SKIN PROBLEMS: ACNES

Of all skin conditions caused by allergy and Candida, acne is the most likely to be complicated by bacterial infection. If the red acne bumps have yellow heads then they have been infected by the bacterium Corynebacterium acnes.

The best way to tackle acnes is to raise the bacteria killing power of the while blood cells. You can do this by:

• eating three balanced meals per day as set out in the Metabolism-Balancing Program or, if applicable, the Anti-Candida Program or the combined Anti-Candida/Anti-Allergy Program;

• taking a good multi-vitamin and mineral formula that contains the six essential minerals (calcium, magnesium, potassium, zinc, iron and manganese, plus hydrochloric acid to facilitate absorption);

• significantly reducing stress levels by doing the deep breathing exercises described in the chapter on stress and, if you have time, the mental relaxation exercises as well;

• getting adequate sleep—’beauty’ sleep is no myth.

If acnes are proving to be very resistant to the white blood cells, nature’s own antibiotic, garlic, can be used to help kill the bacterium. The odourless garlic capsules are just as effective as the raw garlic and five to six capsules should be taken directly after breakfast.

Antibiotics should be avoided, wherever possible, as they aggravate Candida yeast infections which in turn aggravates the allergic condition that gives rise to acne. In the long-term antibiotics aggravate acne, even though initially they reduce the intensity of it.

Don’t confuse flat, red blotches under the skin with acne lesions. These are acne scars and will fade in time. If you are taking a good multi-vitamin and mineral formula containing the six essential minerals the scars will fade a lot more quickly. Be patient, scars can take up to twelve months to fade.

If after six to seven months of sticking strictly to everything, including the short course of antibiotics, you arc still getting red bumps (minus the yellow heads) breaking out you are more than likely allergic to something you are eating or are significantly stressed. Check yourself for allergies again by going back to your allergist for a second lot of allergy tests and reassess your stress levels.

Squeezing acne pimples produces more of them. When you squeeze a pimple only a small portion of it emerges through the top of the bump. The rest is pushed down into the skin where it spreads out and causes new areas of inflammation. These new inflammations spring up as new acne bumps. Leave pimples alone. Remember, if you kill one by squeezing it, four or five will come to its funeral and despite sticking to your program and resting you will never get rid of your acne.

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A COMMON MISTAKE TO AVOID

Some people, despite warnings to the contrary, start taking on greater responsibilities and work commitments after completing the program. Others start over-exercising and/or over-socialising. The new lease on life people experience when they’ve overcome their allergies can lead them into this ‘doing too much’ mode without their realising it. Because they feel so good, and because the human memory is so short when it comes to former pain and illness, they busily engage themselves without a thought that they might be overdoing it. After a while some of their former symptoms return and thinking that their allergies are returning they put themselves back on their Anti-Candida/Anti-Allergy Program only to find that this time it doesn’t work. Thinking they have acquired new allergies they take themselves back to their allergist for allergy tests only to find that nothing shows up. This is when they start to panic and begin to suspect serious diseases like cancer, diabetes, brain tumours, TB, polio and meningitis. Invariably (heir symptoms arc those of stress, stress being a great mimicker of allergy, and when they slow down the symptoms soon abate.

Now that you’re well, be ever careful that this doesn’t happen lo you. Constantly monitor yourself to make sure insidious ‘overdoing if is not creeping up on you. Constantly monitor yourself to make sure you’re adhering to the Metabolism-Balancing Program. It’s the Metabolism-Balancing Program that will keep your vitality and resistance to allergies high for the rest of your life—if you slick to it and keep taking the dietary supplements.

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HOW TO CURE YOUR ALLERGIES: A WORD OF WARNING

Don’t kid yourself you’re still on the Anti-Allergy Program if you’ve broken it only once or twice in the three month period. Many people try to delude themselves they’ve stuck strictly to the program, arguing that one or two little bits of this or that over three months couldn’t make much difference. Well, unfortunately a little bit of this and that, imbibed once or twice over a three month period is enough to make all the difference to the Anti-Allergy Program.

Around 95 per cent of people are able to overcome allergies by avoiding the allergenic food or substance for a three to six month period. The reason that this is able to happen is that the old departing generation of white cells after this period ‘forget’ to pass on to new generations of cells the fact that they were ever sensitive to the substance.

However, eating the food just once in that three months, even in minute quantities, is enough to jog the memory of the old white cells and re-establish the allergic sensitivity. Sometimes white cells can live and remember foreign substances for several years. It would seem that in those 5 per cent of people who don’t desensitise after twelve months’ abstinence, this mechanism is still intact.

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