This thread is under construction.

Previously titled Fish Oil Capsules, we've learned quite a bit since we've made this thread. Especially the effects and benefits of other oils in our diet. Also due to some mis-information, I've decided to re-make this thread. Keep checking back and I will have updated this thread as soon as possible. As you can imagine it takes a lot to write it up compiling everything we've learned.

It will be a separate page where you can navigate all the information in a concise order and will have pages setup for categories of information and research on particular nutrients/oils. Then of course a clear regimen and what it exactly does. It will only have information, no ads, no products, no links.

It will be like a thread, but with side pages for better organization.

So bare with me and I will have it ready after I work out a few kinks in the regimen.

Thank you!

To All,

I've grown tired of the cynical debates, enjoyed the positive discussions, loved the research, heard the questions, sympathized with the confusion, felt the pain, and finally decided to compile a Resource Guide.

I hope that for those of you with questions, especially the Newbies, you will look to this guide as one of your references.

Now first of all, this is a guide dealing with the development of acne, how diet can play a role, and how leaky gut syndrome (intestinal hyperpermeability) may be at the base of it.

This is NOT a guide discussing or debating "healthy" or why there "isn't enough supportive evidence" to make this a valid form of treatment!

This guide will provide information, tips, support, options, and other resources and tools necessary in order to make following an individualized Acne Diet and/or healing your Leaky Gut a less confusing, HEALTHY, and fun transition.

Furthermore, aside from a few key threads, this will be a predominantly focused on solutions . Answers to what foods to eat, what diets to follow, what tests to take, gut healing regimens etc. There will also be a links section for anyone searching for more in-depth information on this board or elsewhere.

Of course I would greatly appreciate it if any of you (especially you cleansing & healing gurus) that are currently following a specific diet or holistic regimen, that has not been mentioned yet, to chime in and share the following:

Dos & Don’ts of the Diet
(Brief History of the diet)
Customized Diet Regimen
Gut Healing Regimen
Personal Testimony
Etc

As a forewarning, negative comments and arguments about these methods may be edited or removed! This is a positive energy and supportive thread, A Safe Haven, and ALL are welcome to participate if keeping the above in mind. This thread will deal in the possibilities and capabilities of a new improved lifestyle instead of continually focusing on the cants.

I acknowledge that there are different levels of "healthy", but for reasons of sanity and affordablity this thread will be focused on a certain level of healthy in regards to obtaining the proper amount of nutrition & variety while keeping in mind an individual’s diet. Please be aware when speaking of your own diet or holistic regimen that you don’t downplay what works for someone else.

Finally, I’ve come to realize that one of the biggest obstacles regarding an improved lifestyle is that a percentage of us have no clue what’s sold in the produce isle! No clue as to how to pick produce, let alone how to properly prepare them and cook them. No clue just how many different kinds of food exist in the world in comparison to what their current diet consists of. Nor do people FULLY realize that when one door closes several more open. Hopefully this thread will awaken more of you to just how much more you really DO have as a result!


Peace & Love!

Index to recipe and nutrient discussions and websites.

Because there's been hundreds of good threads and they are always too hard to find. In fact, I can't find the threads I had in mind right now. These are what I find when I search. Feel free to post suggestions. But,

Please add recipes to the existing threads. Or, if none exist that suit your topic, start a new thread. Make it a good one and it'll get added here too.

Also, not everything here is going to be suitable for you. You need to figure out what intolerances you may have and how strict you need to be.

Acne.org recipe threads:

Cooking for Newbies - recipes, tips and tricks, what, how, when...

Really Super Nutrient Dense recipes - with nutrients known to benefit acne.

Fabulous Green Smoothies - Great way to get those superfoods. Especially for the veggie phobe.

Breakfast foods - For those that can't figure out what to eat when giving up cereal.

Sweet potatoes rediscovered They are what's for breakfast!

Gluten Free Recipe books

Gluten-Free Times

Holiday Meal recipes

Acne Free Recipes

Simple Ideas for Chicken

Healthy food ideas

Veggies

More fruits and veggies

Salad Ideas

Dessert ideas and recipes - deal with cravings with something good for you

Drink Recipes - milk substitutes, ginger ale, cocktails and more.

Healthy Recipes (links to recipes posted by Danny our resident Italian, plus a few other suggestions)

Coconut Flour recipes -pancakes, cookies

Fermented foods with live probiotic cultures--yogurt, kefir, sauerkraut, kimchi

Better breads and bread substitutes:
http://www.acne.org/messageboard/breads-br...te-t267452.html


Offsite:

whfoods.org, where all the recipes prepare foods in the best way possible to preserve nutrients. Which, in the case of veggies, mostly means steaming or what they call healthy saute (in water) and topping them with what they call Mediterranean dressing (olive oil, garlic, lemon juice, S & P).

Blogs
TheNourishingGourmet: Lots of good info on properly preparing foods including sprouting, fermenting...
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Mark's Daily Apple (He's a paleo-like guru with a book called the Primal Diet. Teh primal diet is anti-grain but not anti dairy.) But here's a link to a whole lot of recipes to make dishes that are normally high in grains and processed carbs out of more nutrient dense foods. Breads, pastas, pizzas, deserts, snacks... Gluten free since they don't use grains.Primal Substitutes for Non-Primal Foods
http://www.marksdailyapple.com/low-carb-su...#comment-514158 It's a good bunch of recipes.
Son of Grok (another primal diet blogger) recipes
http://www.sonofgrok.com/category/recipes/

-Eric Ripert's 'Get Toasted' blog
Famous French chef posts recipes using a broiler/toaster oven. Fast, easy, healthy, simple, but with the little extra touches a French chef would add. The broiled fruit is really good desert substitute. Or breakfast. I used nectarines. I tried the mangos, but didn't like it. Mangos have an aftertaste that got worse with cooking.

-Low carb blog - Link goes straight to the cauliflower pizza crust recipe. Try it. It's life changing!!!

TV Shows/Books/Sites
Most recipes in these shows that I've seen is fast and healthy. Although a few times, I have seen them use some processed convenience foods I don't approve of. Use your judgement. And avoid the recipes high in white flour and potato products.
-Just Cook This/Sam the Cooking Guy - FitTV/DHC cooking show.
---http://www.thecookingguy.com/cookbook/recipes.php
--http://health.discovery.com/fansites/sam-z...ipes/index.html

-America's Test Kitchen - experiments to find great tips/recipes to help you get great results. Also tests gadgets, cookware and appliances.

-Everyday Food - PBS series that goes along with Martha Stewarts Everyday Food magazine. A very good show.

-French Women Don't get Fat recipes

Allrecipes.com - gluten free

healingnaturallybybee.com Anti-candida recipes and info

Adding Veggies to your favorite foods:
Cookie Magazine's Sneak it In recipes of kid friendly foods filled with veggies great for those that think they don't like veggies. The veggies in these are not invisible, though, like in the two sites below:

Deceptively Delicious - cookbook in which veggie purees are snuck into meat loaf, brownies, chicken tenders, etc. Free recipes on this site. You'll need to reduce the sugar. I can vouch for cauliflower in scrambled eggs, I tried it accidently when trying to make the cauliflower pizza crust on a griddle on the stovetop rather than in the oven. It wouldn't hold together so I scrambled it. Only 1 egg and a lot more cauliflower, but it tasted like eggs.

Sneaky Chef - Similar to the above. With even more free recipes and tips.


Note there are also recipes in the What to Eat threads below.

Here are some links to clinical studies on the diet - hormones - acne connection.

Many thanks to Rubbish for passing these along, complete with descriptions, and for suggesting that we create a pinned topic.


http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18496812 Low GL diet increased SHBG and increased IGF-1 and reduced free androgens and thus acne and sebum.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17448569 Similar to above.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17616769 Low GL diet and markers.

(Mann's studies are cited by Cordain in his interview with Dan. These studies have resulted in dermatologists re-evaluating diet's role in acne.)

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14527633 A non-Mann study on Insulin Resistance showing important hormonal markers with acne.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15202836 Importance of binding proteins yet again in acne.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11334899 Again.



NOTE: I am closing this thread to keep it clutter-free. If you would like to pin more links to other clinical studies relating to the diet-acne connection, please PM me (or one of the other moderators) to have a new post added to this topic.

Yes, I know sugar is awful for acne and every single time I eat a lot of sugary foods (even fruit), I always break out the next day every single time even though I have a great skincare routine and even though I'm on Accutane for fuck's sake!

How can I just stop having that constant craving and desire?! It just never leaves my brain. I was born with a really huge sweet tooth and it still pervades to this day even though I'm pretty much an adult.

There's a box of Honey Bunches of Oats right now and vanilla soy milk and I really really want to have a bowl or two. It's so fucking hard to control myself. Help me, how do I develop the discipline and what not?

I've used this site for a while searching for people suffering from the same things I have, and while I've been given some good advice and found useful tips, my acne isn't that much better.

There are thousands of members of this board, and I guess if we're all here we all still have acne.
With that being said, I'm sure there are aspects of my skin, certain problems I'm dealing with that someone else has improved, while I may have improved in areas others may have not.
So to try and get every bit of help i can and a look from different perspectives, I'm posting a bunch of info about myself related to acne, hoping someone can identify flaws in it so I can fix them.

I don't know if this is a faux pas or not, but here it is anyway.
I have no pictures to include, I'll try and get some up if I can get a good picture with my phone.

SEX: Male
AGE: 21
WEIGHT: 160 lbs
HEIGHT: 6'2"
ETHNICITY: Caucasian
ACNE: Mild to Moderate/Face & Back

DAILY WASHING REGIMEN:

Morning - Wash with Proactiv cleanser
Night - Wash with washcloth (to try and exfoliate) and
follow with Proactiv Green Tea moisturizer and/or Refining Mask as spot treatment.
In Shower - Head and Shoulders shampoo for Hair and body wash

DIET:

Formerly I ate moderately well, but still had processed foods.
Currently average day is -

Breakfast - Banana (on weekends 4 slices of toast)
Lunch - 2 sandwiches on light rye bread, cherry tomatoes, dried apricots, apple, sometimes nuts.
Dinner - Lean meat, fish or pork, potatoes, salad
Snack - plain oatmeal
Water - Between 6-12 cups a day

I'll note, I DO eat more fruits than vegetables for sure. Also, I cannot gain weight to save my life. I've been 106lbs since I was 16.

SUPPLEMENTS:

B Complex - 100mg 3x daily
A,C,E,Selenium + Zinc - 3x Daily
Vitamin D - 1000iu 3x daily
Omega 3 - 1065mg 3x daily

SLEEP:

All over the map. Anywhere from 4-9 hours of sleep per night.
Usually I go to bed anywhere from 11pm to 2am
Wake up anywhere from 6am to 12pm
One day a week I work at 6am, so I sleep about 5 hours that night and oversleep the next day. Sometimes i feel as though I suuffer from insomnia.

EXERCISE:

I walk a LOT at work, but there are no windows really or fresh air. Very dusty and dry air.
Used to play soccer, tennis, volleyball in highschool and was very active, however I still had acne then.
Outdoor excercise is little to none.

BRIEF MEDICAL HISTORY:

No known allergies
No known food sensitivities
Antibiotics several times as a child for pneumonia. (I know someone will tell me I have Candida overgrowth, but I'm not sure about that theory.)
Asthma at a child and teen. Not sure anymore.

Thanks.

A collection of better bread and bread-like (pancakes, pizza bases, pasta) things from either long fermented grains, non-gluten forming grains, or other flours and meals like coconut, almond, yucca root (Tapioca).

Be sure to check for recipes in the various gluten free, coconut and whatever threads full of recipes in the Food and Recipe Index thread pinned under Important Topics:
http://www.acne.org/messageboard/Food-and-...ce-t205099.html

You'll always be able to find this thread there as well.

I would still not make grain-based breads a big part of your diet, but if you are going to have some, make it really good bread, and fresh baked bread is the way to go.

How do you guys do it? It's almost impossible to eat out
or grab a quick snack. I'm not having any trouble with diner
but breakfast and lunch are killing me. What do you guy's eat?

I love this stuff, it is gluten-free, grain-free, low-carb, high-fiber, high-protein and is delicious.

I bought this at whole foods - http://www.bobsredmill.com/organic-coconut...ur-mtx6135.html. That brand has a ton of other good unique products.

Dr. Mercola also has a good deal on his own brand, plus this site has some good anti-gluten info. http://www.mercola.com/products/coconut_flour.htm

My favorite recipe is really simple, I whisk two eggs, and add enough coconut flour to make it into a batter. *The coconut flour expands/absorbs really well because it only takes a couple tablespoons or so with two eggs.* Add a small (like 1/4 tsp) of aluminum-free baking powder and a pinch of cinnamon. Gluten-free, grain-free, low-carb PANCAKES! I cook mine in ghee and serve with some 100% maple syrup spiked yogurt, chopped walnuts and blueberries.


I am going to a Christmas party in a few weeks, and everyone will have undoubtedly made their own christmas cookies, and I am sure that many people use shortening and tons of flour and sugar... so I don't really have an interest in eating any of those. Thinking about making these:


Chocolate Cookies

Ingredients

¼ cup sifted TIANA coconut flour
¼ cup butter or TIANA virgin coconut oil
1/3 cup cocoa powder
3 eggs
1/3 cup brown sugar
¼ teaspoon salt
¼ teaspoon vanilla

Method

In a saucepan at low heat, melt butter and stir in cocoa powder. Remove from heat and let cool. In a bowl, combine eggs, sugar, salt and vanilla; stir in cocoa mixture. Whisk coconut flour into batter until there are no lumps. Let batter rest for 4 to 5 minutes to allow it to thicken slightly. Drop batter by the spoonful on greased cookie sheet. Bake at 175 Degree C (350F) for 14 minutes. Makes about 16 cookies.

Why do some people have it and others don't?

And if that's what causes my acne now at 17 is it something I can still grow out of?

So how do you eat? Up until a week or so ago, I always, always ate so quickly, barely chewing my food and I never thought twice about it. I also wondered why i had indigestion or bloating after meals. Then I read an article about the importance of chewing your food until mush to coat the food in your saliva before you swallow it as well as sort of pre digest it a bit. Supposedly this is very important for starches (and plant foods in general). Anywho, since i started doing this, I can eat a huge bowl of beans (slowly of course) and I experience NO discomfort at all by the time I'm done. I think this is a lot healthier and possibly good for helping you digest nutrients better? Its like a light went off, I spent so much time figuring out WHAT to eat without thinking about HOW i eat it. Just thought I'd start a discussion to see how you guys eat and how this could possibly affect acne.

Is shellfish alright to eat? I have no allergies and I am wondering if it is alright to eat shellfish like shrimp and clams. thanks.

I've had a lot of success keeping my skin and body hydrated by drinking around 2 -3 litres of water a day.

I used to only drink about 1 litre a day, and not only was my skin dreadful but also I was always tired and headache-y.

An easy way to drink more water is just to have a glass or bottle with you. So if you're at work, school, uni or whatever, just have a bottle of water right there on your desk. You'll always be absent mindedly picking it up and swigging from it. 5 or 6 500ml bottles of water can be gone in no time!

What do you all say, in your expert opinions?


Thanks!

I'm starting a 9 to 5 tomorrow. However, I have been on this healthy diet for a week now.

It's basically an anti-inflammatory diet. I have been preparing my foods for the last week.


I don't want to starve during work. Any snacks or tips you guys have?

Hopefully ABGfairy can see this and answer this..

but anyways, I make a green smoothie every morning:

handful of spinach,
handful of strawberries/blueberries
1 apple
1 banana

Here's my situation.. I'm starting a new 9-5 job tomorrow and it seems that I will have less time to prepare this in the morning.

My question is, would it lose its freshness/nutritional value if I made this smoothie right before I sleep and refrigerate it? Or will it go bad?

Please let me know if this will help me out or if I should just continue making it in the mornings.

Thanks!

Im now 18 years old and tested many diets over my last year of highschool

OK over the past year I have used the same acne medication. Nuetragena 3 step system.
ABout in september of last year i began the no milk/cheese or dairy related diet. I was desperate so i continued my diet without dairy.

After 5 months(Febuary) i wasnt happen with the outcome of the diet so i started eating healthier and made sure to only eat vegetables and fruit in addition to avoding dairy products. I tried this for a month due to my accessibility to fruit and still saw no improvement.

I then avoided iodine as much as possible for a full month while avoiding dairy products and eating healthier. this was terrible as is extremely limited my diet due to salt containing iodine.

I gave up on the iodine thing and took the glycemic index into account while avoiding dairy and eating healthy while also avoiding foods with high inflammation qualities and spicy foods. Still no outstanding results.. This actually made me feel worse and possibly gave me sort of headaches from iodine deficiency lol and maybe even made my acne worse lol

Lastly, I added the avoidance of peanuts and eggs into my already insane diet for a full month. I was beginning to see improvement and I could of sworn it was the eggs saving me from acne. Well After a month of this I finally caved in and ate whatever the hell I wanted, including dairy! I am continuing to see improvement in my skin so I have come to the conclusion that my diet had never effected my skin and I was torturing myself for no reason. I even restrained from masturbating more than most ppl would find possible and gave up on that stupid idea.

My stress level was not a factor in these tests either as I was probably more stressed in the last few months then anytime during the school year. I'd also like to throw in that exercise if anything lowers acne, if it has any effect at all as my acne become less with tennis and my working summer but these were also within the last few months so it could just be coincidence that it happened while my hormones settled down some. I also work at a fast food place now and i Have been for the past few months. So the whole thing about working in greasy enivornments and such also appears to be false, at least in my case.

So what I am trying to say is I HIGHLY RECOMMEND NOT LETTING THE DESPERATION TO RID YOURSELF OF ACNE INTERFERE WITH YOUR HAPPINESS which is almost what it was doing by ruining one of my favorite parts of life, eating!(not fat btw hahah)
Im very disappointed I ever fell into the trap of the many possibilities and theories of people with diets and acne correlations over the internet but I also understand what desperation for an acne cure can do to you.


Just wanted to share with the community my results because I wish i could have taken back the last year of my life that i let great things such as ice cream cake disappear from my freezer haha

I am sure most of you are going to balk at idea of this and initially I did also. I have seen a number of positive posts on the site regarding how washing your face with urine has worked for some members. But there are a few for whom the results have lessened over time, or it has not worked at all and this post is mostly for them.

I have had severe cystic and nodule type acne since I was very young, I am now 32 and was still suffering up until a few weeks ago. I happened upon the idea of urine therapy on the net and out of gross fascination looked into it, the material on the benefits of it are extensive, well documented and it has been used for thousands of years, from the romans, to the chinese and everyone in between, particularly the indian culture. Needless to say I was a little stunned at the amount of info about drinking and applying urine. Out of curiousity I tried it and the results have been absolutely amazing for me, my skin looks amazing, I havent had a large cyst or nodule since I started.

There is one difference to the people on here who have tried though. I am also drinking it and I think this is the reason it has been so effective along with topical application. The urea and goodness in fresh urine applied to the skin does help, but as most of us acne sufferers know, its not the outside thats the problem its something to do with the chemistry of our internal mechanisms, something is out of balance and unable to deal with the bacteria and build up we experience in our skin and so on. So the main issue that needs dealth with is our insides.

Now I dont know how drinking urine is changing or balancing my biochemistry, some say it does it buy boosting the immune system by reintroducing anti-bodies, some say the urine is perfectly balanced with the vitamins we need and so balances the body, some say both. All I know is that my skin looks amazing, I only get small spots and I am happy, and as we all know being happy when you have acne is a big ask.

What is my regime, I simply followed the advise from those in the know on the net. I drink a small amount of mid stream urine from my first pee in the morning and also use it on my face and thats it. I just do this daily. It was difficult to try the first time, because we have been taught from a very early age that urine is dirty and bad, there is a bit of psychoilogical wall there, but you get over it very quickly.

According to many experts, holisitic and "conventional", urine is sterile when put into a container for up to 15 minutes after it has been expressed.

I know your going, I will never do that... I would say, but what if it works, what if it helps you. It is free, there is no danger involved, if it doesnt work then you can move on to the next thing without having wasted money or damaging yourself with synthetic chemicals that cause all sorts of reactions in the body. I was on accutane and heavy doses for years, the side-effects were horrific, and contrary to what moronic dermatologists will tell you for people with severe acne, it always comes back.

Just give it a go, you dont have to tell anyone, keep it private and see what happens.

I feel better and look better already and I am only a few weeks into my three month therapy, after which you simply maintain it daily with a few ounces of urine and the occasional wash.

I really hope this helps someone, drinking and washing with my own urine has helped me.

okay so for the past couple weeks i've tried to eat a low GI diet with alot of fruits and veggies. i've been pretty disciplined and i've seen "okay" results but nothing to go crazy about. i was considering getting my stool tested to see if i have gluten sensitivity but that's going to cost about $150 which i really want to avoid spending. so basically i'm going to try the paleo diet, which is pretty much the low GI diet, just alot more hardcore than i've been doing. obviously i must say goodbye to whole-wheat bread, pasta, brown rice, etc. i figure if i am sensitive to gluten, this will fix that problem because i won't be consuming any of it and it will be a whole lot cheaper. i'm writing to see if anyone would like to join me??! i've been reading alot about this stuff and have been searching this site and it seems this is a very effective approach for treating acne. so who's with me?! i'll return to this page tomorrow and see if i have any takers. i think it will be cool because we can motivate each other and share tips. and by the way, i'm about 1 month into the Regimen, which i follow very strickly. hopefully with the Regimen and a new diet i'll finally clear up. goodnight!

I have suffered from cystic acne for a larger part of my life than I'd like to admit and more so as an adult. Just wanted to share my experience so that others may get help. I took antibiotics for years on end and as woman got the side effects. Once I got off the medicine (years later) my body was able to be itself again. Through lots of hard work and trial and error I discovered several things that have actually cured my acne...



1) I was a vegetarian who developed a soy allergy-- I never even thought of allergy/food testing!! This was a major cause for big flare ups

2) I really respond to no dairy and have substituted milk with almond milk (you get used to it, trust me and when you taste milk again after a long break it will taste wrong to you!) (fyi the hormones in milk can cause acne-- yes, even organic milk)

3) JUICING!!!!! OMG, I cannot explain to you exactly how much this improves my skin!!! Especially vegetable juice made with carrot, tomato, celery, tiny bit of onion, spinach, kale, even a little garlic!! Unbelievable. I try to juice everyday at least once. I feel better and look better and def notice when I stop.

4) NO more medications at all! NONE!

5) IF you can't eat it, WHY WOULD YOU PUT IT ON YOUR SKIN???! let alone on your delicate face!!! Your skin absorbs what you put on it, duh. If you need acne spot treatment, mix baking soda (and it's cheap!!!) and a little water and dab it on the spot!

Amazing curing and nourishing face washes that actually feed your skin:

**Cut the top of a tomato, rub it in natural organic sugar (everything I use is organic and i recommend that). splash a little water on your face and then rub the tomato and sugar on your face gently exfoliating. Exfoliating is important when you are acne prone but be GENTLE with your skin! This treatment is pleasant and slightly moisturizing. just rinse off, no moisturizer nothing.

**When your acne is bad try squeezing a lemon in a bowl, take a cotton round and dip it in the lemon. then sprinkle sugar on the cotton round. splash your face with a little water. and rub the cotton round in circular motion over your face again gently! Try to let this sit on your face for a while, it may sting but usually does not and just ignore it. then rinse off. NO moisturizer after just soft skin (this does make your skin super soft). Bonus, this helps with sun spots.

***Last for best!!!! Believe it or not and I was desperate when I tried this one (figuring it couldn't get any worse)... Extra virgin coconut oil (only use this kind of oil)!!! mixed with fine organic coffee grounds and sugar...... splash face first with water then scrub with the mix gently again and enjoy the smell! Rinse with luke warm water (luke warm so that you do not leave too much oil on your skin) and you're finished! This will supply the moisture that your face is often lacking and trying to make up for especially in cystic acne. I couldn't believe the difference, it is literally AMAZING!! Plus you can cook with the oil. It has a higher temp. range so it does not become toxic to you body like olive oil or anything else when doing simple cooking.

*** Wash your face with simple honey and leave it on your skin for an hour if you have the time b/f washing off. simple and good.

Lastly, acne prone skin has also kept me looking youthful and with these beauty tips you will be pleasantly surprised like I was! Try to eat raw and healthy as much as possible!! And go for it!!!! You will thank me! Love to all of you!

I live in Canada and I've had really horrible acne for the past year on pretty much my entire face. I've been in China for a month now and for some reason my skin has improved a lot! There are no active pimples right now and the redness/dark marks are fading. Could this have anything to do with the conditions in different countries? The water here is either softer or harder (?) and it's not clean for drinking, but I've been washing my face with it. I've also been using the same products - face wash, sunscreen, foundation. The air quality is definitely worse here in a big city, though, people smoke everywhere, and I think I've actually been eating unhealthier, which is really weird. It is really hot here though, and very humid, which is nice for my skin because it's not as dry. But I don't use moisturizer anyway, so ... yeah.

Has anyone noticed their skin reacting while travelling? I'm hoping that my face just decided to get better on its own and has nothing to do with the different countries. It'll be really depressing if the place where I live is causing my acne.

Is there any sugar in champagne? I want to celibrate something with champagne, but I don't want to get a breakout.
I know rum has sugar in it.
Normally I just drink whisky, that does not break me out.
But this special occation ( World Cup final yeah baby ) requires champagne.

I cant believe im still dealing with this stuff, i thought i would be over it years ago now but not only are problems still here but things have just got gradually worse. Its all my fault though, when i just had acne problems i was great with my diet but then one day i cheated and its literally runined my life as ive never been able to give that cheating up now, its like im addicted to it

The problems im having other than acne and flaky skin are the following...
-stress and feeling nervous for no particular reason
-horrible stomach feelings and pretty much the case after everytime i eat
-depression
-constant sneezing
-rubbish digestion

I dont think ive ever stuck to an anti-candida diet before. I have the 2 diets in my head, high fat and high carb, once i start trying one i have the thought i should be doing the other. I must say i always feel great on the low fat diet but after a couple of days something happens, its like all the fruit ive been eating is just stuck in my stomach and then once i eat something else (for example for when this has happened, broccoli and tuna) i feel absolutely awful and blocked up. This feeling will last for the whole day then and i will then start thinking time to start high fat!! One thing that makes me think about low fat for some reason at the weekend (i think this is when im not stressed from work) i will go to the toilet quite a few times but its always broken up pieces and doesnt look right. I asked about this on a raw website and they said thats how its supposed to look but i have my doubts.

I havnt always been the biggest fan of going high fat as i know fats like cod liver oil, avacados etc always made my skin feel really oily and caused it to break out. Although i havnt really has these problems with coconut oil and salmon as these are some fats ive been trying lately. I do find one disadvantage to the high fat diet is that it makes me craze things like biscuits etc whilst on low fat i dont really get those urges and are pretty happy to just keep eating fruit.

I know im rambling now and just feel like crap, anyone know what the success rate on either of these diets on this message board? Is there many that have done well on low fat? On the raw message board i looked at they all say low fat is the cure and they have all gotten over it, i just dont know though.....

Thanks to whoever gives this a read and if anyone can help

if you want to get rid of your acne you GOTTA pound the greens, especially wild greens.

Green Juice, Green Smoothies - green green green green green.

Dandelion is AMAZING for the liver and treating acne. Get outside, get picking wild greens and juice em baby.

Pound them day after day after day and you'll clear in no time.

Hi everyone, this is my first post . Does anyone know if acne can be caused by a immune response? since its basically inflammation of the skin. I got psoriasis since i was 13. Its an autoimmune diease giving a me rashes around my body. Could those two things be linked together? I'm 19 now and this is the the only bad case of acne i got, it never used to be a problem until after i entered college where i started to breakout like crazy. Don't think its stress though...
Currently I'm eating an antiflammtory diet consisting of Wild Salmon, Flax seeds, brown rice, green vegetables, lots of colorful berries and fruits, green tea, and different types of nuts. Which makes my pimples smaller but i still get new little ones once in a while.

I have been on accutane twice before and it showed moderate results but I could never make it the full 6 months (latest was 4 months) because my skin dries out so much it would only make it worse. Right now I stopped taking accutane about 2 months - 3 months ago and my skin has improved substantially. I unfortunately however have a boil on my buttox that comes and goes for about a year now. I have never had boils before accutane. I never have boils anywhere else besides this spot and it goes from a small pee sized thing to a golf ball in about 2 days, never pops or comes to a head and always dissapears. I have gone to walk in clinics and my doctors and they have prescribed me antibiotics but they do nothing. The only thing that cures it really is time because sure enough it always goes away. I thought that when I stopped accutane it was gone this time as it has been the longest period since it came back (almost 3 months without any sign of it) but sure enough its back. I would just like to know wtf there is to do my diet has little to no sugar - it consists of Eggs, Orange Juice, Bread, Peanut Butter, Hamburger meat and Rice/Pastas and pasta sauce and bannannas. I have not eaten a single other food for a long time without a high content of sugar but still no effect. I am also taking fish oil, diatery enzymes and multivitamins everyday which I just started so this is not the cause. I also am trying Tumeric Cucumarin which I got with a pepper extract that supposedly increases the potency by 2000x. I have only taken about 5 of these so far in the last 2 days but not only has anything shrunk but it has gotten larger. I also am getting small amounts of acne back on my face but I use a facial scrub which does seem to do something but i can handle it.. its the boil i really want to get rid of. I really appreciate any advice or anything of what else I can possibly change to stop this boil from coming back and also maybe change my diet or whatever to also reduce the acne on my face. Is it because I stopped taking accutane again and the oil is returning? Will this slow down any at all once my body returns to normal? Please help! Thanks.

Does anyone take these and noticed improvements? Just come across a website stating how great they are for you and just wondering if anyone here has had any experience taking them?

I know that when you do a cleanse or something, the body purges and pushes acne through the skin to get rid of it, well i have been increasing my fiber a lot lately, and now i am breaking out even more, is there a way i can stop my skin from breaking out? Should i just take even more fiber? Cause it's like a lot of the toxins are going in my water, and shiz, but now coming out in my skin even more!

Why does the body purge and get worse than it was before during a purge? Is it just using out everything that is bad right away? I mean i just don't get why when the body purges that is eliminates more toxic acne than it did before? You think the skin would be better because i am eliminating more toxins through my bowel movements

O.K so I decided to try cutting dairy out of my diet for a few days and seeing if it helped my skin out. Within a few days my existing nodules had completely gone, and didnt get any more.

I though that this might just be coincidence so a couple of days ago I had a couple bowls of cereal and some crackers with lots of butter. A day later and everything was still fine, but today I felt a couple of nodules coming up, and as we speak I am holding an ice cube to my nose and typing this.

Istill have some moderate acne around the cheeks but nothing too serious. I think I finally found the cause of my nodules and cysts, so cutting out dairy seems to work for me. However I still enjoy it in small amounts, like other day I had an ice cream and everything was fine, just seems to be when I dont take care of how much I eat it gets bad.

lol the title makes me giggle anyways i was wondering if you all could answer some questions for me. Does anyone know what kind of nuts make you break out the most or what nuts are okay to eat like Almonds and Cashews and stuff so please if you have any ideas on the subject of nuts (lol) Then pleaze dont hesitate to tell me thanks:D