Hey guys, Dr. Burke here in this blog, we're going to talk about how to get rid of acne fast. Okay, and this is getting rid of the root cause. The problem with most people trying to get rid of their acne is they're just treating the acne directly. And that's treating the symptom. They never get to the root cause. And they, they make some mistakes here, the mistakes, scrubbing your face with cleansers. That's a very bad idea why because you have all this friendly bacteria on your skin, they're supposed to protect your skin, and you basically scrub it off. So you're sterilizing your skin, and then you wonder why it comes back or acne comes back or you have other issues. So scrubbing the face really, really hard in with cleansers is not a good idea. I'm not saying don't clean your face, but don't start scrubbing. I made the mistake of that I had really bad acne in high school and I would scrub and trying to I think it'd be some like blackhead and dirt that I described off, not good never worked antibiotics, what happens to the antibiotics it it will help with acne, but it comes right back even worse because you kill off the good and the bad, bad bacteria and you create strains, very strong, resilient strains of bad bacteria that there now don't work against antibiotics. And so it's not a long term correction. Accutane is a kind of a synthetic version of vitamin A, which does work but it has some slight minor complications like nosebleeds, infertility, blindness, I think it's off the market. Now, if I'm not mistaken, but these are some mistakes that people make. So what we need to do is we need to, the secret is to find out what's really causing the problem and understanding what the problem really is. Okay? So that has to do with understanding what the sebaceous gland is, this is a sebaceous gland is a gland right underneath your acne that is creating the problem. So here, here's what's happening, you have like five different situations, you have extra tissue tissue being formed, you know, in a form of like a little flake, a dryness, an extra skin nodule, then you have a plug poor, okay, and then also can give you whiteheads or blackheads, which really has to do with this extra tissue, kind of plugging up that poor, you have inflammation, okay? It's inflamed, red, painful, you have unfriendly bacteria in there that are feeding off the oil. And that oil is called sebum. Okay, that's like the waxy, oily thing that's supposed to lubricate the skin. So you have excess oil or see them, and then you have an enlarged gland. Okay, all these things are happening. And that's really what acne is. It's not just one thing. So my whole thing is let's get deeper. Let's see what we can do to correct the original reason why it's there in the first place. Okay. Well, the unique thing about the sebaceous gland is it's very highly sensitive to hormones, specifically androgens, which is like a male hormone, and even estrogen, both of those hormones, okay, now, the way that you know it's more estrogen related, usually in females, and you would notice if during your cycle or right before your cycle, it gets worse, okay? It might be maybe it's even on one side of the face, which means it's if it's on the left side, it's on the left over it because the ovaries repetitively go back and forth each month and release the egg and produce more hormones. So what happens if you haven't more on this side, that means the left ovary is pumping out too much estrogen, okay? So it could be estrogen especially if it's related to your cycle, or it could be androgen so let's just, let's just start with the androgen situation, energy in one form of androgen is called testosterone. Men and women have testosterone some men have it more amounts, larger amounts, women do still have it in certain amounts, you need it. But if you're a female, you don't need much of it. But in this situation, you're pumping out too much and too much energy in will increase the CBM the oil, the size of the gland itself, and extra tissue. So that's really what it's doing.
Now, my question is why why are you producing too much androgen, right? You say, Well, I'm going through puberty or whatever, or even menopause can do it, right. Well, there's a couple reasons for that. Number one, you may have a condition called pcls, polycystic ovarian syndrome. I put a link down below if you've never heard about it before, but that's basically a situation where you're female and your ovaries are pumping out too much, androgen, okay. And the three big symptoms are acne, hair loss or elephant issue for facial hair. Okay, deeper voice as well. So those are the symptoms. But while we're on this topic, let's just talk about what causes pcls. It's really high levels of insulin, okay? And it's a condition called insulin resistance. If you look this up, sometimes in the medical literature, it'll say that PCs is associated with insulin. No, no, no, it's not associated, it's caused by insulin, because every single time you improve the insulin situation, the PCs goes away. So you might want to learn more about that if you if you don't know about insulin resistance, okay, and you have acne, you need to read some of the videos, I'll put a list them down below, because it's probably one of the most important things that you can understand about, because it's so simple to fix this thing if you know what it is and what to do. And then you can actually kill two birds, one stone handle the pcls and an antigen handle the acne two. Okay, so insulin, very important to handle that naturally. So that's one cause. The other cause is that you have too much of a certain enzyme that is converting your testosterone into something called DHT. That's just a very powerful form of testosterone. So DHT is like 10 times stronger than regular testosterone. Okay? So there's too much of this darn enzyme that's just making way too much strong testosterone in your body. So now, why would that happen? Right? Well, one of the reasons is that you don't, you're vitamin A deficient, so vitamin A, will actually help reduce that enzyme. Okay. And that's probably why Accutane works. Because Accutane is a version of vitamin A, it's a synthetic version. So I would start taking vitamin A in the form of extra virgin cod liver oil, okay, a high quality cod liver oil, get the extra virgin, you can get it on Amazon, it's a little more expensive, but it's really good for your skin. So vitamin A, will help the skin greatly improving the situation. Vitamin B five is another vitamin that also works with vitamin A, and it helps reduce acne. That's another remedy also to help this enzyme be lowered. And then zinc. Zinc is very, very powerful for getting rid of acne because it lowers this enzyme, okay, so, so we have lowering the insulin, okay, adding vitamin A and column oil. And also increasing B five and zinc. Those are the things that I would do if I had acne right now, I wish I would have known about this in high school because I would have done this, it would have cleared things up very nicely. Now, let's shift gears over to estrogen. So if you have an estrogen problem, that's a little different. Now what could cause an high estrogen there's a lot of things that can cause it, but the big cause is a liver dysfunction. Okay, the liver is not eliminating the bad estrogen that's in your body. There's an enzyme in the liver called aromatase, similar to this enzyme, but basically it will take the estrogen testosterone that you have, and switch it over to estrogen. Okay, so now who you are, you know, you don't have this problem, you have a different issue over here. And that mainly comes from a liver issue. And this can happen in men and women. But here's the symptoms. Or the problems with the liver, you could have a fatty liver, which a lot of people have, or scar tissue of liver called liver cirrhosis. That comes from inflammation in the liver from bad eating or a virus like hepatitis and like that, or even a fatty liver, fatty liver will then turn into cirrhosis over time. And again, these these are not isolated situations, you could actually have insulin resistance that creates the fatty liver that then causes this over here. So it's not just always cut and dry. So what I'm saying is that you have to look at acne as a clue and pull a string and get your body healthy. The skin is the largest organ in the body.
And it gives us clues in what's going on inside. You can tell a lot about a person's health by their skin. So these are just kind of indicators you want to use to try different things. So liver dysfunction, okay, so that can keep your estrogens high because now your liver cannot detoxify these harmful estrogens. Other things that can cause this high blood pressure medications, specifically calcium channel blockers will do it. Antibiotics will increase the estrogen. Alcohol will increase estrogen it's very estrogenic. Yeah. heartburn medications have been linked to high levels of estrogen. antidepressants will increase your estrogen so All these people are on medications and they don't know why they're not getting acne because it's doing this right here. Okay, so now what do we do if we have those issues, we want to start eating healthier. Of course, the best food for the liver would be cruciferous vegetables. Okay, I'm going to put a link down below. That would be like kale, broccoli, brussel sprouts, there's another remedy that I like. And I put a link down below for more information. It's, it's a product called dim and dim, is like 25 times strong with the regular cruciferous, it's a super concentrated version of cruciferous that will really help handle the estrogen dominance and help acne gets really good results with that. And then the last thing we'll talk about is stinging nettle root, that is a plant that will also lower this enzyme and clean up the excess estrogen in your body. Okay, so we got cruciferous dim or either or, or as in stinging nettle root that's really good for the liver, of course, apply the information on insulin, which I'm going to put the link below. Again, there's a lot of information in this video, you can go back and research it. But these are the things that I would do if I had acne, and there might be other medications that you can take to get rid of it fast, but it comes back. So this is the best way to correct it fast, so it doesn't come back. It's more of a permanent thing. So I hope this helped. And put your comments below. Thanks for watching.
