Disclaimer: I am not a doctor, nurse, nutritionist, herbalist, or otherwise medically trained person.
I am an ordinary person who has suffered from adult acne since 1995 and have found no solution to my acne through conventional medicine.
March 26, 2003
posted by Colleen Shirazi at
2:40 PM (Pacific)
Well it's definite...there is something in the brewer's yeast, that is not in the B vitamin pill, that works against acne.
I stopped taking the brewer's yeast and went with just the B vitamin pill...at first there didn't seem to be much difference. After about a week I'd say, my skin started getting more clogged pores. When I resumed the brewer's yeast, taking 2 tablespoons of it along with the B vitamin, my skin immediately got better.
I would say...taking the B vitamin alone, is better than taking the brewer's yeast alone. But the B vitamin cannot be used as a replacement for the brewer's yeast.
I would still like to isolate what is in the brewer's yeast that is not in the B vitamin pill. I suspect it's chromium. I can take a chromium pill...200 mcg...along with the B vitamin and find out.
It is also possible that it's not chromium or else it's actually a combination of elements.
Oh yeah, I was reading this old (1976) Rodale book on vitamins...it mentioned that you should never take only 1 B vitamin in large amounts. You have to take other B vitamins at the same time. Even on the acnemiracle.com site, they had a small mention of that...I suppose it's tempting to try being simplistic, to see vitamin B-5 as some sort of a miracle cure for acne. But it isn't. The B vitamin pill I'm taking has a super sized dose of B-5 yet without the brewer's yeast (which hardly has any B-5 iirc) it doesn't work as well.
