Natural Acne Cure
Simple way to permanently clear skin

Despite all your frustrations with acne cures you can achieve this. In the next few minutes you'll discover how to get your hands on this Holy Grail for all acne victims.

Let's dispose the drama and get to the point. Before learning how to cure acne you need to learn what caused it in the first place.

In a nutshell acne is a result of slow and chronic erosion of health. Over time this causes problems with blood sugar regulation and increases inflammation. These two conditions are what I call Acne Engine and lead to hormonal reaction that causes blocked pores and acne.

For more detailed explanation please see the what causes acne page.

Why most acne cures fail

If you are like I was you have tried any acne cure you got your hands on. They all failed. I understand your frustration and skepticism about reading yet another acne cure. However there's a reason why all the acne treatments you have tried failed.

None of them attacks the root cause of acne.

Imagine a guy who is very messy and never cleans his apartment. Over time his flat gets in worse and worse condition. Garbage accumulates all over the place, it starts to stink, mold grows on the walls and rats and cockroaches run all over the place.

One day he decides he has to do something about this. He figures out that he has many problems: smell, rats and pests and mold. So he goes out and buys air freshener spray and some fragrant candles for the smell. He buys some poison to get rid of the rats and pests. He tries to wipe away the mold.

It's easy to see he doesn't address the real problem: his messy behavior. All the problems he has are symptoms of his messy behavior. Were he to keep his apartment clean all the other problems would go away. In other words they are symptoms of the real problem.

Let's go back to acne. You have probably heard many explanations of what causes acne. All those are really just symptoms of the real problem: slow and steady erosion of health. Less than perfect state of health creates the conditions for these other problems (symptoms) to happen.

The reason all the acne cures failed is because they treated these symptoms instead of the root cause.

How to cure acne - once and for all

The only way to cure acne permanently is to stop and reverse the erosion of health. You have to start taking actions that build your overall health - instead of chasing down different problems that are supposed to cure acne.

Luckily building health is much simpler than trying to cure acne.

You already have a fairly good idea of what you need to do to become healthier; such as eat a healthy diet, exercise and sleep well. Simple things that like that.

Improving your overall health is the big (non-)secret to curing acne. It's really that simple. I know that after all those years of struggle you won't believe me, but curing acne is really that simple.

Healing is reversal of the disease process.

Because we live in the age of the quick-fix many people don't understand what healing really is. With their pills and drugs doctors have trained us to think that healing is like flipping a light switch. Take this pill and your problem goes away. Quick and simple.

However that is not real healing. Pills and drugs simply mask the symptoms.

Real healing happens when you reverse the disease process.

This is easy to understand when you think of weight gain and loss. A person gains weight when certain conditions are present (often eating too much and exercising too little). This condition starts the process of weight gain and slowly the pounds and kilos accumulate. It's easy to understand that losing weight means reversing this process. Eating fewer calories and exercising more creates the condition for this process to reverse and over time the weigh comes off.

Now just think of acne and your overall health the same way.

Don't think of what you can do to cure acne quickly. Think of what you can do that improves your overall health. When you do that your body will cure acne without you having to do anything about it.

It's physiologically impossible to be in excellent state of health and have acne. You weren't born with acne and your body desperately tries to get rid of it - you just don't allow it to happen.

We again come back to the same basic things: healthy diet and lifestyle and emotional healing (dealing with repressed emotions and memories).

Do that and your overall health starts to improve, and, after some time, your skin starts to clear - without you doing anything about it.

Triggers

Have you noticed that you always breakout after eating certain foods? Such foods are called triggers. Triggers are substances (often, but not always, foods) that trigger a breakout.

Because acne is related to inflammation allergenic and inflammatory foods are often triggers. Eating them triggers an inflammatory reaction in the body and often leads to breakouts.

Acne forums are full of posts where a person says wheat (or some other food) caused their acne and they are clear if they avoid that food.

For some people it's possible to get and remain clear just by avoiding triggers. However this is not a very reliable way as identifying all your triggers can be difficult.

Imagine that you have heavily worn tires in your car. You drive over a sharp stone and a tire blows. That sharp stone is a trigger. However the tire blew because it was so heavily worn. With new tires you could drive over dozens of sharp stones without any problems. Similarly if you reverse the conditions that make acne possible most triggers have no effect on your skin.

Reverse is also true; as long as the conditions that make acne possible are present you are a breakout waiting to happen. Avoiding triggers is a part of getting clear, but it's not the whole story.

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Putting it all together

Time to pull all of this together.

Acne is a chronic condition developed over time by steady erosion of health. If you want to get clear you need to start treating it as such.

Reversing the conditions that caused acne is the only permanent acne cure. You can do that with healthy diet and lifestyle and emotional healing. As you focus on improving health, the conditions that caused acne start to reverse and over time your skin clears. But please keep in mind that this is a process and often requires some time to happen. Quick results are possible but they are not the norm. So please remain patient and keep doing anything and everything that improves your overall health.

It is that simple and you can do it - really, you can.

My free minicourse Acne 101: What Einstein would have done to get clear helps you to get started on the right track, and my book Clear for Life takes you by the hand and shows you exactly what you need to do to get the permanently clear skin you've always dreamed of.

See also: How to cure hormonal acne.

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