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Benzoyl Peroxide - Please help!

The word peroxide correlates to it's oxidative nature. The body loves oxygen especially since the majority of our healthy bacteria are aerobic in function. The catch though is that you can have too ...

In forum Over-the-counter acne medications and products

9 years ago
want to gain weight but not get acne

Gaining weight is a simple equation. Calories in>Calories out. Now unless you physically exercise only so much will undergo glycogenesis and be readily stored away in our intramuscular glycogen s...

In forum Diet & holistic health

9 years ago
Has any one figured out how to beat acne caused by masturbation?

Wash your hands afterwards?

In forum Diet & holistic health

9 years ago
Need Vit. B12 but scared of breakouts from it...

Cyanocobalamin is not derived from cyanide?!?! LOL Hopeless you have no idea what you are even saying. The cobalamin vitamin is susceptible to degredation and biological deactivation due to the hars...

In forum Hormonal acne

9 years ago
Your opinion on that zinc?

I wouldn't stop taking a B-Vitamin Complex solely on the basis that it contains the biologically inactive vitamer cyanocobalamin. It just means that you are basically pissing out more of the micronut...

In forum Diet & holistic health

9 years ago
How long to regulate hormones naturally?

Antibiotics will do absolutely nothing as you may have noticed because the acne's pathology isn't coming from a bacterial overgrowth. Also, it's bad practice to over use antibiotics when you are in d...

In forum Diet & holistic health

10 years ago
Your opinion on that zinc?

First, I'd like to say awesome picture. Now the reason you felt the discomforting pains in your stomach upon taking dietary zinc is due to it's acidic nature and relatively slow dissipation rate. On ...

In forum Diet & holistic health

10 years ago
Nothing Works.

A better question might be why b5 works? Also Pantethine is better than Pantothenic acid. "(..)this drug lowered fatty acid re-esterification in a dose-dependent manner, the effect being specially evi...

In forum Oily skin

10 years ago
Is Your Acne Not Responding To D3 The Way You Hoped It Would? Here's Why...

Perfect. You can start talking about the biochemistry behind everything and I'll just sit back and watch. My fingers got tired pretty fast.

In forum Over-the-counter acne medications and products

10 years ago
If you could give yourself advice?

Don't go to college. Life is too short.

In forum General acne discussion

10 years ago
Itching skin after benzoylperoxide / moisturizer

In my opinion you should try to allocate a little bit more time between immediately cleaning the surface of your face and then applying benzoyl peroxide. It's a compound within the same biochemical c...

In forum Over-the-counter acne medications and products

10 years ago
Food That Causes Acne

At least someone recognizes the difference between causation and association.

In forum Diet & holistic health

10 years ago
Food That Causes Acne

This is all great, but the most overlooked part is our unique genome!!! I've contemplated the idea of actually explaining the significance, but the information would go over the heads of majority of...

In forum Diet & holistic health

10 years ago
How to get thick Skin?

Unfortunately, Accutane's effectiveness can be contributed to it's interaction with the regulatory mechanics concerning skin cell differentiation and proliferation. This can reduce it's ability to re...

In forum General acne discussion

10 years ago
13 years battle with acne

I wouldn't go that far with comparing good dieting practices being relevant to spironolocatone's mode of activity......

In forum Hormonal acne

10 years ago
Acne Is (Mostly) A Fungal Infection

Not to be a party pooper, but the pathogen that causes acne is completely absurd to be identified as a fungus. It is a propionibacterium specifically titled in taxonomy as the species propionibacteriu...

In forum Other acne treatments

10 years ago
Accutane Low Semen Volume

Wow..... If that test is accurate your T count on either free or total is astronomically low.Personally I've never seen somatropin levels quantified in ng/mL. It's usually pg/mL, but it could be an u...

In forum Prescription acne medications

10 years ago
Remedy please!

You could look into beta blockers. Ask your doctor about the possibility of obtaining a prescription. I have read that inability to completely control the urge to pick can be called neurotic excoriat...

In forum General acne discussion

10 years ago
HELP! Diet, Supplements and Exercise not working.

I can attest to the presumption that hormones aren't the biggest factor. I'm someone who weekly injects testosterone with esterifcations along with many other anabolic/androgenic sex steroids and sel...

In forum Diet & holistic health

10 years ago
Citrus VS Citric Acid?

You are over complicating the thought.  Citric acid is found in citrus fruits.  Citrus at the epitome of it's meaning is a term for a specific genus associated with taxonomy.&A...

In forum Diet & holistic health

10 years ago
Hormonal Acne After Stopping Birth Control (Not Cystic)

There is a phenomenon I've always called endocrine overcompensation or estrogen rebound as some may say. (Never found any academic literature that properly labels this action.) It can observed within...

In forum Hormonal acne

10 years ago
The Ignorance Is Overwhelming.

"One who knows nothing can understand nothing."  Ansem, Kingdom Hearts

In forum Emotional and psychological effects of acne

10 years ago
HELP! Diet, Supplements and Exercise not working.

People miss the major factor in the significance of dieting and advice from dermatologists.. they are not properly versed on nutrition!! I know for a fact that the development of nutritional knowledg...

In forum Diet & holistic health

10 years ago
Pcos Girl - Starting Spiro Today

You can contribute the recent developement of irregularities to your heart rhythm from Spironolactone's interaction with the natural regulation of hormones in our RAAS axis or Renin-Angiotensin-Aldost...

In forum Prescription acne medications

10 years ago
Genetically Or Hormonally Oily Skin? What's The Difference?

Oily skin that is mediated by genetic factors would be described as something that causes over expression of an associate gene that ensues in sebum overproduction.  An example would be a m...

In forum Oily skin

10 years ago