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100percentnature. Acne Vulgaris, the 8 Stages of Acne, Skin Care, Adult Acne Treatment, and Scar Removal Options

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What is Acne Vulgaris? This is a medical term used to describe most cases of acne. It really isn’t as terrible as it sounds! Vulgaris doesn’t mean that the acne is vulgar, only that it means that it is common.

Be aware that there are many factors that say to acne. Initially, research indicates a propensity for acne may well be inherited. Parents who had acne in their teenage and young adult years may have children who are likewise prone to having acne in their teen and young adult years.

Next, clogged skin pores are certainly a major contributing factor for acne out-breaks. When pores become clogged with an surplus production of sebum and mix with dead skin cells or makeup that isn’t sufficiently cleaned from the skin, problems start to renovate. When skin pores are clogged, bacteria are produced and pus starts to form causing a pimple, a white head or a black head.

The most commonly accepted causes for acne are hormonal imbalances. Hormones in boys and girls may become unbalanced during puberty, during menstrual cycles, when starting or stopping birth control pills, during times of extreme stress, and at other times as well.

All of the above situations can cause the body to over produce a male hormone which causes the sebaceous glands to produce sebum. The sebum combines with dead skin cells to block pores and acne develops. So, in the end, it still comes back to blocked pores.

Other causes for acne contain a lack of vitamins, mineral deposits and trace elements that the body needs to maintain a healthy skin. Vitamins A, E and B6 are especially vital in maintaining healthy skin as are zinc, essential fatty acids (EFA), Chromium and Selenium.

Most diets of teenagers and young adults do not control these vitamins, mineral deposits, and trace elements in sufficient quantity to maintain healthy skin and to help preclude the onset of Acne.

Acne: The 8 Stages:

Full blown, Stage 8 acne doesn’t usually renovate overnight. Acne is progressive condition. Acne is one of the diseases that are so common that it is sometimes just disregarded as a serious problem…like the common cold. It has been estimated that 95 of people will have at least a mild case of acne at some point in their lives.

Acne, much like the common cold, is usually treated by the sufferer with over-the-neutralize medications that alleviate the symptoms of the disease in the belief that it will simply go away all by itself….eventually. And, it usually does but not always.

Most people throughout their life will have the occasional pimple, zit, white head or black head.

Although these pesky little outbreaks do seem to appear at the most inopportune times, they really aren’t a serious problem that requires medical attention. A little over-the-neutralize acne facial wash to help preclude another outbreak will usually take care of the problem. It isn’t a big deal. This kind of acne is referred to as Stage 0 and really not anything to be concerned about except the acne progresses to subsequent stages.

Acne stages are graded from 0 through 8. Zero is the least severe and 8 is the most serious of the stages. The stages are as follows:

Stage 1: There will be white heads and black heads with some mild inflammation. The outbreaks will start to suggest itself more often. Using products that control Benzyl Peroxide are in order.

Stage 2: There will be some papules in addition to the white heads and black heads. Papules are skin lesions that are solid and raised but usually small. This is still considered to be a very mild case of acne. Treatment can be continued using over-the-neutralize products that control Salicylic Acid.

Stage 3: Stage 3 is the same as stage 2 but with more frequent occurrences.

Stage 4-5: Pustules start to appear. Now, it’s time to schedule an appointment at a dermatologist.

Stage 6-7: Nodules and cysts are forming. Scarring is going to start happening at this stage. Your dermatologist will start to take more drastic action.

Stage 8: Breakouts are almost continuous and contain nodules and cysts. There are modern technologies that will help and your dermatologist will advise you.

Acne Skin Care:

As we know, our hair follicles ooze sebum. Sebum makes its way up the hair follicles to the skin pores where it lubricates and protects the skin. Sometimes there are oil glands which get overworked, get enlarge, and produce too much sebum. The sebum can get trapped in the hair follicle.

When this happens the pores get clogged and black heads or white heads form and the bacteria start to multiply at an frighteningly quick rate.

Once you know this process, you can see the reasoning behind the advice about caring for skin that has black heads, white heads and pustules on it.

The first piece of advice about caring for acne infected skin is to never pick at the pimples. Don’t try to pop them and drain them. This will not cure them no matter what anyone tells you. Popping them will only serve to make them of poorer quality…not better.

But, there are things that you can do that really will help.

The first thing you can do is to wash your face with a mild soap or a sulfur based soap. Wash your face with just your finger tips. Don’t ever use a wash cloth as it holds germs and bacteria. Rinse your face with clean fill up several times to ensure you remove all traces of soap, and then pat it dry with a clean towel. Do not rub your face with the towel and never use the same towel twice without it being clean.

Take a good multi-vitamin and multi-mineral supplement every day and drink at least 8 full glasses of fill up (not soda) every day. The vitamins and mineral deposits will give nutrients that are absent from most diets and the fill up will help to hydrate the skin as well as to flush toxins out of your system.

If you use over-the-neutralize acne medications, be particular that you follow the directions carefully and that you use a good sunscreen when you are outdoors as some acne medications make the skin more prone to sunburn.

Adult Acne:

Acne is not just a problem for teenagers and young adults. Once a person survives the teenage years, you would think that they don’t have to deal with the embarrassment of acne any longer, right? Well….not exactly.

The sad truth is that about 25 of women will have acne at some time in their 20s, 30s or even 40s. Although there has never been a real cause established, it is believed that most adult acne is caused by the same thing that causes teenage acne…hormonal changes.

A doctor will sometimes prescribe hormonal treatments that will clear a case of adult acne right up. As with teenage acne, adult acne is not caused by diet. Stress has often been cited as one possible cause of adult acne but that assertion has never been verified.

Treating adult acne is a bit more trying than treating teenage acne. Adults have the concern of drying out their skin that teenagers don’t normally have to deal with. Adults don’t want pimples; but, they don’t want wrinkles, either. A dermatologist should be consulted if the acne is long lasting or is severe.

There are many treatments that are available to adults who endure from acne. Most of the effective treatments are only available by prescription. Adults should not use over-the-neutralize acne medications that are intended for the treatment of teenage acne. These products tend to dry the skin and adults need to be concerned about wrinkling as well as acne.

A case of adult acne is not a pleased occurrence to say because those hideous bumps always seem to suggest itself at the most inopportune times and while a teenager may be discomfited by acne, an adult is even more devastated.

Fortunately, there are treatments and a dermatologist has a lot of weapons in his arsenal to fight adult acne.

Acne Scar Removal Options:

Life hardly seems honest sometimes! Initially, a teenager or a young adult must endure through acne, treat it, and have to live with it…sometimes for years. Then the acne is gone; but, the scars are there as a painful reminder of the mental and emotional agony the acne sufferer had to endure.

You’re right, life doesn’t seem honest; but, acne is one of those sad facts of life that some if not most of us have to deal with. The good news is there is help; sorry to say, it isn’t free or cheap!

There are two basic procedures that are used to remove hideous pits and scars left over from a terrible case of teenage or young adult acne. Laser resurfacing is the least expensive of the two available acne scar removal procedures. Dermabrasion is the second course of action.

Laser resurfacing can be done in the dermatologist office instead of a hospital so that provides a much superior financial savings. A laser is used to remove the top layer of skin and also to tighten the midpoint layer of skin.

The dermatologist will use a local anesthetic to help reduce the course of action pain. It usually takes several days for the skin to heal after a laser resurfacing course of action is completed. Very often, multiple resurfacing treatments must be done to achieve the desired results.

The second course of action used to remove acne scarring is called dermabrasion. In this course of action, a rotating wire brush is used to remove the top layer of skin. The body continually produces new skin and the new layer will be smoother than the layer that was removed. It usually takes between 10 days and 3 weeks for the skin to heal after a dermabrasion treatment. Once again, multiple treatments may be required to eliminate the scarring.

Acne may seem to be a devastating condition but with proper skin normal, vitamins, and over the neutralize products, most cases will not be severe. Remember, proper cleansing goes a long way towards minimizing outbreaks, so don’t be frightened to cleanse your face 5 – 6 times a day of more if needed.

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Weightloss Words Walking Vlog

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5 Diet and Nutrition tips

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Nutrition and Your Mental Health

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Be My Supporter – www.myspace.com Nutrition by Natalie Nutrition and Your Mental Shape What does nutrition have to do with mental shape? You might be surprised to find out the truth behind what happens when a person has a nutritional deficiency. Nutritional deficiencies can cause all sorts of psychiatric symptoms including apathy, low energy, irritability, insomnia, low energy, agitation, fatigue, concentration problems, aches and pains, weight changes, including weight loss or weight gain. Sound a lot like the symptoms of depression? The truth is the average American diet of quick food is low in vital nutrition that you need for your body to function correctly. This isn’t to say that all depression is caused by terrible nutrition but it’s certainly a contributing factor in many cases and poor nutrition will always make depression of poorer quality. Antidepressant drugs also do not right nutritional problems. So if your depressed because of nutritional problems an antidepressant will only partially cover up the problem and you body still won’t function correctly. Please visit Natalie’s website at www.nutritionbynatalie.com To find out more about orthomolecular psychiatry visit, http This video was produced by Psychetruth www.myspace.com www.youtube.com www.livevideo.com ©Copyright 2007 Zoe Sofia. All Civil rights Modest. This video maybe showed in public, copied and redistributed for any strictly non-commercial use in its entire unedited form. Alteration or commercial use is strictly prohibited.

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Be My Supporter – www.myspace.com Nutrition by Natalie Super Foods In this video Natalie talks you around the world to learn about some of the most nutrition foods that exist. Some of these were really learned in region where the inhabitants have extended life spans dues to these foods in their diet. This video includes low calorie all natural foods that can be used instead of sugar. The foods gone over in this video contain Quinoa, Goji Berries, Acai Berries, Wheat Grass, Spirulina, Hemp Protein, Agave Nectar and Stevia. Any of these foods can be bought at a local shape food store. Please visit Natalie’s website at www.nutritionbynatalie.com This video was produced by Psychetruth http www.youtube.com www.livevideo.com ©Copyright 2007 Zoe Sofia. All Civil rights Modest. This video maybe showed in public, copied and redistributed for any strictly non-commercial use in its entire unedited form. Alteration or commercial use is strictly prohibited.

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Connection Between Diet and Acne

admin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 11:49:45 +0000

With years of medical education and clinical experience behind these claims, how can we the simple folks who endure from acne challenge these statements and think otherwise? The answer is: doubt. Doubt, if its stays in the borders of reason, can open many doors otherwise will stay forever shut. Believe it or not, doubt can change reality. Doubt can cure your acne and doubt can even save your life.

Fact is, countless of acne sufferers have reported that their acne seemed to get of poorer quality when they consumed particular foods and saw dramatic positive change over their acne condition when they eliminated the same foods from their diet and when particular foods with specific nutritional value were incorporated into their diet.

So why do dermatologists so stubbornly insist that diet does not cause acne? The answer: you can’t make as much money as you could make by selling drugs and over the counters. There is a huge difficulty upon doctors coming from the drug and pharmaceutical companies to prescribe expensive medications and lotions that make dependency. The truth is, that your doctor is in a way, a hostage by the trillion dollar drug companies. Did you know that the drug companies, who have no interest in producing something that they cannot control financially, sponsor most medical schools?

The right diet, although not a solution by itself, can, in many cases, dramatically reduce inflammation and even completely clear one’s acne (if you’re one of the lucky ones who’s acne is triggered by allergic response to food). There are less profits for the drug and pharmaceutical companies when promoting a clear skin diet.

The truth is that conventional medications will never cure your acne, simply because they are pre-designed NOT to fix the internal cause of acne. They are pre-designed to deal with the external symptoms of a disease as they make more and more dependency and more dependency means making more money all at our expense and ignorance.

The Theory That Diet Doesn’t Cause Acne Is A Myth

The dogmatic theory that diet does not cause acne and that acne is merely an incurable genetic disorder was based upon two dated researches in print in 1969 and 1971 that were aimed at studying the tie between diet and acne.

These studies were the foundation of the ‘acne symptoms treatment strategy’, meaning, because acne is a genetic disease that cannot be prevented, the only way to deal with acne would be to tackle its symptoms (bacteria, inflammation, puss, redness, greasiness), by applying creams, antibiotics, taking prescription drugs and over the counters.

Surprisingly enough, years after the above studies were in print, clinical trials and in depth researches experimenting the acne diet link have found that the studies from 1969 and 1971 had came to the incorrect conclusions and were in fact seriously flawed.

Recent studies have clearly found a significant tie between diet and acne. It appears that the incorrect diet is now plotting to be one of the leading acne contributing factors that can negatively affect hormonal regulation and the natural process of toxic elimination, which can seriously aggravate one’s existing acne.

Diet Shapes Who You Are (Including Your Acne)

In the same way that crashing waves shape beach cliffs and just like the wind shapes the canyon walls, slowly and methodically over time, so does eating shapes and effects our physic, our internal system, our corporal and mental being, from the organ down to the cellular level.

The thought that an object foreign to our body that is inserted by the food that we eat, has no effect on us, or has no impact on chronic conditions such as acne is absurd. Diet is the primary thing that affects and shapes who we are.

Diet has cumulative effect on our bodies, and that includes our skin condition and acne, which is a manifestation of a chronic internal problem slowly shaped and built by the incorrect daily dietary choices over the years.

Acne Diet and The Kitavan Islanders

Even as in the U.S, more than 80% of teenagers between 16 and 18 have acne and more than 17 million Americans endure from some form of acne, there is an fascinating evidence that native people that live and eat in traditional ways, have significantly lower to no occurrences of acne.

In 2002, Dr. Cordain and his colleagues in print a landmark study that examined 300 people living in the Kitavan Islands off the coast of Papua New Guinea that showed that none of the islanders had even one blemish on his or her face. Akin to the Kitavans, no case of acne had been observed when the same experiment had been conducted upon the South American Indians called the Ache, living in a remote jungle in eastern Paraguay.

The natives of Kitavan and the South American Indians had no access to the latest over the counters, topical creams or conventional acne medications and they had no dermatologist to consult with. The only vast difference between them and American or European citizens is their diet.

Acne Diet and Sugar: The cute Poison

Did you know that sugar is a 100% pure chemical with zero nutritional value? Recent studies have clearly shown a tie between the consumption of sugar and the aggravation of acne.

When you consume any form of refined carbohydrates (white sugar, white flour, white rice) here’s what happens: right after you slot in that ’sweet poison’ into your body, it speedily spikes up your blood sugar levels. Your body needs to bring those levels down so it secrets a surge of insulin, other male hormones and an insulin-like growth factor called IGF-1. The excretion of these hormones overwhelms your liver and your internal system in general. The surplus of male hormones encourages the skin to ooze large amounts of sebum oil: The greasy substance that encourages the p.acne bacteria to grow, resulting in the aggravation of your acne.

Acne Diet and Dairy Products: Got Milk? Got Acne

Milk (all dairy products included) is the most harmful, mucus forming, allergenic and acne aggravating food you can find. If you plotting sugar can aggravate your acne, here’s another major nutritional player in the formation of acne: behold the miracles of milk. Surprised? I plotting so. After years of constant brainwashing by the media, who can blame us for thinking milk is good for strong bones and healthy teeth? The truth is: every sip of milk contains 59 different raging hormones, (which trigger the hyper-production of sebum oil resulting in more acne), saturated animal stout, steroid hormones, dead white blood cells, and cow pus in plenty!

Did you know that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) allows 750 million pus cells in every liter of milk (about two pounds) produced in America? Reckon about it, the next time you pop a pimple.

Methodical studies already point the finger at milk as one of the worst acne aggravating foods: “As pointed out by Dr. Jerome Fisher, ‘About 80 percent of cows that are giving milk are pregnant and are throwing off hormones continuously.’ Progesterone breaks down into androgens, which have been implicated as a factor in the enhancement of acne…Dr. Fisher observed that his teenage acne patients improved as soon as the milk drinking stopped.”

If there’s one element you should remove from your diet in the quest for clear skin make it this one. Not only will you see an immediate enhancement over your acne, you’ll feel a huge weight has been lifted from your body. If you worry about calcium intake, don’t! Milk being acidic forming food makes a leeching effect where calcium is taken from your bones to balance the acidity. Milk really deprives your body from its calcium resources. Green leafy vegetables, nuts and seeds are not only brilliant sources of calcium they also have the powers to help you fight your acne symptoms.

Diet Is Only One of The Factors That Cause Acne

Dairy products and sugar are not the only acne aggravating foods. The two above cannot sum up the list of western made acne triggering foods. There are several other foods you should clearly stay away from if you ever wish to clear your acne. The good new is that there are tons of other foods such as essential fatty acids that are not only brilliant for your skin, they can really help you clear your acne, by re-balancing your body and promoting to an acne-free environment.

The right nutrition plays an vital part in the complex process of acne formation. When doctors claim there is no link between diet and acne because particular individuals can eat specific foods and get acne while others eat the same foods and don’t, these doctors have failed to realize that there are several factors involved in the formation and aggravation of acne and diet is only ONE of them.

The Final Verdict On The Acne Diet Tie: How To Finally Overcome Your Acne Challenge

Acne is a complex condition that is triggered by several underlying factors. The only way to neutralize your acne condition is to tackle all these acne-contributing factors-holistically. Since the incorrect diet is only one of these acne-triggering factors, in most cases no special diet can cure acne.

There is a but, a tight tie between diet and acne formation. Dietary factors can trigger and aggravate your existing acne. Avoiding the incorrect foods such as milk, sugar and hydrogenated oils, and eating cleansing and hormonal balancing foods such as green leafy vegetables and essential fatty acids, can help your skin heal itself from the surrounded by out and dramatically reduce your acne symptoms.

There are also several vital dietary principals that you must know and follow if you ever want to cure your acne for excellent.

Taking responsibility over your body and adhering to these dietary principals along with taking the necessary steps to tackle all acne contributing factors, holistically, will not only cure your acne everlastingly and give you the flawless acne free skin you deserve, following these principals will also significantly improve your overall shape, mental well-being, look and feel.

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