• Acne is caused by genetics. Acne is not caused by genetics. The health of your parents is passed on to you when you are conceived. Their dietary habits influence what you eat when you are growing up as a child.
• Acne is caused by dirt on your skin. Acne comes from within your body. The things you put on the outer layer of your skin may aggravate, but do not cause acne.
• Acne is a result of hormones during your period. Hormones play a role in acne but they aren’t a true cause. Poor dietary habits cause an imbalance of hormones which result in acne.
• Benzoyl Peroxide or Salilycylic Acid can cure acne. BP and SA only treat the superficial symptoms of acne and do not treat the true cause.
• Acne is the result of your hormones during teen years. Not everyone in their teens have acne, obviously.
• Visiting the dermatologist can cure your acne. The dermatologist is only in business to treat the superficial symptoms. e.g. Topicals to treat symptoms on the skin, antibiotics to treat symptoms of overgrowth of bacteria.
• Acne is caused by stress. Stress plays a role in acne but isn’t the main cause. Stress can cause an imbalance of hormones and poor digestion but a healthy human being’s immune system is strong enough to handle these stressors.
• Acne will cure itself when I get older. You got acne in the first place for a very specific reason. Unless you make the correct adjustments to your dietary habits, your acne will persist wether you like it or not.
• Oily foods cause acne. Some foods which are cooked in unhealthy oils such as oxidized vegetable oil will cause acne but this does using proper oils in cooking will actually heal your acne.
• Accutane is the most effective treatment of acne. Accutane is dangerous! It will treat superfluous sebum production but will also destroy your immune system in the process!
• Antibiotics is an effective treatment of acne. Antiobiotics are damaging to your body. It will treat bacteria overgrowth in your body but will also destroy friendly microorganisms that are part of a healthy immune system
• Eating vegetables and fruits can cure your acne. Vegetables are healthy if properly cooked otherwise difficult for someone with a weak immune system to digest. Fruits contain too many sugars which is unhealthy and will cause acne.
• Sweating causes acne. Sweating will release toxins that were in the layers of your skin in the first place. This may aggravate acne but a healthy human being does not have toxins ready to be released through sweat.
• Weight lifting causes acne. Weight lifting in strenuous amounts will put a halt to the healing process but it does not have a role in causing the acne in the first place.
• If I stop worrying about acne, it will go away. This is ignoring the reason your acne manifested itself in the first place. You need to take proper action to cure your acne.

Have anymore acne myths? Please comment on them and I will add them to the list.

I'm So Happy to Be Photoshopped!

Ah, now you remember. Whether or not this picture was photoshopped is not important. What’s important is realizing that acne is not something you can just destroy with an atom bomb. If you are 17, it’s taken 17 years of being unhealthy for the toxins in your body to manifest themselves as acne.  To cure your acne (and when I say cure, I mean permanently), it takes 1 month of natural healing for every year you’ve had it – you need to take things slow.

Honestly, i’m not surprised why so many people have bought this book. For one, it’s marketed well. It reaches the search engines and when the common acne sufferer searches for ways to cure themselves quickly for the prom next week, they find this shitty ebook. Secondly, it’s inherent that any product or service dealing with acne will sell well, because lets face it, we are desperate. We’d do everything in our power, empty our bank account if we had to, just to get rid of this stupid disease.

I’ve used it all, and the quickest way to ‘get rid of’ your acne would be antibiotics. But this is very temporary, very unhealthy, and it will come back worse then when it started. I don’t advise you ever take antibiotics for any reason whatsoever, but there’s my honest opinion on the matter. Antibiotics will work, the very first time you take them – only they will do more harm then good. It’s just not worth it, there are better options.

A more correct and better sales pitch would be, ‘heal your acne naturally by eating the right foods!’ – now that doesn’t sound as fun, or as easy – but shit, if it works, it works right? It does work. So please don’t buy into most of all this useless information on the web, and do things the right way – you will be forever thankful. I know I was.

In the Literal Sense?

It’s a common conception that if your parents had acne as children, then you are more likely to have acne as well. Although this is true, it’s not true for the reasons most most people think. Most people may say, it’s because of genetics – that you carry the genes of your parents. Sorry, Johnny. Your 8^th grade science teacher was wrong.

Saying that genetics is one of the causes of your acne is saying

1. Acne is not your fault.

2. There is only temporary relief and no permanent cure

This is wrong on both fronts. Acne is your fault. You consumed unhealthy foods and you damaged your own body. You probably didn’t know what you were doing, so don’t be so hard on yourself. By committing fully, it will become apparent how permanent your relief will be.

The parent to son/daughter relation with acne is simple. If they have been eating damaging foods, you’ve most likely been eating damaging foods as well. If your parents’ bodies deal with toxins through the form of acne, then it is likely your body will deal with it the same. The same goes for any disease – cancer is a good example. There’s been so many studies ‘proving’ that cancer runs in the family. If only people would realize it’s because of the modern diet, and not because of genetics – we’d all be much healthier.