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[Shining Arcanine]

I almost exclusively drink milk but this year has been among the worst pollen seasons I have experienced in my entire life, so I had to stop drinking milk because one of its components promotes mucus formation. Since I could not drink milk, I started drinking water instead and my complexion is now almost free of acne. There is just one little pimple below my lip and it is not even red. I also have some light scarring from having previously had acne, and it appears that I am going to get a few more pimples soon similar to the one below my lip but these results are amazing compared to a year ago when I had what my dermatologist described as "moderately severe" acne. I am not even using The Regimen.

I will be going back on The Regimen to completely clear up my acne but I thought I would pass the tip along. Besides drinking only water, I have a pretty balanced diet and I avoid greasy foods (prior to using the Regimen, I discovered that greasy foods cause me to break out so I avoid them) so that (especially the no grease part) might also be a factor. I also drink about a gallon of water a day now (it used to be a gallon of milk) so that also might be a factor.

I think that the reason drinking water helped my complexion is because there is a certain acne causing factor in my intracellular fluid and my drinking water diluted it below the threshold at which it causes acne. Scientifically speaking, by drinking water, I placed a stress on an equilibrium in my body, forcing my body to pass out water and that acne causing factor in equal amounts through urine, which resulted in a lower concentration of that acne causing factor in my body, which automatically helped my complexion. Apparently drinking milk did not place the same stress, at least not one that caused the acne causing factor to be passed out with water in such a way that my body ended up with more water per unit of that factor than it had before. This is just a conjecture though.

[Ravina]

It was probably the change in diet more so than the fact that you are drinking more water. A LOT of people break out from dairy, myself included, and a gallon of milk a day is a lot. Eating lots of grease never helps anything either.

[Shining Arcanine]

I did not know that milk causes acne. I thought that it was just grease. Switching from water to milk was the only change in my diet in the past few months. Can anything else cause acne?

[daanzell]

i believe drinking water helps flush out our body hence clear up our acne, but here in Australia our water contains chlorine, as well as tiny traces of some heavy metals such as lead which is common in many water sources around the world.

Chlorine can actually contaminate the body and worsen health even, which can lead to serious health problems such as cancer which I read on a really long article.

I guess bottled or spring water is my only option although it will be a tad more expensive. Today I was drinking a normal bottle of mount franklin spring water and took a look at the mineral analysis. I saw chloride there, is that the same as chlorine used in tap water and can it be toxic?

[Ell-]

Yeah, I was going to say, water does help acne but in your case the big improvement in your skin was probably due to not drinking so much milk.

Milk (dairy) causes acne in MANY people myself included.

The general forms of milk you can buy at grocery stores are not healthy. The milk is filled with hormones and antibiotics.
If you must drink milk try buying a product that is more organic. You can get calcium from other sources, calcium that is absorbed more easily in your body as well.

[Danny©]

I almost exclusively drink milk but this year has been among the worst pollen seasons I have experienced in my entire life, so I had to stop drinking milk because one of its components promotes mucus formation. Since I could not drink milk, I started drinking water instead and my complexion is now almost free of acne. There is just one little pimple below my lip and it is not even red. I also have some light scarring from having previously had acne, and it appears that I am going to get a few more pimples soon similar to the one below my lip but these results are amazing compared to a year ago when I had what my dermatologist described as "moderately severe" acne. I am not even using The Regimen.

Water helps but I think it was also a matter of giving up milk
Dairy foods are the worst enemies of the skin and for a huge percentage of people they trigger acne
If I eat lot of cheese it just takes two days before my acne if 70% worse
It's not only a matter of dairy food does in the body, the negative effect on calcium balance, the casein hard to digest protein ... but dairy nowadays come from fat cows who are badly fed and injected with hormone so the milk you drink doesn't only have a bad nutritional composition and lacks in nutrient compared to grass-fed organic milk but is also full of hormones. Artificial hormones found in animal foods are not only correlated with acne but also with unhealthy big growth spurts that are linked with osteoporosis, cancer, hormonal unbalances or deficiency, bone fractures compared to steady long growth

I and my skin tolerate yogurt and cottage cheese. The reason is that cottage cheese is made with whey and not milk and yogurt has its lactose and casein proteins predigested.

Danny

[LuckyMan]

Today I was drinking a normal bottle of mount franklin spring water and took a look at the mineral analysis. I saw chloride there, is that the same as chlorine used in tap water and can it be toxic?

Disclaimer *i know very little about chemistry*

Chloride = negatively charged chlorine (cl-) and typically occurs as chloride + metal. Chlorides' are a catagory not a single compound (basically anything that contains cl- including cl- itself), when combined with metal, chloride forms salt (sodium chloride for example). When chlorides are dissolved in water they seperate into X + Cl- so the chloride label on your bottled water refers to regatively charged chlorine atoms (anions?), which are unlikely to do you any harm. (in appropriate doses)

When chloride is bound to metal the health implications are determined by the metal to which it has been bound, if all the "chloride" in your bottled water originally came from NaCl (normal salt) then all it would contain would be sodium and chloride this would do you no harm whatsoever. It is very likely that some of the metals that can bind to chloride before being dissolved in water (and thus still present in the water) are bad for your health, however water compaines are very likely to test for, and eliminate, any of these "bad" metals.

The maxiumum upper limit for chloride in water is 250mg/l this is due to taste not toxicity and as most bottled water contains 1/10 to 1/20 of this, it should not pose any health risks, keeping in mind your body uses chloride for certain functions such as making stomach acid.

If anyone knows more about chemistry then please say if this is right or not and if not what the right answer is.

[Dingo Jellybean]

There are some people who just drink a TON of water each day, I mean almost 2 gallons.

I always hate, no offense to the topic starter, how people always advocate drinking a lot of water. It doesn't take much water to become water intoxicated (2.5 liters per hour for a healthy person) and plus drinking too much fluxuates your electrolytes...which is not something you'd want to fool around with.