Diet for Clear Skin

Contrary to what the average American dermatologist tells you, diet affects acne in so many ways. It isn't possibe for it not to. Many, not-so-average, doctors know this and researchers have been proving it for decades. And best of all, the diet and lifestyle habits that clear skin are also anti-aging and will prevent, reduce and even reverse most of the health conditions rampant these days. It will even prevent wrinkles and help you keep your hair! (and it's better for the planet!)

Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Does Sugar = Acne?

A frequent Question. To over simplify. Yes sugar equals acne. It also equals bad health.

Glucose floating through the bloodstream is very damaging and the true cause of heart disease, not cholesterol. So the body produces insulin to get it out of the bloodstream and into the cells. When you consume more glucose than your cells can take in, it keeps trying with the insulin but if the cells are full they aren't going to take in more. If we hadn't invented added sugar and refined grain junk and sedentary work, this would rarely happen.

Eventually your cells will become resistant and your pancreas exhausted and you will get diabetes, like about half our population these days.

In the meantime, both the sugar and the insulin are inflamatory (and acne is an inflammatory condition as are many other health conditions). And the insulin stimulates other hormones such as IGF-1 and the sex hormones involved in acne.