Foods that could be triggering your acne & why 👇:
🥛Dairy: Loaded with IGF-1 (insulin-like growth factor which acts on our hair follicles giving you hormonal acne around your chin area.
🍞Gluten: Highly inflammatory, creates gut permeability, and spikes blood sugar levels. Anything inflammatory triggers acne, and if you are already breaking out it will only make it worse.
🌽Inflammatory oils: Immediately causes systemic inflammation throughout your entire body. This will aggravate acne, and inflammation is the precursor to every single disease.
🍪Sugar: When your blood sugar spikes, it causes inflammation throughout your body. These spikes also cause your body to make more sebum, an oily substance in your skin. Both inflammation and excess sebum can lead to acne.
🥂Alcohol: A difficult toxin for our bodies to process. It's high in sugar, inhibits vitamin absorption, and halts any healing in the skin. It also messes with sleep which negatively affects your hormones.
☕ Caffeine: Anything that speeds you up can break you out! Caffeine increases testosterone which creates a hormonal imbalance.
🥚Eggs: Contain Albumin, the protein found in egg whites, which can be extremely hard to digest leading to a clogged lymphatic system resulting in acne. Also, eggs contain Progesterone, which our body already naturally creates its own, therefore, eggs offer extra of these hormones which could disrupt your body’s natural levels.
💊Supplements: Taking certain supplements (Vitamin D, Zinc, B12 & Biotin) in EXCESS can be too much for your body to properly digest and can trigger acne. This is especially true for excessive B12 and vitamin D as both can spike testosterone.