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hey guys dr. Berg here in this short video I’m  going to talk about what’s really behind hormonal  

cystic acne okay it can be very frustrating  when I was a teenager I had really bad acne  

and I didn’t know how to get rid of it so I  would try creams and lotions and put it on  

my face and scrub the acne it never would work ok  little did I know it was hormonal okay so there’s  

two main reasons why this occurs and I’ll give  you some solutions to number one especially if  

you’re female you could have polycystic ovarian  syndrome okay that’s a condition where you’re  

making too much male hormone testosterone and  you might be getting facial hair deeper voice  

weight gain definitely acne and that really  what’s behind that is high levels of insulin a  

lot of times to talk about pause cystic ovarian  syndrome being associated with high insulin or  

insulin resistance no no no no no it’s caused  by high insulin and insulin resistance okay so I  

put a link down below on that video if you want to  learn a little bit more about insulin resistance  

and how to lower that and there’s a lot of things  you can do and it’s you can get some seriously  

good results with that okay so that’s one thing  but there’s an enzyme that converts testosterone  

into what’s called DHT the very powerful form  of testosterone which is causing the acne and  

it’s called 5-alpha reductase okay so it’s a  fancy word for just an enzyme that converts  

these two and in certain people you just have too  much of that enzyme so what you want to do is you  

want to take a 5 alpha reductase inhibitor  alright you want to take a natural one and  

that happens to be in all the cruciferous foods  okay they can the broccoli the brussel sprouts  

the cabbage that really really helps but there’s  a very concentrated form of cruciferous called  

dim I’m not going to give you the long name for  it but two tablets of dim is equivalent to two  

pounds of cruciferous vegetables so I’ll show  you I use this for my clients called estrogen  

balance with dim okay it has 200 milligrams of DIM and you don’t want to take more than that  

because if you take too much it can create more  acne so you just want just enough and I put a lot  

of other things to help balance estrogen and  associated things like cruciferous vegetables  

okay so you may want to if you’re interested in  checking it out I put a link down below you can  

get more information but that’s what you need  to help stop this conversion to really get rid  

of the acne all right I hope that helped now  see in the next video hey guys thank you so  

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