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With my knowledge on acne I have been thinking recently and something doesn't make sense.
With a diet full of refined sugars, carbs with high GI and seed oils. Insulin is bound to be high, in response your SHBG (sex hormone binding globulin) drops, increasing the amount of free testosterone in the blood for a short while after eating foods from one of the aforementioned groups. With the increase in test, the 5α-reductase enzyme has more test to convert to DHT, hence causing a spike in DHT along with free testosterone as you would expect. Now this is bad in the short term, causing more oil production and then eventually acne. But my question is, wouldnt this tank test in the long run if you eat like shit for months, hence lowering the amount of DHT in the blood along with all of your other sex hormones, hence actually reducing acne? (TLDR: Wouldn’t a sustained garbage-tier diet eventually tank your baseline testosterone? It would right? So wouldnt it make acne better rather than worse.)
Which brings me to one of the most praised methods for curing acne you see on this forum(other than accutane)...
On pretty much any thread about acne on this forum you have a guy mentioning diet telling you to eat as healthy as you can. But wouldnt this actually raise baseline test eventually, hence more DHT -> more acne?
My only guess is that maybe with the best diet you can reduce inflammation and maybe reduce androgen sensitivity. But I am not sure and can't find anything talking about this online. If anyone can help me out here it would be great.
Also I'll probably be dropping a really big thread in a month or so; I have been experimenting over the summer with many methods to reduce acne and have documented everything and will try to publish it best I can.
If I fucked up on trivial or informational details lmk and I'll fix it
With a diet full of refined sugars, carbs with high GI and seed oils. Insulin is bound to be high, in response your SHBG (sex hormone binding globulin) drops, increasing the amount of free testosterone in the blood for a short while after eating foods from one of the aforementioned groups. With the increase in test, the 5α-reductase enzyme has more test to convert to DHT, hence causing a spike in DHT along with free testosterone as you would expect. Now this is bad in the short term, causing more oil production and then eventually acne. But my question is, wouldnt this tank test in the long run if you eat like shit for months, hence lowering the amount of DHT in the blood along with all of your other sex hormones, hence actually reducing acne? (TLDR: Wouldn’t a sustained garbage-tier diet eventually tank your baseline testosterone? It would right? So wouldnt it make acne better rather than worse.)
Which brings me to one of the most praised methods for curing acne you see on this forum(other than accutane)...
On pretty much any thread about acne on this forum you have a guy mentioning diet telling you to eat as healthy as you can. But wouldnt this actually raise baseline test eventually, hence more DHT -> more acne?
My only guess is that maybe with the best diet you can reduce inflammation and maybe reduce androgen sensitivity. But I am not sure and can't find anything talking about this online. If anyone can help me out here it would be great.
Also I'll probably be dropping a really big thread in a month or so; I have been experimenting over the summer with many methods to reduce acne and have documented everything and will try to publish it best I can.
If I fucked up on trivial or informational details lmk and I'll fix it
