Just a reminder about carbohydrates

It's basically accepted amongst us that lots of sugar will cause a huge increase in sebum production and cause pimples, but many people are unsure as to what counts as sugar. I recently discovered that all carbohydrates count as sugar, as all of them are glycemic (they raise your blood glucose levels). That means that enough whole wheat bread has the exact same effect on your acne as skittles! So does sweet potato, corn, beans, rice, etc. I finished my milk thistle detox and about a week later I started getting pimples again and freaked. I had no idea why I was still getting pimples even after I detoxed my liver. I examined my diet and discovered one thing. I had been eating a bowl of shredded wheat cereal with rice milk every day. http://www.nutritiondata.com/facts/breakfast-cereals/1750/2 . Shredded wheat has no added sugar so I figured that it was perfectly fine, and I would have about 1 and a half cups a day and half a cup of rice milk. Rice milk also has carbohydrates so I estimate that the glycemic load of that bowl of cereal was equal to about 40! That's the equivalent of 2 and a half ozs of skittles. So I started on a low glycemic diet and easy as that, I haven't had a pimple in a week. I've even been eating fatty foods and vegetable oil with lots of omega 6 and saturated fat that before would make my acne way worse, and I'm still clear.

In summary, the carbs in wheat and all grains count as sugar. If your acne is sensitive to sugar, research the Glycemic Index and get on a low glycemic diet.

Best of luck!

It's quite simple, people

IF food appears to effect your acne, it is your liver. Learn about liver health and be cured.

I'm happy to report that my acne is gone! My story may help some of you

I didn't used to have acne. I had a bit when I was 15 but by the time I was 18 and through puberty it had vanished completely. Then I got out of highschool, started working and had plenty of money. I ate junk food every day, started drinking, doing drugs and getting very little sleep. I noticed that I was getting pimples for the first time in a long time. I spend 6 months struggling with it. I did what most fools did and put all sorts of shit on my face. Benzyol peroxide, tea tree oil, etc. And that did help. It helped treat the symptoms, but not the problem. Then I came to learn that ACNE IS THE REDUCED FUNCTION OF THE LIVER. When your liver is swamped and unable to handle the jobs you have given it it passes on some of its work to the skin. The sebaceous gland to be exact. If you have an over-active sebaceous gland and an overburdened liver you will get acne. If you don't have an over-active sebaceous gland you won't get acne, and then you're in a whole world of shit. But for us with over-active sebaceous glands, we get acne and many of us wish our livers did just keep its toxins to itself and kill us slowly. So then what's the solution? Rubbing stuff on your face? No because you still have red marks and that sucks. Using some bullshit medication like accutane to shut down the sebaceous gland? Well you could but then you would die. I know! Detoxify your liver.

I changed my diet, cut out a lot of sugar, fat (especially omega 6 fatty acids like the ones found in vegetable oil), drugs, alcohol, caffeine etc, and I got less acne but my liver was still shot from the junk and the drugs. I started taking supplements like fish oil, calcium/magnesium, zinc, selenium, vitamin e, greens powder and generally got very good nutrition. I started exercising (exercise gets your blood flowing more freely and helps you purge water-soluble toxins), and I was drinking green tea. That helped a lot too and I was getting less pimples, the ones I did get were smaller and the red spots healed more quickly. But even after 2 months of all of this effort I was still getting acne. Then my friend who I a nutritionist told me that if I had been abusing my liver that much, all of these things that I was doing wouldn't help. I was effectively preventing any further liver damage by reducing water-soluible toxins but what I really had to do was clean out the already present FAT-SOLUBLE toxins, the ones in my liver.

Then I tried fasting. When the liver doesn't have anything to process it cleans itself. So I spent about 40 hours without eating, which was a very rewarding experience (meditation while you're delirious and out-of-it is very psychedelic indeed ). But the best part was that in the days that followed I didn't get any pimples and the marks that I did have healed very quickly. After a few days I started to get pimples again but the fast clearly helped. But my acne wasn't gone and it really isn't a good idea to fast too frequently. So I decided to be done with my acne for good.

I bought a herbal supplement that contains MILK THISTLE, dandelion and burdock. I used it for a few weeks and I'm cured. And much healthier and stronger for the experience. Gosh I'm glad I wasn't a retard and got prescription drugs to shut down my sebaceous gland.

So to recap:

Stress: hinders the function of the liver
Hormones: hinder the function of the liver (which is why puberty and acne are so often related)
Junk food: hinders the function of the liver (obviously!)
As do drugs.
Vitamin deficency, which most of you have, hinders the function of the liver
As does inactivity.


Good nutrition - Reduces toxins going into the liver
Exercise - Reduces toxins going into the liver (and stress, which hinders liver function)
Rubbing shit on your face - makes pimples go away after.

However...

Liver-healing herbs: clean and repair your liver.
Fasting - Cleans and repairs your liver.

If you want a permanent cure, get smart about it.

If you know shit about nutrition and health and think you at once point in time abused your liver with bad food, alcohol, and drugs, first you should start eating a healthy diet and start exercising more. If you have, great, then you should do some fasting. Once a week for 2 weeks should do. Then get a liver-cleansing herbal supplement, use it for a few weeks, but only a few weeks as you don't want your liver to think that it doesn't have to work hard anymore. Then sustain your healthy lifestyle and occasionally throw a fast in there for good measure.

Calcium deficiency + inital breakout question

So a while ago I stopped eating all dairy because it was supposed to cause acne (I was getting maybe 1 pimple a week). Over the last few months my acne got fairly bad and I couldn't figure out why. Then it hit me that calcium deficiency can cause bad acne and I got some calcium/magnesium pills, vitamin d pills, started getting more sunlight and started drinking rice milk. For the last couple of weeks I've been getting maybe 1 or 2 small pimples every day. These pimples aren't painful and fade fairly quickly, and my face looks better which I'm pretty happy about. My question is do you think that all of these little pimples are the initial breakout from my body purging all of the already formed but unsurfaced pimples. I've noticed that I'm getting less of them than a couple of weeks ago but I can't help but worrying that these daily pimples will be a permanent thing.

Thanks.