If you were ever plagued by an oily skin condition, you probably have had the urge to get relief by giving your skin a good scrubbing with soap to make it squeaky clean. Unfortunately you probably found out that this only helped for a very short period of time and the oil came back with [...]
OK, so may be that is a bit of an exaggeration. An apple a day doesn’t REALLY keep acne away. … Or does it? Let me not mince words here and give it to you straight. The fact of the matter is that eating right is a large part of being acne free. I know you [...]
We all know Woody Harrelson from his appearances in unforgettable movies such as “White Men Can’t Jump”, “Kingpin” and “Natural Born Killers”. And who could forget his splendid role as the hilarious bartender in the sitcom “Cheers” ? Woody had tons of acne Turns out that in his early twenties Woody had a terrible complexion [...]
Professor Bodo Melnik of the Department of Dermatology, University of Osnabrueck, Germany, has published a thought-provoking perspective on a causal relation between cow’s milk consumption and Acne in Western societies (1). Since the vast majority of adolescents will suffer from Acne, an environmental factor may be the cause. One of the pillars of the Western [...]
A nice review of the role of diet in the occurrence of acne was recently published by Dr. Elsa Spencer and co-workers from the George Washington University School of Medicine in Washington, DC. (Ref. 1) They reported on studies that show the negative interaction between glycemic load, insulin sensitivity, hormone mediators, and acne. It goes [...]
If you read the article on how sugar consumption can cause an increase in amount or severity of acne, it stands to reason that a low-carb diet should result in less acne, and this is in fact the case. It has been shown that foods with a low glycemic index increase SHBG and reduce androgen [...]
