Acne & Acne Scarring : A Deep Dive Into the Cause & Treatment

https://AMAskincare.com Today we are here to talk about cystic acne. Both what we know about the causes of cystic acne, the active condition where you have active cysts on your face and what we do about the acne scarring that occurs once the cysts have gone away and your skin has a whole bunch of pock marks on it.

Acne has been around since the days of the Egyptians. There are all sorts of archaeological findings that indicate that cystic acne was an issue all the way back then. Even so, over the last 4000 years we haven’t figured out what the real systemic causes of cystic acne are.

We know for sure that it has something to do with sex hormones because when people go through puberty the acne shows up. But not everyone gets it. Even though everyone goes through that stage, not everyone gets cystic acne. We really don’t know, at a systemic level, what causes cystic acne.

You may know that there are 3 food groups that do have an affect on some people with cystic acne. One of them is milk products, that would be cow milk. The other of course is sugar. The third one for a very few people is the glutens. So I am hoping that you have already done some experimentation with that to see if it can help your skin condition.

This also applies to adult onset cystic acne. You may be 23, 35, 45 years old, never having had acne as a teenager and suddenly you wake up and boom, cystic acne all over the place. For women, this may be an issue of sex hormones. The bottom line is this, especially for adults, we do not know the cause of cystic acne. But we certainly know locally how to deal with it, how to treat them and how to solve the cystic acne scarring.

The antagonist in our story is the sebaceous gland. Every pore in your skin, whether there is a hair in there or not, has a sebaceous gland. The sebaceous gland is what makes sebum or the oils for your skin. The oils come up through the pore and get absorbed in the very top layer of the epidermis called the stratum corneum. It fills that stratum corneum layer and basically makes an oil mantle around your body to protect you.

Now, for reasons that no one really understands, an overactive sebaceous gland can also become over sized. It can balloon up and that very cute little sebaceous gland can become a monster sebaceous cyst. That sebaceous cyst, is in fact, the cyst of cystic acne. When you have cystic acne, that is what is filling up your skin.

For those of you out there who’s cystic acne is much worse or who have had it for a longer period of time and your skin is already beginning to scar, let’s talk about that. Let me explain to you what is causing that scarring and what the structures of those scars are inside your skin.

You have already sent your immune army over to that sebaceous cyst that is growing in your skin. The immune system expects that within a week or two those cysts would have gone away because your army would have dealt with them. But here it is a few months later and the cysts are still there. From the perspective of your immune system, hey, I sent my immune army over there to deal with whatever is growing in the skin and it’s still there. Obviously my immune army couldn’t deal with it. So even though I don’t know what it is, for sure I don’t want it to spread so I need to wall it off. All this inflammatory tissue that surrounds the cyst slowly but surely becomes a scar tissue. The scar tissue encapsulates the cyst, walls it off and in fact we now call this cyst an encapsulated cyst. When that cyst shrinks and goes away the skin now collapses down inside the scar and you are left with a pock mark.

Bottom line, whatever kind of scarring you have. From cystic acne to stretch marks to traumatic and surgical scars to even burn scars, your skin has innately the regenerative capacity and the machinery to fix itself. To generate new, healthy, beautiful skin. In collaboration with our technologies and our protocols your skin can be transformed.

We hope that this has given you more than just hope, that this has given you confidence that you don’t have to live with cystic acne or the scarring from cystic acne for the rest of your life.

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AMA Regenerative Medicine & Skincare
Alice Pien, MD
Asher Milgrom, PhD

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