New Discovery May Lead To More Effective Acne Treatments

Written by Diane Darling, COTA/L


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New Acne Treatments May Be Possible

What does this mean for acne sufferers?

Scientists have long believed that acne results when pores become plugged by bits of dead, flaking skin and sebum. These plugged pores fill with oil, whichrepparttar P. acnes microbe then feeds on while releasing certain chemicals and enzymes. These enzymes attract white blood cells, causing inflammation, redness and pimples we call acne. Adolescents are more often afflicted by acne because during that age period more of this oil is produced, thanks to hormonal changes inrepparttar 115027 body at that time.

Most traditional acne treatments today are designed to either kill bacteria or to prevent pores from becoming plugged. However, P. acnes has developed resistance to many ofrepparttar 115028 antibiotics used to treat acne, leading scientist to seek newer, more effective treatments.

This new discovery by Dr. Brueggemann's research team will lead to a better understanding ofrepparttar 115029 P. acnes bacterium and how it operates in causing or aidingrepparttar 115030 outbreak of acne. This knowledge may well lead to new approaches to treating acne by better targettingrepparttar 115031 enzyme systems of P. acnes and relieving repparttar 115032 pain and suffering of teens and adults with acne.

Diane Darling, COTA/L, is a licensed and certified occupational therapy assistant who works with learning-challenged children. She also has a keen interest in issues of skin care and acne, and maintains the Treating Acne website located at http://www.treating-acne.com


The Maharishi Ayurveda Approach to Allergies

Written by Nancy Lonsdorf M.D.


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5. Avoid excessively hot spices, sour and acidic foods. These foods are irritating torepparttar body and promote inflammation, according to Ayurveda. Many people experience their allergies become worse when they eat foods with chilis, tomato sauces, hard or aged cheeses, refined sugar and sweets, and acidic foods. Bell pepper, eggplant and potato should also be avoided due to their channel-clogging effects.

6. Do include detoxifying spices in your daily diet. Turmeric in particular has anti-allergy, immune-balancing effects. Coriander helps to detoxify on a cellular level; fennel cools and balances; ginger helpsrepparttar 115026 digestion and dissolves ama, and black pepper clearsrepparttar 115027 channels and increases bioavailability of nutrients. Make a spice mixture of 6 parts fennel, cumin and coriander, 4 parts turmeric and 1 part each of ginger and black pepper. Freshly grindrepparttar 115028 spices, sauté them in a pan without oil until lightly browned, and put in a small airtight container. Carry them with you and sprinkle _ to 1 tsp. on your food at each meal, and cook with them when at home.

7. Do sip boiled warm or hot water about every half hour duringrepparttar 115029 day aroundrepparttar 115030 change of seasons, to help your body purify and to support good digestion.

Behavioral Approaches to Reducing Allergies

Diet is notrepparttar 115031 only consideration in allergies. Ayurvedic theory also recommendsrepparttar 115032 following behavioral changes to help tone downrepparttar 115033 allergic response.

1. Go to bed by 10:00 P.M. Between 10 PM and 2 AM,repparttar 115034 body performs a natural cycle of internal cleansing. If we stay up after 10 PM, we interfere with this metabolic “house cleaning” and toxins and impurities begin to accumulate. Worse yet,repparttar 115035 metabolic activity of cleansing tends to trigger hunger, and we may be tempted to indulge inrepparttar 115036 proverbial “midnight snack.” Unfortunately, eating after 10 PM further compromisesrepparttar 115037 cleansing process and leads to even more waste accumulation, and more allergy tendency. Onrepparttar 115038 other hand, going to bed by 10 PM improvesrepparttar 115039 overall rejuvenative quality of sleep. You will find that your early bedtime habit helps not only your allergies, but your energy and complexion as well!

2. Cleanserepparttar 115040 body beforerepparttar 115041 allergy season. The traditional Ayurvedic answer to allergies includes purifyingrepparttar 115042 body of ama and toxins before allergy season begins to prevent symptoms from arising at all. This internal cleansing may be done at home or, more thoroughly, through in-residence cleansing treatments called panchakarma or Maharishi Rejuvenation Therapy.

3. Have a regular routine of life. Eating, sleeping, working and exercising at aboutrepparttar 115043 same time each day is very balancing and stabilizing torepparttar 115044 immune system and torepparttar 115045 body as a whole. Allergies tend to be aggravated when routine of life is hectic and scattered.

4. Practice Yoga asanas and meditation. Yogas asanas and meditation are very balancing to all aspects of mind and body and have been used by many people to reduce allergy symptoms. For meditation, I suggestrepparttar 115046 TM technique because of its ease of practice and scientific verification.

Summary The best approach to allergies is to focus on good eating habits, practice stress reduction and do natural cleansing beforerepparttar 115047 allergy season.

Note: This article is for educational purposes only and is not meant to diagnose or treat disease. Please consult your physician regarding any symptoms you have or before you make changes in lifestyle and diet. Statements in this article have not been evaluated byrepparttar 115048 FDA and are not intended forrepparttar 115049 prevention, diagnosis or treatment of disease.



Nancy Lonsdorf M.D. received her M.D. from Johns Hopkins and did her postgraduate training at Stanford. She has studied Ayurveda with some of the world's most renowned Ayurvedic physicians in India, Europe and the U.S. Dr. Lonsdorf has 18 years of clinical experience with Ayurveda and is currently the Medical Director of The Raj Ayurveda Health Center in Vedic City Iowa.

http://www.ayurveda-ayurvedic.com




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