With all due respect newguy, could you please tell me if you went on any cleanses while you were on your healthy eating program? And I don't appreciate your calling our views as idiocy. If diet and healthy eating helps a person have beautiful skin how can you say this to that same individual? Elaina

Hello Newguy,

To say that your Acne has been cured is misleading. While it may be improving, you are still undergoing treatment for it. The test is in what happens once you stop taking the medications. If there is no reoccurence and you can maintain this with no medication, then you can start talking about 'cure'. The treatment may be creating a whole new set of problems for you, however.

Antibiotics kill bacteria...and not just the bad bacteria! A healthy person has approximately 80% beneficial bacteria and 20% pathogenic bacteria. Most people who eat a typical diet and maintain an average lifestyle have the reverse ratios of bacteria. The beneficial bacteria is necessary for a healthy immune system, digestive system, controlling toxins and pathogens, and manufacturing some vitamins. The overuse of Antibiotics (both pharmaceutical and in the food supply) is a major contributing factor to the disturbed ratio of bacteria and can create enormous health problems if the beneficial bacteria is not replaced. I hope that you are taking plenty of probiotics while taking all the Antibiotics and afterwards as well.

One person's good diet is another person's junk food. I have treated many people who thought that they had a good diet and were consuming an enormous amount of sugar, chemicals, preservatives and foods with very low nutritional value and very little fiber. Furthermore, what you eat is not the only factor...what you DIGEST AND ABSORB is the key. You can eat a perfectly good diet and if you are not breaking the food down properly and/or if your system is too clogged with toxins and mucous to absorb those nutrients you aren't getting the benefits from all that good food.

Health is more than the absence of symptoms, and it also involves more than exercise and 'good' diet. And the condition of your skin is one reflection of the state of your health.

Hi acneone, Thats great you don't drink soda but you probably still have alot of toxins from your soda days. And if you have dry skin I highly suggest you use olive oil to clean your skin. A good olive oil mind you not something that has been stripped of all basic nutrients. Maybe an extra virgin olive oil from a health food store.Rub your skin before you take a bath or shower that way the water doesn't strip more away. And I also believed that whole 'hormone causes Acne mantra' a long time ago too. I believe there is some validity to this idea, but I think it is a major cope out on the real causes of acne. Also it is not expensive to take care of yourself naturally, it is quite cheap. You just have to be willing to do it. If you start by eating tons of fruit in the morning. I used to eat a huge mango or two, two peaches, two plums, apples, oranges, strawberries and any other fruit I could get my hands on. Then in the afternoon I would eat a salad with a bit of balsamic vinegar and olive oil and bread made at a bakery that doesn't use chemicals. Then again at night I would have some really good meditarian cuisine made with more vegies. In between the day you want to drink alot of herbal teas and fruit juices. In my case it was orange juice. I drank tons of orange juice, my body craved it. Also you need to freshly squeeze your juice DO NOT buy premade orange juice. And tons and tons of water. That is a must! You probably could do with a emema to help clean your colon. If you decide to any kind of internal organ cleanse the first place to start must be your colon. I mean, where else does all the toxic matter go, right? So you want that to be unblocked so that you can release all the waste. Try looking into Dr. Richard Schulze 's products. There is section on this site that discusses Dr.Schulze's healing methods and also a forum with a great support group. If his products are too expensive then you can go to http://healingtools.tripod.com and get the recipes there to make them yourself.
And look about the accutone...I have never personally tried it but still I would have this question nawing away at me if I were a man. "If this chemical compound is so powerful that it can cause birth defects in women, what the hell can it cause in a guy?"...think about it. Anyway I hope this helps, keep letting us know how your going. Take care, Elaina