexpectedly for a day or two so I won’t be able to update the blog for a couple of days. I’ll still be online in case anybody needs me, but I won’t have my camera or editing software. Sorry. I really want to get videos up every day and I hope to be at that point in the near future. -Dan

P.S. The next video will be about caffeine and acne. You guys asked me to look into it so I did.

Hey you guys. I got a new videocamera! I’m setting it up today and trying it out. I’ll hopefully have a new video up tomorrow. In the meantime, here’s my all time favorite YouTube video (Matt dancing around the world): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlfKdbWwruY

I’m going to do a video response to this guy and put in on the blog soon

Yup, it totally broke. I’m sorry you guys. It’s like a decade old so I guess it’s no surprise that it’s putt putt-ing out on us. So I guess we can’t film a video today

We’ll be back tomorrow, I promise…

We’re editing a video for Friday that we filmed before the camera went kaput! It’s really cool! I can’t wait to show it to you…I shouldn’t give it away…OK—I will!

I was on TV again! It’s just a local show but it was really awesome…well, I don’t know if awesome is the right word, maybe random would be a better word to describe it. In other words, prepare not to be too impressed. But it’s fun so I thought I’d show you. OK, tune in tomorrow…

See ya then,
Dan