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I have been suffering from severe nodular acne for more than 6 years now. It has left deep scars and keloids all over my back and keloid.
I healed it completely with fasting, a raw vegan/fruitarian diet and undereating 4 years ago. So basically I almost lost all my body fat and that healed it completely. This was me before the regimen and at my worst:
I did a 14 day fast, and then I became a raw vegan. I stuck with this diet for more than a year. It was not very consistent with my food choices, changing between only fruits, only sprouts, and sometimes even only raw milk (for like 2 weeks at a time) But I became very underweight (BMI of 16.6) because I was not eating nearly enough. I felt very tired and fatigued most of the time. But my skin was completely healed.
After this, I started to travel and to eat cooked food again and I noticed something. My digestion improved a lot, and I could eat things like big bowls of pasta and bread and nuts and legumes without any problems. I noticed though, that if I ate things very oily and with seed oils or hydrogenated oils, I would start to get some acne. So I stuck with a very high carb diet ( sort of a McDougall diet but with more nuts ) and I was doing okay, with no skin problems or major gut problems.
As months passed by, and I was eating close to 4000 calories a day. I started to gain weight. I gained around 14 kilos ( 30 pounds ) in a year. I was getting more breakouts, but mostly in my face but I was manageable.
At this time, I was living in Europe, and I was cooking all my food. I always ate at home, and it was quite "healthy". Usually bowls of brown rice or whole pasta, with plenty of broccoli/carrots, lentils, some almonds and plenty of spices.
Then I moved to the USA, Miami. AND IT CAME BACK.
When I moved to Miami, I started the first month to eat a lot outside, in restaurants and fast food places. I tried to chose the most "healthy" options. Usually white rice, with some beans, some plantain (possibly fried) and some salad. I was eating most of the time in this Cuban's convenience stores, where they also serve food. One morning, before they opened, I was walking past, and I saw this big barrels of seed oil thrown outside the place. I realized that the smell I felt every time that I went there, was not the smell of the food cooking, but the rancid cheap seed oil odor, that they reused many times and it was impregnated on the place. And I am sure that everything that I ate was covered by this damned oil.
But it was too late. My acne became severe again. I was developing a belly and storing fat in my middle section, and I felt like crap.
I did not connect the dots at the moment, and I did not realize that my acne came back because this oxidized rancid oils that I have been eating without knowing.
So I went to a dermatologist and she told me that I have to take Accutane, but I refused. It is too dangerous, has ruined hundreds of lives, and with my history of gut issues and depression it was too risky.
She ordered some blood tests before I denied, to see if I was fit to take the drug. It came everything fine, but my triglycerides came high for the first time in my life! (Now I know, it's a big indicator of metabolic syndrome/insulin resistance caused by the oxidized PUFA's)
Since then I tried different approaches without any success. I tried low-fat vegan (Mc'Dougall diet without any added fat, oils, seeds or nuts). I tried Paleo omnivore, with focus on vegetables, for some time.
I was really desperate. My acne was very severe again. Now I was getting nodules in places I didn't have before, like my lower back and buttocks. I was not even able to ride a bike sometimes because of the pain.
My digestion was becoming terrible also. I was having severe bloating and gas from all the whole foods I was able to eat without problem before. I was having reflux, and some kind of gastroparesis (food would take sometimes 6 or 7 hours to digest). Sometimes I was not able to sleep at night till 5 or 6 am because the pain.
Then I became a Carnivore/zero carb for a year and I am sure it made my health deteriorate even further.
I tried eating huge quantities of beef liver (up to a pound a day) for the vitamin A for several weeks, but it made no difference in my skin. It just gave me chapped lips.
At first, I was eating cheese and butter, but I cut it. And I would get diarrhea 3 or 4 times daily. But I had no bloating or pain. So I kept going it with hopes that I would fix the acne (I saw some improvements though, around 30 or 40 percent) and that the gut issue would fix by itself.
And then the 5th month I got appendicitis. They took it out and I was sent home the next day. But then I developed pneumonia that lasted for a month. And when I was almost healed from that, I developed tonsillitis that lasted for another month and it was so bad that I was in the hospital for 5 days. So in total, I was bedridden for more than 2 months. I felt so awful the whole time that I could barely stand up from my bed.
In the 4 years that I was a vegan, I've never been so sick like this year of being carnivore. Something is very wrong here.
But I didn't think the problem was the diet, and I kept trying the carnivore diet for 5 more months, because I was convinced that it was our best diet based on our ancestors and evolution.
Why didn't I do the raw vegan diet again and kept doing this diet? Because I felt completely crap when I did the raw vegan diet and I did not understand why did it heal me.
So here I am, today.
This is my body today with all the scars and keloids left by this horrible disease.
I think that the carnivore diet is harming me.
I am obviously insulin resistant/pre-diabetic.
The only way I know to heal the acne is losing most of my body fat.
So what I think the problem is, is that I have all this toxic PUFA's stored in my body fat and this is causing the severe acne and the IBS .
There are some studies that show that patients with acne suffer from systemic oxidation, higher linoleic acid in the sebum of the skin, lower levels of Vitamin A, zinc and antioxidants, higher insulin resistance, etc.
Also, acne and Diabetes is linked with a host of diseases, including gut issues like IBS, diarrhea, Chron's, etc.
So I am almost sure that doing a fruitarian diet, that consist of only fresh fruits, that is extremely low in fats, quite low in calories, and quite high in vitamins and minerals , I would be able to remove quickly like last time most of my body fat along with all the PUFA's that are damaging me. They are the cause of the metabolic syndrome, damaging my skin and gut.
As soon as I can fix the skin and the gut I will try to add more nutrtitious foods, like milk/cheese, dried fruits, etc.
Do you think that I was able to cure my severe acne with the fruitarian diet is because depleting PUFA's?
I will appreciate any advice and guidance.
I healed it completely with fasting, a raw vegan/fruitarian diet and undereating 4 years ago. So basically I almost lost all my body fat and that healed it completely. This was me before the regimen and at my worst:
I did a 14 day fast, and then I became a raw vegan. I stuck with this diet for more than a year. It was not very consistent with my food choices, changing between only fruits, only sprouts, and sometimes even only raw milk (for like 2 weeks at a time) But I became very underweight (BMI of 16.6) because I was not eating nearly enough. I felt very tired and fatigued most of the time. But my skin was completely healed.
After this, I started to travel and to eat cooked food again and I noticed something. My digestion improved a lot, and I could eat things like big bowls of pasta and bread and nuts and legumes without any problems. I noticed though, that if I ate things very oily and with seed oils or hydrogenated oils, I would start to get some acne. So I stuck with a very high carb diet ( sort of a McDougall diet but with more nuts ) and I was doing okay, with no skin problems or major gut problems.
As months passed by, and I was eating close to 4000 calories a day. I started to gain weight. I gained around 14 kilos ( 30 pounds ) in a year. I was getting more breakouts, but mostly in my face but I was manageable.
At this time, I was living in Europe, and I was cooking all my food. I always ate at home, and it was quite "healthy". Usually bowls of brown rice or whole pasta, with plenty of broccoli/carrots, lentils, some almonds and plenty of spices.
Then I moved to the USA, Miami. AND IT CAME BACK.
When I moved to Miami, I started the first month to eat a lot outside, in restaurants and fast food places. I tried to chose the most "healthy" options. Usually white rice, with some beans, some plantain (possibly fried) and some salad. I was eating most of the time in this Cuban's convenience stores, where they also serve food. One morning, before they opened, I was walking past, and I saw this big barrels of seed oil thrown outside the place. I realized that the smell I felt every time that I went there, was not the smell of the food cooking, but the rancid cheap seed oil odor, that they reused many times and it was impregnated on the place. And I am sure that everything that I ate was covered by this damned oil.
But it was too late. My acne became severe again. I was developing a belly and storing fat in my middle section, and I felt like crap.
I did not connect the dots at the moment, and I did not realize that my acne came back because this oxidized rancid oils that I have been eating without knowing.
So I went to a dermatologist and she told me that I have to take Accutane, but I refused. It is too dangerous, has ruined hundreds of lives, and with my history of gut issues and depression it was too risky.
She ordered some blood tests before I denied, to see if I was fit to take the drug. It came everything fine, but my triglycerides came high for the first time in my life! (Now I know, it's a big indicator of metabolic syndrome/insulin resistance caused by the oxidized PUFA's)
Since then I tried different approaches without any success. I tried low-fat vegan (Mc'Dougall diet without any added fat, oils, seeds or nuts). I tried Paleo omnivore, with focus on vegetables, for some time.
I was really desperate. My acne was very severe again. Now I was getting nodules in places I didn't have before, like my lower back and buttocks. I was not even able to ride a bike sometimes because of the pain.
My digestion was becoming terrible also. I was having severe bloating and gas from all the whole foods I was able to eat without problem before. I was having reflux, and some kind of gastroparesis (food would take sometimes 6 or 7 hours to digest). Sometimes I was not able to sleep at night till 5 or 6 am because the pain.
Then I became a Carnivore/zero carb for a year and I am sure it made my health deteriorate even further.
I tried eating huge quantities of beef liver (up to a pound a day) for the vitamin A for several weeks, but it made no difference in my skin. It just gave me chapped lips.
At first, I was eating cheese and butter, but I cut it. And I would get diarrhea 3 or 4 times daily. But I had no bloating or pain. So I kept going it with hopes that I would fix the acne (I saw some improvements though, around 30 or 40 percent) and that the gut issue would fix by itself.
And then the 5th month I got appendicitis. They took it out and I was sent home the next day. But then I developed pneumonia that lasted for a month. And when I was almost healed from that, I developed tonsillitis that lasted for another month and it was so bad that I was in the hospital for 5 days. So in total, I was bedridden for more than 2 months. I felt so awful the whole time that I could barely stand up from my bed.
In the 4 years that I was a vegan, I've never been so sick like this year of being carnivore. Something is very wrong here.
But I didn't think the problem was the diet, and I kept trying the carnivore diet for 5 more months, because I was convinced that it was our best diet based on our ancestors and evolution.
Why didn't I do the raw vegan diet again and kept doing this diet? Because I felt completely crap when I did the raw vegan diet and I did not understand why did it heal me.
So here I am, today.
This is my body today with all the scars and keloids left by this horrible disease.
I think that the carnivore diet is harming me.
I am obviously insulin resistant/pre-diabetic.
The only way I know to heal the acne is losing most of my body fat.
So what I think the problem is, is that I have all this toxic PUFA's stored in my body fat and this is causing the severe acne and the IBS .
There are some studies that show that patients with acne suffer from systemic oxidation, higher linoleic acid in the sebum of the skin, lower levels of Vitamin A, zinc and antioxidants, higher insulin resistance, etc.
Also, acne and Diabetes is linked with a host of diseases, including gut issues like IBS, diarrhea, Chron's, etc.
So I am almost sure that doing a fruitarian diet, that consist of only fresh fruits, that is extremely low in fats, quite low in calories, and quite high in vitamins and minerals , I would be able to remove quickly like last time most of my body fat along with all the PUFA's that are damaging me. They are the cause of the metabolic syndrome, damaging my skin and gut.
As soon as I can fix the skin and the gut I will try to add more nutrtitious foods, like milk/cheese, dried fruits, etc.
Do you think that I was able to cure my severe acne with the fruitarian diet is because depleting PUFA's?
I will appreciate any advice and guidance.