Curing skin troubles with low-carb

I've had some problems with acne on my face and I've been using some
medical creme to make it better. I haven't used the medication for
3 weeks now and since I've started the Atkins diet it seem to get less
and less visible. Hope it will continue that way and disappear.

Some claims regarding low-carb diet include curing problematic skin...
What's your experience with skin problems before and while low-carbing?

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B-D_
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B-D_ wrote in :

I've had some problems with acne on my face and I've been using some
medical creme to make it better. I haven't used the medication for
3 weeks now and since I've started the Atkins diet it seem to get less
and less visible. Hope it will continue that way and disappear.

Some claims regarding low-carb diet include curing problematic skin...
What's your experience with skin problems before and while low-carbing?


I used to suffer from cystic/hormonal acne. I have some scarring that won't
go away short of surgery, but this is something I can live with. After
starting Atkins, my skin improved within a few months. I still get the odd
breakout here and there, but no cysts at all and nothing that doesn't
respond to OTC medication. Funny thing is... my face almost seems a bit
oiler now. It was definitely an internal problem before LC.

~miette

As I said in an earlier post Psoriasis 99% gone. since starting LC


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"B-D_" wrote in message ...
I've had some problems with acne on my face and I've been using some
medical creme to make it better. I haven't used the medication for
3 weeks now and since I've started the Atkins diet it seem to get less
and less visible. Hope it will continue that way and disappear.

Some claims regarding low-carb diet include curing problematic skin...
What's your experience with skin problems before and while low-carbing?

--
B-D_
Atkins since 11/24/03
199/189/165

"B-D_" wrote in message
I've had some problems with acne on my face and I've been using some
medical creme to make it better. I haven't used the medication for
3 weeks now and since I've started the Atkins diet it seem to get less
and less visible. Hope it will continue that way and disappear.

Some claims regarding low-carb diet include curing problematic skin...
What's your experience with skin problems before and while
low-carbing?


This over forty woman has stopped having breakouts every month (big
glow-in-the-dark acne). If I make too many less optimal choices, I
still get a pimple, but it's only one and it's almost unnoticeable.
I've also stopped using dandruff shampoo. Those itchy athlete's
foot-like bumps I'd get between my fingers (which the literature says is
nerve and dry cold weather related) has gone completely away. My facial
and back skin are no longer oily and my legs are no longer dry enough to
make snow with, which I've had a problem with my entire life.
--
revek
"GAH. That noise you're hearing is my eyeballs rolling so far back into
my skull as to make a complete circuit." -Darren MacLennan

B-D_ wrote:
I've had some problems with acne on my face and I've been using some
medical creme to make it better. I haven't used the medication for
3 weeks now and since I've started the Atkins diet it seem to get less
and less visible. Hope it will continue that way and disappear.

Some claims regarding low-carb diet include curing problematic skin...
What's your experience with skin problems before and while low-carbing?


I'm 47 now. Even so, until I started eating low-carb I had had at least
one bad zit a month, always in the middle of my face. Now, they are
really completely gone. The only time I get them now is if I've been
off of low-carb for a few days, then I am reminded how this WOE has been
so good for me.

I didn't start LC for that reason. It was just a really pleasant
side-effect. And I hadn't heard any claims about it. It was a
tremendous surprise. But nice.

Rebecca

Rebecca wrote in newse3Ab.310669$ao4.1058396@attbi_s51:

I'm 47 now. Even so, until I started eating low-carb I had had at least
one bad zit a month, always in the middle of my face. Now, they are
really completely gone. The only time I get them now is if I've been
off of low-carb for a few days, then I am reminded how this WOE has been
so good for me.

I didn't start LC for that reason. It was just a really pleasant
side-effect. And I hadn't heard any claims about it. It was a
tremendous surprise. But nice.


Same here. I consider myself lucky to have two reminders of why I low-
carb: one, that my blood sugar is under control (A1c of 5.9 as of two weeks
ago) and two, that my hair is less oily and my skin just glows.

Any time I feel tempted to stray, just thinking of the blood sugar and the
zits keeps me on the straight and not-very-narrow. :-)

Chakolate

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When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
--Anatole France

On Fri, 05 Dec 2003 11:36:00 +0100, B-D_ wrote:
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Some claims regarding low-carb diet include curing problematic skin...
What's your experience with skin problems before and while low-carbing?

I started a thread on 11/26 titled "Great skin" and there were several
posts to it... and another called "Great skin NOT" by another poster
;-) You can Goggle them if you want to read 'em.

Sarah Jahn

Some claims regarding low-carb diet include curing problematic skin...
What's your experience with skin problems before and while low-carbing?

Since Insulin is the "master hormone" and LCing curbs your insulin production,
it's logical that excess testosterone (the cause of acne for many, many people)
will be cut back too, resulting in clearing up acne. Adding good fats into your
diet would help with dryness too. Makes sense to me. :-)

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(Ripley7173) wrote:

Some claims regarding low-carb diet include curing problematic skin...
What's your experience with skin problems before and while low-carbing?

Since Insulin is the "master hormone" and LCing curbs your insulin
production,
it's logical that excess testosterone (the cause of acne for many, many
people)
will be cut back too, resulting in clearing up acne. Adding good fats
into your
diet would help with dryness too. Makes sense to me. :-)

My psoriasis is better, BUT it's NOT because of LC. It's because I've
been spending a LOT of time with UV light sources.

--
Nancy Howells (don't forget to switch it, and replace the to send mail).

Hola,

After 2 months of LC I have not seen significant changes in my skin.

Yazaira
Member since Oct 03
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