The Dietary Cure for Acne
by Ph.D. Loren Cordain
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Author: Ph.D. Loren CordainEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Published)
Format: Print
Published: 2006
ISBN: 0978510917
Publisher: Paleo Diet Enterprises, LLC
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Book Review: Great read--highly recommend.
Summary: 5 Stars
This book was amazing. I highly recommend it. Cordain explains his diet well, and I've never been so free of cravings in my life. In the first two weeks my skin became dramatically less oily and I started feeling better. Over the course of the next three months my skin cleared up dramatically, and I feel much better, particularly when following the diet. Once your acne clears up, it's great to have clear, visible feedback from your skin on how you're eating and whether it's healthy or not.
My one warning is it did take more like three months for me to really see a difference. My gut feeling is that this was because for the first few months I would sometimes eat too much protein. Dr. Cordain mentioned in a recent newsletter that diets are often between 19-35% protein, so even though it's high protein, you can still get too much. I found on days after eating too much protein my skin was really dry and flaky. After a month of eating between 19 and 35% protein, my acne just totally cleared. It was totally amazing...
Then I tried adding foods back in to my diet... and after one month... my acne came back, though different people have different thresholds before their acne returns. I, personally, enjoy being able to feel the difference in my health that the diet makes. It's so nice to be able to eat an unhealthy meal and feel it the next day. It makes behavior change so much easier. I have a friend who managed to resist all the Christmas treats on this diet, which she'd never been able to do before. Her acne also cleared up within a month. :)
I think Cordain explains the diet and acne in a clear, understandable way. Yet, he is also a very respected scientist with published papers in Archives of Dermatology. I admire what he and Valerie Treloar and collaborators are trying to do, which is to engage in scientific discussion on the link between diet and acne. This book includes results from a three month study showing a paleo-like diet significantly reduced acne in many study participants. I'm impressed that Cordain waited for the scientific paper to come out before publishing the book. Even with the peer reviewed article though, there is still a LOT of debate around whether diet causes acne and what is or is not a healthy diet. I would recommend this book to anyone who has acne and would recommend this diet for any healthy adult to try, particularly with the clarification on protein. It's just given me a much better intuition of what is healthy and what is not and a much better intuition of what is healthy for me, personally--rather than just the average American Joe, who doesn't have acne at 25. It's going to take years before the scientific community agrees on what is or is not a healthy diet, and even then people still react differently to different foods. Currently, we really don't know what causes osteoporosis, which is why unless your dermatologist is really on the ball, you're not going to hear about the information in this book from him. I would recommend trying this diet, learning all you can about your body and your own individual response to food. I can say on a personal level that this book has changed my life and eating habits more than any other and also got rid of those pesky additional ten pounds I couldn't get rid of. I couldn't recommend a book more highly and would recommend purchase of the book and careful study to take charge of your health.
Summary of The Dietary Cure for Acne
With 174 scientific references, The Dietary Cure for Acne clearly explains the ultimate causes of acne, and details a dietary program that will begin to clear up your skin within 30 days or less. Written by internationally recognized author and researcher Loren Cordain, Ph.D., this is the only scientifically documented program that directly addresses all four known causes of acne, and the only program shown to clear acne blemishes in a human clinical trial. In chapter four you will learn how The Dietary Cure for Acne heals your skin from the inside by preventing all four known causes of acne. You will learn how the foods you eat affect hormones called IGFBP-3 and IGF-1, and how that affects pore blockage. You will learn how the type of fat you eat can affect bacteria proliferation in your skin. And you will understand how an enzyme called ZAG, that normally works to help keep pores open, is inactivated when you eat certain common foods. Chapter six reveals the 11 types of food to avoid, along with a clear explanation of how that particular food promotes acne. The rest of the chapter provides a specific action plan. The diet is divided into two distinct phases. In Phase 1, which lasts 30 days, you will be attacking the causes of acne with every nutritional tool that can improve acne symptoms. By closely following the diet, your acne will rapidly improve. Phase 2 covers the next 3 months and beyond. Chapter seven is titled The Good Foods, has a sample menu and complete information on all the food that you will be eating on this program. After reading The Dietary Cure for Acne, you will understand how the right foods can prevent the pore blockage, excess oil production, inflammation, and bacterial infection that characterize acne. But most importantly, you will learn specifically which foods to eat, and which foods to avoid, so you can take action and get results.Personal Health Books
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