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A) Take a Vitamin A supplement every day to give your body the nutritional power it needs to make hormones and healthy skin oil at the same time. Remember healthy skin oil is thin and is not thick and sticky and does not trap bacteria that causes skin infections leading to pimples and blackheads. Researchers found Vitamin A was low in the blood of those with acne. Dr. P.M. Elias and associates found that when these individuals were given Vitamin A their skin lesions cleared.  Dr. H. H. Williams did a study in which he examined the need for Vitamin A in those with acne, and found that the greater their consumption of “simple” carbohydrates along with a low protein intake, the greater was their need for Vitamin A supplements.Dr. M. A. Pallotto and researchers found that giving 50,000 IU of Vitamin A daily, even over long periods of time, did not produce any toxicity.B) Take a Riboflavin (Vitamin B-2) supplement every day. As I explained earlier, Vitamin A requires an adequate supply of Riboflavin to convert it to its active and non-toxic forms. Riboflavin is valuable for more than just making Vitamin A more effective. Several studies have found it to be essential for the overall good health of the skin, and deficiencies soon lead to skin problems. Riboflavin is the major portion of 2 key co-enzymes in the oxygen respiration cycle of the mitochondria, and without it all ATP production halts. In the skin this results in cell glucose accumulation and food for the growth of bacteria within the skin pores, which in turn leads to pimples and acne. Evidence shows that in promoting adequate cell respiration it may be the single most important nutrient to prevent cancer from developing.People always ask me how much of each I would suggest, so here is the guideline I provide: I always suggest Vitamin A to be taken in an amount in IU’s that is 100 times greater than that of milligrams of Riboflavin. For example, 50,000 IU of Vitamin A would need to be balanced by 500 mg. of Riboflavin. This happens to be the amount I normally suggest for the average case of Acne. Those who have really severe cases of Acne I suggest twice that amount each day. Using this combination, along with a sugar and flour free diet, I have seen it work wonders on even the most severe cases. It may take a while to clear the excess glucose from the system, but once that is done, and the food for the bacteria is gone from the skin cells, acne disappears very quickly. C) I have found that people who eat and drink enough “simple” carbohydrate foods to cause them to suffer from severe acne, always have a deficiency of Niacinamide. Keep in mind that I did NOT say Niacin, this form is contra-indicted for glucose metabolic problems.  Niacinamide is what you want and you need at least 200 mg. 3 times a day. Taking it 3 times a day is very important because this vitamin does not stick around very long, so you can’t just load up once a day and forget it. Like riboflavin, niacinamide is an absolutely essential nutrient in 2 critical co-enzymes within the energy cycle of the mitochondria. Without enough of it available your mitochondria simply cannot process the glucose into ATP. By supplementing this vital nutrient you can assure your body and its skin of improved cell respiration, reduced risk of cancer, and increased ATP production. You will be astonished what this will do for your energy level as it speeds up the conversion of glucose into energy in the mitochondria of the cell. As this happens, the surplus sugar in the skin cells will disappear, and the bacteria in the skin pores will find themselves starving for a lack of food. D) This next vitamin is beneficial in the improvement of everyone’s skin, because without it, the proteins so essential in the daily replacement of skin cells can not be produced. But, it is especially helpful for females. Most women find acne gets a lot worse in the week before their menstrual period. My own experience matches that of researchers who found that when women experiencing this problem supplemented with 50 mg of Pyridoxine (Vitamin B-6) each day, it eliminated this pre-menstrual flare up. E) Vitamin E is a vitamin that I have found works wonders on Acne. There are a number of reasons for this. One is that it protects Vitamin A from being destroyed by oxygen, or allowing it to become toxic. Ref. 24 Also, researchers have found it is essential in the protection of the enzyme glutathione peroxidase, which in turn is absolutely essential to protect the prostaglandins which are vital in regulating skin health. When Vitamin E is low, glutathione peroxidase in the skin drops to a low level. This means there is a loss of effective prostaglandin regulation of skin cells that resulted in an increase of acne.F) The final vitamin I suggest is Lipoic Acid. This little known nutrient is absolutely vital in allowing glucose to be metabolized properly. Prior to 1990, very little was known about its role in this area. Since then researchers have found that lipoic acid works with insulin to greatly increase its ability to move glucose out of the blood and into the cell. Once in the cell, lipoic acid, independent of insulin, moves the glucose into the mitochondria. Once in the mitochondria, lipoic acid joins the other enzymes in the respiratory energy cycle and speeds up their reactions producing more ATP in a shorter amount of time. This one vitamin has been providing wonders to correct the disfunctional energy cycle of glucose seen in hypoglycemia, syndrome X and diabetes. You can see, that by lowering the glucose content of the skin cells and tissues, this vitamin can do wonders in reducing the available food supply of skin dwelling bacteria. Along with the above five vitamins, I have listed below four minerals which are equally essential for the elimination of acne. G) Zinc is absolutely essential for good skin health. This is especially true during the teen years, because like Vitamin A, Zinc does double duty. It is required for the production of the germ cells of reproduction which are so active during those years. This is especially true for the male which uses a large amount of zinc for the production of sperm cells. In addition, Zinc is required by the skin cells in order to produce normal protein as new skin cells are produced, quite literally on a daily basis. Ref. 27 The diets of most Americans at any age is notoriously low in this mineral, and for teens, this lack of Zinc is a recipe for Acne. I have found that 60 mg. of this mineral each day will work wonders. One study found that it was at least as effective as the antibiotic Tetracycaline that is so popular with dermatologists. Ref. 28 Other researchers used either Vitamin A or Zinc supplements alone on acne patients, and while they found about a 60% improvement in the acne, when they used them together there was over an 80% improvement. H) The next mineral is vital because it is essential for the production and release of insulin. It is also a major factor in creating more glucose/insulin receptor sites on the surface of the cells so that more glucose can be taken up. It is also vital for the production of proteins and enzymes in every tissue of the body. This includes the proteins and enzymes of skin cells where new cells are constantly being produced. It is also absolutely essential for the proper use of the vitamin Pyridoxine mentioned just above. This mineral is Magnesium, and I generally suggest taking supplements of about 500 mg. of this mineral each day. I) This mineral, is absolutely essential for the effective utilization of Vitamin E which we mentioned just above. This mineral is also essential for two key enzymes which play major roles in the health of the skin. One is glutathione peroxidase which protects the skin from free radical damage, and the other is thioredoxin reductase which recycles Vitamin C. This mineral is Selenium and I generally suggest taking about 400 mcg. per day as selenomethionine. J) The final mineral I consider essential for acne free skin is the mineral Chromium. This mineral is very, very scarce in the American diet, and the diet of those with acne probably contain NO Chromium. As a result, this mineral, which is a key element to allowing the glucose/insulin complex to get into the cell, is in such short supply that glucose and insulin just builds up in the blood. Several studies have shown a close association between acne, unstable blood sugar and low blood chromium levels. Dr. M. McCarty discovered that when these patient were given supplements of 400 mcg of chromium twice daily their acne improved rapidly. I generally suggest about 1,000 mcg. per day of Chromium in the Picolinate form You can easily find all 9 of these nutrients as separate supplements, and while it may be a chore to take them all every day, if you have acne, even serious acne, nothing will do as much to eliminate it as a good diet low in “simple” carbohydrates and these nutrients. Following this regimen will eliminate your Acne. The improvement may seem slow the first week or two, but after that the improvement will become more and more rapid and spectacular.

I know it is tempting to think that anything as tough to get rid of as acne must need tough treatment with harsh soaps and cleansers. I’ve got news for you, this is just not true. Your skin cells are delicate, fragile and sensitive, so treat them kindly. The acne you are trying to eliminate is not coming from the surface of the skin, so you can’t wash it away or kill it with harsh chemical creams. You can help your skin by applying Miracle Skin Repair Cream which I formulated to provide soothing protection for the skin and which will provide topical nourishment that will help it return to health much faster. However, never forget that acne is coming from the inside of your body as the natural consequence of two things. One is too many “simple” carbohydrates in your diet, and the second is a lack of adequate nutrition. Once that is corrected, the acne will disappear as if by magic.

Your skin is the largest organ of your body. Moisture in those skin cells is the single most important thing to keep them full, fresh and youthful. The skin is also the organ through which you remove a great amount of cellular waste via your perspiration. In reality, your entire body is mostly water, and it is the water circulating through your body that allows your liver and kidneys to eliminate cellular toxins. By drinking plenty of water, as close to a gallon a day as you can, you can ensure good elimination of the cellular toxins of your body and greatly improve your appearance and your health. A word of caution here, don’t drink tap or distilled water, drink spring water with all of its minerals, but which is lacking chlorine and fluorine (both are dangerous health destroying free radicals). Keep a CLEAR plastic bottle of this water with you at all times and drink a half a glass of it every hour. The first three days you will think this is going to be impossible because you will have to live in the bathroom. However, by the fourth day your body will have adjusted to your water intake and your trips to the bathroom will be no more than before you started drinking this much water.

I didn’t know any of this when I was a teen, and I had terrible Acne. Acne that followed me until I was past 30 years of age. Like so many others I suffered the terrible loss of self esteem this brings. I didn’t know it in those days, but I was one of those with a strong pancreas, and the more glucose rich foods I ate, the more it moved me into hypoglycemia and all the problems of what is now called Syndrome X. Fortunately, by the time I was 35 I had gained a medical understanding of what was going on, and “simple” carbohydrates pretty much became a thing of the past. Now I am twice that old, and I have perfectly normal blood sugar, cholesterol, triglycerides and blood pressure. I have no health problems of any kind, and have taken no drugs in all these years. This places me in the upper 4% for people of my age. Another of the great benefits of adhering to a diet almost totally devoid of “simple” carbohydrates for all these years, is that many people think I look, feel, move and act like a man 10 years younger than my actual age. I tell you this only so that you can realize there are increasing long range health benefits which DO come to you as a result of avoiding those “simple” carbohydrates.

I would hope by this point you’ve gotten my message, and this message is not just for having healthy skin, the message I have shared with you about avoiding “simple” carbohydrate foods, is the single most important message I could ever give you about every aspect of your health. Take a look at illustration number 5 and you will see some of the reasons why this is so important. I realize that giving up all those “simple” carbohydrate goodies in a world gone mad with them is not an easy thing to do, especially for teens. However, Nature has so organized your body that if you want a great complexion free of acne, and great youthful and vibrant health for the rest of your life, you really don’t have any other choice. Eliminating as many “simple” carbohydrate foods and beverages from your life as you can, will pay you enormous benefits for the rest of your life!

The enormous number of people with Acne, from teens to adults, has spawned a huge number of drugs and over the counter preparations for the elimination of acne. As people soon discover with their use, none of these preparations have any long term or lasting effectiveness. Worse still, the drugs are accompanied by many undesirable side effects. Fortunately there are natural steps you can take to eliminate acne and enjoy the beautiful and healthy skin Nature intended you to have. Below, I have outlined those steps, which, if followed, will bring you not only healthy radiant skin, but a long and healthy lifetime free from the diseases which are the scourge of modern society.

For tens of thousands of years the Eskimo people that lived in the Arctic region of North Canada had followed the same Hunter-Gather life of their ancestors. Then in the 1950’s the Cold War changed all of that. Fearing the Russians would launch a sneak airplane or missile attack on North America, the U.S. and Canadian military created a string of advanced warning radar and air bases across the Arctic Circle in the farthest reaches of North Canada. This meant they needed workers to do this, and so they offered the local Eskimo people jobs, and housing, with the usual benefits of base stores to buy food and obtain the services of doctors and one hospital. During the first few years everything went just fine. However by the end of the first 15 year a great tragedy had befallen these people. It began with a sudden need for gall bladder surgery for the older Eskimos. This was followed with heart attacks and strokes, then obesity, diabetes and cancer among those of middle age. The problem got so bad they had to build two more hospitals across the Arctic Circle. One of the most disturbing things was what befell the teenagers. They developed a terrible skin condition. Their entire face broke out all over in red, inflamed, puss filed sores their parents or their grandparents had never experienced. It was Acne! It was at this point that Dr. Otto Schaefer became interested in what was happening. He knew that the Eskimo people had never had any of these terrible health problems prior to going to work at the military bases. He looked through the records of the one hospital which had served the area for many decades. There was not one single record of any Eskimo having gall bladder surgery, heart attacks, strokes, cancer, diabetes or acne in all the years before they went to live and work at the military bases. Dr. Schaefer then reviewed the records of the trading posts in the Arctic region going back for many decades. Because the Eskimos did not have jobs, they did not have money, and therefore they made no purchases at the trading posts. However after the Eskimos went to work and lived at the military bases, they began to purchase the same foods in the base stores as the military personnel did. Dr. Schaefer found that within one decade of time they ate just as much food made with sugar and flour as did the other people of Canada and the United States. He also found that within 15 years of taking up this new diet, the Eskimo people who had never before known gall bladder problems, heart attacks, strokes, diabetes, cancer and acne, were being plagued with these problems at the same rate as were the people in the United States and Canada. Here at last is the smoking gun, the shocking proof that a diet high in refined carbohydrates, stripped of their vitamins, minerals and fiber, rapidly leads to the very diseases that are the number one killers in our society today. He found that in less than 15 years on such a diet an entire people went from perfect health to all the diseases and deaths they cause, just as in the United States and Canada. It begins with acne among the teens, progresses to sugar control difficulties, which then lead to gall bladder problems soon to be followed by diabetes, heart attacks, strokes, cancer and obesity.

There has been a great deal of fuss raised over the danger of high cholesterol in our blood as a cause of heart attacks and strokes. Since most cholesterol is not derived from the diet, but is created in the liver, it would be helpful to know what the liver uses as a raw material. Surprisingly, it is not the fat in the diet, but it is manufactured from high blood glucose. The more extra blood glucose, the higher the level of cholesterol, especially the more undesirable form, known as Low Density Lipoprotein or LDL cholesterol. Here is why LDL cholesterol is so bad for you. Its protective protein coating is not dense enough to provide adequate protection from the damage caused by free radicals in the blood. With holes blown in the protein coat, the interior content of fatty acids of this LDL cholesterol is now exposed to the oxygen of the blood. In this condtion LDL cholesterol is quickly oxidized and becomes a free radical itself. This is very dangerous, and so the macrophages of the immune system try to gobble up as much oxidized LDL cholesterol as they can and get it out of the blood. It has now been found that the macrophages become swollen with this oxidized LDL cholesterol, they try to leave the blood, exiting through the arterial wall as they normally do. Unfortunately once in a while one will be too swollen with oxidized LDL cholesterol, and they can get stuck there. Then the oxidized LDL, acting as a free radical, damages the arterial wall. This injury creates a hole in the inner lining of the artery.As the muscle cells just under that lining go through their normal reproductive cycle, some of those muscle cells have been found to protrude up through the hole in that lining. Then fibrinogen responds and starts laying down a mesh of fibers over this protrusion trying to close it off. Next calcium starts filling in the holes in the mesh and it starts to harden. Finally cholesterol coats the top of this bulge and we now have an arterial plaque. Once started, a plaque tends to grow in size with more and more fiber, calcium and cholesterol added as time goes by. When these plaques are numerous and large enough, they can cut off the flow of blood to the heart or brain, and this results in a heart attack or stroke. Now the astonishing thing is this, half of those who die from a heart attack or stroke have normal cholesterol levels. This is because in addition to getting rid of excess glucose by making cholesterol, the liver has another favorite method, it turns it into fatty acids which then become triglycerides, also known as blood fat. At first, the body of most people will try and get rid of this triglyceride by storing it as body fat. As you can tell by looking around, some of these bodies are pretty good at that. However, in time, the body can not store it as fast as it is being produced and the blood triglyceride level rises higher and higher. There is a grave danger here, because tt is now scientifically acknowledged that high blood triglyceride levels are a far more accurate predictor of pending heart attacks and strokes than your cholesterol level.

When the blood glucose remains higher than the insulin can bring down to normal, the liver steps in and tries to bring the high blood sugar back to normal by converting as much of the glucose as possible into fatty acids. It then joins three of these together with a glycerol unit into what is called a triglyceride. While in the blood, another name for triglyceride is  blood fat. We all have cells located throughout our body into which this triglyceride is poured for storage purposes. Once stored, we call these triglycerides “body fat”. As strange as it may seem skinny people and fat people have roughly the same amount of these fat storage cells. The difference is that in skinny people they are flat, like an empty plastic sandwich bag. For those who gain weight easily, what is happening is that as they eat more and more “simple” carbohydrates, the excess glucose which cannot be burned as energy is turned into more and more triglyceride molecules which are then stored in these fat cells. These fat storage cells just keep getting bigger and bigger, literally stuffed with triglyceride molecules. When you look at the fat which is stored on your body, what you are actually seeing is glucose derived from your diet which was in excess of what your body could use. This excess dietary glucose has been converted to triglyceride and stored as fat.How dangerous to your health is stored body fat? There are a couple of things which have been learned about this which is important to know. If you are a thin person, and you eat lots of “simple” carbohydrates but don’t get fat, it may be that your fat cells just refuse to take up the triglyceride and it is just getting higher and higher in your blood. In this case, you may be in much more danger of having a heart attack or stroke than the person who is more than 20 pounds above their ideal weight. It has also been found that where you store that fat has a lot to do with how harmful it is going to be. Estrogenically dominated fat deposits, with most of the fat placed below the waist tends to keep blood triglyceride levels low. Although large fat deposits anywhere increase health risks, it poses less risk of heart attack to that person than someone who has Androgenically dominated fat deposits. This is when most of the fat is placed at and above the waist. The danger here is that these individuals tend to have higher blood triglyceride levels. The more your waist measurement is larger than your hip measurement, the more likely it is that you will have higher blood triglyceride levels. Scientists have found that consistently elevated blood triglyceride levels is a better indicator of future heart attacks and strokes than is elevated cholesterol. What is important for you to keep in mind, is that both high cholesterol or high triglyceride, as is obesity, is the direct result of a diet that is low in micro-nutrients and high in simple carbohydrates that quickly convert to glucose. Obesity, being more than 20 pounds over your ideal body weight is one of the fastest growing health problems in America. As with diabetes, obesity is a condition which always has more cancer, heart attacks, strokes, high blood pressure and shorter life span occur, than with normal body weight people.

Long before the individual becomes a full diabetic, because of these long hours of high blood glucose, the glucose starts to combine with various protein structures in the blood. Everything from blood cells, plateletts and vessel walls to various enzymes. These are now called glycoslated structures, and the really unfortunate part of this is that they can no longer function as they should. Let’s take the red blood cells for example, when they become glycoslated the amount of oxygen they can carry is greatly reduced. This in turn means the cells of the body become deficient in enough oxygen to produce their normal amount of energy. Why? Because those mitochondria energy factories I have been referring to must have plenty of oxygen in order to convert all that glucose to ATP. Once the cell oxygen level drops, acids begin to form in the cell, and because it still needs energy, it starts fermenting these acids in order to create energy. Nobel Prize winning scientist Dr. Otto Warburg discovered that fermentation of acids for energy instead of respiration of oxygen is the chief characteristic common to ALL cancer cells. The loss of oxygen in the cell due to glucose crowding it out, is one of the key reasons that people with chronic high blood sugar have a much higher rate of cancer.