For years, we’ve recommended dozens of dietary acne strategies on this website, ranging from instantaneous to long-range, from the minor to the gamechanging. But what if you can’t implement them? It’s easier said than done to make sweeping changes in long held habits and stick to them religiously. There’s no point being a walking acne […]
Quercetin isn’t the most popular antioxidant in health stores. It doesn’t compare to resveratrol, which has the automatic advertising appeal of being from red wine, a marketing company’s dream. Driving down the high street, you rarely see billboards boasting of lifechanging quercetin supplements with a supermodel holding a wine glass in her hand. Its best
One of the strangest mysteries in the acne universe is precisely which remedies climb to the top of the pile. For example, right now there are probably dozens of women with cucumbers over their eyes, as recommended in blog articles for skin tone. Yet cucumbers have almost no nutrition or special compounds. Meanwhile, we have
Perhaps the biggest tightrope an acne patient must walk in the quest for clear skin is the fateful balance of sunlight. Sunlight is vital for vitamin D, blood flow, glow and killing bacteria, but it can also redden, inflame and generate swarms of free radicals. Then there’s a more basic problem: you don’t want to
For acne, and the processed food epidemic, many people might prefer to live in ignorance. With no knowledge of evil vegetable oil or brain-frazzling MSG, you can happily run riot in the supermarket grabbing anything off the shelf. You can become a permanent resident of McDonald’s, lurking 24/7 in a windowless corner, or tour a
