Re-think Those Acne Myths

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those acne diet, stress and hygiene myths aren’t always myths. In fact if you follow medical journals, each week a new study further questions the link between diet, hygiene, stress and acne. The fact is, the lines are very blurred.

See, the point is it’s not about food, hygiene and stress, the real cause of acne is about cause and effect within the body.


For example, at dermatologists conference back in 2004, Dr. William f. Danby linked the hormones in pregnant cows to acne. How’s that possible?

Those cows have progesterone and other steroid hormones. Once these hormones enter someone that drinks milk, the milk drinker’s hormones can fluctuate in any number of ways. When it comes to acne, drinking milk usually increases the androgen flow within the body and this leads to excess oil production and allows p. Acnes to reproduce faster.


(p. Acnes don’t cause acne by the way, that’s a myth that no one is talking about)

next, the hygiene and acne myth. Hygiene, is linked to acne, for instance, in 1976, when a nuclear reactor exploded in a small town in italy, nearly everyone in the village had chloracne and/or blackheads within days.


How’s that possible? Toxic built up on the skin from excessive dioxins in the air.

And then we have stress and acne. Again it’s not the stress per se that causes acne, but the cascade of hormonal, immunological, and psychological effects that stress can cause.

And yes studies do link stress to acne. A study conducted at stanford university in 2002 linked pre-examination stress to acne. Two years later, dermatology times is telling doctors to note how stress from handling school is affecting their young patient's.

I could go on all day tearing those "acne myths" jokes apart. The point is there’s a ton of solid research on acne, and if you read it, you’d laugh at a lot of those “acne myths” lists.


And the one about chocolate that was done 60 years ago had so many flaws that it's incomprehensible that people still refer to it.


Stay beautiful & smart,

naweko san-joyz