Ichance23

i have been on this no carb diet for i think about two weeks. i only have had 2 pimples on my face the last week. my redness also is a lot less and the black heads on my nose have cleared up. fyi the blackheads on my nose have been there since i turned eleven, even when i was on differin, minocycline, and antibiotics which got rid of the acne i still had black heads. i have not had any back acne the last 8 days. none. it feels great to have clear smooth skin. just updating this so you know it is still working. maybe one of the mods could just combine it with my first post about low carb? i could not find it. 

after becoming 80% clear with a paleo diet and 30mg of zinc a day i decided to keep trying to be 100% clear. i researched more into carbs and found out that all carbs are turned into sugar in the body which will raise insulin. seeing as how i have responded positively to cutting out sugar from my diet, i decided to cut the carbs. i cut them all out. i have lived off eggs, sunflower seeds, brazil nuts, meat, and veggies for the past week. it feels pretty crappy and everything is unpalatable. if someone tried this diet overnight they would die lol. anyway, not so surprisingly i am now 100% clear. i have never been 100% clear so it feels pretty good. i cut the carbs and sugar and now im 100% clear. about 70% of my calories come from fat and 30% from protein. i know that this is how the inuit diet is. this diet puts stress on the liver because it causes your body to start breaking down fat instead of carbs for energy. i noticed my six pack is showing without flexing now so i have actually lost body fat while gaining a little bit of weight. i guess i put on some muscle. anyway the body goes into ketogenesis on this diet. bodybuilders use the diet for weeks at a time to get rid of body fat. well it also clears some of them and that is exactly what it has done for me. i do not know how long i can maintain the diet but the best motivation of it is being 100% clear. to have full control over my acne is amazing. i just wanted to share this with some of you. i dont really expect many people to do it. it is so hard. but it is an option and for me it has cleared me 100%.

i am a male and 18 years old. i have acne that i am trying to get rid of naturally because my mom will not let me use antibiotics, retinoids, SA, or benzoyl peroxide. 

i have just started using tea tree oil for about 3 weeks. i have been taking zinc for 8 months and it helped a lot. i took only 30mg a day for the last 8 months. but then i realized that when i take more it gets rid of almost all of the acne instead of just 50% of it. i can not take 60mg because i get really sick. so i took 45 mg for 1 week. after about 1 day i started feeling extremely depressed, my tongue had sores on it, my acne went away, and i loss my appetite. i stopped after 1 week after i could not bear the depression anymore. the depression has decreased but is still there. the problem is i have no appetite. i used to eat 3,000 calories a day easily. for the past 5 days i have probably been eating 1200 calories a day. i went from 142 (already skinny for my height) to 136 pounds. i am very worried that is the zinc or the tea tree oil. i could not find anything saying that tea tree oil causes loss of appetite though. and since i am only taking 15mg of zinc now i do not understand how the appetite problem is being caused by zinc if i stopped it. does anyone know what is going on and will it stop? i have also noticed i only want to eat sweet stuff and i get no pleasure out of eating things like chicken anymore. please help.

i have been on paleo for 3 months. i had about 20% acne left over. i have been on 30mg chelated zinc for 8 months. then i looked up zinc and it said it inhibits dht which is what causes more sebum. i started taking more zinc as an experiment. 60mg is too much for me because it makes me sick but i can tolerate 45mg. i took it and within 3 days i went from 80% clear to 95% clear. i think that for some of you who can tolerate more zinc you might not even have to use the paleo diet. just avoid unneccesary sugar and take chelated zinc. it must be chelated. the other zincs like zinc gluconate only have a small percentage of elemental zinc (i read this online so it may or may not be true. anyway, i tried a different zinc called zinc methiononine and it did not work . only chelated has worked for me and the more i use the more clear i get. everyone must try it. 

then i looked up zinc again. one study says it increases dht. so no one is sure if it increases or decreases dht. so it might not work for that reason. all i know is that it works. 

Sources: 

Zinc inhibits dht: http://psychology.wi...drotestosterone

dht causes more sebum: 

ok wow! it used to say on wiki that sebum was caused by dht. but someone deleted it! i am not sure who did but you never know. 

just use chelated zinc. 

i have been on paleo diet for 2 months and 20 days. my acne is minimal! my face is dried up!! no more oil! no more pimples. i have new skin. i do not have to worry about getting enough sleep or what i put on my face because acne is internal. it has been such a slow process but it is so rewarding. i expect to be 100% in 2 months. everyone do the paleo diet. it will cure your acne!! at least cut the sugar and grains!