If I could show you a photo of an ancient woman, you’d be jealous. Her skin was healthy with few wrinkles and no blemishes. We all want skin like that, right?

I’m going to show you exactly how it can be yours, no matter what condition your skin is in today.

When I went searching for a cure for acne, I found a study that looked at more than 1,300 people living in isolated, primitive cultures. These hunter-gatherers had gorgeous skin.

The key was diet. The natives ate the same way their ancestors had eaten for millions of years: high-protein, low-glycemic, and rich in antioxidants.

When I spoke to the lead researcher on the phone, he told me how he was disappointed that this research had been lost and ignored.

It’s a shame, because it wasn’t just their skin that was gorgeous. They also had no signs of obesity, hypertension, diabetes, or heart disease.₁

This is exactly the kind of thing I was looking for.

It doesn’t require chemicals. It’s not expensive. And you don’t have to endure injections and surgery. All you have to do is go back to the diet you were intended to eat.

This got me interested. So then, I found that not only did it give natives beautiful skin, but a similar diet was tested on modern Australians who had really bad skin. I was delighted to find that in just three months, not only did their acne clear up, but they slimed down. And… hormones thought to contribute to skin eruptions were suddenly back in balance.₂

Remember, your skin is an organ, just like your heart. When you have bad skin, it’s a reflection of what’s going on inside your body. What you eat will either make it healthy or damage it.

Any time you eat processed food instead of the real thing, your body knows the difference.

And it gets worse as you grow older, because your skin loses the specialized cells that repair your skin.

When you follow a primitive diet, all this changes. By eating high-protein, low-glycemic foods, you naturally protect your skin with the nutrients nature intended for you to have.

Here’s what you can do to have healthy, glowing skin at any age:

1. Eat antioxidant-rich fruits, vegetables, and natural protein instead of high-carbohydrate, processed foods. Most fruits and vegetables and all protein is low-glycemic. When a food is processed and contains high-glycemic carbohydrates, it turns to sugar. Sugar damages the collagen in your skin and makes wrinkles. So, cut these unhealthy foods out of your diet to stop further damage. Antioxidants will take care of the damage already done.
2. Apply natural antioxidants directly to your skin. Here’s a list of antioxidants particularly important to your skin. You should include them in your diet and look for creams to apply them directly to your skin.

To Your Good Health,

Al Sears, MD

1. Cordain, L. et al. “Diet and Acne Revisited” Arch Dermatol. 2002;138:1591-1592.
2. Smith, R. et al. “The effect of a high-protein, low glycemic–load diet versus a conventional, high glycemic–load diet on biochemical parameters associated with acne vulgaris: A randomized, investigator-masked, controlled trial.” Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology. 2007 Aug; 57(2):247-256.

Something they told me in medical school has to be wrong. I’ve been seeing more and more acne in mature adults. Yet convention claims that the primary cause is genetic. If it were genetic, how can it change in a single generation?

One thing is for certain: It’s not just a teenage problem anymore. Nowadays about 40 % of men continue to endure acne past the age of 25. Even more surprising, 12% of all middle-aged women suffer from acne.₁ If you suffer from facial blemishes as an adult, you know how troublesome it can be.

In my own practice, I have had remarkable results using diet to cure acne. But I get resistance because every dermatologist in town believes science disproves any link between diet and clear complexions. Their only solution is to see a dermatologist and get prescriptions for antibiotics, drugs, and toxic creams like Accutane.

Today, I’ll share recent evidence that diet has an undeniable link to acne. My friend and colleague, Dr. Loren Cordain, has released a remarkable program that produces fast results. It’s called The Dietary Cure for Acne.

Dr. Cordain is an expert on the diets of the last remaining hunter-gatherer tribes. These cultures still follow their traditional diets, which haven’t changed for centuries.

In 2002, Dr. Cordain and colleagues studied the Kitavan people who live on remote islands in Papua, New Guinea. Their findings were startling – not a single case of acne in 300 natives between the ages of 15 and 25. Later, his colleagues examined hunter-gatherers living in a remote jungle in Paraguay. After following 115 of them for two years – again, not a single case of acne!

Compare that to American teenagers: Over 80% of U.S. teens between the ages of 16 and 18 have acne.

Dr. Otto Schaefer treated the Inuit (Eskimo) people in some of the most remote villages and outposts on Earth. When he started his practice, the Inuit were still following their native diets – wild animals from hunting and fishing, along with a few wild plants gathered during the summer. He noted no acne. But as the Western diet encroached, Dr. Schaefer noted that the locals were complaining about changes in the complexions of the teenage Inuit. They were seeing acne for the first time.

So, how does the Western diet cause skin problems? As Dr. Cordain points out, over 70 percent of the energy we get in our diets comes from refined sugars, grains, vegetable oils, and diary. That’s just not natural. To diverge this far from your natural eating habits is a dangerous experiment.

Landmark Study Proves the Dietary Acne Cure

In November of 2005, Dr. Neil Mann from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Australia conducted a study of dietary intervention in acne patients for two years. Based on Dr. Cordain’s work using diet alone, he was able to improve or cure the acne of the majority in the study.

So, what is the diet to cure acne? A high-protein and low-glycemic intake is key. Remember, the glycemic index measures how quickly the food will spike your blood sugar. Dr. Cordain also explains how to use the concept of glycemic load. It adds a calculation taking the quantity of carbs you’ll find in a serving of a particular food into account.

To give you a better idea of how glycemic load differs, let’s look at watermelon. It has a high glycemic index, meaning it breaks down into sugars rather quickly. But its glycemic load is very low, because a typical serving has few grams of carbohydrate. (Most of its weight is water.)

So, even though watermelon has a high glycemic index, it won’t make you fat, because the total number of carbs it has will not have much impact on your total insulin release. (Keeping insulin low is one of the keys to staying lean.)

Naturally occurring low-glycemic foods cure acne. But they also prevent chronic disease. So, even if you don’t have acne, Dr. Cordain’s diet is an excellent guide for fat loss and chronic disease prevention.

To Your Good Health,

Al Sears, MD

1. Cordain L. The Dietary Cure for Acne. Paleo Diet Enterprises. 2006.