How long were you on paleo before the acne cleared up?
Ben Balzer
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Sent: Wednesday, 23 June 1999 4:49
Subject: Re: [P-F] Psoriasis cured... Diet and Skin Disease


> Going on a mostly paleo diet (Unfortunately I don't enjoy eating meat)
> has absolutely cleared up my acne.  No matter what medications or other
> tricks I tried I could never get it completely under control but since I
> changed my diet it's totally gone.
>
> It's hard for me to say exactly what did it...I had symptoms of hypo,
> which led me to the info re: paleo BTW, and wheat reactions.  I think
> the grains were the main problem.
>
> So maybe no studies have proven foods to cause acne but I'm not
> surprised since I doubt they did long-term studies on it.  Now that my
> health has improved greatly I can eat some bread or cookies if I want to
> with no problems.  I'd have to go back on a sustained diet high in
> grains and other high-carb sources before any evidence of harm from it
> would become evident.  I've actually tested this and it took a week of
> sustained "bad" eating before I broke down my body's reserves and
> crashed again.  That was after only a short time of eating paleo so my
> health may be better now.
>
> >> There was and remains no
> >>evidence for any diet helping or worsening acne
>
> >I have heard of anecdotal reports where a dairy-free
> >or gluten-free diet cleared it up.