Secret Guest and the Battle Against Acne

[Secret Guest]

I'm going to be starting a journal here to keep up with my progress on curing my acne. It's late as I'm typing this, but I just wanna call my spot just for the heck of it. I plan to post of current diet and body stats within several hours.

[Secret Guest]

I've been suffering acne for about 4 years. The frequency began to worsen the last few years with cysts. I used to frequent the military doctors to treat my acne, who only offered superficial solutions; minocycline, differin, and external face washes were examples of what they prescribed. Accutane was offered if antibiotics and their prescribed regimen didn't work. I never took up accutane because I felt it was too risky and that the treatment was something I didn't need. And that only made me realized how so "if,then" their solutions were and how they were only there to medicate, not educate.

I'm going to make this long story short: I begun this journey to improve my acne and overall health only in September, that's when I was first introduced to curezone, and then through Shelley. Through here, I first studied a little about ayurvedic medicine and alternative health. Slowly, I modified my diet and I discarded most of the processed supermarket food, and introdued organic or natural foods into my diet and for the first time in years, included fresh raw vegetables into my diet. My diet is 60%-70% raw vegetables, and the rest either sprouted grains, eggs, or cooked natural foods, or meat (sparingly only). I used to do the daily cleansing drink once every night, but somehow I postponed it from my routine since I grew tired of buying lemons every week. A typical day for me is something like: sprouted grain cereal with lecithin granules and a raw egg and naturally rolled oats; sometimes a coconut fried scramled egg along with it. For dinner, I usually eat a large organic salad meal with OO and ACV sprinkled with some unrefined sea salt, wait awhile, and then eat main dinner. Meh, stuff like that. I used to take an Omega 3,6,9 oil called Total EFA, but I stopped using it since I discovered it'd make me break out more frequently.

So diet was my first goal. That really didn't solve all my problems, yet still helpful as I was able to narrow my acne down until I only had major breakouts on my forehead, either cysts or whiteheads and suprisingly on my scalp which also would be a bad odor, something I've never had in my lifetime of acne. I figured toxins were circulated to my scalp also, methinks.

[Secret Guest]

A month ago, I had my first liver flush. I used one cup total Colavita (sp) Extra Virgin OO w/ grapefruit and such. The next day I woke up with only 5 hours sleep, because the olive oil made me nauseous. I wanted to hurl all over, but I couldn't. Luckily, I was able to sleep again for another 4 hours, and upon waking, did a SWF. I believe I had a total of 100+ stones including all the small ones. I did P&B shakes for 4 days along with coffee enemas in the morning.

A week after that, I still broke out worse, but I could swear I felt lighter or something.

Another week, I did a second liver flush. Again, nauseous, dear god I hate that feeling. I was disappointed to only get less than, I'd say, 50 stones or something with a few medium sized ones. But after a few days of the flush, the cysts on my forehead began to seize with only one small pimple coming every now and then. The pimples on my scalp along with the odor also began to seize... or actually its not there anymore. And the odor I get on my scalp is the kind of odor where you smell like you haven't showered in the longest time, but I frikkin' swear I shower every other day if not everyday. And most of all, my hyperpigmentation was also beginning to fade slightly.

I'm aiming for four or five liver flushes before taking a break. If I keep this up, I could get rid of acne, as well as improve my overall health.

I guess purging the liver was the answer. I hope these results last.

[Secret Guest]

I'm doing a my third tca peel tonight. Hopefully the results are stunning. Then, I'm going to play resident evil 4. Screw it I have no memory card.

[shelley]

That was my experience too - that forehead acne can only really be cured by liver flushing. And boy did it cure it! Now I'm just working on the after-effects. I had some skin get really bumpy from buried toxins, so I'm giving myself lots of facial masks to unbury them and it's working.

If you can't handle lemons (I buy 6 at a time when I shop) then do still try to drink the ACV several times a day. Just put it in a mug of warm water with honey or molasses and suck it down, avoiding the teeth best you can. It should help with your liver cleansing and give a lot of acne relief too.

[Secret Guest]

[shelley]

Zinc is essential for the Vitamin A to be released from the liver and used in tissues. Most every vitamin requires a mineral for it to work. Minerals are like co-enzymes for metabolic functions, which is why mineral depletion makes us so tired and sick.

You have a limit with just about everything, you just have to find what that is for you personally. It can change from day to day, season to season. But you should be safe with a teaspoon or even a tablespoon of ACV 3x a day.

And it's a big help to scalp dandruff and scalp acne to rinse your scalp with ACV after you shampoo - get the cheaper white/refined kind without the mother for this, as you don't need the friendlies on your head.

[Secret Guest]

Thanks Shelley, as always

So far, I haven't broken out on my face since the beginning of this week. When I wash my face and run my fingers down the my cheeks and forehead, I usually find lumps from the forming cysts or whiteheads. Now, I find my face silky smooth. Heh heh. The only problem is the hyperpigmentation all over my face. I'm doing 25% TCA peels, but those are only fading the marks slightly.

I'm elated now to make my facial acne go away from doing liver flushes and changes my diet to mostly raw and natural foods. Oh, I still have meager scalp acne, but hopefully things will improve after my third liver flush, which shall commence tomorrow!

For anyone new and suffering from acne, I'd say the change in diet is essential -- it must be done. For me, getting away from processed foods and getting raw vegetables back into my diet was very important. Then, flushing the liver, second.

I just realized how worthless going to the military doctors was. To me, it was all a whole bunch of "If...Thens," you know? Medicate this, medicate that. And most of their solutions were half-assed: some docs would acknowledge that acne is yes, contributed to hormone imbalance, but hell, why can't they say the best way to resolve it was a change in the diet instead of prescribing me antibiotics and foreign chemicals on my face. I rant about this, because to them, if the antibiotics didn't work, then accutane would be the next solution... WTF? No mention of diet, pitiful. Accutane with all those scary side-effects.... it's almost unbelievable; the path to wellness shouldn't involve so much risk, and to me, medications like accutane were no magic bullet -- just a bullet.

Oops, had a soap opera moment there. I go now. I'll just say my best friend is the internet and my aesthetitician (sp?)

[shelley]

I'm so glad you're seeing improvement!

Yeah, preachin' to the choir here! And what I really detest is when they refuse to even run blood tests, just send the patient away and say "oh that's nothing." That happens a LOT with national health and HMO's, much too often.

I have a bit of hyperpigmentation on my right temple thanks to the air bag abrasions from the car wreck. Since they were caused by abrasions to begin with I haven't done any peels, but I think the clay masques (Freeman's and Queen Helene's - quite cheap) are fading them a bit.

[Secret Guest]

Ok, well, I just took my last dose of OO a few minutes ago. With the last dose I was tempted to put some lemon juice because I ran out of grapefruit juice. I know I'm gonna feel nauseous, I can feel it already. I just hope I don't wake up in the middle of the night, because of the nausea. Oh crap, I forgot my sister's been getting a habit of waking me up early in the morning to drop her to school. Oh man oh man. She's gonna wake me up with only 5 hours sleep, and I'm gonna feel sick, then while I'm driving... I'm gonna puke on my sister. gahhhhhh.

[Secret Guest]

Managed 75+ stones on the 3rd flush. I get tired of feeling nauseated during flushes, I think I need to up the juice a little.

Uh.. yay.

[shelley]

wow, 75 stones!!

toxins means nausea as the body tries to decide whether to push them on thru or purge (vomit) them out the other way. Upping the juice might help indeed, but what I found the most helpful is peppermint. Peppermint tea, peppermint candy, all good.

[Secret Guest]

Ah interesting, nausea from toxins. Because yeah, the nausea I was feeling now was the worse yet compared to the other flushes, and I had the urge to do a SWF a little early in the morning because I wanted to get rid of the feeling (which I did). Just thinking about the OO and grapefruit makes the nausea worse. And what's more, this morning, someone was baking biscuits, and then pansit and noodles, and that was really throwing my senses into in uproar upon waking up, making me wanna purge. :p

Man, I've been getting out so many stones, when's the madness gonna end? I'm only 20

[shelley]

well you gotta follow a diet that doesn't cause stones to form. I should post about that in the fAQ. Avoiding fats will do it, the wrong fats like margarine will do it, but so will certain nutritional deficiencies like E and Choline cause gallstones. If I had lots of gallstones at a young age I'd definitely look at my diet!

[Secret Guest]

Thanks!

Btw, are there foods you'd recommend for breakfast for those acne prone or those recovering? I currently eat these ezekiel sprouted grains with rolled oats and almond milk. I usually take my cod liver oil or wheat germ oil during this time too.