Interested in hormonal acne treatment? Anyone who’s ever had acne knows through experience that with certain triggers, their acne gets worse. You may notice that your acne occurs at certain times of the month or whenever you eat certain foods.  Healthy skin—like every organ of the body—needs a good source of nutrition to stay in shape. Interestingly, dermatologists are about the only people who discount the role diet plays in healthy skin—even though they prescribe vitamin A to treat acne!

What Causes Acne?

A healthy gastrointestinal tract (or GI tract) supports healthy skin by supplying necessary nutrients and by efficiently eliminating toxic wastes. The skin and the colon are both designed to eliminate toxins from our system. The majority of toxins are removed from the body by way of the GI tract. If the toxin load becomes too great or GI tract elimination is not working properly, then the immune system will shift more toxins to your skin for elimination. Additional toxins tend to weaken the skin’s ability to maintain a normal pH, and this adversely alters the skin’s microenvironment. This weakened, abnormal environment inhibits the growth of skin-friendly organisms and promotes the growth of harmful bacteria and yeast, contributing to skin disorders.

How Do Food Choices Result in Acne?

Acne is characterized as an inflammatory response of the skin. The factors that irritate the skin and stimulate an inflammation response are well known.  Among these are stress, sugar, food additives, artificial sweeteners, pesticides, herbicides, GMOs, chemicals and the drugs used in the animal food industry. Food allergies and food sensitivities are also known to hyper-stimulate the immune system. This response to food allergens triggers the formation of inflammatory lesions.

Hormonal Acne Treatment to Clear Your Acne Up Naturally

The natural way to hormonal acne treatment and prevention is very straight forward.  Here are seven steps to clean up the toxic burden placed upon your system and clear up your skin.

1. Minimize your exposure to sugar and the rest of the substances that act as toxins to the body. Here’s a recap of things to avoid:

• Sugar
• Stress
• Food additives
• Artificial sweeteners
• Pesticides and herbicides
• GMOs (genetically modified organisms)
• Chemicals and drugs in your food
• Foods you are allergic or sensitive to

2. The second step in hormonal acne treatment is to increase the amount of fresh, organic foods in your diet.

3. The third step is to make sure you get adequate sleep for your needs. This means getting enough sleep to feel refreshed and looking into insomnia treatment if you have trouble sleeping.

4. The fourth step is ensuring your GI tract is functioning normally. At a minimum, this means that you do not have gas, bloating, reflux, constipation or diarrhea or other digestive disorders.

5. And the fifth step in hormonal acne treatment is hormone balance.  All the reproductive, digestive and metabolic hormones need to function optimally.

Managing daily stress is a vital step to hormone health and thus to hormonal acne treatment. The adrenal stress hormones can adversely affect the performance of all the other hormones and their functions. So, it is important to cultivate habits and rituals as tools for supporting the normal hormonal checks and balances which exist throughout your immune system. 

Some of the well-known and effective stress modulating tools are:

• yoga
• biofeedback
• prayer
• laughter
• meditation
• nature
• gratitude
• compassion
• acceptance and
• contact with animals

If you are not already charting your temperature to find out if your adrenal and thyroid hormones are working properly, watch my videos on why it is so important and how to do this easy process for yourself.

6. Step six is to support healthy skin internally. Because of the gut and skin relationship, the regular use of probiotics and fermented foods benefits both the health of the skin and GI tract.

7. And the last step in hormonal acne treatment is to support your skin externally by avoiding any activity or product that dries it out excessively, such as alcohol, soap, sun and wind. Using natural moisturizers, like coconut oil and Shea butter, helps prevent and treat dryness problems. These oils aid in maintaining the skin’s optimal pH, which in turn supports a proper balance of all the various organisms normally colonizing the skin.

Acne can be a mild irritation or a great impediment to your quality of life. The good news is that you can do something about it without drugs or expensive skin products. By clearing your skin naturally with this hormonal acne treatment plan, you will also be eliminating the toxic load from your system and this should result in feeling clearer, healthier and more alive.

A personal note from Dr. Tom…

I sincerely hope you found this information to be of benefit. I encourage you to try the steps for yourself if you suffer from acne or forward the information to anyone you know who might find it useful. Feel free to call my office if you’d like further assistance with your particular health issues. New clients are welcome to call me for a complimentary 10-minute consultation.

Tom Ritchie, M.D.

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see you soon, 

Dr. Tom Ritchie