Preventing Acne: Trying BP and Vitamin B5 together?

To start, I was once one of those people who completely refused the notion that diet had anything to do with acne. I went on the regimen, and started putting four pumps of BP on my face a day, and then six when four wasn't enough. That got rid of all my acne on my face, but I still had some acne along my chin, including a cyst every blue moon.

Very recently, I got fed up with my chin acne. To get myself clear, the first thing I tried was ultra-loading it with BP. At one point I was putting six pumps of BP on my face, and another 2 pumps JUST on my chin. But no matter how much BP I put, the chin acne wouldn't go away.

So, very recently, I looked into diet. I had always avoided milk, but then I realized I was having milk in so many ways I wasn't aware of; cream for coffee, cheese on pizza, etc. I stopped eating all those. I stopped eating whey protein. I stopped eating anything with soya. I went on a completely low glycemic load diet. Well, it worked, basically. All the acne along my chin went away, and only several small whiteheads remained.

I realize now how much diet has to do with acne. Very recently, I went on a vitamin research frenzy, and I discovered zinc, and vitamin B5. Overdosing on B5 (~10g/day) is supposed to dramatically reduce skin oil. You don't have to take the high levels of B5 forever; eventually you can go down to ~4g or so after a couple of months, which is the maintenance level and still keeps you clear. There are no real side effects; the only documented one is diarrhea.

In any case, I was thinking, why don't we COMBINE the B5 and BP treatments? In other words, for many people BP doesn't work fully, and for many other people B5 doesn't work completely. What I'm going to do, is continue putting my usual 6 pumps of BP on my face. But I'm also going to start this B5 10g/day treatment. I'm hoping that this will clear up my whiteheads, AND that I'll be able to go back on whey protein, as that is a real handicap on my weight lifting progress. Eventually, I hope to go down to 4 pumps of BP a day, and ~4g/day B5 as maintenance, but that is many months in the future.

In any case, I will continue updating this thread of my progress once a week or so. And I'm putting this idea out there. If BP or B5 isn't working individually for you, try combining them, and see what happens. I, for one, am sick of dealing with this acne problem, and I'm postitive this will fix it.

Males more likely to commit suicide from Acne

I've read this quite a few times from scientific studies. Acne causes depression and suicide-related tendencies in both sexes, but they are greater in males than females (this mainly refers to the teenage years and early twenties). Why is this, do you think?

Some of my ideas:
Males can't wear makeup.
Female brains develop more quickly than male brains, therefore male brains are more likely to be irrational. (I think I read this somewhere, not sure).

Wrinkles under the eye

Hi there,

I've been on the regimen for about 10 months now. Recently I noticed I have small wrinkles under my eyes; I am 18. Dan says this is to be expected if one puts the BP too close to their eyes.

So my question is that has anyone ever encountered this problem, and how long will it take for the bags under my eyes to disappear if I stop putting the BP close?

What is the advantage of popping a pimple?

People on here are always talking about popping their pimples. Personally, I never even heard of this until I came onto this site. I never popped any of my pimples; I just don't touch them and leave them alone to heal.

Does popping a pimple have any healing advantage? I assume that it's done to reduce the size of the pimple and thus improve cosmetic appearence, but does it actually help the pimple to heal faster? Or does it do the opposite, and actually irritate the pimple and delay its healing?

Thanks for answering!

Why does acne love the chin area?

Many people on here find that the chin and lower mouth area of their face is the main place they still break out on, even when the rest of their face no longer breaks out.

This is the situation for me too. I am 100% clear, except for the occasional pimple (once a week) on my chin.

WHY???? I would love scientific answers, or just guesses, and maybe Dan could look into this.

Thanks