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You might be breaking out from carbs because of an intestinal yeast or bacterial overgrowth, not necessarily just blood sugar/insulin issues. I used to have the same problem (breaking out from any significant amount of carbs) and I'm doing much better now since I started taking some things for yeast and bacteria.

What's been helping me the most is peppermint tea, at least 2 cups a day (has antifungal and antibacterial properties), coconut oil (has antifungal, antibacterial, antiviral properties), and cod liver oil (has vitamin A which boosts the immune system to help fight off pathogens).

Also, before I started peppermint tea, I discovered black tea helped a lot too. It contains tannins which are antifungal and antibacterial. I switched to peppermint, which works just as well if not better, because I prefer to avoid caffeine.

Probiotics might help too... have you tried them? I'd recommend just a plain acidophilus supplement since some people with intestinal dysbiosis have trouble with other strains.

My whole point is that it doesn't matter how long you have been on the diet if you still haven't adjusted to several sources of probiotics and prebiotics and/or still have gastrointestinal problems or food intolerances. Because then you still have a lot of inflammation going on and your acne will not improve.

I think the problem some of us are having with this (only speaking for myself) is that it's frustrating to read things like "get rid of your intolerances," or "achieve regular bowel movements" as if these are things we can just do.

I agree... I don't think anyone can say that any one protocol will accomplish those things for everyone who has food allergies or digestive issues. There are so many factors and everyone is different.

For example, I started the Specific Carbohydrate Diet several years ago in hopes clearing up my skin. As part of this diet, I started eating lots of homemade yogurt, as well as sauerkraut (actually I'd been eating sauerkraut for a long time). This diet did clear me up a few months or so, but eventually I started breaking out again... and I also started developing severe food allergies (IgE allergies, bordering on anaphylactic) for the first time in my life. And all the foods I was becoming seriously allergic to started breaking my skin out even though they never had before. Why would this happen to me on this "gut-healing" protocol? Well, I later figured out that I had mercury toxicity, which causes allergies, and all of the high-sulfur foods I was eating on the SCD were exacerbating the problem (sulfur binds to mercury and can move it around the body, which is generally not a good thing). So it's not that simple for some people.

In general, treating yeast and bacterial imbalances in the gut can reduce food allergies/sensitivities, but still, not everyone will benefit from the exact same treatment for these problems. I couldn't even tolerate any probiotics at all until I started taking a supplement that boosts the immune system (something called OKG), which really reduced my yeast and bacterial overgrowth issues.

Milk kefir is made from dairy too though, correct? It doesn't say where it was derived, but this is the information from their site:

FloraSMART contains no wheat, gluten, soy, corn, yeast, animal products, additives, or preservatives.
This product has come into contact with milk from fermentation ingredients. Do not use this product if you have a milk allergy. Renew Life does not use genetically modified ingredients. All ingredients are NON-GMO.

• Each capsule contains a Proprietary Blend2 billion CFU
• Lactobacillus acidophilus900 million
• Bifidobacterium bifidum700 million
• Lactobacillus rhamnosus100 million
• Lactobacillus salivarius100 million
• Bifidobacterium longum100 million
• Lactobacillus casei100 million

Other Ingredients: cellulose, hypromellose, pectin, sodium bicarbonate, sodium carbonate, silicon dioxide (mineral source), stearic acid, turmeric
Excipients: None

It might be the bifidobacteria that caused the breakout. I had a massive breakout once from a probiotic that contained bifidobacteria, but I've never had this problem with probiotics that only contain lactobacillus srains.

There is a diet called the Specific Carbohydrate Diet that is designed to balance/heal the gut (and has worked for a lot of people), and it forbids the use of probiotics with bifidobacteria...  Apparently this bacteria can overgrow easily and cause problems...