If you’ve suffered from acne for more than 5 years you’ve probably heard of FreeAcneBook.com site. It’s a site many people went for natural acne cure advice before acne blogs and YouTube channels became popular. Like the name implies, it contains a ‘book’ that tells you how to get over acne with diet. And it’s … Read more
Is the combined assault of processed food and thousands of chemicals in the environment too much for your liver to handle? Could over burdening your liver cause acne? And could you get clear by cleansing and supporting it? That’s what many alternative and natural health practitioners claim. In this post we are going to examine … Read more
Have you heard there’s a natural vaccine for acne? I hadn’t, until a reader emailed me asking about it. His mom had bought what she believed to be a natural vaccine for acne from a local drug store. My reader thought it sounded fishy and asked me about it. He was right to be skeptical. … Read more
Suppose I told you that there’s a tea pot orbiting the sun, called the Cosmic Tea Pot, somewhere between the earth and mars. And that the location of the Cosmic Tea Pot, in relation to the earth and mars, affects your skin. Using my elaborate tea pot charts I can tell you which treatments are … Read more
Getting a bit cheeky with the title there, but on to the very serious business that is this short post. The Point of Inquiry podcast recently interviewed Dr. Paul Offit regarding his latest book Do you Believe in Magic?: The Sense and Nonsense of Alternative Medicine (affiliate link). While I have yet to read the book in … Read more
This is just a quick post about the need to keep your BS detector working when evaluating marketing claims, a blinding flash of the obvious if there ever was one 🙂 A quick example to show why. The other day I came across this a line of Oxygenetix products promoted by Dr. Yael Halaas, a … Read more
Spend a few minutes online and you’ll come off convinced EstroBlock is the next best thing since sliced bread. This ‘miracle supplement’ is all rage in various natural acne cure blogs and forums. Sellers claim it ‘detoxifies toxic estrogens’ and thus protects against breast cancer, gets rid of stubborn fat and, even cures acne. I … Read more
Are you overburdened by toxins? Can detox therapies get rid of acne? Today I want to take a moment to answer a reader email dealing with these questions. After spending nearly a year (10 months to be exact) going around the alt-med part and being mind-fucked… I think most people have read that ”toxins” causes … Read more
I’ve been bothered by adrenal fatigue. Scratch that. I’ve been bothered by the concept of adrenal fatigue, not the so-called disease itself. The whole thing has always smelled little too much ‘alternative medicine’ to me. All the information comes from sources not exactly dedicated to critical thinking and scientific enquiry, with most medical organizations and … Read more
It’s been a while since I’ve posted reader questions. Fortunately, yesterday brought in a perfect email for another reader questions post. Here’s a snippet from the email: My question is what kind of doctor should I see in order to figure out what is making my skin react this way? I have seen commenters say … Read more