Controversial Acne Treatment Gets Legitimized by Harvard
New findings by Harvard question the medical convention that acne and stress are not related and lead the way for alternative acne treatment options that were once ignored as scientifically unfounded.
San Diego, CA (PRWEB) November 23, 2006
For years respected medical institutes like the American Academy of Dermatology (AAD) dismissed the link between acne and factors such as stress and diet. The AAD worked to protect acne patients from such "acne myths" based on the belief that if patients relied on unfounded science, the acne condition would only get worse. But now, new investigations have further distorted the boundaries between acne myths and legitimate acne causes.
Debates over acne inducers are as old as the chocolate and acne study first conducted in 1969. Since then, ongoing acne investigations have allowed researchers to further question the causes of acne and thereby develop better acne treatments.
This wealth of acne-focused studies allowed health researcher Nicole Dial to publish an unorthodox acne treatment book entitled Acne Messages: Crack the Code of Your Zits and Say Goodbye to Acne under the pseudonym Naweko San-Joyz.
When preparing Acne Messages, Dial used medical studies to document the relationship between acne and factors like diet, stress and emotions, even though such acne connections were medicinally considered nonsense and at best anecdotal.
However, this month, three years after the arrival of Acne Messages, the Harvard Women's Health Watch published an articled entitled, "Recognizing the Mind-skin Connection", which listed acne as a skin problem with a physiological basis "that can be exacerbated by stress and other emotional factors."
Dial explains that while Acne Message did expand treatment options for acne, a critical goal of the book was to broaden the concept and usage of "patient based medicine" for sufferers of persistent acne.
As explained recently in the November edition of the Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology & Venereology, patient based medicine involves four steps: questions, explanations, negotiation and prescription.
But the problem with successfully using patient based medicine to treat acne is time. Dr. Kevin Pho, an internal medicine physician at the Nashua Medical Group, reiterated this point his medical blog this past September by explaining, "While egg buzzers in doctors' offices are rare, more doctors are posting signs asking patients to limit the number of medical issues dealt with in a single office visit to one."
Dial argues that, "For too many people, acne is a persistent plague because a 5-10 minute office visit is not enough time to find the root cause of a person's acne."
If an acne patient is limited by the amount of health issues she can discuss with her doctor in one visit, there is no feasable way for them to systemically treat the acne because the patient does not get a chance to dicsuss the multiple health issues that could be contributing to the acne condition.
Dial put forth Acne Messages to address this time issue and to allow acne patients themselves to gain a deeper understanding of their potential and uniuqe cause of acne while taking into consideration acne treatments they used in the past.
Acne Messages uses ideas from patient based medicine to help acne sufferers locate and remove their acne trigger step-by-step. Dial defines an acne trigger as any thought, location, feeling, food, emotion, response, drink, drug, memory and/or experience that sets off a series of hormonal and/or neurological reactions in your body that ultimately result in acne lesions.
Patients coping with acne and wishing to learn more about systemic acne treatments can find Acne Messages: Crack the Code of Your Zits and Say Goodbye to Acne in bookstores, at Noixia. com and at Amazon. com.
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Noixia is an image makeover research firm dedicated to helping people intelligently, affordably and safely enhance their image. Noixia's core focus is offering customized skin solutions for individuals with severe acne scarring on the face and body. Thousands of people who coped with acne scarring have achieved a more refined and polished look at a fraction of the cost of cosmetic procedures by using Noixia products. Noixia's product development edge is based on proprietary skin absorption and key ingredient release mechanisms. Anyone seeking to remove acne scars can find custom, clinically proven solutions at Noixia. com.
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