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.
June 12, 2003
posted by Colleen Shirazi at
4:08 PM (Pacific)
Okay, and another thing. I tried eating regular beef a few meals in a row...which is unusual for me. Got two pimples...and, it took them longer to heal. And my skin overall looked bad; it didn't have any glow to it. Hard to describe, just not clear-looking.
A couple of days without that kind of meat, and now it's back to being next to perfect.
On the positive side, even Albertson's now has several brands of hormone-free beef--the ground beef isn't any more expensive than regular ground beef.
So there is definitely something in the meat! It's possible it's not the meat's "fault." I mean it is possible that something else causes some people to react to regular beef that way (the hormone-free beef does not cause pimples for me). Plenty of people eat it and don't get acne. But whatever is causing my acne, is aggravated by regular beef.
I replaced the TwinLab Daily One with the same, only with iron. It was $25.50 for 90 capsules.
Again you can see how slowly information about adult acne trickles in. I have now read in several places that you can't take more than 5000 IU vitamin A if you might become pregnant. (I have also seen the figure 4000 IU quoted.)
I have read in many places to take a vitamin B complex--the same mentioned B1, B2, B3, B5, B6, B12.
I have read in a couple of places not to take excess iodine. One place recommended you use non-iodized salt. Good advice? I don't know. I thought too little iodine was bad for you. Anyhow...
I have read to take vitamin C and vitamin E in a few places.
Chromium and zinc are often recommended. Selenium, I saw that somewhere (perhaps the second link).
So the Daily One Caps are working out for me, but don't take them if you might become pregnant. You'll have to find something else...
Try cutting out your consumption of regular beef for a while. Eat something else or replace it with hormone-free beef (I know, it's terrible, my favorite food is the Whopper too).
Try reducing stress in your life as much as you can. Not always easy. But stress will cause acne.
After more than seven years, that's all that's worked for me. My skin still is getting better (after two months of Daily One Caps), so it's possible...dare I say it...that it might return to its former pristine state. I'm not holding my breath, exactly, but it is now possible.
