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 9, 2003
posted by Colleen Shirazi at
11:22 AM (Pacific)
This is amazing...my skin is almost...perfect.
I've used up the TwinLab Daily One Caps. In between, I tried out a (much) cheaper Kirkland (Costco) vitamin, the Premium Multivitamin with Herbs. I tried that for about a week and felt my skin was getting worse. Whether that was actually due to switching, I can't say though. I went back to finish off the Daily One's...and now I've run out of the Daily One's so I'm taking the Premium Multi's until I can replace the Daily One's (past couple of days).
That said, I think I can go out on a limb and say that I now feel that adult acne is caused by a combination of stress and under-nutrition. That is already a simplification. It seems to me that I was more stressed, and more undernourished, when I was younger, and I didn't have acne back then. So it has to be more than that. There has to be a reason why some people get acne under those conditions and others don't. My gut tells me it has something to do with birth control pills or long term exposure to hormones in meat...or something else environmental.
So it would be more accurate to say, that the treatment for my acne, is to reduce stress and to take vitamins.
I can say that taking two months of daily vitamins, got me this next to perfect skin. It didn't happen right away although I got some results right away.
You can bet I'm going to replace the Daily One Caps. One of our affiliates, Vitacost.com, sells them for half the price but I'm still buying it off the shelf for now. (By "affiliate" I mean if you bought something through our link, we'd get a small percentage of the sale.)
I found out a little more about Vitamin A. Pure vitamin A (retinol) is what is toxic if you take too much of it. Again I want to stress, the Daily One Caps appear to have too much vitamin A for women who are pregnant or who may become pregnant. Too much vitamin A is associated with birth defects (this is all info I got off the Net; of course you will want to consult your doctor before starting any vitamin regimen).
Beta carotene, on the other hand, is converted to vitamin A by your body as needed. So I think there is less concern about taking too much of that (although I've heard stories of people's skin turning orange from excessive beta carotene!).
Overall I feel more positive than I have for years.
