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Acne produces several skin irritations that place heavy demands upon the skin's elements. Areas with repeated infections caused by moderate or severe acne frequently develop deficiencies of essential ingredients, altering the skin's capability to defend itself and heal efficiently.

Acne is a complex ailment that depends basically on:

A) increased sebum production in conjunction with

B) toxins inside your skin due to the intake of protein of poor quality.

These elements get deposited by your lymph system and placed under the skin. There they trap moisture from the external layer of the skin making it feel dry. The build-up produces excess pressure on the glandular ducts not allowing sebum to evacuate freely which in turn creates a rich feeding ground for bacteria and inflammation.

Anything that promotes excessive water retention inside your skin can pinch off the sebaceous glands inside your skin and make you break out sebum where acne bacteria will proliferate, in minutes, especially if you are going through a period of elevated sebum production. Excess salt and spices are the most usual triggers, so if you eat too many potato chips you're exposing yourself to the high possibility of acne breakouts.

Heat damages and/or changes essential nutrients. New harmful substances are formed in all animal or vegetable foods that are heated. Dietary protein is partially damaged in the cooking process. Protein molecules interact with dietary carbohydrates, forming new molecules. This mechanism is known as "the Maillard reaction", and the same happens to peptides because of simple oxidation.

Digestive enzymes break protein amino acids, only if the targeted part of the protein matches what the enzyme is programmed for. If the targeted amino-acids have changed due to heat there is no separation. The un-separated amino-acid chains are transported by the lymph network, at a much lower rate than by blood. And such cargo of Maillard reaction and altered peptide by-products is discharged into the skin so that the lymph can return to the digestive tract and the liver to pick up new cargo of essential nutrients that it carries for use by the body's organs.

Cooked proteins change into broken peptides not absorbed into your blood system but disposed off by your lymphatic network. And end up in the internal layer of your skin attracting moisture and compressing your sebaceous glands to the point of clogging them, and thus pimples are formed.