Does What You Eat Affect Acne Formation?

Many in the medical community continue to hold the view that diet and acne are not related, but I fear that I must differ. Acne pimples start as the result of your body’s attempt to rid itself of a hormone overload by sending the excess out through your skin in sebum oil. How anyone could believe that putting more of these chemicals and hormones into your body won’t affect how your body reacts is beyond me.

Most of us first experience acne during our teenage years. During this time, your hormone production runs wild and your body reacts by sending the excess out through your skin in sebum oil. The presence of too much sebum on your skin is the first requirement for pimple formation.

Now, if you’re already overloaded with hormones, does it make any sense to add more fuel to the fire? Eating or drinking any dairy product will do that very thing. Regular milk, for instance, contains fifty-nine different hormones from the cow and even more hormones from the steroids that were given to the cow to stimulate milk production. Any decent acne diet will stress the elimination of dairy from your diet.

If acne follows you into your adult years, your body’s low tolerance level most likely extends to the chemicals used in processed foods, as well. To your body, these chemicals are no different to the hormones of your younger years. And, it reacts the same way, sending them out in sebum oil that starts your acne outbreaks.

An effective anti acne diet will eliminate chemical laden processed foods from your diet in order to stop acne formation before it begins.

These examples indicate that, no matter what others may have told you, there is an absolute link between diet and acne. Perhaps now you understand that acne starts on the inside of your body. Eliminate the internal cause, and the external result will go away naturally.

Please Note: This information is based on information freely available in the popular press and medical journals concerning diet & acne. Nothing herein is to be or construed to be any type of medical advice. For medical advice the reader have to consult with his or her personal doctor or other medical specialist.