HOW I got rid of MY acne.

[Shiftkey]

It has never been scientifically proven that either stress nor diet affects your acne... Acne can cause stress though.

Yes and no. Stress is vitually impossible to test in a clinical trial, but seeing as it affects every other aspect of a person's health, it's safe to assume it affects acne. Overall diet has been linked as a factor, individual foods have not.

 

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Yes and no. Stress is vitually impossible to test in a clinical trial, but seeing as it affects every other aspect of a person's health, it's safe to assume it affects acne. Overall diet has been linked as a factor, individual foods have not.

Either way, if you have acne problems and not just the occasional zit, these factors plays such a minor role that they are virtually insignificant...

Perhaps stress might irritate and make the acne more aggressive..stress often results in excessive sweating which may worsen the acne. I think diet plays a very very small role. In periods where i only eat healthy and drink tons of water, I break out just as much as when i only eat fat junkfood and only drink coca cola..

 

[everywomanshero]

Diet is not a factor. There is some early evidence that low fat milk could possibly affect acne but is a very long way from being conclusive.

There are soaps which do not cause problems. Purpose is one of the most noted.

There is also moisterizing creames that do not cause problems. Cidaphil is what I use. Purpose also has one that is SPF 15 or something like that for protection from the aging affect sun has as well.

Laundry detergent and tooth paste can also cause problems. Cheer Free is a suggested detergent which isn't too expensive (use the dry form), and biotene is the toothpaste I use. The toothpaste should contain normal fluride levels and no sodium lauryl sulfate. I think Rembrant is another one that fits this bill, but only 1 of the 4 kinds and is hard to find. The right kind boasts that it doesn't inflame canker sores. Walgreens can order it for you if not in stock. Avoid any "herbal toothpastes" because they may not contain a fluride and still contain SLS.

This is all according to my dermatologist.

I don't know if this really helps or not, but I wash gel out of my hair a little while better going to sleep and regularly wash my bed apparal.

 

[penkitten]

once you are in your mid 20s you hardly ever get a pimple.
you just have to survive puberty.

 

[Mandiblard]

Then explain why I know 30 year olds with acne. People completely ruling out diet can just forget I exist then, whatever's conveniant.

Remember, dermatologists make money from selling you products.

I think diet plays a very very small role. In periods where i only eat healthy and drink tons of water, I break out just as much as when i only eat fat junkfood and only drink coca cola..

It doesn't make a difference straight away, what I found when I was cured was that when I ate something crap in about 3-5 days the effects would be noticable, and took the same time to heal as I went back to good foods. I love being able to control it!

 

[Mandiblard]

It has never been scientifically proven that either stress nor diet affects your acne... Acne can cause stress though.

True, but if they scientifically proved such a simple thing caused acne there would be no more multimillion dollar acne treatment product industry.

 

[mattb717]

Fact of the matter is that no one here is completely right regardless of how much you'd like to think you are. If anyone had any REAL clue where Acne came from or what truely causes it.....there would be a cure for it. Go to any acne website or any dermatologist and they all same the same thing. All these factors MAY play a role in causing acne.

 

[Shiftkey]

once you are in your mid 20s you hardly ever get a pimple.
you just have to survive puberty.

That's true for most people, but some of us aren't so lucky. I'm 23, and while my acne isn't nearly as bad as when I was a teen, I still get the occational breakout and more often than not I have at least one pimple on my face. If I don't use benzoyl peroxide 2x per day it's even worse.

Diet is not a factor. There is some early evidence that low fat milk could possibly affect acne but is a very long way from being conclusive.

That's my point. These two statements do not fit with each other because diet is more than a single food. Science has proven that individual foods generally do not affect acne. However it is a fact that poor overall diet can contribute to (but not be the sole cause of) acne.

 

[penkitten]

its diet, stress, cleaniness&hygiene, your dna that you inherit from your parents, its where you work and your freggin hormones.

eating junk is going to kill us and make us look bad.
touching greasy french fries and then touching our faces is going to make pimples.
the stress of school , dating, parents, future plans, work, bills is going to take a toll on our bodies.
if our parents had bad acne, we can inherit that.
if you work around grease or dirt, its going to land on your face and cake up your pores.
if you arent cleaning your face right, its going to leave zits.
and raging hormones also cause zits.

most people get to their early to mid 20s and this stuff stops because their diets are better, the stress level is way down, puberty is over and they get jobs that are cleaner.

some people get horrible acne where others just get a few zits. its not fair to the people that get them on their backs either. now they have new treatments out that are costly but more effective than using clearisil or oxy.

the best thing that ever worked for me was to use rubbing alcohol. it would make me break out really bad, but then they would all go away for a while.

 

[banzai07]

I use 10%, should I apply it to places that aren't red and that don't have zits? Does it prevent it?