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Puberty sees the release of the male sex hormone testosterone into the blood. Testosterone can cause the sebaceous glands to become so over-active they swell and burst. Bursting sebaceous glands arc a major cause of acne in teenage boys as they have much more testosterone in their blood than girls. As boys reach their twenties, their testosterone-producing glands begin to settle down and less testosterone is released into the blood. As a result, their acne begins to clear up.
Although excess testosterone is the main cause of acne in teenage boys, I have found they still respond well to anti-candida and anti-allergy treatment. The appropriate programs can reduce the acne by as much as 90 per cent and in some cases even clear it up completely before they reach their twenties. This indicates to me that allergy and Candida factors must also be involved. A complete multi-vitamin and mineral tablet is imperative as the minerals (especially zinc) are needed to strengthen the walls of the sebaceous glands and reduce the chances of them bursting.
In adult males and females, allergy, candida yeast infection, stress and sometimes an over-active thyroid gland are the major causes of acne. Stress causes the release of testosterone from the adrenal glands. Prolonged stress (especially over-work, over-exercise, over-commitment, over-socialising and the anxiety of knowing one has acne) can produce sufficient testosterone in the blood of adults to activate acne by the sebaceous gland mode.
In girls, the female sex hormone progesterone is released from the ovaries into the blood at puberty. Progesterone encourages the growth of Candida yeast infections, the root cause of most allergies. Acne in girls tends to respond faster to the anti-candida and anti-allergy treatment than it does in boys as their acne bumps tend to be caused by allergies and Candida only and are not complicated by the bursting of sebaceous glands, unless they are significantly stressed. The contraceptive pill frequently aggravates acne in girls and adult women if the pill being used is high in progesterone. Make-up and skin care products can aggravate acne especially when applied over a pimple that is open or weeping. Open pimples allow direct passage of skin preparations into the blood of the skin where they cause allergic reactions. All skin care products arc designed to make contact with the skin only. They are not designed to make contact with the blood.
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