This is part 5 in a series on how to cure your acne. The information in this series is based on over 6 years of research, experimentation and observation on the link between acne and health.
In part 4 I covered one of the best ways to figure out what foods your genes are best adapted to: metabolic and nutritional typing.
In this part I’ll cover some basics about common food sensitivities. Food sensitivities are important for designing a diet for your genes - and an important part of achieving clear skin.
The Gluten Menace
What the heck is gluten and why should you care?
Gluten is a protein contained in wheat, rye, barley and most oats (because oats are often processed with wheat, they contain bits of wheat in them).
The problem with gluten is this: there are estimates that over 80% of the US population is gluten sensitive.
Gluten sensitive means that your body has some sort of adverse reaction to eating gluten. It could mean you get allergies, it could mean you get stomach problems, it could mean you get any number of diseases and most importantly for this article - it could mean you get acne.
There are also those with an even more serious form of gluten sensitivity called celiac disease.
When people with celiac disease eat even the smallest crumb of gluten, it causes damage to their intestines which leads to malabsorption. This malabsorption can cause all sorts of other problems in the body including other diseases. Celiac disease is strongly associated with diseases such as cancer, diabetes, seizures, digestion disorders and mental disorders.
The scary thing about celiac disease is this: it is not rare at all. Many studies have found that close to 1 in every 100 people have it. And not only that, but 97% of people with celiac disease do not know they have it.
So whether or not you have celiac disease or simply gluten sensitivity, it is often a very good idea to avoid gluten to be on the safe side. You are taking a major chance with your health if you continue to eat these sorts of foods and they are completely unnecessary for a healthy diet.
Following a gluten-free diet is not terribly easy though in today’s world, because gluten, especially wheat-based products, are in many modern foods. This is a good resource on some of the details of a gluten-free diet: Gluten-Free Diet.
Many people I know personally who have cut out gluten from their diet have been amazed by the results. Not only have they achieved clear skin, but many of their other mysterious health problems disappeared nearly over night. If there is one piece of health advice I can give to anyone, it would be this: avoid all gluten.
The Problem with Pasteurized Dairy
Did you know that we’ve only been eating pasteurized dairy since 1862? And did you know this is a very significant fact to keep in mind when trying to figure out whether or not pasteurized dairy is good for you?
The key is this: we haven’t had enough time to adapt to pasteurized dairy. It has been about 150 years since pasteurized dairy was introduced…and this is simply not enough time for significant adaptations to form to this new food. There simply has not been enough evolutionary pressure for people to become efficient at processing this food.
But isn’t pasteurized dairy the same as raw dairy?
Not at all.
For the last 10,000 years or so, humans have been drinking their dairy raw, fresh from the cow. And during those last 10,000 years, many of us have developed good adaptations to this type of food. Not only that, but all of us already have adaptations to a similar type of food; raw human milk.
The problem with pasteurization is that it heats the milk up to a high level and alters the molecular structure of the food. It also destroys various enzymes and nutrients.
Essentially, pasteurized dairy is a modern processed food, and no humans have adaptations to modern processed foods.
If you don’t have an adaptation to a food, it could cause health problems, and these health problems could include acne.
So if you want be healthy and have clear skin, I highly recommend you avoid all pasteurized dairy products.
Finding raw dairy can be a bit difficult, depending on where you live, but here is a great resource for figuring out where you can get it in your area: Where Can I Find Real (Raw) Milk?
Those who I have talked to who have switched to raw dairy also have one great thing to say about it: it tastes great. I have to agree 
. It’s probably because it is far more nutrient rich and easily assimilated by your body than pasteurized dairy. And your body knows this and responds accordingly.
Diet is not the only factor…
The last few articles have been focusing on diet as a major factor in the development in acne…but I have found during my years of research and observation that there is one other major influence on acne that most people overlook. I’ll cover this other major factor in the next part tomorrow.
Articles in the How to Cure Your Acne Series
- How to Cure Your Acne - Part 1
- How to Cure Your Acne - Part 2
- How to Cure Your Acne - Part 3
- How to Cure Your Acne - Part 4
- How to Cure Your Acne - Part 5
- How to Cure Your Acne - Part 6
- How to Cure Your Acne - Part 7
- How to Cure Your Acne - Part 8
- How to Cure Your Acne - Part 9
- How to Cure Your Acne - Part 10
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