Acne and Cancer Connection
The hormones present in cow's milk may help explain the association between certain diseases and dairy consumption.
View ArticleNational Dairy Council on Acne and Milk
The Harvard Nurses' Study found an association between high school dairy intake and severe physician-diagnosed acne.
View ArticleSkim Milk and Acne
Three Harvard studies linking acne with dairy consumption in adolescent girls and boys blamed the sex steroid hormone content naturally found in cow's milk (even without added hormones)—particularly skim.
View ArticleThe Acne-Promoting Effects of Milk
Dairy is considered a major cause of the acne epidemic, and other more serious chronic diseases in the Western world, due to the "abuse" of the mammalian postnatal signaling system by widespread cow...
View ArticleSaving Lives by Treating Acne with Diet
Over-activated TOR signaling may help explain the link between acne and subsequent risk for prostate and breast cancer.
View ArticleWhy Do Vegan Women Have 5x Fewer Twins?
The hormones naturally found in foods of animal origin may help explain why women who eat conventional diets are five times more likely to give birth to twins than those eating plant-based diets.
View ArticleFood as Medicine: Preventing and Treating the Most Dreaded Diseases with Diet
Dr. Greger has scoured the world's scholarly literature on clinical nutrition and developed this new presentation based on the latest in cutting edge research exploring the role diet may play in...
View ArticleTreating Acne with Barberries
What happens when the most antioxidant-packed dried fruit available is put to the test in a double-blind randomized placebo-controlled clinical trial for moderate to severe acne?
View ArticleNatural Treatment for Acne and Fungal Infections
Green tea may help with athlete’s foot, dental plaque, acne, impetigo, and bladder infections, but if it’s so good at killing bacteria, what may it do to our gut flora?
View ArticleDietary Cure for Hidradenitis Suppurativa
What is the role of dairy- and yeast-exclusion diets on arresting and reversing an inflammatory autoimmune disease?
View ArticleDoes Chocolate Cause Acne?
What are the effects of dairy products, sugar, and chocolate on the formation of pimples?
View ArticleDoes Cocoa Powder Cause Acne?
Is the link between chocolate and acne due to the sugar, the milk, or the cocoa in chocolate? Researchers put white chocolate, dark chocolate, baking chocolate, and cocoa powder to the test to find out.
View ArticleDo Sunflower Seeds Cause Acne?
Should we be concerned about the pimples, cadmium, and “colonic crunch” associated with consumption of sunflower seeds?
View ArticleBenzoyl Peroxide vs. Tea Tree Oil for Acne
A 5% tea-tree oil gel is pitted head-to-head against the leading over-the-counter treatment for pimples.
View ArticleDuct Tape and Wart Removal
Duct tape beat out cryotherapy (freezing) for treating warts in a randomized controlled head-to-head trial.
View ArticleDo Vitamin B12 Supplements Cause Acne?
Acne can be triggered in one in ten people who get vitamin B12 injections.
View ArticleDHEA: What Is It and What Are Its Benefits?
DHEA levels naturally decline with age. Does replenishing youthful levels have restorative effects?
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