The story of my face is my health origin story.
How it started.
When I was 14, I saw my first dermatologist.
So for the first time in five years, I didn’t have daily antibiotics in my system.
And I was gorging on a smorgasbord of gluten and dairy.
And my face went nuts.
Cystic acne sprung up and wouldn’t go away.
Not only was it physically painful, I was emotionally struggling too.
That year, I went on Accutane.
My face immediately became dry and peeled.
I was on two forms of birth control because Accutane can cause serious birth defects.
I had to get my blood drawn every month to verify my liver was OK.
Pretty serious stuff, but I didn’t care I just wanted my skin to behave again.
What happened next.
I had a few “good” years before everything came roaring back with a vengeance.
I remember someone shouting “NOXZEMA!”
to me on the street.
I remember the stranger who tapped me on a public bus to ask if I’d ever tried Proactive.
I listened to facialist tell me how brave I was to go outside everyday with skin like mine.
But in that moment, a lightbulb went off in my head.
It was my first step to understanding howeverything in my body is connected.
Today, it blows my mind that I thought what I putinmy body had no impact on my skin.
Those antibiotics I took for years?
Wheat exacerbates this problem.
Keeping it out helped me heal.
It helped me grow and learn to dig to the root cause.
I’m happy I had a catalyst for change.
