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1. When I was a kid, just getting a tan cleared up my acne. 2. Changing my diet helped clean up my acne (not eating junk food) 3. When I was a teenager, I got

1. When I was a kid, just getting a tan cleared up my acne. 2. Changing my diet helped clean up my acne (not eating junk food) 3. When I was a teenager, I got hurt really bad, and my father found me and had to take me to the hospital. I saw massive acne breakout on his face in less than 15 minutes. 4. When I got older and was less stressed about life, my acne went away. When I got a family/career/house and life stress was severe, acne would come back. I think there a huge health and stress connection to acne.

schuke 9y ago
Everytime I take a plane somewhere I would have huge acnes in the two , three hour duration of the flight. I always suspected it’s the stress of having to be on time and everthing that flying involves.
- Rarebox 9y ago
  I've experienced the same, although I don't think I stress out about flights anymore. My theory is that it's caused by air being dryer in the plane, as my lips are usually chapped on/after flight.
autokad 9y ago
i think there is a connection in there, but not quite sure where. I myself pretty much only ate junk food, although my diet was very low cal. i avoided the sun because i burned very easy, but I was outside a lot. i was always under a high amount of stress, but i never got acne or anything like that edit: by junkfood, i mostly ate cereal and lots of cookies/candy bars
- RobertRoberts 9y ago
  I burn easy too, but it still helped. I know people that can eat what ever they want, and it won't affect their skin. And some people that avoid certain foods because it makes them break out.
King-Aaron 9y ago
> Changing my diet helped clean up my acne (not eating junk food) This. Actually, for me, it wasn't really the diet in general, but making a switch to drinking water instead of pretty much any other drink (*especially soft drinks!). I went on a hike for a couple of weeks as a teenager, and I think that not having access to anything but water to drink was enough to change my habits.
- louprado 9y ago
  For me chocolate causes acne (usually on my back). It happens to my father too. When I eliminate that one item from my diet I am fine. Every few years I eat chocolate in hopes that my body's reaction will change. But 30 years later it still causes a reaction. My high school health teacher insisted that chocolate does not cause acne, according to the research. Her definitive statement made me ignore what my father had been telling me for years. That's the problem with health science, you never know if you are an outlier to which the research does not apply.
  - bane 9y ago
    My mother breaks out in acne when she eats chocolate. It's incredibly predictable and she ascribes it to being "allergic".
  - novaRom 9y ago
    It happens quite often, I donno why there is no supportive research on it.
Clubber 9y ago
I had facial acne bad as a kid, and completely went away sometime when I was 18. I stress a lot (just my personality) but it hasn't come back. Anyway, just throwing out another data point. PS: Acne as an already awkward and hormone supersaturated kid totally sucked.
patcheudor 9y ago
My daughter had severe acne. She changed her diet from vegetarian to full vegan and it cleared right up, in fact most of the past scaring is also now gone. She still consumes sugar (vegan sugar - yeah that's a thing: https://www.peta.org/living/food/is-sugar-vegan/ https://www.peta.org/living/food/is-sugar-vegan/) and doesn't take vitamin E or D supplements because she hasn't found any that are 'vegan certified.' Given some of the research we've looked at, our going theory is that dairy was the primary cause and there is some support for that: https://www.aad.org/media/news-releases/growing-evidence-suggests-possible-link-between-diet-and-acne https://www.aad.org/media/news-releases/growing-evidence-sug...
- cageface 9y ago
  A lot of people report a huge improvement in their acne after cutting out dairy. Drinking cow’s milk in large quantities is something humans have only been doing for a few thousand years and there’s quite a bit of evidence we probably shouldn’t. https://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-acne-promoting-effects-of-milk/ https://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-acne-promoting-effects-...
  - simonsarris 9y ago
    What evidence? There's a reason the mutation that kept lactase production "on" spread so well. Today many of the healthiest cultures on Earth consume lots of dairy. France with the most butter, Greek with the most cheese, etc.
    - cageface 9y ago
      The healthiest populations in the world consume virtually no dairy. Okinawans, vegans, 7-day adventists etc. The Mediterrean diet is largely vegetarian: http://www.abc.net.au/news/health/2017-02-16/10-commandments-of-the-real-mediterranean-diet/7541786 http://www.abc.net.au/news/health/2017-02-16/10-commandments... 75% of the world's population loses their ability to digest lactose after infancy: http://www.pcrm.org/health/diets/vegdiets/what-is-lactose-intolerance http://www.pcrm.org/health/diets/vegdiets/what-is-lactose-in... Milk is for babies. Cow's milk is for cow babies.
lj3 9y ago
When I was a teenager, I saw a dermatologist for my Psoriasis. I somehow wound up with a prescription for tetracycline for my acne. Not only did it not work, but I was constantly sick for a full year after I stopped the medication. There is no moral to this story.
- ovao 9y ago
  Perhaps the moral of your story could be: a second opinion can be invaluable.
  - stochastic_monk 9y ago
    The moral of the story is that if a medicine makes your kid sick, you get another opinion. This is on the parents.
- timw0j 9y ago
  I was prescribed tetracycline for my acne when I was in my late teens as well. It gave me a terrible sore throat (sharp stabbing kind of pain) so I stopped taking it. I've always told doctors since then that I'm allergic to it, because I'd really rather not repeat that.

schuke 9y ago

Everytime I take a plane somewhere I would have huge acnes in the two , three hour duration of the flight. I always suspected it’s the stress of having to be on time and everthing that flying involves.

Rarebox 9y ago
I've experienced the same, although I don't think I stress out about flights anymore. My theory is that it's caused by air being dryer in the plane, as my lips are usually chapped on/after flight.

autokad 9y ago

i think there is a connection in there, but not quite sure where. I myself pretty much only ate junk food, although my diet was very low cal. i avoided the sun because i burned very easy, but I was outside a lot. i was always under a high amount of stress, but i never got acne or anything like that edit: by junkfood, i mostly ate cereal and lots of cookies/candy bars

RobertRoberts 9y ago
I burn easy too, but it still helped. I know people that can eat what ever they want, and it won't affect their skin. And some people that avoid certain foods because it makes them break out.

King-Aaron 9y ago

> Changing my diet helped clean up my acne (not eating junk food) This. Actually, for me, it wasn't really the diet in general, but making a switch to drinking water instead of pretty much any other drink (*especially soft drinks!). I went on a hike for a couple of weeks as a teenager, and I think that not having access to anything but water to drink was enough to change my habits.

louprado 9y ago
For me chocolate causes acne (usually on my back). It happens to my father too. When I eliminate that one item from my diet I am fine. Every few years I eat chocolate in hopes that my body's reaction will change. But 30 years later it still causes a reaction. My high school health teacher insisted that chocolate does not cause acne, according to the research. Her definitive statement made me ignore what my father had been telling me for years. That's the problem with health science, you never know if you are an outlier to which the research does not apply.
- bane 9y ago
  My mother breaks out in acne when she eats chocolate. It's incredibly predictable and she ascribes it to being "allergic".
- novaRom 9y ago
  It happens quite often, I donno why there is no supportive research on it.

Clubber 9y ago

I had facial acne bad as a kid, and completely went away sometime when I was 18. I stress a lot (just my personality) but it hasn't come back. Anyway, just throwing out another data point. PS: Acne as an already awkward and hormone supersaturated kid totally sucked.

patcheudor 9y ago

My daughter had severe acne. She changed her diet from vegetarian to full vegan and it cleared right up, in fact most of the past scaring is also now gone. She still consumes sugar (vegan sugar - yeah that's a thing: https://www.peta.org/living/food/is-sugar-vegan/ https://www.peta.org/living/food/is-sugar-vegan/) and doesn't take vitamin E or D supplements because she hasn't found any that are 'vegan certified.' Given some of the research we've looked at, our going theory is that dairy was the primary cause and there is some support for that: https://www.aad.org/media/news-releases/growing-evidence-suggests-possible-link-between-diet-and-acne https://www.aad.org/media/news-releases/growing-evidence-sug...

cageface 9y ago
A lot of people report a huge improvement in their acne after cutting out dairy. Drinking cow’s milk in large quantities is something humans have only been doing for a few thousand years and there’s quite a bit of evidence we probably shouldn’t. https://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-acne-promoting-effects-of-milk/ https://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-acne-promoting-effects-...
- simonsarris 9y ago
  What evidence? There's a reason the mutation that kept lactase production "on" spread so well. Today many of the healthiest cultures on Earth consume lots of dairy. France with the most butter, Greek with the most cheese, etc.
  - cageface 9y ago
    The healthiest populations in the world consume virtually no dairy. Okinawans, vegans, 7-day adventists etc. The Mediterrean diet is largely vegetarian: http://www.abc.net.au/news/health/2017-02-16/10-commandments-of-the-real-mediterranean-diet/7541786 http://www.abc.net.au/news/health/2017-02-16/10-commandments... 75% of the world's population loses their ability to digest lactose after infancy: http://www.pcrm.org/health/diets/vegdiets/what-is-lactose-intolerance http://www.pcrm.org/health/diets/vegdiets/what-is-lactose-in... Milk is for babies. Cow's milk is for cow babies.

lj3 9y ago

When I was a teenager, I saw a dermatologist for my Psoriasis. I somehow wound up with a prescription for tetracycline for my acne. Not only did it not work, but I was constantly sick for a full year after I stopped the medication. There is no moral to this story.

ovao 9y ago
Perhaps the moral of your story could be: a second opinion can be invaluable.
- stochastic_monk 9y ago
  The moral of the story is that if a medicine makes your kid sick, you get another opinion. This is on the parents.
timw0j 9y ago
I was prescribed tetracycline for my acne when I was in my late teens as well. It gave me a terrible sore throat (sharp stabbing kind of pain) so I stopped taking it. I've always told doctors since then that I'm allergic to it, because I'd really rather not repeat that.