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hey guys dr. Berg here in this video we’re going to share with you how to

heal your acne I wish I would have known this when I was going through high

school I had really bad skin so I’m going to share with you what to do

there’s several factors that will affect the skin but primarily we’re going to

talk about the anatomy of something called a sebaceous gland what is a

sebaceous gland it’s a little gland on in your skin you have that in your hair

you have them all over the place but you don’t have them over the soles of your

feet in different places but basically if this clan is now functioning you will

have acne blackheads whiteheads oily skin dry skin you can have any

combination and so let’s start with the vitamin A if your vitamin A is low

you’re going to have problems with this gland vitamin A controls and regulates

this gland in your skin so without vitamin A your skin can be really really

bad there’s a couple factors you need to know though about what what happens at

the cellular level vitamin A can kill unfriendly bacteria in your skin and so

one of the myths that people have is that they think they have to just scrub

out these blackheads and whiteheads and scrub their face and sterilize your face

that’s going to damage your skin that’s what I used to do and it was incorrect

because you have a layer of friendly bacteria on your skin that’s supposed to

be there to protect you when you scrub too hard you can destroy

that also when you take antibiotics you will destroy it as well so I know people

take antibiotics and their skin gets better but if you can just keep your

good bacteria in your gut healthy you don’t have to go that route there’s even

a condition I mean a drug called accutane which is a high level of

vitamin synthetic vitamin A which was really good for the skin but it has a

lot of side effects so anytime you take a vitamin in high potencies it comes

with a package there’s a lot of problems we don’t want to do that we want to take

vitamin A typically in its natural form not synthetic okay I’ll show you how to

what to do so but vitamin it can control the bacterial growth

controls the oil coming of the skin the dryness and actually it can get rid of

acne vitamin A foods you know people think of carrots spinach kale anything

orange or yellow that’s true but those vitamins in the vegetable family are pre

vitamin A factors they’re not active forms so your body has to convert the

pre vitamin A to the active form and it’s very difficult for you to but your

body to do that in many cases if you’re lucky you might convert four to five

percent so you’re really not getting your vitamin A source from the vegetable

you’re getting it from the animal products that you eat and that’s why a

vegetarian has a lot of dry skin they have vitamin A deficiencies which

is dry eyes can’t see at night sinus problems things like that so the best

source of vitamin A that I would recommend a natural source would be cod

liver oil but not just any kind of oil you want to get a colorful oil that is

virgin cod liver oil because when you get traditional inexpensive cheap cod

liver oil you’re basically getting a lot of problems you’re getting added

vitamins you’re getting a heated product that kills off all the good nutrition

it’s refined it might have too much of one thing versus the other I don’t like

it so there’s a lot of problems with just real cheap cholera I would get a

high quality virgin cod liver oil and also as a side note you probably have

heard about the fermented cod liver oil right now I used to buy into that but as

I was studying it I realized you can’t ferment cod liver oil

you can’t ferment an oil only a carbohydrate so basically it’s bogus and

when I bought this stuff it tastes very very fishy because it’s when you try to

ferment it you’re going to cause rancidity or a souring effect and it’s

going to go rancid so the cod liver oil if it’s fresh shouldn’t shouldn’t have a

bad smell but that’s a really good source of not just vitamin A but vitamin

D as well which we’ll get to also liver personally I don’t like

eating liver but I just want you know that liver has a lot about of an A but

of course if you’re going to do liver do grass-fed organic don’t do just regular

liver and then the other thing is butter Kerrygold butter is a really good source

of grass-fed butter and that has its load with vitamin A that would be a good

source of vitamin A and egg yolks pasture-raised egg yolks that’s what I

would recommend I have a lot of those that’s really loaded with vitamin A so

vitamin A is very important and regulating the sebaceous gland and

that’s the first thing you need to do I don’t recommend doing massively high

potency just fractionated vitamin A pills because there’s a toxicity problem

with that you’re going to create deficiencies and other things okay you

have to really know what you’re doing now next thing is low vitamin D vitamin

D is not just for your bones it’s not just for your mood it’s for your skin

and guess where you get this from the Sun and guess you also can get it from

the cod liver oil so cod liver oil has a nice balance of vitamin D and vitamin A but

Sun and despite what you’ve been taught about Sun Sun is actually very very

healthy for the skin and it doesn’t cause skin cancer

no in fact Sun actually protects you against a lot of types of skin cancer

and other cancers because the vitamin D actually is good for the immune system

now I’m not saying lay out in the Sun and get completely leathered and like

burnt things like that I’m just talking about a little bit of Sun is really good

for the sin skin so but these two are really important and vitamin all the fat

soluble vitamins vitamin A D K there’s something unique about them they have

the ability to be stored in fat and also they have the ability to go through the

fat layer of the cell and into the center of the cell where the DNA is and

they can affect the DNA of the cell and control your genes and that’s why if

you’re deficient in these fats either vitamins you can have a lot of

structural problems with your proteins your

body tissues okay so that’s a little bit different than the other water soluble

vitamins like vitamin B things like that so vitamin D vitamin A very important

gallbladder I want to mention that because if a person has a congested

gallbladder or a congested liver or a bad liver or no gallbladder what’s going

to happen is that you’re not going to have enough bile B I L E bile is a fluid

that kind of helps you break down fats and fat soluble vitamins so if you’re

consuming these and your skin is not getting better it could be that you just

don’t have enough support from the gallbladder to absorb them into the body

so it’s just something I always look at when someone’s taking these things

because you need to be able to not just get it but absorb it okay next thing

androgens what is an androgen an androgen is a

hormone produced by your stress gland your adrenal glands on top of your

kidney but it’s also produced by the ovary okay and the testicle but mainly

this in a female is coming out of the ovary and that during that time of the

month they might have a little acne because they have a their ratio they

have a little too much energy in versus estrogen so if that happens they’ll get

acne I have videos and how to deal with that but guess what triggers androgens

sugar yeah too much sugar so if you were to have a problem with androgens or other

conditions called polycystic ovarian syndrome if you don’t know what that is

that’s fine but if you if you have it you know what I’m talking about

the best solution for that is to get the sugar down to zero in your diet okay and

that will help you greatly so there’s two things that will increase androgens

one is sugar and the other thing is stress okay so sugar and stress really

affect your your skin then we have vitamin b5 what does b5 pantothenic acid

panasonic acid is a vitamin that has that gives you nice clear skin the

problem is people take it synthetically or they take too much of it individually

and then they create deficiencies and other things like biotin and their hair

starts getting brittle so again I’m not saying go out there and start taking

massive dosages just realize that vitamin b5 does control the skin and you

just need to look at what depletes vitamin b5 and that would be stress so

again stress is a factor that we want to start to deal with and lower that to

help your skin the other thing is insulin insulin is a hormone that

regulates blood sugars and insulin is triggered by sugar so and that’s also in

the hidden sugars like breads pasta cereal crackers viscous waffles pancakes

muffins sodas juice alcohol all that will influence this gland right here now

these are really comprehensive things but if you have acne you need things

that you can do to better your skin and not be stuck in a situation where you’re

taking accutane or some antibiotics so you want to be able to look at all these

to see maybe what’s missing in your diet if you’re a junk food junkie like I was

then you need to start consuming these foods and get the sugar out of the diet

your skin will clear up nicely the other thing that I’m going to recommend is

that even no vegetables don’t have the active form of vitamin A you’re going to

have to eat a large quantities to get all the other nutrients the minerals the

other vitamins that make these work and then clean out your liver because you

can’t just you know live on cod liver oil you know so I highly recommend you eat

the vegetables as well the combination of that with some of these things

cutting the sugar out trying to avoid the stress as much as possible that can

greatly improve your skin so go ahead and do these things and then write your

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