Now if you’ve ever taken antibiotics, maybe you’ve noticed that things got better at first – this is because all that bad bacteria has been destroyed. It’s a known fact that superfluous bacteria on your skin leads to acne. However, this is only destroying a symptom of a true cause – that is a weak immune system. A weak immune system allows this bad bacteria to overgrow in the first place. Overgrowth of bacteria is only one step on the ladder of causes. The only way to keep a good ratio of healthy and unhealthy bacteria in your body is to practice healthy eating habits.

Antibiotics causing acne to become worse is a very common issue. A simple search on the acne.org forums show dozens of these cases:

Tetracycline (Antibiotics) Reviews – Acne.org Reviews

I was on tetracycline for about a year before i had to come off it because it made me lose so much weight and I was becoming resistant to antibiotics in general. It’s great for a temporary solution, but unfortunately when I came off of it again after a few months my acne went from being mild/moderate to severe when I went away to college and practically impossible to control since.

after a month all of the zits came back even in places on my face i never had them before

You have to keep using it, once you stop they come back. I have been on them for years. Everytime I think I should stop using them I break out all over again!!!

I stopped taking the pills for about two months and decided to start taking them again. I found that my acne had worsened. My cheeks are red and they feel/look almost like I have a rash. I’m not sure what to do. I’m frustrated.

later..after i was taking it for over a year, it entirely quite working and my acne got very very very bad. way way way worse than when i started a year earlier. this happened to be right when i started college.. really made it easy meeting ppl

Is it possible for antibiotics to make it worse? – Acne.org Forums

I have been on lymecycline before and it worked very well.
I stopped taking it for 6 months to see how it went and it wasnt good.
Ive just started again 3 weeks ago and my acne is worse than ever.

and she changed my minocycline to lymecyline, saying she couldn’t see any reason why it would get any worse, and it might improve things, and keeping me on dianette. now my skin is TERRIBLE

Antiobiotics make you worse? – Acne.org Forums

I was on Mino for around 8 months and I was the clearest I’ve ever been. Then a few months after I stopped taking the antibiotic twice a day, my mild acne came back and turned much much worse.

Taking antibiotics have a three step process in dealing with acne:

1. Both healthy and harmful bacteria is destroyed, acne gets better temporarily
2. Bacteria becomes resistant or patient goes off of the drug, immune system is compromised and bacteria overgrows
3. Acne gets worse

What’s even scarier is the fact that once the antibiotics cause your skin to get worse, unhappy patients go back to their dermatologist (the very same dermatologists that made their problem worse in the first place) and the derm prescribes them more antibiotics! Here are a few quotes from those same threads which show just a few people’s experiences.

My doctor put me on mino again but I’m seeing another doctor soon to see if I can get Accutane, because I don’t trust the mino.

I dont think Ill ever do Antibiotics again. Its all my one derm EVER wanted to give me. Its not good for you I dont think.

The fact is, dermatologists prescribing acne sufferers with antibiotics is an effort in futility. It will do nothing to cure your acne and in most cases will make things worse. Not to mention all the other health implications that antibiotics can cause. (See Another Antibiotic Hits the Dust & New “Ramp” Antibiotics May Be Fatal)

Antibiotics Fact Sheet:

• Doctors over prescribe antibiotics in almost all cases. In turn, antibiotics are widely available and overused. (See Free Antibiotics: Wrong Prescription For Cold And Flu Season, Experts Say)
• Antibiotics are never a risk correct treatment for acne. Acne can always be cured naturally without the risk of it coming back much more persistently in the future. Antibiotics prescribed before or after major surgery would be one example of risk correct usage.
• Many natural treatments are much more effective and safer than medical antibiotics including coconut oil, garlic, oil of oregano, cloves and clove oil.

An inherint problem of acne is that sufferers are desperate. Everyday they have acne is a day other people will see it. Sufferers want to it gone ASAP (I know I did!) The problem with this is that it took many years of unhealthy eating to become sick enough to get acne in the first place. Antibiotics and the Dermatologists that prescribe them throw out the notion that your acne can be cured within a month or less with a prescription drug. It doesn’t work that way! To cure your acne, you must do it naturally, and it takes time and dedication. If you can grasp and understand this concept, you’ve already come half the way to curing your acne.

References

1. Tetracycline (Antibiotic) Reviews, http://www.acne.org/tetracycline-antibiotic-reviews/20/page6.html
2. Is it possible for antibiotics to make it worse?,  http://www.acne.org/messageboard/antibiotics-worse-t116580.html
3. Antibiotics make you worse?,  http://www.acne.org/messageboard/Antibiotics-worse-after-t132906.html
4. “Another Antibiotic Hits the Dust,”  http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2006/05/27/another-antibiotic-exits-the-consumer-marketplace.aspx
5. “New ‘Ramp’ Antibiotics May Be Fatal,”  http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2003/07/05/ramp-antibiotics.aspx
6. “Free Antibiotics: Wrong Prescription For Cold And Flu Season, Experts Say”, http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090116111137.htm

The fact is, if you spend your time on battling just one of these components (other then diet) – you will not win in the end. Maybe you’ve tried:

• Antibiotics to treat bacteria overgrowth.
• Probiotics to help with poor digestion.
• Birth Control Pills to treat an imbalance of hormones.
• Accutane to treat superflous sebum production
• Benzoyl Peroxide to treat superflous bacteria on your skin.

Some of these may work better then others. That’s because the higher up the ladder you go, the more symptoms you can possibly cover. But it’s useless, and in most cases, more harmful then good – the most efficient way to heal your acne is to practice healthy eating habits, period.

Fuck Off! I've Only Been Here an Hour!

A lot of shit is going on in our bodies(notice the pun), and one way our immune system is getting rid of the bacteria, fungus, etc is to get rid of it through the bowels.

Now a healthy person should be able to deal with common toxins just fine. That’s why we go to the bathroom, to get rid of waste. Try to think what would happen if we were constipated. The dead bacteria could not be excreted through our bowels, and they could feed off the festering food in our colon! It’s a double whammy.

So our immune system devises a new plan. If we can’t get rid of these toxins through our bowels, we have to go through another route, through our skin – through our pores. Aw shit, what is the pinching feeling in my skin, it itches – not again, another fucking pimple! It’s going to be a big one, I can tell. Voila, there is your cyst.

There is a common myth that acne takes two or so weeks to form. Constipation is a perfect example that this is not true. If you are constipated, notice that this same day and the next, your skin gets worse. The only way to fight it is to not get constipated(duh.)

How do prevent constipation?

1. Don’t eat starchy foods (e.g. bread, pasta)

2. Consume healthy oils

I like to refer to bread and pasta as ‘the butt plug.’ Because that’s exactly what it is. Carbohydrates are the hardest foods for our body to digest. Most carbohydrates have little to no nutritional value. They provide no benefits – they only act to block our digestive system. Simply put – bread and pasta cause acne. I can’t get anymore blunt then that. You may ask yourself, how can Maria eat her moms pasta everyday and have that porcelain skin? First reason being her immune system might be stronger. Her mom may be cooking her pasta, but then again she’s probably sticking to extra virgin olive oil and cooking her mothers salmon recipe too. A stronger immune system can deal with toxins more efficiently. Secondly and most probable, everyone deals with toxins differently. She might have that porcelain skin and be getting all the hot guys now – but she doesn’t know about the erosion going on in her perfect C cup breast and the cancer it will cause in 30 years.

Because We All Have to Eat Something?

I went to the grocery store and was checking out ingredients of some common in store items. Did you know that the white bread you are eating has sugar in it? Now why in the world would bread need to have sugar? Does anyone know what red 40 is, by the way? Isn’t that in those 25 cent koolaids I used to drink as a kid? How about xanthan gum? I was always told by my mom that gum sticks in our stomach like glue.

The fact is, the modern diet is the cause of our acne, and all other health issues for that matter. For thousands of years while the human body was being formed and evolved, our ancestors would live off of the foods mother nature gave us – they would ‘live off the land’. Meat, fish, coconuts, vegetables. They didn’t worry about the agricultural economy(aka money.) They didn’t worry about overpopulation. They worried about surviving, and making sure their children lived healthy lives – and quite healthily they did. I can confidently tell you that they didn’t have to worry about acne. In fact, our ancestors didn’t even know what acne was. It wasn’t a word in their language. They didn’t even know what bread and grain was. (Consequently, they didn’t have to worry about constipation causing acne.) Lets use bread as an example.

How did white bread come about? Back in the day people discovered they could use grain to make bread. Grain was cheap and the bread it produced could feed more people. Bread didn’t come about because health experts of the time said ‘carbohydrates are important.‘ This was just the start of bad things to come.

So bread started being distributed amongst the small communities. That’s until economy started to expand. Railroads were being built, and bread was perfect to distribute to far places. It didn’t go bad as quickly as meat or fish would, it was cheap, it kept stomachs unempty(for lack of a proper English word.)

There was one problem with the bread distributors master plan. When they would ship the bread, say on a railroad, the flies would get to the bread in transit and eat it. ‘This isn’t good for business,’ they thought. ‘There’s some nutritious value to our food and the flies like it’. That’s when they created the concept of white bread. By removing the germ from the grain, all the nutritious value was gone. The flies no longer wanted to eat it.

May I remind you, flies like to eat DOG SHIT. Meaning that stinky piece of poo Scruffy has left in the backyard has more nutritious value then white bread. Now a days there are some lackluster rules with nutritious value(thanks all holy FDA) – so bread companies need to inject their white bread with vitamins and minerals(this doesn’t make it anymore healthier – the label doesn’t tell you that). Referring to the earlier part of this reading, bread has sugar. Why sugar? Because they take so much shit out of the bread, there is no taste. They put sugar in the bread to give it taste. Lucky us. Now realize that this is just bread – modern processing techniques have come a long way with a multitude of foods. Now we have the wonderful ability to genetically process corn so we can produce more of it, so flies won’t eat it. We have the ability to give cows hormones so they produce more milk. All of this food is being distributed to the common consumer.

So what does this mean for the acne sufferer? Their is a common rule – any foods that are damaging to our body will be damaging to our skin. All modern processed foods are not natural. Remember that humans took thousands and thousands of years to evolve into what we take in as healthy and unhealthy. We’ve been eating solely meat and fish for a very, very long time. Now all of the sudden, say 100 or so years ago, we come up with all these BS food making techniques. Cancer is on the rise – acne is on the rise as well.