Akne ve Diyet

Abstract

Common belief is that eating habits and some foods have a role in the onset or aggravation of acne. Especially the effects of foods with a high carbohydrate load and dairy products have been considered recently. Whole and semi-skimmed milk is thought to cause postprandial hyperinsulinemia, increased insulin-like growth factor-1 and mechanistic target of rapamycin complex-1 activation and to aggravate acne. Foods with high carbohydrate content involved in popular Western diets cause hyperinsulinemia, resulting in elevated testosterone levels and reduced sex hormone-binding globulin. It is a fact that this type of eating is widely accepted especially among adolescents, making irregular and unbalanced nutrition much more common at these ages. Communicating this relationship between diet and acne to patients and promoting proper diets will increase our success in treating acne.