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What's your holistic skin care secret?

I'm just taking a cheapo no-name brand one. It's a D3 softgel. I spend too much on my probiotics, and omega 3 and other vitamins to buy good quality for all my vits.

In forum Diet & holistic health

14 years ago
What's your holistic skin care secret?

So I just googled 'dental hygene and inflamation' and WOW. I guess it really does have quite an effect on all inflamatory type diseases (cancer, alzheimers, diabetes...and of course acne!) crazy! Than...

In forum Diet & holistic health

14 years ago
What's your holistic skin care secret?

Yoga, walking, jojoba oil, green tea, healthy diet, sunshine, and lots of sleep! If only I could manage to work full time and make sure I get all of those everyday! Greeneyes! Firstly, I want to...

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14 years ago
What's your holistic skin care secret?

Yeah I said I do cold showers, and the sun is great for body acne. Greeneyes, I meant acne around the mouth. Through my years of acne around my mouth was by far the most problematic. I read about mou...

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14 years ago
What's your holistic skin care secret?

One thing that helped my mouth acne HUGE was mouthwash. I got an all organic kind, started around a year ago and need it every day. I think getting rid of the bad toxins and bacteria in the mouth is...

In forum Diet & holistic health

14 years ago
What's your holistic skin care secret?

Good point GreenEyes. That was just my theory of why it works. Let me know how it goes for you. I've researched the correlation between flossing and acne but it seems that nobody has done a study on i...

In forum Diet & holistic health

14 years ago
What's your holistic skin care secret?

I would like to know what has worked for everyone, holistically speaking. Are you taking a certain supplement that has improved your skin? Are you taking ice cold showers? Are you taking ACV? Are cert...

In forum Diet & holistic health

14 years ago
What's your holistic skin care secret?

Yoga, walking, jojoba oil, green tea, healthy diet, sunshine, and lots of sleep!   If only I could manage to work full time and make sure I get all of those everyday!

In forum Diet & holistic health

14 years ago
I worry that my child will grow up to have acne

I worry about that too. It IS hard to go through for kids. These are my thoughts on it, and I hope they can help anyone reading it:   If you're parents had acne, they suffered through it. They ma...

In forum Emotional and psychological effects of acne

14 years ago
urine therapy

Anecdotal evidence = pseudoscientific. Meaning that they are basically saying that correlation does equal causation, which it does not. With her family, it could easily be that a genetic factor is all...

In forum General acne discussion

14 years ago
Epigenetics--What You Do To Yourself Changes Your Gene Expression

Wonder what effect alcohol has.. my dad has always been an alcoholic and so was his dad. I can barely have alcohol now as it makes my face very red/flushed, seems like a lot of inflammation is going...

In forum Diet & holistic health

14 years ago
Epigenetics--What You Do To Yourself Changes Your Gene Expression

alternativista said: I decided to google the word Epigenetics after today's email from Mercola that was all about epigenetics and emotions. Phenotype vs genotype vs epigenotype Th...

In forum Diet & holistic health

14 years ago
How to reduce sebum production?

There are so many people with dry skin who experience acne? How many are there exactly? And what do you meant by many people who have oily skin but experience no acne? Again, how many are there? And b...

In forum Diet & holistic health

14 years ago
PCOS and Hormonal Adult Acne

I havent got much of a clue about the other ones, but I currently take 4000 IU of vit d3 without any problems! It just depends on how much sun you get. I started on 2000 and worked my way up but if I ...

In forum Adult acne

14 years ago
PCOS and Hormonal Adult Acne

Well if you have PCOS you're not ovulating regularly, meaning you have a difficult time concieving.   I was put on yasmin too, and it just made it that much worse when I came off the pill last Se...

In forum Adult acne

14 years ago
PCOS and Hormonal Adult Acne

I've experienced A LOT of what you guys have!   I'm not currently diagnosed with PCOS but Im in the processes of being tested and such, and my doctor thinks it's highly likely.   Have any of...

In forum Adult acne

14 years ago
Intermittent Fasting -Improves Many Factors Involved In Acne, Aging & Disease

Interesting. I suppose even 12-15 hrs is better than at most 8 hour fasting like a lot of people (including me at one point). I would say right now I'm doing 14-15 hr fasting. But I do drink water and...

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14 years ago
Intermittent Fasting -Improves Many Factors Involved In Acne, Aging & Disease

Well my family's Irish so if anyone is genetically hardwired for famine it's us haha.   I started 'skipping' breakfast, rather waiting until 10-11 am to eat it. Other than the health and disease ...

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14 years ago
Acne caused by allergy to animals?

I dont know, I personally doubt it and think it's more likely related to diet/lifestyle/ and lack of certain vitamins and minerals for most people.   Even if it was related to animals I would nev...

In forum General acne discussion

14 years ago
Your Opinion on Birth Control?

I wouldnt recommend it. It only mildly helped my acne, I actually got more cysts while on it. After 8 years I decided to go off it because it was making me feel like a different person and my acne got...

In forum Personal logs

14 years ago
Vitamin D... I'm finally clear!!

lllhhk,   You said you live in Singapore and it's very sunny there, correct? What made you think you may be vitamin D3 deficient in the first place?   There is no ONE cure for acne, it's abo...

In forum Diet & holistic health

14 years ago
Vitamin D... I'm finally clear!!

It's still going good for me! This is the longest I've gone without getting a new zit since I came off birth control. I think I'll get the liquid form next time. I'm using the gel caps now, but when t...

In forum Diet & holistic health

14 years ago
Hate wearing foundation in the summer but feel cannot go without ?

I do too. I just use origins vita zing in the summer. Moisturizer+spf 15+tint= perfect!

In forum Emotional and psychological effects of acne

14 years ago
Vitamin D... I'm finally clear!!

It really is! I'm making my husband take it after some of the research I've done.   Things are still looking good for me, but it's still SO early. Mustn't get hopes up yet! I feel like if I've be...

In forum Diet & holistic health

14 years ago
Vitamin D... I'm finally clear!!

Still no sunshine here   I started on 1000 IU on May 28, went up 1000 IU each day until I got to 4,000 IU which is where I am now. It hasn't even been a week, so this is just an update and shoul...

In forum Diet & holistic health

14 years ago