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by Sarah ! Natural Remedies, Skin Health

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Roscacea is a skin disease that typically aects people over the age of
30. It involves a red rash on the face that initially comes and goes.
Sometimes the rosacea rash includes small, red, pus-filled bumps. The
number of people suering from rosacea today is growing rapidly with
the age of onset getting younger and younger. Ive seen a number of
teenagers with rosacea recently which was unheard of only 10 or so
years ago. Big Pharma has definitely taken notice! Trials for drug based
treatment for rosacea are currently ongoing to hurry profitable
pharmaceuticals to market. An enormous billboard in my community is
aggressively advertising for candidates to participate in the required FDA
approval process for these drugs.

For those who wish to avoid the drug route with its inherent side eects
that are likely as bad or worse than rosacea itself, natural remedies
fortunately abound!

The first thing to realize about rosacea is that it is what I call a canary
illness. Canaries, if you recall, were used in the early days of coal
mining to detect deadly gasses and potential explosions. If a canary
keeled over inside a mine, this was a sign for the mining crew to get out
quickly!

Be thankful for your rosacea! It is a very visible sign of inflammatory

issues going on within the body. You have time to take action to resolve for the First Time
the problem before the inflammation gets worse, damaging something
much more critical such as your vital organs!

Think about it the redness from rosacea is triggered when tiny blood
vessels called capillaries become inflamed and literally break underneath
the skin. What about inflammation and/or breakdown of larger vessels in
a related portion of the circulatory system, arteries and veins? You cant
aord for these larger vessels to become compromised. Problems in this
portion of the circulatory system can be extremely dangerous to health.

Hence, ignoring rosacea and considering it only a cosmetic nuisance is

sweeping a potentially big health problem down the road under the
proverbial rug. The same goes for using creams or drugs which help
reduce the rashs appearance without addressing the underlying reasons
for the inflammation.
Can Rosacea be Cured with Diet?

Conventional doctors will tell you that rosacea is common, chronic, and
incurable.

In other words, there is nothing you can do (except take drugs for it of
course).

Is this really true?

Functional medicine and lifestyle doctor Sachin Patel has an answer for
this common statement.

Why are patients told there is nothing you can do for a disease
that is caused by something they are [in fact] doing?

There is most certainly something you can do to help resolve problems

with rosacea! The first thing to recognize is that what you are eating on
a regular basis can have big eects.
Rosacea Common Causes

To their credit, conventional practitioners will often tell patients with

rosacea to avoid hot, spicy foods and alcohol. These foods tend to
worsen symptoms. Coee, chocolate, yerba mate, matcha and other
caeinated foods can aggravate things for some people too. Perhaps
this is because caeine dilates already inflamed blood vessels making
them more prone to breakage. Exposing the skin to very cold
temperatures or skin icing has the same damaging eect.

But heres potentially the biggest bugaboo causing rosacea that is rarely
mentioned let alone considered by conventional medicine: SUGAR!

Sugar, particularly if processed like white refined sugar or high fructose

corn syrup, encourages inflammation of all kinds. And, if rosacea is your
weak link, plan on that Dunkin Donuts binge costing you when you look
in the mirror.

Another problem with sugar consumption if you suer from rosacea is

that Candida and other pathogenic yeasts in the gut convert dietary
sugar into alcohol. Even a meal heavy in carbohydrates would potentially
aggravate rosacea symptoms for those with unbalanced gut issues.

It is extremely important to get sugar and refined

carbohydrate issues under control if you want to
successfully treat rosacea naturally!

If you need help getting o the sugar train, this four step plan to get o
sugar really works and wont make you crazy or feel deprived in the
process.

I have known people whose most eective treatment for rosacea simply
involved their sugar and carb consumption under control.

Rosacea Treatment and Mites?

Besides dietary intervention, there can be a parasitic aspect to some

cases of rosacea too.

Researchers studying eective approaches to treatment for rosacea have

determined that the skin mite Demodex folliculorum can cause dry
rosacea-like symptoms. In one study, a random sample of 16 female
patients with rosacea were examined. All were found to harbor skin mite
infestations in the inflamed areas using light and scanning electron
microscopy. The patients were treated with 10% topical sulfur
ointment to kill the mites.

After treatment, 3 cases were completely cured, 10 cases were

moderately improved, and 3 cases showed no improvement (1). Heres
the really gross part. It wasnt actually the mites that caused rosacea in
some of these patients. It was the bacteria feeding on the fecal matter
inside the mites that caused an inflammatory immune response (2).

But why did the mites get entrenched in the skin in first place? Exposure
to heat and humidity conditions that let mites thrive certainly doesnt
help. But, the real reason is actually nutritional deficiency.

Nutritive Treatment for Rosacea

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surprising that people with gut imbalance issues (overgrowth of Candida
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Good bacteria in the gut actually produce these nutrients naturally
supplementing dietary forms (3).

Of these, riboflavin, vitamin B2, is especially critical when it comes to

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avoiding rosacea. The Textbook of Natural Medicine by naturopaths Loffre prend n le 31 mars 2017.

Joseph Pizzorno and Michael Murray describes how easily the skin of
riboflavin deficient rates is infected with rosacea inducing skin mites. The
skin of rats with normal riboflavin status was not aected.

The best whole supplements to obtain concentrated, food based

Vitamin B complex including riboflavin include nutritional or brewers
yeast (quality source) and/or grassfed desiccated liver powder.
Beware of multi-vitamins and other lab created supplements to
obtain this nutrient, as the B vitamins are synthetic in many cases.

Other ways to help resolve rosacea-related nutritional deficiencies as

described in the Textbook of Natural Medicine include:

Supplementation with hydrochloric acid (HCL) before meals for

additional stomach acid to properly digest proteins. Another option is
to eat a small amount of raw or fermented cabbage (sauerkraut)
before meals, as this stimulates more production of HCL according to
Natasha Campbell-McBride MD.

Supplementation with 300-500 mg of the pancreatic enzyme lipase

with meals to assist with the digestion of fats. Using herbal bitters
with meals can also be of help.

There is simply no need to use pharmaceuticals as treatment for rosacea

in the majority of cases. Eliminating parasitic influences, dietary
modification, and resolution of likely nutritional deficiencies is a three-
pronged attack that can work to resolve rosacea naturally and
permanently.

Sarah, The Healthy Home Economist

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Comments (22)

MK Barry

I have had rosacea twice in the past few years; after

reading about using Milk of Magnesia on my face
which helpedI tried taking a magnesium supplement
and my outbreak disappeared and has not returned.
Then I remembered that I took magnesium on a regular
basis for fibromyalgia in the past. I plan to keep taking
it now!

December 20th, 2016 1:32 am Reply

Kathy T

I had rosacea. Was told that long-term antibiotics was

the treatment either topical or oral. Wanting neither
of those and knowing cocounut oil is antibactireal,
antifungal and antiviral, I began using it on my freshly
washed face each night. It was gone in two months.

December 19th, 2016 10:46 pm Reply

Mary

Hi Sarah, I am wondering about the nutritional yeast

linked in your post. On Amazon, it appears that it is
fortified with synthetic Folic Acid? I found the
companies website, and the product information is
lacking. I was wondering if youve found more
information on this.
Thank you for this great post on rosacea. I am hopeful.

November 30th, 2016 10:08 am Reply

Sarah

I called the company and was dismayed to learn

that the folic acid listed is NOT folate. It is
synthetic folic acid. Unfortunately, I have no better
alternative to suggest at this time. Hopefully, the
company will get its act together and stop using a
synthetic additive. I explained all this on the
phone to them, but not sure they got the
message. I would suggest using the desiccated
liver particularly if you have been genetically
tested and do not process folic acid well.

November 30th, 2016 5:41 pm

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brooke

How much nutritional yeast would I need to take each

day?

Thanks!
 November 28th, 2016 4:24 pm Reply

Jimmy

Interesting article. Do you think green detox foods like

Chlorella, Spirulina, Wheatgrass can aid with this
process?

November 14th, 2016 6:05 pm Reply

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