Garnet wrote: > Accutane is an internal form of Retin A. The oil glands are destroyed > but they come back when you stop.
According to http://www.chemindustry.com, Accutane is different from Retin A. And since Accutane is a modified form of Vitamin A, it seems wise to try natural form of Vitamin A (from fish oil, for example) before trying Accutane. One would have to take it in large doses: maybe 300,000 IU daily for some months, and then maybe reduce it to 100,000 IU or so. NOW Foods produces vitamin A product that come in 25,000 IU capsules, and it's pretty cheap. > Controling testosterone is key to controling acne. Stop eating red meat > for two months and see what happens. My experience is the opposite. Having woken up from vegetarian propaganda, I switched to a diet that is similar to so called Paleolithic diet. It consists of mostly animal based foods (including beef too, of course) and nonstarchy vegetables and nonsweet fruits. This has had a dramatically positive effect on my complexion. This was duplicated in an online acquaintance of mine with whom I shared this. She used to be a vegetarian for many years... with worsening health in various aspects. I and another poster on a particular forum where we met convinced her to move away from the vegetarian diet and eat foods that are dense in easily utilizeable nutrients -- animal based foods (including organ meats too). She rather quickly reported significant improvement in her level of energy and complexion. She has recently discovered that using coconut oil internally and externally does her great good. I now eat beef almost daily. And eggs. Often more than once a day. No problems..... except for days when my GI tract isn't performing well enough. And this is related, based on my observations, to eating sweets (including sweet fruits too), too much starch (by too much I mean less than many other people eat), and stress. If I keep my GI tract working fine, I get no new breakouts. I don't use any antimicrobe substances, even CS. I tried several things in this category in my early years of searching for cure and didn't find them working. I'd recommend perusing: - http://www.westonaprice.org/askdoctor/ask_acne.html - http://www.westonaprice.org/nutrition_guidelines/nutrition_guidelines.html BTW, some people report very good results (temporary, though) from applying Vick's Vaporub. Roman -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver List archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html Address Off-Topic messages to: [email protected] OT Archive: http://escribe.com/health/silverofftopiclist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
