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So here are the similarities between accutane and vitamin A:
1. Similar molecular structure.
(Accutane)
(Vitamin A)
2. Nearly identical efficacy in treating cystic acne. (At their respective doses.)
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3. Both share many of the same side effects such as: birth defects, dry skin, depression. <sources>
One must ask themselves. If taking a certain amount of an essential vitamin shows a statistically significant reduction in the illness, wouldn't the cause be referred to as a deficiency?
Well accutane doesn't work for everyone. But yeah, it seems like vitamin A has a pretty big role in skin maintenance. Why would we have such deficiencies, though? And why would rates of acne be rising? Also we have to be careful of conflating correlations with causation. Vitamin A might make acne better, but that doesn't mean that a lack of it means you'll get acne. I do wonder if people who are actually deficient in vitamin A always get acne.
i took vit A for a couple of weeks and i saw no improvement. maybe it was required more time, like at least a month.
these are good for brainstorming if there's a scientist spirit between members, but what i would like is to aim more at the hormonal balancing hypothesis rather than lack of vit A, B, C, D, Calcium + Magnesium, Zinc, all of which make some sense but had no results (at least on me), even if the treatment of such a hormonal imbalance rests upon these ingredients also (but arranged in the right order probably, and together with other types like exercises/sleep/reflexotherapy/acupuncture idk etc).
Could just as easily be a B2 deficiency, an important of actor in the use of A. Best sources include greens which have only recently become popular in our diets since we began to realize vegetables are pretty good when they don't come fom a can or aren't boiled until the color is gone and they are mush. http://www.iinr.org/specialreports/ACNE.PDF