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Friday, May 22, 2009
How the No-Grain Diet Helps in Clearing Up Acne
Acne, pimples or zits, whatever you may want to call it, this common skin condition affects more than 80 percent of Americans, teenagers and adults alike, at some point in their lifetime.
An acne breakout can be a very stressful episode, at whatever age it may strike. Acne comes and goes on its own but some people develop severe cases of acne that warrant medical attention.
Every year, people suffering from acne spend hundreds of millions of dollars on different over-the-counter and prescription acne treatment methods, including antibiotics, drugs like Accutane, and even acne gadgets.
But what is the best way to treat acne?
Many dermatologists will tell you that what you eat has nothing to do with acne but they couldn’t be further from the truth.
Dr. Joseph Mercola explains that some people are predisposed to developing acne lesions. And if your diet is causing an increase in your insulin levels and associated insulin growth factors, it will trigger an acne breakout.
When you consume refined carbohydrates and sugar, it causes a spike in your insulin levels and a surge in an insulin-like growth factor called IGF-1 in your body. This in turn, leads to an overproduction of male hormones, causing your pores to secrete a greasy substance called sebum, which attracts the acne-causing propioniform bacteria.
Some say that acne started in the West because studies show that it is almost non-existent in non-westernized countries where refined carbohydrates and sugar are not widely consumed. No acne cases were found among Papua New Guinea islanders and Paraguayan hunter-gatherers, suggesting the significant role of environmental factors, such as diet, in acne.
So why isn’t your doctor telling you to change your eating habits to treat your acne? Simple: a healthy diet can’t be “sold,” and they can’t prescribe you with conventional acne treatments like topical acne creams and antibiotics.
The no-grain diet will help you radically reduce your insulin production by reducing or severely limiting your consumption of grains and sugars. This will involve avoiding bread, cereal, pasta, rice, potatoes, and corn.
For 40 years, Dr. Mercola had his own struggles with acne but after understanding the influence and dangers of grains on health, acne became a non-issue for him.
But helping prevent acne is just a side effect of the no-grain diet; leading you to optimal health is its main goal.
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What would you eat? People lived on potatoes, the indians lived on corn. The Chinese and other asian people lived on rice. WTF? None of these people seemed to have acne until western culture was introduced. I have always had acne accept one time in my life. That was when I was a teenager working on a sod farm for three months. After one month my skin was free of acne and stayed that way for the next 2 months or until I stopped working. I worked 12 hours per day and was covered in dirt from head to toe and the bathtub had to be cleaned after I took a bath and my clothes had to be rinsed first then washed separately. I have always thought the dirt was the real answer. My diet was more sugar because I ate much more fast food every day. Every single teenager I worked with experienced the same complete reduction in acne.
ReplyDeleteIs there anyone else out there with this same experience of acne elimination from working on a sod farm?