Thanks to this forum I went from moderate/severe acne to mild/very mild acne. I'm not 100% clear, because I'll always have one small pimple on my face, and that's why I'm not satisfied yet. I know my skin can do much better than this, so I'm still experimenting with diet.

The most important things I've done so far: avoid gluten, processed food, dairy, iodine and nuts high in omega 6(almonds, peanuts). My diet includes vegetables(mostly broccoli and green beans), chia seeds, fruits, brown rice(if I don't get any carbs, i'll feel like shit) and A LOT of chicken. And when I'm talking about a lot, I'm talking about 1 kg.

I thought eating chicken was no problem, because I was balancing the omega 3:omega 6 ratio with my chia seeds. BUT, a few days ago I read an article that said the omega 3 in chia seeds are for 99% ALA, and it's the EPA and DHA that matters. So I was basically eating a high omega 6 diet, because 100g of chicken contains approximately 1-1,5g omega 6. So a few days ago I reduced my chicken intake to 500 g and included 300g salmon to my diet so I would balance the ratio efficiently.

Unfortunately this didn't help and I went to 1 or 2 pimples to 3-4 pimples with 1 whitehead(something I didnt have in a long time). I've had problems with iodine before, so I think this is one of the main culprits. I had once taken a multivitamin with 150mcg iodine and a day later I broke out horribly. Had the same thing with shrimps, which gave me a cyst. Same thing with fish oil.

So I'm quit lost here. How the hell am I able to get some good EPA/DHA without getting too much iodine, if all the fish have so much iodine content. I haven't tried omega 3 eggs yet, but I'm positive they'll break me out as well due to the high iodine content.