Keto-clear skin for 2 years, NOW acne?

(Mother of Puppies ) #1

WTF???

Keto has been consistently clearing my skin for two years, while I was not being a perfect ketoer.

Now I’m 90+% perfect for two months and 5:2 for two weeks and my skin is breaking out.

HOOOOWWWWW?

(Carl Keller) #2

Is there anything different that you have included in your diet of late? There’s some anecdotal evidence and even some articles that suggest dairy might be the cause of acne outbreaks. There’s even speculation that Some authors have reported that the hormones in milk (designed to help the calves grow into massive animals) may survive milk processing and stimulate the many processes that lead to acne production. The whey protein in many dairy products can also create a potent insulin response that may further exacerbate any acne issues.

(Mother of Puppies ) #3

I’ve been relying on casseroles more (more cheese).

Cutting way down this week, though.

I know my insulin is not up, because my skin is never super oily anymore. Maybe it is the dairy.

These zits are not subsiding, though.

(Alex ) #4

maybe your autophagy is so intense, you are going backwards in the ageing process and reversing back into puberty :slight_smile:

(Sheri Knauer) #5

Perhaps you are releasing fat stores that contained hormones and/or other toxins and is causing the breakout?

(Mother of Puppies ) #6

:joy::joy::joy:

(Mother of Puppies ) #7

HOLY CRAP!!!

Is that a thing?

(mole person) #8

Do they look like normal zits or are they huge and subdermal seeming? Two weeks ago my husband was complaining about an intense zit breakout even though he never has them either, but they did not look normal and weren’t going away. It turned out to be an infection for which he needed antibiotics.

(Windmill Tilter) #9

HOLY CRAP!!!

Is that a thing?

Sheri_Knauer:

Perhaps you are releasing fat stores that contained hormones and/or other toxins and is causing the breakout?

That might be a thing. With a slow rate of fat loss, maybe it’s not as apparent. With rapid fat loss, the symptoms could be more apparent. If you fasted 10 days out of the past 14, it’s totally possible that too many toxins & hormones were released at once and overloaded your system. It’s not just barnyard animals that store toxins & hormones in the their fat; we do too.

The one and only time my wife did a low carb diet, she lost weight very quickly and all kinds of weird hormonal stuff popped up (like acne). She said she felt like she was OD’ing on a lifetime of her own birth control pills. I don’t know if that’s true or not, but she has adamantly refused to even consider low carb ever since.

(Mother of Puppies ) #10

OMG!! My knees and feet hurt, too.

Last weekend I felt so good I was running on a treadmill.

(Mother of Puppies ) #11

They’re all different.

Mostly on jawline, [spoiler]two clogged pores, easy to squeeze, one huge painful triple Whitehead, several regular whiteheads. One on forehead, looks like a white blister[/spoiler].

Blurred because yuck!!

(mole person) #12

That sounds a bit different from what my husband had. If it’s seriously dissimilar to any outbreak you’ve had before though, I’d check with a doctor.

My husband got lucky, he had still thought it just a crazy acne outbreak but had an appointment with our gp for another reason. She took one look at him and pronounced a diagnosis of Impetigo. It’s mostly a childhood infection but adults can also get it.

#13

This is typically hormonal.

Try removing dairy for a month and see what happens.