Stop Shooting the Messenger
When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate.
- Addison Whithecomb
Here’s the thing: acne may well be the most important thing that ever happened to you.
Acne is not your enemy; it’s a messenger, carrying critical news about your health. You’ve got to listen.
If you hadn’t had acne, you wouldn’t be here now, reading this. You have acne because your body’s trying to say, “Listen to me, dangit! You’re hurting me! You’re doing something wrong, and I’m suffering, and acne is the best way I know how to tell you that!” If you cover up those signals with makeup or harsh medicines, you’re stifling your body’s cries for change.
Think about that for a moment. What are you doing now to cover up these helpful signals?
I say that having acne may be the best thing that ever happened to you, because you’re learning something that people with perfect skin may never learn: how to listen to your body, and give it what it needs for ultimate health.
Acne is the first step in a long string of diseases. Fortunately for you, you probably got acne first – you may not have diabetes, cancer, arthritis, heart disease, Alzheimer’s, or Parkinson’s yet. But the truth of it is, the causes of these life-threatening disease are some of the exact same causes of acne.
Inflammation, insulin resistance, glycation. These things cause acne, and they cause much more serious diseases down the road.
Acne is your first warning.
If you don’t listen to this warning, and instead you try acne medicines, pills, makeup, and home remedies to hide or cover up your acne, you run the risk of running into major health complications down the road. You’re effectively assassinating the messenger (acne), which your body sent to warn you that you’re doing something wrong.
So you have a sticky problem here. Most people think acne is just a skin condition, and that it doesn’t mean anything – you either get it or you don’t, and you’re just unlucky if you do get it. I used to think this myself, until I started reading about the real causes of acne.
Inflammation, insulin resistance, glycation. What causes these things? A number of things, but most importantly, DIET. Eat the wrong foods, and you start ageing your body prematurely, eating away your vital youth. Your skin loses its elasticity; your blood sugar stays high all the time, damaging all the cells in your body; inflammation rampages around your body, lighting fires under everything and pouring on gasoline.
These are the reasons you have acne.
Thank your lucky stars that you got the warning.
Now listen to the warning, and clear up your acne. By removing a few key food groups, you can do that. It won’t be easy, but it works. And if you suffer from acne, you know how much it sucks. I would have done anything to get rid of mine, and I hope you will too.