Clear for Life

I often bash acne treatments that are ‘quick-fixes’. Meaning this pill, powder, cream, flush or whatever cures your acne and solves your health problems. Just like the duck in this cartoon does:

Image courtesy of Mike Adams at http://www.naturalnews.com

Still, there’s a way you can use these quick-fixes intelligently. And this posts explains how.

I just saw one woman at an acne.org forum saying hormonal balancing is the key to acne. Her doctor prescribed her bioidentical (is that an oxymoron or what) hormones to ‘balance’ her hormones.

This is part of my reply to her, which explains one of the problems with these quick-fixes. I’ll get to how to use them the smart way after this.

And by the way, the same principles in my reply applies to any and all so-called imbalances (such as blood sugar, inflammation) that lead to acne, and pretty much to every cause of acne.

So this helps even if your acne is not hormonal.

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I feel I have to stick my dirty fingers here.

I feel happy for you that this is helping you. And I really don’t mean to rain on your parade. Just want to give you heads up.

Taking artificial hormones won’t ‘balance’ your hormones. You are just plugging a leaky hole and temporarily fixing the problem.

Your hormones are never ‘unbalanced’. They are the way they are for a reason. The body regulates hormones and it’s always based on your ‘internal environment’. In other words state of health.

Just because a doctor tells you your hormones are unbalanced doesn’t mean anything. He’s just comparing them to some number the medical community cooked up and agreed on. Those number don’t reflect your unique situation and condition.

Given your internal environment the body regulates hormones in a way that’s best for the entire body. Your hormones are always in perfect balance. Granted that balance will not always give you the results you want.

By taking artificial hormones you upset the balance the body thinks is the best. So you UNbalance them. That may give you the result you want, but in the long term it’s probably bad for your health.

Anytime you stick your fingers in and mess with your body you make things worse (regarding your overall health).

The body regulates hormones based on the internal environment. You can affect that with the foods you eat and the way you live your life.

That’s the only way to ‘balance’ your hormones in a way that also gives you the results you want.

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So far Clear for Life is the only acne book in the market that shows you how to do that. Acne No More is also good for getting you clear. But it’s not so good for long term because it’s mostly based on fasting and that doesn’t keep you clear for long time. All the supplements you need to buy also makes it quite expensive.

Ok, that’s all fine and dandy.

But I bet my crystal ball tells me your goal is to get clear as soon as possible. Unfortunately it may take some time before your body has gained enough vitality to cure your acne.

That doesn’t gel with your goal very well, does it.

The trick is to combine these two approached.

Start rebuilding your health (fixing the internal environment) right now. That’s the only thing that’s going to keep you clear in the long term. At the same time try some quick-fixes that can get you clear quickly.

That way you can have your cake and eat it too.

You get clear quickly, well at least have a chance to, and get to keep your clear skin for life.

The reason I often bash quick-fixes is because they kill your motivation to make the real changes. If you already are clear then why would you change your diet and lifestyle?

Plus quick-fixes give you a bag full of excuses. Instead of kicking yourself on the arse and making the change you think ‘maybe this new pill or product can fix the problems’.

Your motivation to change drains away and you stay stuck.

But as long as you don’t let this happen and actually make the changes quick-fixes are ok.

Keep that in mind because quick-fixes have as much chance of giving you the permanent freedom you are looking for as a disfigured chimpanzee in a beauty contest.

It just doesn’t happen.

Strictly speaking, this is not the best for your overall health. Because most quick-fixes throw the body off balance. Some more and some less. So it’s probably going to take you longer to regain perfect health (and skin).

Still, you have a good chance to cure acne, or at least significantly reduce it, quickly.

And somehow I feel that’s worth it for you.

Some quick-fixes are better than others. Meaning they don’t throw your body off balance so much.

Here are some ’safe’ quick-fixes (in my opinion):

• Topicals without any products (such as steaming).
• Homemade topical treatments, topicals with only natural ingredients are good also, but homemade are better.
• Supplements; this is a bit tricky because some supplements can create nutritional imbalances. I’d stay away from vitamins and other single nutrition supplements. Probiotics, enzymes, HCL and such are pretty safe.
• Homeopathy
• Laser and light treatments; this is a bit so-and-so. Although these don’t use chemicals (and as such are safe) they do cause free radical damage in the skin and that way can be harmful.

Here’s the blacklist of quick-fixes:

• Topicals with chemicals.
• Herbs; this includes Chinese medicine, Ayurveda and similar medicines. Herbs are nothing but mild form of drugs. They are inert substances and have no healing effect whatsoever. They only irritate the body and force the body into throwing the offending substances out.
• Cleanses and flushes of any kind.
• Drugs; antibiotics, Accutane and the entire gang.

Those are not exhaustive lists. Just something I had on top of my mind now.

I think Mr. X Acne Says is one of the best quick-fix solutions. Mr. X Acne Says is based on the idea that inflammation causes acne. I agree fully with that.

Mr. X Acne Says then offers a combined dietary and supplement based solution to reduce inflammation. The dietary changes are simple and easy to implement to anyone who is at least a bit health conscious. If you eat at McDonald’s every day it can be bit of a challenge.

The supplements cost you a bit, around $50 a month. But when you combine it with diet and lifestyle changes, you need the supplements only for 2 to 3 months.

I’m in touch with ‘Mr. X’ (this sounds like some blind dating program) regularly. He’s a good and reliable fellow. If the program doesn’t work for you he will give you a refund. And if, for any reason, you have problems just contact me and I’ll email him.

Of course I can’t promise Mr. X Acne solution gets you clear, but combined with lifestyle changes in Clear for Life it’s the best solution for getting clear quickly and permanently I can think of.

Proactiv is on it again.

This time they recruited professional skateboarder Ryan Sheckler as their celebrity face.

This is what Ryan had to say about Proactiv:

“When you put it on your face, you can feel it actually getting the dirt out. It feels like you have a brand new face.”

Funny enough Ryan, but you are right. You do get a new face when those chemicals (and the free radical damage they cause) destroy your skin.

I’m just wondering what he means by saying ‘you can feel it actually getting the dirt out’?

Does he refer to the burning sensation the chemicals cause? Or perhaps it’s the redness and irritation Proactiv causes to so many people. Perhaps those chemicals have like little shovels they use to ‘dig out the dirt’ and that causes redness.

Don’t mean to sound too negative. Proactiv probably helps millions of people to mask away their acne. As I wrote in my original Proactiv review.

Not to mention that Proactiv is horribly overpriced. You could probably get as good stuff for 10th of the price. The ingredients in Proactiv cost next to nothing. Marketing expenses probably account for 90% of the price.

Another point.

Quick-fixes like Proactiv keep people from finding the real solutions to their acne. When you can mask away those pimples why would you look for anything else? Especially if the real solutions would require you to change your diet and, god forbid, exercise. What a horrible thing!

So people merrily poison their faces with these chemicals for years. Until their body gets into such a bad shape that those creams and pills stop working. That could be 10 years worth of unhealthy living and abusing your body.

Take a moment and think back.

How much easier it would have been to cure your acne with real solutions when you got it the first place? You would probably have 10 or more years less damage to reverse.

All those years you could have lived a healthy and happy life. With much more gusto and confidence to enjoy life. Being healthy also makes you more optimistic and productive. When you get more done you get further in life.

So all those quick-fixes bear quite a heavy cost - when you count everything.

Anyway, remember to be grateful for your acne.

Once you’ve fixed your life and look back you’ll notice it’s probably one of the best things that happened to you. It may not seem like that now, but it will be.

It certainly was that for me. Without acne I would have never fixed my health. I would still be sitting in some (%#)%*#) office writing useless reports to people who are too stupid to figure things out themselves (I used to be a consultant : )).

Now I live in a tropical paradise, learning to be a scuba diving instructor and loving every bit of the work I do (to spread this message to people).

So not too bad for few pimples.

Let me take a look into the crystal ball.

It tells me the next craze in the acne market will be…

Botox.

Dermatologists have noticed a positive side effect on the patients who have got Botox injections. Acne cleared in the areas Botox was injected. Apparently the results lasted for four months.

Doctors theorize that Botox works because it ‘relaxes’ facial muscles and skin ducts. ‘Relaxed’ ducts then won’t pump that much sebum. Less sebum, less bacteria and less acne.

Here’s the link to the post I learned this from:

News: Can You Really Botox Away Your Acne?

Here’s how I see it.

First, Botox doesn’t ‘relax’ anything. It paralyzes. It kills. It’s a toxin. It’s even called Botulinum toxin. It’s from the same group of toxins that causes fatal food poisonings. So the relaxation is something of a more permanent kind.

Obviously when you injecting a potent poison into your skin is going to have an effect. If it doesn’t kill it paralyzes the facial muscles and the skin around the injected area. It’s not a big surprise that this messes up the delicate hormonal receptors in the skin.

When these receptors won’t work anymore the sebum producing cells won’t get the ‘produce more sebum’ messages anymore. So they won’t produce that much sebum anymore.

The toxin also causes free radical damage. Over time this drains the body’s antioxidant storages. And when you are low in antioxidants your skin becomes sensitive to sunlight, chemicals and other irritant and toxins.

Is Botox dangerous?

Besides the free radical damage is Botox dangerous?

First I have to point out that Botox has been used for 25 years. There have been total of 16 reported deaths and 180 people developed life-threatening conditions. As this article points out:

Death by Botox? The Hidden Toll of the Quest for Beauty

I don’t like to be alarmist. You have to put those cases in proportion. In 2005 3.8 million Botox treatments were performed in the US alone. And those 16 deaths happened between 1997 and 2006. So less than 2 deaths a year. So the change of developing a fatal reaction is less than one in a million.

But there’s something else you need to understand also. And very few people get this.

Just because you don’t develop visible symptoms to something doesn’t mean that substance is safe.

The toxin (Botox) is in your body and the body must get rid of it. Your body won’t allow toxins to stay in the body. So Botox enters your blood and lymph circulation. From there it goes to your liver and eventually thrown out.

It may not cause noticeable symptoms but it nevertheless adds to the burden the body has to carry.

Two more ideas: health accumulation and health degradation.

As you stress the body (with wrong diet and lifestyle and subjecting it to toxins and chemicals) bit by bit your health degrades. Over time your health slips and slips and until at one point you start to get symptoms (acne is one of them).

Though Botox may be safe in a sense that it won’t kill you or cause immediate symptoms it’s still one more blow to your health. And it makes it that much more difficult to rebuild your health and get the permanently clear skin you are looking for.

The only way out of that mess is to start building your health. With time and patience the body regains enough vitality that it can clear up your acne. But you don’t just get clear. Your skin starts to radiate health and youth. You look younger. You feel happier and more optimistic.

And doing this is not difficult. It takes little effort to get started, but within in two to three weeks you look and feel so much better you never want to go back.

And Clear for Life shows exactly how to do this.

So why would you get injected with a poison instead of living a life that makes you healthy, happy and clear for life?

Can you look into a mirror and ask yourself that question?

Because the only thing standing between you and lifetime of clear skin is staring back at you. And the lies (reasons) you keep telling yourself of why you can’t eat healthy foods and live a healthy life.

What’s your excuse?

Is that excuse more dear to you than clear skin? For many people it is.

If not, how long are you going to let it keep you from getting clear?

http://www.clear-for-life.com

Here’s something interesting for a change.

It’ a wacky new product called Acne Pen. Don’t expect this to be a permanent solution, but I can see some uses for this.

I can explain Acne Pen better when we take a look at it.

(image copyright by Rebuilder Medical Teachnologies Inc.)

You use Acne Pen by putting the metal ball tip on your pimple. Acne Pen then ’sprays’ the pimple with microscopic silver particles.

Silver is strongly antimicrobial. So it kills the bacteria and that should take care of the pimple. In alternative health field silver has been used for long for it’s antimicrobial properties.

So in theory Acne Pen seems to work nicely.

Of course Acne Pen only deals with the most superficial symptoms that lead to acne. It does nothing to the root cause of acne. So don’t expect it to cure your acne.

Still, it can be a good ‘emergency’ treatment. When you see a new pimple coming up just ‘zap’ it with Acne Pen and it should be gone in a day or two.

Acne Pen works with the same idea as Zeno Zit Zapper. Where Zeno uses heat Acne Pen uses silver.

Acne Pen will set you back $117 (at the time of writing). I think that’s a reasonable price for an emergency treatment option. Assuming that it works like it’s advertised.

Check Acne Pen out here:

http://www.acne-pen.com/