I didn't expect this problem with my face

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  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 49,029 Member
    Noel_57 wrote: »
    Sigh. If "detoxing" caused acne breakouts, people in rehab would be using Clearasil by the gallon.
    :D:D:D

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  • ninerbuff
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    GirlPanda03 wrote: »
    I didn't realise we were only allowed to have one opinion about everything.....

    Having looked it up online, a lot of people get skin break-outs during initial stages of detoxing.
    Opinions are fine. Stating them as "fact" without scientific back up......................that's different.

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  • ninerbuff
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    ronjsteele1 wrote: »
    jemhh wrote: »
    How could not eating these things make a person's skin worse? I'm struggling to see a link here.

    Because the breakdown of foods, hormones, etc causes by-products that have to be excreted. A major diet overhaul creates more by-products that need to be excreted. When the other detox organs become "taxed" with the extra need to rid the body of these by-products it goes for the next available detox organ. The skin is an excretory organ.


    BruinsGal_91 wrote: »
    Just stop it with the with toxins already!!

    No. Because the reality is, your skin is the largest organ of your body. We detox things out of our body via the liver, kidneys, lymph system, skin, and sweat glands. My friend's doctor had him take epsom salts bathes to help his liver and kidney (he only had one) detox out of the skin more to lighten the load on those two organs. When a person breaks out after a major diet overhaul that is exactly what their body is doing. It is working overtime to get rid of the junk in their body. The cleansing organs aren't doing it fast enough so it comes out the skin (because our skin is the largest organ of our body).
    I wasn't taught that in physiology. Where is a link for this to verify what you say?
    I get so sick of people saying their liver detoxes just fine or they need a doctor. Your body detoxes out of major organs and your skin is the largest of those in your body.
    Again, link it. You can lose some minerals, urea and lactic acid from sweating, but it's NO WHERE close to what goes through the liver and kidneys.
    If you don't like the word "toxins" then you can replace that with a big long explanation of "The body gets rid of broken down cells, digested food, and other by-products of the body by excreting them out via the major detox organs of the body.
    Please just stop. Digested food through the skin? :D
    These include the liver, kidneys, lymph system, skin and sweat glands." Or, you can generically call all of the crud your body gets rid of "toxins" because it's shorter. On a technical level a "toxin" is poisonous. In the health realm, people understand the word "toxin" to mean broken down by-products of the body's functions. If you don't like that term being used, then fine, have it your way. Use a big long explanation of what detox organs do. I don't care. Either way, the body excretes via the skin as well as liver and if broken down by-products are building up faster then the excreting organs can handle then alternative methods can be used to help the body push things through faster for the comfort of the person (ie epsom salts bathes for liver and kidney patients). If left alone, the body will eventually clear things out but the person may be uncomfortable for awhile when they experience extra sweating or acne, etc. For the OP, the obvious diet change is causing her body to "detox" out the skin - because that's one of the functions of skin!

    OP, you can help the acne by just taking care of your face as you would for teen acne. You can also help the body push through the excretory process ("detox") by taking epsom salts bathes, drinking LOTS of water, exercise, etc.
    Your pseudoscience is pretty entertaining.

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  • SCoil123
    SCoil123 Posts: 2,111 Member
    Noel_57 wrote: »
    Sigh. If "detoxing" caused acne breakouts, people in rehab would be using Clearasil by the gallon.

    Having worked in a rehab I can tell you that it is actually pretty common for peoples skin to breakout worse first before clearing up when they get clean
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