What Can Cause Acne?
What can cause acne?
Here are the 5 most common (but often overlooked) causes of acne:
1. Dehydration. Water is one of the single most important factors in determining the health of your skin. This is the #1 overlooked acne cause. Chronic dehydration effects over 50% of adults, and often displays only minor symptoms like fatigue, irritability, and acne. These are symptoms that are rarely attributed to dehydration, but can quickly and easily be remedied by simply drinking more water!
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2. Benzoyl Peroxide. BP is a widely used chemical in over-the-counter acne medications, used to dry up acne-causing bacteria and reduce the amount of pimples that surface on the skin. While BP can be a quick, temporary solution to acne, it is far from an acne cure. It may sound good that the BP is drying up all that oil on your skin, but in reality it is tilting your already imbalanced and acne-prone skin to an even greater extreme. What do you think your body’s response is when a foreign substance comes in and dries up all your natural oils? The answer is, your body goes into overdrive to produce even more oil, and fast. When your skin quickly transitions from being dried up to being flushed with oil, acne flourishes.
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3. Anxiety. Stress, worries, nerves, and mood has a dramatic effect on the way our skin appears to the world. This is because there is a direct physical connection between anxiety and your skin cells: anxiety produces stress hormones like cortisol, which gives instructions to your sebum (acne bacteria) producers to go into high gear. Other substances that produce cortisol in the body are also culprits behind acne.
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4. Sluggish Liver. Whats the liver got to do with acne? Actually, its got a lot to do with it. The liver is responsible for keeping your body pure and clean of any excess bacteria or toxins (bad material that shouldn’t be in your bloodstream). The problem is that with our standard American diet of heavily processed foods and fast food, the liver can become easily bogged down. When this happens, the body gets out of balance and you start to see symptoms like constipation, diarrhea, gas, fatigue, dry skin, cellulite, and of course, ACNE.
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5.Genetics. Some people are predisposed to acne because its written in their DNA that their skin cells should receive more sebum than necessary, and thus they struggle with acne. Fortunately, there is actually an easy to combat genetic acne too, and thats by treating acne from the inside. If you are suffering with genetic acne, you probably haven’t seen much improvement by using typical topical acne medications. The trick to beating this kind of acne is to get it at its root, which starts inside your body.
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