The Cure to Acne?

If I drink kefir I can cure my acne. If I eat yogurt I can cure my acne. No, Steven – put your spoon down.

Probiotics are ‘healthy bacteria’ in your gut which provides a multitude of benefits. They help sweep all toxins and dead bacteria into your colon for excretion. They hold lots of real estate in your body so bad bacteria, fungus, candida, etc. can’t take a hold and overgrow. They produce natural antibiotics which kill living bad bacteria. They are essential to human health and healthy skin.

Here’s the down low on this essential immune system defender. To say taking probiotics will cure your acne is wrong. Probiotics can only do so much. If you are consistently consuming unhealthy foods, these toxins will overrun the healthy bacteria. If you take antibiotics prescribed by your dermatologist, all the healthy bacteria will be destroyed.

The key to keeping a good amount of healthy bacteria in your body is simply to eat healthy foods and avoid damaging foods.  Your immune system will produce healthy gut flora on its own and take the proper real estate in your body if your immune system becomes strong enough to do so.

Taking probiotic pills and yogurt does not provide a solution to your problem. This isn’t to say it doesn’t help. Probiotics are a part of my acne cure, but honestly – they are a drop in a bucket compared to the overall picture. Think how it was back in the day when acne was non existent. Sure they ate naturally fermented foods but they surely didn’t have to load up on 1 billion healthy gut flora cells from a probiotic pill.

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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.