I had a sever acne in my teens years and than I was on SAD diet so it's
really hard to tell what was the reason.

When I went vegetarian my acne stopped but I developed lots of other skin
problems (dry skin fyungi infections, etc.) so it was not very good
trade-off.
I was eating fat (olive oil, dairy, nuts) while being vegetarian
so fat is not responsible for everything.

Now on low carb when I experimented with very high fat dietes ( more than
80% of cal) I always deveolped acne. It can be explained two ways:
- fat itself caused more oil production (as matesz explained)
- high levels of stress hormones/insuline due to deep ketosis.

In traditional medicines skin problems are linked to kidney inefficiency so
skin takes the role of getting rid of toxins. Maybe

So to conclude I think any diet which is not balanced for an individual
creates some toxicity in the body and may manifest itself as skin problems.



>From: Todd Moody <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: Paleolithic Eating Support List <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: [P-F] Acne
>Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 14:18:59 -0400
>
>On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, Amadeus Schmidt wrote:
>
> > >What is the mechanism by which dietary fats increase oil
> > >production in the skin?  Is it known?
> >
> > I'd tend to incriminate the inflammational response of wrong
>eicosanoids.
>
>That would be my guess, too, but is increased oil production
>actually a sign of inflammation?  For that matter, what is the
>relation between skin oils and acne?
>
>For the record, I also had a very bad time with acne as an
>adolescent.  In my case, I had large boils all over my back,
>which remains heavily scarred to this day.  These boils, in fact,
>kept me from being drafted during the Vietnam conflict, although
>my lottery number was 8.  When I had my draft physical I fully
>expected to be enlisted; I was pleasantly shocked to learn that,
>in the opinion of the army doctor, I could not carry a backpack,
>due to the likelihood of bleeding and massive infection.  In
>fact, the boils were bad enough that sometimes just the friction
>from my shirt was sufficient to break them and cause them to
>bleed -- an embarrassing predicament for an awkward high school
>kid, or anyone else.
>
>We tried a number of dietary interventions, but they did not
>help.  What did help, it seemed, was sunlight, and perhaps salt
>water.  A few days at the beach really seemed to help to heal the
>condition.
>
>I note, however, that if I consume a large quantity of nuts over
>a period of days, I will still respond with boils, though not
>with anything approaching their former severity.  It could be the
>omega imbalance in the nut oils, except for the fact that
>walnuts, which are not so imbalanced, are no better.
>
>Todd Moody
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