acne_combat

to all the vitamin "junkies": most of your questions if not all have been answered many times in this thread... the rest probably can't be answered or they are too trivial...

More recent inquiries point to the intestine quickly adapting to changes in sugar intake, making everything else a big YMMV. Probably I'll understand much more than I do now about this in a year. 😀 ...

Denken: depends on the sugar... People like Ray Peat for example, who has written a lot of well researched articles about nutrition, recommends eating a lot of fruits. Sugar is not necessarly bad. If ...

The problem with these studies is that they use isolated fructose in VERY high doses. One can't conclude that this also applies to fructose as it's found naturally and eaten with fruits . In fruits, a...

I was wondering how a short nap/siesta after lunch would influence the melatonin cycle. Does anyone have information concerning this topic? Sleeping during the day is very common in some cultures (i....

Ok, time to post some anecdotal results: I was away 2 weeks taking vacation by the sea. I got at least 2 hours of direct sunlight a day, usually around 13-15h. I was eating everything including consid...

denken, you can buy almost all vitamins (cheaply) from iherb.com They send to Europe, and the delivery is very fast (for me it's never more than 3 days)

Well, you first need to get some real scientists with beards interested, and then find out how much money they would require to go after something you're interested in. The number can vary widely; NIH...

Still, I didn't experience the melatonin surge you described. I woke up several times during the night and was tired in the morning. I can't really figure out why it didn't work. I may still have elev...

The more I read about the tryptophan-melatonin cycle, the more I find they are correlated with other symptoms I've had besides acne (Depression, insomia, fatigue, ocd, fructose digestion etc.). For ex...

I just came across this thought today: why are men significantly more acne prone than women? It's not like they spend more time indoors...

Ok I got some questions, some are more relevant than others:   1. Is it dangerous to have the bright artifical light very close to your eyes (20-50cm) for long periods of time?   2. Is there...

Ok, I got my sunlight spectrum light and it's quite awesome (It makes the room so bright, for some reason it gives me a LOT more energy too). At the moment, I can't do anything on a schedule (includin...

I know you mentioned your view on ejaculation before but there really seems to be a correlation for me. Also, couldn't this (too) be a reason too why primitive tribes don't have acne? They practically...

would contact lenses (glass or plastic) produce the same effect as glasses in blocking UVA?  

Thanks for the answers databased. The only thing I can do now is test your theory on me. I'm waiting for my lamp now... Will report results

This thread is very interesting but how do you explain the fact that a LOT of people stay indoors all day, get late to bed and STILL don't get acne AND eat almost only carbs ? (I know quite a few pers...

after trying high-dose vitamin a, which is basically the same as roaccutane, i experience hair loss too, on the top of my head and over my ears. I also have an itchy and red scalp in the hair vortex r...

people here have been eating bread and butter/cheese for centuries without problems. My great-uncle for example who is about 85 or so and in great health has been eating it for whole his life, EVERY d...

Well, there's actually no 'real' muesli, as each region has its own variety. But the most common thing between all, is a LOT of raw fruits (even more than oats itself sometimes). Also, the 'original...

I'm actually from Switzerland, so I got very easy access to all this promising stuff. Will go on a traditional diet I guess   Oh would that be great if I could have (real) müesl...

great work alternativista! If only they weren't so hard to find... As I suggested in another thread, we really should make a list with all the high-lectins food AND their specific lectin-binding combi...

OK, i get what you are saying so far. Of course it's still very speculative ....   But maybe we should make a list of lectins-binding food combinations. And eat them too but ONLY with their combi...

there's bakery near where i live which makes traditional sourdough bread with a wood-oven. It's not even that expensive. Do you think i should try it? Even on a candida-diet?

ok, so if I understand correctly, the ONLY way to eat lectins-containing food without damage is to eat it with its specific binding sugar or fermenting it (like kefir instead of milk for example)? &n...