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Acne is an immunological disease. It's not just oxidation of lipids. A couple minor points: the rabbit ear is a woefully inadequate model for human acne due to the prevalence of false positive results...

Oopps, sorry. For some reason the URLs contained full stop and comma characters. Here are URLS that work: So there is evidence that these vitamins and antioxidants both penetrate the skin (when...

I don't buy it. I believe you would have better results with a diet that promotes healing and decreases inflammation and inflammatory response. Topical solutions imo are either produced with such insu...

Nobody can really say how much damage a course in antibiotics causes. To my knowledge it has never been thoroughly studied. I looked into this once, and the papers on this generally note that the gut ...

SO PLEASE TELL ME THIS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ONE HAS CLEAR SKIN EATS HORRIBLE DIET OTHER HAS BAD SKIN EATS HEALTHY DIET POINT PROVING i agree with you alexisc The only thing thi...

Don't listen to these people. They have "zero" credentials and do nothing but spread their misinformation about acne based upon what they read online. Acne has nothing to do with diet, as every REAL d...

At least the title of this thread was correct, lol..

No! Fish oil and other antioxidants, such as vitamin C and E, can offer some sun protection, but in the studies I've seen they show moderate effect but I wouldn't trust them as sun screens. If my memo...

The value of green tea/EGCG has been known for a while, but this study identifies several factors affected by topical EGCG There are also a few other green tea studies. The problem is that none of t...

I believe the argument here is still that benzoyl peroxide works for some, and doesn't for others. And for the people it does work for, they are still subjecting their skin to extremely high levels o...

People put way too much faith into diet being able to cure acne. It can help, but it's far from be-all-end-all cure. There's a connection between gut issues and skin problems. From what you've said,...

And this forum is filled with people for whom it didn't work. And with people who chose not to use medicines that cause harm. This forum is also filled with people who haven't made much progress wit...

The only things inconclusive about the diet studies are some usually unimportant detail about what exactly in whatever diet studied provided the benefit. So they want to pinpoint something that can't ...

I'd like to know WHY (out of curiosity, scientifically speaking, that caloric restriction improves insulin resistance. I'm not sure that anyone knows this yet. It could be that eating too many calor...

Many things are anti inflammatory. So why apply something that causes harm?   BP never reduced my acne. And it increases redness and irritation. The forum is filled with people that say the same...

There's some evidence to show that people with inflammatory acne have significantly lower levels of antioxidant vitamins and minerals. Most likely this is because of acne - rather than the cause of ac...

Scientifically speaking, the connection between diet and acne is anything but settled. There is more evidence that diet affects acne than it doesn't. But the studies linking diet to acne are not concl...

Also, because oxidized lipids in the skin are considered a culprit in acne formation and benzoyl peroxide is an oxidizer, I decided to look up some studies: This one is about topical spearment reduci...

Caloric restriction has been shown to improve insulin resistance and reduce inflammation, both of which are good for acne. When I was dieting to lose some weight I also noticed that my skin was less...

As Omnivium mentioned, you can't generalize from one group of people to another. Topically applies zinc has at least some 5-alpha reductase activity. It's also one of the few supplements where there's...

Makes sense. DHEA and DHEAS levels are quite often linked to acne. It's also one of the testosterone precursors and gets converted all the way to DHT in the skin.

Sorry for my late reply. I haven't had much time to visit the ORG lately. For the past 4 months I've been busy researching and writing, or updating, my book. So glad to get this monkey off my back ...

I noticed that somebody asked about how long this kind of toner stays good. A while back I looked at some research related to this. Unfortunately the catechins in green tea degrade quite rapidly. Unde...

Stupidity burning thermonuclear hot...

I think I've read that review a couple of months ago (or at least the conclusion, since you had to buy the article itself and that wasn't exactly cheap). Wasn't it an evaluation of some 20+ clinical t...