Does a Body Good?
The more I investigate this idea of milk causing acne, the more I believe that it may be contributing to my condition.
I started drinking skim milk (which according to Dr. Weil's website is the most aggressive culprit) when I left home for college. At home my parents always had 1%.
My acne really started to get bad about 2 or 3 years after I left home for college. I had some problematic acne as a teen and took some antibiotics, but I never had these cysts until college. I always thought it was so strange that this acne started to attack, just when I thought I was becoming an adult.
To some degree the severity of the acne could follow my milk intake. About two years ago, just before I went to the dermatologist because my acne had become so unbearable and disfiguring, I had started working out and drinking extra protein, mixed with milk! I loved drinking milk. Protein makes me feel good, triptophan makes me feel good. I always thought I was doing something good for me.
So as of today, I am quiting milk.
I am trying to determine the difference if any, between milk and cheese, but the main suspect in this dairy equation seems to be the hormones that are naturally occurring in the cow because she is constantly pregnant and nursing.
Although I can not find any fool proof published evidence of this, here are the best sites I've found, but if you just google "milk acne" this information goes on for pages.
http://www.acnemilk.com/
Dr. Weil
I don't know how to give up cheese completely, but luckily I don't consume too much of it. Even so, I will cut back.
I started drinking skim milk (which according to Dr. Weil's website is the most aggressive culprit) when I left home for college. At home my parents always had 1%.
My acne really started to get bad about 2 or 3 years after I left home for college. I had some problematic acne as a teen and took some antibiotics, but I never had these cysts until college. I always thought it was so strange that this acne started to attack, just when I thought I was becoming an adult.
To some degree the severity of the acne could follow my milk intake. About two years ago, just before I went to the dermatologist because my acne had become so unbearable and disfiguring, I had started working out and drinking extra protein, mixed with milk! I loved drinking milk. Protein makes me feel good, triptophan makes me feel good. I always thought I was doing something good for me.
So as of today, I am quiting milk.
I am trying to determine the difference if any, between milk and cheese, but the main suspect in this dairy equation seems to be the hormones that are naturally occurring in the cow because she is constantly pregnant and nursing.
Although I can not find any fool proof published evidence of this, here are the best sites I've found, but if you just google "milk acne" this information goes on for pages.
http://www.acnemilk.com/
Dr. Weil
I don't know how to give up cheese completely, but luckily I don't consume too much of it. Even so, I will cut back.
posted by Renee Prisble Una at
11:29 AM
1 Comments:
Well if it makes you feel better I haven't drank milk since I was little, probably 20 years ago now (I never liked the texture or the taste) and we both know how bad my skin is, lol. Of course everyone's body is different.
Is there non-soy non-hormone organic milk out there? In my opinion, NO ONE needs the extra hormones they pump into cows, whether you have perfect skin or not.
-- Xan
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