Acne Natural Treatment
Have you ever thought that there is a way that what you eat influences the development of acne? Yes. It does. A lot of research has shown the role of disorders, especially acne. Apart from the constituents of your daily diet, your eating habits can also predispose to the development of acne. A lot of foods we consume daily either contains too much sugar, excel carbohydrates, or abundant oils. Also, allergies can occur as a result of consuming foods that we are not accustomed to or that our body rejects. Food sensitivities differ. Some people would complain that when they eat certain foods, it leaves them tired or dopey, while others might say that it gives them a mood lift or a feeling of temporary energy. How this works exactly is not known. It is however believed that proteins in such foods work like natural endorphins, which reduce the body’s sensitivity to pain, and gives a feeling of mild ecstasy.
For individual specificities, your own acne might not result directly from your diet or food sensitivities. However, your choice of foods and eating habits are known exacerbating factors that need to be investigated. Reasons why you may develop food sensitivity includes ingestion of drugs such as aspirin (NSAIDs), alcohol intake, coffee, congenital lack of some digestive enzymes, depressed immunity, etc.
The most important way of managing food sensitivity is to eliminate the offending foods from your diet. You would need to watch your diet for some time, in order to be able to identify the particular culprit. You can use some particular diets which would aid you in detecting those triggering the reactions. These diets are based on elimination. Elimination diets could be mono- or multi-elimination diets.
For mono-elimination diets, a particular food or food group should be eliminated one at a time, ranging from:
What you would be doing by eliminating these food groups is to wee what happens to you when you do not take that particular food. Ask yourself, is there any change in my condition? Then after a space of about two weeks, slowly reintroduce the food. Take the food two to three times daily, and observe. If it triggers any reaction, then you know the culprit already. If not, it means that that particular food has nothing to do with the reactions plaguing your skin. Next thing to do is to move on to the next food group and repeat the above procedure till you get the result you are looking for.
The multi-elimination diet involves eliminating known allergy-triggering foods from your diet. You can also eliminate anyone you feel might be responsible. Your instincts can be valuable in issues such as this. Such foods to eliminate in this diet include: all vegetables, cereals, fruits, fresh unprocessed fish, beans and lentils. Just as above, after four to five weeks of avoiding all these foods, slowly reintroduce each one, one by one, maintaining at least a five-day gap before going on to the next one. Then observe, as above. You might need to record your observations.