Hey everyone,
For all my life I have had pretty severe face and back acne (since about, 12 or so). It got extremely bad when I was through high school and then died down a bit as I entered university. In university I got fed up with the face acne and did the regime provided on acne.org which helped my face acne. However, after doing it for a year or so I got fed up with the time it took, and the negative consequences of the benzoyl peroxide staining my clothes.
I am now looking at holistic ways to cure my acne, specifically through diet. Right now I have cut out dairy and gluten (gluten for 1 month, dairy for 2 months) and this has only done very little to cure the acne. I still have a significant amount of acne, more so on my back (my back is literally covered in it). The annoying thing is I have an absolute crazy amount of oil on my face.
My daily diet nowdays consists of:
Breakfast: Green Smoothie (2 bananas, frozen berries, a ton of kale or spinach)
Lunch: Brown Rice Pasta (with tomatoe sauce, and 2 or 3 vegetables, garlic and onion)
Dinner: Brown Rice, chicken (I very rarely eat meat like once every 2 weeks or so... mostly because I am a poor student
), peas, lentils, etc... all very healthy foods. I eat huge green leaf salads often also.
Snacks: Fruits and Nuts
I eat no refined sugar, no processed foods, no gluten, and no dairy... and I still haven't really seen an improvement in my acne. It is very frustrating...
The only things I can think of to help (since I think my diet is pretty clean) are:
Liver flushes (I used to eat a lot of grain and a moderate amount of dairy... maybe my liver needs a flush from the years of abuse?)
Daily Epsom Salt Bathes
Colonic or Enemas
(these three things I have not tried)
Does anyone have any suggestions? This acne is really playing a role in my low self confidence so any tips would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks everyone!