Acne is really more about what’s going on internally than what’s happening on your skin. That said, what you put on your skin, for skin care and for makeup, can make a difference. First, a quick breakdown on what acne is, to better understand why this is the case. Acne [...]
I wrote here on the staggering increase in Vitamin D deficiency in the US, and speculated on potential causes for it. Chances are extremely high that unless you’re supplementing with Vitamin D, you’re deficient. My theory is that this is because Vitamin D increases the absorption of calcium from the [...]
What Acne Is Skin and hair both are mostly comprised of a protein called keratin, and nourished with sebum, an oil naturally produced by the skin containing lipids and cell fragments. The normal flora on your skin’s surface use that sebum as food. Pores are the hair follicles in [...]
Turns out there is a dietary link to acne... and it's a big one.