Is the combined assault of processed food and thousands of chemicals in the environment too much for your liver to handle? Could over burdening your liver cause acne? And could you get clear by cleansing and supporting it? That’s what many alternative and natural health practitioners claim. In this post we are going to examine … Read more
Have you heard there’s a natural vaccine for acne? I hadn’t, until a reader emailed me asking about it. His mom had bought what she believed to be a natural vaccine for acne from a local drug store. My reader thought it sounded fishy and asked me about it. He was right to be skeptical. … Read more
Ideas are like roads. Using roads you can get to places, but in order to get to your destination, you have to choose the correct roads. Ideas are much the same. Ideas lead to actions that lead to results. Good ideas lead to resourceful actions and eventually to positive results. Consequently, poor ideas lead to … Read more
Pseudosciences are in many ways like cargo cults. When observed from afar they seem to have all the trappings of legitimacy. Astrologers, as an example, have their own professional associations and journals. Over the hundreds of years astrology has accumulated an impressive amount of knowledge that’s taught in dedicated colleges. The impressive sounding trappings don’t … Read more
Unfortunately I have some bad news for you today. As you probably know, I advocate smart supplementation as part of your acne treatment program. Studies have indeed shown antioxidants can be good for the skin, and that certain herbs can correct hormonal problems linked to acne. However, all the studies in the world aren’t worth … Read more
This is just a quick post about the need to keep your BS detector working when evaluating marketing claims, a blinding flash of the obvious if there ever was one 🙂 A quick example to show why. The other day I came across this a line of Oxygenetix products promoted by Dr. Yael Halaas, a … Read more
Are you overburdened by toxins? Can detox therapies get rid of acne? Today I want to take a moment to answer a reader email dealing with these questions. After spending nearly a year (10 months to be exact) going around the alt-med part and being mind-fucked… I think most people have read that ”toxins” causes … Read more
It’s no secret that I feel a certain amount of, shall we say, disdain towards alternative medicine and some other natural healing methods. Because I believed into the nonsense they promote I had to live with acne 7 years longer. That’s why I think that developing a well-functioning BS detector is one of the best … Read more
I’ve been bothered by adrenal fatigue. Scratch that. I’ve been bothered by the concept of adrenal fatigue, not the so-called disease itself. The whole thing has always smelled little too much ‘alternative medicine’ to me. All the information comes from sources not exactly dedicated to critical thinking and scientific enquiry, with most medical organizations and … Read more
I was looking at the data for internal search for this blog (the little search box in the upper right hand corner) and noticed that quite a few people had searched for liver flushing. It’s not something I would normally write about (given how implausible the whole thing is), but since minds are boggling to … Read more