Curing Your Skin With Food

Martha Rotter @martharotterhttp://martharotter.com/blog

How did I get here?

What happened? A new country – Stress! A new job – Stress! A lot more beer drinking – Stress! Lots of potatoes – Stress! Lots of travel – Stress! Less sleep – Stress!

First attempt: Go to my hometown dermatologist (December 2008) Result: prescribed antibiotic course for a year plus a monthly prescription bill of over $600 for pills & creams.

Side note: ProPublica

Second attempt: Talk to a food allergist (June 2009) Result: diagnosed as having allergy to soy and chicken, cut both out of my diet; no effect on skin  * But now I had an idea

Third attempt: Take matters in to my own hands (January 2010) Result: over a year of experimentation

Method (Or, How You Can Do This Too) Record, record, record Simple is best Make time to make connections

Result! In December of 2010 I decided to try giving up all dairy. By New Year’s Eve, my face was my own again. Why dairy? Why now? I have no idea. Maybe my body changed, maybe it’s something about Irish dairy, maybe ???

Summary Don’t let anyone tell you that what you put in your mouth doesn’t affect your body – the famous “Acne & Chocolate” study was found to be badly executed but many dermatologists still go by this advice. Be wary of people telling you to spend a lot of money to cure your condition (even the food allergist wanted me to spend a lot of money on pills & vitamins!) Everyone is different, you may have to try several variations until you figure out your own personal trigger.

Questions? Find me on Twitter: @martharotter Or on my blog: http://martharotter.com/blog You can download my free, experimental app to keep track of your own food intake at: http://martharotter.com/qsapp Or fork it / build on top of it at: http://github.com/martharotter/QSApp

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Curing Your Skin With Food

by Martha Rotter on Nov 28, 2011

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